Day Twenty Three

Current Favorites

~ Journals - making them, sharing them, using them

~ recycled paper - for the journals of course

~vintage decor - since we are still in the process of building our house, I am always on the look out for goodies to decorate with

~ party decor - I love to plan a party and decorating is the best part, I tend to use my vintage goods to help and items I sell in my etsy store

~ hot love songs - these are mostly country right now, i have a friend getting married the end of Oct and i've been working on a love song CD for her - not your usual sappy love songs, but good Hot love songs

~ T-shirts - I wore nothing but t's in highschool, and none since then, but this year i find myself searching for them, they are my go to clothing item now

~Outlaw country - the old classics like Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, CDB

**it appears I have a thing for music right now, I have running lists of favs, road songs, water songs, love songs, and outlaw music**

~ Justified - since we don't have cable or satellite, I've been watching old seasons of Justified from Netflix

~ Alternative Building - our home will have a few styles of alternative building in it when done, so my hubby and I spend a good amount of time researching and trying out different possibilities.

Day Twenty Two

Favorite Pictures of myself

~ our honeymoon on Joy's (SIL) front porch, since we stayed close to hubby's family we stopped in for a quick visit

~Me & Larry all smiles and tanned up (we were 9 and 5)- we hadn't been in Fl long - just a few years - we stayed at the pool all summer, played with each 

other and friends

~Me & Chad - he was about a year old, we both had on turquoise shirts and we had our cheeks pressed together - the love you have for your children never dies it just grows stronger

**I'm not a picture taker, there are not many of me from the last ten years, so it was hard to come up with many at all**

Day Twenty One

Everything I bought this week..
I thought would be great on an order ticket
~ Halloween stickers - for ATC cards, but I didn't end up using them
~ Pizza - Wednesday is pizza night at our house
~ French book and paper ephemera from a thrift store
~ postage - mailed out a few packages this week
~ saw blade - hubby had to cut concrete for drainage pipes at Camp Shiloh (the home we are building)
~ Fresh fruit - went to a baby shower and i was to bring a fruit tray, well not much fruit is in season, so I went to a local farm and bought muscadine and scuppernongs, watermelon, apples and a cantaloupe
~ gift card, gift bag and tissue - to put the bibs and burp cloths in I made for the shower.
~Halloween goodies - online from Oriental Trading
~ deal of the day - PickUrPlum
*this was really a good week for me, I stayed home most the week and didn't do alot of shopping...next week will look scary whoever, we have alot of car parts to buy

Day Twenty

Fictional Friends
~Hagrid - Harry Potter - who doesn't need a big teddy bear as a friend
~ Sally Owens - Practical Magic
~ Cassie Nightingale - The Good Witch
~ Penny - Witches of Eastwick, the TV show
~ Frances - Under the Tuscan Sun
~ Claire - Letters to Juliet - what a wonderful Grandmother figure
I'm not much of a fictional reader, I read informational books or true stories, so my fictional friends are mostly from movies
I know there are many more wonderful people I have 'met' in movies, but these are the few that come to mind now.
Ok, so this would just not leave my mind. To my list I would add
~Grizzly Adams
~ Caroline Ingalls - Little House on the Prairie
~ August - Secret Life of Bees

Day Nineteen

Events I'd like to attend
~ Sisters on the fly trip - vintage trailers - glamping
~ Brave Girls Camp - live
~ Burning Man - they have a local event in GA we thought of going to this year, but got too busy
~ Jeep Jamboree - dozens of jeeps riding trails together
~ World's Longest yard sale - this has been on my list for years now, just never seem to make it

Day Eighteen

Favorite Names for People
~Angelina
~Penelope
~Victoria
~Harley
~johah
~Zacharia
Animas-- these are very whimsy --I need a herd to use my animal name list, this isn't even a portion of what I have
~Lady Fettiplace
~Miss Pettigill
~Sir Pegasus
~Romey Nobel
~Fiona McDonald
~Tippy Hedron
~Whilemena
~Madem Duvet

Day Seventeen

Excuses
we all have them..here are some of mine
~ money - do you ever really have enough money
~ what if it doesn't work..the dreadfull what if
~ I don't have the talent
~ our house is too small...I use this one all the time, we don't invite people over or have parties because our house is soo small, hopefully that will be taken care of soon..we are getting close to being done with the home we are building
~ None..sometimes there are no excuses, sometimes I'm just too lazy

Day Sixteen

I want to learn
usually i have a huge list of things I want to learn during a year, but when prompted with this question I couldn't think of many
~ make homemade bread - i've made many loaves, just none of them turn out the way I want ( I picture the Amish loaves) even though my youngest says they taste real good even if they look like bricks - gotta love him
~ cook in a dutch oven, over a camp fire
~ photography - if your here you know why
~ pottery - the boys and I took a class a few years ago and I really enjoyed it, would love to do more

Day Fifteen

I know I am young at heart when

~ I still can't sleep the night before Christmas

~ I wrestle with my boys

Day Fourteen

I know I'm getting older when..
~ my knees creek, when I bend, walk down stairs
~ I sound like my mom, i will tell the boys something and then think, man my mom would have said that to me at that age
~ I have grandkids shug who is 2 1/2 and sweet pea 2
~ I can't remember things, I forget things easily

Day Thirteen

 Dinner Party Invitees
if i were to have a dinner party and could invite anyone I like and they would be there, it would be people i have things in common with, people that inspire me, mostly it would be women who followed there dreams
~Mary Jane Butters --her life story is just amazing
~ Mable White --inspiring and encouraging
~ Junk Gypsies --they've created an empire doing what they love
~Miranda Lambert --she's an outlaw country singer
they are all independent women who had a dream and followed it to the top

Day Twelve

 
Day 12 of 30 Days of Lists
~ House from Practical Magic - on the coast line, big beautiful house
~ Hogwarts - who doesn't love hogwarts
~ A hobbit house - from Lord of the Rings
~ House along the river of Wind in the Willows
~ Walnut Grove - the friendly people, the small town
~ Swiss Family Robinson's tree house - Love
~ Wilderness Family's Mountain - by the river, beautiful meadows

so far the lists have been great, my only complaint is I find my self constantly wanting to add to them!

Day Eleven

Favorite smells and sounds...

 This one could have been two days itself..day 11

Favorite Smells...

~ Lavender - I use it for everything, in the wash, as a room freshener

~ Lemongrass - great added to lavender

~ coffee - i'm not a heavy coffee drinker, but love the smell

~ Bbq - one of my favorite foods, love a good bbq joint you can smell before you get to

~ my E.O. Box - essential oils, the collection together is wonderful

~polo - i was a teen in the 80's what can i say

~ candle shops

~ lotion shops

~ oranges

~ fruit tree blossoms - i remember the smell of the orange blossoms when I was younger, what a sweet smell

~ Mountain Air - my favorite place to be

Favorite Sounds...

~music - country, classic rock

~grandbabies giggling

~roaring creek, in a valley, with a view of a green mountain

~ banjo - my favorite instrument

~ train

~ muscle cars - I am a car girl, I turn my head when I hear a loud car

~ the wind

Day Ten

I'm at my best when...I've had plenty of rest~ I've had a getaway ~ not hungry ~ I've got a lot to do

Day Nine

Today you can find me...visiting with my grandbabies ~ cooking ~ visiting at my mom and dads ~friends food family, we invite friends over all the time for dinner and a visit

Day Eight

Outside my front door...

~4 jeeps

~ 4 mustangs

~ big boy toys - we have it all, 4 wheelers, jet skis, boats, kayaks, go-carts

~Fruit trees - these were all planted by my hubby's gramma, we have pears, plums, figs, grapes and this year a mulberry appeared

~house hubby grew up in - he was born and raised till age 10 in the house next to us

~Uncle Jim's house - my hubby's uncle lives on the other side of us, we live in my hubby's granddad's house, growing up he was fortunate to have family all around him

~ miniature horses and donkeys - the neighbor across the street own these

Day Seven

Day 7 of 30 Days of Lists My go to midnight snack are
~Ice cream - when the kids were younger I used to wake them up and tell them we had to make an emergency run at midnight, when they found out it was for ice cream they were excited, even my oldest didn't mind wearing his pj's out, since we went thru the drive thru to get it
~any handmade dessert leftover, since we make a dessert every weekend at my mom's there's a chance some will be leftover

Day Six

Reasons to quit..

Day 6 of 30 Days of Lists

Putting things off

~things will never get done till u start 

~ if it's best for the family it will be worth the discomfort 

~things will be easier once it's all done 

~we will all be proud of our accomplishment 

All these are pretty much related to us building our own home, sometimes I just don't have the drive, but I know it needs to get done.

Day Five

Reasons to start..

Getting Serious about business 

~Money - hubby really doesn't care for his part time job, it would be nice if he could quit

~Independence - not counting on another company to give you a check every week

 ~Vacations - you can never have too many vacations

 ~Debt Free - our goal has been to be debt free before retirement, we are doing pretty good on this one, a few more things to check off

~Retirement - hubby has a good retirement set up, but you never know what the future holds, it would be nice to have a larger nest egg set up for then

 ~Possible work for boys - our boys being homeschooled for the last 10 years, have been taught to find a way to make money, not necessarily find a job..our youngest is a born leader, he needs to be his own boss

Day Four

I Need a Timeout

day 4 of 30 days of lists

when I need a timeout...

if it's just a small need..I take a nap or take a drive in my jeep with the top off and radio up

if it's a bigger need...I go junkin, play solitaire and grab a dr. pepper

if it's a really big need for a timeout..it usually calls for a road trip..my hubby is good at knowing when I need to getaway and he usually plans a little trip for us...stay tuned for more lists