Tag: Nominees

Three Day Quote Challenge Day Three


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Go Confidently In The Direction Of Your Dreams, Live The Life You Have Always Imagined. This was a present from my mum and dad last Christmas and it’s on the wall by the other side of my bed. I look at it often and it directly represents where I am at in my life.
Write More Happiness In to The World. I don't own the Copyright to this, it lies with the calendar company.
Write More Happiness In to The World. I don’t own the Copyright to this, it lies with the calendar company. Every Year I buy myself a motivational/inspirational calendar, so that each month I am inspired and motivated to achieve more in my life and career.
Create The Life You Love.
Create The Life You Love. This is in front of my TV and I can see it every day to motivate and inspire me. I don’t hardly ever watch TV these days, so it’s perfectly placed in my viewing range. I bought it as an early Valentine’s Day present for myself this year.
These are quotes from my Break Through The Barriers Of Redundancy To Get Back Into Work: -An A-Z ‘How To’ Guide:
“There are no rules, other than the ones we set for ourselves.”
“Defy normal, throw away the rule book and create your own.”
Thanks once again to my long term blogging friend danbalva for nominating me for this awesome 3 day Quote challenge! This is day two, and the quote above was at a business show I went to in London, in front of their luggage storage area. Check Dan’s awesome blog out at https://hurdlestohappiness.wordpress.com
These are the Rules for this award:
  • Post one quotation a day for three days (they can be from other sources or one of your own).
  • Nominate 3 other bloggers to participate per post.
  • Thank the blogger who nominated you.

4 others I nominated – 3 and a bonus nominee, can’t do this challenge because of the time it takes, I understand. Because I am late with this post due to my time being massively stretched, if any of the nominees in this post or any previous post, can’t take up the challenge, that is fine, but I won’t be nominating anyone else, because I have a back log of posts that I need to get out to you asap and a pile up of work.

Here are my nominees for today:

https://sewingfeet.wordpress.com This lady was a former student of mine and has an amazing blog, check it out.

https://utesmile.wordpress.com Ute makes every day a smiley day – check out her inspirational blog.

http://kattermonran.com Al is inspirational and a fantastic photographer, check out his blog.

https://blogmethisblog.wordpress.com Kim, or Courtney as you may know her, is a writer too. Enjoy checking out her blog.

I told one of my bloggers I would ask someone else to do her quote challenge, hence why there is 4 that I nominated today. It’s coming up to 4am and I am going to call it a night for tonight; I have my day job in just a few hours time and I have to prepare for Snow’s birthday later today, that is tomorrow (15th of October); she will be a big 3 years old, and we need to have a piggy party and record a video for you.

STILL TO COME TO THIS BLOG:

SNOWS BIRTHDAY PARTY

A BLOG AWARD – NOMINATIONS

MY INTERVIEW FOR AN ASEXUAL WRITERS AND BLOGGERS DIRECTORY THAT WILL BE SPLIT OVER MULTIPLE POSTS – 30 QUESTIONS THAT REALLY GET INSIDE MY WRITER’S MIND AND REVEAL A LOT MORE ABOUT ME PERSONALLY.

VLOG POSTS FROM MY WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/QUIRKYBOOKSTV CHANNEL.

Until next time – stay quirky and write soon.

Sandra

 

Three Day Quote Challenge: Day Two


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Thanks once again to my long term blogging friend danbalva for nominating me for this awesome 3 day Quote challenge! This is day two, and the quote above was at a business show I went to in London, in front of their luggage storage area. Check Dan’s awesome blog out at https://hurdlestohappiness.wordpress.com
These are the Rules for this award:
  • Post one quotation a day for three days (they can be from other sources or one of your own).
  • Nominate 3 other bloggers to participate per post.
  • Thank the blogger who nominated you.

Here are my nominees for today:

Notapunkrocker https://notapunkrocker.wordpress.com If you love quirky – check her blog out – and watch out for the lego!!

Brenda Davis – http://friendlyfairytales.com If you love fairytales and magic, check out her blog.

swo8 https://swo8.wordpress.com If you love Blues music, you will enjoy her blog, check it out.

I am going to give you a bonus nominee – my good friend Ralph who always tells his story in photos/pics with words he puts to them, focusing on some ‘naughty’ stuff – I am asexual and personally sex and naked repulsed, but still find his posts hilarious, so check his blog out. I am not sure if he will take part, because he doesn’t accept blog awards and has a very specific format he likes to stick to on his blog, but I would love to see what awesome quote pics he would come up with, so I am going to nominate him anyway and hope he obliges me: http://bluefishway.com

I forgot to mention yesterday, that I recently received a blog award. I am about two years behind or more, with my blog nominations for awards I have been given in the past. I have given Paula my word that I will be nominating for the award she gave me, very soon.

So why the delay, and why am I finding it so hard to have time to visit people’s blogs?? The simple answer is time.

To put it in perspective for you, I have had 9 or less hours sleep in the last three days. It’s really tough when you are relentlessly pursuing your dream.

I have 16 live fully functional websites for different parts of www.worldofquirky.com  that I have to manage – check it out to learn more.

I also have to manage 9 Twitter accounts and 11 Facebook business pages, as well as a personal one – please click through on the widgets and like my pages and follow me on Twitter, it would be awesome to have your support there too.

And – I have an active LinkedIn account and more than one Google+ account I have to manage. Plus my www.youtube.com/quirkybooksTV  channel – please subscribe if you haven’t done so already, I really need your support.
On top of this, I work a full time day job 5 days a week, and therefore spend almost every evening and my days off, working on my businesses in some way. Even many breaks at work I am on my social media, doing something connected with my businesses.

I haven’t mentioned my emails.

Some times I find it hard to just have time to post something here, even though I love blogging and interaction with you.

And sometimes, I feel myself subconsciously holding my breath; because I haven’t got time to breath.

I know I have a life purpose and mission that I intend to be working on every single day. I was born to help you to develop yourself both personally and professionally, to achieve your goals, ambitions and dreams; all the while embracing your quirky, individual self. I was born to show you, you are gorgeous in your own right, and to help you to believe and have confidence in yourself, no matter what. I was born to show you, it’s okay to be you – you are very beautiful and special, just as you are.

I was born to help asexuals to feel not so alone; to pave the way for asexuality to be recognised and accepted globally as an orientation; to free people from the isolation and fear they feel as a minority population.

I was born to be quirky, not normal, and off the planet different.

What were you born for??

Stay quirky and write soon

Sandra

The Liebster Award – Thanks And Nominations


Hi Everyone

On October 25th I was Nominated for the Liebster Award by Wendy from searchingforthehappiness.wordpress.com, thank you so much Wendy, you have an awesome blog and I love following it.

I have recently been away in London and wanted to take time to think about who to nominate before I went ahead and did so.

For this award I have received 11 questions to answer.  Hope you find out a little more about me and if you have any questions, please fee free to ask away.

1.  What has been the most rewarding part of blogging for you?

  • Writing a guest blog post for a HR company and it got a mention in The New York Times
  • Writing a blog post – Any opportunity to write and I am ecstatic
  • Communicating with some amazing people
  • Having Author and Writing Coach Rochelle Melander, guest blog on my blog
  • Having competitions for people to win a copy of Write-A-Thon
  • A blog post from my other blog, http://www.beatredundancyblues.wordpress.com being featured as a headline on Platform 3 online newspaper from Switzerland

2.  What have friends and family said about you having a blog?

My mum can’t even text, bless her, let alone go on the internet but she is pleased when I win an award. My dad picks over grammar, punctuation and spelling and tells me if there is something wrong, bless him. My friends are happy that my blog is successful and are very encouraging.

3.  Has your blog helped you professionally or is your blog just for fun?

My blog has certainly helped me professionally. It has boosted my status as a professional writer and I have other writers following my blog that I feel so honoured by.

4.  How long have you been blogging?

I started this blog in November 2010.

5.  What state or country do you live in?

I live in Exeter, in Devon, in the UK.

6.  What is your favorite hobby?

Writing of course, I adore it from head to toe and back again.

7.  What is your favorite type of food?

I like Thai food, if I can get the place serving it to cater for my allergies. East St Thai restaurant in London is good at doing this for me. I also like Chinese food and the same thing applies.

8.  Do you have a pet?  If so, what type?

I have four extremely beautiful guineapigs who live indoors with me. Snuggles, Peaches, Daisy and Cinnamon.

9.  What is your favorite book?

  • Childrens’ – I like the Gruffalo and all Mr Men and Little Miss books
  • Writing – How to Write a How To book
  • Business – How to Start and Run Your Own Internet Business

10.  What is your favorite movie?

I like the dance movie “You’ve Got Served”, Dirty Dancing and Grease.

11.  What is your favorite thing to do when you have free time?

  • Write
  • Go to the cinema
  • Spend time cuddling my guineapigs
  • See family and friends

It’s now my turn to nominate 11 blogs to win the Liebster Award:

I need to ask all the nominees above, to please tell me a bit more about yourselves by answering the 11 questions below: 
  1. What first inspired you to start writing a blog?
  2. What is the biggest challenge you have ever had to face when writing your blog?
  3. If you travelled through time, what time would you want to arrive at and why?
  4. Do you prefer to eat chocolate or sweets (or neither)?
  5. Do you prefer to read or to write?
  6. What is your favourite genre of writing and why?
  7. What is your favourite non-fiction topic to read about and why?
  8. If you could buy one book that would help you to solve a problem in your life, what would it be and why?
  9. Do you prefer to write at night or during the day?
  10. If you could be any character out of any book, who would you be and why?
  11. Do you prefer to read a printed book or an e-Book?

Congratulations to all the nominees, I can’t wait to see your answers and which 11 blogs you have chosen to nominate.

Write soon
Sandra