Firstly I would like to say a great big thank you to Jean, Shoko and Kali at The Canadian Cats, Binky and Granny at AngelsWhisper and Nicolle, of Stories of A Highly Sensitive Introvert, who nominated me for the Blogger Recognition Award and the Black Cat Blue Sea Award. I am truly grateful for their kind thoughts â please go and visit, if you donât already know them, lovely ladies, all of them.
So. As this is a combination post, I thought I would choose a combination crystal⌠Amagreen. This fascinating crystal is a new one for me, so I must thank and credit the wonderful www.healing-crystals-for-you.com for the information I am relaying back to you, for as I said, this is a new crystal for me too.
So far, I have found it to be a pleasant and calming stone, with a wonderful balance of purple amethyst, white quartz and green prasiolite. It releases a loving energy filled with compassion to encourage emotional healing. It can also be used to help awaken psychic abilities.
The green element â prasiolite â is connected with the heart chakra, while both white and purple are connected with the higher head chakras; so it is a wonderful combination stone that promotes deep love and empathy; but also emotional intelligence and how to use it.
This brings me neatly to my nominations from The Canadian Cats and AngelsWhisper â wonderfully sensitive and caring ladies, and good friends who were some of the first people to befriend me here, on WordPress.
For the Blogger Recognition Award, you have to tell the story of how your blog began, I did that here. As a post-script to that story, I am currently learning how to continue the blog â not the writing aspect, but the actual technical side â gulp⌠– as I am not the most computer literate person in the world, and my son has always taken care of that side of things for me. However, he is writing me careful, step-by-step instructions on how to publish a post etc. to prepare me for when he leaves for university in October.
As part of the procedure for the Bloggerâs Recognition Award, you also have to give two pieces of advice â well, they also remain the same. Essentially: interact. Answer comments, talk to other people, visit other blogs. Iâve made some really good friends this way. The second piece of advice is: be nice! I canât stress that enough, there is very little point in being unkind, or unpleasant, thatâs like acid indigestion. You will just rot away from the inside out. (An additional piece of advice would be make sure youâre computer literateâŚ)
For the Black Cat, Blue Sea Award. I must thank Nicolle for nominating me â her questions can be seen here and my answers are:
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What would you like bloggers to do more of that they arenât doing right now?
To be honest, I donât really know, the blogs I follow are high quality, and easily accessible, so just keep on doing what youâre doing!
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Tell us four things about yourself, one of which is not true, and see if we can guessâŚ
a) I have a secret passion for Justin Bieber
b) I was persuaded to start an Instagram account by Gary
c) Iâm a natural brunette
d) I have over 40 pieces of Rose Quartz
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Describe a perfect day that balances all the things you love.
My perfect day⌠hmm⌠a decent nightâs sleep â uninterrupted preferably, by having to remove live rey from the house thoughtfully brought in by Lily. Then sunshine would be good, and just basically relaxing with the cats in the garden! (Iâm so boringâŚ)
Iâm not going to nominate any specific blogs, so I will throw them both open to anyone who would like to have a go. And, thank you, as always, to anyone whoâs been kind enough to stop for a like, a look, or a subscribe.
The Royal Portrait – Princess Charlotte Oddpaw