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Irresistibly Sweet Blog Award

Wow! Once again I've been honored. This time with the Irresistibly Sweet Blog Award. Thank you to The Story of a Writer for this lovely, delicious award. I am deeply touched.


The Rules:
1. Thank and link to the person who nominated you.
2. Share 7 random facts about yourself.
3. Pass the word along to 15 deserving blog buddies.
4. Contact those buddies to congratulate them.

Okay, 7 random facts about me you may or may not know!
1. I'm 15 years older than my sister below me, my brother is 1 1/2 years older than my son, and my baby sister just turned 12.
2. My husband and I are both September babies, but he's 2 years and 10 days older than me.
3. The rumors are wrong...I don't live in a mansion.
4. I have a speech impediment.
5.  When I was younger, I believed my parents when they said I was adopted from Venus.
6. I still dress up for Halloween.
7. Most days I work in my PJ's.

Now to pass the award along. I'll contact you later today. Congratulations. And thanks again to E & K.

The Irresistibly Sweet Blog Award now goes to:
1. Karen Cioffi - Writing and Marketing
2. Health, Beauty, Children & Family
3. Bloggin' 'bout Books
4. Dallas Woodburn's Writing Life
5. Biblio Reads
6. Crazy-for-Books
7. Good Clean Reads
8. Home Girl's Book Blog
9. Inspired By Savannah
10. My Pile of Books
11. One Zillion Books
12. PUTTING WORDS DOWN ON PAPER
13. The Blue Bookcase
14.  Write What Inspires You!
15. ArtStories

Please check out all of these Irresistibly Sweet Blogs. You'll be glad you did.

Have a nice weekend. Happy reading and writing.
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  1. Karen CioffiJune 4, 2011 at 6:11 AM

    Virginia, Thanks so much for the honor. I'll be sure to follow through.

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  2. AnonymousJune 4, 2011 at 8:49 AM

    Thanks, Virginia! I'll do a blog post about it next week.

    Have a great weekend!

    Of course blogger starts acting up, again.

    Susanne Drazic

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  3. AnonymousJune 6, 2011 at 12:18 PM

    Please stop by my blog to pick up an award I've nominated you for.

    Susanne Drazic
    PUTTING WORDS DOWN ON PAPER
    http://susannedrazic.blogspot.com/

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