The You Make Me Smile/You Make My Day Awards

Blog awards rock.  And I've been so lucky as to have two bestowed on me in the past couple of months.  Unfortunately, I'm terrible about passing them on.  I have a great excuse though: when I post about my favorite blogs, I want to say The Absolute Most Perfect Thing about each one and that's a heck of a lot of pressure! 

But, thanks to my procrastination, my favorite blogs win not one but two awards - the You Make Me Smile Award and the You Make My Day Award!  I mean, if they make me smile they most likely make my day, right?  ;-)    

Without further ado and in no particular order:

Delly Bean: My oldest blog friend who still blogs (albeit on a different blog than when I first met her but I can't chastise anyone for that, can I?).  Her knitting, costuming and now silversmithing talents astound me.  She also thinks Labyrinth is awesome and makes a pretty cool sock monkey - both incredibly positive traits in my book.  :-)

Hand Eye Crafts: The lovely hostess of The Knitter's Hunk and bestower of the You Make Me Smile Award (and a fabulous prize giver).  She was my first Met On Ravelry friend - hooray for Ravelry!  And the she loves Alan Rickman which makes me like her just that much more.

Karma Kitties: She knits!  She sews!  She makes adorable kids! (Okay, that sounds kinda weird but you know what I mean - her little girl is a cutie)  She passed the You Make My Day Award on to me and saved me in my recent yarn crisis, thank goodness.  The blog world is a fine, fine place. 

Bent Objects: Quirky art made of objects and wire.  His cleverness never fails to make me smile.  I mean, for Pete's sake, he made one using Chapstick.  'Nuff said. 

dharma's universe: Another reason why I love Ravelry.  Finally!- a blogger/knitter who lives in my town!  I love reading about Dayton through the eyes of someone else - and the fact that she's a knitter is pretty freaking fabulous, too!

Miss V's Hobby Adventures: A new crafter of all things.  She actually might have Delly beat for oldest blog friend who still blogs now that I think about it btu I'm not sure.  She didn't mess around when she picked up knitting recently and her progress is damn impressive.  I look forward to a time in the near future when we can knit in the same room over - ahem - a (lotta) drink(s)!

Precarious Tomato: So funny!  And she just had a gorgeous baby girl so I'm looking forward to lots of hilarious baby stories.   

Rock-Paper-Scissors: I'm always happy to see her name highlighted with a new entry on my reader.  Her paper art and, more recently, adorable bears are stunning but I also apppreciate that her blog goes deeper into personal, spiritual issues.  She often leaves me thinking about some aspect of my life in a positive, thoughtful way. 

Roman Sock:  I just found her via Ravelry - egads her amigurumi creations are adorable and  I'm a sucker for the cute! 

Gluten Free Girl: I only read a couple of food blogs and this is my favorite.  I love reading about food just about as much as I love eating it - maybe more actually.  This is so much more than a blog about living gluten-free - it's recipes and love and beautiful photos, talks about trips and fresh ingredients that make me wish I lived where such ingredients were more readily available.

The rules for each award are different - one says to pass it on to five, the other to ten.  If you read this blog and were awarded, please pass on the love in whatever amount you see fit (unless you passed the love on to me in which case you are excused unless you feel like passing on even more love - it is February, after all)!

Comments

[Mary]

Congrats! You totally deserve both!

[Bertha]

Aw, thanks!

[Kim]

Aw --- right back at you, friend. With Judge Turpin on top.

[Delly Bean]

*Blush* Thanks dude. Expect to see some posting on Friday and/or Saturday in which I will create my list, and actually have some photos of some stuff and things...

Thanks again.

[dharma]

Aw, thanks.