Liebster Blog Award

Last week Otter gave me a surprise:

Liebster is a German word meaning favorite, dearest, or beloved. The Liebster is awarded by bloggers to other new bloggers who have fewer than 200 followers to help spread the word about their blogs and to help them gain wider recognition.

The Liebster award comes with four conditions that each recipient must satisfy when accepting.

1. Choose five up-and-coming blogs with less than 200 followers to award the Liebster to.
2. Show your thanks to the blogger who gave you the award by linking back to them.
3. Post the award on your blog. List the bloggers you are giving the award to with links to their sites. Leave comments on their blog so they know about the award.
4. Share five random facts about yourself that people don't know about you.

Instead of giving the award to five single bloggers, I prefer giving it to all crafting bloggers, like

Knitting blogs http://www.knittingblogs.org/
Stitching blogs http://stitchingblogsweallluvtoread.blogspot.com/
Quilting blogs http://quiltinggallery.com/quilting-bloggers/
Crochet blogs http://crochet.about.com/od/blogsaboutcrochet/tp/Crochet-Blogs.htm
Crafting blogs http://blog.craftzine.com/

Now the hardest part of the deal, telling five thing about myself. Here we go, and read well, because I'm only telling it once!

1 I love booking a vacation, I love planning and booking way ahead two, sometimes three (short) vacations. I watch deals on hotels almost every day on the internet.

2 I hate the day before going on a vacation. I always think the day befiore: Why do I do this, why don't I stay home, I always feel like I'm going to visit the dentist, a feeling that is gone at the moment we start carying our luggage stuff into the car.

3 I love daytrips, and the thing I love the most are the trips on which we don't know where we will end our day.

4 I love starting my weekend in pyjamas, especially in winter. I can stitch and sew, do some household jobs in pyjamas and only get dressed after lunch.

5 I am an impulsive buyer, not only fabrics, yarn and silks, but also tights and pantyhoses (I hardly wear skirts in winter, but I have lots of those!)