Uniquely Filipa: Sisterhood of the World Blogger Award

This post is all about sharing the love between bloggers. I was nominated by the lovely Emma from Just Ems and I would like to thank her for thinking about me when she was picking her nominees. When I started blogging I really thought it would be a lonely path but as it turns out when you reach out to people they'll be so kind to you and I'm really starting to feel the sense of community in the blogging world. Go check out Emma if you're also on a weight loss journey, she has lost sooo much of her body weight and she's definitely an inspiration.

Here are the rules so you can nominate your bloggers:

Link and thank the blogger who has nominated you - share the love
Answer the 10 questions created for you
Create 10 questions for your nominees
Nominate 10 sister bloggers for the award

Here are my 10 answers for Emma:

1. Do you have any blogging goals for 2015?

I started my blog quite recently (in December) so I'm still learning the tricks of the trade. My goals for my blog is to make it grow more and more and to keep learning and evolving my knowledge in blogging. A specific goal is to learn more about photography so I can take better pictures.

2. What is your biggest regret in life?

I think I have two. One is not taking care of my health as much as I should have growing up. I don't have any big health issues but I wish I had payed more attention into what kind of food I was putting into my body. My second regret is not giving myself more time to really figure out what I loved doing before going to university. I love psychology but I'm starting to feel more and more disconnected from it and I can't imagine myself as a clinical therapist to be honest.

3. What's your favourite colour and why?

Hard question! Okay I'm going to have to say...pink. It changes a bit depending on my mood, some days it's white, some days it's mint. But at the moment I think it's pink. I love pink, it's so girly and delicate, it makes me happy to see pink stuff.

4. What are you most looking forward to this year?

I'm looking forward for my summer break. I'm going to spend the summer in Sweden with my boyfriend and maybe we'll travel somewhere else too. At the end of June I'll start a new stage of my life. I'll be free of classes and group assignments, final exams, and all that fun stuff. In September I'm going to start my master thesis and an internship and although it's scary and very unknown it's also very exciting.

5. What's your favourite chocolate bar?

Haha funny because I'm actually eating it right now. Let me get a picture. Here you go:

It's a Swedish brand (Marabou) and my sweet boyfriend restocks me with it every time we meet. God bless his soul!

6. Is there anything you're scared of (spiders, heights, snakes etc)?

There's the normal ones of course - insects in general like spiders and cockroaches (disgusting). I'm not really afraid of heights but I completely freeze at the sight of bees. There's something about bees that makes them look so menacing with all the buzzing. I'm terribly afraid of the dark, I know this is silly because I'm an adult but I'm very afraid of the dark and it's probably related to my love for horror movies. You know, it opens your imagination to all the creepy things. If I need to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night I will run back to my bedroom as soon as I can just in case. You never know. Dem spirits and stuff.

7. What's your signature dish to cook for friends/family?

I love to cook and my signature would have to be codfish with cream - it's a Portuguese dish and super yummy.

8. If you could spend time with someone who is no longer in your life, who would it be?

One of my best friends from childhood and my teenage years. We grew apart but I miss him a lot.

9. What do you love about blogging?

I really love the freedom of expression I get. It's so much fun to plan and write blog posts, to take pictures with my boyfriend in beautiful locations. I really love the design aspects of it, tweaking the blog's design to fit my taste - I've needed a great deal of help from my boyfriend though.

10. What is your top tip for newbie bloggers?

I'm hardly an expert in anything related to blogging but if I had to give you a tip it would be to connect with your like-minded bloggers. I thought people would be very reluctant to share knowledge since there are so many blogs out there and it's hard to succeed in it but I have found that it's really not the case. I've only had good experiences so far with other bloggers being really friendly and sweet to me even though I'm just starting out and don't really have much to offer. Reach out to people, learn as much as you can, share the love and you'll get some love back.

Questions for other bloggers:

1. If you could only bring 3 items to a deserted island, which would you bring and why?

2. If you could only listen to one artist/band for the rest of your life, who would that be?

3. What are your plans for your next school/work break?

4. If you could go anywhere in the world right now, where would you go and why?

5. Let me see your inner artist. Write 4 or 5 sentences for a poem about whatever you want ;)

6. What would you love to learn how to do?

7. What's your dream job?

8. What do you love more about yourself? Anything works =)

9. Name at least one thing that makes you truly happy.

10. Tell me something that is unique about you. Either a talent or a characteristic, anything that you find special about you.

Here are my nominees: