I’ve been nominated for quite some awards that I have failed to respond to. I feel honoured every time someone nominates me. I just can’t seem to be able to do this award thing and I have therefore decided to give awards a miss on this blog. I want all the people nominating me to know have appreciated the nominations that you have sent my way and that the reason I have not responded to any of them is not do to any ill will on my part. I’m just not very good with them.
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Well, you deserve all of those awards! I know what you mean about not accepting them, though.
Thank you very much Elm! That is very kind of you to say.
Any time! 🙂
I understand…I did the same this year. ☺ I just never played by the rules with those nominations. 💗
Thank you! I should have done this some time ago, but I was a bit reluctant.
I think you’ll find many feel the same but at the same time you don’t want to hurt others feelings. Don’t worry, we all understand – I have kindly been nominated for various ones and keep meaning to reciprocate but I am aware that many have a no awards policy and also it can be quite time consuming etc. it’s lovely to know people enjoy the blog etc but that comes across in the comments I find. Wishing you a good weekend, 😀 Any more rehearsals?
Thank you for your support! I have no represalier this weekend, but it all starts to build from mid-next week. How is the weekend treating you?
I’ve had a lovely start to the weekend thank you; dinner out last night, walk in the warm sunshine this morning. On days like this life feels good.
Sounds lovely!
I’ve never seen the sense in these so-called ‘awards’ unless they prove beneficial to the recipient. As far as I can make out they’re nothing more or less than blogger backslapping. What’s the point?
I’m not sure what the point is, but I usually feel appreciated when I get them.
Congrats on the awards 🙂 They do become overwhelming after a while. I just went awards-free. Not that I don’t appreciate all the kind mentions, but I just couldn’t keep up and felt bad about it. Have a great weekend 🙂
I feel the same. Hope you’re enjoying the weekend!
I so understand what you mean. I finally put (with my son’s help) a notation on my sidebar that mine was an award free blog. I had turned down or ignored many. It’s like a giant chain letter that has to keep going. I like to bring attention to really good blogs on occasion by putting a link in my post to them. You can check them out without making them do all the work involved accepting awards. We write these blogs because we love the connection, not the adulation. I will usually reply to the person who nominated me with a thank you but no thanks. It’s like tag, you’re it, when you get nominated.
As always you make a very good point Marlene. Hope you are doing good!
Congratulations! Enjoy your weekend too!
Thank you!
Congratulations and thank you for the link 🙂
Thank you!
I am happy you are getting the recognition you deserve. I had to limit the award thing too. It’s a fantastic honor, but a lot of work.
Thank you! It really is a lot of work.
Mas, so many bloggers share your plight about awards! They are wonderful recognition and support at the beginning of a blogging career, but become distractions to writing books with the time consuming work involved. Enjoy your music life and blog when you can. Your tried and true followers will be there for you. Happy Weekend! Elizabeth (aka Chryssa or Christine)
Thank you very much! You are very right. I hope you’re doing well.
I am not too cynical, and think that more often than not, they are given to show the giver likes your blog. It does take time to answer all the questions, many of which, as a private cat, I do not like to answer. Many sound like bank password questions! I also hate having to pass awards on to five blogs or more I like. It is like a chain letter! A “no awards” graphic on the sidebar would be a good thing, so no one misunderstands, and you only have to write this once!
I’m concidering making one. I do agree with you about the questions. Hope the weekend treats you and the cats well.
I have to agree with Marlene and many other of your commenters. It is nice be recognized by your blogging community but I think most appreciated are the comments and and an occasional mention of bloggers you follow or are followed by. This works both ways, of course. However, that being said, congratulating you on your awards and such a lovely blog.
Thank you very much!
I so understand.
Thank you!
Understand your decision. I sometimes nominate award free blog without the expectation that the person will act on it..they are a great way for me to remember to give back the love I get —
That’s very thoughtful of you!
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Thank you very much! I will be sure to visit you soon.
Thank you so much for the mention 🙂
You’re wellcome and it was well deserved!
I totally understand. I did get lots of awards and nominations last year and I never had the time to answer them. But in the end of the year I did a search in the comments and collected all award links and did an answer to all of them in the same post. A lot of questions were the same so I could combine answers from different awards. I leaved links to all those bloggers who had give me awards and nominations in that post and I did open for anyone to answer the challenge instead of pick a few specific blogs. I broked award rules of course, but I did answer 🙂
Wow that’s a great way of handling
🙂