I Would Like to Thank the Academy... er, Alice...

The creative and wonderfully nutty Alice of HoneyPie has kindly bestowed on Of Cabbages and Kings this fine blog award, for which I greatly thank her.

The award was originally created by Arte Y Pico and is dedicated to those who:

"nourish and enrich the spirit and creativity. They see dedication, creativity, camaraderie, joy and above all, ART - much art. I wish that this prize is entertaining to all bloggers who share this space and enrich it a little more each day."

I bet you're wondering where the art comes in, aren't you? Well, see, Alice knows all about my extensive collection of "Bullfighters Painted on Velvet"-- I just didn't think she'd spread it around like this. I mean, I don't want to have to contend with a possible high-tech burglary and, as we all are aware, the Bullfighter on Velvet market is really buzzing lately.

Anyway-- Thanks to Alice for bestowing upon me this great award. It will look really good on my mantle, right in the place of honor between:

• My "Flute Player Who Made My Ears Bleed the Least This Year (1989)" award, courtesy of my high school marching band director

• My Honorable Mention in the "Dave 'Scribbles' Jaffe School of Drawing Cartoon Turtles for Fun and Profit" scholarship contest and...

• The McDonalds' Monopoly winning game piece which nets me a free small fries the next time I go there. Woo-hoo! Free fries!
  

Ahem...

In terms of passing along the award, I would like to share it with the following folks:

• Joe of Crotchety Old Man Yells at Cars- Who fights the good fight against surly web applications that wish to hamper his vast humor and keen observational eye through glitches and obtuse HTML...

• Greg of The Midnight Garden because his garden really is his art-form, and he takes photos of it and the nature around him that lighten the heart... soothe the soul... Er, also get dirt under your nails.

• Claire of A Little Piece of Me, for her humor, spirit, kindness and crazy doodling. Also because she's taught me the proper way to use "pants" in a sentence for the next time I'm in the UK. Here-- I'll use it in a sentence now: "Getting awards from your fellow bloggers is not pants. It's cracking, and I'm terribly chuffed! "
  

And I guess while we're having a day of sweetness and light and to make this acceptance speech as excruciating as possible according to the laws of any major award ceremony...

I did want to mention, Cabbages had received a really lovely blog review last week over at DoYouDiggIt.com. The thing that struck me most about this review is how much thought was put into the writing of it. You just don't see reviewers who work so hard to craft their own language within their reviews. So thanks to Mary Ward over there at DoYouDiggIt, for stopping by and taking a look at my weird little corner of the Internet. It's much appreciated.

If you gang would like to check out the review, you can do so here.

Thanks to everybody these last few months who have helped keep Cabbages lively, interactive, and fun.

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Did you know that I first came across Alice of HoneyPie's blog through Humor-blogs? True story!

Welcome to the Picnic!

Blogs. They allow us to slice-and-dice our lives into little partitions, like one of those paper picnic plates. This over here. That over there. All neat and tidy and separate-- which, of course, we all know life is anything but...

It's more like potato salad in your lap and beans on your sleeve, while you wait for cake and the dog keeps nosing you.

Still. I'd been having a wonderful time with my thrift store decorating and crafting blog, finding the funny in vintage goodies. I've met great people. And learned a ton. But every now and then, a post idea would cross my mind that didn't quite fit there.

And, sure, I could've just spooned it up and slopped it into the mix. But some people don't like bean juice on their potato salad. Or mayo on their baked beans. And you've gotta respect that.

So where are we now? In a brand new compartment on the picnic plate. Soon to be filled with a helping of the wit, weirdness and whimsy we all get dished out regularly-- and which I hope you will enjoy. I was reminded I'd actually done this sort of thing years ago, before blogging became blogging (it was just "bl-" then), in a selection of online posts called the Daily Drivel. So for anyone unafraid to leap in the Way-back Machine on a full stomach, I've also archived those posts here.

And before we go today-- I would like to thank, in particular, Tiffany/MadameX and Bobbie for enabling me toward multi-blogdom. I'd been idly tossing the idea around of creating a humor blog for a while, when they managed to whisk away my reasons for not just digging into it. Thanks so much, ladies. You get double cake helpings with no calories in them.


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