Blog Candy!

Happy Birthday to the lovely Debbie
who is giving away some amazing Candy
to Celebrate her Birthday!!!

Happy Birthday Debbie!

Hamish

I love sugar Nellie Stamps... my favourite has to be Hamish and Maggie.
I am lucky enough to have the shop that sells the worldwide in my local town...

I bought a new Hamish yesterday, wee chef Hamish...he is cute and I was planning on haven some craft time later on , but seemingly Emma has a few more Christmas cards for sorting....
ooh have you checked her Christmas Candy out yet?

Hamish will just have to wait!

But in true Blue Peter fashion...
and oh yes You know I have a Blue Peter badge....
here is a Hamish Card I made earlier!!


This one is to be entered for the This Thursday Challenge.....its is all about flags!
Have also entered it on the ABC Challenge too, which the layout came from .

I think it will used for my older brothers Birthday card next month.

Have a lovely Friday xxx

Christmas Candy & Blog Awards

Mates, mates, mates....


well my lovely buddy Emma has a great blog Christmas Candy on ....so go check it out and see her lovely candy.
The response she has had for her appeal for cards for the troop for Christmas has been amazing! Everyone has been so generous....probably for at least three reasons....

Crafters are lovely people!
This is a wonderful cause.
And Emma is much loved friend to many so when she asked they showed how much they cared!


Also I received these two fabby awards from my lovely friend Chrissy who is am amazing
card maker and wonderful artist!

She did my lovely drawing of Poppy at the top of my blog!



To translate the gift from Portuguese to English, it means:
"This blog invests and believes, the proximity"

[meaning, that blogging makes us 'close' -being close through proxy]

"They all are charmed with the blogs, where in the majority of its aims are to show the marvels and to do friendship; there are persons who are not interested when we give them a prize, and then they help to cut these bows; do we want that they are cut, or that they propagate?
Then let's try to give more attention to them!
So with this prize we must deliver it to 8 bloggers that in turn must make the same thing and put this text."

I am aware that lots of folk have also received these awards....so I need have a look around and see who I am gonna pass them on to......

Christines blog candy......

My friend Christine is celebrating a huge hit count on her blog, a new job .... congratulations BTW! and having a one woman campaign to get the word verification removed from blog land!

GO CHRISTINE!

So to have a chance at the blog candy go check her out and give the whole word verification thing a thought or two.....
Me personally...I have turned that part of my blog off.
I hate it!
I find it difficult to read when I am tired and must admit I have failed to get it right a couple of times and left the blog without pasting my comment.....

here is Christine's argument.......

ARGUMENTS AGAINST WORD VERIFICATION

Everyone will have their own view, but in my case, I regard the removal of word verification as a basic courtesy to my visitors who are kind enough to take the time to leave comments. Being aware of their comments through comment moderation, but not hindering them with word verification is the very least I can do to reciprocate their courtesy to me.

The problem with word verification is that it takes too long. The characters are very often hard to decipher, and it’s frustrating when you get them wrong and have to re-enter the little suckers!

So this campaign is on behalf of busy bloggers. Please spare a thought for the poor bloggers who work so hard at getting round as many blogs as possible to leave sprinkles of blessing and good vibes wherever they go. The terrible proliferation of this awful plague of word verification is a blight on their efforts to make the Land of Blog a cheerier place.

I think most people just have word verification switched on by default, not realising how easy it is to switch it off, and perhaps not realising how annoying it is for other bloggers. Either that, or they’re under the misapprehension that they will be bombarded with spam messages. This is not the case. I’ve had mine switched off now for three of the four months that I’ve been blogging, and have had two spam comments. The responses I’ve had from other bloggers to my earlier posts on this topic back this up. (You can see the comments in response to my previous post on this subject, HERE.)

For safety’s sake, have comment moderation on for sure, but please consider canceling word verification on your blog. Maybe for a trial period, and see how you get on.

Unless there are thousands of comments being left, comment moderation shouldn’t be too much of an issue for the blog owner, and other bloggers will also be more inclined to leave comments if they can see that you don’t use word verification.

However, each to their own, and if you disagree with me, that’s cool. We can agree to differ and not visit each other’s blogs! lol ;o)

OK.. rant over. If you have read all the way to the end, thank you for putting up with it, and ~ obviously ~ do what you wish on your blogs, but I had to say something. I love to get around and leave comments, but word verification spoils the experience.

Of course, when I get my new job, all this will be academic to me, as I will then have a life, and I won't have time for much blog-hopping!! Not that blog-hoppers need to get a life.. Errr... think I'll stop digging now, before I get into REAL trouble!! lol ;o)

Peace. :o)"

So there you go...food for thought.....can I just add....
I did giggle out loud the other night,
I was leaving a comment of someones blog, who has verification,
and it almost spelt out a rude word!!!....