Home Sweet Home

I'm all moved in.

I have internet.

I am so happy.

It's been one crazy week. I took my shop off vacation and got a lot more orders than I expected. 

I have been crazy busy. I'm not complaining though. Trust me.

I just wanted to write a post.

I missed my blog and my blog friends!!

I LOVE my new apartment.

Taylor's job really hooked us up. 

(I love coasters!! Especially homemade ones.)

It's not just the inside of the place that I like..
I love that no matter what window I look out of, I see trees!
First thing I see out my back door:

First thing I see out of my front door:

It really feels like we live up in the mountains.
 Surrounded by trees and falling leaves.

Fall is almost here.

Before I get back to working on hats, I have some news.
I've had a few requests for photography prints to be sold in the shop.
So, over the next few days I will be adding some photographs. If you have any special requests for photos that you have liked in the past email me and I will list them for you!

From now on, photos that appear on the blog that will also be sold in the shop will have that little watermark on them. Meaning.. these two photos will be listed as well.

I'm so glad to be back! I hope you all have a wonderful long weekend!

At The Office

This office has great internet.. so I thought I would check in..  This week has been quite the week.

I've been without internet all week and it's been pretty good. Lots of time to paint and create. In about a week I will be adding 7 new hats and 6 new paintings...(and counting) I've been busy!

I also just found out we will be moving again. Probably next Monday back to Little Rock. I'm not too happy about all this moving, but one thing I look forward to is this next move will last a lot longer. 8 beautiful months of staying in one place. Putting up decorations and having a place to call "Home." (I still can't believe Arkansas will be home.)

Last Saturday my cousin Jeff passed away. He was in a motorcycle accident early in the morning. He was only a few years older than me. Him and I got along quite well. We played "Indians" when we were little. We would sneak fruits and veggies from my mom's garden and make our own small meals. We would also "hunt" with my dad's bows and arrows. (I couldn't even shoot it.)
When we grew older he stayed at our house for several months. We stayed up watching old TV shows and talking late into the night. I even recall telling him how I wanted to cut my hair off and bleach it blond. He was the one who told me to go for it.

I'm really going to miss him. I feel the worst for his family though.. My Aunt Bonnie lost her two year old son several years ago, and now she is going through another loss. I can't image the pain her and my uncle and the rest of my cousins are going through. Please remember my Aunt Bonnie and her family in your prayers..

 (Sources)

Another Move..

We didn't get a lot of sleep last night. 

Yesterday we found out that we are moving to Memphis. It might be only for a week, it could be longer. 

This move was quite unexpected, but we had no choice so we agreed to move.

We just had one problem...

We have a lot of stuff.

I don't know how it happened, we were able to fit everything into our car from North Carolina and get it to Arkansas. We've only been in Arkansas for 3 months but we can't get everything into our car. So after a 4:30 am Walmart trip we had it figured out. We're going to strap stuff to the roof of our car. 

Sweet.

We got to bed around 5 am. 

Then the calls started to come in.. 

We were needed in Memphis Friday morning. Sooner than we thought.

We tried going back to sleep after that. Just as we started to doze off another call would come in, or a text, or a voicemail. Finally just around 10 am when we were about to fall asleep another call came in.

The call we were waiting for.

Taylor got his promotion. A job he had been hoping to get all summer. 

We were beyond excited.

There was no going to sleep after that. 

 We tried.

As I tried falling back asleep I thought to myself how awesome my husband is. 

His hard work allows me to stay home and run Talk2thetrees. 

I get to play all day while he works.

His work also allows us to travel and go on adventures.

He had been working hard for 2 years now and now has the job he wanted. 

I am so proud of him and so very thankful. 

I felt like telling him all of this so I rolled over to check to see if he was sleeping. 

He wasn't. 

He was too excited.

I gave him a big hug and told him how much I appreciate him.

And today we will be packing up all of stuff, cramming it into (and on top of) our little carolla and moving to Memphis.  

All on only a few hours of sleep.

I love the way life changes sometimes...

Adventures in Black and White

I can't wait for fall. 

Fall means change, and I need a change. 

Summer is nice, but fall is my favorite.

Life in Chickenopolis

We are currently living in the "Chicken Capital Of The World." We are a little ways from Fayetteville, Tyson Foods is located here. We often see trucks full of chickens and even large statues of chickens.

Living in a hotel is starting to bother me. One more month until we move. Where to? I have no idea. 

Taylor has been on the phone all morning trying to figure things out. 

My heart is pounding really fast..

Once again there is that question... 

"Where will we go next?"