Hi Kelly-Bec and welcome!! I'm sure you'll really enjoy posting on here and joining in with all the threads! Beware, it's very addictive!! You will get lots of support and it's one of those things where you get out of it what you put in!!
So to get your progress stickies- find other peoples' awards on their signatures, right click and copy, go to 'User CP', top left, go to 'edit signature', then right click and paste onto your own signature.XXX