That's What Shell Said

I have a flea market booth, an Etsy shop for physical products and another for digital designs. I write, I craft, and I make a lot of tik toks and reels. I live off coffee and sometimes I’m funny (at least as far as I’m concerned). I like to travel, camp, read, eat cheese, and scroll on my phone.

My life is a hot mess most of the time and I embrace it fully. I want to help encourage parents to accept the fact that parenthood isn’t always easy, and they are not alone in their struggles. We are all in this together and no parent is perfect, some just hide it better than others. I hope you’ll stick around!

Great Gifts for Parents That Have it All

Tis the season for gift giving and the stress that comes along with it. Now, don’t get me wrong. I love a lot of things about the Christmas season, but as someone that is just not a very good gift giver… I struggle. Yes, I know, it’s the thought that counts and that is absolutely…
2022 Holiday Gift Guide for Blue Collar Men

Happy Holidays! For the next week or so, we will be talking about the thing that is on most of our minds, gift giving! Today, we will start with the hard to shop for men in your life. This weekend while wandering around Target, I spied a display with men’s gift ideas. Per usual, it…
Feed These People Book Review

Last month, I applied to be a part of the launch team for Jen Hatmakers cookbook titled “Feed These People”. I love doing launch teams, especially for my favorite authors and Jen is high up on that list. Her voice just seriously gives me life and makes me laugh and cry like no other. So…
Vegas, Baby!

Last week, my husband and I took a quick trip to Vegas to celebrate his birthday and just to get away for a few days before we get back into the full swing of the school year. The week before we left for our trip, I had basically decided that I was going to hate…
Twin Fountains RV Resort

A couple weeks ago we took our motorhome on its first trip away from home… well since we’ve owned it. We’ve taken it about 45 minutes from home to camp at the lake, but otherwise that’s been it so this was our first test to see how it would do on the road. We have…
Put on the damn swimsuit.

I wore a two-piece swimsuit to the public pool today and guess what terrible thing happened? Literally nothing. No children cried. No one vomited. No one told me to put a shirt on. Literally, no one cared. Now you see, I haven’t worn a bikini in public since I was… ummm probably 14 or 15.…
Amazon Finds for your next Float Trip

Last weekend, I got together with 8 of my girlfriends, and we hit the road to Pineville, Missouri. We camped in an RV spot at Kozy Kamp and did an 8 mile long float trip down the Elk River. A few of the girls on board had floated before, but for a few of us,…
Okaloosa Island Beach Vacation

What a week! We just wrapped up our family vacation to Okaloosa Island, Florida. Despite the fact that it rained almost every day that we were there, we still had a great time. If you’ve never vacationed in the Gulf Coast, I highly recommend checking out this beautiful part of the US! Justin and I…
Keep Blooming

7-ish years ago we purchased our current home from my grandparents. Over the years we have been working on renovating, repairing and turning this old house into our home. We have changed just about every component of this home so far, but in all these years we have never touched this rose bush. This is…
Roadside Must See: Helen, GA

For our anniversary, (New Year’s Eve) my husband and I try to get away for a little bit of a trip alone together to reconnect. This year, for the third year in a row, we visited our favorite place, Tybee Island, GA. (I seriously can’t get enough.) However, this year, we decided to take our…

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