The Liebster Award

Hi everyone, I was nominated twice in December or the Liebster Award, my 3rd time but I never got around to it due to the season and I apologize to Catsclawspolish and Trendytips1116 but I've finally got around to it, I will do both in the same post if that's ok :)

For those who don't know the Liebster award is for those blogs who have less than 200 followers :)

Each person must post 11 random things about themselves

Answer the questions that the nominator set for you, plus create 11 questions for the people you nominate to answer.

Choose 11 people and link them in your post.

Go to their page and tell them.

No tag backs!

OK so 11 random facts about me:

1. I collect mugs mainly Tigger.

2. I ate a 360g tub of flying saucers over Christmas.

3. I love playing Pocket Frogs on the Ipod.

4. I have 7 birds, 4 budgies, 2 cockatiels and 1 canary, I would like 2 more budgies.

5. I own 20 tubes of hand cream.

6. My favourite fish are neons and oranders.

7. My collection of nail polish has hit 119 in 8 months.

8. 42 of those are Barry M.

9. I hate the smell and taste of honey, it's awful.

10. I don't have a favourite music artist. 

11. I am reading the Hunger Games. 

Questions from Catsclaws

1.  What is one thing you'd tell new bloggers to always remember?

Hmm I'd just say to enjoy what you do, don't take it to seriously it's just fun :)
2.  For my nail polish blogger friends, if money was no object, what lemming would you buy first?  For non polish bloggers, if money was no object, what is the first thing you'd buy?

That's tough but if I could find Nerd Lacquer All of Time and Space then that.3.  If you could have/make up any animal you wanted for a pet, what would it look like/be?

I'd make up a large pink fluffy ball with 2 eyes and 2 little feet, and little pink antennas lol or just a penguin. 
4.  Who was your first celebrity crush?

Ack ok Mulder from the X Files :o
5.  Who is your current celebrity crush?

Honestly can't think of one, Christopher Dean I  guess shhhh :P
6.  If you could live in any fictional place you knew of, where would it be?

Oz  or Hogwarts :D
7.  If the world does in fact end on December 21, what is the one thing you want to be sure you've done by then?

Well I'm glad it didn't but to have spoke to all my family.
8.  Nail bloggers, name your five favorite nail polishes.  Non nail blogger, or anyone else, name your five favorite things.

Barry M Blueberry Ice Cream, China Glaze Stella, A England Galahad, Jade Energy and Nails Inc Devonshire Place.
9.  Who is your hero?

My mother :)
10.  Name one blogger you think everyone should check out.

Scrangie
11.  It's the zombie apocalypse...what is your weapon of choice?!

A sword :P

Questions from Trendytips1116

1. What is your favorite nail polish?

Barry M Blueberry Ice Cream.

2. Do you/did you ever play sports? If so, which ones?

Never I don't like sports.

3. Name your favorite singer/band.

I don't have a particular favourite.

4. What are your hobbies besides nails?

Crafting, painting, my pets.

5.  What is your favorite book? (or author)

I have lots, Harry Potter, Twilight, Vampire Academy and Morganville Vampires. 

6. What is one accessory you cannot live without?

I don't have a lot, probably a hat because I get cold ears lol

7. What is your favorite thing about blogging?

Seeing other bloggers posts, sharing my own :)

8.Do you know another language? (besides your native language, that is)

I'm afraid not. 

9.What is the last movie you went to see? Was it good?

Breaking Dawn Part 2 at midnight, and it was :D

10. Favorite Christmas tradition? (if you celebrate it)

Baking food on Christmas Eve for Christmas Day. 

11. Do you have pets? (yes, I know I stole this question from Sarah, but I really liked it; pictures make it better!! :)

I do, ok this could take a while bare with me ;)

My 2 cockatiels Luna (yellow) and Ginny (grey)

My 4 budgies Edward, Chilli, Hadley and Sookie. 

Peaches my canary

My geckos Cookie and Lolly

My guinea pig Pumpkin

My rabbits (there's 6)

Raine

Casper

Lily

Rosie (who is Lily's daughter accidental from a mis sex of Pepper who was not a girl!)

Pepper this is when we got him... as a girl!

and Frosty a complete fluff ball often compared to as a llama these days lol

and who doesn't appreciate babies!! This is an old photo from 6 years ago, the little tiny black bunny is Casper at 5 weeks, yes that Casper above lol the little black bunny stuck in the middle is his sister Cleo and the little white fluff ball is his other sister Poppy both who are sadly not with us any more <3

My 11 questions are:

1. How many nail polish do you buy a month?

2. How big is your collection?

3. Do you collect anything?

4. What movie are you looking forward to for 2013?

5. Any New Years resolutions?

6. Favourite meal?

7. What nail polish is next on your buy list?

8. What is your favourite finish?

9. What is your favourite polish colour?

10. What's your favourite TV programme?

11. What are you reading currently?

and finally my 11 tags!

1. Naily-perfect

2. Twodaysslow

3. Tarastalons

4. Rosetintmynails

5. Annaspolishaddiction

6. Lanes-laquers

7. Soyoubeauty

8. Phoenixnails

9. Totally-nailed

10. Ateenageshopaholic

11. Horcruxnails

Enjoy! x

Barry M Gelly - Satsuma

Satsuma is the first of the Barry M Gelly line, I picked this one up because it's a perfect Halloween colour for the month. It is awesome, a one coater, that applies perfectly and dries fast what more could you ask for? Oh more colours! I will definitely grab some of the others!

I added some festive Halloween stickers to go with it. I love the colour it's so in your face just how I like it lol

Have you grabbed any Gelly's yet?

Enjoy! x

The Liebster Award!!

Hey guys, so recently I was tagged for the Liebster award by Robin Sparkles This has been my first award tag and partaking of these types of things. How exciting!!

For this tag, you need to do the following:

1. Each person tagged must post 11 things about themselves.
2. They must also answer the 11 questions the 'tagger' has set for them.
3. They must create 11 more questions to ask bloggers they have decided to tag.

4. They must then choose 11 bloggers with less than 200 followers and tag them in their post.

5. These lucky bloggers must then be told.
6. There's no tag backs.

11 things about myself.

1. I love animals. My top 3 wild animals would be tigers, penguins and owls.

2. I own 6 rabbits, 4 budgies, 2 cockatiels, a canary, 2 leopard geckos, a guinea pig and a hamster. Yep you did read that right ;)

3. I love learning new arts and crafts, currently I am planning to try learn amigurumi.

4. I love reading and i'm a total vampire nerd. Yes my favourites would be Vampire Academy, Morganville Vampires and Twilight but above all comes Harry Potter first.

5. I belong in Hufflepuff (HP nerds will understand).

6. My favourite TV show is Doctor Who, I am a Whovian who adores the current Team Tardis ;)

7. I tried to learn the violin but I was really bad!

8. My obsession with tigers began when I was 2 after my dad bought me my first stuffed tiger. My collection since grew massively.

9. I have never liked sport so suprisenly I have really enjoyed following along each sport this Olympics and supporting Team GB.

10. I will be Maid of Honour this time next week.

11. My nail obsession only began shortly but it has grown rapidly since!

My Questions For The Tagged

1. What/who inspired you to start blogging about nail art and where do you get your inspiration for nail art from?

I got my inspiration from SpellBinding Nails to start my own blog. I'd been reading hers for a while and decided to make my own and join in with the other bloggers. :)

2. Do you blog about anything other than nail art and how long have you been blogging for?

I have not blogged about anything else yet, I made it primarily for nail posts but if anything beauty related really caught my eye I would probably post that too. I have only been blogging maybe 2 months.

3. What is the top thing on your "wish list" you would want if you could be given one thing for free today?

That is really hard! I hve stuff on my wishlist I have to hunt down as they're not availble to the UK but I'd have to go with O.P.I La Boheme, I eBayed it and boy that baby has a price tag!

4. Favourite nail art technique? (Water marbling, stamping, gradient etc.)

Hmm free hand techniques with sparkly stones, I love that. I've tried stamping but i'm not good at it, i'll keep trying just need to stop buying polish so I can grab a few Konad special polishes lol

5. What are your favourite 3 nail polish colours & brands at the moment?

3! that's cruel ;) From my stash Barry M Blueberry Ice Cream, A England Galahad & Morgan Le fay(together they are lovely). Brands definately Barry M cheap and awesome, A England and O.P.I.

6. What are your hobbies other than nail art blogging?

I love crafts but I have lacked them recently. I like to draw, paint, bear making and I am going to try my hand at Amigurumi.

7. What software do you use to edit your pictures before uploading them to your blog?

Umm I don't. Photobucket and pop those suckers up there :p

8. What software do you use to watermark your photos before uploading them to your blog?

Again I don't. I never knew how but I found it out so I will probably go back and do that now.

9. How often do you paint your nails and how do you keep them in tip-top condition?

I do them about every 3 days. I use O.P.I nail envy, it's the only that works to keep my nails from splitting and breaking everyday.

10. What is your favourite design you've blogged?

My Leopard nails :)

11. What is your favourite film and favourite book of all time?

Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows part 2. Book wise it's become a tie between Harry Potter series and Vampire Academy Last Sacrifice the last book of that series.

My questions for the tagged.

1. How many nail polishes are currently in your collection?

2. When did your polish addiction begin?

3. What is your biggest nail polish lemming at the moment?

4. Do you prefer summer brights or vampy darks?

5. Why did you start your nail polish blog?

6. Other than nail polish what beauty product can you not live without?

7. What is your favourite type of nail art to do?

8. What is your favourite and least favourite nail finish? (Duochrome, glitter etc)

9. What is your best product for nail strengthening, growth?

10. What base and top coat do you use?

11. Do you keep any back ups of your polishes?

And finally I tag:

1. Elanors Nails
2. Nailipedia
3. Nail Newbie
4. Nail of this Week
5. Polish and Portal Guns

6. Pretty Kitty Claws

7. Red Hair and Black Nail Polish

8. Sunshine Rose 

9. The Colour and the Sparkle

10. The Nail Art Hobby

Took me a while to complete this, i'm easily distracted. I've been googling amigurumi a lot and finding it quite intimidating but i'm still going to give it a shot. I really apologise to my taggee's if you've already been before :3

(If I accidently tagged you and you have more than 200 followers, I apologise. I tried really hard to make sure you were all under 200 but my connection has been awful lately and it's been a real pain checking everyones blogs so sorry about that!!)