April Top 10 Mariucans! ***

Hola Mariucans! How is everybody doing this early Saturday morning? Are you ready to embrace the weekend? I know I am but before I sit back and relax, I have to give some love and appreciation to all Mariucans and visitors here who diligently commented and visited Mariuca's Perfume Gallery throughout the month of April.

Your love for my scent-sational MPG means the world to me and there's no way I'd let the weekend come by without thanking everyone who made it to my Top 10 Mariucans list in April! So without further ado, I am so happy to award the Amazing Queen of April to the lovely Monica from Turn-U-Off! Thanks so much for all the late night chats here with me Monica, you rock!

Now that May is here, my next Top 10 Mariucans post will see me crowning a new Majestic Queen/King of May, so good luck everybody and happy commenting!

CONGRATULATIONS

1. Monica - Amazing Queen of April Award + 1000 EC credits + 1 FOC Ad
2. Shemah - 500 EC credits
3. Bem Bem - 250 EC credits

Top Mariucan Overall
Jean - 1000 EC credits + 1 FOC Ad

Top First Commenter
LadyJava - 1000 EC credits + 1 FOC Ad

MPG LOVES

More Awards For My Gallery!

Allow me to express my appreciation for two female bloggers, who each has something to shout about with their wonderful blogs!

First, I'd like to give some love to Jackie for bestowing such a great honour to Mariuca's Perfume Gallery with this fabulous Silver Recommended Read award. According to Jackie, this award is given to bloggers "whose blogs are contributory to continuously raising us within the Blog World onto the next level of blogging enthusiasm, excitement, and enjoyment". Frankly, I've been waiting for someone to give me this award so I was really thrilled to be selected by Jackie and Zubli as one of their reading pleasures. Thanks so much guys, I love this award!!

For the complete list of rules to this award, please visit Jackie's blog. And for this very special award, I'd like to pass it on to Adrian and NAFA. Congratulations! Your posts are definitely worth reading so keep on churning those wonderful articles and stories to keep me informed and entertained!

Next, I'd like to thank my dear friend Diamonds Saphire for acknowledging my Perfume Gallery. Although it takes second place to my Mariuca blog, I love it just as much. So for Diamonds to give the Blogging Star award to Mariuca's Perfume Gallery, it means a whole to me. Thanks for remembering me and my perfumes, you're the best!

And for this award, allow me to present to you my list of recipients:

1. WGM

2. Nihal

3. Uncle Sam

4. Bokjae

5. Yasmin

6. Barrett

7. Jay

8. Jamilla

Congratulations to all my recipients. May the awards inspire you and me to greater heights of success!

Someone Loves My Blog II

It's time for more awards! What a great way to kick start the month of September!

Thanks to Mike, Amber and MT for awarding me with this really fabulous award! First of all, I love the colour combination and design of this award - Simple & Cool! Guys, thanks so much for this award. It feels great to be loved by all of you!

Without further ado, here are my recipients and as usual, I will be posting my other list of recipients (since I happily received 3 awards) over at my Mariuca Blog. I will present this award to the blogs that I truly love, regardless of whether they've already received this award or not! :)

My recipients for the I Love Your Blog Award are:

1. NAFA (LOVE their music, excellent posts, warm hospitality and fun friendship!)

2. Jean (LOVE the way her blog makes me feel so much at home!)

3. Janice (LOVE her energy and enthusiasm, which flows freely into her posts!)

4. Jay (LOVE that he works hard to improve his blog, which is shaping up nicely now!)

5. Joe (LOVE the way he has with words, just can't get enough!)

6. Jesse (LOVE her light & easy posts, that makes reading them so enjoyable!)

7. Nihal (LOVE his informative & entertaining blog!)

8. Nessa (LOVE her Avatar and the cheerful posts she delivers!)

Congratulations to all my recipients! Keep up the excellent work and remember that Mariuca LOVES your Blog!

The Sweetest Award II

WOW! 4 Nice Matters Awards for me from 4 fantastic people! I'm in disbelief! Okay, here's the story. Last Sunday I got a nice message from Make Traffic, telling me to pick up my award from his site. This was followed by another one from Mike on the same day! I was already delirious with joy and was happily contemplating on who my recipients were going to be but come Monday, I received 2 more surprises when the famous twosome, Adrian & Nick presented me with the same award! Thanks so much guys!! I will list my 10 recipients here and the other 10 at my Mariuca Blog!

According to the originator of the Nice Matters award it is intended for “those that are just nice people, good blog friends, and those that inspire good feelings and inspiration! Those that care about others, that are there to lend support, or those that are just a positive influence in our blogging world!”

Without further ado, here are my recipients for the Nice Matters award.

For the award I received from Adrian, I'd like to pass it on to:

1. Janice*
2. Jean*
3. Emila*
4. Blog Fairy
5. Santa (thank you for the lovely award you gave me!)

* I know you guys have already received this award, but how can I not award my 3 best gal pals again? This will give you guys another chance to award another 5 bloggers!

For the award I received from Nick, I'd like to pass it on to:

1. Nihal
2. Jesse
3. Amber
4. Polliwog
5. Andrea

Congratulations to all my recipients and let's continue being nice and friendly to everyone!

My Gallery Gets Creative!

I have not been buying any new perfumes ever since my Singapore shopping spree. I did check out the selection of mini fragrances available here but nothing took my fancy and most of them I already have in My Gallery. So perfume wise, I've been in a bit of a slump. My blogging journey however has been more fruitful and I am so happy to say that I received a very special award from Amber. Like me, she and I share something in common. I felt much comfort when I discovered that we both can't D....! This award is super special to me because it's my third award for My Gallery! Thanks so much Amber!

And now, it gives me great pleasure to award the following 5 bloggers.

My choice for the Creative Blogger Award without question goes to:

1. Emila from Emila's Illustrated Blog.

I've been a fan since day 1 and am truly happy that her creative talent is receiving much deserved acclaim!

My picks for the Thoughtful Blogger Award are wonderful individuals, with unique personalities. They give me the comfort, confidence and joy that make my blogging days so much more FUN, exciting and simply amazing. Thank you guys!

1. Jean from A Great Pleasure.

2. Janice from This Is A Miracle.

3. Jesse from Jesse Blogs It All.

4. Adrian from First Time Dad.

Congratulations! You can find the complete details and meanings of the awards here.

It's Raining Awards!

I was feeling a bit blue for the past few days and the only thing I was looking forward to was spending some alone time with B this weekend so I could forget about my worries and be merry again. Before the weekend arrived though, along came Janice to cheer me up with the Power of Schmooze Award! This award by Jan made it my number two Schmooze award, since my other blog was awarded by Mike earlier. Jan's kind gesture was extremely significant to me simply because this would be My Gallery's very first award! So, thank you Janice - you are truly one awesome Mariucan!

Now, here are my five recipients, who in my opinion truly deserve this award. Congratulations!

• Nihal, for his wisdom and the great articles he writes.
• Emila, for our beautiful friendship, on and offline.
• Greg, for amusing me with his presence and cute avatar every time he visits.
• Nick, for the laughter he brings me with his amusing stories.
• Syaf, for being the cute and friendly geek that he is.

My mood picked up tremendously after receiving this award and I was beginning to feel much better about my predicament. Little did I know that there was another surprise waiting for me for I later discovered that Adrian presented me with the Rockin' Girl Blogger Award! This was followed by another one from his best friend, Nick!I totally didn't see this one coming so that was a very pleasant surprise from them. Now, thanks to all the awards and smiles I've been receiving this week, I'm looking forward to a fun & relaxing weekend, no more tears! To Adrian and Nick, thank you for thinking of me and since I proudly own 2 of this now, I hope it's okay for me to display one in My Perfume Gallery.

In return, I select these wonderful ladies as my 5 Rockin' Girl Bloggers, Congratulations!

• Amber, for her beautiful comments that always leave me wanting more.
• Jean, for her blog really rocks and is always A Great Pleasure to visit.
• Adria, for the wonderful sunshine she brings whenever she appears on my blog
• Christy, for being one of the first to link to Mariuca's Perfume Gallery, thank you!
• Tish, for making me smile one entire day with her excellent review of My Gallery at BlogsWeLuv.