Another Liebster blog award!

I'm lucky enough to have been given another Liebster  blog award, this time by Giggles in the Sun, a lovely lady from Brisbane.

Since I've already done the random facts and tagging thing, this time I'll just answer the 11 questions asked by Miss Giggles in her post!

1. What is your favourite craft? At the moment, sewing (as in for dressmaking), but I've been doing a fair bit of knitting recently - it's really good to have something to do with my hands while watching TV or a movie!
2. How do you learn a new craft? Usually find a picture of something I like and jump in the deep end... when I taught myself to knit in the round I just opened up the book and tried to follow the instructions, and went from there!!
3. Have you ever lost interest in a craft and why?  Not really... I used to do a lot of embroidery when I was younger, but I don't anymore - not because I don't enjoy it, but because there's only so many samplers one can have!
4. How do you make time for crafting?  Usually... wait until the holidays!  I'm not very good at time management, and because I don't have a dedicated sewing/crafting area the 30 minutes a day approach doesn't work for me - it takes me 30 minutes to set everything up and pack it away again!
5. What does your family think of your crafting?  Not really sure, actually!  Dad just wants me to fix his pants all the time, mum seems to think I'm too ambitious, my middle sister is a bit mad like me so she thinks it's good, and my younger sister is one of those people who goes "Can you make me ____", so I make it, and then it never gets worn - so that's frustrating.
6. Would you do your crafting for a living?  I don't think so... I'd love to be able to do it all day, but not have to as I would if it was for a living
7. How did you get started crafting?  I don't think I ever really got started, it's just always been there!
8. What is your favourite item you have ever created?  My strawberry dress... I wear it all the time, and I love it to pieces!
9. And already I am starting to run out of things to ask, so what is your favourite weather or season?  My favourite season is the time of year called spring - though up here we don't really get four seasons, we just get wet and dry!  Around the September holidays because it's warm enough to swim but cool at nights, and the stingers aren't out yet.
10. If you could live anywhere, where would it be?  Anywhere?  I'd love to live in a small town in Tasmania, but I don't cope well in the cold so that wouldn't work out very well for me!
11. Frosting or cake? Do you create more basic items in your sewing/knitting/crocheting that get used a lot or do you have a tendency to go for the special occasion items?  I think it's more sort of frosting, but not fancy frosting - just everyday frosting, haha.  I'd love to make more cake!  But what I seem to have ended up with are the things that are a bit on the fancy/weird/extravagant side of normal.

Thank you so much for this award - and sorry I don't blog more often, if there was a bad blogger award I would be getting that!!  I do have a number of projects to show, but it's just finding the time to do photos and write...

Leibster blog award

I have been given a blog award (my first one!) by Splatastic! Thanks so much, I feel quite honoured to have been awarded this award!

"The origins of the Liebster Blog Award are somewhat unclear but the general consensus is that it means favourite or dearest to showcase bloggers with fewer than 200 followers."

And it comes with the following ‘rules’:

1 - thank your liebster blog award presenter on your blog.
2 - link back to the blogger who presented the award to you.
3 - copy/paste the blog award on your blog.
4 - present the liebster blog award to 5 blogs (with 200 followers or less).
5 - let them know they have been chosen by leaving a comment.

I've had a flick through my subscribed list and picked out five lovely ladies to award this to (in no particular order aside from the order my tabs are open in!)

• Lady Danbury/Thinking In Shapes: I love seeing all her wonderful creations, she has the sort of wardrobe I can only dream of having!
• Reana at Curves, Patterns, and Pins: A fellow Queenslander who started sewing at about the same time as me (but has advanced much more quickly, and has an impressive collection of self-made, refashioned, and mended clothes).  My favourite bit of her blog is the Check The Technique challenge/list that she's doing at the moment - a list of techniques that she's aiming to learn how to use.  I'd love to sit down and write one of them for myself
• Meg at Meg The Grand: This fabulous lady's blog is so full of joy, I can't help but smile (and sometimes laugh out loud - especially at the post her boyfriend guest-authored!) whenever I visit her page
• Lisa at Notes From A Mad Housewife: she makes some super cute clothes for her kids, as well as beautiful creations for herself - my current favourite is her denim and white Colette Macaron, with bright red lining
• Kat at Petticoats & Peplums: I've only just started following her blog, and I'm loving seeing what she has been up to!  I especially like all the wedding posts that she did a little while ago, but also seeing all the sewing, decorating, and cooking stuff that is happening at her place.  Added bonus: ANOTHER Queenslander - I seem to be collecting Aussies on my blog roll without realising it!