Liebster Award.

Recently bebebearcubs was nominated to receive the Liebster award by Stephanie over at muminthecotswolds.

This is our very first award so we are pleased to display the badge here on the blog.

What's wonderful about the Liebster award is its about being recognised within the blogging community. It is nice to know that readers enjoy your posts, what you write and your blog as an entirety. A lot of bloggers put their heart and soul into the posts, design, photography, reviews and collaborations featured on their blogs and it's great to know your blog has been noticed within the wider blogosphere.

In a nutshell the Liebster Award is ' an award gifted from fellow bloggers through nomination. It seeks to welcome, celebrate and encourage discovery of new blogs' ( quite aptly put by muminthecotswolds)

The Rules:
Once you have been nominated you will need to write a blog post containing:
*A link back to the person who nominated you
*11 interesting facts about yourself
*Answers to questions asked by the blogger who nominated you
*Links to your nominated blogs
*11 questions for your nominations to answer

Don't forget to notify the blogs you have nominated.

11 Facts about me:

1. I'm not ambidextrous but apparently I  wear my watch on the 'wrong wrist' and eat with my cutlery the wrong way round for someone who is right handed. When I sit down to eat I always have to swap my knife and fork over as they're set incorrectly for me.

2. I'm a bit of a Volkswagen fan and have been known to visit some of the veedub meets. My first car was a bright yellow Lupo which was a joy to drive around. She was called HoneyNut Lupo.

3. I have 3 pet guinea pigs (RIP Peanut). I have had guinea pigs since I was a little girl and think they make wonderful pets, they're gentle, sociable and love a cuddle.

4. I own an iPhone mainly for the camera, I actually dislike apple software and iTunes and don't like the restrictiveness of it. I have no end of problems navigating around my iPhone and find it frustrating when I am feeling creative.

5. I broke my kneecap in half 2 years ago whilst carrying my baby boy. It took me a good part of my maternity to learn to walk again which is pretty much the scariest thing I have ever had to do.

6. I love cheese. My absolute favourite is camembert baked in the oven for 20 minutes with nice crusty loaf dipped in, it's real comfort food.

7. I have a love/ hate relationship with social media. I love the ability to connect with people far and wide but I also feel it can be disconnecting, a time waster and take over genuine real life social interactions.

8. I still have my old Sega Mega Drive in storage and am a big Sonic the Hedgehog fan. (Sorry Super Mario)

9. I love to swim and used to swim at County level.

10. I find it hard to open up to girl friends and in fact my best friends are my husband, my mother and my sister. They are my rocks and I wouldn't have it any other way.

11. I recently enjoy photography and my trusty steed is my Fuji XM1.

My questions from Stephanie:

1. How long have you been blogging?

I have been blogging for almost a year now, inspiration for my blog was my baby boy Oscar, who was shortly joined by his sister Lottie in April of this year. There is 18 months between them so the last couple of years have been quite a whirlwind.

2. Do you have any hobbies?

I have a handful of hobbies, namely swimming (my way of keeping fit and thrashing out life's stresses in the pool) this keeps me active and healthy and was a great way for me to recover from recent injury. Another hobby of mine is of course my blogging, I love to write and to express myself through writing. A recent hobby is photography as I love to capture images of my loved ones to cherish.

3.Who’s your celebrity crush?

It used to be Will Smith but that was back when I was a teenager so some time ago. I don't really have a celebrity crush, Channing Tatum is not half bad and Nick Jonas relatively easy on the eye. Lincoln from the 100 probably ranks up there too but I'm not a big celeb follower or fussed with following the lives of the rich and famous.

4. If you where a crayon what colour would you be?

Yellow. It's my favourite colour as it reminds me of sunshine, Summer and happy times.

5. What’s your favourite TV show?

This has got to be The 100, it's awesome, totally addictive and when the frikkin heck is Season 3 coming!

6.When you where younger what did you want to be when you grew up?

I never knew. And I still don't career wise. (I'm very misguided) I do however know that I've always wanted to have a family of my own and be a Mummy. Being a Mum is a million times harder than I expected but also a million times more rewarding and pretty much the most wonderful thing to have ever happened to me, my children are my world.

7.Where is your favourite place to eat out?

We don't tend to eat out much, we never really have and love good quality time at home and a takeaway for a treat. With this in mind my favourite take out is a curry, and Kali Mirchi along Shirley high street is one of the best. They sell Maladair a dish which is a spinach, chilli and cream based, it's truly delicious.

8.Shoes or bags?

This is too tough to call.

9.Who is a hero in your life?

My dad. He's a real gent, loving, supportive and intelligent and a real family man. 

10.What’s your favourite season?

Spring. I actually love the Spring. We announced to family and friends during the Spring that we were expecting our first child (our son) and our daughter was actually born in the Spring so lots of happy times. I also find the weather can be really unexpectedly gorgeous at this time of year and adore all the daffodils blossoming.

11.Give 3 words that describe you best?

Loving, determined, sensitive.

So now you've heard a little more about me, it's time to move on to my nominations for the Liebster Award.

My nominations are:

Jodie @  BudgetBeautyandBabies
Lauren @ TheArtOfBeingAMummy

Sue @ HomeHeartHarmony

Naomi @ abandonthehouse.wordpress.com

11 questions for my nominees:

1. How long have you been blogging?
2.What is the inspiration for your blog?
3. What is your favourite App?
4. What can you not live without?
5. What is your favourite colour?
6. What would be your best advice for a new blogger?
7. Who inspires you?
8. What is you favourite takeaway?
9. What social media platform do you enjoy the most and why?
10.What is your favourite season?
11. List 3 words that describe yourself?

Hope you enjoyed my Liebster post and long may we continue to enjoy and celebrate the discovery of new blogs (: