Linking up with I Will Bloom for Fab-ruary…A month of blog challenges to help you ‘find the fab’.

I have always wanted to own a Bed and Breakfast.  Would love to find an old Victorian Home in a great location, and restore it to its original beauty.  The funny thing is, I am not a morning person, nor am I a big breakfast person.  I am definitely a night owl, and love snacks and desserts.  If I could really come up with the details and how it could work, I thought of opening just the opposite and call it a late night Snack and Shack…yeah…still need to work out the kinks on that one, LOL.  Anniehow…I guess the Bed and Breakfast thing appeals to me since I feel like I spend most of my time cooking and cleaning, and can actually enjoy it at times.  But with owning a B&B you would meet so many fascinating people, and the whole hospitality thing appeals to me too, the whole feeding people and making them feel comfortable sounds like fun.  It would also be nice to have some sort of area in the B&B where small events could be held as well.

There are a lot of old homes in the small town that I live in, and we do have several events throughout the year, and a pretty big festival in the summer called Pierogi Fest (which was featured on the Food Network).  I was talking with my mom one day, about how I would love to turn one of these old homes out here into a B&B.  She then says,  that’s funny that you mention that, that is something your dad said he always wanted to do.

I guess what it all comes down to, are these quotes by Walt Disney:

“If you can dream it, you can do it”
and
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them”

and this should be our motivation…

That Thing You Do

Tom Hanks, Steve Zahn

Pretty Woman

Julia Roberts, Richard Gere

While You Were Sleeping

Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman

When In Rome

Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel

The Proposal

Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds

Legally Blonde

Reese Witherspoon!!

Love Reese!!

These made the list only because I have kids 😉

The Avengers

Robert Downey, Jr., Scarlett Johansson

Finding Nemo

Ellen DeGeneres the voice of Dory

Love Dory!!

Aladdin

Robin Williams the voice of Genie

Lemonade Mouth

Really good music!!

Linking up with I Will Bloom for Fab-ruary…A month of blog challenges to help you ‘find the fab’.

Linking up with I Will Bloom for Fab-ruary…A month of blog challenges to help you ‘find the fab’.

Books!!  You had me at books.  I hate to say it, but I did not like to read at all growing up.  In fact I hated to read. (that was actually hard to type, lol).   All during high school, I used Cliff notes for every book we had to read.  Except one.  I was a sophomore in high school, and we were assigned to read S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders.  This one only kept my attention because also that year, the movie came out, with a cast including some of the 80’s heartthrobs:  C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Matt Dillion, Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez and Rob Lowe.  It was a good story, and I did finish the book.

It was probably about 13 years ago that I began reading, and really enjoying it.  The more I read, the more I loved to read.  I especially enjoy reading books that are in a series.  Here are a few of my favorites.

Nikki Heat Series by Richard Castle.  This particular series is so clever, and they are well written.  It is based on the show Castle (one of my favorites).  In the show Richard Castle is an author, and Kate Beckett is a detective and his inspiration/muse to the books he writes.  I just love that a fictional character is the author of these books.  On the back of the books is a huge picture of Richard Castle played by Nathan Fillion.  The books are usually based on one of the episodes of the show, and are very well written murder mysteries.  I just think this is a very clever marketing tool as well.

The Fools Gold series by Susan Mallery.   Based in a small town with fascinating characters, especially the Mayor, who is female and California’s longest serving mayor.
 

The Inn Boonsboro Trilogy by Nora Roberts.  A detailed story about the renovation of an old inn.  I love how she describes tile patterns and fabrics, and furniture throughout the book, it’s like you are a part of the renovation itself.  The characters are fun too. Nora Roberts actually owns this inn and renovated it.  The Inn is located in Boonsboro, Maryland, and is absolutely beautiful.

Cedar Cover series by Debbie Macomber.  This series is based in a small town as well.  Each book is a different address, which I liked, and the first number of each address is the order in which it falls in the series.  I just like little details like that. 🙂  This was made into a series on the Hallmark channel, and I thought would be really good.  But I didn’t like who they chose to play the main character.  The stories are very good.

Friday Harbor Series by Lisa Kleypas.  This is also a series based on a renovation of an old Victorian (LOVE Victorian homes).  I have to share the first line of the first book, I had to read it twice:

The ghost had tried many times to leave the house, but it was impossible.

Very. good. stories.