Awards

Awards from Fellow Great Bloggers

February 8, 2009 by Darlene

I am truly blessed by the amount of friends I’ve made since starting this blog. I remember when I started my blog and nobody was coming—It was disappointing. Now I have regular followers and new ones and it just makes my day to see comments from you all. I love that people like to stop by and see what I’ve read and reviewed or even just to read those in between posts.

Anyhow, since close to the beginning of January sometime I have received quite a few awards. I’ve been very bad about getting my blog housekeeping done so here goes with my awards post today…

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I received the Premio Dardos award from Bonnie at Redlady’s Reading Room, Nely at All About {n}, Melody at Melody’s Reading Corner and Staci at Life in the Thumb.

This award is for: “The Prémio Dardos is given for recognition of cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values transmitted in the form of creative and original writing”. These stamps were created with the intention of promoting fraternization between bloggers, a way of showing affection and gratitude for work that adds value to the Web“.

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I received the Lemonade Award from Jo-Jo at Jo-Jo Loves to Read. This award is for is for “blogs with great attitude and/or gratitude”.

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I received the Butterfly Award from Jenn at Jenn’s Bookshelf and Nely at All About {n}.

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I received the Well Worth Watching Award from Kaye at Pudgy Penguin Perusals. This award is for: “those blogs you can’t wait to read everyday, that you look forward to seeing updates on and that have inspired you in your own blogging”.

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I received The Tink Approved Award from Jen at Up Close & Personal with LadyTink. This is an award made personally by her to spread some fairy dust. I feel really honored to have received this from her because I really love visiting her blog.

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Last but not least a new award making it’s round is the Friends Award from many great bloggers…Beth at Beth Fish Reads, Serena at Savvy Verse & Wit, Kristina at Kristina’s Favorties. This award is for “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”.

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I can’t say thank you enough. Even though I may not post about getting an award right away, I appreciate it more than I can say and absolutely love getting them! I was taking good notes on who passed the awards to me but if I forgot one please let me know and I’ll add it in. I’m not passing these awards on to certain bloggers—what I’m going to do is say…’if I’m reading your blog and commenting then I think you totally deserve all of these awards!’ All those reading, check out these bloggers if you don’t already know these ladies—there’s some really terrific blogs here!

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Thank You for a Few More Awards

January 10, 2009 by Darlene

I have to thank a few people for recognizing me for more awards the past few days. In the order that I got them in:

Drey from Drey’s Library gave me the Premio Dardos award. I am truly honored and appreciative. I’ve been reading Drey’s blog for a while now and I look forward to reading it with my morning coffee every day-it’s wonderful.

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DeSeRt RoSe from DeSeRt RoSe BoOkLoGuE gave me the Butterfly Award. Thank you so much; again I really appreciate it. Her blog is newer to me but no less loved. She has a wonderful blog that again I enjoy visiting each day.

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Last, I received the Well Worth Watching Award from my friend Naida over at The Bookworm. Thanks Nadia! This award is for:

This is for all those blogs you cannot wait to read every day, that you look forward to seeing updates on and that have inspired you in your own blogging. There are no rules for this one, but feel free to pass it on to whomever you feel deserves it!

Well, Naida’s blog is exactly that for me too! She has one of my favorite blogs and not only that she’s a really nice person too!

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I’m not going to pass these along this time because I truly believe that all the blogs I visit and comment on each day are Well Worth Watching. That’s why I visit them. So, thank you all of you for the awards. Again, I love that you all think so highly of my blog and the work I put into it and just for being my blogging buddies!

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More Awards

January 7, 2009 by Darlene

Oh my gosh I’m feeling extra special this week and I could sure use it so I am so grateful to all my blogging buddies. I have received numerous more award acknowledgements since my last award post so I’m doing another post.
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I received this very special award from Serena at Savvy Verse & Wit for an award called The Premio Dardos Award. The Prémio Dardos is given for recognition of cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values transmitted in the form of creative and original writing. These stamps were created with the intention of promoting fraternization between bloggers, a way of showing affection and gratitude for work that adds value to the Web. Serena, I feel truly honored that you feel my blog and I match up to the qualities in this award and I’m truly speechless that I make you proud to be a part of this community. The same is true for me. Your blog is fantastic. Your reviews are so well thought out and interesting along with everything else you do on your blog. You know yours is one of my first visits of everyday! In honor of this award I will strive even harder to bring more good reviews everybody’s way! I’m supposed to award this to 15 people-wow that’s a lot of thinking on my part but I’ll try…If I didn’t pick your blog for it but visit regularly please know that I do think everyone should get this award but these are my picks for now. First, I would totally award it back to Serena of course.

Nymeth of Things Mean a Lot-she has an amazing way with words and her reviews are the some of the best I read. She also reviews books that I normally wouldn’t read and I love that.

Ramya’s Bookshelf-Ramya writes really great reviews. They are always indepth with her own personal style woven in. She reads a lot of different books that I wouldn’t normally even find and for that I love to visit.

Presenting Lenore-my gosh Lenore has such a great blog with great reviews and so many other things and let’s not forget those absolutely awesome pics of Emmy that I love so much!

ReadingAdventures-Marg is relatively new to me but now that I’ve found her blog she’s stuck with me-lol. She reads and reviews a lot of historical fiction that I may not find on a normal basis and I love discovering them after her great reviews.

She is Too Fond of Books-Dawn has great reviews along with other great posts and I love the Spotlight on Bookstores that she does.

J. Kaye’s Book Blog-I know she receives a lot of awards but she deserves them. She brings the blogging community together in so many ways and this year she has her hands full with more than a few challenges-lol. J. Kaye is a wonderful person always willing to help others and her blog is full of so many great posts!

A Reader’s Respite-Michele’s blog is new to me. I discovered her blog after getting her as my Secret Santa recipient. I’m so glad I did because her reviews are great and a lot of her other posts as well that make us think about things. Diversifying my Bookshelves is another great post she does. She too is now stuck with me-lol.

Literarily-Shana has an amazing blog full of comprehensive reviews and much more. I always look forward to her Sunday Salon for reviews of her reading and updates and pictures of the family. I’m not sure how she keeps up to it all but she does it well.

Books ‘N Border Collies-Lezlie’s is one of the first blogs I visited and I’ve kept going ever since. She has great reviews, loves historical fiction, and has some of the cutest furkids going.

Diary of an Eccentric-Anna has a fabulous blog full of great reviews and lots of other good stuff. She reviews a lot of books again that I wouldn’t normally find and I like being introduced to that new stuff. I also really enjoy news and reviews of The Girl.

Fizzy Thoughts-I know I just gave you an award the other day but you’re getting another one. Jill has great reviews and other really good posts. She has a quirky sense of humor I love and I like that she brings honesty to her book reviews.

Giving Reading a Chance-again I know I just gave you an award but you totally deserve this one too. Veens is a joy to the bloggers that know her. She always has a kind word and is so upbeat and friendly. She also has a great blog and I love to read her reviews.

Maw Books Blog-this is a fantastic blog. Her reviews are amazing as is her bringing together of the blogging community to help others. Again I get introduced to books I may not normally come across on my own and I love that.

The Literate Housewife-really amazing reviews. I sometimes wish I could write a review with the talent of Jennifer. I enjoy reading them along with other posts that she puts up. Just a really great blog and person!

Trish’s Reading Nook-she brings us some great books along with great reviews to go with them. You get to read reviews of a lot of books not making the rounds of blogs and I think that’s great. Trish also hosts the Classics Challenge and I think it’s important to bring the classics back into people’s lives (even though I didn’t finish my challenge-lol). Thanks Trish!

Go ahead and join in you all and award this to 15 people you think this award should go too!________________________________________________________

Just as I was going to copy over Anna of Diary of an Eccentric’s address for this post I see that she has graced me with an award. Wow, I am so flattered by all of these awards the last few days that I don’t know what to say. This one is the Lemonade award for blogs with great attitude and/or gratitude. Thanks so much Anna! I truly appreciate it. I’m supposed to pass this to 10 bloggers so here goes…

Toni at A Circle of Books
Serena at Savvy Verse & Wit
Bonnie at Redlady’s Reading Room
Kathy at Bermudaonion’s Weblog
Ti at Book Chatter and other stuff
Mary at Bookfan-Mary
Wendy at itsJustMe
Jenn at Jenn’s Bookshelf
Janel at Janel’s Jumble
Susan at West of Mars-The Meet and Greet and West of Mars-Win a Book

Gosh, I hate to stop there but I will. These are just some of the blogs I think fit this award. Go ahead and visit these if you never have-they are awesome blogs and awesome ladies and award this one to blogs you think fit the bill!______________________________________________________

I also received The Butterfly Award from my very good friend Toni at A Circle of Books and April at Cafe of Dreams. Both of these ladies are so awesome and have such great blogs that I visit each and every day! Thanks so much to both of you. Honorable mention again to Mary at Bookfan-Mary and Janel at Janel’s Jumble. I did mention them on my last post but I will again because their awards to me came after my original post. Again, awesome ladies and great blogs that I visit all the time so once again thanks ladies. I really appreciate that you all picked me for this award.
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And last but not least today I received The Great Buddy Award from Marg at ReadingAdventures. Thanks so much Marg! Marg has a great blog as you can see up above as I awarded her with the Premio Dardos award.
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If anyone had told me when I started this blog that so many people would find pleasure in reading it I would have laughed. I am just so grateful for all of my awesome blogging buddies and this great blog I’ve built! Have a great day everyone!

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Awards For Me!

January 5, 2009 by Darlene

I am feeling really special today. I was awarded The Butterfly Award for the coolest blog I ever know twice today-once by Jenn at Jenn’s Bookshelf and then by Michele at A Reader’s Respite. That one was kind of funny because I was getting all geared up to award it to her and she beat me to it. Either way both of these wonderful ladies deserve this award too. I love their blogs! ***Update-I just received this from Mary at Bookfan-Mary too. She befriended me early on in my blogging days and has a wonderful blog and has remained a friend since. Thanks Mary! ***Notice, Notice-yet another update. This has been a good day for me. My good friend Janel from Janel’s Jumble (I just love the title of her blog) awarded me this award too. How lucky can I get to have all these great blog friends. Janel’s blog is one I visit daily and adore!

So, to pass it on I must do these things:

1. Put the logo on your blog.

2. Add a link to the person who awarded you.

3. Award up to ten other blogs.

4. Add links to those blogs on yours.

5. Leave a message for your awardees on their blogs.

Now I read many wonderful blogs every day but here are a few that I’ve come to read more recently and now love and must check every day. These are in no particular order…

Fizzy Thoughts (Ok , this one doesn’t count as one I just started reading recently. I’ve been reading softdrink’s blog for ages but she still has one of the coolest blogs I know so I have to pass this to her)

Giving Reading a Chance-Veens is beyond awesome with her upbeat attitude. She always brightens my day so for that-thank you Veens!

Lynne’s Little Corner of the World-Lynne reads lots of good books and has other great posts everyday that I look forward to.

Melody’s Reading Corner-I recently found Melody’s blog and again I look forward to reading her reviews and other posts everyday.

Musings of a Bookish Kitty-Wendy has some awesome posts including great reviews and many pics of her furkids that I love.

The Bookworm-again I’ve been reading Naida’s blog for a while but it’s so great that it must be mentioned. She puts a lot of effort into it and has such great posts. I also like all her crafty things on her craft blog too.

The Printed Page-I love Marcia’s blog. She has great reviews and she’s going to be hosting the Noontime Chat soon too which is awesome and I get to do one with her of Sarah’s Key starting in February so keep a look out. She also hosts Mailbox Monday and has Up For Grabs. I don’t know how she keeps track of it all.

Up Close & Personal with LadyTink-I love her blog. Her posts are a great way to start the day for me.

Bermudaonions’s Weblog-I love Kathy’s blog. She’s got reviews and other posts and I love her pics of Milou, her dog.

At Home with Books-Alyce’s blog is a bit newer to me. Not sure how I found it either but it’s great. She also has a great mix of reviews and other stuff. This is something I’m striving to do this year with my blog-have a mix of reviews and some life stuff too maybe.

These are all great blogs and you should check them out.

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I was also awarded the Great Buddy Award by Veens at Giving Reading a Chance and Naida at The Bookworm. Thanks so much ladies. This one I award to all of you reading my blog on a regular basis and you know who you are.

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If I forgot anyone who awarded me something I am so sorry. I was trying to remember while I was out of commission with my eye but I should have written them down because my memory isn’t what it used to be. lol. Thanks to you all who give me awards. I appreciate and love them all along with the great bloggers and friends who award them!

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