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Saturday Surfing:Blog Awards

by Marye on May 3rd, 2008

I love this picture. :)

I won an award!

If you aren’t a blogger, or you haven’t been blogging long you may wonder at the excitement of being given a little picture to slap on your blog and have it called an award. It isn’t like you are going to get your picture in the paper or anything, right?

Yeah..but out of the thousands of you that read this blog everyday an average of 10 will comment, maybe. For all I know everyone else is just passing through on their way to Epicurious

So, getting the award is a way of recognizing someone for achievement, and the more you respect the person who gave it to you the cooler it is.

I am up at 4 a.m. this morning. I think I am at that point in my life where you stop sleeping really well? Anyway, I finally don;t have a baby waking me up in the wee hours and now I have hormones doing it. yay.

Blurry eyed, I make my way to the computer, noticing that the lights are on and the 14 year old who had a friend sleep over last night is still up with said friend… Sigh. He will be worthless later. I cheerily bid them good morning…(o.k..not really, I said, “Hey! You guys were supposed to go to bed! Why is the computer AND the T.V. on? And why are half the downstairs lights on?) and open up the browser to check here first.

What to my wondering eyes should appear but a notice telling me that Pixie has linked me to her blog! WOW. So I rush over to You Say Tomato I Say Tomato to find that she has not only linked to me she has mentioned my name TWICE. Yeah! Queen for a Day I tell ya.

So anyway she gave me, not just an award but an award for CREATIVITY! Woohoo! Many thanks Pixie, I will put this in my display case.

Here it is, the Arte y Pico award, used with permission of the creator, and Pixie of course.

So, now I choose 5 blogs that I think are consistent with Rule#1.

1) You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award, creativity, design, interesting material, and also contributes to the blogger community, no matter of language.
2) Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.
3) Each award-winning, has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself.
4) Award-winning and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of “Arte y pico“blog , so everyone will know the origin of this award.

5) To show these rules.

So…My picks are the following:

Chocolate and…

And what? There doesn’t need to be anything else, does there? Chocolate and air, chocolate and life, chocolate and…yeah. Lisa’s blog is one I have only just discovered in the past few days, but she has absolutely won me over with recipes for Butterfingers, chocolate croissants, and her Daring Bakers polka dot cheesecakes on a stick.

Sarah of Once Upon a Cookie absolutely bowled me over with her cheesecake pops. I think that out of all I saw hers were the most beautiful…and creative..don’t forget creative. She always has something amazing going on.

I used to do cakes, and once in awhile I still do the occasional wedding cake or birthday cake for a friend. So, when I say that someone does cakes worth looking at I promise they are worth looking at…Like..The Caking Hobbyist. I got there this morning to grab the url and saw the most awful cake I had seen. I thought, with my sleepy, non-caffeinated brain that I was at the wrong blog..so I refreshed the screen. And then my eyes cleared and I read the post…whew. Anyway, check out Doreen’s blog for some beautiful cakes, and some very scary ones.

Confessions of an Apron Queen is a new daily stop for me. Not always about food but always, always entertaining…if for no other reason that she has her blog plastered with retro images of women in aprons including a few old pin-ups that are wonderful…It is definitely a visual treat over there.

Another daily stop for me is right here at b5 Lifestyles. Jennifer and Peggy do a great job over at TreeHugging Family. It’s not easy being green but they have some incredible suggestions, and it is always a treat to read.

There…Five. Are there more I would award? Oh yes! But these five are my picks for today.

Now…hey, you came here to surf, right?

I am going to unabashedly promote my own post today. Some of you may not know that I also do a blog called Kettle and Cup about, what else? Coffee and tea. All week long I have been doing a Tea with Me tour of our house there but the post I want you to read is Something Different for Mother’s Day.

Flowers in the Kitchen is a fun blog, with great images and very imaginative recipes. Best of all she uses alot of local ingredients, another bit soapbox for me.

Boscoe, the Cookie Doctor. What? Yep. That’s the name. Do you love it? I do. Again, a new blog to me, but one that I am visiting often..I enjoyed the commentary but it was when I hit the recipe for Gingersnap, Raspberry, and Grand Marnier Ganache Sandwich Cookies that I was hooked.

Cabbage Roses and Cupcakes has an amazing ability to suck me in to the blog as time ticks away without me being aware of it. The recipe for chocolate mousse cake is incredible and garnished with pink rose petals it is divine.

Kopiaste is a Greek food blog that I met through Valli at More than Burnt Toast. It is fantastic! A feast for the eyes and the …well..I am almost always hungry when I come away from there.

And…Visions of Sugarplum. More specifically, Macadamia Nut Ale Brownies with White Chocolate-Toffee Ganache.

And that is all I am saying about that.

Have a great weekend…..Oh, and….

Award used by permission, Arte y Pico

Image: MaryeAudet

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