More than you ever wanted to know about me!

I recently received a Kreativ Blogger award from the lovely Cafe Chatelaine. Thank you! She and I both live in beatiful New England. We've even photographed many of the same towns on occasion (Boston, Cambridge, Concord, Rockport, etc.), but you must visit her blog to get a feel for the true beauty of our region because she is an incredible photographer with an artistic eye! (As a matter of fact, right now she has an amazing post about her trip to Boston on Wednesday!) Her photos are gorgeous! Visit her blog regularly as she takes us along on her day trips, sharing all the fun restaurants and shops she discovers along the way. She also posts about her beautiful home, and you will love getting to know the sweet kitties who own her!

Now I have to share 7 things you didn't know about me, so here goes!

1) My favorite toothpaste is Pepsodent (which is getting harder and harder to find!).

I love the taste of it...

It reminds me of the WintOGreen Life Savers my mom always carried in her pocketbook.

2) I was almost named Barbara Ann...

...which would have been a pretty cool name to have as a teenager in the 1960’s when the Beach Boys turned that name into a hit song!

Speaking of The Beach Boys: I was lucky enough to see them perform live on Cape Cod several years ago, with John Stamos as their drummer. Is it possible he's even cuter in person than on TV? (I'll answer that for you - Yes!) We had front row seats and wereascloseasthis to him... The Beach Boys put on an awesome show and it's always so much fun to sing along to the songs from the 60's!

3) To this day ,I love going to the movies and I'm pretty sure it's because of some of the memorable movies I saw when I was younger. It was a big treat to go to the movies in the 60's, and these particular films made lasting impressions on me...

I cried watching Jackie Gleason as a deaf mute in Gigot, 1962...

I screamed along with the best of them throughout A Hard Day’s Night... (yes, it was a movie and not an actual Beatles concert, but believe it or not, the entire audience screamed from beginning to end!) Newspaper reporters were even at the movie theater to witness first-hand and write about this phenomenom called “Beatlemania.”…

You’d have to have been a teenager during that time period to understand how perfectly normal the above behavior seemed to us at the time!!

I fell in love with Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer as they fell in love with each other during The Sound of Music in 1965. It was a rare treat that mom, dad, my sister and I all went to see it together. Money was tight in those days.

Where do I even begin with Camelot? The scenery, the music, the story (it's still one of my favorite soundtracks!).... This is the first movie that I went to see multiple times while it was playing in the theaters, I loved it so much!

Richard Harris was the perfect King Arthur....


Vanessa Redgrave was gorgeous as his Guinevere...


..and Lancelot, oh Lancelot... Could anyone but Franco Nero have played him so perfectly?

So yes, all these movies from my childhood and teen years made an impression on me and to this day my idea of a perfect night out is popcorn and a movie!

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Camelot sidenote: I was also soooo fortunate to see Richard Burton perform as King Arthur in Camelot back in 1980 in San Francisco! What a treat that was!!! Pure magic!

4) I love all kinds of music… At any given time I could be listening to anything from Frank Sinatra to Johnny Mathis....

... to Harry Chapin, a personal favorite. (His songs remind me of short stories set to music)...

Of course The Beatles, well they are quite in a league of their own. I'm transported back to the sixties when I put in one of their CD's. I was very fortunate to have seen them perform live in August of 1966 in Boston, and someday I'll have to share that whole magical day, from start to finish! Now, and even as a teenager, I prefer the Beatles' early music over that of their later years..

There are just so many artists I love to listen to (i.e. Simon & Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, Eva Cassidy, Enya, Sara McLachlan), and of course the many, many soundtracks to all my favorite movies!!

5) I named my GPS Delilah after the Plain White T's song of the same name...

...as it was the #1 song...

...the summer I got my Garmin (of course I loved the song, too!)...

6) I love to surround myself with things I love; yet at the same time, I crave minimalism in my home décor...

Above sign available at http://www.berrycountrycrafts.com/country_signs/martha_stewart.html

I fear it is my destiny to always be conflicted in this area!!

7) I would love to have a small cottage in a warm climate so I could escape New England from January through March, the 3 longest months of the year, if you ask me!

And lest you think I'm exaggerating, see what the winter sometimes sends our way? I found this picture while looking for photos of our Casper who I recently posted about... Poor baby, she doesn't even want to put her bum down on the ground it's so dang cold! And that is our sweet little ShuShu who is probably asking, "Can we please go inside now?"

Here's a small cottage I could escape to! Isn't it sweet? Yes, I can see myself spending January through March there with the sun shining and the flowers blooming... (It's actually a child's playhouse, available at the Lilliput website)...

Now I'm supposed to pass this award on to seven other bloggers but I think I'd like to pass it along to all my very "kreativ" friends in the blogging world!!!! So if any of you would like to grab this award tag and share 7 things we don't know about you, please feel free to do so!!!

Donna