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Please help me get nominated!

I know I’ve only just been shortlisted for the Company blog award (which I am still on a massive high about – read about it here!) and I’ve asked all of my lovely readers, friends and family to vote for me, so I’m sure you’re fed up of me talking about awards etc, but there’s one more favour that I’d like to ask of you: Please could you take a minute to nominate my little blog for a Cosmopolitan magazine blog award?nominate me

I love blogging and it is what I do for my ‘day job’ along with making tutus :) so approx. 12 hours of my day is writing, researching, sewing and blogging and I LOVE EVERY MINUTE of it! I am happy just writing for myself and it is such a lovely bonus (and surprise!) when readers get in touch to tell me they are enjoying it.

I hardly ever look at my stats (I’m shocked by the numbers and it’s scary to imagine all those people looking at me!) and as a WordPress.com user, I don’t make money from affiliate advertising or banners, I just do it for the love of making people happy and sharing my lifestyle ideas with my audience.

I’d love to be nominated for a Cosmopolitan blog award because I have grown up with Cosmo and really respect the publication, so to be recognised by them would be such an amazing achievement and will really make everything that I do feel worthwhile :)

Read more about the Cosmopolitan Blog Awards here and please nominate Cassiefairy.com for Best Lifestyle Blog :) Last year they had over 35,000 entries so it’s a long shot but then again, you can’t win the lottery if you don’t buy a ticket, so I’m asking for all my friends and readers help to get me a ticket!

I’m super-grateful for all your support and kindness in getting my blog this far in the big, scary world of blogging! Thank you all, this blog would be nowhere without you!

Please nominate me for Best Lifestyle Blog here: http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/blogs/cosmo-blog-awards-2013/enter-the-2013-cosmopolitan-blog-awards-nominate-now :)

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Inspiration Challenge for May – get involved!

Pinch, punch, first of the month! And today I am absolutely delighted to be able to bring you an Inspiration Challenge for the month of May! Some of you may have already heard of the (famous) inspiration challenge and some of you might be completely new to it, so I’m going to start at the beginning and see if I can’t encourage you to take part! 

The inspiration challenge began on the LucyLovesYa.com blog where ‘inspiration is everything’ (please check out Lucy’s blog, it’s amazing!) and the idea of the challenge is to create something (anything!) in response to an image or item that is the proposed inspiration starting-point. Previously china tea-cups, matroyshka dolls and vintage necklaces have been the inspiration, and over the past few months there have been many amazing contributions from crafters, sewer, cooks, bloggers and artists – here’s some of the amazing items that the contributors have made:past inspiration challenges

Lucy has very kindly passed the inspiration challenge baton on to me and I’m going to do my best to continue it in the same way. So I will share an image or item each month and challenge you all to get involved and make something, and please also get involved by sending in your suggestions for future inspiration challenges to cassie@cassiefairy.co.uk :) Here are the results of last month’s inspiration challenge, which you’ve probably already seen on the LucyLoveYa blog post. I was amazed by the variety and quality of the items produced based on the matroyshka dolls – keep up the good work!

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So, here’s the fun part – the challenge! I am proposing a new theme for the month of May based on my recent experience – my trusty old Jones sewing machine gave up and died last week, so I’ve had to replace it with a new jazzy modern Janome machine (thanks very much to Lucy for the advice on which machine to choose!). As much as I like my whizzy new machine, I can’t help thinking back to how sturdy and well, stylish old sewing machines were, so I’ve snapped a pic of my back-up one-stitch-option Seamstress sewing machine and my good friend Meg has loaned me her grandma’s old hand-powered Singer so that I can use them for this month’s inspiration challenge!

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So please have a go a creating something inspired by vintage sewing machines and I can’t wait to see what you’ve made! I know a lot of us rely on (and love!) our sewing machines, so hopefully it’s a challenge that’s close to our hearts :D Let me know how you get on and if you do rustle something  up please email me your photos of your creations by the 28th of May to cassie@cassiefairy.co.uk. I will share everyone’s results at the start of June and I will include your site link if you have one. As Lucy says it doesn’t matter if you’re a novice or experienced and it’s not a competition – the aim is to just have a bit of fun and share your creations with other like-minded people!

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The greatest (and craziest!) news…

I can’t believe it.

This blog, my little lifestyle blog, has been shortlisted for a Company Magazine blog award.

This kind of thing doesn’t happen to me!

I especially can’t believe it because all weekend I’ve been seeing loads of blog posts pop up on my Bloglovin’ feed from my lovely fellow bloggers, all declaring that they’ve been shortlisted for a Company Style Blogger Award. So I was delighted for them all, but I’d had no email from Company magazine, so I thought no more of it – I was just excited to be able to vote for my favourite blogs and keep my fingers crossed that they would do well.

So this morning I clicked onto the Company website and started casting my votes. Now, I don’t know about you, but I take my voting very seriously, and I have a good look at all of the nominated blogs before deciding on my favourites. So this morning I had been casting my votes for about 2 hours (and adding about 50 new blogs to my Bloglovin’ list!) when I reached the Best Thrifty Blog category. And there I was – Cassiefairy.com – right there, on the list. A shortlisted blog! To use the term gobsmacked would be an understatement!

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How had this happened? Whaaaaaaat? Me? Nooo! I kept checking, and I read back through my emails (nope, no emails from Company) and I checked the shortlist again.  I stopped short of doing a cartoon ‘rubbing my eyes in disbelief’, but only just! And about an hour later I received an email from Sophie from Company magazine. Yes, my blog has been shortlisted for an award! Blimey! Crikey! And many more expletives!

So please please can you take a moment to vote for Cassiefairy.com in the Company Style Blogger Awards 2013 – I’m in the Best Thrifty Blog category along with lots of other fantastic bloggers from all around the UK.

I don’t think I could be more proud of all my fellow bloggers - see people DO read what we write (what a scary thought!) and good luck guys, I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed for you – and now for me too! ;)

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I’ve been nominated for a Company thrifty blog award!

UPDATE: I’ve made it through to the shortlist!! So please please vote for me in the Best Thrifty Blog category if you get the chance :)

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I had some great news earlier this week that I’ve been nominated for a Company magazine blog award! I can’t believe it! I’ve only been blogging for a couple of years, but apparently this means I’m no longer a newbie and I’ve now been nominated under the category of Best Thrifty Blog!!

I am absolutely thrilled that I’ve been nominated because I LOVE to blog (I do it every day!) and more importantly, I love to save money and pass on my thrifty savings to my readers. It’s fantastic that all my hard work has not gone unnoticed! I spend hours making DIY craft projects, upcycling clothing, finding shopping bargains and recycling furniture to try to inspire my readers to get the look for less, be super-thrifty and save perfectly good items from going to landfill. I know that I will blog forever and I love making my readers happy so I am smiling from ear-to-ear right now to know that someone likes what I do!

Please could you take a minute to click through and nominate me for the “Best Thrifty Blog” award too, as all the nominations really do add up and will put me through to the next round! Thanks lovely readers, you’ve made one blogger super-happy :D

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