vegan.in.brighton: award

Thursday, 20 October 2011

Liebster Award

When Carrie from Vegan For The Win nominated me for the Liebster blog award last Saturday I was super flattered but I also felt like I shouldn't accept it as I have more than 200 followers. Leibster is German & means 'dearest' or 'beloved' but it can also mean 'favourite' & the idea of the Leibster award is to bring attention to blogs with less than 200 followers but when Savannah of In Her Grace also nominated me for the same award I decided that I should definitely write a post about it & pass the award on to 5 more bloggers.

To keep it relevant I'm passing the award along to bloggers who are also participating in Vegan MoFo...

1 Kittens Gone Lentil

2 Tea and Sympatico

3 Vegan Vamps

4 Vegan Gourmet Caravan

5 Vegan and So Forth

If you'd like to pass along the award you just need to pick five blogs with less than 200 followers and then...

1- Show your thanks to the people who gave you the award by linking back to them.

2- Link to five of your top picks and let them know they've been nominated by leaving a comment on their blog.

3- Post the award on your blog.

4- Enjoy the love and support of some wonderful people on the inter-web!

Tuesday, 12 April 2011

One Lovely Blog Award.

I recently received a One Lovely Blog Award from Jill over at the Vegan Backpacker blog, that jogged my memory & reminded me that Claire at Nothing Happens Unless We Dream also awarded me the One Lovely Blog Award at the end of last year so thank you ladies.

This means that it's my turn to share seven things about myself & to pass the award on to some new bloggers.

1. I eat a much more varied diet since becoming vegan. Before I went vegan I couldn't cook, at all. I literally ate either spaghetti with pesto or microwave meals every day!

This picture is of the vegan Thanksgiving we had last year. The seitan en croute from 500 Vegan Recipes is SO delicious, if you haven't made it yet do it now!

2. I love to travel. I know that's no secret, I often blog about food I've eaten in other countries, but I mean I REALLY love it. I think I could happily travel around the world in a van trying delicious food in other countries every day for the rest of my life.

This is the Fakin' Fish Burger from Yellow Sunshine in Berlin.

3. On another travel related note I love everything about flying. I love the excitement of being at the airport, I love seeing what the airline's idea of a vegan meal is & I love the in flight magazines. I even love having to set an alarm to get a really early flight & I always always hop right out of bed on those days.

4. I play drums, I'm not brilliant & I'm definitely still learning but I love it.

5. I have a vegan tattoo. Veganism is really important to me & it's through being vegan that I've met some of my best friends. I got the broccoli because I just really love it, I probably eat it every day.

This picture's from when it was just done so it certainly doesn't look this puffy anymore, also the shading on the banner's chilled out a bit.

6. I would love to rescue a dog or a bunny but I don't feel responsible enough. Raystede are my local no-kill animal shelter & I often go there just to look at the animals.

7. I would move to New York City tomorrow if I could, I think it's my favourite place in the world.