Thanks, sweet Blanka :-)

This morning Blanka aka Blanulak surprised me with this:
Normally I´m not too fond of awards, but this one looks quite cool (no glitter, no teddybears, nice strong women logo), and I really like Blanka. (She was the one who used my templates in such a stunning way, remember?) Now she wants me to tell 10 things about myself, and to pass it on to 10 other people.
So, the people first: (Note: Not all pages are scrap related.)
Dana That´s because I think she´s a very nice person I´d like to meet in real life, too. We met more than two years ago on scrapbookflair, and since she found me again, I love to follow her blog.
Creative Jewish Mom She has so many easy, ecological and beautiful craft projects on her blog, she´s definetly worth a visit!
Heather - Happiness is... I simply like to follow her life through her pictures. A much better photographer than I am, with an eye for the details.
Crissie Someone who made it through Life 365! Yeah! Congrats!
Barb Someone who didn´t make it through the whole project (I think?), but still posted very beautiful pages and sounds like quite a nice person
Cucito Morito One of my crafting heros. And through her blog I once got introduced to nice music, too.
Shandy Speaking of great photographers... she´s one. I´m following her blog now for more than three years, I think, and I love that she´s having twin girls. I always like people with twins :-)
Artistic Musings Ok, she surely doesn´t need an award from me. She´s much too cool. I admire her design skills and her photos, and she´s got a good taste in books, too. And she also was one of my very first scrapping heroes.
MckMama As this award is called "Honest Scrap", she came to my mind. She isn´t exactly a scrapper, but she sounds honest as hell. Always makes me wonder... well, but she´s fascinating to read, a good writer, for sure.

So, that´s nine. Not ten. Right. But really, I can´t think of any more. I don´t visit that many blogs regularly, especially not scrap related. I could hand it over to Blanka again :-)
Now onto the ten things about me, which is even harder. I mean, what shall I tell you that a) you don´t know allready (not like my passion for John Mayer and Twilight) and b) is still somewhat interesting (not that I love my family, I think you know that, allready, too) and c) doesn´t make me appear the total freak I am (That one´s hard...)? So here´s my list:
1: I don´t own a mobile, nor do I want one, but I love twitter.
2: I can´t bake. I love to decorate cakes, but no one can eat it afterwards. Well, Tim likes to bake.
3: When I don´t have a book, I feel like a drug addict without drugs. I simply need to read.
4: I´m very, very untidy. Better call me before you come and visit our house, because I always have to clean up the biggest mess to make our house... well accessable. But then, you´re always welcome :-)
5: I love my bath tub and lavender.
6: I don´t drink any alcohol, never. But I did start to smoke last summer. Gauloises. The Blue ones. And I like it.
7: I´m secretly in love with the book characters I thought up.
8: I don´t have a driver´s license. I´m a natural born walker, love to think while I´m covering distances, or talk with my daughters. We have the best conversations when we´re walking.
9: I´ve got four tattoos (yet), and one actually is a twilight tattoo.

So, that´s nine things, too. Number 10 is that I have a secret passion for childish, gloomy gothic music, such as this: I only like them in winter, and I remember last July I wondered how I could ever fall for them. But now I´m listening to them again. And I love them.