The Versatile Solution for Modern Blogging

I'm already wondering if Ikea can sue me for that headline...

I've won an Award, I have! Which is pretty cool since I win NOTHING. Except that CD player. And that Christmas Hamper. And that Mothers' Day Hamper. And that Magnum of champagne. And that night in a hotel. And that Scholarship. And that other Scholarship. Oh, and that other one too.  And that award for my photography.

But apart from that: total LOSER.

Some crazy wench at a blog called Just Me has tagged me and handed me an award for being a Versatile Blogger.  I suppose it's a compliment and not some thinly-veiled hint that maybe just once I might stick to the same topic two posts in a row.

There are Rules that come attached to this award so its not so much an award, I feel, as a heavy burden placed upon my already care-worn shoulders. 

Am ready for my close-up now, Mr De Mille.

The Rules for The Versatile Blogger Award are:

1. Thank the person who gave you this award.
I'd like to thank the Academy God my parents my co-stars Sarah.

2.  Share 7 things about yourself.
Surely I've done that by now, what with my Award-Winning Versatility 'n' all?

• I have three tattoos, and only one of them I regret.
• I left school when I was 14 and went back when I was 21. I now have a Degree.
• I am terrified of heights.
• I have no contact with my family.
• Before I broke my spine I was the Queen of Hackysack.
• I knew my husband for 7 days before we were engaged.
• I am a Leo, my husband is a Leo and my daughter is a Leo. God help us.

3.  Pass the award along to 15 bloggers who you have recently discovered and who you think are fantastic!
15? There were 325 posts in my Google Reader yesterday and you want me to choose 15?  I'll be in my trailer.

Meet Me At Mikes
Mummy Diaries
Rosie's Growing Sweet Peas
Epheriell
Fox's Lane
Muffin Monster Bubbalug Blog
An Ordinary Life

err...That'll do. Really.

4.  Contact the bloggers you’ve picked and let them know about the award.
My agent will get right on it. What? Oh, havent hired one yet. Is there NO END to the responsibilities???

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Do you read SparklePanda Design? Do you have a blog? Would you like other people to read your blog?

I'm betting that the answer to all three questions is: YES

So here's what you can do: you can put your very own blog on this here list of lovely blogs people should read.  Yes! You can!  That way you don't have to ask me to do a link exchange with you, and I dont have to remember to put your link up.  Win/win.

I know, it's totes awesome!

Link away, peeps.

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Serendipity

Sometimes the planets align just right so that your life is full of doom and catastrophe.  That has unfortunately happened a lot to me over the last few years.  Fortunately, the planets get it right occasionally and something cool happens.

Late - very late - last night, I was relisting and re-tagging all my items on Etsy.  I noticed, in the process, that my shop had a new Heart and with so few at this stage, every new Etsy Heart gets me a little excited!  Of course I checked who it was.

I was enchanted to find a seller with a plethora of such wonderful vintage Avon perfume bottles as this little beauty, exactly the same as I had when I were a wee-un.  This brought back a flood of memories about all the Avon products that littered my childhood. 

There was the scarecrow brooch with openable head that contained a solid fragrance, the perfume bottles that doubled as oil lamps and not forgetting of course the strawberry lip balm that tasted so good that I did actually bite off chunks and eat it.  Out of the blue, I can still smell wafts of the fragranced soaps that sat on my dressing table until I moved out of home.

At the same time I was about to contact her about said reverie, I received a message from her praising one of my listed items.

Then today, I discover she featured some more of my items on her blog in this blog post about the joy of girly creations.

I love the internet. Where else can you find a mutual admiration society at midnight on a Saturday that doesnt invlove 100 cigarettes and a bottle of tequila?

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