THE THINKING BLOGGER AWARDS [THE OSCARS OF THE BLOGS]

Sorry, just couldn't resist the above title. I would like to thank Lila of http://indigopears.blogspot.com/ for nominating me for a Thinking Blogger Award and also my stylist, my personal trainer, my hairdresser, my driver, the man who counts my money, the man that punches the paps if they take a photo of me when I am tired and emotional lol! In turn, I would like to nominate these five people:-

1. Robyn of http://goodnessgraciousmissr.blogspot.com/ There is always plenty to mull over and think about here on Robyn's site. Robyn who is obviously a kindred spirit to me.

2.Tinker of http://tinkerart.typepad.com/ It would be a much duller world without Tinker's rambling stories, funny, serious or just plaint scary they make my day no one, can ramble and go off on a tangent like Tinker.

3. Gemma of http://www.gemmashouse.blogspot.com/ A quiet blog but one with a lady in charge who has done some deep thinking and knows some very deep knowledge I believe.

4. Nature Girl of http://nature-trail.blogspot.com/ For her poetry, thoughts and wonderful artistic photographs.

5. Janet of http://jkbees.blogspot.com/ A lady who tries so hard to be true to herself and has refound her creativity mojo and has interesting points of view.

There you go those are my nominations for the Thinking Bloggers Award. I will wear my sidebar badge proudly.

I have recently added another sidebar badge that I found on Robyn's blog, which I believe originally came from this blog, http://www.tartx.com/blog/?page_id=233. I notice that more of us are using it and that Kai has talked about this issue on her blog http://kaibluecreations.blogspot.com/ . Basically, it is Blogging without Obligation, to me it means we are all busy people, we blog to put our thoughts down, to make friends with other bloggers and to receive and reply to comments. Now some people are lucky and can do this on a day to day basis, but some whether through family, jobs or just plain business doing things we enjoy, are not so on the ball as every day. Then that horrid sense of guilt and obligation creeps in, oh I better not go to bed until I have commented on so and so's blog, they might think I am not bothering anymore. This badge showing on my sidebar means, I am still visiting you and commenting, some days and weeks more than others, I work up my list and down my list of contacts, so not everyone gets a comment everyday. If I am busy I won't be around as much, but if it was anything drastic that was happening and I was not going to be around for a while I would somehow get a quick posting up to inform people. Let's keep blogging heartwarming and not let it descend into stress and disenchantment my motto will be WE LIVE FIRST, THEN WE BLOG, otherwise we would run out of things to blog about.



It is Easter Monday afternoon now, I don't know how many of you have an official or Bank Holiday added on to Easter, but now we are nearing the end of the Easter Holiday. I have had a fantastic time, well according to my idea of what I wanted to enjoy I have. Haven't been anywhere since Thursday, just in my cottage and garden. Two days of brilliant weather and two days of so so weather, so I managed to do a little bit of everything. How content I feel after allowing myself all this self indulgence. And what have I done over Easter? Well, the Easter type things first, cooked a delicious Easter Sunday Meal, drank wine, ate chocolate. Tidied round the garden, hoeing weed clearing checking up on new growth, chatting to neighbours, sitting in the sun finishing off one book I was reading and starting a Charles de Lint book I have been waiting to read. Read some delicious magazines and dreamt about owning the wonderful gardens and rooms shown in them. Watched a couple of dvds, including one of my favourite indulgent ones Practical Magic, from the book by Alice Hoffman, it never fails to cheer. Burnt some wonderful incense, the most fragrant I have had for ages. Brought a box of wonderfully illustrated children's books that were my kids and mine, out of the cupboard, as I have decided they need a bookshelf of their own so I can look at the illustrations and I can fill the cupboard up with some of the sorted boxes lying around. All in all a really good Easter, which I will finish off this afternoon, with a list making session for the garden, house and future projects. Oh, and I pulled off all the images I need for the Chunky Crow Book project I am in. I'll be assembling it this week, all 22 pages of it.



If the sun comes out again, I may return to the garden this afternoon, or if not, I will sort through the children's books and then tidy up my computer, its getting cluttered and untidy so I will start transfering things onto disc so I can empty up some more memory. I did sent out a lot of email easter cards, but I don't think you all will have got them I had some returned saying wrong email address, that was news to me, as my emails themselves have been getting through to you all. So I hope you have all had a wonderful Easter as I have had, but in your own special ways.