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!)

Catching up, tagged and an award

Time to catch up with something.
First: to answer Fatema's question which HAED I finished: it is only one, Celtic Butterfly, you can find it here
Second: I have been tagged some time ago (was it really in February? Time flies) by Wendy Jo, and she challenged me to tell eight random things about myself. So here we go, I have been tagged before, so maybe I tell you something you already know. I think I'll look over my days and tell you what's coming up.
1. I am not the loving mother and wife who gets up first, to make breakfast and then call for her family members to rise. My DH gets up first, makes breakfast and wakes the other familymembers.
2. I'm not a happy girl, looking great at breakfast. I just want my cereals and a cup of coffee. No talking, no playing around, just get up, get ready and leave for work.
3. Arriving at work, please don't ask for my attention for at least half an hour. Let me get started, do my own stuff, and after that I'll be prepared to answer all questions, help everybody and be polite.
4. I am hooked to my lunchbreak. I only have 25 minutes a day, so please don't disturb that break, let me get a cup of soup and a sandwich and LEAVE ME ALONE!!! (Unless it's my choice to have a conversation)
5. Coming home from work I want to take a short rest. Watching some tv with DD, small talk with DS about his day.
6. Time for my computer is important, catching up on blogs, social talk by mail, looking for stash. So just before and after dinner I take some time to do that, in the luxury of my own room.
7. At weekends I like to stay in my pyjamas all day, unless I expect company or have to go somewhere. I clean the bathroom in my pyjamas, do the laundry in them, and get dressed far after lunch :)
8. Yeah, I managed to tell eight things about myself, and the main thing to tell is: I'm just a normal ME, not special, no particular things, just like anyone else who reads this post :) And the best part of that is: I like it this way, and so does my family!



I have been awarded twice! Janaina and Mia both awarded me with the Kreativ Blogger Award. It brought a big smile om my face, so thank you girls!
The rules for this award are :

Copy the logo of the Kreativ Blogger Award in to your blog Make a link to the person's blog who nominated you Nominate 8 other blogs Add their links to your blog Leave a comment on the blogs, that they have been awarded.

I hope you don't blame me, not following this rule this time. I love all blogs I read, and I've seen this award on many of them. So I only award four other blogs, and in them all other creative stitchers, whose blog I didn't discover yet!

Cindy F.
Mylene
Edda
Lynn

Kreativ Blogger Award

This morning I was wondering if anyone ever read my blog, and decided it didn't matter, because I have so much fun in writing it and in reading other stitcher's blogs. Then, coming home from (what else) my LNS I found a message from Edda. She nominated me for the Kreativ Blogger Award. I am confused, honoured, stunned, proud and, above all, grateful.

Grateful for the group of stitchers in my life, giving me so much joy, fun and inspiration. Since I'm involved in this stitching world I received so many friendly words, helpful mails, encouragement and I've learned so much.
Edda, thanks a lot, for honouring me that way!

Here are the rules for this award:
• The winner may put the logo on her blog.
• Put a link to the person you got the award from.
• Nominate 5 blogs.
• Put links to the blogs.
• Leave a message for your nominees.

My nominees are (in no particular order):
Vonna : for her tutorials

Carol : for her encouraging words
Janaina : for her ideas and humour
Carolyn : for I feel welcome at her blog
Litla : for I read her blog with pleasure