Hey everyone!
I was originally going to do a vlog then my inner critique started kicking in and I just couldn’t film a good video and it just started getting late so I decided to write out the post instead!
Today is a VERY special day! Tranquil Dreams is 4 years old! YAY!
I can’t believe that its been 4 years that I’ve been writing this blog. It is definitely one of my biggest accomplishments and one that I’m extremely proud of. Tranquil Dreams started from my desire to fuel my life’s with a lot of positive through my passions and interests. Its been a whole lot more than that since, I’ve lost my way and then found it all over again. Tranquil Dreams has changed me in a really awesome way and honestly, as much as I always could say that its a lot to do with my willpower to keep at this, it wouldn’t have happened without ALL OF YOU! Everyone of you thats stopped by, liked, commented, or even just checking this space out makes me happy.
I love you all! And I appreciate it so much! Its hard to cover everyone thats inspired me to keep Tranquil Dreams going but here are a good portion of them. If I forgot you, its really not intentional. Remember to show them lots of love because they are absolutely in the awesome zone:
Aan Prihandaya
Alex Raphael
Books, Movies, Poetry
Butterflymumma
CC PopCulture
Cindy Bruchman
Cinema Parrot Disco
Cinematic Katzenjammer
Dan the Man’s Movie Reviews
FlixChatter
Hard Ticket to Home Video
Isaacs Picture Conclusions
Let’s Go to the Movies
Life of this City Girl
Live & Learn
Mettel Ray
MKG-Memories-Keepsakes-Gifts
MovieRob
Mr. Movie’s Film Blog
Not a Punk Rocker
Parlor of Horror
Rhino’s Horror
Screenkicker!
Silver Screen Serenade
Snap Crackle Watch!
Sporadic Chronicles of a Beginner Blogger
Ten Stars or Less
The Vern’s Video Vortex
Thirdeyemom
Thy Critic Man
Today I Watched a Movie
Tvor Travels
Yummy Lummy
+ many more!
Moving on to some 2015 fun business! 🙂
I’m announcing 2 long-term projects. You can see the pages up in the menu.
1)THE CLASSICS ADVENTURE
I read a lot during the year. In 2015, I’m still doing the 40 books for Goodreads Reading Challenge. Although I check out a lot of books, I neglect reading Classics. So this year, its to work on that. My first highlight is to read Jane Austen’s novels plus a few that I’ve chosen. The list will be updated in the page under Books in the menu.
If there’s any novels that I should check out, feel free to suggest!
2) BAKING THROUGH DISNEY
Concept as simple as it sounds. I’ll be watching Disney Animated Classics and Pixar. I’ll get a review done and then I’ll make a fancy baked goods. It could be cupcakes (which was the original concept) but it could also be cookies or cakes, depending on what I come up with to portray the movie.
More details and the list up on the menu. Because it covers two categories of Tranquil Dreams, I gave it its own tab.
As a general update for 2015 (since I didn’t really do one before)…
2015 is all about going back to versatility. There’s going to be a bunch of randomness. I’m going to do random Pinterest Therapy and Music Obsessions plus show some of the “adventures”. Generally, I’ll be covering events and exhibits around Montreal . Right now, I’m set to do Fantasia Film Festival, Montreal Comic-con and planning to go to Toronto Comic-con.
Aside from that, movies will be trying to get a new release every month in theatres. You can check out my 2015 Anticipated Movies HERE. Plus, I’ve been doing TV Binge posts along with movie reviews 🙂
Book reviews will resume to full book reviews (since I really missed that last year). Aside from classics, my focus is going to be on featuring independent writers. Movie reviews will be done as frequently as I can do them. If I feel that some movies are rather average, I’ll group them into double features.
Thats the plan for 2015! Depending on how these plans go, maybe I’ll launch something else midyear (not sure yet). I had wanted to get a rating system on but I haven’t quite worked that out either. Lots of ideas going on in my head but for now, this is it!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
STAY AWESOME AND HAPPY 2015!
*I updated my menu and the About page. Will be working on the sidebar soon!*
WOW. Happy blog birthday. Thanks so much for the shout out 🙂
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Thank YOU Gary! 🙂
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Wow, 4 years. I always love visiting your blog. Keep up the excellent work Kim.
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Thanks so much! 🙂
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Congrats Kim! Happy Blog B-day!
Appreciate the shout out!
Looking forward to seeing what you have ins tore for us in the coming year!
I’m posting a new blogathon announcement later today, so keep your eyes peeled! 🙂
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Thanks! 🙂 I’m pretty excited about my projects which should get its first post soon.
Another blogathan? Can’t wait to see what it is!!!
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Just posted it Kim!
Can’t wait to see ur posts on these new projects!
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Congratulations and keep up the good work! Thank you very much for listing me as well :-). Looking forward to reading your new posts, good luck with your challenges!
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Thanks Caz! 🙂
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Congratulations! Four years is a long time 😀
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It really is…haha! But its also a neverending learning process 🙂 Which I totally love!
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Keep writing Kim, we’ll keep reading 🙂
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Thanks! 🙂
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Happy blog-birthday Kim!
Thanks for the mention 🙂 I really love your blog and am especially excited to read the Classics reviews! I adore Jane Austen and hope you do too!!
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Thanks Natasha!
So far, Jane Austen is 2 for 2 but I’ll also re-read those 2 as well. Review should be up in February while I take care of some other reading priorities first 😉
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Which two have you read?
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Emma and Pride&Prejudice
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I’ve read those two. Emma is one of my favorite books ever!
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Honestly, I read Emma in school and the most fascinating part in that English class was that it was called Cinema and Novels and watching and analyzing movie adaptations was homework. Haha! So, yeah, I need to read that one again…
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congratulations 😉
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Congratulations! Happy Anniversary!
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Thanks Day’s! 🙂
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Happy happy Kim! Best of luck with your upcoming endeavours. I am with you on the classics. I read a lot, but neglect a lot of the classics! You can do it 😀
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Thank Zoe! I’m not so worried about Jane Austen as I am at planning (attempting) to read Anna Karenina…haha!
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That sounds like my girl!…hope you don’t mind saying…”my girl”…because I feel I know you that well…like a Granddaughter of sorts…Stay positive Kim!…you will go far!
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Thats so sweet of you to say, Marilyn! You too! Stay positive and all the best to you and your family 🙂
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Happy bloggity birthday and thanks for the shout-out! Looking forward to your plans for 2015 🙂
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Thanks!!! 🙂
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Four years! Congratulations Kim. You should be proud. You have a great blog.
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Thanks David 🙂
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Wow! Old Lady. Good for you–looking forward to reading your posts throughout 2015. 🙂
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Thanks Cindy 🙂
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WHOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Kim!!!!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!
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Haha! Thanks, E! 🙂
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Congratulations!! I’m really looking forward to Baking Through DIsney. Keep up the great work! 🙂
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Thanks Drew! I’m really excited about the Disney project. Been wanting to do it for a long time 🙂 Hopefully I’ll get the first review out soon.
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Congrats! That’s one hell of an accomplishment!
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Thanks Ryan! 🙂
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Congrats. Been a while now 😀
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Thanks Tim! 🙂
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*hi five!* CUPCAKES!
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*hi five* 🙂
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Hey Kim! Awww, I’m blushing here. You too are totally in the awesome zone.
Talk soon. Lots of love,
Butterfly
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Thanks Butterfly! 🙂
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Happy new year and best wishes to you and yours for health, happiness, peace & prosperity in 2015!
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Thanks! Same to you 🙂 Wishing you all the best in 2015!
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Wow, congratulations on four years! And here’s to another four! 😀
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Thanks Anna! I sure hope so 🙂
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Amazing job Kim. Congrats on reaching a special milestone. Keep up the great work! 🙂
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Thanks Ryan! 🙂
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WOW Four Years, just WOW. Thank you Kim for being so supportive of myself and every other blogger, writer. I wish you nothing but good things for the next four years
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Thank YOU! You all are so inspiring! I really hope to stick around for as long as I can, even though some days I think I need to develop some superpowers to get everything done 😉
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4 years old – congrats on making it so long. Also, thanks for the nod.
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Thanks!! 🙂
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So honoured to be part of the post, especially with such great company. Keep going with your great blog 🙂
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You are absolutely awesome, Alex! Thanks! 🙂
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Happy Birthday! Look forward to seeing more from you and 4 years wow!! Thanks for the mention too. 🙂
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Thanks! 🙂
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i am late to the party, but happy blogging birthday … i LOVE your movie index!! what a list!!
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I’m usually late to a lot of posts so thats alright 😉 Thanks Niall! 🙂 Glad you like my movie index!
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love it. thanks for keeping up with my oscars posts. have a few more to go in february, then in march i am cohosting an irish movie/book/music blogging challenge. we’d love to have you take part if you can. post is sticky at the top pf my blog if you need details
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Can’t wait to read the rest of your Oscars posts 🙂 I don’t know much about Irish movie/book/music. I could give it some thought and get back to you about it 🙂
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sure. we made a you tube trailer to give an idea of what people can do; it’s really whatever you want, and it can be as out of left field as you like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ujkdxIiFmc
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I gave it some thought. I was wondering if it could be something like baking? Haha! I know its not music/movie/books but I could do some Irish culture recipes or something. It could actually be kind of fun…. Just wondering. If you really want those 3 I’d figure out something else.
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absolutely!! anything you’d like; if you’re fond of baking, by all means post something about it. there’s a badge you can grab and put on your site and then just link the post back to my blog or to 746 Books or else just to the FB page. No pressure, it’s meant to be a fun blogathon, so please, enjoy!!
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Okay! I’ll have to research on what to make. Unless you’d like to suggest. Haha! I’m sure I can get most ingredients in Canada.
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anything but bacon and cabbage!!!
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Soda bread …
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I thought about that. I just found a recipe for it online this morning. Maybe I’ll test it out. Is there anything else? Like meal dishes, maybe? I could give that a shot too, if you’d like.
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Google “colcannon” “pandy” and “barm brack” … also, if you like ice cream, there’s brown bread ice cream, which sounds horrible but is delicious
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Everything looks cool. Still searching up pandy… But I’ll skip on ice cream. Its not like its not cold enough this year..haha!
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pandy is basically mashed potatoes. http://dixiemockingbird.hubpages.com/hub/Irish-Champ-Poundies-Colly-or-Pandy-Perfect-Irish-Mashed-Potatoes-with-Green-Onion
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http://dixiemockingbird.hubpages.com/hub/Barmbrack
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Happy Belated Birthday! 4 is a fun age!! Enjoy the laughter and the love x
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Thanks!! 🙂
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