Blog Award Day - mine that is! And Bird

Firstly just want to show a piccy of the bird I made for Julia to celebrate WOYWW's 1st anniversary.  Julia's showing it on her blog, but just in case I get some visitors that don't pop over there ;-)

Just to say, the muck on the verandah is due to DD's dog digging up and eating my one and only cauliflower (I had it in a large plant pot) that I'd been nurturing for weeks :-(  I do have some others that still need planting out but one of the reasons I didn't put some in a patch of the garden was so he wouldn't dig them up!

I've received several blog awards recently so decided to post them altogether

The first one I received twice - here are the rules:-

1 Express gratitude to the blogger who bestowed the award unto you... Copious,grovelling …I am not worthy… gratitudes - ok, here goes I 'm not worthy to lick the boots of Lyn and Kay (thankfully I'm not that worthy!)

2 Display the picture on your blog proudly.

3 Be nice and provide a link to the person/s who gave it to you.

a) Lyn - http://spyder-spyderscorner.blogspot.com/ Who is a wonderfully talented artist and also kindly gives freebies of some of her art, also friendly and very funny ;-)

b) Kay http://makingthingsfromstuff.blogspot.com/   Another blogger with a great sense of humour, very friendly and makes wonderful art stuff - just read her porfile to see how she named her blog, always makes me smile when I think about it :-)

4 Tell up to six outrageous lies about yourself, and at least one outrageous truth, or switch it around and tell six outrageous truths and one outrageous lie.

5 Nominate seven creative writers who might be into doing this

1/ While on holiday in Cuba a few years ago I whiled away one evening drinking Mohitos and swapping funny stories with Fidel Castro; what a blast!

2/ I once dug up a dead donkey

3/ I'm a natural blonde but like to dye my roots a mix of brown and grey just to keep people guessing.

4/ I went jet-skiing and quad-biking on holiday in Tunisia

5/ I won a knobbly knees contest at Butlin's many years ago

6/ I can do up to 4 back-flips in a row

I'm passing this award on to:

Pat - http://patacake-patcrafts.blogspot.com/
Heidi - http://thecraftygoatgirl.blogspot.com/
Maddy - http://patacake-patcrafts.blogspot.com/
Linda - http://acraftingjourney.blogspot.com/
Wilma - http://craftygran.blogspot.com/

Helen - http://stampingbyh.blogspot.com/

Bee - http://nannabeeshive.blogspot.com/

This Award I received from Bee 

The rules are that I have to tell you 10 facts about myself

1 I have 4 beautiful grandchildren and 2 beautiful children

2 I love crafting and all it entails

3 I love books but when it comes to reading I can't resist a bargain and love to find books for £2 or less :-)

4 I love dancing and currently go to linedancing and tap dancing 

5 I'm a bit of a slut when it comes to housework! (I do do some of course but as little as possible)

6 Not sure if this counts as fact, but if I win the lottery I'm going to buy myself a canal boat ;-)

7 I've got a pair of quad roller skates which I had every intention of using when I bought them but don't know how to stop :-/ (I wish there was somewhere to go that wasn't full of kids so I could practice without feeling self-concious - and never mind knee and elbow pads, how about something to protect the hips LOL)

8 One of my best holidays was to Cuba about 4 years ago

9 I love cake

10 I will be 64 next month (argh! I dont mind saying it but seeing it written it sounds old and I'm not)

I'm passing this award on to:

Ann - http://flutterbycrafter.blogspot.com/

Cardarian - http://cardarianshappyplace.blogspot.com/

Elizabeth - http://alteredbooklover.blogspot.com/

I was going to do all the awards here but need to get off the PC for a bit so will do the other one over the weekend.