Fill in the Blanks

I have decided to participate in Lauren's Friday "Fill in the Blanks Fun" For some reason my hard headed lap top won't let me copy and paste here (I have NO idea why I can't copy and paste anything into a new post?) so I'm retyping it so if it doesn't look exactly the same you'll have to forgive me :) The topic of choice is movies...one of my favourite things in the entire world!

1. My absolute favorite movie of all time is "Four Weddings & A Funeral." In fact I have just come home from the bar and popped it in to watch as I play on the computer before I even saw the Fill in the Blanks topic! Besides the obvious - Hugh Grant - I simply love their friendships and their search for love.

2. My favorite movie as a child was "Labyrinth." I desperately wanted to be Sarah dancing with the Goblin King to "As the World Falls Down" at the masquerade ball. LOVE Bowie and his package in that movie haha :) "Dance Magic Dance..."

3. The best movie quote ever is "This Kind of Certainty comes but once in a lifetime" Bridges of Madison County

4. My favorite actress is Kate Winslet - I love her in everything (esp. Sense & Sensibility and of course she was amazing as Rose! :) My favorite actor is Hugh Grant. I love all his movies!

5. The movie I could watch over and over is "Notting Hill." Again - another Hugh Grant movie! I LOOOVE the garden scene and I especially love at the end when she is asked how long she intends to stay in Britain and she looks at him for reasurance and then she answers "Indefinitely." *sigh*

6. My favorite movie genre is romantic comedies without a doubt.

7. A movie I'd like to watch this weekend I actually watched earlier tonight - The New Nightmare on Elm Street!! And it was such a good remake!! Seriously way better than I was expecting. I was really pleased they didn't mess up a good thing - good in the way that Freddy Krueger scared the crap out of me when I was little. In the 3rd one "Dream Warriors" the puppet scene scared me so bad that to this day I cannot sleep on my back!!! I'm not a big fan of horror films but I just had to see it for nostalgic purposes And yes, he's still as scary as he ever was!

My Crushes

One of my favourite issues of People Magazine is their World's Most Beautiful issue. Their 2010 edition is out now and I can't wait to get it! I wanted to share with you who would make my own personal list in no particular order. I love so many people so I'm sure I've left off some, but here are the ones that came to my mind when I was writing this post. Enoy the Beauty!

*I am a huge WWE fan and have loved "The Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels since I was 10 years old. True love lasts a lifetime! I even got the heart on his tights as a tattoo!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE Shawn!!! Especially circa 1996....

*Not for the faint hearted :) I LOOOVE chest hair...it's my aphrodisiac!!! I swoon when I look at this picture. I don't care how cheesy you might find it - this photo makes me weak in the knees :)

*Aside from HBK, My first really big celebrity crush was on Gary Barlow. He still makes me melt! :)

*Oh Robert Redford - it doesn't get any better than him does it? Classicly SEXY! Micaela and I went to see him speak in Dallas and it was AMAZING to know we were in the same room with this wonderful man

*Tom Cruise - You have my heart forever. Before Edward Cullen you made Vampires SOOO sexy and erotic as your wonderful performance of Lestat

*Johnny Depp - never ceases to amaze me with his talent and his incredible beauty
*Madonna - such a sexy symbol and icon. Love this woman with all my heart.

*Jennifer Garner & Jessica Biel both encompass to me classic All American girls. Jennifer has never looked better than after she became a mother - she has a glow. Love those dimples! Both girls have that sexy athletic build.

*James McAvoy - I fell HARD when he was just a fawn - imagine when I saw him in "Becoming Jane" I literally could not stop thinking about him. I fell HARDCORE :)

*Since she came on the scene I have been completely OBSESSED with Britney Spears. She is my ULTIMATE girl fantasy!! I have never stopped loving Brit Brit from day 1 - even when she went through her crazy shaved head and mental hopsital spells - I have continued to be loyal. My love for her is real :) Seeing her in concert twice last year was a dream come true!!!! I really really really LOVE her! :)

*I love Victoria Beckham. She was always my favourite Spice Girl and I wil always love her!

*Of course I have just as much love for her handsome husband David! Ohhh la la!

*Oh Kate Winslet is just dazzling!

*Keanu Reeves - I went through a really big Keanu phase - still so Beautiful

*Jennifer Connelly - ever since she was "Sarah" in Laybrinth. I wanted to be here dancing with Jareth at the Masquerade

*Simon Baker - I just want to run my hands through his hair! So sexy!

*I fell in love with Hugh Grant when I first saw him on a magazine cover circa 1994. I own every movie he has ever been in and I love them all. Love that accent, love his charm!

*Jeffrey Dean Morgan - such a man! I fell hard for him when he played "Denny" in Grey's Anatomy - those were my favourite episodes by far!

*Blake Lively - I absolutely adore her

*Micaela has always fancied Kim Kardashian and my mom is just obsessed with her reality show and she always says she never gets tired of looking at her she's so beautiful!!! The girl has the sexiest curves!

*Mel Gibson can do no wrong in my eyes. I love the man. I quite prefer him back in the '80's mullet and all. Mel circa Lethal Weapon. Twinkie and I watched "Bird On A Wire' a million times :) LOVE his bum scene and hearing him say my name since Goldie Hawn's character was named Marianne :)


*of course what list of Beautiful People would be complete without Robert Pattinson. I'll admit it took me awhile to find him irresistible - it took reading the books FINALLY after much convincing on alot of people's parts haha thank God for their persistance. You can't help but want someone to love you the way Edward loves Bella - that's what make him COMPLETELY irresistible - the British accent sure doesn't hurt either hahaha :)

Oh man I LOVE to love :) I know I prob overlooked some of my favourites - but for sure I love all of the above :)

Postcards to Mandy

Mandy emailed me today that she received the last two postcards I have sent her

Mandy says this one below is her most favourite postcard she's ever been given because she loves butterflies the way I love London :) That makes me sooo happy! She has everything with butterlies on it and I'm excited because I have two postcards of butterflies that I can't wait to send her.

Lost at Sea

One thing I love nearly as much as London is the beach. The beach offers an escape from life. Many times it has served as the haven I was searching for. Anytime I'm on the beach life feels good. I'm not worried about tomorrow or consequences, the sea makes me live in the Here and Now.

*image via Le Love

Antique Shop Finds

On Saturday I went to an antique store downtown (I miss Micaela SO much - it was one of her favourite places in the Falls. You know how thrifting is one of her favourite things to do!) and found these old postcards

1984 is the year the stamp that was used to design the postcard above was issued and the same year I was born. Below is a postcard of York Minster

This one is my favourite because it was actually sent and had a message on the back. It was postmarked 1976, Philip would have been 1 year old :) It's neat to see an actual stamp and how much it cost back then as to now. And being in advertising it's neat to see what was being shown in Piccadilly Circus at the time. Like Laura noticed the Marlboro ad in the back (the scan is too small and you prob can't see it).
Another thing I found was a mat of London. It's a print on what looks like corkboard. It still had an old plastic covering it with the Souvenir of London sticker. I think I'll take it out since it's torn and frame it for my living room. One of these days when my house is clean (haha I am not the best housewife truth be told!) I'll take photos of my London collection for you to see :) I LOVE Trafalgar Square SO much! Def. one of my favourite bits of London :)


I was SO glad to find these little treasures!

On another happy note - two of my postcards have reached their destination. The one I had sent to Russia that I was worry about finally made it after 33 days. I don't have that one scanned so I can't share what I sent. Another made it to Finland after 13 days. This was sent to Minna who likes flowers. Love it when one gets registered because that just means I get to send out more! :)

Arrivals Gate

I wish I had been at the BritWeek Gala dinner this past Thursday. Not only did Victoria Beckham look STUNNING (true she could afford to eat a couple of cup cakes - but I have always always loved her and her handsome husband!)

But my sweet, sweet David Archuleta performed. I looooooooove this boy (yes I know he is just a boy ha). My family and I have always been big American Idol fans. Every Tues & Weds I go to my mom's house to have dinner and watch Idol together. No other season compares to season 7 when Archie was on. I was SMITTEN with him. I just knew he was going to win it all. That was the only time I ever voted too haha His voice is just SOOO beautiful!!! I even went to go see the Top 10 go on tour that summer in Dallas because I just HAD to see Archie :) I looooove him! I love how humble he is - he's just such a cutie!
Sundays are perfect for being lazy and spending time with your family and that's exactly what I did today. I went to church and after a big lunch with my parents, took a big nap :) Until my younger seester Madeline woke me up when she came over. We watched "The Lovely Bones." I always wanted to read the book but never got around to it. I heard a lot of people say negative things about the movie, but I just loved it. It's so sad and beautifully told. Of course I cried my eyes out!

I love movies - I could watch them all day if I could. My whole family is that way. Except my husband. He has to be in the mood to watch a movie or it has to be something he really really wants to see. I have more of a chance to get him to watch a movie with me at the theatre then at home. Getting him to watch a movie at home is like pulling teeth. He would rather flip through the channels. He loves watching TV. We're SO opposite in that way. Like right now - at this moment he's watching "National Treasure" on USA. But if I had suggested to him that we should put in the DVD - then he prob. wouldn't want to watch it. I know strange huh? :) My silly Philip.
My best friend Stephanie LOVES movies as much as I do. We use to watch movies together all the time until her schedule changed at work and she had to be up so early. She's def. my favourite movie date. We could talk about movies for hours. When we are out together somehow our conversation always finds its way to movies :)

Sundays also mean PostSecret. This week I loved

I love airports. Love them. I was a military brat so I grew up everywhere. Fortunately I have been able to do quite a bit of traveling on my own. Everytime I went to the airport to pick up family and friends I always watched as couples reunited at the arrivals gate and secretly wished one day that would be me and somebody would be waiting for me. Luckily I know that feeling. There's nothing like it. When you're walking throught the terminal with butterflies in your stomach because you're about to be reunited. Then that moment you both see each other and you run up to embrace...such bliss! I love it.

When I was coming back from Europe that summer 2006 Philip picked me up at the airport. We had been apart for two and a half months - the longest time we had ever spent apart. When we got to the car I was getting in and he told me how hard being away from each other was and he never wanted to be apart from me again. That's when he asked me to marry him. He proposed in the DFW Airport parking lot. I couldn't believe it was happening! Completely unexpected - It was magical! I remember how excited I was to tell the lady who took our parking stub at the toll booth that I was engaged :)

I get this postsecret. It makes me think of the beginning of "Love Actually" - prob. the only movie I never have to beg Philip to watch. He loves that movie :)

*sorry about the subtitles

Every girl dreams of being a Princess

I'm at a bit of a stand still at the moment...all 6 postcards are in transit. I'm like a maniac checking to see if ones been registered. Two of them have me kinda worried because it's been 31 days since I sent one to Russia and 25 days since I sent one to Mexico. I guess this is normal - Russia is a bit far away, but Mexico is just south of the border. Isn't it funny how sometimes it seems like it takes no time at all and at times it takes so much longer? I'm so impatient haha I want to send out some more :)

I'm a big entertainment news junkie. I love being in the know about celebrities. I love "E!" and I frequent people daily. For as long as I can remember my mother has always subscribed to People Magazine. My dream job (aside from the "Smash Hits" gig) was to write for People. I loved how they combined entertainment with real, heart warming and wrenching articles. I can't wait to get the latest issue

Don't you just love Kate Middleton? I'm not that big into fashion the way my twinkie is. But I do appreciate Kate's simple, classic, elegant style. Princess Diana would have loved her. Kate is def a fashion icon. I love her style! Here are a couple of my favourite looks of this beautiful girl who already looks like a princess

Hand Made

My sweet co-worker Laura gave me some blank postcard stock that she had left over from a family reunion invitation she had done. I'm so excited about these blank canvases. While I'm not nearly as talented as she, (she can sketch, paint and draw so well!) I can make some what decent collages. I think it goes back to the time Micaela and I use to plaster our walls and school folders with Take That. My first attempt was for a postcrossing I did for Jacquie who mentioned handmade cards.
My second attempt was for my twinkie's bestie Marisa.
When my twinkie moved to VA in the beginning of the year it was unbearable for me. We had never ever been apart in our whole lives. We went to lunch together every day, had the same girlfriends, hung out with our family - we were literally together almost every hour we weren't at our different jobs or at home sleeping in our seperate houses. It was a HUGE transition for me, one I still have a hard time dealing with on bad days or really good days when I just want to see her pretty smile.

So on Valentine's Day my sister's bestie sent us each a Valentine. Her beautiful daughter made us home made cards that were just darling! Marisa sent me and Micaela both a pair of Sara Paloma's Stoneware Wings so that when we put them together they make a perfect match. How perfect and sweet is that? It made us both cry! You can read Micaela's post about it here.

I made Marisa a hand made postcard to thank her

I tried to include things I knew Marisa loves (Mr. Darcy, cuff links, dandelions, photography etc.) with things I love (Seahorse and London). She wrote about the card here and I appreciated her sweet sweet words! She is so kind with the biggest heart. I feel like I know her already because Micaela goes on and on about her every time we talk. I'm so thankful that she has Marisa!

As you can see seahorses and London are going to be a recurring theme because both mean SO much to me. I can't wait to see what my creation will look like for Mandy.