First of all, I want to say thank you to Laura of Modern in the Mitten for nominating me for The Sunshine Blogger Award!
For anyone reading this who has no idea what the Sunshine Blogger Award is: it’s an award given by and to bloggers for being creative, positive, and inspiring. Receiving it has me feeling all warm & fuzzy inside since I’m still a new blogger and it’s nice to get recognition from the blogging community.
The Rules for the Sunshine Blogger Award are:
- Thank the blogger who nominated you in a blog post and link back to their blog
- Answer 11 questions the blogger has asked you
- Nominate 11 new blogs to receive the award and write them 11 new questions
- List the rules and display the sunshine blogger award logo in your post
The Questions I Was Asked:
What is your favorite thing about blogging?
Getting to talk write about my travels uninterrupted. When telling people about a trip in person, I tend to get distracted and go off on a tangent (especially if they ask me a question), and then I never get to finish telling them about the trip. There have also been times when I cut my stories short for various reasons. When I’m writing a blog post I get to write it all out the way I’d like to tell it.
Where do you blog from?
I live in (and blog from) Buffalo, NY. Unless you were being even more specific, in which case: mostly from my couch.
What’s one thing you can’t make through the day without?
11/10 would snuggle
Snuggles from my red Doberman, Pandora. I mean, seriously, she’s the cutest.
What’s your favorite ice cream flavor?
Up until this summer I would have said Cookies & Cream as a standard fave. However, this summer Stewart’s Shops (a convenience store chain in Northern New York) upped the game with their Campfire S’moreo ice cream. They took Cookies & Cream and perfectly joined it with a s’more. It had toasted marshmallow ice cream with my beloved chocolate cookie pieces, and a graham cracker swirl running through. Sadly, I’m pretty sure it was a seasonal flavor, but I’m really hoping they keep it around or at least bring it back next year.
What place would you most like to visit?
I’m a travel blogger… this is cruel. Everywhere! My bucket list/travel list is ridiculously long. Our next trip is to a few countries in Europe including the German Christmas markets so I’ll pick that one for now. Hello, glühwein, gingerbread, and hopefully the Northern Lights!
What’s your favorite book?
I’m also a bookworm, this is also cruel. I’ll take a cheater’s way out by saying Harry Potter (and no I will not pick just one book of the series). Slytherins unite.
What’s your dream job?
Beach bum. Really. If I could just island hop around the world with an unlimited supply of books and margaritas, I think I’d be perfectly content forever.
What’s your favorite tool that helps you blog?
Physical: Laptop and Digital: Google
If you could win an Olympic medal for any sport, real or fake, what would it be?
Sarcasm.
What’s one thing about you that surprises people?
I’m a retired Irish step dancer. At age three my mom put me into classes with my older sisters so that I could learn to dance with them. Over the years I went to countless classes, performances, parades, and competitions. While I haven’t taken a class in years, Irish step dancing will forever hold a piece of my heart. Now that you know that, it should come as no surprise that my first trip abroad was to Ireland!
Where do you get your creative inspiration?
Mostly I’ve been writing about my travels and some of the books I’ve read that have inspired wanderlust. There’s also some inner dialogue that ends up in my posts, so you’re welcome for the shenanigans.
My Sunshine Blogger Award Nominees:
Gutsy Girls Travel
Just Us Two Travel
Globetrotting Grooms
Questions for My Nominees:
- How did you pick your blog name?
- What’s your favorite color and is there a reason it’s your favorite?
- If you had to live on just one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
- Why did you start blogging?
- What’s something that you’re embarrassed to admit you like?
- Do you have a favorite quote? If so, please share.
- What is your favorite social media platform (for personal use and for blogging)?
- How do you feel about pineapple on pizza?
- What’s a memory that still makes you laugh out loud when you think about it?
- If you had a superpower, what would it be?
- What would be the title of the book written about your life?
Again many thanks go to Laura of Modern in the Mitten for nominating me. It was a lot of fun answering all these questions and then coming up with new ones for my nominees. I’m rather looking forward to reading the posts of my nominees and learning more about fellow bloggers.
Congrats and love the dog. Can’t wait to check out your list of nominees.
Thank you! She’s my favorite, but don’t tell the rest of the dogs in the world 😉
Congratulations on your nomination. I think this award is a great idea (whoever came up with it) at giving back to other bloggers. We’ve recently been nominated by someone you nominated so we’ll be posting ours up soon 🙂
Rio
Thank you! I agree, it’s a really nice way to recognize and boost up fellow bloggers. Congratulations on your nomination, I look forward to reading your post when you publish it!
Slytherin-hi5 WHOO 😀
Also, your dog is really adorable! She looks like she gives good cuddles.
She’s the best cuddler, and will actually get grumpy if we don’t sit on the couch for snuggles at night! ❤️ Slytherin
Favourite ice cream flavour is such a hard question!! Cuddles with my dog are a daily essential for me too x
Sophie
So true, you think you know yourself until someone asks one of the hard questions. I actually had to stop and think about what flavor is my favorite… Aww, yay for puppy cuddles!
Congrats on being nominated for the Sunshine Blogger Award! I loved reading your answers. My favourite flavour ice cream has to be good old chocolate. Your dog is so cute!
Nicola
Thank you! One can never go wrong with some chocolate ice cream 😉
Pandora is such a cutie!! Mmm the Campfire S’moreo ice cream sounds amazing!!! Loved this!
Thank you so much! That ice cream was ridiculously good, I’m really hoping they have it again next summer! 🤞🏻