Sonia at Dark Raven's Nest gave me this award. It came a little bit after my nephew died, and actually made me tear up. I think reading the words "hope, faith, courage" got to me, because we all need that after we lose a loved one.

I am passing it on to all my Etsybloggers friends, who were so supportive in the Etsy forums after N's death; to Theresa and Duni, who saw my post here about it before I took it down; and to Miss Wednesday Wandered, who has become a dear RL friend this past year, and listened and talked to me about it.
This next award was given to me by Izile at Izile's Oddities. I'm pretty sure I found Izile through Entrecard, and she makes the coolest little oddities (you can find her things here at her Etsy shop). The rules, besides linking back to the blog you got the award from, are to pass it along to fifteen other blogs that you've recently discovered and think are great. But I've only recently discovered two!

So, here they are:
Wild at Heart Art: http://wildatheartart.blogspot.com. Zan makes beautiful dolls, and she's also the coordinator of the "Monster in the Closet" swap.
harem6: http://harem6art.blogspot.com: I think they found me through flickr, then I found their blog. A really wonderful mix of art and dolls.
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