Desperately Belated Award Thanks

With my blogging time more limited these days, I've been a tad slack at passing on any blog awards I'd been tagged for recently, blog awards which were appreciated so very much and which I would love to continue on in order to share around a bit of blog love...

Going back a little bit now, I was kindly tagged for a Liebster Award by two lovely ladies, Claire of Scissors Paper Rock and Catherine of A Time To Create.  Thank you so much ladies!!  This award is all about the number 11... I have to list 11 random facts about myself, answer 11 questions and pose a series of 11 questions to the next bloggers I tag.

However, before I get writing about myself, I also want to thank Claire of oscarlucinda who passed on a Sunshine Award to me a few months back and Sue of Sweetpea Family who tagged me for a One Lovely Blog Award.  Rather than boring you all with too many insignificant facts about myself, I'll use the Liebster Blog Award to continue sharing the blog love.  Here goes...

1. I am attracted to anything blue - duck egg blue or navy blue in particular.
2. I have only ever lived in two houses - my childhood home and my current one.
3. I have a mug of Milo each night after tea.
4. I'd love to have chickens in our backyard - sadly Paul and our council laws don't agree.
5. My favourite thing about Christmas is wrapping presents.
6. Growing up, I wanted to become an architect, a graphic designer or a journalist.  I became a teacher.
7. At 18 months of age, I was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis - I outgrew it in my early teens.
8. I still have an 'old school' mobile... time for a long overdue upgrade soon...
9. The only time I brush my hair is right before I wash it as brushing curls = frizz
10. I have a freckle on my nose.
11. I have never tasted oysters or mussels.

Here are my responses to the questions Claire asked me...

1. One word that best describes you? This is a hard question... I'd like to think 'thoughtful'
2. Sweet or savoury?  Sweet (there is a raspberry muffin on my plate next to me as I type!)
3. Why do you blog?  To connect and share with like minded people, to record memories for my family and to fulfill my love of writing
4. What are you reading at the moment?  'French Children Don't Throw Food' and 'Simplicity Parenting'
5. Favourite film of all time?  There's a few... Little Women, Anne of Green Gables and The Notebook.
6. If you were a colour, which would you be and why? I Googled 'personality colours' for this question... I would have to say white because of my strong desire for simplicity 
7. Reality TV, love or loathe?  In general, love it
8. Describe a perfect day...  Cups of tea, fun with my girls, a clean house, time for blogging and crafting, pottering around the house, a family outing in the sunshine, not having to cook tea and an uninterrupted night's sleep 
9. Somewhere in the world you're dying to go to?  The UK
10. Biggest fear?  Ill health

I'd like to pass on the Liebster Award to the bloggers listed below...no pressure, only if you feel like joining in and haven't yet done so...

• Jenn of From Me To Mum
• Shelley of Four Point Four
• Nicole of Milk & Manna 

And the questions I'd love for them to answer are:

1. Favourite flower?
2. What colour is your handbag?
3. How long have you been blogging for?
4. Poached, fried or scrambled eggs?
5. Winter or summer?
6. Do you have a regular holiday destination?  If so, where?
7. Favourite day of the week?
8. Which famous person would you love to invite to dinner?
9. Do you have any siblings?
10. Daily must have?
11. Favourite perfume?

Thanks again to the lovely ladies who thought of me for these blog awards!