‘Tis that time of year – the time of gift giving and we have been blessed with a whole host of gifts.  Where to begin?

Well, first there was the award from CC – the highly coveted 2012 Blog of the Year Award!

Of course, these things have rules.  So those rules are:

Here’s the rules (because there’s alway rules to these things and I always break them), are as follows:

1 Select the blog(s) you think deserve the ‘Blog of the Year 2012′ Award

2 Write a blog post and tell us about the blog(s) you have chosen — there’s no minimum or maximum number of blogs required — and ‘present’ them with their award.

3 Please include a link back to this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012′ Award —http://thethoughtpalette.co.uk/our-awards/blog-of-the-year-2012-award/ and include these ‘rules’ in your post (please don’t alter the rules or the badges!)

4 Let the blog(s) you have chosen know that you have given them this award and share the ‘rules’ with them.

5 You can now also join the Facebook group — click ‘like’ on the page above ‘Blog of the Year 2012′ Award Facebook group and then you can share your blog with an even wider audience.

6 As a winner of the award — please add a link back to the blog that presented you with the award — and then proudly display the award on your blog and sidebar … and start collecting stars…

Nominees will appear below.  But before that we must continue with:

A BIG thanks to Fatal for the Fabulous Gutter Blogger Award.  

This too has rules and here they are:

Fabulous Gutter Blogger Award Rules of Acceptance

1. Thank the person who nominated you. (Written thanks, kisses, oral sex, all of the above – whatever seems appropriate.)
2. Link back to their blog in your post.
3. Post the image of the Award on your blog.
4. Copy and answer the six questions from their blog post.
5. Nominate nine bloggers, link to them and let them know they’ve been nominated.

So, my nominees for both blog awards are:

Blog of the Year 2012: (e)lust – because the folks there work so hard at promoting other bloggers.  Thank you!

For the Fabulous Gutter Bloggers – the following nominees are all people about whom Oscar Wilde must have had in mind when he said, “We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.”

1. CC of Discovery

2.  Karen of KissinBlueKaren

3.  Molly’s Daily Kiss

4. Sexual Life of a Wife

5.  Body, Remember

6.  Dawn of Pivoine68

7. Trash of Hotwifeblog

8. Cuckold Me!

9. TemptingSweets