The Sunshine Award

Award season seems to have arrived :) In the last three days I got nominated for The Sunshine Award by two different bloggers, which of course makes me really really happy, especially after a long and hard day of summer vacation, that has left me feeling very exhausted.

Like the Versatile Blogger Award, this is also an award from bloggers to bloggers and there are some rules as well.

First of all, I want to thank the lovely ladies who nominated me for the award - Regina from the blog At the Lake and Stephanie from the blog Bee Tree Studios, you should go and visit them, their blogs are awsome!

Now to the blogs I want to nominate for the award.

1.

Eat Sleep Make

2. 

Sumo's Sweet Stuff

3. 

One Little Project

4. 

The Simple Craftes Diaries

5. 

Daisy Mae Belle

6. 

Projektila

7. 

Lila Lotta

8. 

Sews N Bows

9. 

Theetante San

10. 

Jacks and Kate

And here are the questions I had to answer. I hope you don't mind that I combined the questions from Regina & Stephanie into one list.

1. What is your favorite movie?   Before Sunrise
2. Chocolate or Vanilla?  Chocolate
3. What was your favorite book as a child?   Any book by Enid Blyton
4. If you could be any animal, what would you be?    That's a tough one... The Man always says I'm a bird, so a bird it is :)
5. Gold or Silver?   Silver
6. What was the funniest thing you ever did as a child? I know my mom tells stories about me eating certain weird things...
7. What was the last restaurant you went to?  It's called Klemantina and it's located in a small village in Israel.
8. Do you karaoke?  I love Karaoke (please don't hold it against me...), expecially KTV - those private karaoke rooms
9. What is your favorite board game? Monopoly
10. What’s your favorite meal of the day? Lunch
11. What’s your favorite fruit? Pomelo
12. When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up? Actress
13. What quality do you find most attractive in others? Sense of Humor
14. What’s your favorite sport? Does Tai Chi count?...
15. What’s your favorite candy? Snickers
16. What’s your favorite online shopping website? Taobao, of course!
17. What’s your pet peeve? jumping the queue
18. Winter, spring, summer or fall? End of winter, beginning of spring
19. How many pairs of shoes do you have? Do I need to count those I only wore once?...

Sweet Surprise - My First Award!

I love surprises. Especially those sweet little ones, like reading through my Bloglovin' feed on a Saturday afternoon and to find out I've been awarded my first award!

The Versatile Blogger Award is an award to bloggers by bloggers. Each blogger that has been awarded, nominates up to 15 other blogs and then tells the person who nominated him 7 things about himself.

Madison (and her mom Amanda) from the sweet blog Growing up Madison nominated me, so first of all - thank you!

Now it's my turn to choose 15 other blogs to nominate. It's not an easy task, considering I have more than 200 blogs in my feed...

1.

  One More Mushroom

2.

Pink Friday

3.

Mini Moz

4.

Ikat Bag

5.

Colorful Way 

6.

Shanty 2 Chic

7.

Laura's Crafty Life

8.

My World of Wool

9.

Essentially Eclectic

10.

Pink When

11.

Craft & Creativity

12.

Happy in Red

13.

A Typical English Home

14.

Tada! Creations

15.

Suburbs Mama

And here are the 7 things about me:

1. I love sewing the most. No, wait, I love knitting the most. Or maybe crochet. No, definitely felting. No, no, pottery! Oh, well, I love them all!

2. I speak, read and write Chinese.

3. I hate fish. I think I only ate fish 5 times in my life...

4. When I was young, I wanted to be an actress. Then a singer. Then a lawyer. Then an interior designer. Then an anthropologist. Then a writer. Then a toy designer. Then what?

5. I love traveling to new places with new cultures, new languages and new people. I almost always prefer to go somewhere new instead of going again to a place I've been to, even if I love this place.

6. I moved 19 times since I was born. I counted.

7. One day, if possible, I want to live on a desert island with the man and the kids.

Day 2 - Let's Talk About Me For a Minute

Second Day to the Ultimate Blog Challenge. What was I thinking when I signed up?... Argggg... Take a deep breath... OK, let's continue.
I've been wanting to write an "About Me" section for a while now, but other things kept on coming up instead. So a-post-a-day challenge is definitely a good excuse for that.

I'm Tal, 30+ years old if you check my ID, a lot less if you ask me. A mother to three little (and cute!) ones, ages 1-7. We live in a small village not far from Tel Aviv, Israel's cultural capital (and one of my favorite cities in the world!). We moved here about 3 years ago, after 8 years in the Far East (Taiwan & China).

I always loved art and crafts, but never tried to do anything related, and to be honest, I never thought I was good at it.
Things started to change 7 years ago, when The Boy was born and I found myself spending hours at home, getting BORED. Somehow, I'm still not sure exactly how, I began working with polymer clay (aka Fimo). I wrote a post about it a couple of years ago, when I was writing a post a month and not a post a day...

That was also when I realized that I can make some money out of it, when I participated in a charity fair and to my surprise sold most of the items I brought with me.
Fast forward a few years, I just love all kind of crafts. The Man can't look anymore at the piles of cardboard boxes / two-legs-tables / old and torn t-shirts and other things that I hoard almost obsessively. But ever since I started, I just can't stop...

Old cupboard turns play kitchen

A big cardboard box turns puppet theater

Or a castle for princes and princesses birthday party

And a plastic bag upcycles a simple tank top

Except that, I also enjoy sewing, crocheting, working with clay, cooking, felting and have some fun with the kids, of course.

So I'd love you to join me on this one month challenge (I'd be happy if you stick around after that as well, of course!). Comments, notes, suggestions etc. are always greatly appreciated. You can also join me on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest (don't forget to pin your images to the group board!), Google+, Instagram, Bloglovin' and soon on Etsy as well.