Getting to Know You

Holly Holderman

A verse from Rogers and Hammerstein 
The King and I

Getting to know you,

Getting to know all about you.

Getting to like you, 

Getting to hope you like me.

Putting it my way,

But nicely,

You are precisely,

My cup of tea
Haven't you noticed
Suddenly I'm bright and breezy?
Because of all the beautiful and new
Things I'm learning about you
Day by day.

This has been so so so much fun. I loved getting to know you all! 
I have been hard at work...filling in the details from my 
surprise giveaway  and here they are:

THE WINNERS
The best way to introduce them is to tell you a little something about them...

Natasha @ Five Minutes for Me...has blue eyes, loves winter and wears Jo Malone's 

Lime, Basil and Mandarin perfume. Natasha features Sunday Song on her blog...

a great post to link your favourite songs. This week she is featuring Michael Buble 

with "Haven't Met You Yet". Natasha has a wonderful blog with lots of surprises. 

I could spend hours looking thru it all. Be sure to check it out :)

Sandy aka Doris the Great @ Aging Disgracefully has blue eyes and her favourite 

season is Spring. She wears L'Air d'Temps, is reading Fugitive Peace by Anne Michaels,  

recently watched the movie, Barney's Version and enjoys her daughter's music on My Space. 

My take on Sandy is that she is a woman who enjoys life to the fullest! 

She has a great post today, If I were....  It is a great way to get to know Sandy :)

Meredith @ Count it all Joy has hazel eyes, her favourite season is Spring and also likes 

perfume by Jo Malone's Lime, Basil and Mandarin as well as Lola by Marc Jacobs. 

She is reading Deep France by Celia Brayfield, watched The Green Hornet with her kids 

and is listening to Back it Up by Caro Emerald. Meredy and I go back to the beginning 

of my blogging experience. She is a wonderful woman, with six beautiful children and a 

loving husband. She is super talented and shares it all with us.  Today she is sharing 

her gadget love and now I think I need one!

Ilse @ Insh'allah has blue-green eyes and favours Autumn and Spring. She selects perfume 

depending on her mood and at the moment is enjoying Femme by Hugo Boss. Her latest read 

is In the Company of a Courtesan by Sarah Dunant. Her last movie was The King's Speech 

and she is listening to Life for Rent by Dido. Ilse is a new blogger. She is an African born Kiwi 

from Australia living in the Kingdom of Bahrain. I always have to read and say that slowly as I find 

it so amazing! Ilse and I share a passion for photography. She has a wonderful eye for it. Ilse's 

most recent post, What next?, talks about the turmoil in Bahrain. Her day to day existence is 

precarious at the moment. I am sure she would love to hear from fellow bloggers. 

Itztru loves to follow blogs and I have been lucky to have her following mine. She lives in 

Vermont  (home of the Trapp family) and says that yes, the hills are alive! Itztru has blue/green eyes 

with flecks of brown and loves Autumn. She is reading Plant Dreaming Deep by May Sarton 

and Jud Hale'e Inside New England. She last watched The King's Speech  and is 

listening to Nick Drake and Sam Bush. Thank you for following me Itztru!


Now...it is a surprise, so I can't tell you what they have won just yet.
Follow them along and you may discover just what is in their surprise giveaway :)

GETTING TO KNOW YOU ALL

Haven't you noticed

Suddenly I'm bright and breezy?

Because of all the beautiful and new

Things I'm learning about you

Day by day.

I am inspired by all that I have read here. We are one busy group of women with fantastic taste! If you have been looking for a new book, trying to decide on your next movie or are keen to add a few tunes to your music playlist...read on. It's all here!

Thru your eyes: I just had to know :) Interestingly the majority of you have blue/green eyes and favour Spring. Summer and Autumn were a close second. This of course leaves me wanting to know more. I can feel another giveaway coming on :)

Perfumes we are wearing now: Jo Malone Lime Basil and Mandarin, Beautiful, J'Adore, Rive Gauche, Chanel No 5, Gucci, Creed/Virgin Island Water, Diyque Philosykos, Sugar Fresh Lemon, Bond No. 9/Scent of Peace, Anais-Anais, Euphoria, Voyage d' Hermes, Ralph Lauren/Romance, Coco/ Chanel, Diorissimo, Samsara/ Guerlain, L'Air d'Temps, Chloe, Pacifica's/French Lilac, Euphoria/ Calvin Klein, Bluebell by Penhaligan, Chanel No. 19, Lola/Marc Jacobs, Lovely/Sarah Jessica Parker, India Hicks/ Island Night, Amber /Prada, Paris, Must de Cartier, Another 13 / Le Labo, Essence /Narciso Rodriguez, Jessica Mcclintock, Femme/Hugo Boss, Miracle by Lancome, Cashmere Mist/Donna Karan, Chance/Chanel, Laura by Laura Biagotti, Joy, Lou Lou, Bois Des Iles/Chanel, Poppy/Coach, Pleasures and Intense by Estee Lauder


Books and or authors we are currently reading:   CHI Walking by Danni Dreyer,  Empire by Catherine Keller,  A Married Man by Catherine Alliott,  The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell,  My Time in Heaven by Richard Sigmund,  All Things Wise and Wonderful by James Herriott, Plant Dreaming Deep by May Sarton,  A Thousand Days in Venice by Marlena di Blasi,  Novice by Trudi Canavan,  Opposite of Me,  books by John Updike,  Never Let Me Go,  The Doomsday Book,  The Help,  The Sad Truth About Happiness,  A Farm in my Heart,  The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, The Sea by John Banville,  The Distant Hours by Kate Morton,  Fugitive Peace by Ann Michaels,   Wide Open by Nicola Barker,  Committed by Liz Gilbert, The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver,        Three Cups of Tea,   Life Lessons from the Monastery by Abbot,  Jerome Kodell,  Deep France by Celia Brayfield,   Anthology of Women's Erotica,   Three Seconds,   In the Company of Others by Jan Karon, The Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Pie Society,   Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, Das Halsband der Taube,   Cutting for Stone,   In the Company of a Courtesan,  365 Thank You's,   The Red Sea Rules,   In Search of Hobart by Peter Timms,   The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization by Ward Perkins, Breaking Dawn,  The Affinity Bridge,   Life by Keith Richards,   Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict,   Blogging for Dummies,   What the Night Knows by Dean Koontz,   The Time Travellers Wife,   Anna Karenina,   Wish You Were Here by Rita Mae Brown, 
Boy with no Shoes by William Horwood,   The Food Matters Cookbook by Mark Bittman


Last movie we went to see: The Kings Speech,  Another Year,  I am David,  The Social Network, Tangled,  Gullivers Travels,  Black Swan,  True Grit,  Bottle Shock,  The Holiday,  Barney's Version, Eat Pray Love,  The Tourist,  The Red Shoes,  The American,  Gifted hands-The Ben Carson Story,  The Green Hornet,  Gainsbourg,  Animals United, The Way Back,  Secretariat,  The Hurt Locker,  Harry Potter,  I am Love,  The Kids are all Right,  Red,  Inception,


Music Artists we like:  Enigma/ Voyageur,   Angus and Julia Stone,  Adele,  Dave Koz,  Nick Drake, Sam Bush,  Enya,  John Mellencamp,  Soundtrack 500 Days of Summer,  Amos Lees,  El Divo,  Jack Johnson,   Michael Buble,   Microwave Jenny,   Bruce Springsteen,   Kate Rusby, Madeline Peyroux,   Florence and the Machine 'Lungs',   Zen Garden,   The Reminder by Feist,   Mary Chapin Carpenter,  Vince Guaraldi,   Back it Up/Caro Emerald,   Jacqueline DuPre-Brahns Sonatas,   Mama Mia,   Susan Boyle,  James Blake,  Sade,  Flight of the Concords,  Melody Gardot,  Dido,   Mindy Gledhill,   Deuter's Hand's of Light,   Sarah Blasko,   Rosetta Stone audio French,   Beatles,  Leonard Cohen,   Take That,   George Winston,   Kings of Leon,   Ingrid Michaelson,  James Taylor

A new discovery for me!
From Meredith @ County it all Joy

Caro Emerald singing Back It Up

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