{"id":1259,"date":"2017-08-04T18:04:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T18:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hannahgladwin.com\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2017-11-08T11:41:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T11:41:40","slug":"liebster-award-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hannahgladwin.com\/home\/liebster-award-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Liebster Award Nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cYou\u2019re nominated for a \u2018what\u2019 award?\u201d<\/h1>\n<p>This my Liebster Award post where I\u2019ll talk about <strong>who my favourite blogger is<\/strong> and why and also tell you <strong>10 random facts about myself.<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more-->Thank you so much to <strong>Mayling of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loubisandleggings.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">loubisandleggings.com<\/a> <\/strong>for nominating me! I LOVE her blog and we had the ch<\/p>\n<p>ance go for a coffee in London last week, so it was lovely to meet in person. If you like fancy shoes and lifestyle tips, definitely go and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loubisandleggings.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">check out her blog<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1276 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hannahgladwin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Leibster-award-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Liebster award logo image\" width=\"299\" height=\"299\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>What&#8217;s the Liebster Award?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Liebster Award is an award designed for bloggers to meet other bloggers and in general for the blogging community to support each other. If you\u2019re interested in learning more, check out <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/theglobalaussie.com\/blog\/liebster-award-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Official Rules for the Liebster Award 201<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">7.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>What to do if you&#8217;re nominated for the Liebster Award?<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Write a post and link back to the person who nominated you.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Write 150-300 words about your favourite blog (not your own) and include links.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Post 10 random facts about yourself.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nominate 5-11 other bloggers that you think deserve this award (with less than 200 followers).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">List these rules in your post\/link to the official rules.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let your nominees know that they\u2019ve been chosen!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>My favourite blog<\/h2>\n<p>I found this blogger only a few months ago through her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCqL8oAX_1xgB4vCLf_hvzLw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube channel<\/a>. But, she\u2019s now my favourite blogger; I wish I found her sooner!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fashionslave.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1281 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hannahgladwin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fashion-slave-logo-300x115.jpg\" alt=\"fashion slave logo courtesy of Sophie Milner\" width=\"429\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hannahgladwin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fashion-slave-logo-300x115.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hannahgladwin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fashion-slave-logo.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s none other than <strong>Sophie Milner<\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/fashionslave.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fashionslave.co.uk<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reason I subscribed to her channel and followed her blog\u00a0straight away is because she was immediately so relatable and seemed like someone I would be friends with. Here are some of the reasons she\u2019s my fav blogger:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Great personality and sense of humour!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Down to earth<\/strong> &#8211; I love that she mixes up high-street and high-end styles together <strong>and she&#8217;s just honest<\/strong> &#8211; she won&#8217;t hide it when she&#8217;s hungover and eaten some left-over Maccers for brekkers!&#x1f602;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She replies to all her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCqL8oAX_1xgB4vCLf_hvzLw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> commenters &#8211; even though she has over 21K followers now &#8211; I love that s<strong>he makes the time to try replying<\/strong> to all those comments (something which is quite rare!)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She appreciates her luxury products and is so <strong>honest and humble<\/strong> about affording them.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can see how much <strong>time and effort goes into her blog posts<\/strong> &#8211; it\u2019s not a case of two paragraphs and a bunch of photos. Everything is so well-thought out and well-written.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her <strong>style is on point<\/strong> and she always looks stunning, but never comes across as intimidating.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My favourite thing about her blog is not the fashion though. I love her posts which delve into <strong>subjects on a deeper level and can start a good debate<\/strong>. Meaningful topics to which we can all relate in this modern day, like her post: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fashionslave.co.uk\/2017\/05\/social-media-is-making-me-miserable.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SOCIAL MEDIA IS MAKING ME MISERABLE<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Following no.7, seriously, read her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fashionslave.co.uk\/search\/label\/think%20pieces?max-results=6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Think Pieces<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>She won <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogospheremagazine.com\/awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blogosphere Fashion Blogger of the Year<\/a>!<\/strong> Yay, Sophie<\/li>\n<li>All of this just makes you want to be her friend and hang out!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote><p>I never wanted the simple life. Nothing is worth having comes easy, as they say. And we all know that easy come, easy go. I don&#8217;t see how if you&#8217;re striving and aiming for the best, whatever the best may be, for you, how that can ever ever be a bad thing? You should never let anyone limit you, or feel you should limit yourself based on others thoughts about you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sophie Milner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fashionslave.co.uk\/2017\/07\/i-dont-want-to-settle-for-simple-life.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to settle for a\u00a0Simple Life&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1292 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hannahgladwin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_0121-e1501866850896.jpg\" alt=\"Hannah Gladwin with pet cat Mia, who is a female black and white cat\" width=\"292\" height=\"439\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>10 Facts about me<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I love swimming &#8211; I<strong> used to do synchronised swimming<\/strong> for eleven years, participating in competitions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was born in and live in <strong>Essex,<\/strong>\u00a0(no, <em>I don&#8217;t know<\/em> the TOWIE people; yes, <em>I have<\/em> met Olly Murs) but I consider <strong>London<\/strong> to be a second home and <strong>Madrid<\/strong> my third, where I lived for six months and spent all my time with <em>mi<\/em>\u00a0<em>hermana espa\u00f1ola<\/em>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My dream career was to be a <strong>film director<\/strong> &#8211; since our family got a video recorder when I was eight, I\u2019ve filmed and edited <strong>over 50 films with my friends<\/strong>. Some criiiingey videos right there!<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Bad grammar winds me up!<\/strong> Especially shop signs and restaurant menus that use apostrophes incorrectly (sorry, I\u2019m one of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">those<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> people)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I love all animals, but I especially love cats. <strong>I have a cat called Mia and my favourite animal is a tiger<\/strong>; they\u2019re so beautiful!<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m obsessed with anything <strong>Harry Potter!<\/strong> I queued up for the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/s\/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_2_12?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;field-keywords=harry+potter&amp;sprefix=Harry+Potter%2Caps%2C146&amp;crid=2040DEAFYKGGP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">book releases<\/a> and when the films came out around my birthday, I had Harry Potter themed parties (not gonna lie, I still do even now I\u2019m 25) and after I saw the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harrypottertheplay.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cursed Child in the theatre<\/strong><\/a>, I was so emotional over it, <strong>I cried for a month afterwards<\/strong>\u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ve been with my<strong> boyfriend for so long,<\/strong> neither of us remember how long we\u2019ve been together; it\u2019s either seven or eight years. Who knows?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have a <strong>degree in French and Spanish<\/strong>, but am a little rusty now (obvs I remember the naughty words). I also <strong>tried learning Greek and Arabic<\/strong>, but failed at those two languages. <strong>In Greek, I can say \u2018I like cheese and wine\u2019<\/strong> <em>and that\u2019s about it, but what else could you need to say?!<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My favourite designer is <a href=\"https:\/\/chanel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CHANEL<\/strong><\/a>. Not because of its status, but because of Gabrielle Chanel herself and the history of the brand.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I used to <strong>hate olives, but now I LOVE THEM<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you to Mayling of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loubisandleggings.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">loubisandleggings.com<\/a> for nominating me &#8211; I&#8217;m so glad I&#8217;ve got to know you, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hannahgladwin.com\/start-blogging\/\">I wouldn&#8217;t have if I hadn&#8217;t started this blog!<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<h4>I nominate:<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Harriet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisessexgirl.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thisessexgirl.co.uk<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Levi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.levimariecrombie.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">levimariecrombie.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dominique <a href=\"https:\/\/fashionedbypluche.blogspot.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fashionedbypluche.blogspot.co.uk<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Beth <a href=\"https:\/\/beffshuff.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">beffshuff.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ashley <a href=\"https:\/\/ashesgroundedwoods.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ashesgroundedwoods.wordpress.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Angie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloglovin.com\/blogs\/girl-from-north-14509425?referrer_context=blog_search_autocomplete\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thegirlfromthenorth.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Neelam <a href=\"https:\/\/sheewearscolour.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sheewearscolour.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>I look forward to reading your posts!<\/h4>\n<h5>Who is your favourite blogger? 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