I’m over the moon as I’ve now been nominated for two more stars for my Blog of the Year Award.
I would like to thank wonderful Shaun and Jardin. They have both recently nominated me again for another star for this award. I guess that now also gives me two more stars to pass on to other wonderful bloggers out there in our blogosphere and I do just love passing them on.
The idea as always is that when you receive an extra star for your award is you can then choose some other blogs to nominate for a star as well. As I have been nominated twice so I would like to pass another star on to the following 20 deserving blogs.
Here are my nominees: (Please remember that while it is fun passing on another star it is also very difficult to chooses as there are such a plethora of most wonderful blogs to choose from. chose.)
Instructions for my nominees accepting another star for their award are very simple:
1-Select the blogs you now think deserve the Blog Of The Year 2013 Award.
2-Write a short blog post and tell us about the blog(s) you have chosen- there are no minimum or maximum number of blogs required- and ‘present’ the blog(s) with their award.
3-Let the blog(s) that you have chosen know that you have given them this award and share the instructions with them- (please don’t alter the instructions or the badges!)
Share your blog posts with an even wider audience.
6-And as a winner of the award- please add a link back to the blog that presented you with this award-and then proudly display the award on your blog- and keep adding the stars.
There are a total of 6 stars altogether to collect.
You can find all the badges and banners and information you need via this link: ‘Blog of The Year 2013′ Award Badges.
Congratulations to all the nominees! Best of luck to every one!
And of course a very big thank-you once again to wonderful Shaun and Jardin for nominating my blog. Hugs to everyone.
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens Brown paper packages tied up with strings These are a few of my favorite things
Cream colored ponies and crisp apple streudels Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings These are a few of my favorite things
Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes Silver white winters that melt into springs These are a few of my favorite things
I’d like to send a very big thank you to Sweetness6645 over at The Chronicles of a Public Transit User’s Blogsite for nominating my Memoirs for a Liebster Award. Please everyone, do go on over and visit her wonderful blog. She has interesting tales and wonderful Black and White photos. Her own Liebster Award page can be found at:
Basically, a Liebster Award is like a “favorite blog award”. It’s given to writers of other blogs that you enjoy reading or looking at.
Liebster is the German word for favorite, beloved, or dearest. It’s mainly meant for the smaller blogs with less than two hundred followers to help expose them to the world and help them discover other new and upcoming bloggers. You can find a lot of further information regarding the Liebster Awards by clicking here on Lorraine Reguly’s Life. Lorraine also has some wonderful stories on her blog.
A Liebster Award
What are the Liebster Award Rules?
Just briefly, in order to formally accept this award, the nominee must do several things
Link back and recognize the blogger who nominated them
Answer ten questions given to them by their nominee
Nominate ten or so other bloggers for the award.
Create ten questions for their own 10 nominees to answer.
Notify your new nominees for the award
So here are my responses to the 10 sizzling questions that Sweetness6645 has asked me to answer:
1. Who is your favorite superhero? Cat Woman-now how does she squeeze into that amazing suit of hers? Somehow I don’t really think it would actually be in my best interests to even try! Seems to look pretty good on her though.
2. How long have you been blogging? About four and a half months now
3. What did you want to be when you grew up? An Air hostess – it looked glamorous and worldly!
4. What is your dream vacation? To Travel around the this magical world on a one way ticket and have at least 12 months to explore the many corners of the Earth. I’d love to live in Vienna for a few months on this journey.
5. What would your kids be surprised to know about you? hmmm, since I don’t have kids …
6. Do you think your handwriting reveals anything? That I’m always rushing…it can be rather messy a lot of the time unless I consciously remember to slow down.
7. Are you scared of anything?( i.e. heights, spiders) I don’t like spiders and snakes! Crocodiles aren’t my favourite creatures either.
8. Has there been a catalyst in your life that changed your game plan? Travelling on Viking…now I just want to travel all the time!
9. Star Wars or Star Trek? I’d have to say Doctor Who….not sure if you’re allowed to do that but ah well!
10. Is there anything simple that you can’t figure out? I can never remember how to add the widgets for these awards. I always have to go back and read the instructions again!
And here are my ten very challenge questions for all you LUCKY newly nominated bloggers I’ve just nominated! You’re all so amazing and I do so love your blogs: (I’m afraid I’ve made these questions nearly all travel related. I hope you don’t mind! (It sort of fits with my Memoirs travel theme!)
What is your favourite thing to do when you have time to yourself at home on holidays?
What is your favourite wild animal and what country is it native to?
Do you prefer to stay home, visit family or travel overseas when you holiday?
What was the absolute best family holiday you remember having as a child?
What’s the most outstanding holiday you’ve ever had as an adult?
Where did you go on your last holiday?
What activities/entertainment do you look for when you start planning for a holiday period (i.e. time at home, markets, beaches, sightseeing, cultural pursuits etc?
What are your two favourite overseas countries?
Where would you go if you had about $1000 to plan a holiday right now?
If you had a Fairy God Mother who could grant you the holiday of a life time….whatever you wanted to do, wherever you wanted to go, however much it cost…what do you think you would choose?
I’ve begun humming a favourite old song of mine again lately:
“You are my sunshine,
My only sunshine.
You make me happy,
When skies are grey!”………
Well today I’d like to say a BIG thank you to Tails from Paris for this new Sunshine Award they sent my way a few weeks ago. I really appreciate your nomination of my travel memoir blog at Kidazzleink.com…. Yeahhhh. Please everyone, do make sure you shoot over and check out the wonderful little comic sketches and jokes that are regularly posted on the Tails from Paris Blog site.
Sunshine Award
Now for 10 Interesting things about me (well I hope they’re a little bit interesting):
I love taking photos and I love my D7000.
I’ve just started travelling a lot more in recent years and love it way too much. So much so that D.B. recently asked if I’d like to get another puppy!
I look forward to retiring soon so I can travel even more.
My name should be Michelle Stuhmcke by now but I haven’t got around to changing it from Michelle Davies yet despite being married for more than a half a decade…some things just seem to take a bit of time you know!
Blogging is becoming a passion at the moment because everyone in the blogosphere is so positive and so very entertaining…just love you all
I live on the beautiful Gold Coast in Australia – you should come on over a take a look sometime.
Crème Brulee Chocolate from Lindt is very delicious and I think my absolute favourite.
D.B. and I hope to visit China in 2014.
The older I get the younger I seem to feel.
I’m loving learning to write creatively all over again…Haven’t written anything but work reports etc for many years.
Now for my list of “Sunshine” blog nominations.
These bloggers continue to add their wonderful little rays of sunshine to my own life on a fairly regular basis. I believe they can help to positively and creatively inspire all of us in this wonderful blogosphere. And they’re all such wonderfu people as well. Hop on over and take a look at their entertaining WordPress sites.
I’ve only been blogging a few short months but I have to say I really enjoy the experience. Dawn has been a wonderful WordPress friend during this time. She is an inspiration. Please do visit her site and read her wonderful words.
WordPress Family Award
But you are all such a wonderful bunch of helpful, talented, positive and caring people. I’m finding more and more that I just can’t wait to sit down with a nice cup of coffee whenever I can and catch up with all of your latest posts and comments.
Now to be awarded the WordPress Family Award is a wonderful surprise. So thank you very much Dawn.
As you read this, you may be asking yourself where did the idea for this “Part of the WordPress Family Award” first originate. A fabulous man called Shaun created it and this was his rationale for doing so:
‘This is an award for everyone who is part of the “Word Press Family” I started this award on the basis that the WordPress family has taken me in, and showed me love and a caring side as only WordPress can. The way people take a second to be nice, to answer a question and not make things a competition amazes me here. I know I have been given many awards, but I wanted to leave my own legacy on here by creating my own award, as many have done before. This represents “Family” we never meet, but are there for us as family. It is my honour to start this award. Thank you,
What a warm and wonderful award to create and pass on to others we appreciate.
Well here are the award rules.
If you receive this award it means someone really values all the hard work you put into your blog and the kind and considerate thoughts and comments you share with others through the WordPress experience. It means you’ve been identified as someone who is part of the WordPress family.
In accepting the award you are asked to:
1. Display the award logo on your blog.
2. Link back to the person who nominated you.
3. Nominate 10 others you see as having a positive impact on your WordPress experience; people you feel are part of your own WordPress family.
4. Let your 10 new “Family” members know you have awarded them
5. That is it. Just please pick 10 people that have taken you as a friend, and spread the continue to spread the love.
I know that’s just a couple too many…..but I do love all of your blogs just so much and I’m very thankful you take the time to create such a wonderful WordPress experience for others. I find your posts fascinating, entertaining, interesting, uplifting and loveable. You all put a lovely positive spin on my days. Congratulations and thank you. Oh and please don’t think you have to rush to accept this award and no problem if it is too much at the present time – I can fully understand. Just know that you are appreciated, that’s all.
Oh and I’d like to add that there are just so many other bloggers out there that I love heaps as well. To everyone I am following. I love you all. You brighten my days. Many many thanks.
European Holiday and River Cruising Memoirs 