Hello everyone!
If you were around last year, you may have known a girl called TheAmbivert123, AKA Ambi, who hosted the 2015 Blogger Awards. It was the most amazing thing, for me, that had happened all year; it brought so many bloggers together and spread positivity. Unfortunately, due to a few things, Ambi had to delete her blog early this year (which, of course, was very upsetting).
A few weeks ago, I received a lovely email from her, asking me if I wanted to host the 2016 Blogger Awards, as she wasn’t around yet still wanted it to continue. After I got over my complete shock and screaming fangirl moment, I accepted: it was my favourite part of last year, and I’m so incredibly honoured to carry it on. Thank you, Ambi!
Right, onto the Awards: if you weren’t here last year, you won’t know how it works, so I will explain. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask!
There are 12 categories in which to nominate blogs, or bloggers. They are listed below, with a description to help you to decide which blogs fit the award best. You can nominate anybody, and the blogger with the most nominations for that category will win the award. However, all nominees will be recognised.
The Rules (PLEASE READ)
• It is preferred if you nominate one blog/blogger per award, but if you’re finding this difficult, two should be the maximum.
• Post ALL NOMINATIONS on this post, or write a post that links to this post so that I am notified as to who you have nominated. If you don’t know how to make a pingback, you can always ask, or email me.
• If you do not link your nominations to this post in some way, they cannot be counted.
• You must link your nominees to their blog – just writing a name will result in confusion, because there are multiple Em’s to give an example.
• Please tag your blog posts that relate to the awards with the hashtag #2016BloggerAwards. This is so that both the readers and I can keep track of any nominations.
• Results will be posted on 31 December, to allow as many people to submit their nominations as possible.
The Categories
Blogger of the Year
A blogger that you feel has stood out this year as being very inspiring, kind, and who holds many of the qualities that you feel makes a fantastic blogger. This blogger can be one who you aspire to be and who’s personality traits cause them to, again and again, be seen as a central part of your blogging community, both to you and others.
Blog of the Year
Through their posts, the blog which you nominate for this category will have made an impact on the community with their writing. Each aspect of the blog is well thought-out, and their posts are both creative and original. Content, appearance and the effect you think this blog has had on you as a person and other people should contribute to why you nominated them.
Kindest Blogger
Somebody who has always been there with a lovely word if you feel down. They do not judge you, and can always be relied on to say the sweetest things no matter the situation that you find yourself in. Their comments are ones that stick in your mind because of their kind words, and they are nice to everybody and anybody.
Most Approachable Blogger
No matter the time of day or the amount of followers you have, you feel as if you can always talk to this blogger. Whether they have 10 followers or 10000, they do not make you feel unwelcome, and allow you to feel as if your opinions will be listened to. They’re friendly, and their personality makes it so that they are easy to have a conversation with.
Best New Blogger
A person who has, ∈spite not being in the Blogosphere for long, made an impact. This award is for those who have taken blogging in their stride, and right from the beginning, given it their all. They have firmly entrenched themselves within the community, emerging into blogging and not letting their ‘newbie’ status bother them.
Most Positive Blog
The posts on this blog, or this blogger’s personality, lift your mood whenever you are not feeling your best. They could write inspirational posts, or have the personality that allows you to smile when they comment or speak to you; a simple post or conversation with them can make you happy.
Most Helpful Blogger
Somebody who has always strived to help anybody, in any situation. This can be through their posts, or through any contact you have had outside of blogging. They have always helped you when you needed any assistance or advice, whether that would be with blogging or any real life situations, and they go out of their way to offer you this help.
Best Looking Blog
When you look at this blog, it should be obvious that they’ve spent some time on making it look amazing. It can be through the way they’ve organised it, the design in general, the best pictures: whatever element they’ve put into their blog, they’ve done it incredibly well. Remember, beauty is subjective, so don’t feel worried that other people may disagree with you.
Most Relatable Blog
Many of the posts that they write, you find yourself relating to. This can be because of their style of writing, or the stories that they share; when you read their blog, you think that you aren’t alone.
Most Creative Blogger
There are some people who have added wonderfully original ideas to the Blogosphere. These people have contributed awards, tags, challenges and anything else that has been very well created. As well as this, they could be a creative writer, artist or could be a musician – anything that showcases a talent, or brings something never brought before to the blogging world. This is flexible, so you can nominate 2 people if this one is especially difficult.
Funniest Blogger
This blogger will never fail to make you laugh. Through what they say, their posts or how they interact with people, they put a permanent smile on your face and can have you in stitches. They can be unexpectedly funny, can say the strangest things, but the one thing that this person has is a brilliant sense of humour.
The Wildcard
If you think that a blog/blogger should be recognised for an aspect of their blog/blogging personality that doesn’t fit a category on this list, then you can nominate them here, with the name of the aspect that they deserve and a comment. Though no one will necessarily ‘win’ this, those that stand out will be featured in the Results post.
I hope that you all have fun with this. Even if you don’t win, your blog will ALWAYS be valid, always be brilliant, because you’ve put so much work into it. This is a celebration of all the bloggers this year, new and old.
I couldn’t have set this up without the help of Tara – who, though she doesn’t post any more, is my closest and oldest blogging friend that remained so. In addition, L helped me out with the descriptions for some of the categories, so a huge thank you goes out to him as well.
Spread the word, everyone! Remember to tag your posts with 2016BloggerAwards!
Thanks to Ambi, again, for letting me host these awards. It means so much to me, and I can’t believe I’m getting to do this.
From Elm 🙂
AHH I JUST WANT TO NOMINATE EVERYONE!!!! But this is so cute omg I’m so excited to see who gets what EEP
I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL LITERALLY I’m SO EXCITED!!!!! Have I presented it well?!! I’m scared not many people will nominate; I just want people to spread as much positivity as possible ❤
YESSS YOU HAVE PRESENTED IT VERY WELL I’M SO HYPED! And aww, I’m sure you’ll get some people! I’ll try and think of some myself x
Yay, awithesome!! 🙂
This is such an amazing idea!
Awww yay, it is! Credits to Ambi, the creator (well I’m sure there have been other Bloggers Awards but this specific BRAND of them)
Absolutely! ❤
too many categories too many amazing bloggers aaaaaaaa can i just like nominate 298329382 people for each one its a little over the 2 maximum but ehh 😉
Just a little over, not tooooo much! 🙂 And AW YAAAAS too many people!!!
What a great honour Elm! Proud of you!
Thank you so much, RITU! I’m so happy to be hosting it! 🙂
😘
AHHHHhhhhHHHHhhhh
THIS’LL BE SO FUN
yep, i’m that one blogger who didn’t know about this last year… just ignore me flailing happily while you cool, seasoned bloggers roll your eyes.
Oh I think we are all having the same reaction 😀
I am NOT a seasoned blogger SHHHH I’m just an antisocial moth. And DO NOT WORRY You can still participate if you didn’t know about it last year obviously 😛
i think we’re all antisocial moths of heart 😀
yay i can’t wait to start writing my poooosstttt…. *runs off, throwing confetti*
YISS!!!! DON’t FORGET TO PUT IT ON THE TAG!!!
I WON’T!!!! i’m so exciteeeeedddddddd
I’m so glad this is continuing even though Ambi has left! I have all of the ideas and no idea who to nominate! Time for some thinking.
I know how that feels; I’m struggling over who to nominate as well! Oh well 😀 Have fun with it! I’m glad it’s continuing, too.
im glad its continuing cuz it was fun 🙂
thenks queen elm for hosting it this year!
NO QUEEN NOOOO
And well, all thanks and creds go to Ambi! Will you be nominating? 🙂
yup doing it now but it’s so frickin harddddd i feel like i stopped reading blogs recently as well but i’m almost done!
LOVE your nominations 😀
doneeee
So many people to nominate ahhhh
You can doooo iiittt 🙂 But yaaah I get you there there are so many bloggers AAAAHHH
IM NOMINATING MY HOMIE ABI @ THEPUNKBUTTERFLY.WORDPRESS.COM FOR BEST LOOKING BLOG BC ITS SO AESTHETICALLY PLEASING TO LOOK AT
That’s fabulous! Don’t forget to do the other categories to 🙂 🙂
nooooo ive been her for like 3 minutes and i dont follow many people i’ll look like such a beg if i nominate anyone for the others lol
OI SHUT UP YOU WILL NOT LOOK STUPID! How long HAVE you been here BTW? Tryina work out if you class as a newbie
I ACTUALLY WILL!! i started this blog in january but i didnt write or comment anything on it until july so yeah i guess i am
YOU WILL NOT!!!! 🙂 And oooh you might be getting une nominationnnon
SNAZZY MCSNAZZ (i keep saying that unironically and it is…. a problem). ok but like im literally and irl meme , i literally just write trash. okayyyyyyyy maybe i’ll wait till nov/dec to post my nominations then, just for you ❤
Be a cool thing and NOMINATE DA PEEPZ go searchin’ for blogs YES
I used to say ‘yes lads’ ironically and now I say it accidentally IT’s TERRIBLE
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YES!! 🙂
Here, I’m done! 😀 https://bamboochewer.wordpress.com/2016/10/15/the-2016-blogger-awards/ I did the tag too but I just thought I’d post it here in case it didn’t work o-o
Thanks, Lia! These are all amazing nominations! And also THANK YOUUUU for nominating me honestly I didn’t expect anyone to (I said that last year too omg)
hehe xD
Ahhhh yessss I can’t wait to do this again!! It was so much fun and such a great event last year
I’m new to the blogosphere (Pfft! You know that 😉). but I think this is a really fun thing.
Okay let me be honest, I had a little of your reaction when I skimmed through the post. Especially because you’re hosting it. Yay!!! 👏👏👏
I’ll probably participate next year, when I would have had the chance to know a lot of bloggers cause I’ll just be a month into this tomorrow, but regardless. Can I reblog it? So it would be seen by users that have been a long time on WordPress.
Yes, of course you can – thank you SO much! And don’t worry about not participating! 🙂 Through this, you can hopefully find new blogs to follow!
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Thank you!!!
Anytime 😊
Ayy I don’t know who to nominate! D:
I know the feeling, but you can do thiiisss! 🙂
haha i’ll try!
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Just did my nomination post, am so excited to see who shall win!
Me too – thanks so much, Trisha!!! 🙂 I’ll go check them out now!
Oooh this is gonna be so exciting🙈🙈👌🏽💜….So many people to nominate for different categories lol
I knowwww! Goodluck with it 🙂
This sounds awesome 🙂
Yah, thanks! Will you be nominating people? 🙂
Probably, just need to think about it 🙂
Great Idea Elm!!
Thanks, though all credits go to Ambi! 🙂
OH I CANNOT WAIT!
NEITHER CAN I! Have fun with it!!! 🙂
Aw, I can’t believe this was an entire year ago!! I can’t wait 😊😊
I still remember it so clearly; time goes by WAY too fast. I can’t wait to nominate people!
This is such an awesome idea!! I wish I could’ve gotten to know Ambi… she had to delete her blog just as I was starting! Please wish her well for me! 🙂
Course I will! She is such a wonderful and inspiring person! 🙂
OMG! Is this real? We have a thing called BLogger Awards. This is freakin’ cool. Great work Elm. And now I have to go nominate people. Honestly, this is amazing. I feel like I am part of something great. Thank you for hosting it. : D
Thanks SO much for commenting!!! 🙂 Ahh, I’m so excited! 🙂 I need to nominate people ahhh
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AHHH I REMEMBER THESE LAST YEAR OMG.Remember when you absolutely slayed them last year!? I’m so glad it’s continuing yaayy MAJOR YAS to you for hosting them 😀
Buuut I’m gonna tarry a bit before posting my nominees just cuz I need some time SINCE EVERYONE IS SO AMAZINGGGG AND COOOL.
I’m GONNA
SSPEND SO LONG WHINKING BOUT MINE SO DON’t WORRY! YESSSS I remember last year; I miss Ambi sooooo much!
OKAY GOOD THEN WE’LL STRESS TOGETHER!
People will come and go, that’s just how it is 😦
I NEVER KNEW THIS WAS A THING! THIS IS AMAZING. I AM REALLY EXCITED AND I HOPE U AN AWARD. THANKS AMBI- excited:D
Eeeek thank youuu, I hope so too! Or rather, I hope people who DESERVE awards win them!! 🙂
OOH YAY YES I REMEMBER THIS! And I’m super excited that it’s happening again. 😀 I’m currently on my phone haha but be sure to write up my nominations. (There are so many cool blogs eep HOW WILL I CHOOSE.)
I KNOW THE FEELS, I’ll have SO much trouble with mine! And YAAAAS glad you remember!!! 🙂
Omg this is amazing! I can’t wait to nominate others! I’m so pleased your hosting it too Elm!
Ah THANK YOU, Emily! Can’t wait to see your nominations! 🙂
I literally remember this from last year! AS IF it was a whole year ago! I was a brand new blogger, barely knew anyone and it was so lovely to see a huge community nominating others for all their hard work! Congrats on hosting Elm, you’re doing great! Cannot wait to see who wins haha! When will the winners be announced? Need to put it on my calendar haha! x
Thanks – I’m still in shock that I AM hosting it! Hopefully on 30 December – the day before my birthday!!! 🙂 And YES I REMEMBER LAST YEAR OMGG! Bloody HELL was that a year ago?! That’s insane; I remember you starting your blog as well!
This is my first year of blogging so the first time seeing this. It is an awesome idea. I can’t wait
I can’t wait too – I’m really looking forward to nominating people! Are you going to nominate bloggers? 🙂
I’m thinking of but not sure who to nominate.
I know the feeling 🙂 I’m sure you’ll think of some people!
This sounds amazing! I’ll put up a post nominating bloggers soon 😊
Oohhh yayy, I’m looking forward to it! Were you around last year? I honestly can’t remember!
Haha no, I joined in January
AHHHHHHH!! *does the Sharpay ‘brrrr’ thing*. This is so exciting! It must be so lovely for you that you were chosen to host it! Am I allowed to nominate you? Because you and your blog are AMAZING and you make me really happy!
COURSE YOU ARE – OMG thank you!!! 🙂 You’re amazing! Also YES it’s an honour I’m SO happy! 🙂
Great! I’d like to nominate you for everything! (Other than he newbie ones of course) . THANK YAAAAA!
Eeeek!
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This is so cool, I didn’t know it was a thing!! I want to participate but I’m not sure I even know enough bloggers..! 🙂
I’m sure that you do!! 🙂 Don’t worry about it!
Hi Elm. Sorry this is off base but I nominated you for a three quotes, three day challenge. Do check my post on it to get the gist of it.
Thank you SO much!!! 🙂
You’re welcome❤
I made a nominations post on my blog – sorry I’m not very tech savy so i don’t know how to do pingbacks, here’s the URL though! https://jagsonlineblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/16/the-2016-blogger-awards/
Sorry that I’m too incompetent to work it out 😉
Don’t worry! Thanks SO much for doing this! 🙂
No problem 🙂
Hi Elm,
I would like to nominate https://oshineoriginal.wordpress.com/ (O’Shine Original) for the funniest blogger award. he is truly witty and has a big heart. Only 3 months into blogging he has a large beautiful, engaged community and I feel he deserves it so much 🙂
Thank you again Elm for hosting this year’s Blogger Awards! 🙂
This is great; thank you! Will you be nominating other people? 🙂
Hi Elm,
It’s very kind of you to accept my nomination. I am so new, I really do not know of a lot of blogger’s but O’Shine sure deserves it. He’ll be my sole nomination if that’s okay 🙂
I totally understand! Thank you so much for nominating people 🙂 even if you only do one nomination, that one nomination really helps! And you can find new blog is through this as well 🙂
Yes Elm and a huge Thank you for hosting it this year 🙂 Congratulations again 🙂
this is soooo exciting!!
Awwww YES it is!!! 🙂
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The Wildcard- You, Elm!
Most Relatable- Jill, at rantandraveaboutbooks.wordpress.com
Funniest Blogger- Laura, imissyouwheniblink.wordpress.com
This is awesome – thank you!
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This is such a wonderful blogger award Elm and to find my name nominated for the blogger of the year award by Radhika at https://radhikasreflection.wordpress.com/2016/10/26/the-2016-blogger-award/
was simply thrilling like walking the red carpet to receive the Oscar or a grammy!
Thanks once again for carrying on the torch of flame from Ambi:)
Blogger of the Year
sarinalangerwriter.com
Sarina is just AWESOME. I’m yet to read her book, but I ALWAYS read her blog.
Blog of the Year
thebookiemonsters.wordpress.com
I love her POSTS. Just awesome! Tash is amazing!
Kindest Blogger
Yikes! They’re so many nice bloggers but I’m going to have to go with Ayaka @ Midnight Ranter’s blog
midnightranterblog.wordpress.com/
Best New Blogger
Emma is amazing! Seriously LOVE her posts!
bookemma.wordpress.com
Most Approachable Blogger
Aditi is so kind, thoughtful and AMAZING. Have to nominate her : aditipallod.wordpress.com
and SITHARA!! musingsofamellowmind.wordpress.com/
Most Positive Blog
I’ll have to choose Azura @ Azura Skies for always being amazing! Her blog posts are always so… Uplifting
azuraskies.wordpress.com
and
peachiiikeen.wordpress.com. Wander Girl is amazing! Her posts are so helpful and wonderful ❤
Best Looking Blog
So many great looking blogs, but i have to nominate:
thegirlwithcoffe.wordpress.com
https://dailydelightsblog.wordpress.com/
I wish I could nominate my blog for this 😛
Most Relatable Blog
AHHH! I'll have to go with :
https://josmith1845.wordpress.com/
Most Creative Blogger
I LOVE Maya @ ArtsyTeen
artsyteenblog.wordpress.com/
And, who can forget
absolutelymuffin.com
AMAZING
Funniest Blogger
Cait @ PaperFury is so funny and amazing! 100% deserves this!!
paperfury.com
The Wildcard
clairehuston.wordpress.com/
AWESOME
That's my nominees! Good luck!
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I made a post about anyways!
https://mybookylife.wordpress.com/2016/10/30/the-2016-blogger-awards/
GOOD LUCK
Thanks so much – I love your nominations!
Thanks, will you be posting YOUR nominations?
Yeah definitely 🙂 hopefully soon!
Look forward to them!
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I’ll be voting! This is so fun! As soon as I get my vote post up, I’ll post the link here, as well as link back to this post!
Thanks so much! At some point, I’ll do my nominations too 🙂
Yeah, it’s such a hard decision!!