An award while I was away !

You would think from the post below that I have been locked away doing lots of designing: Not a chance! In fact we have made 2 return trips to UK, including with a hired lorry, to empty our UK house ready for renting and then had a few days rest camping on the Ile d'Oleron (west coast of France) where we met up with some British, French and German friends. While the big furniture is being stored in a friend's barn, we are floor to ceiling with boxes here and my sister-in-law and her husband are arriving for a week on Tuesday! However, I have orders to fulfill so promise some cards will appear soon. I will also get some blog candy together as I am sooooo close to that 5000 figure!

Big thanks to Donna who gave me this award while I was away: Such a lovely complement.
The rules of this award are:
1.The winner can put the logo on her blog.
2. Link the person you received your award from.
3.Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4.Put links of those blogs on yours.
5.Leave a message on the blogs of the girls you’ve nominated

I also love Donna's blog and in addition I nominate (from the many deserving) :
Gill
Lydia
Lou
Han
Jozza
Maureen
& Ana

An award

Last week was a strange one: We've got such a lot going on with being about to finally sell our house in UK (which we still have to empty), my neice recovering from a bone marrow transplant for her leukaemia, having one of my step-sons to stay at the start of the week and trying to get the business established. Of course all the other things were unseen in the planning stages! I'm not complaining about any of it but it's been a demanding time! One thing I do regret is not taking my camera to a craft evening I did at the local campsite on Thursday: Had a great time making cards with a mixed group of children and adults.
Anyway, all the above made it extra special to receive comments on my blog and especially this award from both Donna and Heather (who also has candy here) .
The rules that go with this award are: 1. You must nominate only 5 people. 2. Four of those people are to be dedicated followers of my blog. 3. The fifth person is someone new or relatively new to my blog and should live in another part of the world. 4. You must link back to the person who gave you the award. Now this is the difficult bit...who do I choose... I'll edit tomorrow with the choices, and some cards I made today.

Arte y Pico Award

I remember seeing this award a little while ago and thinking how lovely it was so I am really pleased to be awarded it by both Gill and Cathy - Thank you both!

There are 5 rules and they are as follows- 1) You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also contributes to the blogging community, no matter what 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 winner 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-winner 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: http://arteypico.blogspot.com 5) To show these rules.

OK, with apologies if you have been awarded already, these are the blogs I have chosen, places I like visiting and inspire me and, by coincidence, are also different languages:

Angie C: http://angiec-crafting.blogspot.com - such a range of different things and styles
Louise: http://calligraphismes.blogspot.com - the most amazing calligraphy, mail art, etc...
Heike: http://stampingbalou.wordpress.com - great collection of cards and a bi-lingual blog!
Jozza: http://jozzasblog.blogspot.com - One of the new members of the Funky Fairy team - I like your style and humour Jo!