Showing posts with label Award. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Award. Show all posts

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Stylish blogger award

Jenny from Polishology tagged me for this blog award the other day (also check out her blog for the latest Katy Perry Collection swatches).


Here are the rules for this award:

1. Thank and link the person who gave you this award.
2. Share 7 things about yourself.
3. Award 15 recently discovered great bloggers
4. Contact these bloggers to tell them about this award!

Im struggling to think of 7 things about myself so I am going to list the first things that come to my head right now.

1. Tomorrow I start my first proper full time job as an analyst at the Ministry of Education in New Zealand. I am freaking out and very nervous! Its a great job and a great way to get experience for me to move onto better things in the long run.

2. As a continuation on from 1. I have spent the last 6 years at Victoria University in Wellington studying undergrad and postgrad there. I finished my Masters in Statistics a few months ago and am going to miss Uni and all the great people there. The Stats department was quite small and I enjoyed hanging out with all of our lecturers and other students.

3. I wish I had better nails sooooo much. Mine are short and thin and while they grow relatively fast they are funny shaped and I wish they were like those of the people I see in other blogs.

4. Nail polish is really hard to get in New Zealand and what we can get is really expensive. We pay NZ$20-25 for OPI, Orly and Essie polishes. Color Club polishes are NZ$16 and BYS is NZ$5-10. That is pretty much all we can get in New Zealand. Kind of sad really.

5. I love Chris! We have been together almost 9 years and it is 13 months until we get married (next February) and the wedding planning has recently stepped up a notch. Our parents are helping out, but that means they have to approve and agree to everything first. Once we get further along on in the planning I will post some things.

6. I am currently watching the 3rd season of The Big Bang Theory for about the 10th time. I love this show and when there is nothing else on TV I play it in the background while I do work.

7. I also love my cat (Keera). I am 24 and don't have kids so she is my baby. She is almost 7 and follows me everywhere (even to the toilet). She sleeps on the end of my bed and loves to cuddle. She is also a giant woss.

Okay so that wasn't too hard. :P

I think most people have done this by now, so I tag those who have not yet told us 7 things about them. Leave a comment if you do get around to sharing your 7 things.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Sunshine award

This Sunshine Award was given to be by Karen from Frazzle and Aniploish. Karen does lots of great posts with lots of colour accurate pictures and great colour comparisons. Her stash is huge! Shes helping out us lesser known bloggers by linking us to this award.


The rules for this award:
1. Post the image on your blog
2. Link the blogger who gave it to you
3. Pass it on to 12 other bloggers
4. Link those 12 bloggers
5. Let them know you've tagged them by commenting on their blog

I think most people have already had this award. So again I am going to pass this on to the lesser known blogs aswell:

Nail Bean
paillette polish journal
nails_r_us
newbie nails
Ditch the mittens
Polish infatuated

ok so its not 12 but its a start :)

Lots of Love
Lisa

Monday, September 6, 2010

Tags and a plea for help


I was tagged with these two awards by Lacquer Ware for Tips and Toes (sorry hun I dont know your real name). she made the effort to tag those of use who have blogs that she likes but are unknown to many others out there. Thanks so much - I appreciate any one who can help get awareness out about my blog and my little country at the bottom of the world (New Zealand - and no we are not part of Australia)


So the 10 things I like most in the world at the moment:
  1. Nail Polish (I think this is obvious but I am deadly serious, I have developed serious shakes at the moment because I have had no money to buy any more)
  2. Chris - My Fiance (Hes had a hard time lately and gotten sick, but we are dealing with it. Its been 8 years and I still love him to pieces)
  3. Keera - my beautiful black cat. She is my baby and I love her to pieces, I worry when she goes outside at night and I love it when I come home and all she wants to do is cuddle.
  4. Farmville - yes that annoying game on facebook - I am completely addicted, I have been playing since the start and it is a great waste of time, but a good way to procrastinate at Uni.
  5. The Big Bang Theory - This is the most hilarious TV show ever. LOVE it. If you haven't seen it you are seriously missing out. even watching the dvd for the 8th time I still love it and cant stop laughing.
  6. Disney - Anything Disney - I grew up as a Disney kid, I have all their animated movies on DVD and still love watching them. The one problem is we don't have any Disney shops in New Zealand so no cool Disney merchandise :(
  7. Reading - I read at least one book a week, cant go to sleep without reading. And I like my books in paper format.
  8. Sleep - enough said - especially when Chris isn't snoring :)
  9. Caramel Slice - Gooey chocolatey caramely goodness
  10. Gossip Girl - The drama, the passion its all amazing (I was a huge fan of the OC and this is just as great)
So I hope you learned a little about me this way. I am going to tag anyone who hasn't already done this and wants to :)

And on that note I am going to make a plea to anyone living in America - Here in New Zealand we do not get Nicole OPI polishes and I am desperate for the Gossip Girl Collection.


I will gladly make a swap/or pay for these polishes If any one can get a hold of a set of these, I will be forever grateful. For anyone interested I can easily get BYS and Nfu-Oh polishes here in New Zealand.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Sunday, August 15, 2010

100th post, Update and my first Award :)

Picture thanks to Lolcats

YAY today is my 100th Blog post!

To be honest I can't believe it came up so fast. I doesn't seem like I have been doing this for long at all, so I also cant believe it has been 6 months!

I am slowly gaining followers and I appreciate every single on of you. You all keep me motivated to keep on doing this. When I have some more followers (I'm thinking 100) and get a job (fingers crossed) and have finished my Masters Thesis (1 month to go) there will be a give away to say thanks! Some goodies from New Zealand and of course some POLISH (Im thinking BYS and Nfu-Oh - which is unbelievably quite easy to get here).

I got my first tag today from PolishPig. Thanks so much hun :)

The rules are very simple:
- Answer one question: What do you like the most about your own blog?
- Pass this award on.

The thing I like most about my blog is the people. People from all over the world. And all nail polish girls are so lovely. I have meet wonderful people in New Zealand as well (Kathy from The Finishing Touch and Rob from Color Club New Zealand). I love having followers and people who comment, and I get so excited when I find out I have more people taking an interest in the things I have to say (from a little tiny country on the other side of the world).

I pass this award on to:

Zara at Never Unpolished
Jacie at You've got Nail
and the wonderful Stephanie from Imperfectly Painted

Lots of Love
Lisa