jeni starfish: Award winning glory feels so good...

It hardly seems possible that my last post was back in early March but I can't argue with The Calendar. I tried that once and lost, by quite a margin. Still, it's good to report that my absence on the blog front has been as a result of pleasant and productive busy-ness, not to mention (but I so will, and in fact, it is the main, perhaps only, point of this post) being crowned with glory and winning the Everywoman Network Award for best home page www.livingrightnow.co.uk

OK, I didn't pull that one off all by myself.

Firstly, thanks go to my lovely and talented business partner Marie Taylor for, well ... for everything, and especially in this case for being super-proactive and entering us in for the Award in the first place. We didn't even schedule to win our first major award until sometime in 2010 but Marie was clearly feeling a need to bring that forward and goodness, was she right! We got a whopping 33% of the votes, a great validation from our target market that we are getting the right message over in a way that resonates with them aesthetically. Everywoman is a huge and successful network of women and their awards really do count. (Check them out at www.everywoman.com)

More BIG, HUGE thanks then to Marion Ryan of www.readysteadyblog.com who designed and put together the site for us. We've blogged before about how wonderful Marion is and we recently had an email from her saying, no more please, my ego has expanded to the size of a very big house and I am now concerned about the surety of my entry ticket into The Celestial Abode when that day comes; I feel the need to play down my magnificence a bit. But who cares about that? We think she's just great and she's going to have to suffer the compliments and risk finding her place in heaven amongst The Humble.

And of course our fabulous logo was designed by Martin Fisher and his team at www.thisischemistry.co.uk. It's a logo you want to jump right into and Live Large In - and that's just the effect we wanted. They are truly creative geniuses, that lot, and you'll see more of their brilliance when Nick Ellwood's cover designs for our upcoming book grace the stores very soon.

Not least of course, thanks to those who voted for us, including some readers of this blog. You have really good taste! Really.

It's great to be recognised. It's not the only thing and not even the most important thing. But when you are on purpose with your life and work and you have great people around you to play and create with, this kind of recognition is the glorious Cherry on top of the fabulous Icing that adorns the ever so yummy Cake.

And with that, I'm off to CELEBRATE!