It’s a lovely thing to log on to first thing in the week – a nomination for a Creative Blogger Award. Mine comes to be from Danica over at Living a Beautiful Life. Check her out, she writes about life, whether in creative writing or other formats, and tries to liven ups people’s days. She certainly has done with my day today!
The Rules:
- Nominate 15-20 blogs and notify all nominees
- Thank and post the link of the blog that nominated you (done!)
- Share 5 facts about yourself to your readers
- Pass these rules onto them
Wow, okay. So that’s a lot of people to nominate. I always have the very small worry in the back of my head that people don’t want to be nominated for things like this. Although, the last time that happened, the person just said “thanks very much, but I shan’t take up the nomination” which is one of the reasons that I continue to blog – people on the blogosphere are cool people.
Okay, so I’m going to nominate some people. I’ll see how many I end up doing, and feel free to not take up the nominations if you don’t want to! These are blogs that I feel are creative in some way, whether that’s with a creative pursuit (writing, drawing, crafting) or just creative in how they post. It is, after all, called the Creative Blogger Award.
- Zen and Pi – Love her “If we were having coffee” posts. A very imaginative way to catch up with her week on week. I know it’s not unique, other blogs do it, but I enjoys hers. (Laso loved her theme of choice for A to Z this year)
- Stephanie Ingram – I was very much enjoying her post back in April for the AtoZ blogging challenge – The Ghosts in my Attic. I do hope the ghosts haven’t taken her away!
- I Read Encyclopaedias For Fun – Okay, so being a science person myself, I love the science diversion that occasionally crop up, but the project of his that I think is really creative is Authors Answers, where he asks a bunch of different authors questions and they answer. Properly fascinating stuff.
- Alex Hurst – Fairytale connoisseur. Who doesn’t love a collection of fairy tales from all over the world?
- Disregard the Prologue – a fellow fantasy writer, it’s doesn’t hurt that she includes a bunch of dragons in and around the blog (but her writing is pretty ace too). She’s currently doing an out of season A to Z to do with her books.
- Maugryph – An incredibly talented artist, he’s got skill and I love the content of his art (fantasy monsters, dragons and pokemon all feature!)
- Brainstorm – She doodles, she writes, she crafts, she a bit of everything rolled into one very random blog.
- Somber Scribbler – Documenting her experiences with life and mental health, she doodles a lot on different subjects and I love her style.
- Rachel Carrera – A novelist who talks a lot about her life, past and present. There’s just something about the way she writes I really take to.
And that’s all the people I want to nominated. How many…nine. Eh, it could have been worse. I’ll notify all these people once I have posted this post. These people can feel free to ignore or continue on with the award as they see fit.
Of course, this isn’t to say these are the only creative bloggers out there. Oh no, there are thousands upon thousands of them out there. These are just the people that I have, for whatever reason, remembered today for their creative endeavours.
Thanks and link to the person who nominated me, was done at the start, but thank you again to Danica at Living a Beautiful Life for the nomination 🙂
5 facts about myself. Well shoot, I’ve just done a whole challenge with stuff about myself. Uhh, this might be harder than usual, at least it’s only five…
- I am in the process of buying a new car, since my is 15 years old and falling apart.
- The book I am currently reading is ‘Here Be Dragons’, part of the Imaginarium Geographica series by James Owen. (I am re-reading How to Train Your Dragon ahead of the new series coming out on Friday!).
- I still don’t own a pet. I want to get a tortoise, but it’s not happened. Perhaps after I have come back from Costa Rica and want to be back among the wild turtles.
- The hobby I am spending the most time on at the moment is colouring in. There’s a bit of a craze for it right now and I have very much joined it.
- I had breakfast this morning, which is rare. It was a pain au chocolate and a hot chocolate from the on campus Starbucks. We’re getting a Subway for next year. This is a very dangerous thing.
There, five titbits about me and my current life goings on. I love the word titbits. Tit…bits. Hehe.
Pass the rules on. Well, if the people want to join in, they can find the rules right on this post here, which I will link to them when I poke them about the award. I just need to hit Publish, and I’ll get right on that 🙂
Today has been a good morning.
Hi! Thanks so much for the nomination. Fear not, the ghosts haven’t taken me away. (heehee) I’ve had some computer issues and then life got in the way. Hoping to get back into it soon though! I enjoyed reading your post. 🙂
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Yay! I am glad to hear that you have not been stolen by ghosts. I look forward very much to seeing your blog posts again 🙂
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Thank you for the nomination! I am going to Costa Rica too! Yippee!
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Oooh, when and which part? What are you going to do? I’m super excited for it, even though it’s still another seven weeks away!
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I leave July 9th. We are staying on the beach (Tamarindo, Pacific side). We plan to make little trips into the cloud forest and to the Arenal volcano. I wish we were doing the turtles on the Caribbean side, but we couldn’t fit it all in. We are going to do a lot of walking, some hiking, zip lines, river tubing, snorkel and maybe see a coffee plantation or something. What is your plan?
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That sounds like an awesome holiday plan 🙂 I’m going to a place called Costa de Oro, which is on the Pacific side in the Southern part of Nicoyan Peninsula. according to my instructions, anyway 😛
I’m doing this through a volunteer organisation, so I’ll be helping out, rescuing turtle eggs, putting them in the hatchery, night time patrols, stuff like that I think. There isn’t a set itinerary, I’ll find out more when I get there and they give us jobs to do. But it’ll be great to get so up close and personal with them. I’ll have some free time to do other bits and pieces, but mostly I want to see all the turtles!
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That sounds amazing, a brilliant cause too. I’m afraid I am going for more selfish reasons, haha. I just turned 30, this is my reward for putting up with myself for so long 🙂
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Nice! Mine is actually my 25th Birthday celebration. I decided to do something big instead of just staying home and watchign movies like I have done the past couple of years!
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I think that’s a great idea! Happy Birthday 🙂
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This made me think of you. Have you seen this yet? Wow. Just wow.
http://www.boredpanda.com/driftwood-dragon-sculptures-james-doran-webb/
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No, I had not seen that yet. ❤ you for sharing it with me!
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Thanks for the nomination! I’m glad you like Authors Answer. Just posted #34 earlier today.
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