Award – The Art of Cobwebs

LIEBSTER AWARD NOMINATION!

I was nominated by the terrific Teresa at Craftowne Cottage for the Liebster Award! How kind is she?, and how fabulous is that! 😀

The Rules of the Award are as follows:

Acknowledge the blog that nominated you and display the award.
Answer the 11 questions the blogger gives you.
Give 11 random facts about yourself.
Nominate 11 blogs
Notify those blogs of the nomination.
Give them 11 questions to answer.

The questions which Teresa set for me to answer were:

1. What is your hobby?

I craft., is the short answer. The longer answer is: I paint (in various mediums and on any surface which sits still long enough), make hand-made cards, scrapbook, sculpt, recycle, up-cycle, and all sorts of other things, but I’ll stop here so that I don’t bore anyone.

2. What advice would you give someone trying to find a hobby?

First discover what you like in other people’s hobbies. Then choose the thing you’d most love to have a go at yourself. But remember: Being good at anything doesn’t happen the first time you try, so just enjoy yourself. Blog your results if you can – as we are all our own worst critics, so getting feedback from other crafters or like-minded folk will help you, and they may even suggest something you haven’t thought of trying before.

3. How old were you when you discovered your talent?

I seem to have been born ‘crafty’. I don’t remember exactly when it started, I just know that I loved making. (Even if it was making something out of empty cereal packets!)

4. Your favourite place to shop?

Wherever I happen to find something I’m totally thrilled to bits at finding – and especially so if it’s a great price!

5. Most visited blog?

OOooh… now this is a tough one. I visit many, and love all of them. But to choose one above any other would just be so wrong – as it would be like telling the other blogs that they come a close second. None of the blogs come second. They’re all really top class blogs, and all so very different.

6. Favourite season

I have two. Autumn and Spring.

7. Do you prefer the ocean or the mountains?

The Ocean is my love. To walk along a beach in that special magical place where the sea meets the shore and you feel the cool sand beneath your feet, while the sea gently rolls over your toes, … it’s that place which totally bewitches me and fills me with a joy that only nature can supply. The sea casts a beautiful spell over me and claims a part of my heart like only it can.

8. What is one of your favourite quotes?

Oh, that one’s easy! It’s this:

9. What’s your favourite book?

I have too many to list. But I do have a very special ‘favourite’ book: . . . it’s the one I’ve had ‘buzzing’ around my brain for years, and which I’m about to begin writing.

10. Truck, Car, or Jeep?

Most definitely a Car, and absolutely the most luxury one I could buy, (if I ever win the Lottery). I don’t want ‘built for speed’, – I would love (if money were no object) a car which is built for sublime comfort. (I’d also like a suited, hat wearing, chauffeur – like Parker, who drives Miss Penelope about (in Thunderbirds)).

11. Coffee/tea to go or sit and chill for a bit?

Coffee – (and a plentiful supply) – in the morning, and one cup at 4pm in the afternoon.

From midday onwards: sugar free tonic water & ice, in a tall glass, with a straw please.

As for ‘sit and chill for a bit’: … aaaany time you like!

Give 11 random facts about yourself.

1…I am the shortest adult in my family

2. I can play a couple of instruments – just not terribly well.

3. I love really great chocolate. (The good stuff … and never Cadbury chocolate anymore. I have no idea what the heck they’ve done to the recipe of that once great magical chocolate, but now its awful. You can put a chocolate button on your tongue and hold it there in you mouth, waiting for it to melt. BUT it doesn’t melt anymore. It sits, on your tongue, keeping it’s shape and feeling like a sort of jelly type substance. Horrid. Horrid. Horrid.)

4. I adore home-baked ‘goodies’. Bread, Cakes, Biscuits, Flans, sweet or savoury things. Anything. So long as it’s home baked. You can feel, see and almost taste the love which has gone into a home-baked item.

5. My best ever holiday was during my pregnancy with daughter No.2. We went to Cromer, taking my mum, daughter No.1 and my mums dog, and, obviously, Mr. Cobs and I. Cromer is a place in Norfolk, and we’d rented a little cottage there. We had such a really wonderful time that I’d love to re-live it.

6. I like to do things for others, something which makes them smile, or gives them joy, or instills a feeling of hope, where perhaps they could only feel desperation and sadness. I’m told I have empathy.

7. I’m a very private person, and in part this is the reason for the non-de-plume/pen-name. I was stalked by someone on-line. It was a very nasty experience, and the person who did this got SO annoyed that I wouldn’t share my surname and my address with them that they attempted to find my address by using bits of information they’d garnered from things they’d seen me say on a website I used to be a member of. It began to feel very dangerous and scared me stupid. I left the site and have never been back. However now, I don’t give my real name or address to anyone on the internet. You never know who you might be talking to.

8. I love to be stroked. Aaaaaanywhere you like. Stroke me and it leaves me totally ‘useless’. My whole body just gives up. Aahhh but it’s B.L.I.S.S. 🙂

9. I’m really shy. I know… I don’t come across on my blog as shy … but here, I can be anything I want to be … Super Woman! (yeah right) Hero of the Year. (In another Universe) Photograph appearing in all the best magazines. (ha!) Truth is you won’t find a photo of me in any publication and although I’m happy to step in and be a ‘hero’ by helping someone, anyone, as soon as it’s ok I will disappear. I don’t want thanks for things I do. I do them because I’m a human being, and, as far as I’m concerned, that’s what humans are supposed to do. We are meant to help each other. Not hate, pick faults, poke fun at, beat the you know what out of or, indeed, blow other people up! We just have to love each other and help each other. This is the way it’s supposed to be! I don’t see what’s difficult about that or why some people seem unable to see that. It’s SO simple!

10. I can’t live without a dog in my life.

11. I LOVE British TV dramas. Period dramas, Detective dramas, Atmospheric dramas, Historic dramas, … anything. Just give me a comfy chair and a drama and I’ll sit there quietly while you burgle my house. Also love Comedy Dramas. Comedy is ‘me’.

Now I have to . . . Nominate 11 blogs …

My Questions for you:

Is there one thing you’ve always wanted to do, but still haven’t done it?
What is your guilty pleasure?
Who would be your dream dinner date?
Do you have a favourite film?
Do you have a favourite TV programme?
If you were given a badge saying: ‘In Charge Of the World but only for 60 seconds’ … what law would you pass or what change would you make in that 60 seconds?
You found an oriental looking, corked bottle on a beach. You uncork it and out pops a Genie. He/She grants you 3 wishes. Tell me your three wishes. (no wishing for another wish or two either!)
What drew you into the blogging world?
Which do you prefer: writing and posting a blog post; or reading other peoples blog posts?
You’re invited to a posh dinner, this evening. What are you hoping will be served as your Starter?
… and finally … What is the one thing, above any other, which you just cannot eat, not even if someone offered you a thousand pounds/dollars just to eat a small piece of?

Don’t forget your random facts, and your nominations too. (see the award rules at the top of this post).

Please note: If your blog is award free please accept
this nomination as a compliment to your blog without
any obligation.

My thanks again to Teresa at Craftowne Cottage. This has been such fun to do!

Thank you also to you, for coming for a visit and having a read. Bless you, I love you for it.

Have a blessed, wonderful, Wednesday.

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Blue Sky Tag Award Nomination

Mrs. Craft of: craftandothercrazyplans totally made my day by nominating me for this ‘Blue Sky Tag’ award. Thank you Mrs.Craft. I’m truly honoured and totally cock-a-hoop at being bestowed such a lovely award. It sort of lets me know that I must be doing OK’ish’ for you to have thought of me. Bless your heart. I’m so very grateful to you. xxx

The task I have to complete in order to win the award is…

Answer a set of questions which have been set by Mrs.Craft.
Nominate 5 other blogs/people for the Blue Sky Tag award
Set 5 Questions for the people I’ve nominated to answer. (it was supposed to be six, but I felt Five questions were more do-able, any more could be a pain. So five is what I’ve kept it to).

And that’s it. Nothing more to do.

Soooo… I’ll jump straight in and answer the questions Mrs.Craft has set, and I hope to both make her proud of her choice, and also give you a little entertainment along the way. 🙂

What time of day are you most creative? In the afternoons, leading into early evening. Never in the mornings, unless something is pressingly urgent. ... for that read: I’ve forgotten someone’s birthday and can’t simply buy a card because I know there are expectations for me to have made one. A special one. A VERY special one. More special than anything ever seen before. And I know that if I don’t come up with the goods, then someone is going to feel really upset and even quietly cross, that I didn’t obviously care enough to go the extra mile. (Guilt plays a HUGE part in my life. I am a slave to Master/Mistress Guilt).
If you could try any new creative art, what would it be and why? Well, I’ve tried rather a lot of them. You see … I’ve been a crafter almost all of my life. I’ve done: Card Making; Pottery; Jewellery Making; Knitting; Sewing; Embroidery; Felting; Scrapbooking; Melt Potting; Painting – on canvas and paper; Painting – decorative painting for house things; Wreath making; Floristry; Tag Art; Stone painting; Decorative Painting on walls (I even painted a woodland scene on a reception wall at my daughters first school). ATC’s and ACEO’s. … Oh heck … there’s more but my brain is beginning to hurt now as I’m trying to rememberise all this stuff! lol … But – there is one craft which I’m currently trying to master, and that’s Crochet. I’m teaching myself and I have had a little bit of a success, but my efforts do not live up to my aspirations. So work continues. lol
Evidence that if something sits still long enough, I’ll paint it. This is now rather an old stool. We tried to work out how old, and we think it’s between 15 and 17 years old

I took FLASH ON and Flash OFF photo’s and none of them were particularly any good, but I’ll share them both with you so that you get an idea.

A happy little chicken keeps guard on one side of the stool.

A funky chicken keeps guard on the one side of the stool.

Getting close up and personal!

Two hanging hearts, hanging from a (painted) nail.

that’s all folks! 😀
Which famous artist/author/crafter would you like to meet? Oh My Goodness! Coo that’s a question and a half. There are TONS of crafters I would like to meet. Far too many of them to list just a few, and it would be awful to miss anyone out, so I won’t name any names as I love too many. (is it possible to love too many crafters? I think not). 😀 Authors … ahhh now then, I could begin in my childhood and continue through to my daughters childhoods and name tons. An elderly neighbour, Mrs. Cooke, from my young child years got me reading Catherine Cookson books from around the age of 7, and I ADORED them and her style of writing. She has such a wonderful way of ‘writing a picture’ and I could see everything inside my little head as if I were stood quietly in the corner watching things unfold. From that came a life long love of Catherine Cookson … and I cried when they announced that she’d passed on, back in 1998. I had at that point, every single book she’d written. As I bought the books, I read and kept every one. With my first weeks wages I earned, the first thing I did was go into town and buy a Catherine Cookson book. And I never stopped buying until she passed away. After that, books began to be produced, still in her name, and written in the same way and style, but they weren’t HER. So I simply couldn’t buy them. A few years ago I decided that I needed to pare down the books I owned (not just Cookson – I read a LOT), and I chose certain books which were my absolute, never to part with, favourites as my ‘keeps’, and gave all but a favourite few of my Cookson collection to the secretary at my daughters school. Her mother (the secretary’s mother) was living in an Elderly Peoples home, and the residents didn’t have a great selection of reading material at that point. They were trying to build a library for the residents, so I donated all my Cookson books to that library, and apparently they went down a smash hit with the ladies there. But I still own my favourites and still read them – even though I know them like the old friends they are. Now we come to Artist … awww again, I have a selection…. One would have to be Beryl Cook.
a painting by Beryl Cook – titled ‘A Full House’

If you don’t know who she is, Google her name and then view ‘Images’. She paints in quite a naive(ish) sort of way, but includes such a ton of fun into her fabulous cheeky pieces and they tickle the heck out of me. I think she and I would have got along fine and dandy. Also Stanley Spencer – another English artist, who had such great talent for detail. (Something I love). His paintings can keep you looking, and looking, and looking – until you don’t realise how much time has passed and you’ve been hypnotised to the spot and held captive.

a painting by Stanley Spencer – entitled Angels of the Apocalypse

Of course … there are the world known (paint) artists such as Raphael, (The Deliverance of Saint Peter is a fabulously pure work of heart)

a painting by Raphael ~ The Deliverance of Saint Peter.

Then there’s Michelangelo who I’d love to have met and watched working. I could add also Walter Crane – who’s paintings can make me gasp with delight. And Theodor Severin Kittelsen … such a huge talent and fabulously rich style. Aw heck.. I could go on. Please do Google any names you’re not familiar with and take a look at their art.
What has been your longest craft project? Me. I’m my longest craft project. I’m continually trying to make me a ‘better’ me. It’s a never-ending project.
What injuries have you sustained as a result of being creative? Oh Lord! My most continual one has to be the HOT GLUE GUN! People out there who have never used one …. I give you the biggest tip I can give to anyone … When you plug in your glue gun to heat up, in the time you’re waiting, go and half fill a bowl with cold water. This is so that when you get that hot glue on your fingers (and particularly your finger nails) you can instantly plunged the affected part into cold water and hold it there for a time. You will never know pain like hot glue until you learn about it and feel it for yourself. This tip is a SERIOUS ONE. No jokes.
What was your first ever creative project? Probably painting when I was little. Or … maybe pasta shapes stuck to card. Something like that I would guess. But my first serious one was making myself a nightdress out of one of my mothers old sheets. She was going to throw it out and I begged for it. She didn’t have a clue what I was going to make, but coooo – was she surprised when, some weeks later, I’d finished my project (which I’d been doing in secret) and put it on to show her. It was all hand sewn, and even had little flowers and leaves which I’d embroidered, at the neckline. I was so chuffed with how that turned out, and I wore it until I eventually grew out of it.

Now it’s time for the nomination of 5 Crafters ….

I would like to nominate the following 5 crafters. It was a tough job to get it down to 5 as I personally would want all the blogs I follow to be awarded solid gold stars, simply for allowing me to follow them and putting up with my ramblings when I comment on their blogs. Believe me … they need awards for that alone! 🙂

Congratulations all! You all have such fabulous style and I really enjoy and love your blogs.

All you now have to do is answer the 5 Questions below in a blog post on your blog. You have to link back to this post, so that any of your readers can follow the chain and read other blogs so they’re not missing out on even more crafty fun! After that you yourself get to nominate 5 blogs you follow and set questions for them!

Now I have to set 5 questions for these blog owners to answer, so listen up you folks, you have to answer these 5 questions:

When the crafting bug bit you what was the first thing you made which gave you a sense of joy when you looked at your creation?
Do you drive anyone in your family crazy with your crafting? And if so … why?
Do you buy anyone elses hand crafted items, and if so, what is that item likely to be?
I have no doubt that you craft for other people … but do you ever make anything for yourself? And if so … what things have you made for yourself?
Do you sell your items, and ... Where do you sell them? Perhaps you could give us all a link so that if we’d like to buy from you we can! (go on … advertise yourself!)

And that, as they say, is all there is to it. Once you’ve done this, you can then pick up the Blue Tag award from the top of this post, and take it to your own blog to use as the head of your post, and also put it in your awards over in your widget bar, if you do that.

Thank you so much for coming and having a bit of a read and a coffee with me. It means so much to me and I love seeing you. I normally try to post something crafty which I’ve made on a Monday, but I thought that I really should work on this nomination as I’ve had it for a whole week (or so) and really shouldn’t sit around crafting when I have something of importance to do. tsk tsk Cobs!

Have a wonderful Monday – whatever you’re doing, wherever you’re doing it, and whatever the weather is like. And remember … be good to each other.

Great big squidges from me here, to you there ~

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I spy with my little eye: a Chat Noir upon a Mer de Bleu!

Did you ‘get’ it? Did you? eh? If you didn’t then it’s probably because you don’t remember the school lessons in basic French. Don’t worry, you’re not alone, … I don’t remember that much about those lessons either. Although I do remember: ‘La plume de ma tante est dans le jardin’. What a useless bit of French was that? How on earth was I going to use that in every day talking? My aunt would never have left her pen in the garden, because if she had, one of her three children would have squirreled it away and produced it in a quiet moment when she wasn’t looking, and the hall walls were ready for a hand drawn masterpiece on them.

I’m really honoured, very flattered, and, I admit, a little bit embarrassed, about receiving 3 awards in 3 weeks. And I’m so sorry if I’m boring everyone to pieces with little snippets of ‘me’ all over the place, but I promise that this is the final of the three awards, – so after this you’ll be so full of ‘Cobs’ you won’t want to hear from me for weeks-on-end until you’ve finally filtered all the ‘Cobs’ through your system, past your kidneys and … well you know how your internal system works, so we’ll leave it right there shall we? [nod & a wink].

A blogger who I just adore, The Chicken Grandma nominated me for the Black Cat Blue Sea award. I apparently one of the people who, she said (and I quote) “made me think, they have made me laugh out loud, they have inspired me but most of all they have made me wish I could meet them in person” … Now I have to say that she might have been suffering a moment of ‘delusion’ when it came to nominating me, but she can’t take it away now ’cause I have it in writing! [nods firmly as if to seal the deal]. Thank you Chicken for honouring me in this way. Bless your beautiful heart.

Anyhoo .. the rules are as follows:

Ok .. that seems simple enough, even for a person of little brain and bad headache like me. We’ll begin with the questions that The Chicken Grandma asked me to answer:

1. How do you find your inspiration for a blog post?

Well, the obvious answer is my crafting. Whatever I make will inspire the blog post. However … I don’t just blog about crafts, so, in truth, it’s my life which gives me the inspiration. Things happen, good and not so good, and when they happen I tend to try to look for the either the silver lining, or the humour in the situation, and from that comes the inspiration. I love fun. Not to the exclusion of anything else you understand. But I love the fun which lightens the days. Fun which is harmless to anyone else. You’ll never find me having fun at someone elses expense for example. If there is to be someone who is the brunt of my fun then it’s me. But I’m in my element when I can share the fun with someone else. I have a little handful of bloggers (yes YOU know who YOU are) who have that same little streak of naughtiness running through them. A kind of gentle rascal naughtiness. Something like two girls giggling in the corner of the playground, and no one really knows what they’re giggling about, but everyone DOES know that it’s totally harmless, not offensive or rude and just simply two minds going on a carnival ride together.

2. What do you enjoy most about where you call home?

Oh, well that ones easy! ... Mr Cobs, my dog, my cats, my rabbit, and my chickens are all there. Oh … and my craft room is in the garden. umm… Did I mention my craft room? Or as my friend calls it: The ‘executive art annexe’. (Posh friend with just a hint of crazy and an extremely large dash of fun. lol).

3. What is your favourite thing to do?

Oh heck … I have lots of things I love to do .. but I have to tie it down to one … lemme think for a moment ….. hmm.. It seems to be the simple pleasures that I enjoy the most – so I’ll choose ….. Visiting the sea. The sea is just a few minutes away from our home, and I love to visit just to sit and look and watch it. To feel it’s power and yet it’s gentleness. The sound of the sea is a music like no other.

Sitting with the sea cleanses my mind and my soul and seems to slow down my pulse and heart rate. It allows me to stop thinking and instead, let another power take control.

Right – that’s the questions answered, …. now I need to name 7 blogs I want to pass this award onto, and set them three questions of my own … here goes…

Gail at Truly Jewellery and Crafts

Sarah at The Handmade Card Blog

Linda Simpson Crafty Piece of Heaven

And my 3 questions for these people to answer are as follows:

If you won a prize for a crafty item or craft related ‘goody’ … what would you really want that prize to be … and why?
If you were asked to demonstrate how you made a particular thing … for one of the main Craft channels on TV … would you say yes? and .. what item would you demonstrate that you’ve already made? (Give us all a link to that too, so that we can share the enjoyment).
You’re going to be stranded on an island all by yourself, for one week. What 5 (only FIVE) crafty items would you take with you? Or ... would you take none and just enjoy the total peace and quiet?

And that, as they say, is all there is to it. BUT … if any of the people I’ve named for nomination of this award choose not to accept the award then that’s absolutely fine and groovy. No one is under any obligation to accept the award or to answer the questions.

Thank you again to my fabulous Chicken Grandma for nominating me for this award. I’m honoured, and so blessed to know her. Please go and check out her blog (see the link towards the head of this post), and get to know her. She’s an absolute delight and makes me smile so very much. Her blog posts are such an enjoyment to read. Go check her out.

Well today is Monday… So let’s get this week off to a great start, shall we? Could you, do you think, do just one act of random kindness today? Could you perhaps buy a little bunch of flowers and give them to a neighbour, just to make them smile? Perhaps give a sweet card to someone to bring cheer into their life? How about making a cake for someone? Or even buying a pack of biscuits? One of my most favourite things to do where I used to live was something I called ‘Get your neighbour fat day’ … while out shopping I’d buy a couple of cakes from the bakery department and have them packed singularly so that I could take one to one of my lady neighbours, and the other cake to another. I’d sometimes stand on their doorstep singing: “A very happy UnBirthday to you . . . “ (from Alice in Wonderland). Which made them hoot.

Go on, give it a go. Do a random act of kindness for someone. You don’t have to spend any money if you can’t… you could pray for the next person who passes you in the street. Or you could simply share a smile. Sometimes it takes the smallest act of kindness to change a persons day, or even their whole life.

You really are the greatest bunch of folks, y’know, and if I could give you one thing in life it would be to see yourself through my eyes. Only then would you know how incredibly special you are to me.

So .. come on Team! Let’s do it to them before they do it to us! (a kindness that is).

Sending you a wish for a truly magnificent Monday.

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How Versatile am I? I wonder . . .

I was thrilled down to my boots a few days ago to be nominated for another award, this time The Versatile Blogger award! I’m Versatile? WOW! Who knew?!

I was nominated by the wonderful Mrs. Craft – who’s blog you can find by clicking on her name. Thank you SO much Mrs. Craft. I’m honoured that you thought of me and nominated me. I hope I do you proud and live up to your expectations.

To accept the award I have to tell you 7 facts about me. Prepare yourself to be bored:

I’m not just one age. I’m three. I’m the age you can work me out to be using my birth certificate (a bit younger than dirt); . . . I’m the age I never actually progressed past (around 27); . . . and I’m the age of my inner child – which is around 7/8 years old.
I am a 100% believer in the words which are painted on a wooden sign which hangs outside my bedroom door – hung there so that it’s one of the first things I see every single morning. It reads: DO SOMETHING YOU LOVE EVERYDAY. And I really do make sure I do!
I’m ABSOLUTELY NO GOOD, NOT EVEN IF MY LIFE DEPENDED UPON IT … at building ANYTHING with Lego bricks. My Grandson, Little Cobs, will bring his Lego box from out of his bedroom here in Grammy and Grandad’s home, open it, and then bring a specially selected assortment of bricks to me, with the instruction for me to build something incredible. He knows now that he’s on to a loser. I’m more than useless at this task. But I think he continues to bring me bricks in the hope of eventually making a silk purse out of a sows ear in Lego terms.
I have never managed to keep a potted plant alive for more than (roughly) around three weeks(ish). I’ve tried really hard but I just can’t do it. I either over-water them and drown the poor darlings. Or I don’t water them enough and they just give up the will to live.
I look ridiculous in hats. But I love light weight scarves, pashminas and shawls and have a collection/selection of them.
I love nail varnish and have jars and jars of it … but I can only eat a small jar a day. (tut tut – be serious Cobs! ….) … Although I adore painted finger-nails, I rarely have them because I craft, and because of that I more often than not, end up peeling away the beautifully applied nail varnish with the blob of glue which has dried on my nails, or the double-sided adhesive strip which stuck to my nails. [sigh] But I rather like painted toe nails. My feet ‘flirt’ when the toe nails are painted. I’m rather sad that the end of summer has come because I’ll have to change my favourite summer nail colours to something more in keeping with the season.
I ADORE period costume dramas on TV … and am totally enthralled with ‘Victoria‘ (about Queen Victoria) written by Daisy Goodwin (such a good writer) which is currently on TV here in the UK. (sorry if you’re outside the UK, but watch out for it coming to your country and give it a go – for at least two episodes – so that you get a feel for it)

Are you still awake at the back there?

Finally ..

I have to nominate 10 blogs who, in my opinion, are versatile and a darn good read. This was easy. There are so many blogs which I adore reading, I just had to narrow it down to ten. (That was the difficult bit).

Aunt Beulah

Craft and other Crazy Plans

The Frugal Crafter

Puddle Side Musings

Imagine Crafts Blog

A Rottweiler at the Cottage on the Green

The Rabbit Patch

What I’m up to Today

The Handmade Card Blog

In order to accept and display the award the award on your blog, you have a little bunch of things to do. The instructions for these were passed on to me. Those are:

You have to thank the person who nominated you and place a link to their blog on your own blog, so that people can kind of track the award and see where it first came from.
You also have to name 10 Blogs (and give links to those blogs) who are versatile and interesting. (If you have trouble naming 10 then name as many up to ten, as possible).

If you are one of the bloggers named as being one I’ve nominated, please know … if you feel that you’d really rather not take part in this nomination, then you have no obligation to do so. You can simply choose not to accept the award and so not have to share 7 facts about yourself, nor nominate other bloggers who you yourself follow, for this award.

Well look at that … TWO AWARDS IN ONE WEEK! Shall I let you into a little secret . . . I’ve been nominated for another one! –GASP!– I know! It’s like waiting for a bus… nothing comes, and it’s pouring down with rain, freezing cold, you have a headache and your feet ache in those shoes … then suddenly … THREE TURN UP AT ONCE!

I am such a lucky girl, and I thank each person for nominating The Cobweborium Emporium blog. It’s such a great honour for someone to think about nominating our blog here. What I think I like most about being nominated for an award for our blog here is that I get the chance to share blogs I follow and show you what others are doing, by nominating their blogs.

Please, do click on the names I’ve listed (they’re all clickable links which will open in another tab) and check them out, and maybe ‘like’ their posts and even leave a kind comment – let’s share all the love we have here all over blog land!

Have a truly blessed Thursday, whatever you’re doing. Just . . . remember to stop and make a memory today.