The Blog Awards

The Awards appear to be back. And they will probably continue to circulate in a terrifying infinite loop of doom. As these are my first nominations in over a year I’m childishly excited about them ^_^  It feels great to be thought of when other bloggers have to nominate other blogs. There is a million other blogs in the blogosphere and you pick me? I am humbled…

The One Lovely Blog Award

This is from the absolutely Lovely Emily from Emily Etc. My last award over a year ago was also from her so a big Thank You! to her ^_^ and I insist you go read her blog because it is one of my favourites!

The Versatile Blogger Award

I must thank the Lovely Kat for this award. I am thrilled that you think my little blog and I can be considered versatile. In truth I hate to stick to the same thing. I like to be open and flexible. And as you can see from my very scattered posts that I really am so inconstant. Make sure to check out Kat’s blog – Word Spillers – her book reviews and gif use are top notch ^_^

The Rules:
1. Link back to the blogger who nominated you. ✔
2. Post 7 facts about yourself
3. Nominate 15 bloggers of your own

Another 7 Facts About Me:

1. My Favourite Movie is The Breakfast Club
2. I am scared of bathtubs and will never ever take a bath for as long as I live. Showers please.
3. I like to write lists and often timetable my day. I know, I’m weird.
4. I love my friends and probably don’t appreciate them enough. I also have difficulty expressing feelings in person. I’m much better at writing it down
5. I love hugs. People should hug more often.
6. Travelling exhilarates me. I fall in love with places. I have a strong yearning to just go. To run. To explore hidden treasures.
7. I think too much. Thinking can be good but there is a point where it becomes unhealthy and leads down a slippery slope. I often cross that line.

I nominate: 

Kat
Emily

Blogger Recognition Award

And once again another humongous gigantic castle-sized Thank you to the fantastic Kat from Word Spillers. This is a fancy schmany award that I have never heard of before so I am delighted to pass it on to those who deserve it.

The Rules:

1. Write a post to show off your award and display the image. ✔
2. Give a brief story on how your blog got started, and give a piece of advice or two to new bloggers.
3. Thank whoever nominated you and provide a link to their blog. ✔
4. Pick 15 other bloggers to give this award to and list them in your post. You cannot nominate yourself or the person who nominated you.
5. Let each person know that you nominated them.
6. Provide a link to the original post, Edge of Night. That way anyone can find the original guidelines and can keep the award from becoming mutated or confusing. ✔

How my blog got started:

Sitting in English class one day in 2012 a week before summer, my teacher Ms. Foley is talking about a blog she occasionally reads. It is written by Scarllett Curtis and is called Teen Granny (since then it is no longer in use). I had never heard of this blog or even what a blog was. I didn’t use social media, or even the Internet hardly. I sat around reading books and baking cakes. But Ms. Foley’s story about this young girl fascinated me. Scarlett was just a teenager who unfortunately became quite sick and was in a wheelchair for a time. This of course made her reserved and eventually depressed. As someone who has grown up knowing friends and family who suffered this terrible thing I was obviously interested to learn more. Instead of doing normal teenagerish things like partying and socialising, Scarlett baked, knitted and watched a crazy amount of Grey’s Anatomy. She was essentially a Teen Granny. I read tonnes of her posts and felt so inspired and compelled that I took a deep breath and made my own blog called Inkdropperr. I was alone in the blogosphere for about a month until I found blogs that seemed to be friends with each other. And then I discovered that there was communities in this blogosphere. And I felt so thrilled reading and commenting on these blogs. In the beginning my blog was atrocious of course. It was renamed Accio Wonderland and soon lated called A Certain Perhaps. Then a year ago when I finished secondary school and was about to start College I changed completely. I started a whole new blog. Because through out my blogging experience I had also changed. I was no longer the naive innocent 16 year old who talked about interesting chocolates she had for tea. I needed to move on. So welcome Ivory Clouds. I am a far less frequent blogger now. But that bloggy happiness feeling that I felt the first day back in 2012 is still here. Perhaps in the future I will be Granny Teen. An eighty year old who fan girls over books and cuts scraps of paper out of magazines to hang on my bedroom wall.

Advice to new bloggers:

We are bloggers. We are human. Talk to other bloggers, get to know them, comment on posts, follow on bloglovin, fangirl on twitter. Just get involved and make friends! Blogging is about sharing enthusiasm on things you love. It’s much more fun if there’s someone to share it with.

I nominate:

Sunny
Emily
The Fence of Stars
Rita
Hawwa

Thank You!