Last week Mimi from “Chef Mimi” blog posted about several awards she’s received this year, and as she described her views on awards and the type of rules associated with each one, I found myself smiling and agreeing with her all the way… We do have quite similar views on the issue, and we both wrote posts clarifying them. You can take a look at my own views by clicking here. But, what I did not expect was that she nominated me for a super cool award, the Blog of the Year 2013, and handed me not one but three stars at once! Here is my badge, folks:
The instructions for this award are simple:
1 Select the blog(s) you think deserve the ‘Blog of the Year 2013’ Award
2 Write a 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!)
4 Come over and say hello to the originator of the ‘Blog of the Year 2013’ Award via this link – http://thethoughtpalette.co.uk/blog-awards-2/blog-of-the-year-2013-award/
5 You can now also join the ‘Blog of the Year’ Award Facebook page – click the link here https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlogoftheYear/ and 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 the award – and then proudly display the award on your blog … and start collecting stars…
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So, having shared all that, I will open an exception and pass this three-star award to one blogger, Sawsan from Chef in Disguise. She blogs from Jordan, and adds so much to the food blogosphere with her knowledge of cooking, her amazing photography, posts that are thoughtfully composed and go a lot deeper than simply sharing a recipe. I always look forward to a new post by Sawsan, and often wonder how a woman with a very busy life – she is a orthodontist and has two young kids – can find the time to compose such high quality posts. I don’t know how she feels about awards, and will totally understand if she prefers not to forward them, but this is just my little token of appreciation to a wonderful woman!
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And now, let me thank Mimi once more not so much for the award, but for her words about my blog, which meant a lot to me. Of course, stating that I have a “killer accent” did not hurt either. Every foreigner HATES his/her own accent, and I am not an exception, so a different perspective on it is more than welcome! 😉
No surprise that your cohorts admire you.
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Thanks, Cindy…,.
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que legal Sally!
vou ver os dois blogs, fiquei super curiosa. o seu é show, eu adoro, parabéns!! bjs
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Obrigada, Angela! Vai sim no blog da Sawsan, voce vai ficar de queixo caido, te garanto!
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Congratulations! You are so deserving of this award, as is Sawsan! It’s been forever since I’ve visited her blog, I will have to drop by and say hello. I hope your weekend is shaping up grandly for you!!
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Hope you are having a fun weekend too, staying warm…. Sawsan is one of those food bloggers that give me a serious inferiority complex… 😉
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Aww congratulations and excellent choice with Sawsan. She’s a marvel in her kitchen and she works full time and looks after the house and the children too. I have no idea how she gets it all done. I love her to bits.
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Isn’t that true? Hard to imagine how she does it all, and as you know, she is also a fantastic human being!
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Congratulations, Sally! You and your blog certainly deserve all of the recognition that is sure to come your way. Nomnating Sawsan was brilliant. Hers is such a great blog.
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Sally I am truly and honestly speechless!
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I am deeply touched and honored by your words, post, and the award. Coming from a person I deeply admire, it all meant so much to me.
Thank you feels like such an understatement! but it is a deep and heart-felt thank you.
Whenever I look back on this blogging journey, getting to know rare and wonderful people like you Sally makes it worth all the time and effort. People whose intelligence, kindness and pure goodness of heart over flows even from behind screens and across thousands of miles 🙂
Thanks again Sally for the huge smile on my face and for so much more!
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Congrats, Sally! You deserve this and much more… xx
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