Kate Clawson of Organic Odysseys has chosen my blog for the Sunshine Award.

I’m embarrassed to say I did not know what it means. But I do now. I’m sure you do too, but just in case you don’t, it is award that is been given by other bloggers for their favorite blogs. To accept the award, the rules say that I need to pass it along to 12 other blogs.

So thank you Kate for this honor. It is nice to be noticed (I feel like a little girl showing her painting to her proud mother).

Here is the full list of  rules  for accepting the Sunshine Award:
- Put the logo on your blog or within your post.
- Pass the award onto 12 bloggers.
- Link the nominees within your post.
- Let the nominees know they have received this award by commenting on their blog.
- Share the love and link to the person from whom you received this award.

Please pass this award along….

1. Art Creations Friday – A place for a group of crafty people to share their creations around a shared subject. Every Friday they post a new challenge, a picture or a background. You must use that picture or background and make an atc or card, or something els you like. Then all share and comment on each other creations.

2. The Trading Post – This is a very new blog by Teresa Carns, a baby blog if you will, offering a platform for crafty people to trade with each other. This one is  still searching its way, and it is very exciting to see what will become of it.

3. Polymery OnLine – A blog by the Israeli artist Iris Mishly, about hers and others work with polymer clay. The blog is in Hebrew but there are a lot of  gorgeous pictures and links to other sites and artists from all over the world.

4. The Graphics Fairy – Karen is working hard to find “new” vintage graphics and to share them with us. This is the place to find some great images and get creative ideas on “Brag Monday”.

5. Teresa - Mixed media and digital art, along side with tips and ideas by the amazing artist Teresa Martin. Be aware, after one peep into her blog you will fill compel to go back and check all of her old posts, so you better clear a few hours before clicking on the link!

6. Lucky Dip – Art and photography by Lisa Sarsfiel. Lisa and I are members of the same art exchange New Zealand’s group, and I had the pleasure and the honor to trade with her in the past, meaning I own a Lisa Sarsfiel’s Original. Go check her blog and envy me.

7. The Letter Project – Yes, I’m not the only one missing writing and receiving letters, Theresa Williams do too. She is doing much better than I do, she is actually receiving letters, and she also writes a lot. I should consider committing to writing letters more, it’s just my English that pulls me back (excuses, excuses). Theresa also thought of this name first, but to my defense I will say I did not know of her blog when I started mine.

8. Where the hell is Matt? – Join Matt on as he badly dance his way all over the world, and think to yourself  “what a lucky bastard” and “why him and not me, I can dance badly too”. And yes, we all dance badly, lets face it, we do, and he is so very lucky, but he also has a great sense of humor, and it is great fun to follow his dancing foot steps and amazing story, even if only on the screen.

9. World Sweet World – This blog used to accompany the magazine World Sweet World by Hannah & Thomas Schickedanz, but the magazine has printed its last issue, and now the blog is here to present cool makery stuff with emphasis on sustainable living.

10. Christchurch Daily Photo – Michelle loves the city she lives in and share it with us through her photography. As it happens to be, I too live in Christchurch and like it very much. Going over her photographs, i find there are many places that we both like. I keep looking to see if I’m in one of them.

11. iHanna’s Blog – Create & Live Happy – Hanna fined happiness in creativity and writing, and I can relate to that. She has a very bold way of handling colors that I can only envy, and she likes to mixed her materials and try new things. She work in the way that I would like to too, but she is not afraid to get dirty. Her blog is a great place for me to get some inspiration and to add color to my day.

12. Inspiring Yarns – This blog is a bit of a mystery to me. An intimate and quirky fantasy world, created with dolls, yarns, illustrations, objects and plans. I don’t know nothing about the blogs author except that they are talented, imaginative and has a very specific aesthetic, which is to my liking.

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And now to the apology. I’m sorry for being away for such a long time. A bit more than a month ago a nasty stomachache turned up to be appendicitis. It was less than a week after the operation that I was back in action, but it seems that it takes 2 weeks to cover a week of lose.

And then I went to work on this list. It was not easy. I do like surfing and learning from other people blogs, but I don’t follow many on a regular base.

So thank you for waiting for me this long. I hope you enjoy the blogs I listed, and if you find your self in the list and wonder why you haven’t got a mail from me. I’m on it, it will come.

D.