Gimme the prize, just gimme the prize
Lookit! I received an awesome award from Margie and Edna’s Basement:
Wheeeee! Ain’t it shiny and pretty? It’s called the “Arte y Pico” award, and it is given to bloggers who inspire others with their creative energy and talents in all medias.
When you receive this, it is considered a “special honor.”
And it’s MINE! All miiiiiiiiiiine!
Once you have received this award, you are to pass it on to at least 5 others.
Oh. OK, so I have to share it with a few people. Well, first please visit the sites of my co-winners. Margie and Edna chose some really talented bloggers to share “my” award. Actually, I feel sort of out of place in such fine company, but I’m very flattered.
I admit: I had to look up “arte y pico.” Surprisingly, it has nothing to do with salsa. According to this online Spanish dictionary, arte is “craft,” and the primary meaning for pico is “beak.” Crafty beak! Oh, wait, there’s a “y” in there, so “Craft ‘n beak”? That doesn’t sound right. And when I Googled “arte y pico,” I only found a zillion other blogs who had either granted or received this award.
Maybe I should just shut up and try to accept this award graciously.
I discovered Margie and Edna’s blog via EntreCard, and I suspect that’s how they found me. I’ve come across lots of great blogs by dropping my Card, so even tho there are many deserving bloggers with whom to share this award, I’m going to focus on some of the blogs I would never have discovered if not for EntreCard.
And the Awards Go To:
- Aerten Art. I discovered Kelly’s beautiful art and promptly went broke at her Etsy shop. I especially love her collages and watercolors.
- Beetle’s Photos. I knew Babs (Beetle) had a word blog, but it wasn’t until EntreCard that I discovered her awesome photo blog.
- Daisy the Curly Cat. OK, OK, I know Daisy has a roomful of awards, but I love her site so much, I can’t not share this award. Daisy, you always make me laugh.
- Sugar and Sweets. Delectable photos and mouth-watering descriptions. LOOK! They’ve got DONUTS!
- Beadalicious. Oh, yum. I love to bead, buy beads, look at beads, fondle beads, and say “beads.”
Thanks again to Margie and Edna. Even tho I had to share this award, I am very honored.
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And also, I WANT ONE! Husband is a caramel FIEND 
Congrats!
Congrats, and let me say thank you, for loving beads, so I don’t have to.
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I am shocked! That is a great compliment – and I thought my photo blog wasn’t getting any readers. I really must check my Google Analytics.
Thank you so much, I am honoured (UK spelling)
Babs – beetle’s last blog post..A wedding in the family – 1951
Congratulations on your award! Your beak is very crafty. I always enjoy visiting here. And thank you ever so much for thinking of me, too! I am going to be posting a video of my new trick soon, and I must admit that the results are a little disappointing. I hope this does not tarnish my image.
Daisy the Curly Cat’s last blog post..Photo Hunters: Water
Congratulations on winning the award! How cool is that? And thank you so much for sharing it with me! I’m honoured!
Marlaine’s last blog post..On Hiatus
Congrats and thanks! Oh, and thank you for looking up “arte y pico” so I didn’t have to!
Kelly’s last blog post..A Study in Circles
Congrats, oh Crafty Beak!
Elle’s last blog post..And They Found Her After 3 Days, Wandering, Surviving on Granola
Catherine: Thank you!
Doc: Thank YOU. I’m more than happy to love beads so you don’t have to.
Babs – beetle: SHOCKED?! Well, you deserve it this “honour.” You juggle, how many—four blogs? That’s worthy of an award in itself.
Daisy the Curly Cat: Well, perhaps it’s best you got the award before you tried out your trick. Either way, thank you, and congratulations.
Marlaine: Thank you, and you’re very welcome. Your site is so pretty and delectable. Beadalicious is the perfect name.
Kelly: Thank YOU. I still don’t really know what “arte y pico” means, exactly.
Elle: Aaaand! I’ve got a new nickname!
Congrats on your shiny award-ness!
You deserve it for the work you do for all of us.
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No one could be more deserving of any award for excellence in blogging than you, J.D.! Congratulations.
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You sacrifice so much doing things so others won’t have to… but why, why, why couldn’t you have moved to Australia, so I wouldn’t have had to???
I’ve added you to my blog roster– cause you kill me.
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Whoo Hoo. Congrats to the most useful person in blogosphere. You do it well.
i’ve seen this award, but you deserve yours.
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Carole: Thank you! (for some reason I scanned your comment as “shiny-ass award.” Either way!)
jennypenny: WOO! I quite agree! I mean, thank you!
Florida Girl in Sydney: If only you’d known me a year ago! I totally would have done it for you.
Natural: Thank you so much. I would say there are far many more useful people than me (such as YOU!) out here, but I am trying to learn to accept all of my due accolades with humility and grace.
Margie and Edna were right to award you. You have the best arte and pico around. Wait, who’s Arte? Like you, I’ve found some great blogs through Entrecard and I’ve seen all but one of your excellent awardees. Do you not just love that sweets blog? I slobbered all over my keyboard when I got an eyeful of those donut sprinkles!
Congrats, JD! It never surprises me when you’re awarded by others!
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Congrats! I’m so glad you accept awards so I don’t have to. They take up so much space.
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Congratulations! You’ve won one million dollars, and a new car!
Good job!!
Kathy: Aw, thanks so much. I still haven’t found out who Arte is, but I still maintain that “pico” has something to do with salsa. I could be wrong.
DONUT SPRINKLES!
Meg: Thank you! Yes, it is getting a bit cluttered around here.
Regan: Wow! I had no idea Arte y Pico meant “one million dollars and a new car”! Now I’m really honored!
Yea!! Yea!!
What a sweet award.
It is my understanding that pico means “little.”
And the salsa you mention, pico de gallo, means literally, “little rooster.”
I like to say little cock, though, as you can surely imagine.
Why the salsa is referred to as a rooster is beyond me. Unless it has some implied meaning in the sense of the comparison to the chicken. A rooster carries with it a little more punch.
Hellifiknow.
But I think your little award is for the little art. The small portion you have to offer that brings big rewards.
That’s my take on it. From the cathouse. Miao.
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Lori: WOOO! Thank you!
Cathouse Teri: I love your interpretation, even if it doesn’t actually involve a little cock. It is sweet, isn’t it? And now I have to go research this whole “pico de gallo” thing.
So now this blog is officially an award-winning blog? Excellent!
If I made an award to hand out it would say something like ‘More Fartsy Than Artsy.”
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Congrats on your “peak of art” award.
Or the pinnacle of art. However you want to look at it.
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OMG! It’s so pretty!!! And you’re so totally worthy!
PS: I’m still waiting for my soup . . .
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elasticwaistbandlady: ACTUALLY, this is officially a multiple-award-winning blog. I’ve received some other very nice awards; maybe I should devote a post to them. Or, maybe I should create my own award. Something to do with “fartsy” . . .
dcr: Thanks, Dan. Your translation makes the most sense. “Peak of Art.” I like that much better than “Crafty Beak.”
Fashion Paramedic: Thank you! Wait . . . you didn’t get the soup? I sent it in UPS overnight envelope. Hmmm.
Congratulations – I am not allowed to Daisy the Curly Cat’s name in this house… you see my cat once had a blog, but I don’t help her blog anymore and she is mad and jealous and crazy and spiteful – oh NO here she comes.
Congratulations again on your shiny shiny blogging awards! You deserve them.
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Hey! Thanks for the award! Anytime you don’t feel like eating your donuts, I’ll do it so you don’t have to!
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Michelle Gartner: Quick, hide! Your cat knows you were talking about Daisy. I’d love to do a blog for my cats, but I don’t have the time. I think Daisy’s site is awesome. Oh, and thank you!
Heather: You’re very welcome! I’m afraid eating donuts is one thing I will ALWAYS do so you (and others) don’t have to. But thanks for offering!
Thanks for that– next time I have to move, I’m callin’ you- so I don’t have to.
Florida Girl in Sydney’s last blog post..The New Cah
Florida Girl in Sydney: Done!
Hello! Just randomly stumbled across your blog and have been trying to snort with mirth discreetly at my desk ever since while looking thorugh your archives(with little success). Anywho, I couldn’t resist putting in my two cents on your “Arte y Pico” award. In Spanish, “y pico” can be loosely translated as “and such” or “and some”. For example, saying someone is “thirty-something”, you would say they have “treinta y pico” years. Although, I think the “Art and Beak” award sounds way funnier
Lizzie: Hello, and welcome! Thanks so much for stopping by and taking the time to share your insight into the whole “arte y pico” mystery. I think I should stop trying to be so literal when translating Spanish phrases, but it doesn sound funnier! Happy snorting!
Congrats – by the way, the “arte y pico” translation sounds better your way, although Lizzie was basically correct with her interpretation of “y pico” meaning a very loose way of saying “and change”.