About Me

  • About Me: writer, wife, mom, dreamer of dreams

Video Games

  • Games I Play: Spryo, Crash Bandicoot and more recently Sonic the Hedgehog
  • Consoles: PS2

Books

  • Favorite Books: Little Women, Jane Eyre, Anne of Green Gables
  • Favorite Authors: Louisa May Alcott, L.M. Montgomery, Elizabeth Goudge, Jan Karon
  • Favorite Characters: Jo March,

Style

  • Where I shop: thrift shops, antique stores and junk shops. If I have to plunder to find treasure the better I like the place!
  • I like to wear: pants and shirts, scarfs and costume jewelry kind of a classic casual mix
  • Can't live without: books, books, books, and books....Did I mention books?
  • Prized Possessions: A Cathedral window Quilt, my collection of old creamers and my great great Aunt Liza's cedar jewelry box, as well as my great Grandmother's brooch and my Grandmama's handmade quilts.
  • Guilty Pleasure: strolling through the library and filling my arms with books, letting chocolate melt slowly on my tongue, sitting gazing at the countryside from my front porch, back deck, the windows...

Television

  • Favorite Shows: decorating and cooking programs
  • Favorite Channels: HGTV, BBC America, Foodtv
  • Favorite Reruns: Leave it To Beaver
  • Most Addictive Show: cooking shows
  • Show I Secretly Watch: Unbeatable Banzuke and Ninja Warrior
  • Show I wished wasn't cancelled: Starting Over

Travel

  • Places I love: St. Augustine, North Carolina Blue Ridge Parkway, Smokey Mountains
  • Places to see before I die: Alaska, English Countryside, Ireland, Germany, all of the US
  • Dream Vacation: To drive the coastline of the US from Maine to Texas, then from California to Alaska

Music

  • Favorite Artists: Secret Garden, Andre Vollenveider, Bjork
  • Favorite Genre: no such thing! I have very diverse musical tastes in music
  • Favorite Songs: currently "What are you Doing the Rest of Your Life?"
  • Favorite Lyrics: see above
  • Songs I hate: Jeremiah was a Bullfrog, Dueling Banjoes and The Entertainer

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Enchanted Cottage,and a myriad of other black and white classics, A Summer's Place, Back Street, A Love Affair to Remember
  • Favorite Actors: Bette Davis, Doris Day, Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Katherine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn
  • Favorite Genre: Romantic Comedy
  • Favorite Soundtracks: Washington Square
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: "The Promises you make to yourself are the most important ones to keep!" or something to that effect. From Christmas In Conneticut
  • Movies I can watch over and over: any of the above mentioned ones and more besides

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: American versions of international classics
  • Favorite Dishes: meatloaf makes me swoon!
  • Favorite Desserts: chocolate or lemon anything
  • Favorite Drinks: Diet Dr. Pepper. Most often to be found drinking good well water,however.
  • Favorite Junk Foods: I don't eat junk foods! I used to eat them, but find my taste runs more to fruits and real foods these days.
  • Best meal ever: Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, green beans, corn bread muffins and apple turnovers
  • My Original Recipes: I love to cook and everything I cook comes out an original. I love to play with my food,lol. No recipe goes unaltered!
  • Favorite Restaurants: none really. Love to go out for breakfast, but am not locked into a restaurant as a favorite.
  • Foods I hate: food and hate in the same sentence? I can't imagine hating any food...I can't even think of a food I don't like at the moment.

More About Me

  • Nationality: American
  • Religion: nondenom Christian
  • Heroes: every homemaker who came before me
  • Interests: living well, mindful consumption, nature, family and home
  • Expertise: thrifty living
  • Occupation: writing
  • Website: PennyAnnPoundwise@yahoogroups.com