Liebster Award 3: Captain Liebsterpants

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Chanelle Hayley, a New Zealand-based beauty blogger, recently nominated me for another Liebster Award! Thank you, girl!

Please do go and check out her wonderful blog!

Liebster Award Rules

You must acknowledge who has nominated you and also share their links
Share 11 facts about yourself
Answer the 11 questions that you have been asked
Nominate 11 more bloggers whose blog you would recommend
Ask 11 questions that you would like those bloggers to answer
Let the bloggers you have nominated know that they’ve been nominated.

11 Facts About Me

I shall pull a Chanelle here and link you to my previous award posts and tag posts, in which you will learn more than you ever wanted to about yours truly.

Chanelle’s 11 Questions

1. Pineapple on pizza, yes or no?

OH YES. YES INDEEDY. Hawaiian pizza (actually invented by a Canadian!) is probably my favorite pizza. Maybe a white seafood pizza, with capers, comes close. I also love artichokes and mushrooms on pizza. I really like pizza.

“Canadian inventor of Hawaiian pizza defends pineapple
after Iceland’s president disses fruit topping”
Image: cbc.ca (Shutterstock/El Nariz)

2. Do you believe in soul mates?

The One Lovely Blog Award

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This is straight-up embarrassing, but I was nominated for this award 1½ years ago, and I never got around to doing it! I have a minor backlog of these awards/tags, so I’m going to finish them up on Tag Tuesdays, starting today!

Becca-Anne Beauty first nominated me for this award; she hasn’t blogged for about a year now, but she still has some great makeup and beauty posts on her site!

Then, earlier this month, I was nominated for the same award by Meg Kem Magic, who’s a relatively new blogger (like, a month old!) so please go check out her lovely beauty blog!

Thanks so much to both Becca-Anne and Meg! 😁

The One Lovely Blogger Award stipulates that I need to share 7 facts about myself. Since I’m combining two nominations in one post, I’ll do 14 facts.

The One Lovely Blog Award

The rules for this award are as follows:

Thanking the person that nominated you and leaving a link to their blog
Posting about the award
Sharing seven facts about yourself
Nominating at most 15 people
Letting your nominees know that they’ve been nominated

7 14 Facts About Myself

I hope I haven’t repeated any of these from previous posts!

1

My favorite color was red, for the longest time. Several years ago, I somehow no longer felt like it was, and I do not currently have a favorite color. I can find most every color appealing—it just has to be used the right way!

2

Blue cheese is my favorite kind of cheese. Cashel Blue and Saint Agur are my favorites of the blues I’ve tried (I’ve gone through Auvergne, Bénédictin, Bresse, Cambozola, Gorgonzola, Maytag, Météorite, Roquefort, Stilton, and a few others). Both are so buttery and creamy, and not the most pungent blues you’ll find, so they’re great entry-level blues, too. I really should try some more, but these two are so yummy and readily available where I am that I tend not to stray!

Blue cheese section of the Cheese Wall at Maple Leaf Gardens Loblaws, Toronto, ON, Canada — Blue cheese section of the Cheese Wall at Maple Leaf Gardens Loblaws
Image: fivezero.ca

The Blogger Recognition Award 2: Game of Snubs

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Last month, I was nominated for another Blogger Recognition Award by a most hilarious blogger, Diversion3000. She’s not the typical blogger I follow (i.e., she doesn’t review nail polish and lipstick), but I’ve giggled and snickered at enough of her posts that I’ve become a follower of this engaging 8th grader. Thank you for the nomination, D3! (God, 8th grade was such a long time ago. strokes beard)

Blogger Recognition Award Rules

Write a post explaining why you started blogging along with a few tips.
Nominate some of your fellow bloggers.
Comment on their blogs to let them know you’ve nominated them.

My Answers

I’ve already responded to one of these here.

My Nominees

I’ll take the time to nominate a few blogs that I’ve discovered recently:

The Beauty Blogger Award 4: The Blogger From U.N.C.L.E.

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In August, fellow nail polish fan Mirror the Love nominated me for a Beauty Blogger Award! She’s based in Ireland and her blog is focused on cruelty-free and eco-friendly products. Her writing is really wonderful and she covers a range of beauty and lifestyle topics. Please visit her blog if you haven’t already!

I’m really flattered and delighted to answer her 10 questions today.

Mirror the Love’s Questions

Any blogging regrets?
Going on “hiatus” for several years is the big one.

Biggest beauty trend regret?
I have more of a tendency to not follow beauty trends, so it’s probably more like a regret that I didn’t follow one of the good ones!

One product you think everyone should have?
The perfect moisturizer for your skin type.

Not a Holy Grail product, but I like this a lot: Nuxe Rêve de Miel Ultra Comfortable Face Cream, Day, for Dry & Sensitive Skin.
Image: thebay.com

Liebster Award 2: Toe In the Mail

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I’ve been double-nominated for another Liebster Award!

I think Jenni is probably the youngest blogger I’m following. She’s 13 but you wouldn’t necessarily know it from the way she writes. She’s a breath of fresh air, and I’m looking forward to more posts from her!

My fine blogging buddy Chubbychicsdiary recently nominated me, as well. She’s a wonderfully positive person and this always comes through on her blog!

Thanks so much to both of them for thinking of my blog, and please go and visit them, if you haven’t already!

Questions from Jenni

what are some of your hobbies?
I’m a huge movie/TV buff, and I collect nail polish.

The Big Lebowski movie poster — John Goodman, Jeff Bridges, and Tara Reid’s green pedicure in The Big Lebowski‘s movie poster.

what’s the best part about blogging?
Getting a bit of writing done, and discovering others’ blogs!

best part of summer so far?
It’ll be over, soon! The tail end has gotten way too hot for my liking, and I cannot wait for fall weather to return. Of course, we tend to jump straight from hot summer weather into cold winter weather here, with about a week or two of nice fall weather in between. It’s barely enough for my favorite season!

Blogger Recognition Award

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Last month, I was nominated for the Blogger Recognition Award by one of my favorite bloggers, Katie at Plus+ Beauty. I am really flattered—thank you, Katie!

Blogger Recognition Award Rules

Write a post explaining why you started blogging along with a few tips.
Nominate some of your fellow bloggers.
Comment on their blogs to let them know you’ve nominated them.

My Answers

I actually started my blog back in 2008, but let’s be honest—I was pretty half-assed about it! I always think back now and regret that I hadn’t put more effort into it, but I guess life gets in the way sometimes. I’m now at a stage in my life where, despite the fact that I’m definitely busier than I was several years ago, I now have the drive to get my blog posts out on a regular basis, and I’m enjoying it tremendously. It’s so much fun to interact with other bloggers and gab about the things that we are passionate about. There’s also so much pleasure to be taken from accomplishing something every day, even if it’s just something as simple as publishing a little blog post.

Starlight Blogger Award & Dragon’s Loyalty Award 2

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I have a double bill for Tag Tuesday!

Many, many thanks to the lovely bloggers StyledWithJoy for nominating me for the Starlight Blogger Award, and R Cubed for nominating me for a second Dragon’s Loyalty Award!

Rules for the Starlight Blogger Award

Thank the giver and link their blog to your post.

Answer the 3 original questions and then the 3 new questions from your nominator given to you.

Nominate your 6 favorite bloggers! In your nominees I would like for you to think at the light emanating from the stars the ones that truly touch your soul with their work, the ones that are the light for you a true STARLIGHT Blogger.

Please pass the award on to 6 or more other Bloggers of your choice and let them know that they have been nominated by you.

Include the logo of the award in a post or on your Blog, please never alter the logo, never change the 3 original questions answer that first then answer the 3 new questions from your nominator and never change the Award rules.

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Questions from the Original Starlight Blogger Award

1. If you could meet anyone from throughout history. Who and why?
Someone influential in the future. President of the US in 200 yrs or so, perhaps. If that position even exists anymore!

2. What is your favourite book and why?
I don’t have a single favorite, but A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving, remains one of many.

3. Who is your favourite fiction character from any medium and why?
Calvin. Oh to careen through life (well, perpetual youth) with imagination, wit, unflagging enthusiasm and zero filter.