Yesterday I discovered that I'd gotten my very first blog award (thank you Magpie!) for being creative. Magpie Musings was kind enough to bestow this award on me because I took a shot at modernizing the Eggs in Hiding recipe she found. Although now, of course, I am under pressure to continue being a Kreativ Blogger (but not, it seems, obliged to use proper spelling, which is definitely a relief).
Mike, who admittedly doesn't get this whole blogging thing, wanted to know more about this Kreativ Blogger award I'd won. I told him that it wasn't for us to question these things, but being the analytical, critically-thinking guy he is, Mike wanted to know more. Where did this award come from? What were the criteria for winning it? What did I have to do now that I was a winner? Could I pass it along to others? My not knowing ANY of the answers made Mike begin to suspect that it was a made-up award. That made me wonder if it was possible to create an award of my own? I will admit that the idea of making up a blog award is very appealing (must be all of that kreativitie I have).
In order to make up a blog award, it seemed important that I understand the origins of the award I'd received (if there were any). After a bit of googling (I'd ask how we lived without google, but in the pre-google days there weren't blog awards to look up, so I imagine it worked out just fine) I discovered that the Kreativ Blogger award is an actual award that has been given to many other blogs (great blogs, I'm in good company). The fact that the Kreative Blogger award has a rich history has not lessened my interested in making up an award of my own. So now, (in the spirit of kreativ bloggers everywhere) I present the Morning Coffee Award, for those blogs that go so well with a good cup of coffee (and for the bloggers with whom I would enjoy chatting over coffee), to Extranjera and VEG. May you go forth and share this Morning Coffee Award with others.
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