Hi friends. I opened my email after a tumultuous two weeks where we had to deal with the death of a wonderful young man who was a close friend of my son and a heart attack in the family. Needles to say that email was the last thing on my mind. So, I was completely surprised and humbled to find that Dee from A Lapin Life had nominated me for an award!
Please pay Dee a Visit and see the other blogs that she nominated as well.
Please pay Dee a Visit and see the other blogs that she nominated as well.
THANK YOU DEE!
THIS AWARD STARTED IN GERMANY. IT'S TO HIGHLIGHT BLOGS YOU ENJOY THAT HAVE LESS THAN 300 FOLLOWERS.
I accept this award and now need to tell you 7 things about me...
1) I am a magazine addict and I do not part with my treasures! I store them in a cupboard and use them like most people would use the library. They get stored in seasons. Winter, spring , summer and autumn. Currently the winter magazines are dotted all over the house in piles, baskets and magazine racks in my favourite hang out spots!
2)I have an ongoing love affair with the beautiful city that I have the privilege of staying in, namely Cape Town! It inspired me to start a blog about my favourite places in the city and the surrounding winelands, named Mother City Magic where I hope to promote this amazing place and people to the world!
3)I have a huge fear of water and at this ripe old age can not even hold my breath under water! However, in summer I swim almost every day and my favourite holiday is going down the Orange River in a canoe! It took quite a lot to overcome the fear and obviously I kept a life jacket on all the time. I coped fairly well with the rapids (but they are tiny rapids anyway) and loved sleeping under the stars and living close to nature. Very close, believe me! I have been down the river five times in total now and have only once fallen out the canoe!
4)I detest any form of discrimination due to race, religion or any other grounds and I feel that every single person deserves to be treated with respect no matter what, for you do not know their circumstances and should not judge.
5)I veer between being a girly girl and a tom boy! I can just as happily play in the mud and garden as I can put on my stilettos and shop. The only draw back is that my nails never look good!
6)I love music, ballet and theatre and am able to listen to any kind of music from rap to classical.
7)I spend hours trying out plant combinations in my head and "planting" various gardens in my favourite regions of the world that I have travelled to. Ditto with decorating rooms in famous homes and ditto with food and wine combinations!!
I AM PAYING FORWARD THE BLOG LOVE BY NOMINATING THE FOLLOWING BLOGS FOR THE LIEBSTER BLOG AWARD.
Fiona
Kathy
Colette
That was a difficult choice! Phew, there are so many lovely blogs. I do hope you will accept ladies and look forward to hearing from you.
Please visit their blogs and enjoy all the gorgeousness and tell them I sent you please!
Have a great weekend and what ever you are doing I do hope that you are making memories.
Veronica
xxx
PS: Both Dee and Colette are recovering from illness so we wish them both a speedy recovery and sending blog love your way!
Nice blog and good luck with the award!
ReplyDeleteDirk
Congrats on your award.. I loved learning more about you. Like you I jump from being a tom boy to a girly girl.... I'm sorry to hear of your losse's.. many thoughts and prayers for the families. hugs ~lynne~
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry to hear about the personal loss and illness...I'll be thinking of you. Also, I was so happy to read #4....I heard a teenager say a racial slur today, and it shocked me so much that my jaw was open, and I'm sorry to say I didn't recover in time to say anything before he passed me. I think pointing out how wrong it is as often as we can is important, and I commend you for doing o!
ReplyDeleteStacy
Hi Veronica, I feel very honoured to accept the award and thank you so much for choosing me. We have a lot in common except for water. I love water and play water polo although its getting harder as Im getting older. I just love looking at the pics you have in your banner. Just so lovely. I will now think hard about who to pay forward to and post about it in a couple of days. Have a lovely week, Fiona
ReplyDeleteSo sorry about your lost and dealing with a heart attack in the family. Congrats on your award. We have so much in common. I'm a mag addict too, and a bit of a tomboy.
ReplyDeleteHi Fiona. so happy you accepted!
ReplyDeleteThanks Rosemary xxx
Hello Veronica. Thank you so much for nominating Casa-dolce-casa for this beautiful award and for your sweet comments. I am honoured to accept this from you. I have enjoyed visiting Tassles, Twigs and Tastebuds very much, we have a lot in common, you could be describing me with your 7 things haha. We are about to do some traveling and move into our new home very shortly and as soon as our feet touch the ground again, I will return to my blog and resume posting, meanwhile I will be popping in for some inspiration, happy days, best wishes and thank you again :-). Kathy
ReplyDeleteHey Kathy! Glad you accepted!! All is good, when your'e ready!!!
ReplyDeleteVeronica
xxx
Hi Veronica,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed learning more about you. You are so brave to swim if your afraid of the water.
Again I'm sorry to hear about your loss and I'm glad your family member feels better after the heart attack.
I hope to be back posting soon.
xo,
Dee