Special Award

I was nominated by Huguette Antoun, My Emotional Fingerprint for Special Award!!! It makes me thrill and feeling special! Very special thanks to dear Huguette! Please stop by her special blog, if you tired of all the nonsense you’ve faced all day, then you will find cure from her honest and bold writings, plus you will be entertained by her creative graphics!

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For this Special Award, I’ve painted two special creatures looking at the beautiful sea; a baby and a dog. They are the most pure and honest creatures that would love you for who you are which make them so special. I have them in Special Award logo. Hope you all enjoy it!

Rules as copied from Huguette’s post:

  1. Thanks the blogger who nominated you.
  2. Answer the questions you are asked ( if you’re comfortable doing so!)
  3. Create 10 questions for the bloggers you’ve nominated.
  4. Nominate at least 3 bloggers for the Special Blogger Award.
  5. Comment on your nominees most recent blog post to let them know you’ve nominated.
  6. Have a fun

Huguette’s Questions and My Answers:

  1. What’s the special about you? I have talent, loyal and caring to people I love.
  2. Do you like the way you look? I’m not supermodel, but I’m thankful enough.
  3. What do you think about my blog? Honestly with no filters. Very honest, bold and at the same time entertaining!
  4. Are you with organ donation? If no, why? I always admire people who donate their organs.
  5. Would you interfere to defend someone even if you’re not as strong as the attacker? Absolutely for someone I love!!
  6. Would you say the truth no matter is the price? I’m truthful but the truth should not destroy.
  7. Why should I read what you write? Convince me. I create things that I love and hope to be useful and inspiring for people, and if you wanted to know how and sometimes why I made it, then you should read my posts.
  8. Describe the perfect beauty (gender doesn’t matter) Mesmerizing, captivating, genius, would never tired of it!
  9. Would you steal from the rich to help the poor? I’m realistic, so I would give mine to others as much as I can afford to.
  10. When was the last time you cried? Hmm, I can’t remember, maybe days ago while watching a movie.

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My Special Questions:

What do you consider special from :

  1. A person?
  2. A trip?
  3. A restaurant?
  4. A house?
  5. A movie?
  6. A pet?
  7. A baby?
  8. A music?
  9. A story?
  10. An art?

My Special Shortlist Nominees: 

  1. Ribana – Popsicle Society (even though you accept no more awards, but I think you worthy)
  2. Chris & Melissa – Little Frugal Homestead
  3. JoAnn Ryan – Midnight Harmony

For more of my future Coastal Summer theme posts, please follow me! And if you wanted to add my creations to your Pinterest boards, please follow me on Pinterest! Also find me on Instagram and Twitter!

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And for creative fellow bloggers, don’t forget to join “You’re The Star” Blog Hop ! Link your inspiring posts every Monday and get a change to be featured! Starting June 2019, I will be co-hosting the blog hop and would love to see you there! Join and share the news!

See you!

Creativity makes you special!

Mel

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Real Neat Blog Award in Seahorse Painting

Thank you Ribana for nominating me Real Neat Blog Award! Many thanks and love to you! This is my first Real Neat Blog Award and I’m so pleased and honored! Please visit her neat blog, Popsicle Society to get more inspiration in food, stories and travelling. Copied from Ribana’s,  the award was started back in 2014 by Dear Kitty 1, to give bloggers more recognition.

To honor the rules and stick to my theme Coastal Summer, I painted a seahorse, a remarkable marine fish. Not just for their beautiful shape, but the male ability to carry the pregnancy and deliver the seahorse babies to the sea world as well are amazing. This seahorse painting I’ve made it into the Real Neat Blog Award logo. I painted it with watercolor which I’m smitten with. Hope you all, like it! And I shared my painting stages!

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The rules of Real Neat Blog Award are:

  • Put the award logo on your blog.
  • Answer the 7 questions asked by the person who nominated you.
  • Thank the person who nominated you and add a link to their blog.
  • Nominate any number of people, linking to their blogs and let them know you nominated them by commenting on their blogs.
  • Come up with 7 questions for the people you nominated.

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Ribana’s questions and my answers for the Real Neat Blog Award are:

  1. What makes you happy? My happy loved ones.
  2. What’s the next place you would like to visit? No clue.
  3. Sea or mountain? Mountain
  4. Sweet or salted? Both
  5. Would you eat bugs? if it’s not in a whole bug, maybe I would, but what’s the point? Unless it’s so darn delicious or as medicine.
  6. Are you eating for surviving or are you a gourmand? I love delicious food, and thank God I still able to eat as a pleasure not just survive.
  7. And the last one: have you smiled today? Yes, and laugh too

My questions for the Real Neat Blog Award nominees are:

  1. What is the coolest thing you’ve ever done?
  2. What is the nicest thing you’ve ever done?
  3. What is the craziest thing you’ve ever done?
  4. What is your best feature as a person?
  5. What is the best thing your blog can offer to readers?
  6. What is summer means to you?
  7. What is coastal means to you?

My nominees for The Real Neat Blog Award are:

  1. Huguette Antoun
  2. Life On The Patio
  3. Midnight Harmony

 Congrats to you all, you all have a neat blog! Thank you again sweet Ribana!

For more of my future Coastal Summer theme posts, please follow me! And if you wanted to add my creations to your Pinterest boards, please follow me on Pinterest! Also find me on Instagram and Twitter!

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And for creative fellow bloggers, don’t forget to join “You’re The Star” Blog Hop ! Link your inspiring posts every Monday and get a change to be featured! Starting June 2019, I will be co-hosting the blog hop and would love to see you there! Join and share the news!

See you!

Be neat creative!

Mel

Sunshine Blogger Award – Coastal Sunshine

This is my second Sunshine Blogger Award  and I was nominated by dear Ribana. She gave me sunshine of happiness so I painted a sunflower with coastal background color which goes along with my theme nautical summer. Make sure you check out Ribana’s blog Popsicle Society, you will entertained by her positive, cheerful and beautiful words, moreover you can enjoy her experiences with food and travel!

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WHAT IS THE SUNSHINE BLOGGER AWARD?

The Sunshine Blogger Award is peers recognition award for bloggers who inspire readers by promoting positivity and bringing joy.

RULES:

  • Thank the person who nominated you and provide a link back to their blog so others can find them.
  • Answer the 11 questions asked by the blogger who nominated you.
  • Nominate 11 other bloggers and ask them 11 new questions.
  • Notify the nominees about it by commenting on one of their blog posts.
  • List the rules and display a Sunshine Blogger Award logo on your post and/or your blog site.

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Ribana’s questions and my answers:

  1. Is the sunshine affecting your mood? Yes, depends on the intensity
  2. Can you be called sunshine? Honestly, I don’t know 😀
  3. What brings you joy and happiness in your life? my family
  4. Are you happy? Yes
  5. Would you change something in your life? Not really
  6. If you could choose to live anywhere in the world, where would you choose? In artsy life, It would be Europe.
  7. Do you like your job? Hmm, now I’m a blogger and I consider blogging is a job, so…yes I love my job 🙂
  8. If your boss would offer you a job in a different country, would you accept it? Well. I’m my own boss right now 😀
  9. How important is for you to be honest? Very! It defines you
  10. When was the last time you’ve cooked at home? Today
  11. Are you pursuing your dreams? Of course, you would loose your purpose if you don’t chase your dreams every day.

My questions:

  1. Which beach is the best?
  2. What is your favorite things that associated with coastal?
  3. Yellow or blue?
  4. What seafood is your favorite?
  5. Sunshine or Sundown?
  6. Anchor or Ship Wheel?
  7. Sunflowers or Seahorses?
  8. Seaside or the sea?
  9. House by the sea or house by the beach?
  10. What do you think of lighthouse?
  11. Do you think Spongebob Squarepants is a nautical nonsense or a hilarious cartoon?

My nominees:

  1. Kathy’s Crafts and Things
  2. Positive Side Of The Coin

Thanks again Ribana, you are so sweet! And for Kathy and Anjali, congrats!

For more of my future Nautical Summer theme posts, please follow me! And if you wanted to add my creations to your Pinterest board, please follow me on Pinterest! Also find me on Instagram!

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And for creative fellow bloggers, don’t forget to join “You’re The Star” Blog Hop ! Link your inspiring posts every Monday and get a change to be featured! Starting June 2019, I will be co-hosting the blog hop and would love to see you there! Join and share the news!

See you soon!

Let your creativity shines!

Mel

Mystery Blogger Award – 3rd

I have been nominated again and this time is my third Mystery Blogger Award by Ribana with her wonderful blog Popsicle Society. Thank you so much Ribana, I really appreciate it! Please drop by her blog and check out her cheerful posts around travels, food and anything that’s going on in her interesting life.

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What is Mystery Blogger Award?

Mystery Blogger Award” is an award for amazing bloggers with ingenious posts. Their blog not only captivates; it inspires and motivates. They are one of the best out there, and they deserve every recognition they get. This award is also for bloggers who find fun and inspiration in blogging; and they do it with so much love and passion.
– Okoto Enigma

The Rules of the Mystery Blogger Award

  1. Put the award logo/image on your blog
  2. List the rules
  3. Thank whoever nominated you and provide a link to their blog
  4. Mention the creator of the award and provide a link as well
  5. Tell your readers 3 things about yourself
  6. You have to nominate 10 – 20 people
  7. Notify your nominees by commenting on their blog
  8. Ask your nominees any 5 questions of your choice; with one weird or funny question (specify)
  9. Share a link to your best post(s)

Three Things About Myself

Three things about myself; a mom and wife, loves to design and create, dog lover.

For my best post, I love all my posts of course, so I share one for each category; categories that describe most about my blog.

Ribana’s Questions:

  1. Do you like yogurt? Yes, I do
  2. Dark, milk or white chocolate? Definitely dark chocolate!
  3. Pizza or pasta? Both!
  4. Do you like going to the supermarket? I don’t have personal chef or assistant, so yes I like going to supermarket, besides, there’s a good feeling of taking those things out of the shelves and throw it into your trolley 🙂
  5. What’s your dream? My personal dream is to design and build my ideal home in an ideal town 😀

My questions:

  1. Do you have a kid’s toy you still love to play?
  2. What is your best character?
  3. Which city/country you can’t wait to re-visit?
  4. What part of your home that you’ve been dying to renovate?
  5. What junk food do you love so much?

My nominees for The Mystery Blogger Award in no particular order:

Thank you again Ribana for nominating me a Mystery Blogger Award! Hope you like my answers and my best posts. To celebrate it, I hand painted lavenders in watercolor for the Mystery Blogger Award logo for all of you to enjoy.

For those who’s nominated, I hope you read your nomination and accept it, congratulations!

If you need to know on other type of blogger awards, check out Sunshine Blogger’s Award, Liebster Award, Blogger Recognition Award.

 

See you!

Be creative blogger!

Mel

 

Mystery Blogger Award No.2

This is the second Mystery Blogger Award I have received; and this time it’s coming from Kathy with her lovely blog Kathy’s Crafts and Things. Please stop by her blog to see her wonderful creative journey.

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What is Mystery Blogger Award?

Mystery Blogger Award” is an award for amazing bloggers with ingenious posts. Their blog not only captivates; it inspires and motivates. They are one of the best out there, and they deserve every recognition they get. This award is also for bloggers who find fun and inspiration in blogging; and they do it with so much love and passion.
– Okoto Enigma

The Rules of the Mystery Blogger Award

  1. Put the award logo/image on your blog
  2. List the rules
  3. Thank whoever nominated you and provide a link to their blog
  4. Mention the creator of the award and provide a link as well
  5. Tell your readers 3 things about yourself
  6. You have to nominate 10 – 20 people
  7. Notify your nominees by commenting on their blog
  8. Ask your nominees any 5 questions of your choice; with one weird or funny question (specify)
  9. Share a link to your best post(s)

Three Things About Myself

Three things about myself; a mom and wife, loves to design and create, dog lover.

For my best post, I love all my posts of course, so I share one of my favorite for each category:

My answers to Kathy’s questions are:

  1. If you could go any place in the world, at any point in history or now, where would you go and why? Travel the world or galaxy, enjoy many countries and look for living proof in other planet 😆
  2. Who is your greatest hero and why them? I can’t seem to find one, yet.
  3. What is your favorite decadent comfort food, your go-to food when you’re feeling blue? Hmm, if I’m in blue, usually I don’t have any appetite, but to ease my daily stress, I count on chocolate 😄
  4. Who or what jump started you on your creative journey through life? When I started this blog, it’s a place where I can freely digging through my creativity. I’ve found myself create things that I didn’t know I able to do.
  5. This is the funny or weird question: Which is your favorite Muppet from the “Muppet Show”, the original series or the more current one, and why that one? I prefer Sesame Street, more funny characters and Cookie Monster always makes me laugh.

My questions for my Mystery Blogger Award nominees are:

What is your favorite :

  1. Time of the year?
  2. Old movie?
  3. Things to do on outdoor?
  4. Workout?
  5. Weirdest food?

My nominees for Mystery Blogger award are:

  1. ThoughtyOne
  2. asfaaftabwrites.wordpress.com
  3. Daisy Dust
  4. Tips from Sharvi
  5. Positive Side Of The Coin
  6. Starrcreative.ca
  7. Pain Pals Blog
  8. My Florida Life
  9. Two And A Knife
  10. Oh Happy Grey

These are all amazing bloggers, stop by their blog and enjoy their posts. Thank you again Kathy for the Mystery Blogger Award! 

See you!

Stay Creative!

Mel

Mystery Blogger Award

It took me a while to post this because I need time to think of the answers, questions and the nominees. I have been nominated for my first Mystery Blogger Award by Ribana from her wonderful blog Popsicle Society. Thank you so much Ribana, I’m still excited about it, really appreciate it! So, please drop by her blog and check out her fruitful posts around travels, food and anything that’s going on in her interesting life.

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What is Mystery Blogger Award?

Mystery Blogger Award” is an award for amazing bloggers with ingenious posts. Their blog not only captivates; it inspires and motivates. They are one of the best out there, and they deserve every recognition they get. This award is also for bloggers who find fun and inspiration in blogging; and they do it with so much love and passion.
– Okoto Enigma

The Rules of the Mystery Blogger Award

  1. Put the award logo/image on your blog
  2. List the rules
  3. Thank whoever nominated you and provide a link to their blog
  4. Mention the creator of the award and provide a link as well
  5. Tell your readers 3 things about yourself
  6. You have to nominate 10 – 20 people
  7. Notify your nominees by commenting on their blog
  8. Ask your nominees any 5 questions of your choice; with one weird or funny question (specify)
  9. Share a link to your best post(s)

Three Things About Myself

Hmm, three things about myself; a mom and wife, loves to design and create, dog lover.

For my best post, I love all my posts of course, so I share one for each category; categories that describe most about my blog and most featured posts.

Ribana’s Questions:

  1. Do you prefer cooking at home or eating out? Both!
  2. Where would you like to travel? Europe
  3. E-books or paper books? Neither both
  4. Are you singing in the shower? Sometimes
  5. Sea or mountain? Mountain

My questions:

  1. Are you a morning or a night person?
  2. Favorite flowers?
  3. What color scheme do you prefer for your home?
  4. What style for home do you love most?
  5. Silly things you do on your daily ritual?

My nominees for The Mystery Blogger Award in no particular order:

Thank you again Ribana for nominating me Mystery Blogger Award, I have carried the torch and handed to the awesome nominees. I have another torch to be passed, I will post it soon. Hope you guys enjoy my answers and my best posts. If you need to know on other type blogger awards, check out Sunshine Blogger’s Award, Liebster Award, Blogger Recognition Award.

See you!

Stay true to creativity!

Mel

Sunshine Blogger Award

Sunshine Blogger Award

Not long after I’d got nominated with Liebster Award, my other fellow blogger has nominated me too, and it was a Sunshine Blogger Award! How thrilling and honored! I kept the joy to myself until I was able to find time to write this post carefully and share it with all of you today. This award is coming from my lovely blogger friend, Our Little Red House, which I give much thanks to. Please stop by her wonderful blog, she would share her fruitful stories and her cute mini crafts, enjoy it!

Here are The Sunshine Blogger Award rules:

  1. Thank the person who nominated you for the Sunshine Award and link back to their blog
  2. Answer the questions set by the person who nominated you
  3. Nominate other blogs and give them questions to answer
  4. Notify your nominees through social media or commenting on their blog
  5. List the “rules” and display a Sunshine Award logo in your post

The questions I have to answer is :

  • What is your favorite holiday memory and include your favorite gift, food, and throw in an embarrassing moment too if you like, all holiday related please.

Well, every holiday gives different happy memories, so I couldn’t choose one particular year. From my mom’s cook until my cook becomes my and my own family’s favorite. My favorite gift would be something that puzzled me from guessing it but something I’ve been yearning for. Hmm, I guess I don’t get embarrassed too much in front of family 🙂

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And these are my Sunshine Blogger Award nominees:

  1. Little Banyan Tree
  2. Everyday Magic With Jubilee
  3. Elin’s Era
  4. Dandelion Bouquets
  5. Sophie Marshall
  6. Diana’s Easy Real Food Recipes
  7. Lanature 76
  8. Die Produkt Tester Familie
  9. Simply My Swank
  10. Glossy You
  11. Le Grand Art

Congratulations to the nominees! Hope you glad to receive The Sunshine Blogger Award and pass it to other creative inspiring bloggers you know. I try my best to share my awards to my lovely followers but I don’t have enough awards to share it with all which I think are awesome bloggers.

Now, the 11 Sunshine Blogger Award questions from me to you:

For the coming 2019, what is your :

  1. Goal for your life?
  2. Goal for your blog?
  3. Three things must do?
  4. Desired destination you have to go?
  5. Precious memory to keep from 2018?
  6. Biggest calendar event?
  7. Favorite movie that you have waited to watch?
  8. Wished skill you wanted to learn?
  9. Gift you wanting to share to others?
  10. Curious food that you’re going to try?
  11. Resolution?

Hope you enjoy answering my Sunshine Blogger Award questions! Thank you and have a great New Year of 2019!

 

Sun shines on creativity!

See you again soon!

Mel