Blog Award

The lovely Claire over at Matching Pegs gave me a blog award a while ago, and it's time I acknowledged it! It was a real treat as it is my first! It's the Proximidade award...and unfortunately my foreign language skills only stretch far enough to understand that getting this is a good thing. The basic idea is that you give it to blogs that "extend the hand of friendship around the world" - and I'm meant to choose eight, and then those people are meant to choose eight more. Kinda like those annoying email chain letters, only nicer because you're not pissing everyone off by forwarding it "just in case, because, you know, I don't really believe in these things, but you never know..."

I have no idea if these 8 blogs read this one...but they extend friendship to me by being full of interesting, fun things to read (and in the case of Wrecks, make me laugh so hard I nearly wet myself), so I'm awarding them.

In no particular order:

• Baking Bites - because she makes baking accessible for people who might not bother to try
• Cake Wrecks because sadly, really horrible cakes are an international phenomenon
• Jen Jen Qld - for stunning photos and family adventures in Jakarta
• Chookoolooonks - because I like the photos, the words, and the whole niceness of it all
• Tummy Rumbles - local and yet eating their way internationally
• Old Pastry Chefs Never Die... - for telling it like it is about stupid clients
• Technicolor Kitchen - one of the first food blogs I ever read and I still love it
• Making Things Pretty - because I never knew good design could be so funny

Consider yourselves awarded!