Liebster Award

Vanisha has awarded me the Liebster Award, I got to "know" Vanisha when Krysten paired us up in her Summer Must Haves Swap, and ever since I have enjoyed reading about Vanisha's life in Fiji, which will soon be back in Australia, because at this moment she is busy packing up her apartment to move back to Australia.

Liebster means dear, sweet, darling, beloved in German.

The aim is to bring more attention to blog with fewer than 200 followers, that people think deserve some additional attention.


There is a few rules in accepting the award:

1. Show your thanks to the blogger who gave you the award by linking back to them. Thank you very much Vanisha

2. Reveal you top 5 picks, and let them know by leaving a comment on their blog.

3. Post the award on your blog

The 5 I will pass the award on to is:

Kattrina at 365 days of happiness she is an American girl married to her Honduran husband, I love reading her blog, which is about finding the joy in everyday life, but also because she live close the Washington DC, which was near where I live during my year as an Au Pair.

Rebekah at Adventures of The Childlike Empress, she is a Scottish ballerina who first danced in Ljubljana and are now dancing at the ballet in Cairo, Egypt. During the big riot in Cairo I thought of her many times while I watched the news... it's funny how you can relate to people you never met in real life, and while watching the news I couldn't help but wonder if she was safe.

Carrie at Living It Up in U.P. I started reading her blog when she was doing her Wedding Wednesday post, can you believe she had her reception at the Space Needle in Seattle? At the moment I'm enjoying reading her post from her vacation in several big cities in Europe.

Alicia at Sweet-a-Licious who just recently started her own baking business, she makes the most amazing cakes, and I'm both happy and sad that it's so far away, I would love to have her make cakes for me, but honestly if it was too close by I would not be loosing any weight at all! She used to have another blog, on that blog she used to do a "Move it to loose it" series where she was loosing weight after giving birth, and I must say she had a bigger backbone than I have, and she lost weight!

Erin at Pugh's News who lives in Canada, she is the mother of 2 wonderful boys, and I love reading about her every day life. Every Friday she does a series called "Flowers for your Friday" which always puts a smile on my face.

That should be it, you should go check out their blogs, you will find some good reads:)

My first award!

I got my first blogging award, and I'm super excited about it:) It was passed on to me by the sweet Alicia over at The Red Deer. Alicia has to my pleasure recently returned to the blogging world after taking a little break. I love reading her blog, though I usually get hungry reading her great recipes. Some of you might remember that I last year tried baking lemon cupcakes, and to say the least she is a lot better at baking than I am:)


Well onto the award, which means I have to answer a few questions.


1.Why did you create the blog?Well I started blogging because I had started reading Wendy's blog. Back in 2002 I lived in Slovenia for 4 months during my studies, which is where I met Wendy. So when she started blogging I loved reading what was going on in her life. So after a while I figured I would start a blog on my own, and that is how it all started!

2. What kind of blogs do you follow? I love reading blogs that is a bit more personal, where I get the feeling that I get to know the person behind the blog.

3. Favourite make up brand? Well I not a person who spends a lot of money on make up, but I still have a whole lot of it. I used to work in the perfume department, and every now and then we got free stuff. So my favourite make up brand would probably be L'oreal or Maybelline. Partly because I like their products, and partly because the sales person who came to our store was the nicest girl. She was always happy to help out and always brought great stuff for us. Yeah I can be bought:)


4. Favourite clothing brand? I don't really have a specific brand that I go for, but I love a good bargain. I guess I would rather have 4 pairs of cheaper shoes, than 1 really expensive pair:)

5. Your indispensable make up product? I guess beside a mascara my favourite product is Max Factors Masterpiece Colour Precision Eyeshadow. After discovering that product I pretty much wear eyeshadow everyday, because it's just so easy and fast putting on:)
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6. Your favourite colour? Well it depends on what the colour should be used for, but I like earthy colours, but it also depends on my mood, so one day I can't stand pink, but on another day it just has to be pink:)

7. Your Perfume? My favourite right now is "Daisy" from Marc Jacobs, but it usually changes over time, so the next time I'm shopping for a new perfume it might be something different.

8. Your favourite film? One movie I always seems to come to mind is "A long kiss goodnight", if it's on TV I will be watching it. I don't know if I will call my favourite movie, I don't think I have a real favourite.

9. What country would you like to visit and why? Can I pick more than one? Well I would love to visit Australia and New Zealand, but the plane tickets there are just so expensive! Besides it will probably be a few years before we dare taking such a long plane ride with the baby. I don't have one specific reason to why I want to visit Australia and New Zealand, it has just always been a wish of mine, even before our Prince married an Australian girl. By the way they just had twins yesterday, congrats to them:)

10. Make the last question, and answer to yourself. Hmm that's hard.... what do you look most forward to in 2011? Well that's an easy question to answer:) I'm super excited about becoming a mum in 5-6 weeks. Just getting to enjoy the whole motherhood, staying home for a year, what could be better?



Now pass the award on to 10 lovely bloggers, and here is who I'm passing it onto: Wendy, Erin, Kimbirdy, Meghan, Kattrina, Krysten, Salt, JMay, Agirl, and Karen. Looking forward to seeing your answers:)