I am rubbish with blog awards. I get a comment or email saying that someone has nominated me for an award and five minutes later I have forgotten who said it, so then I go searching for the original comment and get side tracked into looking at hundreds of blogs I haven’t got time to read and completely forget what I was looking for in the first place.
So I have to say a huge thank you to everyone who has given me awards, sometimes the same ones come round again from someone else and I know there’s at least one that I completely failed to pick up or acknowledge, so please, please forgive me – I’m not being rude, just horrendously absent-minded.
I’m also incredibly bad at passing on the awards. I have a strong aversion to chain letters and anything that comes with “pass it on to at least seven other people” makes me feel resentful and guilty all at the same time. I also find it very hard to pass these things on because most people I would give it to either don’t have blogs or they’ve already got the award. In fact they’re usually the people who give it to me in the first place. I also have a natural instinct not to show favouritism and worry that I’m going to shatter the egos of the people I don’t pass it on to …. aarghhh just too much angst!!
So I hereby declare that I am IMMENSELY grateful for all the awards you guys pass on to me, but please understand that they might just sit here and never make it anywhere else.
Thank you to Phree and Craftimamma for this one
Thanks to Billie for the Art-e-Pico award
and for the Proximidade Award
Thanks to Beth for the Wylde Women award
This made me chuckle Glenda because I fully understand where you’re coming from. No offence would ever be taken, at least by me, for failing to comply with any of these what I take to be lighthearted ‘rules’.
It is simply that I and probably the others too, feel compelled to recognise the pleasure we get from every aspect of your blog be it artwork, information, photographs and even links to other interesting and inspiring blogs. Oh dear, this all sounds sychophantic when all I intended was a ‘thankyou’.
Oh Glenda, I am so pleased that you have posted this, as it could be me talking {although not so eloquently lol} I was beginning to think that I was the only one that ever felt like this.
Hate chain mail type emails with a vengeange and never pass them on, in fact I don’t even open them, just delete.
Frightened to death of showing the tiniest bit of favourtism, while at the same time afraid of hurting someones feelings if I don’t acknowledge the award that they have bestowed on me Eeek LOL
So reading your post, I now know that I am quite normal {well ish lol}
Jx
Hi Glenda
I completely understand what you mean about chain letters, I HATE them too. As Lesley said having recieved the award you were one of the first people I thought of as your stuff is so inspiring.
Consider it as a thank you for your inspiration and tuition
Billie
Hi Glenda,
I totally agree with your feelings on this…I am currently totally bloggless, I almost set one up in the summer but to be honest the whole idea of the awards and having to pass them on has totally put me off going ahead with it. Seeing how you have decided to handle this makes me think I should finally take the plunge. Thanks for taking the stand.
regards
Sue