Category: Awards

Another Liebster Award!!

11/29/2012

A few weeks ago I received a note on my Facebook from Bec at Four Little Piglets. I have been fortunate enough to be nominated for another Liebster award from a blogging pal. Well thank you Bec, I accept! I still am no closer to the true origin of this award or the original rules so I am going to stick to the format that Bec has used. If this award is to remain true to itself, change throughout time is what needs to continue to occur.

Bec's questions

Would you rather watch TV or play on the computer? Both I watch my 'shows' on the computer while Facebooking or Pinteresting (or studying).
Are you a routine kind of person, or a what ever goes person? What ever goes, poor Cakes likes some structure though.
Do you sleep with the window open or shut? Do windows open?
PC or MAC? meh, we have a PC but if we had a MAC then I would use it.
What is the last movie you watched? Punch-Drunk Love (please do not watch it, it is a horrible horrible movie, I don't even know what was happening).
What book are you reading at the moment? A small handful of Cakes's library books (I will read a big person book sometime this year).
Are you a dog or a cat person? Dog (but we have a cat and no dog).
Do you prefer to ring someone or send a TXT? Text, too lazy to talk to people.
Approximately how many hours sleep a night do you get? almost 7!!
Camping or Hotels? pfft Camping, hotels are much more enjoyable.
If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would it be? Orlando, every theme park imaginable all in the one place, yes please (Lego land, Disney world, NASA, Universal, Sea World and the rest I cannot think of).

The blogs who I am passing the Liebster award onto are: oops I had trouble stopping at 11
Mellywoods Mansion
The Not Quite Military Wife
Can I get another bottle of Whine...
Barefoot Hippie Girl
Crystelle Boutique
Consumed
Choosing Joy Daily
For the Love
The Multitasking Mummy
MUMedia
Melbourne Mum
With Grace & Eve
Mother Load

My questions for the above Liebster bloggers

How long have you been blogging?
Messy play or clean play?
Plain or patterned?
What is your favourite animal?
Fingers, calculator or in your head?
Where was your favourite place as a child?
Inside or outside?
How often do you clean your house?
If you could have as many children as you wanted, how many would you have?
Do you think you will ever stop blogging?
What is your favourite TV show at the moment?

Linking up with Crazy Mama for Thankful Thursday. I am thankful to the blogging community for being so supportive and helping me build my readership.

Liebster Award!!

9/1/2012

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A few days ago I recieved a post on my Facebook advising me that Alicia from One Mother Hen had nominated Learning to play and playing to learn for a Liebster award. I accept!!!!!! I was so excited as I never expected to receive one. Thank you Alicia I feel truely honored. As I had seen posts about this award and tried to track down its origin previously, I thought now was a good time to try again. This has been a hard task and I still do not have as much information and plenty of it is contridictory. This is what I can share with you.

The Liebster award may or may not have originated in Germany. The translation of Liebster is sweetheart, beloved person, darling.
The Liebster award is similar to a chain letter between bloggers that has turned into a game of Chinese Wishpers. It looks as though in the early years when forwarding on the award, between 2-5 nominees were to be chosen. I am not sure when or where the amount has changed but it is now up to 11 nominees.
The way bloggers choose who they will nominate is by choosing other blogs they read who have a readership lower than 200. This looks as though it has reduced significantly over the years as in some of the earlier posts it states lower than a readership of 3000.
The rules were to create a post about the nomination, thank the blogger who awarded you and pass it on. It appears to have changed sometime this year to include the 11 facts and questions (Later than January though earlier than July - I hit some dud links during the reverse articulation of the posts). I believe this may have happened when it increased from 2-5 blogs to 11 blogs)

11 Facts about me
Fact 1. I really would like to start the day with a red can of Coke, enjoy a few during the day and end the day with one. At this stage I just have one every now and then.
Fact 2. I enjoy hanging out with the small person I call Cakes. I love our outings, making resources for her to play and learn with and joining in her play.
Fact 3. I only wanted to further my study once I had Cakes. I was happy working in childcare though she made me want to teach at big school.
Fact 4.   I met my husband in highschool though we didn't date until later.
Fact 5.   I still call my husband by his last name and sometimes forget his first name (the worst was the day after our Wedding and I was introducing him to a friend's dad, he didn't even realise it was my husband because really who stumbles on their own husband's name)
Fact 6.   Our cat is our first child, sister to Cakes and class me Mummy and my husband Daddy.
Fact 7. I don't like cats, there are 8 neighbourhood cats that think they live in our yard and 3 of that 8 think they live in our house.
Fact 8. I like Facebook a little too much.
Fact 9.   I want a red headed child, they are so so so cute!
Fact 10. Most TV shows I start watching when it is in the first season gets axed (Tru Calling, Lost, Heroes, Alcatraz)
Fact 11. I'm lazy! There is something else I should be doing rather than writing this post, the dishes, the folding, my study ...

Alicia's Questions

What nationalities are in your ancestry? I have no idea. My husband's is Hungarian, German, English or something like that.
Favourite Australian actor/actress? I guess Naomi Watts, I loved Tank Girl! I saw it way too many times and turned much of my grade 10 assessment into something relating to Tank Girl.
Which magazine to you read the most? I haven't read a magazine in ummm, I don't know how many years. I think the last magazine I read was Zoo weekly (my husband used to buy it).
What was your first job and how old were you? I worked in a video shop from when I was 13 or 14 until I was in my early 20s.
Electric blanket or hot water bottle? Neither, what for?
Favourite joke or party trick? Ummm, am I really that boring, I have nothing!
Right now, what's on the top shelf of your fridge? Ham, sour cream, spag sauce, cheese spread and a bundle of lollies and chocolate from Halloween last year, the Ekka and Cakes's school fundraising (Cakes isn't a big lolly kind of guy).
What colour is predominant in your wardrobe? None, I am too lazy to hang my clothes up, I have an unruley pile beside my bed.
First car you owned and what are you driving now? A Gemini, it never went any where it had no engine. We have a Hyundai Getz now.
Where was the best holiday you've had? My belated honeymoon to the States. I could have stayed in Orlando the entire time though my husband needed to explore. It was awesome!
Who has been the biggest influence in your life? Right now, Cakes has the biggest influence in my life. It is amazing how someone so small can change your perspective on most things.

The blogs who I am passing the Liebster award onto are:
Housewife in Heels
Mountains and Musings
Just for Daisy
Paint on the Ceiling
The Chronicles of Chaos
Francesca Writes Here
The Life of Faith
I'm talking... just about everything
It's Organised Chaos
Juggling Act Mama
Adventures with Captain Destructo

My questions for the above Liebster bloggers