All about ME and the blog

Welcome to my blog.  As you can see by my profile picture (and I have on 6" heels) that I am married to a short fellow, LOL! No he is really tall 6'5" and I am really short 5'3".  We are like Mutt and Jeff as they say. 
 
We have 3 children Ramona, Alex, and Trent, a.k.a. The RAT pack as I used to call them, 3 grandchildren Kate, Kamden, and Karson (which makes me the Mimi of the KKK Club), and 2 in-laws Jock and Julie. 

Is that not the sweetest face you have ever seen?

Trent is my baby and is a Senior in high school this year. YAY!!! I am so excited for him.  The only sport is plays is basketball; he is about 6'2" and has a size 15 foot.  So he would have been as tall as his daddy if he didn't have so much turned down to walk on according to his grandmother.

  Yep! That's my baby boy!

I am a photographer and I sell jewelry.  My great loves besides the two I make a living in and my family are camping, crafting, singing karaoke, and reading.  These are the things I will cover in this blog; so without futher ado, we will start out with camping.

We are members of the F.O.R.T. community in Northwest Alabama. It is a campground where we lease our space by the year. It is like taking a vacation every weekend or about it. We have done a lot of work there with a huge L-shaped porch complete with a grill, bar, karaoke system, and surround sound. We are currently in the process of adding a room on the back. What will it be for you ask? It will be a living/sleeping room, bathroom and utility room. Yes we have a washer, dryer, satellite, and getting internet service. Is that not what you call roughing it? LOL!

We take some awesome golf cart rides and then our porch is the hang out most every weekend for karaoke. There is always someone cooking something. We gather together most every night. This is truly a place where we Got Things To Do. The photo below was taken in April 2011. Guess it is time for a new one. Hmmm...I will have to that this weekend. It has changed so much since then

We get together for holidays.

We Karaoke with a porch full.

We dress up!

And we decorate for holidays.

So as you can see we have lots of fun and it is kind of like back in the old days (except for all the luxuries we have) when communities gathered for fun and fellowship.

 We have been in full swing working on our addition.  See I am a die hard Alabama Crimson Tide Fan and my room is called the Bama Room.  So you know it has to be Crimson, white, black, and gray or some variation of those colors. 

I love, love, love pinterest and have been truly inspired.  Over the weekend this is what we got accomplished:

 One wall is brick paneling

 one wall is done in old tin

 

I ran out of tin and am on the look out for more in the silver.  The red is done in an A shape or as my friend said it looks like a lego A.  I cannot take credit for the shape of the red; it was my son, Alex's idea; which I love. The hubby and I are still discussing the other 2 walls (but I do have a mural with elephants on it that is going on one wall) and the floor covering is going to be a major discussion.  He thinks he is going to get his way on something.  We will see.

 

 

Moving right along to crafting:

 

With all the ideas on Pinterest, the net, and blogs, and Christmas barrelling down on us like there is no tomorrow, I figure it is time to start creating.  I made a little trip to Wal-mart today which is about 20 miles away and that one is not a supercenter. I picked up a few new supplies so I could get started tomorrow.  I am going to try to make at least 3 things a week to post on my blog with instructions.  My projects this week are painting on canvas, making lotion, and crocheting pumpkin pencil toppers for my daughters kindergarten class.  Tune in tomorrow to see how that goes. 

 

Now I  "Got Things To Do"