About Me
I grew up here in East Texas, learning as most, to do things for ourselves. Our mom taught us to sew, and cook of course. My dad was a well renowned- sought after Carpenter in the area, and I must say was one of the best. (You will hear me speak of him often) Dad’s famous saying was ” If it ain’t done right it is wrong” My Grandpa had his own painting business, while my Grandmother had a Ceramic shop where folks came to make and paint their own items. I believe all this must have been embedded in me, as I love to Create, Re-do, Make pretty, Build, and mostly paint. I am not sure if it is a blessing or a curse that I look at things and my brain automatically thinks how I would change it.
At the age of 21 I moved to Las Vegas, NV for better opportunities. There I lived for the better part of my life, raising the children and making a living. During this time, I created a craft business where I mostly got into local craft shows.
As I just retired from my career, was about the same time that we realized our dad was getting to the age that he needed someone around to help take care of things. My siblings, as I had, all moved to other parts of the Country to make their way in life. (Ha, see we all could not wait to get out of this very small, nothing to do, very few opportunities town.) Therefore I was the one elected to move back here and take care of things. This was okay now that my children had moved away, and i was done with my career, I was ready for a change.
Where this story begins: We had lived out here in the country about 6 miles from town, my younger brother owned property to the rear left of dad’s place and right after I got here my younger sister bought property to the rear right of dad’s. Sitting here is a double wide mobile home, somewhat run down, very unkempt. No one had lived here really for years or taken care of this place, yet it was the perfect place for me to be, right here close so I could walk across an acre and get to dad.
I have to say in the beginning all I saw was a whole lot of work, of course taking care of dad, his property, this property and since my younger brother worked out of state most of the time I also take care of his property. With all this business going on, after my dad passed, I found myself, here all alone with nothing to do except mow grass, trim trees and weed eat. As I stated before there is nothing to do in this town and all my friends are in Las Vegas. This could have caused any sane person to go into a state of depression. I am still way to young for this now.
Wait a minute, as the light bulb came on and I said to self, “What a wonderful opportunity I have here”. I had said for years that when I retired I wanted to just craft, remembering why I had saved all my crafting items that were still in boxes and had been moved 1500 miles across the country with me. ( Sometimes blessings come in many disguises, we just have to be able to see them as such). Therefore I chose to fall back on the person I am, seeing the positive side of things as “Glass Half Full”. I do have wonderful Suddenlink internet out here in the woods so my search for inspirations and ideas was on. YouTube.com and Pinterest.com are great tools, leaving me not with what to do, yet where to start.
This is where I decided, heck I am doing all this stuff out here anyway, maybe I can inspire someone else as well. So here I am, country girl, turned city girl, and back to a country girl, learning things all over again. All of my family has this “Do It Yourself” mentality so I get a lot of help and encouragement from both my brothers and both my son’s. My oldest son does live in the area close, so Bless his Heart, I call on him a lot for help with things I just can’t do myself, like chopping down a tree. My older brother, is also close enough to come help if I need it and also my Web Site mentor. My younger brother, off on another job, is my Video Guru on using imovie and ugh, how to use a Mac.
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