Shrink Unwrapped just honored with the Liebster Blog Award!

What is the Liebster Blog Award? It's an award given to blogs with fewer than 200 subscribers by a blogger who feels they deserve more recognition.

Liebe means love in German. Ich liebe das! (I love it!)

Googling the Liebster pulled up a thousand thousand little blogs, all nominated by another, seemingly ad infinitum. A hundred hundred blogs speculated that the Liebster originated in Germany. Logical, but I conjecture otherwise.

Webster. Jokester. Liebster. There’s a wry Yiddish ring to nouns with ster tacked on the end that suggests… New Yorker. I see two tongue-in-cheek blogsters way back in the mists of cyber time— say, a couple weeks ago— saying to each other, Damn, we could really use a hug and— Bang! The Leibster Award sprang full-grown from their minds, onto each other's blogs and the rest is net history.

Can we ever get too much acknowledgment? Too many awards? Too much link liebe?

The Rules:

Mention and link to the blogger who awarded you the Liebster.
Mention 5 other blogs with fewer than 200 followers you think worthy of the Liebster. Let them know by leaving a comment on their blog.
Copy and paste the award to your blog.

Big THANK YOU to artist/blogger Barbara Swanson Sherman who nominated Shrink Unwrapped for the Liebster. Barbara is an amazing illustrator. Her tagline is: It’s All In The Details. I agree.

Shrink Unwrapped awards the Liebster to:

Four Seas Four Suns: Beautiful essays, poems and photos.
Whistling This: Cartoons. More please! No pressure.
The Writers Clinic: Science writer writing where she’s never gone before.

These final two probably have more than 200 followers, but what the liebe!

Later Bloomer: Consistently inspiring biographies of people doing amazing things in mid-life and beyond.
Artemis Retriever: First blogger to blogroll Shrink Unwrapped! Thank you! Photos, dogs and rants against assorted unfairnesses and injustices.

Write on!