I have finally submitted my nominees today for the awards I received back in April.
I discovered another award yesterday that I hadn’t picked up! Also from April (28th)
Thank you Kristen
For this award we have to make a speech and some nominations. I will update this post later in the week with both!
On the 24th April this blog received 2 awards –https://awritersfountain.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/waters-nominated-for-1st-award/ click the link for the original post. I would like to extend my thanks to ARNeal for nominating awritersfountain. I am now ready for the challenge of nominating 15 other sites for this award! 
“The Shine On Award requires you to nominate 15 other blogs, who in turn can post this award on their own sites and nominate others for the award. It also requires that you then list a few other blogs that tickle your fancy.”
And the nominees are… (in no particular order)
Please excuse the fact that I sent most of you a pingback and not a personal message, I have to get on with work, work and I have been online all afternoon!
Other blogs I like;
http://herecomethelobsters.wordpress.com/
http://backgardenvegetables.wordpress.com/
I REPOSTED THIS AS IT WAS AN IMAGE POST AND I COULDN’T TAG IT.
Sunday rolls around and it is time for me to create another story by prompt. This is great fun, to find out more click the contributor button.
WARNING
I was searching for copyright free images for my blog last night and I came across the one I use at the end of my story, it is only a baby shower cake, so if you are following please don’t think of me as a monster and leave on account of this post. I thought it was weird and not something I would add to my media library, after seeing this week’s prompt I went back to find the photo – as the coincidence seemed to be too strong to ignore and I instantly recalled the image when I saw this week’s picture!
Charlotte always wanted to be a mum, from the age of 11 she felt her maternal instincts click in, she didn’t understand other women in their thirties that still showed no sign of desiring a child. The others (practically all of her friends) were married off and producing families of their own. Charlotte couldn’t help but feel duped. She had an early start at being a girlfriend, years before her peers. Close to double figures before she even started High School. Then what happened? She blames herself for all her bad choices.
The blame eats her up on a daily basis and turns even the most positive situations into another gauntlet of horror for her to struggle her way through!
Last year Charlotte met Sean at a Summer Garden Party, she wasn’t sure he was the one to begin with, but they both worked hard to make the relationship stronger, neither of them was getting younger and although Sean could do a ‘Charlie Chaplin’, Charlotte was seriously racing against the clock, approaching her 40th year.
Sean had recently started talking about making babies, it had taken Charlotte by surprise as he vehemently refused to even conceive a marriage proposal, still you weren’t deemed a harlot for getting pregnant out-of-wedlock nowadays. She had started ordering vitamin and iron tablets and took them daily, laughing at the irony of spending decades popping the pill and praying desperately on occasion that she wasn’t pregnant.
They had started trying a few months ago, they were becoming increasingly worried that they would need help. This week Charlotte had seen babies everywhere. In the library whilst she was desperate to study quietly, on the bus to work everyday, they never used to be many mothers on the commuting bus, not with their children at least. On billboards, adverts on the TV, in her magazines.
On her lunch break she was searching through a stock free photo site and she came across an image that turned her stomach, she literally felt her stomach shift inside her, it gave a whole new meaning to having a bun in an oven. Hideous she thought, who would order that for a Baby Shower?
Charlotte entered the board room and settled down for the afternoon marketing meeting, she couldn’t wait to write a new slogan, work on a new project, take her mind off what her and Sean were trying to achieve. Charles revealed the first image, Charlotte couldn’t believe her eyes, babies and cereal?
Charlotte felt another bubbling lurch in her stomach, she made a run for the restroom. It seemed the universe was sending her more than just messages!
Back in April (click the award for the original post) my blog was nominated for awards. I need to pass this forward now, I have been searching for nominees, many blogs I follow already have strings of awards and multiples, I was so excited to be nominated that I want to give them to people like me, who had none. I have since discovered that people accept multiples of the same award, my list of 11 blogs may include blogs that have had awards already. The other issue that made this a time consuming task – many of the blogs I follow are well established and have over 200 followers.
I hope some of you will have time to explore other blogs I follow, I love finding new places through other blogs.
Firstly, thanks to Rebecca for nominating AWritersfountain for a Liebster.
There were no questions to answer on the original nomination post, now Rebecca’s blog has been nominated for another Liebster award and has encouraged us to use the questions this time.
When you receive a Liebster you have to write;
11 Facts
11 Questions
Drum roll – now the Nominees
http://kyrabandte.wordpress.com/
http://blackophelia.wordpress.com/
http://anniesamazingplace.wordpress.com/
http://starvingactivist.wordpress.com/
http://the-positivity-project.com/
http://artifactsandfictions.wordpress.com/
http://melorajohnson.wordpress.com/
http://writelindy.wordpress.com/
http://shortofstories.wordpress.com/
http://journalofmysoul.wordpress.com/
and finally…
The 11 Questions for my nominees to copy and answer;
Have fun and display your banners proudly!
awritersfountain 