"Tell Me About Yourself" Award

I woke up this morning to find I had been given a lovely award from Meghan, who blogs over at Wishful Thinking. It really made my day, especially as it's my first blogging award since I started posting so I'm feeling quite chipper about it :-D Thank you muchly Meghan!

The rules are I have to share with you all 7 things about myself and then pass the award on to 15 other bloggers. So here we are:

1. My dream holiday is a driving tour of Italy. I would love to see Tuscany and Umbria in a hire car at my own pace, with no touristy rubbish. I'm also dreaming of the day I get to visit Venice during Carnivale. Bliss :-)

2.In my personal opinion, one of the best smells on Earth is that of a candle or match just blown out. For some reason, I am always reminded of Christmas when I smell this. My other favourite scent is vanilla.

3.I'm all for technological advancement to an extent but you just CAN'T beat a real, paper, black and white book. None of this Kindle rubbish for me. You can't take a Kindle in the bath, unless you are happy to risk it taking a swim...I feel confident in saying that around a third of my books have slightly wrinkled pages from an unplanned dip in the bath!

4.My family and I lived in New Zealand for just over 3 years. What a wonderful experience that was! I'm proud to say I met some of the greatest people there but ashamed to admit I haven't kept in contact as well as I could have.

5.I have an obsession with jars! Don't ask me where it came from, it just happened. I love Kilner and Mason jars-I have lots that I use to store paintbrushes and other bits in. We all have our weird obsessions.

6. I'm not a dog person, but if I was, I would definitely have a pug dog. They are the gosh-darn cutest dogs! I will always be a cat person at heart, having grown up with them, but I have a real soft spot for the pug.

7. My favourite flower is the sunflower. They are the most beautiful plant out there and just seeing one makes me feel a little sunnier inside :-)

There we have it folks! A little random snippet of me.

Here are the 15 fabulous bloggers that I love and am passing this award onto:

Korrie at Red Hen Home.

Karen at The Graphics Fairy.

Laura at White Winters.

Cat at One Hand in My Pocket

Betsy at My Salvaged Treasures.

Miss Mustard Seed

Thrifty Decor Chick

Laura at 52 Flea

Nicole at Thrifty Decorating

DIY By Design

Miss Charming at Charming

Deborah at Upcycling My Ordinary Life

Stephanie Lynn at Under the Table and Dreaming.

Lauren at The Perfect Pear.

Courtney at French Country Cottage.

Phew!! That's a lot of names and places but they're all very much worth checking out, so hop on it if you haven't done already!

xxx

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