Most Influential Blogger Award

I felt super honored when Arl at Arl’s World gave me this award! She thinks I am influential? Me?! The newbie both to cooking and to this blogosphere?! Wow! Huge, Huge compliment Arl! I almost don’t know what to say…

I think this is the very first comment I ever received from Arl, “I don’t know how I have missed all these lovely, yummy recipes of yours! Everyone I look at is something I would love to eat. I am now following so I do not miss anymore of them. I am glad you no longer hate cooking! :-)” As you can tell from what she wrote to me, she is so super sweet! And she really doesn’t miss my recipes…she often stops by, which I am super grateful for!

If you don’t know Arl yet, you should get to know her! She is a woman of many interests….one of them being cooking. Check out her Strawberry Bundt Cake with Cream Cheese Glaze! Yummy!! She also loves nature and photography. I loved this post of hers where she captured some great shots of animals!

Thanks again Arl! It is a pleasure to get to interact with you in this bloggy world!

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So for fun, I thought I would look up different synonyms for “Influential.” These are from Thesaurus.com-

• Authoritative
• dominant
• famous
• important
• leading
• persuasive
• prominent
• significant
• strong
• affecting
• big-gun
• big-wheel
• controlling
• efficacious
• forcible
• governing
• guiding
• hot-dog
• impressive
• inspiring
• instrumental
• major-league
• meaningful
• momentous
• moving
• name
• potent
• substantial
• telling
• touching
• weighty
  

Hmmmmm……Some of these were pretty funny! Big-wheel?! Really?! Hahaha!

So, these are the synonyms that I think I am sticking with as a description for this award for those of you who I am giving it to: Inspiring, Instrumental, meaningful, moving, and touching! 🙂

(A side note here…Nancy, Jhuls, Julianna, & Angie…you four would be getting this from me as well if Arl hadn’t already nominated you! 😀 )

For you following ladies….may this award encourage you in the knowledge that you influence others, including me, through inspiring, being instrumental, meaningful, moving, and touching!

• Sonal at Simply Vegetarian – Sonal inspires me to cook outside of my box!
• Laura at The Gluten Free Treadmill  – Laura is a very moving woman who inspires me through her bravery and her realness!
• Prudy at Butter Basil and Breadcrumbs  – Prudy is moving and inspiring in her enthusiasm both for food and people!
• Linda at La Petite Paniere – Linda inspires me to continue to be creative in my cooking!
• Justine at It’s a Lonely Place – Justine moves me and inspires me as she travels on her journey with chronic pain.
• Dimple at Shivaay Delights – Did you know she was my very first follower? Through her continued encouragement, she has been instrumental in my blog becoming what it is today!

Conditions For Accepting The Award-

1. Display the Award on your Blog.
2. Announce your win with a blog post and thank the Blogger who nominated you.
3. Present some deserving Bloggers with the Award.
4. Link your nominees in the post and let them know they are nominated with a comment (or a pingback).
5. Include an embedded video of your current favorite song (from YouTube etc, just copy and paste the link into your WordPress editor).

Okay, here is my current favorite song…..love it!!