Reasons to be Cheerful week 6

Michelle has got us all thinking about being cheerful again this week. So here are mine:

1) I'm a winner!

I entered the Penguin books Readarama competition and won one of their books! A Year of Doing Good: One Woman, One New Year's Resolution, 365 Good Deeds. by Judith O'Reilly Looking forward to receiving it in the post to help my 100 books challenge:

2) Blue Skies

Nothing quite like clear blue skies to make you feel happy:

3) A clearer front room

Due to a visitor coming I did a mad clear up of the front room. It seems so much more spacious for the moment! Just don't look upstairs where I stashed it all! May even be forced to use Wii or do an exercise DVD just because I now have the space to do so... Small steps in the right direction.

4) MADs blog awards

Its really exciting that I have been nominated in more than one category in the awards! Not sure if this is following my cheeky post or just because people love my blog. Let's see what happens when the voting proper takes place after the nominations close on the 18th..

MAD Blog Awards 2013

Now I don't normally tout myself for awards much but this year I would love to be in the running for a MAD Blog Award. There are a few categories that this blog fits into but the one I think I have most chance in is Best Blog Photography. As regular readers will know I love taking and sharing photographs and I am aware lots of people love them! Just hoping people love them enough to vote for my blog...

If you have loved photographs like these:

Then please vote for me! And if you fancy nominating me in any other category please feel free ;-)