Hello!

My name is Carol and I’m so happy you’re here.

Can’t believe I’m celebrating my 75th birthday this month. Yikes! But who’s counting?  

I’ve been thinking about writing this blog for way too long and have had far too many false starts along the way - until now. I’m definitely a lot older but believe after all these years I can blog from experience about lots of things, without being the expert on any of them.

I’m the proud Mom of two and the proud Mimi of my 19-year-old GrandTwins. 

Besides being a Mom and a Mimi I’ve also been a wife, “mature” college student, cocktail waitress, pillow and drapery designer/fabricator, home stager, corporate facility planner, business owner/entrepreneur, commercial interior designer, mortgage loan officer, full-time caregiver for the twins from age six weeks to five years old, live-in caregiver for my Dad who suffered with Alzheimer’s for many years, and now I’m a freelance writer and content creator. 

Phew. May have missed a few, but as you can see, it has been a pretty interesting and very eclectic journey that I wouldn’t trade for the world. Creativity has always been an essential part of my life and it’s in my DNA. I thank generations of my French-Canadian family for that. They built houses, barns, furniture, and more. Many decades ago they even made caskets!

Now if you wander around my house I promise, you won’t find caskets, but you will discover all kinds of random things that I’ve acquired along the way. Things like a Ryobi cordless drill and impact driver, my grandfather’s 100-year-old planer, a Dremel, my grandmother’s old 1920’s Singer treadle sewing machine, all kinds of brushes and colored pencils, lots of gardening tools, plus way too many jars of glitter and cans of paint. In fact, there’s so much to choose from that my GrandTwins used to come over my house to scrounge up supplies for their school projects rather than go to the store first!

And I can’t deny it. I’ve rarely met a DIY project I didn’t want to tackle. From the initial idea through the planning, sawing, drilling, hammering, painting, gluing and more, I love it all. Well, almost all. Plumbing, electrical work and going under the house into the crawlspace for any reason are not for me. I leave that stuff to the experts I have on speed dial!

Anyway, if you find yourself roaming about my house and make it to the attic, beware! You will definitely stumble across a bunch of containers filled with memorabilia and precious little that is really useful according to my kids, but there’s a whole lot that’s still very precious to me. Though most of it is decades old, I still think it’s way too soon to part with any of it. Don’t you?

Who doesn’t like to look at old class pictures, ancient report cards, special greeting cards, baby pictures and your kids’ homemade gifts? It's a walk down memory lane and well, I guess those memories still mean way too much to me to just toss things out. I love looking at them every now and then. Makes me happy. 

So, at this stage of life when I pause from my many projects to reflect on things, I realize just how blessed I am despite all of life’s challenges. And I really hope there’s a lot more living and creating in store for me, so I can make many more memories, and fill many more containers too. But please, don’t tell my family that that’s my plan!

Thanks for taking the time to read this post and for giving me a chance to share a little about myself and my life.

I truly hope you’ll come back often because I plan to share a lot more of what I’ve learned, and even more of what I’m still learning, as I continue to live life . . .

“somewhere between the innocent days

of marbles and the precious days of pearls”.

Thanks so much for visiting!

Carol xo