More Awards!

I received two more awards this week...the first one is from my lovely Just Cute Bears DT buddy Kat...thank you!

I'm supposed to pass this on to 7 bloggers...but as I already did that last week...I won't this time.

The second award is from one of my followers...Debs M x...thank you!

I'm supposed to tell you 7 interesting facts about myself, before passing this award on to 7 people...but I can't even think of one right now...so rather than bore you with 7 'uninteresting' facts...or repeat the same ones I always use...I'll skip over that part! lol

So...as it would happen, I have 7 lovely DT buddies over at the Just Cute Bears Challenge...so I'm going to pass this award on to them:

Annie
Becky
Cathy
Jenny
Kat
San
Sarah

A Couple of Awards...

I've been such a bad blogger...I recieved a couple of awards in the last couple of weeks...but just haven't managed to find the time to blog them and pass them on.

The first one is from my lovely friend Uma.

There are 5 rules to this award:

1. Thank the person who gave you the award...thanks Uma! :0)

2. Copy and display the award on your blog...done!

3. List three things you love about yourself:

1. I'm never bored...I can always find something to do! ;0)
2. I have a good memory...always useful for listing the names of items used on a project!
3. I'm organised...people may laugh at my alphabetised music scores, and CDs...but I hate wasting time looking for things!

4. Post a picture you love:

You'll probably recognise this as my profile photo...it's of my parents' dogs Cassie & Seamus...sadly they're no longer with us...but I do love the way that Cassie has her paw on top of Seamus' in this photo! :0)

5. Tag 5 people you would like to pass this award onto. I always struggle with this part...I'd like to give it to each and every one of you...so this time I've chosen to pass it on to five of my most regular commenters:

1. Kelly
2. Sandra
3. Riet
4. Mary
5. Claire

Thanks ladies for all of the lovely comments you leave me! :0)

The second award is from Sharon:

Awww...thanks Sharon! :0)

Now...I'm supposed to pass this blog award on to seven people...how to choose??? Well...I have seven lovely DT buddies at the ABC Christmas Challenge...so I'm passing it on to them to say a BIG thank you for all of the hard work they put into their creations, and for making it a great fun team to be on! :0)

Annie
Cathy
Jayne
Lacey
Lols
Samantha
Squirrel

Phew! I did have another card I was going to blog today...but I think I've spent enough time on here today...and I've missed the deadline for one of the challenges it was for already...so, I think I'll do that tomorrow! lol

Brightside Award

I've been given this award by the lovely Sharon...thank you!

To accept it you need to take part in a little information sharing.

Instructions:

1. Give a top 10 list of the things that makes you happy.

2. Give a top 5 list of trivia about yourself.

3. Share the award with only 5 persons and ask them to do the same thing.

4. Link the blogs you choose and link the blog of the person awarded you.

Ok...here goes:

10 things that make me happy:

1. Crafting! lol
2. Blogging
3. Cooking...and then...
4. Eating! lol
5. Spending time with my family...
6. with my friends...
7. and also by myself
8. Making music...
9. and listening to other people make music
10. Making other people happy :0)


5 pieces of trivia:

1. ssshhhh...but I actually like cleaning and doing housework!
2. I'm much more a winter person, than a summer bunny...just love cold crisp mornings
3. I don't like ice cream
4. My favourite food is...chocolate!
5. My bass clarinet is called Bert! lol

Ok...so now for the really tricky bit...I need to choose just 5 people to pass this award on to:

Carol, Cathy, Samantha, Squirrel & Uma

Winter Pals

The My Time to Craft Challenge has a lovely theme for their challenge this week...'Winter Pals'. Now, I think that these two little fellas look both wintry and friendly...and having a high old time singing their hearts out! The image is a House Mouse stamp called 'Christmas Singing Duo'. I followed the sketch from Sketch Saturday...although I was naughty, and omitted the scalloped edges. And, I'm also entering this card for a couple of 'Christmas' themed challenges: Stampavie & More; and Stamp with Fun.
The papers are by BasicGrey ('Figgy Pudding'), the sentiment stamp is by Paper Makeup, and I added some pieces of card candy in coordinating colours.



Oh, and I've been given this award by Susan...thank you!
I posted my 'one word' answers here a couple of weeks ago, as I received it from a couple of my other bloggy buddies then.

I also received another award this week...but I'm still trying to come up with some 'interesting' facts about myself, so I'll blog that later! lol

One Word Award

I've been given this award by a couple of my blogging buddies...Sue & Squirrel...thanks ladies! :0)
I'm sorry that it's taken me so long to get around to putting it on my blog...told you I'd been a bad blogger! lol

So, here are my 'one word' answers:

1) Where is your cell phone? - handbag
2) Hair? - brown
3) Your mother? - wonderful
4) Your father? - funny
5) Your fav food? - cake
6) Your Dream last night? - forgotten
7) Your fav drink? - water
8) Your dream goal? - contentment
9) What room are you in? - bedroom
10) Your hobby? - crafting
11) Your fear? - boredom
12) Where do you want to be in 6 years time? - here
13) Where were you last night? - home
14) Something that you aren't? - tall
15) Muffins? - yes!
16) Wishlist item? - time
17) Where did you grow up? - Norfolk
18) Last thing you did? - work
19) What are you wearing? - PJs
20) Your T.V? - Spooks
21) Your pets? - none
22) Your friends? - fabulous
23) Your life? - hectic
24) Your mood? - happy
25) Missing someone? - no
26) Vehicle? - 207
27) Something you're not wearing? - coat
28) Your fav store? – Glitterpot
29) Your fav colour? - blue
30) Last time you laughed? - today
31) Last time you cried? - forgotten
32) Your best friend? - Emma
33) One place you go to over and over? - work
34) One person who emails regularly? - Samantha
35) Fav place to eat? - Papaya
36) Face book? - never

Now...I know that I'm supposed to pass this on...but as it's taken me so long to blog this...everyone's already got it! lol

I'm off to do some quick crafting...I haven't made anything in over a week...and I've got itchy fingers...so I may even have a card to show you tomorrow!

Sweet Little Award

I received this sweet Friendship Award from my lovely friend Pauline earlier this week...thanks for thinking of me :0)


I'm not sure if there are any rules for passing this on, but I'd like to give it to my lovely ABC Design Team buddies: Cathy, Dawn, Fiona, Jane, Jennifer and Vicky.

A Lovely Award...

My lovely friend Cathy, has given me this award...thanks hun!


In return for receiving these awards you have to:

1. Thank the person who nominated you for this award.

2. Copy the logo and place it on your blog.

3. Link the person who nominated you for this award.

4. Name seven things about yourself that people might find interesting.

5. Nominate seven Kreativ Bloggers.

6. Post links to the seven blogs you nominate.

7. Leave comments on all seven blogs letting them know you nominated them

Well...I received the award a few days ago...and I've been trying to think up 7 interesting facts about myself...and have failed miserably...so here are my 7 uninteresting facts! lol

1. I don't like ice-cream...yuck!

2. My other hobby is baking...yum!

3. Despite not being very girly...I love using pretty flowers and ribbons on my cards...I don't even mind pink!

4. I prefer cold weather to hot.

5. I live in London...but am a country bumpkin at heart.

6. I'm a vegetarian...don't worry...it's not catching! lol

7. I am totally and utterly addicted to blogging!

Ok...if you're still with me...here are the people that I'd like to pass this award on to:

Carol

Jo

Kaz

Pauline

Samantha

Squirrel

Vicky

Now, I realise that some of you have already received this award...but I'd still like to award it to you too! :0)

Two awards...

...from my lovely friend Pauline - thank you, and right back at you!




I'm supposed to pass this cute award on to my top 10 favourite blogs...how mean to make us only choose 10! lol
I've decided to give it to five bloggers, whose blogs I love to visit regularly: Jacqui, Lyndsey, Tracie, Marcea and Heather...and to all my new ABC Challenge DT buddies:
Alison, Cathy, Jane, Jennifer and Vicky.





I'm passing this second award on to five special people who always make me smile! :0)
Carol, Cathy, Jo, Sue and Squirrel! Thanks for your friendship girls!

Friends...

My lovely friend Pauline has given me this sweet award, and it really made my day - thank you Pauline!

I'm not sure how many people I'm supposed to pass this on to, so I'm going to give it to some lovely crafty friends who have been a great source of inspiration and always have kind words:

Cathy, Carol, Jo, Samantha, Sue, and Pauline :0)

It's Award Time...

The lovely Sharon has passed this award on to me...thank you Sharon!

The rule of the award is that I must pass is on to 5 other bloggers...and this time I'm going to pass it on to people whose blogs are fairly new to me, so, I'm choosing:

Debby, Kathy, Marlene, Mina and Rach.

A lovely award

I received this lovely award from Tracey...

...thank you Tracey! So now the difficult part...I have to choose 5 people to pass it on to.
I've chosen these people, firstly because they are all lovely, and secondly, because they all have fab blogs:

Cathy
Lyndsey
Pauline
Tara
Tracie

Another lovely award

This award was given to me by my lovely friend Pauline:

The rules of this award are:
1) Post a link of the person who gave you this award
2) Nominate 5 other people and give a link to their sites
3) Let your nominators know that they got an award from you
4) Put a logo of the award on the blog

Now, most of the people I'd like to give this award to, have already received it, but as it's designed to thank those who have encouraged you in some way, I'm going to give it to them anyway.

Pauline - for her encouragement in setting up my blog (and all the helpful little tips too!)

Tracie - it was the Penny Black Challenge that got me into blogging in the first place!

Cathy, Samantha and Sharon - who are regular visitors to my blog, and always have kind words to say.

A 'Fabulous' Award!

My lovely friend Pauline has given me this terribly chic award:

Thank you Pauline!

The rules are: that I must pass it on to five people; and list five things that I am addicted to.

Ok, so here are my addictions:
1. Crafting...well, that kind of goes without saying!
2. Penny Black rubber stamps...though you probably knew that already!
3. Pretty papers, ribbons, flowers...well, everything, really!
4. Blog challenges...it's been fab having the time to do so many this week!
5. Blog-hopping...I love checking out what all my bloggy buddies have been up to!

Now for the tough bit...I always find it hard to choose just a few people to pass awards on to, but as I have to choose just five people, I'm nominating:

Emma
Tara
Shary
Jo
Caroline

Thanks girls, for the inspiration you provide!

A Lovely Award...

My blogging buddy Cathy has given me this fabulously elegant award...

...Thank you Cathy!

The award has a lovely sentiment behind it, which is:

This blog invests and believes the PROXIMITY - nearness in space, time and relationships! These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or 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 blogger’s who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.

The eight bloggers I'm passing this award on to are:
Pauline
Natalie
Julie
Kerry
Debs
Fran
Tara
Sarah

Thanks girls for all of the wonderful inspirational cards on your blogs!

Another Award!

I've just been given another award, this time the 'I Love Your Blog' Award, by the lovely Erin - thank you!


The rule is, that I must pass this award on to 7 people...not easy to choose, as there are so many blogs I love to visit...although lots of you obviously love them too, as most of my favourites already have this award! My nominees are: Sharon, Lyndsey, Tracie, Katy, Kim, Kerry and Shary.

An award!

I've just been given this lovely award by Lyndsey - thank you...it was so nice of you to think of me!

Here are the rules:
1. The winner may put the logo on their blog.
2. Put a link to the person who sent you the award.
3. Nominate 5 blogs.
4. Put links to their blogs.
5. Leave a message for your nominees

There are so many fab blogs that I love to visit, it's really difficult to pick just 5, but the people I've chosen to nominate are: Cathy, Katy, Emma, Tara and Pauline. I love to visit all of your blogs girls - thanks for the inspiration!

Lyndsey, also tagged me, but I need to have a think about my answers...so I'll come back and post about that another time...

Another Happy Autumn Award!

Wow - I can't believe it, but I've just been given another Happy Autumn award by one of my new blogging buddies Caroline. Like me, she's quite new to blogging, so do pop over to her lovely blog if you've not already visited.

As I've recently passed this award on to six of my favourite bloggers, I'm going to nominate ALL of you, who take the time to visit my blog - you all brighten my day with your lovely comments...so Happy Autumn everyone!

Happy Autumn Award

I've just been given this award by the lovely Tracie...and was just the thing to brighten up this dull Sunday! Thanks Tracie!

I'd love to pass this award on to all my blogging buddies, but the deal is that I can only pass it on to six friends...so here goes:

Pauline
Lorraine
Samantha
Mand
Jo
Sharon

Happy Autumn Girls!

My first awards!

Wow - just seen that my friend Pauline has given me TWO awards! I've been so busy this weekend (one flatmate moving out, and another moving in, and loads of music to arrange), that I've only just seen the comment she left me on Friday!

The first is the 'Wylde Women' Award, the purpose of which is to to send love to and acknowledge women who brighten your day, teach you new things and live their lives fully with generosity and joy.

The rules are:

1 You can give it to one or one hundred and any number in between - your choice.

2. Make sure you link to their site.

3. Link back to this blog site http://www.tammyvitale.com/ so Tammy can visit all these wonderful women.

4. Remember the purpose of the award.

Now, I've been inspired by so many fabulous blogs, so much so that I just HAD to start my own blog! Most of those that I would like to nominate, already have this award (quite rightly so!), and I hope that nobody will mind if I give them a second one!

Tracie whom I met through the Penny Black Saturday Challenge, and encouraged me to start my own blog.

Lorraine for her friendship and all of her wonderfully inspiring cards.

Emma who makes me laugh, and is generously giving her time to organising a card appeal for Support Our Soldiers.

I would also give this award back to Pauline for her friendship, and all the helpful advice she gave me when I was setting up my blog, if I were allowed!

The second award is the JAVABLU award.

The rules are:
1. The winner can put the logo in her/his blog.

2. Put a link back to the person who gave you the award.

3. Nominate at least 5 persons with a blog, but first you have to tell why you want to give it to those persons.

4. Put a link to those you have nominated.

5. Visit the blogs to the nominees and tell them you gave them an award!

Again, it's not difficult to think of people that deserve this award, but they already have this one too!

Julie whose cards I have always admired from when I first spotted her gallery on the Docrafts forum a year or so ago.

Cathy for her friendship and her fab cards!

Jo for her friendship and her constantly positive outlook on life!

Lorraine for her friendship and stunningly beautiful cards.

Mand for her friendship and fab gorgeous cards.

Tracie for her encouragement setting up my blog, and all her fabulous cards.

Thanks Pauline for these two awards!

I did find a couple of hours this evening to make a few cards, but couldn't get any decent photos taken under the yellow glow of the energy-saving lightbulbs, so I'll have to wait 'til tomorrow to upload those!