My Favourite Blog Award

I'm aware that I've been neglecting this blog recently but thanks to Kess from The Passing Place I have reason to return, and I'm planning on making more of an effort here.  Kess has rewarded me with a 'My Favourite Blog Award' intended for those blogs you look forward to reading each day.

In accepting this award I have to pass it along to up to 4 others whose blogs I love and wait impatiently for them to blog again.  It goes without saying that normally I would vote for Kess but as she created the award I'll pass it forward rather than backwards.

First Prize goes to Anna of Anna Re:Born and The Fantastical Life Of Anna Williams.  Anna is one of the first bloggers I stumbled upon and have been following loyally since.  She has a way of sharing her life that shows even the mundane as fantastic, not to mention the crazy antics she gets up to and shares with us.

Second Prize goes to Sarah of This Heavenly Life.  Sarah has a way of sharing her life and thoughts with us that makes us believe we know her and her family.  Although I don't know Sarah personally, she feels like a friend I have come to know through her blog.

Third Prize goes to Karen of Sofa And The City.  I have only recently started following this blog and have found it very comforting as Karen suffers from M.E./C.F.S. - I can relate to what she is talking about, and believe that even if I didn't, I would want to know how it effects her life as she gives it a fabulous lift in her blog.

And Fourth Prize goes to Iida of With My Head In The Clouds.  Her words are filled with beauty and she always manages to find pictures that inspire.

To collect this award save the image and post it in your blog then nominate up to 4 people whose blogs you read obsessively and you feel are deserving of this award.  Congratulations x

Friends Award

Today I received a very pleansant surprise from Kess of The Passing Place.  She nominated me for my very first ever blog award:

Kess and I are becoming very good friends and if you read my other blog Empty Thoughts, Rewritten you will know that she and I know each other in real life as she is engaged to my brother - known in the blogoverse as Spud.  So thank you very much for this award.

I wasn't given any rules to follow with this award but I am going to pass it on to 3 friends in the blog-o-verse.  I would pass it on to Kess but that would just end up with us bantering it back it and forth.  So I pass it to (in no particular order):

Anna of Anna Re:Born  Although we don't know each other personally I feel as if I know her and her blog is written so well that I feel every hurt and every joy she experiences.

Alyssa of Chocolate Chip Bagel  Our friendship is only just beginning, as is her blog but I believe we will grow together to keep each other supported through our comments and perhaps become very good friends in the not-too-distant future.

Sarah of This Unfinished Life  Again we are only beginning to forge our friendship but I love reading her words and her support in following me is felt deeply.

Other than that I don't have much to write - I am once again becoming obsessed with Neopets, I am thinking about baking but that involves going into town to get supplies, and I enjoyed a walk with Chris yesterday - that's my life in a nutshell.