This Second's Obsession

2008 Fashion Blogger Awards….x2

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Edit: I spoke too soon. Clearly I am FAR behind on everything because there is actually another set of awards. I have to admit I’m not keeping up on my blogroll at the moment due to university work – I have massive backlogs for every blog that posts more than twice a week! So, take two!

I am in two minds about the idea of fashion blogger awards.

Mind One: Although I am usually skeptical about any kind of awards, there are so many great blogs out there and I think it’s a great idea to share the love, especially when the mainstream press spend so much energy trying to put blogs down.

Mind Two: I can see the awards making bloggers more competitive, which could erode the great sense of community I think is there at the moment. I can also see several bloggers trying to set up their own awards and the whole thing becoming very confusing and pointless in the future.

I can only conclude that no one knows how awards will go in the future, whether they’ll grow, flop, or get exploited (who knows, maybe the next years’ will be sponsored by H&M as an apology!), and so it’s a bit early to decide now. There are two sets of awards already, so I can see my confusion and pointlessness point coming true though, sad to say.

  • Jen at Mahalo Fashion is hosting the 2008 Fashion Blogger (F. A. B.) Awards. The project seems friendly and based around growing the community, and they’re accepting nominations from anyone. Voting begins on the 1st of February, so go nominate!
  • The second set of awards, which I only just remembered although I’m sure I’ve seen them being mentioned before, are the 2008 Fabbies Fashion Blog Awards, which aim to encompass the whole of the “Lifestyle Blogosphere”. I seem to have missed the nomination process, but voting is going on now. You have to register, but it only involves clicking a few buttons.

I have to say I’m not a great fan of the names for the awards. Maybe the cheesiness is because there are no dead fashion bloggers to be namesakes, and perhaps in a hundred years time (if blogs still exist) people will be celebrating the Bubbles or the Galas. Har har.

I GOT SOCKS

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A few weeks ago I ordered from Sock Dreams and last week it arrived! Me and my sister ordered together – I owed her half a birthday present still – and she got two pairs and I got three.

Their tagline is completely correct, they are the best sock store in the known universe, and probably the rest of the universe as well because I cannot imagine more fantastic socks!

I got two pairs of N Stripes that were on clearance, Magenta/Maroon and Purple/Raspberry. They were only $6 each. I have been wearing them over a pair of thin black tights because of the cold weather here. They come up halfway on my thighs although they do suffer from the effects of gravity over the day and start behaving more like OTKs – over the knee socks. Sock Dreams have infected me with their acronyms as well as with their love! I feel like I have sexy legs when I wear my N Stripes, especially the Magenta/Maroon pair because they are so sultry.

My other pair are Long Cuffable Scrunchable Socks in dark red. I haven’t worn these yet but I can’t wait and they are so long and thick and lovely I might skip the tights underneath. My sister got the Top-Striped OTK Tubes in Black with 3 White Stripes and the O Basics in a beige shade I can’t check the name of because it won’t display.

I asked my sister what she thought of her socks and she said “They’re amazing. I’ve never felt socks like these, O Basics and tube socks. They’re out there, bruv”. Direct quote. I did tell her it was for my blog, maybe that was a mistake!