Giveaway Winner and Blogger Awards

First thing's first, I'd like to congratulate the winner of our Hounded giveaway:

Claire Gillian

I hope you love the book as much as I did. Please email me at: ella DOT gray AT rocketmail DOT com. Include your mailing address and I'll have it out directly. Big thanks to everyone who entered!

Sometime last month it was brought to our attention that the Salon had been given an award from a very lovely woman and fellow blogger. I'm new at this stuff and wasn't even aware that such things existed. So we thanked Rosi on her site, slapped the award on our sidebar and went about our ramblings.

Now we've received another award, this time with accompanying instructions on the proper protocol. It seems what we should have done included giving links, revealing personal information and handing out more awards. Since there are six scouts here in the Salon, we will attempt to each tell our readers something about ourselves in our posts this week and each will pass along an award to another blog.

So I'll take this opportunity to thank both of our nominators and encourage everyone to go check out their very awesome blogs. We appreciate your support Rosi with The Write Stuff blog and Lyndsey Rose Davis.

Something about me: My husband and I met on Halloween night at an art gallery/bar in our old neighborhood. I was dressed up as Pizzazz from the Misfits and my best friend was Jem - we had made our own costumes and looked like a pair of crazy neon rocker clowns. I guess he saw beyond the green glitter wig and we got married on Halloween day exactly four years later.

Finally, I'd like to give this award to a wonderful writer, blogger, and poet:  

La Tessa Montgomery

She's super sweet and a lot of fun, so go check out her site.  

There are so many swell bloggers out there, they should really all have awards, LOL. If anyone out there wants to give a shout-out to a favorite blog, feel free to leave a link in the comments.