I’ve been tagged by the very sweet Candace Rose (isn’t that the prettiest name?) to reveal 10 unknown facts about myself whereupon, I can claim the Honest Scrap Award. I love a good tag so here goes:

1. I’m vegetarian, well pescatarian, actually. 

2. I have a graduate degree that I make no use of whatsoever, much to my mother’s dismay.

3. I love karaoke. There, I said it.

4. I can’t ride a bike. Not competently, anyway.

5. I can read cyrillic. I don’t understand what I’m reading but I can read it.

6. I love to sleep. There’s nothing better for your health or your skin like a good night’s sleep.

7. I’m scared of birds. All birds. Even the little ones that everyone thinks are cute.

8. I had a speaking part in a movie. I don’t know if it ever got released.

9. I love condiments. Mmmmmm. Condiments.

10. I played piano for over ten years but can barely play the scales now.

Now I’d like to tag these fabulous blogs:

The Deco Detective

LiviaConcept

The Brick House

Me Melodia

A Life More Fabulous

Spill and claim your award, girls! I tried not to tag anyone who’s already been tagged but sorry if I messed up. I didn’t get any rules with this one so I say just tag as many people as you like. Thanks, Candace!

 
(As a puppy. He’s much bigger now!)

I’ve been tagged by one of my recent blogging buddies, Lee, to tell you six uninteresting things that make me happy. Well, there were just so many that I had a hard time choosing just six! (I guess that’s a good thing, right? That there are so many things that make me happy?) Anyway, I finally decided on these six because they are part of my everyday:

 1. The sound of my dogs snoring.

2. The morning light in my garden.

 

3. Tea in the afternoon. (I think I must have been English in a prior life.)

4. Fresh flowers.

 
5. New issues of favorite magazines.*

6. A comfortable bed with really nice linens.

Now, I’d like to to tag:

Jane from Beach House

Meg from Late Check-In

Sarah from Trixie’s Table

Mia from Solid Frog

Kerry from The Seventy Tree

Erin from Perfect Sentiments

To play along, all you have to do is link back to the person who tagged you and tag 6 more people. Thanks, Lee, that was fun!

*This reminds me I have stacks of magazines from France. I’m going to scan and post some pages for you. Promise!

(Photos: 1-4& 6.ALEK 5.Cote Maison)

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It looks like a week of tag. I’ve been tagged by Kristina and here are the rules:

1. Respond and rework. Answer the questions on your blog, replace one question you dislike with a question of your own invention; add a question of your own.
2. Tag eight other un-tagged people.

What is your current obsession? Everything Spanish.

Good fika place?  (That would be coffee to us non-Swedes)  Au Vieux Colombier in Paris.

Do you nap a lot? Never. Makes me too groggy.

Who was the last person you hugged? My dog.  Oh, I guess he’s not technically a person. So it would have been my friend K. in New York.

What’s for dinner?  Goat cheese tartines with caramelized onions and green salad. 

What was the last thing you bought? Bagel and coffee at the airport this morning.

What are you listening to right now? Crows in my neighbor’s tree. They bug me.

What is your favourite weather? I love those brief downpours you get in the summer in parts of Southeast Asia.

What’s on your bedside table? A lamp, eyeshades and alarm clock.

Say something to the person/s who tagged you. Hi, Kristina, Vigdis is adorable and she’s grown so fast!

If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you want it to be? Gramercy Park, Manhattan. (See photo above.)

Favourite vacation spot? Anywhere I haven’t been before and as far away as possible.

Name the things you can’t live without. If we’re talking specifically about things (and not people or say, dogs), I would have to say my passport, suitcase, iphone, journal/sketchbook, Itoya pens, good moisturizer, sunblock, and lip balm. What can I say? I have dry skin.

What would you like to have in your hands right now? A lobster roll from Pearl’s Oyster Bar. I’m so hungry.

What is your favourite tea flavour? Darjeeling.

What would you like to get rid of? A few extra pounds. Does that count?

If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go? Just for an hour?  I’d like to see Machu Picchu.

What did you want to become as a child? A star on Broadway!

What do you like better, e-mail or telephone calls? Calls for friends, email for everyone else.

What are you currently reading? I just started To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf.

I’d like to tag Jess,  Devon, Megan, Kristin, Sunny, Helenna, Heather, and Camilla. Phew!