7X7 Link Award (x4): thank you girls!

Award time again! This time it was given to me by four awesome bloggers:

• Sophie from Waitin' on a Sunny Day, 
• Brandie from True Classics, 
• Rianna from Frankly, My Dear
• and  Perfect Number 6

THANK YOU, I'm honored :) And I just created this Sound of Music gif to illustrate my thankfulness:

Well, the rules, as usual, are composed by a very narcissistic part (like Julie said in Julie & Julia: "But what do you think a blog is? It's me, me, me day after day") and the nominations. I hope the first part is brief enough:

• Tell everyone something that no one else knows about: I started a very strict diet yesterday. I can't eat ANYTHING that contains sugar and really small portions of the rest.
• Link to one of my posts that I personally think best fits the following categories: Most Beautiful Piece, Most Helpful Piece, Most Popular Piece, Most Controversial Piece, Most Surprisingly Successful Piece (this series), Most Underrated Piece, and Most Pride-worthy Piece
• Pass this award on to seven other bloggers: well, I don't know if I'm breaking the rules here, but I nominate back the four girls who gave me this award, because I adore their blogs and their posts always put a smile on my face. I also want to pass this award to: Kate from the lovely Scathingly Brilliant (happy 2 year Blogaversary in advance!),  Emma from the adorable Emma's Music and Carley from the classy Kitty Packard Pictorial :) 

So that's it. The award goes now to the award section in the footer:)

The Irresistibly Sweet & Liebster Blog Awards

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen,

I've been honored with two awards this week and now it's time for me to pass on both of them. All the bloggers I'm awarding/thanking share their love for movies in a special way and make my day everyday. I couldn't include all the blogs I wanted, if you want to visit more awesome sites, check my blogroll.

My friend Monty from the always entertaining All Good Things; Dawn from the very interesting/informative Noir and Chick Flicks and Sophie from the lovely and genuine Waitin' On a Sunny Day have kindly passed on this award to me.

According to the rules, I have to give this award to 3-5 more bloggers that have less than 300 followers, but deserve more.

Still haven't picked your nominees for the LAMMYs?

Well, guys, me neither. And it seems that a lot of people are in the same situation. It's not easy to pick a few blogs when the LAMB has like 900 members. But because I follow mostly Classic Movie Blogs, I browsed the complete table of members and here are the Classic Movie blogs I found that I actually know/follow, so maybe this list would be helpful to you too to narrow down your options (or at least it will help you to choose your nominees for Best Classic Film Blog) . Oh, there's an item in the poll for Best New Site, so I divided this list in "old" and "new":

• http://www.noiroftheweek.com/
• http://moirasthread.blogspot.com/
• http://twentyfourframes.wordpress.com/
• http://themovieprojector.blogspot.com/
• http://talkieking.blogspot.com/ (All Talking! All Singing! All Dancing!)
• http://silentstanzas.blogspot.com/
• http://operator_99.blogspot.com/ (Allure)
• http://wheredangerlives.blogspot.com/
• http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/
• http://lolitasclassics.blogspot.com/
• http://thrillingdaysofyesteryear.blogspot.com/
• http://www.vivandlarry.com/
• http://www.moviefanfare.com/
• http://avalon76.blogspot.com/ (Flappers and Flickers)
• http://movienut14.blogspot.com/ (Defiant Succes, former 'Life of a Cinephile and Bibliophile')
• http://classicforever.blogspot.com/
• http://outofthepastcfb.blogspot.com/

NEW (516-900)

• http://byjingobygee.blogspot.com/ (Oh By Jingo! Oh By Gee!)
• http://kittypackard.wordpress.com/
• http://ingridbergmanfilms.blogspot.com/
• http://jnpickens.wordpress.com/ (Comet over Hollywood)
• http://hollywoodrevue.wordpress.com/ (The Hollywood Revue)
• http://flickchick1953.blogspot.com/
• http://trueclassics.wordpress.com/
• http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/
• http://macguffinmovies.wordpress.com/
• http://sophie-waitinonasunnyday.blogspot.com/
• http://javabeanrush.blogspot.com/
• http://ishootthepictures.blogspot.com/
• http://thebestpictureproject.wordpress.com/
• http://www.things-and-other-stuff.com/ (Immortal Ephemera)
• oh, and: via-51.blogspot.com :)

I know, it's still very difficult to choose just some of these, even when you can pick 3 sites per award and 5 for Best Blog.

 Nominate your favorite blogs here BEFORE MAY 9TH.

PS: If you have a Classic Film Blog part of the LAMB that I didn't add, please, leave a comment.

Yaaay, my first blog award ever (thanks Monty!)

My friend Monty, from All Good Things,  just named me as a Stylish Blogger. Thanks Monty-boy, you're very kind :)

Well, because this if my first time receiving a blog award, I'll try to follow the instructions correctly. These are:

a) Post a link to the person who gave me the award.

Checked: visit Monty's All Good Things, you won't regret it!

b) Reveal seven facts about myself:

Checked:

1. I love horses. Since I was a little girl, my dream is to own a horse. I had a mare once, I named her Ginger (didn't know about Miss Rogers then, but I had read Black Beauty).Then they take her away, because she was really very lonely and I just couldn't visit her everyday. Now I'd like to have a Friesian like this one.
2. I'm an owl. Totally. It's just terrible for me having to wake up early (now I'm unemployed so I'm not suffering), in the mornings and even afternoons I'm like a zombie. But I get full of energy at eleven PM. My mother hates that. She's a lark.
3. I'm a big tennis fan. I play it since I was 13. I also practiced karate (can't help remembering Ross saying that) for 3 years when I was a kid, and assisted to swimming classes for a year.
4. I'm starting a new course at university to get a certificate. It's about Digital Journalism and Internet Media Management :)
5. I bought the album Oops!... I Did It Again when I was like 15 (I know).
6. I've been playing the ukulele for two months now. I've learned to play some old songs like "Golden Earrings",  "La vie en rose", "Tonight you belong to me" and "Five Foot Two" (check the vid, isn't this flapper granny amazing? She rocks all the way):


7. Before I created Via Margutta 51, I had a blog about the cool Irish band The Cranberries. For five years I was a huge fan, I even ran to the stage when the singer was playing and security had to get me out. LOL.

c) This one is the really difficult. I have to choose just seven stylish bloggers and give them this award. Please guys, no hard feelings, I love you all, otherwise I wouldn't be following you. Oh, besides, I tried to choose people who hadn't received this recognition before:

• Carley @ The Kitty Packard Pictorial
• Abril @ El apartamento en París
• Emma @ Emma's Music
• Caroline @ Garbo Laughs
• Java @ Java's Journey
• Camille @ Pick yourself up
• Sophie @ Waitin' On a Sunny Sunday

So, that's it. I hope I did it right :)