Award from Sandee

From Sandee @ Comedy Plus. "I've never started an award before, but I found this wonderful graphic on IncrediMail and just thought of how true this rings right here on the Internet. We are all so different, but we visit each other almost everyday. We laugh, cry, hug and support each other through thick and thin. We are a great big family of great friends and I just want to say to all my regulars that I appreciate each and every one of you very much. That being said I am giving each of you this Best Friends award for being so very special to me. Everyone in my buddies, link exchange and my drops lists may have this award.

Sandee is the nicest person. You can go and read her funny blog at http://comedyplus.blogspot.com/


So if you like awards then do up a post, link to this blog post and pass the love along. Thank you to all the 'Best friends No matter what...' I have made over the years. Hugs."

I don't think I can add anymore to what Sandee has already added. So please accept this lovely award to all of my wonderful bloggy friends and freely pass it on.

Open Awards

Thank you Barbara,Thom, Michelle and Sandee for these fantastic awards. I really appreciate them.

I must apologize for being so late to post these wonderful awards. I meant to do it before Thanksgiving, but as you can see that did not happen. I am proud to post these awards. There are no attachments or requirements. So I pass them on to all who frequent my blog. Enjoy!

This award is from Barbara at Writing from the Inside Out

This award is from Thom at Thoms Place 4 Well Whatever...

This award is from Michelle at RAMBLING WOODS ~TAKING THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED~
Are you environmentally conscious in your everyday life? Recycle? Use canvas instead of plastic bags? Shop local food products? Buy organic to limit pesticides? Write a post, grab the award and link back here. You too can be a "Green Thinker"

This award is from Sandee at Comedy Plus

And this one is from Sandee at Comedy Plus


Thanks you guys!

Open Source Blog Post Award

Open Source Blog Post Award
written by Pam- October 10th, 2009 at 7:50 pm

Thom at http://tp4ww.com/, has so kindly given this award to me. Thank you very much my friend. I appreciate it so very much. What m!akes this a great award is it has a different way of passing it on Woot!

Before you put the links below when you pass this award, you must remove the participant number 1 from the list. So that all participants up 1 level. Who was number 2 become number 1, number 3 was 2, and so on. Then insert you own links at the bottom (10).

So I remove WoeL and place myself as number 10. How's that for fun?

1. WoeL

2. Lyla

3. Mr. D

4. Sweet_shelo

5. Chris

6. Kaye

7. Yami

8. Mizhelle

9. Hootn’ Anni

10. Thom

So I remove WoeL and place myself as number 10. How’s that for fun? So the new list to be used and copied to those I pass it on to becomes:

1. Lyla

2.Mr. D

3.Sweet_shelo

4. Chris

5. Kaye

6. Yami

7. Mizhelle

8. Hootn’ Anni

9.Thom

10. finding pam

I am so confused now, so if you have any questions about this award just go to Thom's blog.
Again, Thom, thanks so much. I really appreciate your thinking of me for this award!

And I in turn pass this award onto following blogs:

Sandee at Comedy Plus

Cherie at Butterfly Dreamer

Michelle at RAMBLING WOODS

Mike at RAMBLING STUFF AKA GOLCH CENTRAL

Nick at Nick's Bytes

Akelamula at Everything And Nothing

Sandi at Holding Patterns

Meridith at The Things We Carried

DeDetta at My Little Corner of the world

Sara at Barefoot in the Garden

Nita at Throwback at Trapper Creek

Gail at KNOW YOUR "IT'S"

Chickie at Skittering Thoughts

Indulge me...While I pass out a few awards

It is awards time. I have been slow to post them and I do apologize for the delay. Awards are special like the folks that pass them forward. I would like to say thank you to my friends that have given these awards to me. I will take good care of them, honor them and pass them forward. With that said, "Let the Awards begin!" Promise me...no snoring ZZZ!



Tah dah...






Thom at Thoms Place 4 Well Whatever... , has given me this award to try to live up to. Thom has high expectations. LOL! It is a beautiful and lovely award and I am so very grateful that you gave it to me.

My friend Thom at Thoms Place 4 Well Whatever... has given me this great award. Thom is one of the best blogging buddies out there. Thanks my friend for thinking of me.

Sandee at Comedy Plus, has done it again. She exudes all of these awards, but especially this one. Thanks again for thinking of us all.

My sweet friend Sandee at Comedy Plus has passed on another beautiful award. Thank you Sandee.Sandee at Comedy Plus, has given me this award and it is very special in what it represents.

My friend Sandee at Comedy Plus has given me this awesome prayer warrior award. There is so much truth to this. The power of prayer is indeed Awesome. Thank you my friend for this amazing and wonderful award.

Lailani from The Green Grass Grows All Around kindly passed this lovely award to me.

Thak you Lailani for this wonderful award.

"this award is for bloggers that I have enjoyed reading for a variety of reasons. These blogs either had content that encouraged, passion for their blog mission, or just brought some joy to my day."

Lailani from The Green Grass Grows All Around
“This award is for bloggers who distinguish themselves for showing cultural values, ethics, great and fun writing skills, as well as individual values, through their creative writing.”
Wow! I am honored!

I thank you all for these fantastic and wonderful awards. It is impossible to select only a few recipients because you are all special to me. So I pass any and all of these awards to those who read my blog. I thank you for reading my blog for with out you my blog would be rather empty.


So you know what to do...cut and paste and post. Have a great day and HUGS to all of you.

Thom's Place 4 Whatever Award

My friend Thom at Thoms Place 4 Well Whatever... has so kindly passed this award on to me and his entire list of blog friends. That's so nice of you. Thom, you and I just love awards. But...

I just found out that some of you do not accept awards with any rules (Dr. John), so from this day forward I will pass all awards without any strings attached, besides that will make it easier to spread the awards and all the joy of receiving them. I am sorry if I have offended anyone with these silly rules. I did not think this through.

With that being said, I would like to pass this award to all that love them and feel free to grab any other awards here.

Life is like a box of chocolates

Life is like a box of chocolates award.
In my best southern accent, I would like to say that I have been thinking about a new award and what I would like it to say. People are like Forrest Gump said " Life is like a box of chocolates and you never know what you're gonna get".

You can see this box of chocolates is filled with different and unique candies and just like the chocolates we are all different and unique people. We are the same in that we all have common ingredients that make us more a like than not. Except for the frosting, which represents our personalities, we are indeed very similar on the inside.

I would like to pass this new award to the following nine bloggers that have made a difference to me in the blogsphere:

Sandee at Comedy Plus

Annie at A Nice Place In The Sun

Mimi at Mimi Writes.......

DeEtta at My Little Corner of the world

Michelle at RAMBLING WOODS

Thom at Thoms Place 4 Well Whatever...

Akelamula at Everything And Nothing

Meridith at The Things We Carried

Dawn at Twisted Sister

Of course there are rules and they are as follows.

1. That you must pass this award to others.

2. Link back to me when you have passed them forward.

3. Write a nice post about this award.

4. You must read this award with a southern accent. I call it southern day where we all have to speak with a southern accent. I know that will be hard for some of you, but for the rest of us, we will be fine. So now, ya'll just enjoy this little ol' award and have fun with it.

5. And of course let your folks know that they have a nice award waiting for them.

Ya'll take care now.

Awards

Sandee at Comedy Plus has generously passed this award on to others. Thank you so much Sandee, but mostly thank you for your friendship in the blogsphere. Someone must have told you that I love awards.

The Friendship Blog Award above implies:

Green: to symbolize the new buddies
Yellow: to represent the guys who are always active
Blue: to symbolize with high performing PR Bloggers
Red: to symbolize that our blood is red and therefore we are all brothers.

The rules:
Create a post as above
Include a link Giver Award.
For colleagues who have not followed this site or not exchange links, please follow or exchange links with me.
Copy-paste the image to be replicated at your Blog Post.



I am sorry that I have taken so long to post these lovely awards. This award came from Dawn at Twisted Sister



For anyone that loves Lucy and Ethel, then this is the award for you. It originally came from Annie at A Nice Place In The Sun.
Dawn in turn passed this on to me. Dawn, thank you for being one of my best blog buddies ( You're my BBB). You are such a good person. You have a big heart and you care about all of us.

Please link back to the givers of these fabulous awards. If you have not read any of the blogs, I encourage you to stop and visit them for amazing writing, laughs and friendship.







This beautiful Butterfly Blogger Award and the Humane award came from Sandee at Comedy Plus . Isn't it fabulous? Yes it is. Thank you so very much for always thinking of me Sandee.

“The Humane Award honors certain bloggers who express kindness, caring and compassion for others. Their blogs are also amazing and are tastefully done on a daily basis. Link back to the person who gifted you with the award and share the love with other bloggers.”



If you love awards as much as I do, then I would love for you to accept any of these awards. They are too wonderful not to share with my friends. So go ahead and grab you a couple of awards because it is my pleasure to pass them forward.

ENJOY!

Thom's Loyal Friend and Visitor Award

Thom from (Thoms Place 4 Well Whatever...) has given me this lovely award. Thom, thank you so much and I will treasure it always. I may not visit as often as I like, but I am a loyal friend to you.


Of course there are rules, but today I am choosing to opt out these rules.



So now it is my turn to pass this lovely award forward. I would love it if everyone would grab this award. You are all so special and worthy. So, I pass this award onto you if you are reading this. Thanks for picking it up. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

From my friend Dawn...

My sweet friend,Dawn, at Twisted Sister has given me these awards. I guess she knows how much I love and enjoy them. Thank you Dawn for passing these on to me.





And now I pass them forward to the following blogs.

DeEtta at My Little Corner of the world
Thom at Thoms Place 4 Well Whatever...
Annie at Strawberry Girl's Reflections
Michelle at RAMBLING WOODS ~TAKING THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED~
Nita at Throwback at Trapper Creek
Barbara at Writing from the Inside Out
Sara at Barefoot in the Garden
Mime at Mimi Writes.......
Chickie at Skittering Thoughts
Cherie at Butterfly Dreamer
Akelamula at Everything And Nothing


You do not have to participate if you do not have time. I just adore these blogs and think they are all so diverse and unique. I know how very busy some of you are right now, so this is just my way of saying how much I apprecitate your friendship and your blog.

Problem fixed

OK, the technical problem(LOL) with my awards post is now fixed. Ha Ha! I am laughing because I am the technical problem. Of course you knew that already. Please check his blog out because it it all about cats, big and small, and he advocate is for the humane treatment of animals.

Thanks to Ailurophile said...
"Congrats on the award. You totally deserve it. I recently got this award too. I tried clicking the links to check out the wonderful blogs you passed this award on to but couldn't access the blogs for some reason."

I am glad somebody told me this otherwise there would be no link to these great blogs.

I am off to design flowers at work.

Pam

Akelamula has given me this lovely award

Akelamula from Everything And Nothing has given me this lovely blog award. I gladly accept it.

Like all awards it comes with rules:

1. Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award and his or her blog link.

2. Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you have newly discovered. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

Akelamula passed this award on to the following blogs:

Mama Zen (The Zen of Motherhood)
Nessa (The Crysalis Stage)
Spiky Zora Jones (Bit Player Reflects)
Cloudia (Comfort Spiral)
Pam (Finding Pam)
RLL (Real Live Lesbian)
Shrinky (Shrink-wrapped Scream)
Debbie (I overcooked my family)
Aims (Big Blue Barn West)
Connie (Connie's World, My Thoughts, My Photos)
Fandango (Dragon's Lair)
Deb (Nourish the Soul)
The Watercats (The Watercats and All The Things)
Stephen (Stephen's Thoughts)
Mae (A Touch Of Life)

And now it is my pleasure to pass on this lovely award to the following blogs.

Sara( Barefoot in the Garden )

Cherie(Butterfly Dreamer )

Arija(garden delights )

Sandie( Holding Patterns )

Mimi(Mimi Writes.......)

DeEtta(My Little Corner of the world )

Nick(Nick's Bytes )

Michelle(RAMBLING WOODS )
Chickie( Skittering Thoughts )
Annie( Strawberry Girl's Reflections )

Lailani( The Green Grass Grows All Around )
Dawn(Twisted Sister)

Wendy(Wendster's Blog )

Barbara(Writing from the Inside Out )

Muse( XANADU )

All of these blogs are really interesting and I think you will enjoy reading them.

Of course you are under no obligation to participate if you choose not to.

Thanks to Dawn and Thom...

I'll be there for you...

Dawn at Twisted Sister gave me this award and then Thom at Thoms Place 4 Well Whatever... passed it along to me as well. It's a Friends Prize. So I just want to say that I am very grateful for all my friends here in the blogging world. Thank you Dawn and Thom very much. I love both of you.

The following rules came with this prize: These blogs are exceedingly charming.These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends.They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.I know some of you don't do awards or meme's and that some of you may have already received this award... and that's okay. You are under no obligation to play along... so with that being said...My nominees are:

Strawberry Girl's Reflections
My Little Corner of the world
Barefoot in the Garden
Nick's Bytes
my crazy world
Iowa Grasslands
Holding Patterns
Wendster's Blog
Writing from the Inside Out

Attack of the Zombie Chickens!

I have received a few more awards. The Zombie Chicken award is from Strawberry Girl's Reflections . If you have not been to her blog, I encourage you to stop by and visit.


Attack of the Zombie Chickens!!!
I have a sneaking suspicion that my Zombie chicken is hidding out under my bed... how else do you explain all of the scratching around down there (er, I guess it could be my cats...).Anyhow...I have had a Zombie Chicken award bestowed upon me by John over at Smoke Rings and Matterings (and the mattering is quite a big part of his blog so go check it out.

As for the award...The blogger who receives this award believes in the Tao of the zombie chicken-excellence, grace, and persistence in all situations, even in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, these amazing bloggers regularly produce content so remarkable that their readers would brave a raving pack of zombie chickens just to be able to read their inspiring words. As a recipient of this world-renowned award, you now have the task of passing it on to at least five other worthy bloggers. Do not risk the wrath of the zombie chickens by not choosing wisely or not choosing at all.



1. Pam over at Finding Pam

2. Kelsey at Shishi-o-blog (I am sure she's thrilled, I mean who wouldn't want a Zombie Chicken around?)

3. Reggie Girl at Midlife, Meopause, and random stuff

4. Clone Girl at Real Fake

5. Patty at A Diary Left Open


I pass this award on to all of my friends that love chickens as much as I do. OK, you don't have to love chickens. Feel free to grab this award.

Dawn from Twisted Sister, gave Thomm at Thoms Place 4 Well Whatever... and I this award. Feel free to grab this one as well.

Award from Akelamula... Thank you!

Anyway like most awards it comes with rules:"The Honest Scrap award comes with a caveat or 2. Firstly you have to tell your readers 10 things about you they may not know, but that are true. Secondly you have to tag 10 people with the award."I now have to think of 10 things about myself that you may not know, not sure I can do this but I'll try.


I received this lovely award from Akelamua at Everything and Nothing. I feel honored to be amongst such prestigeous company. I salute the others as well.

Thom (Thom's Place 4 Well Whatever....)

Dr.John (Dr. John's Fortress)

Connie (Connie Picture That)

JAPRA (Just A Plane Ride Away)

Nick (Nick's Bytes)

Daryl (Out & About In New York City)

Dianne (Forks Off The Moment)

Smalltown RN (A Place I Call Home)

Coudia (Comfort Spiral)

Pam (Finding Pam)

Ten facts about me that you might not know.

1. I was a tomboy as a child. I climbed every tree around. I liked that my sister could not climb trees.

2. I loved to fish as a child with my Grandfather. When Hubs and I fished as newlyweds, we argued over who had the best end of the boat.

3. I abhor injustice and prejudice. I always take up for the underdog. It's my natue.

4. I am not afraid to die. I know where I am going.


5. I did not know that I was smart until after I had my first child and returned to college.


6. I am loyal to the end.



7. I am my own worst enemy. It has taken me years to recover from my childhood and my crazy mother.


8. I am a follower of Christ. I was lost for a long time, until I was found. I am thankful.


9. I studied art in Rome, Italy. It was one of the greatest exeperiences of my life. I spent a summer in Berlin, Germany with my sister and her soon to be ex- husband. It was an eye opening experience to see the Berlin Wall and East Berlin.


10. I had major surgery as a child. I had to drink 8 glasses water and take 20 gigantic pills a day. I knew where I would spend every Friday afternoon at the urologist office. I hated being singled out because I was sick.




Now, I have to pass this award on to (i.e. Tag) ten more bloggers, so here goes. It's not compulsory if you really don't want to it but if you do please let me know so I can read the 10 things about you. Step up to the plate:

Sara,Barefoot in the Garden

Alice,I Was Born2Cree8
Pamela,here with me
Sandi,Holding Patterns
Candace,my crazy world
DeEtta,My Little Corner of the world

Michelle,RAMBLING WOODS~The Road Les...

Strawberry Girl's Reflections
Wendy, Wendster's Blog
Muse,XANADU

I hope you will read these wonderful blogs and enjoy what they have to say.

Friends

I would like to thank Barbara for this lovely award from Writing from the Inside Out

Barbara is so kind and I have enjoyed becoming friends with her.

These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated.

An Award from Dawn at Twisted Sister

Proximidade is described as follows. This blog invests and believes in proximity- nearness in space, time and relationships. Nominated bloggers are exceedingly charming, they aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes for self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. This blog award should be sent to another eight bloggers and they, in turn, should forward it to eight of their favorites. You should include the text for Proximidade in your blog announcement. And please note that all awards and tags are optional... Twisted Sister


I would like to pass this on to the following blogs:

Barefoot in the Garden

Butterfly Dreamer

Everything And Nothing

I Was Born2Cree8

RAMBLING WOODS

Throwback at Trapper Creek

Writing from the Inside Out

XANADU

Dragon Award

I have been awarded the Dragon Award from the Dragon's Committee via Dr. John and Mrs. Betty. I am greatly surprised and excited to accept this award. If you have not read Dr. John's Fortress I encourage all to stop by his blog as he is an amazing character. His wife's blog is equally as brilliant and please read her too.



Bettygram

Dr. John's Fortress

Award from Cherie at Butterfly dreamer...

Blog Award from Cherie

"This symbol is the Native American symbol for vision for world peace.
I wanted to make it a blog award.
My award is a little different than most in the blog universe , as I offer it freely to everyone. There are no rules governing it. Take it freely as a love offering from me.
Pay it forward to anyone you would like that has inspired you in any way. Give it freely.
You do not have to acknowledge me in any way for this award on your blog. It is a love gift from me to you because all of you are inspirational in your own way. Just copy and paste it to your blog as an inspiration award"


http://butterflydreamer-dreamlight.blogspot.com/



Thank you Cherie for this wonderful award. It is a gift of love from your heart and I appreciate your honesty and sincerety in your writing. If you have not visited Butterflydreamer, I encourage you to stop and spend some time. I would like to encourage all of my readers to grab this award and wear it proudly. You all deserve it! I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of my wonderful friends. You bring so much to the blogging world and to me.

My Addictions...

I have been awarded the "Your blog is Fabulous" award by someone that I admire very much, Dawn, at Twisted Sister

Right now at this very second, I am having a CRS (can't remember s**t) moment. I think that my brain is dead from all this unpacking. I can't for the life of me remember how to link all the people together. Please forgive my absentmindedness.

Tah...Dah... A break through...I remember something at last!

Looks like I have remembered how to sorta function again. I will be fast because this may only be temporary.

What I would like to say about Dawn is that she is such a marvelous listener and that is what makes her so uniquely fabulous. She was given this award by none other than the Queen, Mimi Writes....... as well as other very deserving recipients. Dawn in turned passed this award to me. Though I am not sure why? She must know something I don't about myself.

I am suppose to list five of my addictions. But wait, I have so many to choose from? Mmmmm...where should I start. OK, here are my five addictions.

My Five Addictions:

1. I am addicted to this crazy, insane blogging. I sure did not see that coming
2. I am addicted to shoes. A girl can never have too many?

3. I am addicted to being organized, otherwise I could not find my shoes.

4. I am addicted to helping people. Who else is going to help if I don't

5. I am addicted to the outdoors. I would rather be outside any day than stuck inside.

So in turn I will pass this wonderful award on to five of my fellow bloggers that I think will enjoy this award and will want to share their addictions with us. Congrats to these bloggers!

Chickie, Skittering Thoughts

Muse, XANADU
Imerie, http://thegreengrassgrowsallaround.blogspot.com/
BG, Barefoot in the Garden
Michelle, RAMBLING WOODS

Van Gogh's Ear Award

Akelamula at Everything And Nothing has given me my first award. I wanted to pass it on to some of my favorite blogs. I hope you enjoy it!

Van Gogh's Ear?............
This is the Van Gogh's Ear Award as created by Roger of Idaho Photo This is what he wrote about the Van Gogh's Ear Award:"Every year I like to make up a award and hand it out to people that make a difference in the blogsphere. I like to make it a award for all to enjoy and pass out if one so wants to, I just ask if your going to give it out to link back to me as the creator of the Van Gogh's Ear Award.


"Inspiration of the Van Gogh's Ear Award"
You may know the story of Vincent Van Gogh a well known artist in history. Although a brilliant painter in his later years went quite insane he received the nickname of fou roux ("the redheaded madman"). The most bazaar of Vincent's behavior is when he cut off the lower part of his own left ear lobe, which he wrapped in newspaper and gave to a prostitute named Rachel in the local brothel, asking her to "keep this object carefully. After this he suffered recurrent bouts of mental illness, which led to his suicide July 29, 1890 he was 37 years old. His works of art are priceless.

"The point of this award"
We are all artist in are own way be it art, photography, writing, philosophy, comedy, blogging and we all go a little crazy sometimes. But if you ever feel so crazy to cut off your ear and give it to a prostitute 'Seek Help'!"Always remember you're unique.Just like everyone else. Storyteller. Well I'm not as mad as Van Gogh (yet) but I may be getting there so, before I do I'd like to pass it on to the following people, trying not to duplicate those who have already received it because there's quite a lot! Please accept this in the spirit in which it was given. Disclaimer: I do not think anyone is going to cut their ear off or off themselves.

Jeff B (A Word In Edgewise

Dr. John (Dr. John's Fortress)

Chickie (Skittering Thoughts)

Julie (The Life of a Media Diva)

Muse (XANADU)

Barbara (Writing from the Inside Out)

Please feel free to pass it on to your favourite bloggers mentioning the origin and the sentiments behind it please.