I am terribly behind with accepting these awards and passing them on. I am not a procrastinator by nature, but I wanted to find an original way to announce the awards. Unfortunately, my efforts struggled miserably and for one rhyme, I asked for help from my daughter…ahem. Okay, several rhymes, but who’s keeping track?
As seems to be the going trend, I have fudged the rules a bit. I nominated only 3 bloggers per award, and I answered questions to only one award. Otherwise, you’d be spending all day on my blog, and as much as I love the attention I know we all have other things to do!
Please know that no one is obligated to accept or pass on these awards. If I have given you an award that you already have, my apologies!
Okay, on to the awards:
Thanks to Kathils and her random muse
For A Beautiful Blogger award, what wonderful news!
Here are my nominees for Beautiful Blogger:
Here are my nominees for One Lovely Blog:
Subhan Zein, a poet who sculpts the light,
Gave me A Versatile Blogger Award the other night.
My nominees for The Versatile Blogger are:
Thank you to The Blazing Trail for the wonderful gift
Of A Very Inspiring Blog Award, ‘twas certainly a lift!
Here are my nominees for Very Inspiring Blogger Award:
Dear Anne Woodman, who writes by numbers,
thanks for writing, too!
We don’t fall aslumber
because of you.
My nominees for Thanks for Writing are:
The Reader Appreciation award was given to me
From The View Outside’s loverliest Vikki
This award comes with some questions:
What is your favorite color? Blue
What is your favorite animal? Wolf
What is your favorite non-alcoholic beverage? Diet Coke
Facebook or Twitter? Mmm, I’m not keen on either of them
What is your favorite pattern? Polky-dots!
Getting or Giving? Giving
What is your favorite number? 3
What is your favorite day of week? Friday
What is your favorite flower? Begonia
What is your passion? Writing and spending time with my kids (I know that’s two, but they’re both number one to me)
I nominate this award to the three top commenters on my blog:
Mmmm pizza. Woop!
Pizza will get ya every time!
Well deserved. Congratulations, Kate! Thanks for the nomination. I’m honored.
You’re welcome, Christy!
CONGRATULATIONS honey
Oooooo, look at all those lovely awards, much deserved
Xx
Well, thanks to your help with passing one on to me!
Thank you so much for the One Lovely Blog award – it’s one I don’t have! The nominating bit is the hardest isn’t it because you feel bad about who you leave out, that’s why last time I did a round of just accepting but not nominating, but then I felt bad about leaving EVERYONE out, haha.
Oh my gosh, that’s so funny because I think I spent hours trawling through blogs trying to see who had what award and trying not to duplicate awards. But not everyone has them posted, and I really wasn’t about to do a ‘search’, so I winged it. Wung it? Anyway, yes, I agree, the passing them on is difficult because you don’t want to hurt feelings.
Thankfully these awards seem to make the rounds on a regular basis and there are so many of them, that it’s easy to take turns with our nominees!
Enjoy!
Congratulations, Kate! (And to Vanessa, too!)
I admit I’m one of those people who hasn’t posted my award. Nonetheless, I’m grateful you even considered me for the Beautiful Blogger award, considering you already follow such interesting, insightful others.
I will be sure to update my site with the award image, now!
You’re welcome, Mayumi. I’m lucky to know a lot of beautiful bloggers and you’re at the top!
Congratulations on all your awards. Well deserved.
Thanks, Pete!
Congrats on all your awards whoop! And thanks for passing me on
You’re welcome, Vicky. I’m sure you’ll do it justice
Oh, wow!
Congrats on all those awards!
Thanks for passing one on to me. I feel special!
Can’t wait to check out the blogs of all the other people you awarded.
You’re welcome–you deserve it!
Love your blog. Your awards are well-deserved. ; )
Thanks to you, Anne. And I lurve your blog, too
Thank you for the lovely award and Congrats to you. I will eventually post a thank you and pass the award on. Someday, when I am feeling bloggy.
No rush, Lisa. A few of these are three months behind, so I for one know what it’s like to put something like this off.
And you’re welcome
Thanks for the award!
You’re welcome!
Congratulations on all the awards—they are all well-deserved!
And thank you for the shout-out. I’m truly flattered when other bloggers think enough of my posts to nominate me. 
Thank you. And you’re welcome. I always appreciate every single comment that’s ever made on my post, but especially the people who are consistently there, reading and commenting. Without my regulars, I probably wouldn’t still be blogging.
Congrats Kathryn
Now go and enjoy a frosty IPA…Actually, it looks like you’ll need 4 of them. You take care.
Oh wow, you remembered my fetish for IPAs. You’ve got a great memory! Funnily enough, I have one chilling in the freezer as I write this.
Thanks, Kathryn. You have a great week!
Wow! You are the award queen! Congrats and thanks for passing along an award. They are fun (especially when you can fudge–which I am an expert at doing–and suit the rules to fit you and your own time contraints.) I’ll have to check out your nominees, since I’m not the best at finding sites on my own.
Haha, I shouldn’t have stockpiled these since May–but time got away from me. I enjoy them, but part of what takes me so long to get around to them is choosing recipients, because I want to make sure I’m not duplicating awards and such.
Hope you find some sites you’ll enjoy!
I hear you! I’m the same with waiting forever and then pounding my brain to come up with new recipients (I don’t just want to pick random blogs for the heck of it).
And then the problem with waiting so long is someone else beats me to the punch and gives the same award to the blogger I was thinking of! (That happened to me twice!)
There is a reason you received all these awards…you are simply awesome! And thanks for the nod.
Wow, Dennis, thanks! You’re pretty swell, yourself.
And you’re welcome. Have fun with it!
I’m absolutely thrilled. Thank you so much. You really are an awesome blogger, I wouldn’t miss it.
Yay! You’re very welcome, and you’re sweet to say that. I’m happy to be able to give you the award, because I think you deserve it.
Thanks for the recognition, Kate. It’s so nice to be part of such an encouraging community.
You’re welcome, Darla. I fully agree, and it’s nice to be able to show our appreciation of each other in such a neat, fun way.
Those are a lot of awards! Congratulations!
Thanks, Fredrik!
Yeah! Yahoo! Yippee! & Congratulations! Now I’m off to click on your nominee links.
Thank you! I’m sure you’ll find a few new sites worth the read.
I did! I now have a few new blogs to follow!
Excellent!
Excellent post. I really enjoyed the way you handled the awards. They are wonderful with regards to the reasons why, but the time and effort required with reference to the rules can be daunting when you have a limited schedule and you’d rather be blogging or connecting with other bloggers as time permits. I was beginning to feel like a hoarder with a hidden stash of awards, and guilty for not staying on top of them. Thanks I feel much better now!
Hi Penny,
Me too! I hated seeing that I was sitting on these awards since May. I really do enjoy the exchange of awards, plus it’s a wonderful way to visit new blogs I otherwise might miss. But they are time consuming for me, mainly because I try to give all of my commenters a ‘turn’, plus I try to avoid duplicating as best I can. Although that seems to be getting more and more difficult.
Thanks so much for swinging by and saying hi!
My pleasure, seems we have a few things in common. Good to know!
Definitely!
Hey there, lady!
Congrats on your very well deserved awards and wishing you a marvelous remainder of the season! xo
Thanks for the nom – I do have the versatile blogger award already, so won’t be doing it again (thanks so much for thinking of me, though!), but I wanted to give you a high five for making your own version of the rules…I’ve got a small garden of awards growing in my ‘to do’ box as well and will be doing something similar
You’re quite welcome. I figured somewhere along the line I’d be duplicating an award. To me, it’s more about recognizing wonderful blogs and sharing with other bloggers. Thank you for your congrats. And yes, rule bending is necessary sometimes!
Take care!
Ooo, lovely thank you so much!
I can’t remember having comments here, so I’m doing it now. Thank you for thinking of me and the shout out; its always warming to realise you enjoy my blog enough to do so.
I certainly know all about hoarding awards too; sometimes its hard to keep track and find time so I’m sure everyone understands.
As for me, I’m not sure when I’ll get to write this up, but I’ll endeavour to do it sooner than the last lot.
You’re welcome Ileandra! Have fun with it.
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Congrats on your much deserved awards! I’m a huge fan of polka dots too!
Thanks, Kourtney!