It is award season again, Latin Grammy’s and the Country something awards were just this week, I think. And, it is also time for the award show that you can attend in your pajamas without fear of running into Ryan Seacrest or Joan Rivers. No need to call Rachel Zoe or risk being road kill on the red carpet. This is a stress free, commercial free and goodie bag free award show.
The awards of blogging are greater and more varied than I could have ever imagine, and really, blogging is its own reward and the friendship that comes from it is more important than any award. But, awards are nice too. And, I am honoured to announce at earlier ceremonies held off sight at the Beverly Hills Hilton and hosted by Brooke Burke and one of the guys from one of the CSI’s to have been awarded the following awards( 95% of that last sentence was factually inaccurate). Now, the envelopes please.
The Superior Scribbler Award was presented to me by both Randal Graves and Je Ne Regrette Rien. Look for them in there upcoming theatrtical release of “The fearless and shrinking expat and the Brown loving Politico” in a theater near you. Thank you both, I am honoured that both of you thinks I scribbles good. All the credit goes to my fourth grade teacher, to my agent and to my mother—-and all the little people who have made me who I am today. I would list their names but thy are so little that I just don’t have a font small enough to symbolically represent their stature.
Now, it is my sincere pleasure to pass this award onto the following five bloggers. I chose to bestow this award onto bloggers who write posts so good that they make me wish I had written what they wrote. See how I did that, I transformed envy into a prize. Clever me.
The awards go to:
1. Chris Orcutt, Writer because he is smart, funny and, above all, he made me want to read Hemingway.
2. Dcup because her “Adventures in Real Parenting” series often brings me to tears not just because she has such a lovely family but because of her poignant prose and the obvious love she has for her cast of characters. Also, she is a fantastic writer.
3. Cassoulet Cafe because she is my Corfu Cousin. No, this award is not given out of nepotism but rather she makes gross seem funny and she makes loss heart wrenchingly beautiful.
4. Life Just Keeps Getting Weirder because she is f’n hillarous. Love her, her blog and her crazy mustache.
5. Couture Carrie because she has a gift for alliterations and her titles are always so good I wish I had written them. You all know how I enjoy a good alliteration. Not only is Carrie smart and quick witted, she is also incredibly stylish and I fear if we met she would find me wonting in the fashion forwardness. Perhaps this award will make her overlook my off trend traits.
Of course, as with every Bloggy Award, there are A Few Rules. They are, forthwith:
*Each Superior Scribbler must in turn pass The Award on to 5 most-deserving Bloggy Friends.
*Each Superior Scribbler must link to the author & the name of the blog from whom he/she has received The Award.
* Each Superior Scribbler must display The Award on his/her blog, and link to This Post, which explains The Award.
* Each Blogger who wins The Superior Scribbler Award must visit this post and add his/her name to the Mr. Linky List. That way, we’ll be able to keep up-to-date on everyone who receives This Prestigious Honor!
*Each Superior Scribbler must post these rules on his/her blog.
The next award of the evening was given to me by the lovely Autumn and Seeker. It is the “I love you this much award”. Autumn and Seeker, the feeling is most certainly mutual. This award is given to bloggers that you really love. I love-love-love this award.
Rules: Link to the person who started this award(That’s GEnYZe)
Link to the person who “loves” you(Autumn and Seeker)
Post the rules on your blog
Tag 7 people at the end of your post and link to them.
Let each person know they have been “Loved” and leave a comment on their blog.
I am breaking the rules of this award and I am giving this to everyone on my blog roll. If I didn’t love your blog you wouldn’t be on my roll. Love you. xoxo
Seeker is too good to me as she has also awarded to me, and everyone else on her lovely blog roll, the “I Love Your Blog” Award. Seeker, you know, I love yours too!!
I pass this beautiful blog award onto the following seven deserving bloggers:
1. The Adventures of an American Blond in France
2. The Preppy Princess
3. Je ne regrette rien
4. Charmed Silver Shoes
5. Inside Out Style
6. Potpourri Promenade
7. Observation Mode
And, now to the final award of the evening( or morning or afternoon, depending on what time you are reading this) is the Premio Dardos Award that I was generously and kindly given to me by Songy from Style Discovery and Seeker from Searching for the Inner Me.
I am extremely honoured to receive this prestigious award.
I would like to nominate the following bloggers to recognize their cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values transmitted in the form of creative and original writing:
1. Maitresse
2. La Vie Quotidienne
3. Frog Blog
4. Indigo Alison
5. Belgian Waffle
6. Materfamilias
7. L’air du temps
Thank you all for making the Ermie Awards a possibility. Please drive safely and tune in next year for the Ermie Awards when we hope to have a real host, maybe Jon Stewart or Billy Crystal. But, I wouldn’t count on it.
oh yah, i am the first one!!! congrat on those awards. have a wonderful weekend.
btw, let me know the result if you do wash your cashmere.
Savvy: Thanks.
I will let you know. I am scared.I feel sure that TSE wouldn’t recommend something that could be harmful to their sweaters. So, I will take the plunge.
Have a lovely weekend.
congrats on your well deserved award. I can almost see Brooke Burke hosting the ceremonies while dancing with the stars. I really appreciate all of your comments and visits to my blog as well. happy friday and congrats again!
Ah yes marry well and wear sunscreen every day:)
Dear, dear Samos Sestre,
Were you BUI’ing again when you gave me an award???
I am blushing and flattered and full of gratitude.
Thank. you.
Love,
CC
Word verification: britc=the sound one makes when trying to stifle an emotioin.
You are so b’loved, Belette! Congrats to you, and look forward to discovering some new reads through this list of worthy recipients.
Thank you sooooooo much for your wonderful remarks and for this sweet award, LBR! I don’t think I’d find you lacking in the fashion debt. in the least! And I am so pleased with your vast vocabulary and recognition of my frequent alliterations!!!
Have a beautiful weekend, darling
xoxox,
CC
Laura:It is my pleasure to visit your blog. Thank you, Dr. Laura! I think you deserve an award for following your own advice. Really, I am a bit in awe of you.
Yes, the cast and costumes of Dancing with the Stars were definitely there. Lots of glitter and sparkle.
Hope you have a lovely weekend.
Corfu Cuz: No, no BUI.
I said nothing that wasn’t try. If anything I did not ooh and awe over you enough. Sorry for that.
Love,
SS
Britc,that is a good one.
Sal:I am a lucky blogger to have so many kind and generous blogging friends. I so appreciate these beautiful awards. And, I hope you do get a chance to visit some/all of them.
Hope you have a lovely weekend.
Carrie:You are soooo welcome!I do have higher scores on my verbal GRE’s than I could score on a fashion knowledge exam. But, you are so very kind.
xoxo
Dcup:You are so welcome. LOL @ the idea you had your children so you could blog about them.
La belette, you deserve every bloggy award going – your posts are always interesting, often hilarious, occasionally heart-breaking but never, ever boring.
Btw, I’m on one of your lists of blogs – does that mean I can claim the blogroll award???
Mon amie, as all of your fans know, you deserve awards aplenty. Thank you for all the recommendations to other blogs–what good company you keep!
Bon weekend!
So Brooke Burke won’t be here? Dammit. Perhaps you don’t love us as much as you proclaim!
Though you did keep Ryan Seacrest away. I retract my first statement.
Wait, the Brown loving politico? I like UPS?
notsupermum: You are far too kind. I am so happy I don’t bore. I do feel a bit guilty about the heartbreaking posts. Will try to keep those to a minimum.;-)
Yep!Please, yes, the award is yours to claim. I so enjoy your sharing so openly your journey of your struggles,joys and successes. Really, delighted I found your lovely blog.
Kirie: Thank you for the tres gentile bon mots. I am so happy you enjoy my blog and I really enjoy yours. And, be sure to claim the award, you are on my blog roll and you got the “I love your blog this much” award too.
You’re so right. I do keep good company.Bon weekend to you!
Randal: I tried to get her here, just for you. See how much I love?
And, hey, at least UPS delivers. Your Browns may not be as consistent.;-)
Thanks Belette for honoring my blog.
If there were such thing as the VPL award I’d give it to you – as you show what’s underneath without shame – and this makes you so human and interesting and why I come back day after day.
At least I could come to your awards show in my pajamas, with a sleep mask on my head and noone thinks the less of me.
I LOVE your blog too – and I will give you back this award.
My word of the day (verification) is takebri – I’m wondering if it’s a stealthy message from cheese producers to go and eat some of their fine wares?
Oh, now the verification word has changed to l’iron – is it commenting on my lack of housewife skills? Or tyring to make ironing sound French so I may be more inclined to want to do it?
Ouch. That was cruel.
Oh ma belle you so deserve all these awards
Thank you for all the nice words to me, you’re too kind.
Love you my sweet
xoxo
Wow!!!! Congrats:) Have a fab weekend.
Thank you so much for the award! It means a lot to me, and I love your blog, too!
IMogen: OMG!!! I love that. I would wear proudly and with enormous enthusiasm a VPL award. You, my dear, are so very clever. I absolutely love-love-love your take on what I do. Huge hugs for that.
I am delighted to award your blog. You deserve it. Really, you offer so much amazing useful information for free. I have learned so much from you.
Thank you so much for giving me the award back. And, let me encourage you to celebrate your award by enjoying some delicous brie cheese. Yes, I am getting a huge grant from the French cheese council and hence your word verification. I only wish that were true!!
L’eron and l’vacuum, and other l’jobs horrible will not inspire me to do them even with their fancy French l’. Je suis l’lazy.;-)
Randal: Sorry. But, I did give you award to comfort you when the Browns let you down. Hope that helps your pain.;-)
Seeker:Thank you so much!!! I so appreciate all of your kind support and sincere friendship.
These awards mean so very much to me.
Love you too.
xoxo
Bronwyn: Thank you. Hope you have a lovely weekend and that maybe this weekend you find the fedora of your dreams.
Sara:You are so very welcome. Love it when there is mutual admiration like that.:-)
I think I shall create the VPL award and you shall be its first recipient.
An in fact, according to the word verification for this comment – I shall fedexgva it to you!
Imogen: I am so very honoured to inspire the creation of such a fantastic award. I never imagined VPL could be transformed into such a beautiful thing. You are really a sweet heart!
xoxo
p.s. fedexgva? Wow! I think that means I am getting it soon.
Well, hot damn!
Thank you much for the Superior Scribbler award. That means a great deal to me, coming from you – one of my very favorite blogs. Wow!
I will strive to remain worthy of this bitchin’ badge…
Thanks again and have a great weekend!
XO
Anna
Anna: I am so glad you like it. If you don’t I have a gift receipt for it.;-)
Thank you, I am tickled beyond belief to be one of your favorite bloggers. Very kind of you to say.
Hope you have a lovely weekend that is entirely curse free.;-)
Congratulations Belette on awards well deserved! And thanks for passing awards on, which will give me even more wonderful blogs to read!
Christine
Christine: Thank you so much. And there are so many great blogs to read. I hope you get a chance to visit all of these wonderful bloggers.
xoxo
Well deserved awards to you and beautifully handled redistribution to your laudable allies in the blogosphere.
Thank you so much for the prize, La Belette Rouge. You know, we work in obscurity, day after dreadful day, never hoping for this kind of recognition.
And it couldn’t come at a better time: my dog died, and there was a terrible cave-in over at the mine yesterday. I ran out of pumpkin bread a minute ago, and let’s not even talk about the fact that the sound was way too loud in the Bond movie this morning (yes, I was there at 10:30am).
So, all of this is my way of saying God bless you, sweetheart, for keeping me from doing something drastic. We don’t do this for the recognition, but every bit helps to keep despair at bay. Thank you.
Susan:Thank you so much and I hope that you claim the “I love you this much award”that I gave you.:-)
Chris:No, I imagine that when you started writing you never you would receive this kind of award. A Pulitzer? Maybe. But, not a blogger award. Well, I am happy to surpass your expectations.
Sweety, your dog died?? Oh, honey. I hope that list of tragedies was for dramatic effect. If so, you totally got me. I think you got me. I am a gullible weasel. But, if your dog did die I will bake you pumpkin bread.;-)
Happy to help keep the despair away. I am good at for others and lousy at doing it for myself.
wow! congratulations ! I love your blog.
i’ll add u up to my links. u take care 
Congratulations to you, La Bel, and to all the bloggers receiving awards at this prestigious ceremony!
La Bel: I wash all my cashmere in the washer.
Hello La Belette.
Thank you for the award. It’s my first blogging award. I don’t know what a premium dardo is, but it sounds like a sex toy, so it works for me.
Most of all, I appreciate the extensive list of bloggers you admire. On your recommendation I’ll be sure to check them all out (the ones I haven’t already read, that is)!
Merci mille fois.
Wow thanks!! My first blog award ever!! Can I give one back to you? This is so exciting, I’m not quite sure what to do with myself now!
Thank you so much!!! I am so very honored
Bisous, Lauren
You are as always generous to a fault. Thank you for the kind words It is as you can imagine an onerous task to wander the streets of this capital to bring wit and wisdom from this side of the pond, but hey if the cap fits… (and it fits like a glove) then i’ll gladly wear it.
I hope your face is better. you are very brave to even think about a needle inside the face, I would personally rather wear a yasmak… come to think of it, I think Emin would prefer that too!
I hope you will start taking photographs of L.A soon, what seems mundane to you will I promise you look impossibly glamerous to me in my very cold dark rainy land.
Brillian blog awards and one wears only the best pjs to admire them in!
Oh Belette! You are so generous. I am THRILLED to receive an award from you–it’s my first, and I am flustery-speechless-happy.
Thank you so much.
K.
First, congrats on all the awards — you deserve ‘em all!
And second, thanks so much. I’m flattered to be placed in such great company.
And third, another round of thanks for yet again presenting me with new additions for my blog roll — looks like many more hours will need to be devoted to my Google Reader in future.
Thank you so much lovely woozle. I never win anything, but an award from you is a delight.
Much love, thigh slimming cream and other types of snake oil for supposedly intelligent women.
Already enjoying several of the other recipients as well, so thank you for that too!
xx
oh wow. most of them are new to me. I’d better slowly check them out.
Congrats!
congrats. congrats. you deserve those love and awards from your friends. coz you’re truly one of a kind. ^_^
Jude: Thank you so much!! Really, nice to meet you.Thanks so much for adding me to your lovely blog roll. So very nice of you.
Enc: Congratulations to you. I gave you the “I love your blog award” and the “I love you this much award.”
Really, you do wash your cashmere. Any tips you have to offer?
Pamela:I am shocked that this is your first award. Huge over site on my part.In my book you deserve lots and lots of awards. LOL@ the sex toy award.
Please do check them out. They are all wonderful bloggers worthy of your attention.
Andromeda: So glad you like and am always thrilled when I get the opportunity to acknowledge a wonderful blog like yours. I am delighted that you feel inclined to give one back to me. It is your award you can do whatever you want to do with it.:-)
Lauren: Thank you so much for coming by and claiming your award. Delighted to see you here.:-)
Indigo: No, I am a bit parsimonious with praise. I am very picky, I only like the best. And, I love your blog. I so appreciate all the new artists I learn about on your lovely blog as well as getting to learn more about your London life. I am a big fan.
Thanks for asking, face is totally pain free and the swelling is down.Short term pain for long term wrinkle relief.
I have started with my L.A photographs. I am not much a photographer so please forgive me. But I will do my best.
Make do: Please claim your award! I love your blog and I want you to know it.:-)
Hmm, I should have asked everyone what kind of pjs they are wearing.
Mater: You are most welcome on all counts. So many great blogs. I need my 24 hour day to be expanded into 48 hours so I can read all that I want to.
Kirie:I am delighted to give you your first award. This is so much fun. You are most welcome.
Jaywalker: I love it when you call me woozle.You will win many things in the future: book awards, awards for the most outrageous use of post it notes and cabbages and even more blogging awards. I am sure of it.
Songy: Thank you for the lovely award. It has been so great to discover your lovely blogs and so great that you are a frequent visitor of mine.:-)
Autumn: Thank you for the lovely award. And, hey, as far as one of a kind—-I say the same thing about lovely you!!!:-)
Such well deserved rewards! I can’t wait to look up the blogs I don’t already know…
K.line: You are very kind. There are just so many great blogs. What did we do before the internet? I forget.;-)
What a dweeb, I totally missed myself in this list, La Bel! Thank you!
Oh Miss LBR, we are *so* not worthy, but ever-so-grateful for the award!
You are such a remarkable writer we’re more than a little cowed and humbled by the honor!
But thank you!
tp
Belette,
Thank you so much, I am quite honored. I love my blogger friends so much. I am going to have to break rules because I do not have enough bloggers to send to. Is it ok to give to someone that has already received it?
oh, good, now lots of new blogs to check out!
WOW… you are full of awards! COngrats! Off to read about your restylane.
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