Sunday 22 December 2013

bling, bling and more bling

MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone!

Just look at what Google+ did to the Christmas card Ol' Peepers made for me.  Isn't it amazin'?  I woke up one mornin' and found some of my pictures all blingafied by Google+ with twinklin' lights and fallin' snow.  It was like an early Christmas present, just for me. Lovely.

Anywho...  this blingafying of the pictures is called auto-awesome and although I haven't figured out everythin' about it, I will.

If you haven't yet received a Christmas card from me or, if you received the un-blingafied version but like this one with the twinklin' lights better, please feel free to grab it.  It's there for the taking.

Okay...  time to get down to business.  It seems that I have received a few awards, as of late, that I have not yet officially accepted.  Better get on with that accepting now 'cause if I don't, I'll end up accepting them in the New Year and then they'll be really late.  They'll be like a year late!  Mustn't have that.  Time to get on with the show.

Let's start with the Dragon's Loyalty Award.  My pal Tex over at Texas, a Cat in NY first gave me this super neat award and then, my pal Speedy, from Speedy the Cheeky House Bunny gave it to me, too.  Thank you Tex and thank you Speedy.  I hadn't yet received this award and it's such a nice one.  Quite an honour to receive it from both of you.

In acceptin' the Dragon's Loyalty Award, I must display the award on my blog.  Well, I've done that.  Then I have to announce the win and post a link to whomever gave it to me.  Doin' that now and you'll find that if you click on Tex and Speedy's blogs' names, you'll be whisked away to their amazin' blogs 'cause that's where I did the links.  Thirdly, I must present fifteen deserving blogs with the award and drop them a comment to tip 'em off about their win.  Hmmm... this could be a problem 'cause I bet everyone already has the award 'cause I am so late in acceptin' it.  Tell you what...  continue readin' my post and you'll see how I believe I have resolved the issue.

Lastly, I must post seven interestin' things about myself.  Okay, here goes...
- I have a bionic knee.
- I hate duck and trout food.  Won't touch either one.
- I live with nine other cats 'cause recently, my Auntie Snowdrop and my dad, Jacob, went to
  Heaven.
- Peep #1 depends upon me to supervise her in the garden.
- I actually enjoy grammar and find it a worthwhile subject to study.
- When it comes to grammar, I sometimes break the rules on purpose.
- I am addicted to the nip.

Okay...  onto award number two!  The girls over at Life with Ragdolls gave me the lovely Sunshine Award.  Before I knew it, Speedy from Speedy the Cheeky House Bunny had given it to me as well.

I had, in fact, received this one before but this must be a new, modernised version 'cause the graphics are different so I figured I should accept it again.

In acceptin' the Sunshine Award, I have to share eleven random facts about myself.  Hmmm...  Well, I shared seven up above with the first award so I'll just share four now.  Okay?  Okay.

- I live with a technologically impaired duffer of a peep.
- I enjoy inventing words.
- I get more e-mail than both my peeps combined.
- I don't like it when the peep calls me a nip-head.

I also must answer eleven questions.
1.  Have you ever owned a Ragdoll cat?
     - I have never lived with a Ragdoll cat.
2.  If you could have one wish (and it actually came true) what would it be?
     - Peace on Earth and good will to cats.
3.  If you ever won $1000, what would you do with it?
     - Buy a nip farm.
4.  What is your favourite state in North America?
     - I've never been to the US where they have states but the peeps
       have.  Peep #1 loves Washington DC so I'm gonna answer with
       that even though it's not an actual state.
5.  Would you ever be interested in breeding any animals?
     - Nope, I have been neutered.
6.  What's your favourite movie?
     - Anythin' I can watch at home while snuggling with the peeps.
7.  Where are you from?
     - Canada.  I'm a Canadian kitty!
8.  What's your favourite colour?
     - Hmmm...  Icy blue shows off my sterling silver - some say
       platinum - tabby coat.
9.  What's your favourite animal?
     - Guess I had better answer cats since I am one.
10.  For how long have you been blogging?
     -  Just a little over two years.
11.  Do you like cats more than dogs?
       - I should think so!

Now I'm supposed to present this award to eleven bloggers who deserve some recognition and a little bloggin' love.  Keep readin' and you'll find out how I'm gonna do that.  I'm also supposed to pose eleven questions for those bloggers but I think I'll use the questions the girls gave me 'cause they're really quite good questions.

That brings us to award number three...  the Because You're Fantabulous Award.  My dear friend Savvy over at Savannah's Paw Tracks had this on her blog one day and said that anyone who wanted it should take it so I did 'cause I liked it a lot.  It's a real beauty!

In acceptin' the Because You're Fantabulous Award I must do...   NOTHIN'.  There are no requirements for acceptin' this lovely award.  Thank you Savvy!

I sure was happy when I was awarded the Blog of the Year 2013 Award.  For a while, I was thinkin' I might be shut out of the Blog of the Year Award this year.  Then Savvy of Savannah's Paw Tracks came to my rescue and I had my first star.  Next thing I knew, Angel from angelswhisper2011 was givin' me star number two.  Yoo-hoo!  YOO-HOO!!!

In acceptin' the Blog of the Year award, there are some requirements and they may be found at the site of the award's creators, The Thought Palette.

You're probably all wonderin' to whom I will award stars for the Blog of the Year 2013 award.  Just hang in there for a little longer.  There isn't long to wait now.

I do want to mention that Cinco and Manna from Playful Kitty gave me the Super Sweet Blogger Award.  This award, I had received before with the very same graphics but I want thank Cinco and Manna, from the bottom of my heart, for thinkin' of me.  I really do appreciate it whenever someone gives me the bling.

Now for the moment you have all been waitin'.  You've been so patiently waitin' to find out just who would be the recipients of all these wonderful awards.  It was hard to pick just a few.  Gosh it was hard.  And then the thought of deciding who would get what was practically MIND BOGGLING.  So I thought about it and decided that I would award the followin' bloggers all of the above awards.  That's right!  If your name is listed you may take any one or all of the above awards.  You're all super-deserving, you all write amazin' blogs and I am honoured to say that I follow each and every one of you.

Drum roll please...
- Savvy at Savannah's Paw Tracks
- Speedy at Speedy the Cheeky House Bunny
- Angel at angelswhisper
- Cinco & Manna at Playful Kitty
- the girls at Life with Ragdolls
- Tex at Texas, a Cat in NY
- Layla at Cat Wisdom 101
- Jools at Jools in Cork
- Carlos at The Daily Cute
- Winchester Feline at Day to Day with Winchester Feline
- Annie at Lucy's Lounge
- Pickles Picasso at Purrfectly Pickles
- Cory at Cory Cat Blog
- Quinn at Catitude
- Mr Black at The Kittini Boys
- Sarge at Sarge Speaks Out
- Brian at Brian's Home
- Patchy Meow at The Five Cats Chronicles
- Felix & Jasper at Felix and Jasper Blogalot
- Sushi at Sushi's Diary
- Pasha at Pasha

Whew!  What a lot of awards.  Wish I could have picked everyone whose blogs I love but if I did that, I'd be typing 'til 2014.

One more thing.  Due to the scheduling of Christmas, my next post will be published one day early, on Tuesday December 24th.  Here's a sneak peak.  Look...  IT'S SNOWIN'!


43 comments:

  1. HOLY CATS that's a TONNE of awards, Nissy!! We gotta check out some new bloggers we haven't met now.

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  2. Concatulations on all your awards ! You really deserve all of them ! Purrs

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  3. Great post Nissy! Wow. Good one!! Congratulations on the recognition of your blogging prowess, well deserved!

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  4. WOW! Concatulations on all those awards, Nerissa! You are truly one award-winning kitty!

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  5. That is a nice bunch of awards and thank you so much for sharing with us! Hey, you're gonna need a bigger trophy case!

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  6. Wow, congrats on all your awards, Nissy! It was fun reading your answers to the questions and reading things about you. Thank you so much for passing along to me!

    Your Christmas card above looks great!

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  7. Concatulations on your awards, Nissy. You sure know how to rock the bling.

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  8. Congratulations to you for getting all those awardies!!!

    Purrs,
    Carmine, Milita, and Jewel

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  9. HELLO NISSY PAL, we wants to fank you MASSIVELY FOR THE AWARD. We are so humbled. We haven't done much bliggin in last few months, mum has been so busy wiv stuff so could not help us much. BUT!!!! We is BACK PAL!! We goin to do a Crimbo message which will be the first of many more bloogy post and excitin bits to come. YAYYYYYYYY! FANKS AGAIN NISSY, YOU ARE DEFFO ONE OF OUR GREATEST HEROES. HOOOOORAY FOR NISSY!!! XXX XXX XXX

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  10. ooooops!!! Sorry Nissy pal we forgot to sign last comment !!! We so excited !! IT BE FELIX & JASPER THE DUDES !!! XXX

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  11. Congratulations on all your awards, Nissy! We love your blingified Christmas card!

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  12. Great award! And I love your Xmas pic!!!! That is just sooo adorable!!!
    ((Husky hugz))
    "Love is being owned by a husky"

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  13. Whew Nissy you have been busy with awards. Congratulations - very well deserved too. I'm going to take your card and post it on my bloggy. Thank you very much for it., It's cool. Merry Christmas in case I not see you before.

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  14. Love the word "blingified."

    Thanks for thinking of us and including us in the awards list. The lady is worthless when it comes to posting these kind of things. I can barely get her to post a photo of me with a couple words attached. But, we sure like being included!

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  15. Concats on all your awards Nissy. I have to get mum to help me with mine, but that probably will be next year.

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  16. Wow, congrats on all those awards. And you well deserve them. We loved hearing more about you and your Christmas card is very pretty. Hope you have a good evening.

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  17. Concatulations on all those awards! And now let mes gives yous another Star!!!!
    You SHOULD has the Blog of the Year Award!
    Kisses
    Nellie

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  18. Now that is one grand set of awards my furend! We got some enhanced photos but need a tutor so let us know, when you know, you know, because you're the cats cat, cat.
    Timmy T

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  19. You have a bionic knee!? Awwwww!! Lovely Nerissa! We wish you and your wonderful peeps and amazing family a fabulous and joyous Christmas! Huge congratulations with your amazing awards - they are all well-deserved and we just know you will get many many many more in the New Year! We think 2014 should be known as the Year of the Mouses! LOL! Take care
    x

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  20. Congratulations on your awards! We think you must be pretty 'auto-awesome' to get so many :)!!!

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  21. Hey Nissy!
    Wow, you really cleaned up in the award department! BOL/MOL Congrats on all of the fun awards you have received and you are so sweet to pass them on to so many furiends. Thanks so much for thinking of me and I really love that loyal dragon one, so I think I'll swipe that for my blog. That's pawesome. Thanks again!!
    Grr and Woof,
    Sarge, Furiend

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  22. ConCatulations on those pawsome awards. We still can't figure out the auto awesome thing....

    The Florida Furkids

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  23. We like your blinged-out card, Nissy! Very flashy! And congrats on all those awards!! They're almost as blingy as your card!

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  24. That is the most bling we have seen in one place EVER! Concatulations to you, Nissy, and all your recipients. MEOWY CATMESS. MOL, HO, HO, HO! Purrs and hugs, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo

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  25. Thank you for including me! I am honored! Since I'm obviously very important, I have stolen Daddy's chair to honor the occasion. I have banished him to the couch. He can have it back when he receives an award.

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  26. Cripes! I am going to have to learn how to blog more.. That is amazing all the awards!

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  27. Thanks and purrs for naming Cat Wisdom101 one of the winners of all those pawsome prizes!

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  28. Oh Nissy, thank you so very much for giving me another star...I won't pawsibly complete all 6 by year's end...but you have added to my star chart...as you always do...smoochies dear buddy, Savannah

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  29. Concats on all of your awards! You are really cleaning up these days! Thank you for the nominations. Cinco and Manna have never received so many awards at once! They are very excited. We will be showing of the new bling in the next couple of weeks :)

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  30. Wow! You must have been very busy accepting all those awards! Concatulations!

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  31. Well done on your awards. Well deserved. Have a marvellous Monday.
    Best wishes Molly

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  32. Hi Nissy! What a great Bling Bonanza you've had lately! Concatulations buddy - all well deserved and all beautifully accepted by you.....as always. I'll be anxious to see your Christmas Eve bloggy tomorrow.....isn't this exciting? Christmas is so much fun..........

    Holiday Hugs, Sammy

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  33. Blimey! I'm exhausted just reading about the awards and all that info about you! But thanks for the mention and erm... I think, did I just get an award from you?

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  34. Well done on your awards!

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  35. OMC, thank you for the honor! I hope my secretary knows what to do with the practical stuff, she is a rookie with these things yet. But I will ask her to do this as soon as possible after Christmas!

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  36. Concats on all the awesome awards!

    We wanted to thank you for stopping by and hope you guys all stay safe too, if you're getting what we've had.

    A very merry Christmas/happy holiday to you all!

    Purrs and peace,
    Nicki and Derry

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  37. Congrats on your awards. Love your card. Very pretty.
    Sue B

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  38. Congrats on the awesome awards, and thank you so much! I think this calls for some extra dinner tonight...... my family *coughservantsinawaycough* will be very happy to see this!

    Purrs from Pickles

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  39. Wow thank you so much Nissy, it not just snowing it's snowing bling. Thank you, well looks like my next blog post will be taken care of. Love the twinkling pictures. Have a Happy Christmas.

    Purrs Patchy. X

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  40. Congrats Nissy on all the lovely Bling You deserve it pal,and Thank you so much for passing a star on to me too,Merry christmas,xx Speedy

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