A “Thank You” shout out to Francesca at Flora’s Table for nominating my blog, The Backdoor Artist, for the Liebster Blog Award. Flora’s Table is a delightful cooking blog focusing on both authentic Italian cuisine dishes and traditional American dishes, suggesting appropriate wine pairings for each of them.Take moment to stop by, you’ll be glad you did.
The Liebster Blog award helps spread the word about younger blogs, with fewer than 200 followers. I know, I know, takes time to respond to these things, but it is a great way to share some blogs with readers they might not otherwise find.
Are there new, young blogs, I hope others find? Yes. I can certainly think of more than a few. So…because I appreciate the efforts of inspiration out in the blogosphere, I will play and pass it along.
The adapted award rules for this one are the following: those who get nominated must answer 5 questions asked by the person who nominated them and tell 5 random facts about themselves. Then, each of them is supposed to pass on the award by nominating 5 blogs with under 200 followers and ask them 5 questions. Note: It was 11, but I am joining previous nominees by limiting it to 5.
Considering the often overindulgence of this season, restraint is a good thing.
5 Random facts about myself:
I like bridges.
I was born on a reservation.
I treasure my faith.
I believe being a parent is the most important full time job anywhere.
I love my husband more each day.
My answers to the questions asked from Francesca
Q1. What’s your favorite book?
A1. It varies, usually the book I am working on. Right now, it is one about a young bird named Percy. More on him later.
Q2. If you could live in the past, which historical period would you pick?
A2. I have no desire to live in any other time than the present.
Q3. What’s your favorite drink?
A3. Cold water with a squeeze of fresh picked lemon.
Q4. What’s your addiction?
A4. Fixing things.
Q5. If you were a piece of clothing or an accessory, you would be…
A5. Wedding ring.
My questions for the nominees are the following:
- If you could forever fund one single charity, which one would it be?
- What is your favorite volunteer activity?
- What surprises you?
- What is your silliest pet peeve?
- If you were a science fiction character, who would you be?
And the nominees are…
Sneaking Bliss 
congrats! 🙂
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very nice acceptance post; it shows your sweet spirit! congratulations! z
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Congrats!
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Wooo…Wooo!!
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Congrats and thank you, my friend! I am glad this is a long weekend so I have more time to respond and your blog suggestions have given me more great blogs to follow. Happy Thanksgiving.
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Thank you so much for you kind words. Happy Thanksgiving!
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So kind of you, thank you Mary! 🙂
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congrats!
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Congratulations on a well deserved award and congratulations to all those remarkable bloggers who received your nomination!! I am celebrating with you!!
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Thank you for the nomination, I look forward go answering the questions!!
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You’re welcome.I have enjoyed your blog, hope others will as well.
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Hi Mary, Thanks for the nomination! I am always happy to see that you or anyone likes something that I have written, it motivates me to write more and makes me realize that you are never alone in most of the things that you experience. I want to respond to the award but I have to admit that finding time to write has left me with little time to read, so over the next few weeks I think I will do some research and exploring and complete the acceptance once I uncover some more young blogs to pass the award on to. Thanks again.
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Look forward to it!
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I think this goes under the heading ‘the only stupid question is the one you never ask’ ….How do you know how many followers a blog has? Researching is not going well thus far 🙂
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Good question.
In your reader the bold dark blue link will take you to the blog post – BUT near the post title is a gray link with the name of the blog. If you click the gray name of the blog, that blog’s post will appear in the reader AND it will show the number of followers. I was surprised to find some of my favorite blogs were not well circulated yet…just perfect for the liebster award. 🙂
Does this help?
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Yes, thank you. I just think that maybe that is only counting the followers on wordpress and not in general. But I will take that into consideration.
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When I look at mine, or my husband’s, it shows both wordpress followers and email followers as one total.
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