I never imagined the response I have gotten to my fairy tales, here on Friendly Fairy Tales. I originally put up stories for family to be able to read them without my providing everyone copies. (I have a BIG family.)
The warmth of community I have found has been a fairy tale come true for me. I love all the comments. I love hearing that others love fairy tales, and even more, that others love my stories. And all the awards make me happy, more on that below…
Thanks to everyone who visits, who likes, who comments or even just enjoys my stories, my photographs and my poetry. For all of you, I have made an underwater visual fairy tale (a new video!!), called Fairy Fish Tails, which has an original score composed by my oldest son.
The video was a long time in the works, and as a result, I have been slow to pass along thanks for awards, but here goes:
Thanks to Diana Jackson of Selections of Reflections, who increased my blessings with a new award. If you don’t know Diana, she is a terrific writer of historical romantic fiction, and has been sharing a memoir of an amazing man who was 103 when she started. The award is called: “Award Winning Blog — has been Blessed Again.” Visit Diana for fun or to copy the rules.
Then Marlyn at Kintal blessed me with the same award again, thanks Marlyn! If you don’t know her, you should check her out. She has great art and poetry.
And Marlyn was not done, but stopped by to give me the Dragon’s Loyalty Award, too! She is fabulous!! Thanks, Marlyn!
Salvatore Vionito at Freedom of the Heart nominated me for the Versatile Blogger Award and thanked me for my inspiration and support. He is inspirational as well, full of love and with all the warmth and steadiness of his poetic heart. I will, from here on out, envision him dozing on a couch, vibrating cat on his chest, with thoughts of poetry and pasta.
Thanks to PetiteMagique for nominating me for the Sisterhood of the World Blogger Award, a new one to me. And for calling me her fairytale sister, what a lovely thought, my Magical Sister!! Visit her if you can’t get enough of magic, like me. 🙂 Then Morgan came along and joined my Sisterhood, nominating me again!! If you don’t know Morgan, she writes great sonnets, poetry and lately has gotten into music humor. Next Gloriana blessed me by making me part of her beautiful sisterhood. She has wonderful photos, poetry and stories of her travels. Thanks Sisters!
Petrel41 blessed Friendly Fairy Tales with a nomination for Blog of the Year 2013. Thanks Petrel41, I love your animal posts!! Petitemagique then came along and gave me another nomination, my magical sister. Then Morgan at Booknvolume, a great, prolific writer and music lover. Then Sweetness6645 at Public TransitUser nominated me again, thanks to a woman with photos of the world on a subway, check her out, she’s awesome. Woo-hoo! What an honor!
Since you get one star, up to 6 total, for each nomination, that is four stars for Friendly Fairy Tales!! Woo-hoo! If you want to see the rules laid out perfectly or say hello to the originator of the Blog of the Year Awards, pop over to The Thought Palette. There you can also grab the appropriate icon with the right number of stars for you. You can also find the link to the Facebook page, which you can join and publish to even more people.
Thanks to Katya Mills at Vitamin K for nominating me for the Liebster Award with this very cool award button. She is a very talented author with a couple of published books that are on my read soon list, and I hope you will visit her.
Please accept my appreciation if you cannot take time to accept the award.
I wish all my readers many blessings, adventures, good health and a little magic. Here are a couple views from my part of the world to thank you for sharing yours:
The first image is the view from the front of the Boston Aquarium, on a recent trip getting footage from my video (above). The second is of a lake near my house, where I often walk. I hope you find magic wherever you go.
With deep appreciation,
Brenda
Copyright 2013 Brenda Davis Harsham
Congratulations, Brenda, how rewarding for you to have your achievements acknowledged. Well done, you must be overwhelmed by such accolades.
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The awards made me very happy, and the posts about them helped me grow my friend-circle. I’m still friends with many who nominated me or who I nominated. The posts would take hours to do even tweaking the rules as I did. I just don’t have that kind of time these days, but I remember doing them fondly. Take care.
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Congratulations on all your awards Brenda! You are very deserving of them. 😀 Happy Holidays!
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Thanks, my friend! Happy Holidays to you and yours, Brenda
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Wonderful video. Bright and joyous 2014
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Thanks! Happy New Year to you as well! I’ll drink a toast in your honor.
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Brenda, first of all thank you for all your support in reading the nonsense(s) that I write in http://www.andresurfer.wordpress.com! 🙂 Second, congrats on the award. Well deserved!
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Thanks, my friend. Cheers, Brenda
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Congratulations!
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Thanks! Joyous holidays to you! Brenda
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You’re welcome! Same to you!
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Many congrats on the awards Brenda! And thank you for introducing me to the lovely blogs you have nominated =] Sending you awesomeness in a bag and blessings during the holiday season.
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Thank you!! I will cherish your awesomeness in a bag and your blessings. And I will sprinkle some fairy dust and magic over your life. 🙂 Warmly, Brenda
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Kudos on more hard-earned thumps on the back, Brenda. And it sounds like you’ve got yourself a film score composer in the making!
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LOL Today he spent the day on his stomach building robots. Who knows what he will choose to do. 🙂
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The music is WONDERFUL and has captured my heart!!! Your oldest son is a magical musician!!!!!! Thank you for the surpise of the reward, thank you so much! 🙂 I love your writing, your photos, and your blessed heart as it spills through your blog, and enjoy much inspiration from you. Thank you Brenda!!!
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My pleasure. I will tell my son, and maybe he will play for me while I make some biscuits and cooked apples. 🙂
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Thanks for you kind words!
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That piece is stunning! A very wonderful musical piece. And congratulations Brenda! All those awards my dear, are well-deserved awards bestowed upon you. Keep inspiring with your amazing tales, beautiful photos and words of wisdom, generosity and inspiration. Love lots!
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You are the princess of wonderful comments! Thanks and have a great week!! Hugs, Brenda
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Thank you and you’re most welcome. Have a great week as well. Hugs…Donicia xx
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Many thanks again Brenda, congratulations on your awards too! 😀 x
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My pleasure, and thanks for your congrats. I am happy to share the love. 🙂 Brenda
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😀 X
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My pleasure!
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THANK YOU for nominating me for the Blog of the Year 2013. I am honored and pleased that you thought of me.
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
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My pleasure. Cheers, Brenda
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That video is so good, relaxing too. You are very good at this video thing! 🙂 And did you say the music was ‘composed’ by your son? That’s quite an achievement, you must be very proud of him! That’s handy to have someone create the music to your video – you can get better than that! 😀
Congratulations on building your blog to what it is today, you’ve come a long way from just posting for family – and the sky is the limit, remember! 😉
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You are a charmer. I enjoy the videos, but they are time consuming. My son is very talented at 12, he played around with a couple melodies, settled in his mind what he wanted to play when, and just improvised the whole thing. It’s a bit casual, but fun, too. And he wanted to enter a composition contest and needed a video… This may work as an entry but we have to check with his violin teacher. I am insufferably proud of him. 🙂
I have a novel burning up in the back of my mind I want to write. I need to find a way to work on that and blog too.
Thanks for your kind words. I started this at the end of February 2013. I have never blogged during the holiday season before. We’ll see if I lose my mind along the way. 🙂
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Oh, yes that’s a lot of pressure! I started my blog in November last year, so I was really doing a lot at the time, and I did feel only half present at all the family events, hopefully not like that this year. Best thing is not to post too much, it’s a busy time of year for everyone, so no-one will mind!
Mm.. finding the time for that novel is a tricky one, but if it’s important and drives you crazy not getting down to it, I’m sure you’ll find the best way for you in the end. Everyone seems to writing novels – so exciting these days!! 😀
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Yes, indeed. I have an outline for a book two, with the book one being written. And I am working on an outline for an unrelated book. Plus stories and poems. Winter is a good time to write, if I can manage the blog and family, too. It will come, it keeps perking up.
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I am incredibly honored by your naming me for two honorariums! I am thankful for your continued friendship and support. I am working on my rather simplified response to this outstanding post that features your creative self and your son’s lovely musical accompaniment! I especially like the title of “Sister of my Heart!” Thanks very much, Brenda!!
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I am pleased you are happy, Sister. 🙂 I’m tiring out early this evening. Trying to write a haibun with my children practicing their music was surprisingly draining. Bed early, I think. Warmly, Brenda
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Even with the missing r I know it’s me. (laughs)
Thank you again for another nomination. You really make fairy tales come true. 🙂
Blessings,
belsbror
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Oops about the r. It was getting late at night, but still… Thanks for being part of my world! Brenda
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I fixed it! Blessings, Brenda
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Brenda. I’m not sure what I need to do! I’m very grateful that you have nominated me but very confused! Xx
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That’s because I don’t restate the rules these days — the posts would be too long. You pull the icon onto your site, and google for the rules. Another site will tell you, surely someone will have listed the rules associated with the award. Or post your thanks with the icon and pass it along like I did in a free and easy, rule-less way.
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Congratulations, Brenda, on the awards — well deserved from many admired followers. I enjoyed your video and the interesting sites. I appreciate the link to the originator of the Blog of the Year Award 2013. I had seen this award come across many times but didn’t know much about it.
Truly, there is magic all around isn’t there. I can see it in the photos you took. Happy Monday! 🙂
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I’m so happy you saw what my eye did. Magic and beauty all around. Thanks so much for commenting. I appreciate your words. Brenda
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Congratulations, Brenda on so many lovely awards. x
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Thanks!! I was thinking of you when I made my new video. I knew it would not be as funny as yours. 🙂 Brenda
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I was thinking about the first time you did one and how you weren’t sure if you would tackle another. Now look at the two of us go. Technological whizzkids! 🙂
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Hours of work!! I think the kids get into it, though. It’s a whole new world, with everybody making videos.
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I think it’s great your kids want to be involved. My younger ones would but the older ones think I’m off my trolley. Cringing with embarrassment every time a new video makes an appearance. I cringe a bit myself right enough. 🙂
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It’s the natural state of teens to cringe. Let them. Life is to short to live by the standards of teens. I love them. 🙂
Brenda
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But we can’t eat a whole one! :)x
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Eat a teen? Eww, they are surely bitter.
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Wonderful – congratulations! Great video ~
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Thanks!!
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Oh, and congratulations:)
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Thanks again, friend. 🙂
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Bravo! Applause, applause. So much fun and so sweet. Love it.
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LOL, your enthusiasm is received with gratitude and joy. Hugs, Brenda
PS Just thinking of your chickens makes me smile.
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Congratulations.
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Thanks, friend! Cheers, Brenda
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Congratulations on all of the awards! I love the video too, that is a beautiful original score, how old is your son? Thank you so very kindly for the award too. It has been a little while since I have gotten one, so no rash breakout. ha! Seriously, I am honored. xo
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Well, thank goodness I’m not spreading cyber rashes. Nothing worse! Thanks for your comment! Hugs, Brenda
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Congratulations! You deserve those awards so well!
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Thanks!! What a lovely thing to say. Hugs, Brenda
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Hugs to you too! 🙂
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You are Great, my dear sister Brenda. I am very proud of you and thank you for this possibility to immerse in your so wonderful and beautiful world!
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Thanks and hugs to you!! Wow, Great with a capital, I am so thankful for all your warmth and support! I am so happy you are part of my world. Hugs, Brenda
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Congratulations,You SO deserve the awards. Your blog is awesome. Big Hugs, Adam
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Thanks, Adam! I appreciate your comment very much! Warmly, Brenda
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congrats on your cornucopia of awards and i love the video )
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Yeah, another person loves the video!! I made it with my sons. 🙂
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I see what happened with the responses now that I’ve scrolled through them all. Notifications can be a bit confusing to me. I am glad you liked the video, and don’t let me pressure you about awards. I took forever over this one myself. 🙂
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no worries at all and that’s so cool you made that with your son )
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It is fun to share creation with my kids, and see how flexible their minds are. I like to do art with them, too.
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Congratulations on everything and thank you for spreading the magical fairydust wherever you go 😀
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My pleasure! Thanks for being part of my world, Brenda
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Congrats, Brenda. You’ve worked hard and deserve all the honors you receive.
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Thanks, my friend. Hugs, Brenda
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Congratulations and many many thanks 🙂
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Thank you and my pleasure!
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Thank You so very much Brenda 😉 You are wonderful…and your avalanche of Awards only proves it 🙂
Blessings!
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Thank you, my learned friend! Peace and Joy to you and yours.
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Congratulations with all awards!
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Thanks!! I thought you had all 6 stars and did not need the Blog of the Year again. Did I remember right?
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i am so bad with the logistics of the accepting process and this reminds me to do a gratitude post for them )
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That’s odd, I thought I sent that response to Petrel, I wonder if she got yours. I meant to say I was so happy you like the video. 🙂
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well, it’s always a toss up when we send our words out into the universe, hoping most of the time they end up where we intended )
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You said it. We depend on the kindness of others. 🙂
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Wow…congratulations, my friend! All award nominations well-deserved!!
Have a great week ahead, always~ Cheers!! 😀
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Thanks, friend! Hope you guys are having great weather in Singapore. We have a winter storm howling through. Cheers, Brenda
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You’re welcome, my friend!
Though we have no winter here, the weather is getting colder for the past few days with many rain…enjoying the coolness right now…hehe…
Do keep yourself warm! Cheers~ 😀
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Whatever the weather, I’m usually warm. Lots of coats. 🙂 Take care, Brenda
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Great to know that! Cheers~ 😀
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Thank you so much for the award Brenda I really am grateful but I have to decline, I have done awards in the past but now do to limited time I can no longer accept them. I am so pleased that you have wordpress to be such a welcoming and supportive place to be ! I have found it so also. So again thank you, be well and happy and enjoy your Thanksgiving!! 🙂 xxxxxx
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You also, and no worries. I have often contemplated making the same decision. Even without following the rules, the postings take so long!!
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Congratulations on all the awards, Brenda! And thanks ever so much for nominating me for The Liebster Award, much appreciated.
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My pleasure!
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Thank you for thinking of me, it means a lot.
Terry
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My pleasure!
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Such a friendly video – it really makes the underwater world and its fishy inhabitants feel like an extension of family!
Congrats on all your many awards, dear online sister! 🙂
Anasera
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Delighted to share the love, even underwater magical love. 🙂
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Nice!
Elephant
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Elephant,
I wanted to award you the Dragon, but I know how you feel about awards, and I remembered… 🙂
Blessings, Brenda
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Thanks Brenda . . . you do know how I feel! I like the idea of being a dragon, but I don’t even know that award.
You do love the awards and earn them with grace Award Queen. It is great that you have them all! Nice when things work out well!
Elephant
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Elephant, You are an honorary Dragon, even though you need not do anything except give a nod. 🙂 I do have rather a lot. I need a different way to display them, they make my sidebar too long. I’ve stopped putting them up. Ah, well, it’s not a bad problem to have, too many awards. LOL
Have a great week, Brenda
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Dear Brenda,
Thank you, I will be a Dragon in spirit and I appreciate the honor!
My suggestion – make a grid (the cornerstone of simplicity) and drop the award images into the grid. Then add the image of the grid into your post. Four across and three high would give you 12 awards in one image!
I like it that you enjoy the awards and I think you should really go to town with showing all of them – so shrink them down in an interesting way. You are the Queen of Awards and everyone likes to see what the Queen has going on!
I like my grid idea!
Hi Ho,
Elephant
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I like your grid idea, too, Elephant. I have seen others do grids for awards, but I don’t know how to do that. I will investigate. 🙂 Maybe powerpoint would work? I will reflect. Dragons fly up high, nose into the wind, fire in the belly. What a grand life you shall have in spirit. 🙂 Warmly, Brenda
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Oh my what a wonderful video. I thoroughly enjoyed watching from start to finish and to hear your son play the violin, awesome. Congratulations, Brenda for so many awards that you received and I hope you will receive all the stars. You deserve. Finally, thank you for the Award Winning Blog. I am truly blessed. Perpetua aka Seeker.
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Perpetua, I am delighted that you like my video!! It’s always a leap of faith to put up something with technology that did not even exist in my youth. I’m also happy that you’ve seen your award. I wish you many blessings and lots of magic! Warmly, Brenda
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