The Beautiful Blog Award

Posted on June 28, 2012 by thecompletebook

What a lovely surprise being nominated for the Beautiful Blog Award from my new blogging buddy John over at Sybaritica. By profession, John is a lawyer who lives with his wife in Canada’s Arctic – it looks EXTREMELY cold. All of Johns food posts are a pleasure and luxury; he cooks the most extraordinary (mainly Chinese influenced) and exotic meals fit for a king. Do pop over to John’s blog for a culinary treat.

It seems there are no rules to the award other than thanking and linking back to the person who gave you the award and paying the love forward to 7 other bloggers.

I always find this the most difficult part of accepting an award. Who to pay the love forward to. To be frank, I would like to nominate all of the blogs I follow but in sticking with the rules and in alphabetical order, my 7 nominees are…

Back Road Journal – Karen lives in the most magnificent and beautiful 1730’s home with an apple orchard and has a summer home on a lake in Maine. Karen’s passions are travel and food.
Go bake Yourself – Choc Chip Uru, aka CCU is a darling 16 year old wise beyond her years and a clear professional baker in the making.
Just a Smidgen – Smidge is a beautiful poet, artist, photographer, aspiring cellist, and bon vivant with a passion for baking and culinary creations.
Kiwsparks – Kathryn is a remarkable artist, writer and designer who has the most magical commands of the English language, which I am sure stems from her teaching art, English and study/research methodology.
Lavender and Lime – Tandy, a fellow South African and longest standing friend in this list is a guru when it comes to pasta dishes.
Sarah’s Place – Sarah shares the most inspiring beach life, photography, fabulous food and brilliant knitting patterns.
Zesty Bean Dog’s Blog – Jen has recently completed all of her yoga study and cooks the most incredible meals featuring a weekly inspirational pizza and has a thing for yuzu.

John, thank you again for nomination me for this lovely award! 🙂

44 thoughts on “The Beautiful Blog Award”

Choc Chip Uru on June 28, 2012 at 08:56 said:

Congratulations my friend, your blog is so deserving 😀
And you are way too sweet, thank you for the shout out and nominating me!

Cheers
Choc Chip Uru

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- thecompletecookbook on June 28, 2012 at 16:13 said:
  
  Thanks CCU and you are welcome. Have a great day. 🙂
  
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Karen on June 28, 2012 at 12:24 said:

Congratulations, Mandy for your well deserved award. I also have to thank you for thinking of me to share the award with. I’ll go check out a couple of the bloggers that are new to me and visit some old friends.

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- thecompletecookbook on June 28, 2012 at 16:13 said:
  
  Thanks very much Karen and you are welcome. Have fun browsing around the blogs. Have a happy day. 🙂
  
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Chica Andaluza on June 28, 2012 at 12:35 said:

Congrats Mandy….so very well deserved!

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- thecompletecookbook on June 28, 2012 at 16:14 said:
  
  Tanya, thank you so much! Have a lovely day. 🙂
  
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ChgoJohn on June 28, 2012 at 15:22 said:

Congratulations, Mandy, for receiving this much-deserved recognition. I only recently “discovered” Sybaritica and just realized I hadn’t been receiving email notifications of his posts. Thanks to you, it’s cleared up now. See, Mandy? This is why you get these awards. Even when not trying, you give, give, give to the WP Community. 🙂
Have a great weekend!

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- thecompletecookbook on June 28, 2012 at 16:18 said:
  
  John, you are far too kind, THANK YOU!!! Have a beautiful weekend too and thanks again for your email regarding the ravioli dies. 🙂 xo
  
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Natalie on June 28, 2012 at 15:54 said:

Congratulations Mandy, another award!

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- thecompletecookbook on June 28, 2012 at 16:18 said:
  
  Thanks so much Natalie! Have a happy weekend. 🙂
  
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Just A Smidgen on June 28, 2012 at 18:08 said:

Congratulations, Mandy! And thank you for the shout-out! I think this is the reason I have a tough time “following through” on awards.. I can’t seem to decide who I should choose.. so I am grateful for this award. Your blog is certainly deserving and now I shall take a look at your friend’s blog as well! Have a wonderful day! xo Smidge

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- thecompletecookbook on June 29, 2012 at 11:24 said:
  
  Thanks and you are welcome Smidge! I know this passing onto only a few people is quite a thing. I do try and share the love and if I miss somebody this time around, I hope to pay the love forward to them next time around. Have a super weekend. 🙂 xo
  
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  - Just A Smidgen on June 29, 2012 at 15:49 said:
    
    You too! I’m so glad it’s Friday! xo
    
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    - thecompletecookbook on June 29, 2012 at 16:15 said:
      
      Yay for the weekend. 🙂 xo
      
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Sarah on June 29, 2012 at 03:08 said:

You so deserve this Mandy. Congratulations! And thank you so much for nominating me. From you, it’s a big compliment and honor. Thank you. 🙂

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- thecompletecookbook on June 29, 2012 at 11:25 said:
  
  Thanks Sarah and you are very welcome. Have a beautiful weekend. 🙂 xo
  
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Jessica Maher (@kbelleicious) on June 29, 2012 at 03:39 said:

oh you so deserve this award my friend! Always love your blog and recipes. Congrats to you and the ones you passed it to!

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- thecompletecookbook on June 29, 2012 at 11:26 said:
  
  Thanks so much Belle, you are so kind! Have a happy weekend. 🙂 xo
  
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- thecompletecookbook on June 29, 2012 at 14:34 said:
  
  Well deserved CCU! Have a lovely weekend. 🙂
  
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Tandy on June 29, 2012 at 15:46 said:

well deserved and thank you! I will blog in return soon 🙂

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- thecompletecookbook on June 29, 2012 at 16:14 said:
  
  Thanks Tandy, well deserved for you too. Have a super weekend. 🙂
  
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ceciliag on June 30, 2012 at 14:42 said:

How lovely that you have another well deserved award. I simply cannot do them anymore as I just don’t have the time. I am in the difficult position of having to say thank you but no thank you. So thank goodness you are such a lovely gracious recipient of awards and make up for my bad manners! Have a lovely weekend.. c

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- thecompletecookbook on July 1, 2012 at 10:50 said:
  
  I must admit C that this award was a lot easier as I didn’t have to think about 7 things about myself or the something else similar… Oh, and you couldn’t have bad manners even if you tried. Have a happy Sunday on the Farmy. 🙂
  
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Angie@Angie's Recipes on June 30, 2012 at 15:11 said:

Congratulations, Mandy for your well deserved award.
Enjoy your weekend!
Angie
p.s You may have noticed that my blog didn’t work last three days, now blogger finally fixed the problem and my blog works again.

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- thecompletecookbook on July 1, 2012 at 10:52 said:
  
  Thank you so much Angie. Thanks for letting me know that your blog is working again, I wasn’t able to read your last 3 posts. Have a super Sunday. 🙂
  
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My Inner Chick on June 30, 2012 at 17:24 said:

–Brava! Congrats, Dear.
you deserve so much more… Xxx

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- thecompletecookbook on July 1, 2012 at 10:54 said:
  
  You are too kind darling Kim, thank you! Have a beautiful day and week ahead. 🙂 xo
  
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Promenade Claire on June 30, 2012 at 19:05 said:

these awards are fun as we all get to discover new to us blogs! Congratulations Mandy, and may there be many more!

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- thecompletecookbook on July 1, 2012 at 10:54 said:
  
  Thank you Claire. It is amazing how we build our community. Have a super week ahead. 🙂 xo
  
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pinkpolkadotfood on June 30, 2012 at 22:52 said:

You deserve this!

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- thecompletecookbook on July 1, 2012 at 10:55 said:
  
  Pink, thank you so much! Have a happy week. 🙂
  
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Hotly Spiced on July 1, 2012 at 03:24 said:

Congrats Mandy on your award. I haven’t heard of a lot of these blogs so I’ll look forward to discovering them xx

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- thecompletecookbook on July 1, 2012 at 10:56 said:
  
  Thanks Charlie! Happy reading and have a great week. 🙂 xo
  
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rsmacaalay on July 1, 2012 at 10:44 said:

Congratulations, you well deserve it

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- thecompletecookbook on July 1, 2012 at 11:00 said:
  
  Thanks very much Raymund! Have a great week ahead. 🙂
  
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Martha on July 1, 2012 at 17:06 said:

Congrats on your well deserved award! 🙂

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- thecompletecookbook on July 3, 2012 at 12:42 said:
  
  Thanks so much Martha! Have a lovely day. 🙂
  
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Fired Up Cooking SA on July 1, 2012 at 21:10 said:

Hello Mandy! What a lovely collection of blog awards, congrats on receiving another one – it’s well-deserved!!! Thank you for the links to some really interesting blogs, too! hugs.

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- thecompletecookbook on July 3, 2012 at 14:30 said:
  
  Hi Linda, thanks very much! Hugs back to you. 🙂 xo
  
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Kristy on July 2, 2012 at 14:58 said:

Congrats!

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- thecompletecookbook on July 3, 2012 at 18:24 said:
  
  Thanks Kristy! 🙂
  
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kathryningrid on July 24, 2012 at 04:47 said:

What, was I asleep on the job?? Thank you, my sweet! You are so very deserving. No blogs more beautiful than yours. Clearly I’d love to spend more time here so as not to miss any of the loveliness. At least I’m getting a short moment to catch up now. Much love to you! And many more days, weeks, years of lovely blogging from you, I hope. 🙂
xoxo
Kathryn

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- thecompletecookbook on July 24, 2012 at 08:55 said:
  
  You are welcome and so very deserving of such an appropriate award dear Kathryn. Thank you too for your gracious and lovely compliments! Looking forward to sharing more with you. 🙂 xo
  
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