Awards!

What an exciting day! I'm so proud to announce that Artsy Catsy has been honored with two awards!

On behalf of everyone at Artsy Catsy I, Rocky, humbly accept this Extraordinary Gold Star Award from our beautiful friend Diamond. This award, created by Storm The Furry Fighter, is for Bloggers who have achieved or done something special, and celebrates beyond what is ordinary or usual.

Diamond said, "I wish to pass this award on to Rocky and his staff at Artsy Catsy, including their human artists. Not only have they helped rescue many cats and given them gainful employment, but 20% of their proceeds go to Cat Blogosphere and to the Rescue Farm. Artsy Catsy is also the blog that I first find out about Cat Blogosphere from, so they are very special to me because of that."

Thank you so very much, Diamond, but what makes us special is all of you!! Now I must:

1) Post the explanation and rules of the award and link back to the blogger who presented you with the award and repeat the reason why you received it.

2) Pass the Award on to two other Bloggers who you think deserve it and explain why!

It is my honor to bestow this award first to Sanjee, Boni, Mini, Gree, Pepi and Mom Robyn of House of the Mostly Black Cats and the Cat Blogosphere. Not only do they bring the worldwide community of cats together into one big loving family, Mom Robyn is always there for my human artist when she gets way too human and goes crazy on me! Thank you, Mom Robyn, for always being there to lend a sympathetic ear, or my ears would be worn out by now!

And last, but definitely not least, I present this award to my extraordinary friends, Mu Shue and his sisfurs Lilly Lu and Iris. Mu Shue is the kitty who inspired us to do our very first fundraiser, and over our first year of blogging he has become my best bud! The beautiful Lilly Lu is my very best friend and is always there for me - she lends me a sympathetic ear while my mom is bending Mom Robyn's ears!

And I just learned that our good friend Tigger the FBI Cat has created the So Special Award, and we are among the first to recieve it! Tigger, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts ... and because you're just as special to us, we award the Award right back to you!

In closing, we're so pleased that you think we're special, but we want you to know that without all our fantastic blogging friends, we would be nothing special at all!!