Pictures of our land in Breckinridge County Ky

I took some really awesome pictures of our land yesterday when we went to make a futile attempt to mow it. We will be moving sometime within the next 6 months without a doubt. Most likely in the next 2 months, thats our goal to get down there before the weather turns bad on us




















Here above you can see the dirt road going to our 5 acre lot. There is NOTHING back here except a lake, trees, good ol Kentucky Hills, and us. I can only imagine how AWESOME it will be to watch the stars at night. Every meteor shower will be like the best show ever with that great big sky!








This "path" is Noor's futile attempt at mowing. yes he used a push mower, no I dont think he is crazy per se`

You have to hand it to the guy he is brave to even attempt this. Me and him are about the same height at 5 ft 3/5ft 4 and some of these weeds were taller than us, most of them were our size. They are super thick weeds too, this isnt your front lawn kinda weeds, this is MAJOR weedage! You can see a teeny tiny speck of gray in the background...thats where either an old house or old barn was. I am HOPING there is a well here someplace! There is another home/barn site on our land too. There has to be water here somewhere! We will find it when we get thru the weedage.

And while I was waiting on Noor to either have a heatstroke or give up, me and Maylee took these awesome pictures. I think I may frame these cause that balloon is just amazing! I love that big "pop" of color in this natural setting.



Soon Maylee will be riding more than chickens with her cheese curls! I hope to get some Llamas, or sheep and get into dying fiber for spinners. I love dying wool, and I love playing with fiber in general. Maybe that will be a new direction I take after we move. I know we will have chickens...Maylee LOVES chickens!

My goal is to be totally 100% self sufficient within 3 years. I dont want to need money for anything. I want to grow all our food, get off the grid, and use the farm and my businesses to generate any money we may need or want.

I figure to do this we have to start small and start by not going in debt to do this. We will be purchasing a cheap mobile home (as soon as we can locate a somewhat livable one) and then going from there. Most likely we will add on to the mobile home, or just live there till we can get a cobb house or some other sustainable cheap housing built. I am leaning toward cobb cause its so inexpensive to build and you can get so creative with it. I love the idea of a round mushroom looking house. So cute!

So thats whats up in my personal life lately. We purchased this land last fall if you remember...my long time readers (wink) And I had dreams then of building a cobb house. I havent lost sight of that, or my dream of self sufficiency. We can do this. if my Father and my Grandfather could do it I can too!

Maylee's Modified Stroller

I was sitting on the front porch sweating like a rabid pig and getting eaten alive by mosquitos when here comes Tyler down the street....with Maylee's stroller tied to his bike (sigh)

As you can see she made it thru OK and cried when he got off his bike. She loved it and wanted to do more "bye bye".

He tells me excitedly how he built this contraption and the "hell" he went thru finding something that worked...this was his first experiment below:


Yeah you thought the stroller tied to the bike was scary, and the car seat strapped to the dolly was horrifying, get a load of this


Yes...he was gonna somehow TIE this to his bike and put that sweet baby in there to drive her around..he tells me that he did not think it would hold up...(sigh) Note the lack of front tires....

Maylee seems to enjoy her new "bye bye" she wouldnt stay out of it and kept asking Tyler to go "bye bye"

















See how happy she is! LOL Her pants are her new kitty pants I made for her over this weekend. She loves kitties! Thanks goodness she is still around to enjoy the kitties...Tyler is pretty good at rigging up stuff though...kinda wish he had asked me first though. This was so hilarious I HAD to share with you guys. ENJOY!

Gift giving season is upon us

Well kids, its August and for those of you that celebrate the holidays its time to think about gifts. Yep the old fat guy in the white and red suit is getting ready to come around and fill your TV screens with his jolly laughter and commercial goodness.

What do you do when you just reeeallllly *dont* wanna shop at one of those big box stores? What do you do when you want to give a gift that says," Hey, I love you, cause your special." Where do you look?

Well look no farther cause Artfire is gearing up for this holiday season too! If your looking for a unique gift for a loved one, your search is over!

Of course you could go look at "the other site" for handmade goodies, but we love Artfire in this house (Not just cuz I won 100 bucks from them either...)

For a Unique gift that is from the heart remember Artfire gift guides this season. Whether its for a birthday, or that good ol commercial monstrocity surrounding you know who's birthday, think Artfire this holiday season.

(Maybe I should write commercials instead of Articles on Marketing??)

Good news For us

Where to begin! My luck has really changed this week! I got a wholesale account with a local lady who sells at Mellwood Arts Center She will be stocking her boutique with my soaps and perfumes! YAY! So if you live here in Louisville I will let you know when she opens for sure so you can stop by.


I won the Artfire Facebook contest! Thanks so much to my facebook friends for helping me out! Thanks again to HarmonArt for letting me write about their awesome shop full of ceramic and gourdament goodness! Thanks also to everyone that seen my link here on the blog and "liked" my comment. You have no idea what this means to me. I NEVER get to shop for stuff I dont need ya know? And this is a great oppurtunity for me to do that. Of course I am buying for the kids but I am getting some stuff just for *ME* too! YAY!


My husband and I are collaborating with my mom in her evil plan to move us to her property to make him mow grass and make me paint stuff around the house for the rest of our lives. I am OK with this as long as mommy makes lots of chocolate pies in return for the labor.

We have agreed that YES we are moving, and YES we will do it as soon as we get the money together which shouldnt be too many more months away. We have a rare opportunity right now to save a lot of money and we are taking advatage of it so that we can eventually OWN whatever we end up living in with no more housing payment! That is my goal. Then we can be rich! I think mom secretly wants to be closer to the baby and she wants us to be there cause she is lonely without dad but she wont say so.

Behind my moms house is a virtual family trailor park. This all started when my uncle bought a house in the country...then I got divorced from my first hubs and mom and dad couldnt deal with the drama and moved on my uncles property next to his house...then a few months ago my cousin (uncles daughter) moves a trailor and her 3 kids behind his house...and here we are looking to move behind moms house beside my cousin LOL. I dont think the land can hold another family member so all you guys back off the last spot is TAKEN! LOL It will be SO NICE to live so close to family! Maylee can play with her cousins and I can get to know mine better, it will be so nice. I cant wait!

So thats my "happy" blog post. Things are changin', times getting better and better. I am so blessed. Maylee also learned how to say "kisses" last night, and she has started giving kisses as a game this past week. Maybe that had something to do with our luck changing LOL. I would like to think so.


I have some new articles up on HMN too if you got time for more reading of my writing LOL. Now you know I couldnt go thru a whole blog post without spamming SOMETHING I do !