Custom Creations By Karen

It has been some time since I updated this blog with my thoughts and goings one. I have started a new facebook page. The name is Custom Creations By Karen. I make beautiful deco mesh and burlap wreaths. It has been so much fun designing each of them. Feel free to visit and "Like" my page on facebook. Some wreaths are displayed at Nails 2000 on Belair Rd Martinez GA but all can be seen on my page Thanks for stopping by and for your purchases. You can also contact me and request a custom designed wreath. I make all sizes and they are priced according to what is on them. The wreaths make great Birthday, Newborn Baby gifts. Any occasion really. Stop in often to see what's new. Occasionally I give one away on facebook. Have an awesome day and let me hear from you sometime. God is good in all things.

The Season's of Our Lives

Time is flying by and summer will be turning to fall very soon...I already see some leaves falling and it is a hot August in Georgia.  My Mother always told my husband and me in August that fall was in the air because the leaves were beginning to fall from the trees....we used to laugh at that statement and then we started paying attention...she is right...the leaves do begin to fall in August and in no time fall will be here.

I hope you have had a great summer...swimming, skiing, or just doing all the fun things there are to do in the summer while the kids are out of school...my husband (Tony) and I have had the pleasure of going to the beach with my daughter (Lisa) and her family....watching the children play in the ocean and the sand was great...brought back many memories of my childhood.

As a very young chid my family visited Tybee Beach which is about 30 miles from Savannah, GA every year.  My family rented "Ms Mills Boarding House" and my grandparents on my Daddy's side (Fredricka and Bill Zimmerman),  my Daddy's sister (Elizabeth Z. Murry) and bother (Harold Zimmerman) and their famies would all stay there with us...we had so much fun playing in the ocean, building sand castles, and much more.  I remember in the late afternoon we would go to an area that was not crowded with people and tied chicken necks to the end of a ball of  twine.  We would then cast them out in the ocean and gradually roll the ball of string in and just about evey time there would be a Blue Crab either with his claws/pinchers attached to the chicken neck or simply following it.  We would scoop it up with a net and place them in a bushel basket...we kids had so much fun watching with excitement and fear of these strange creatures and were always praying we did not get pinched by their claws.  Those little "buggers" would be placed in a hugh pot of bowling water and would become our supper..  From the top floor veranda as we sat in the rocking chairs we could see the beautiful sunset over the ocean as the wind gently blew the palm trees just next to where we stayed...

Years ago..there was not as much sand on the beach and we had to walk down steep steps to get to the ocean.  The pier that is there now is very nice, but I loved the old pier that had the open skating rink that was over the ocean...I would skate four hours....was so sorry when it burned down. 

Yes..the boarding house has been replaced by a hotel and the pier was rebuilt and is very nice, but there is no skating rink!  Guess you call that progress!

I sure do miss those times...but so glad  I have those memories...

Couponing

Woo hoo!  I am loving the couponing game...but I do see I have much to learn to become an accomplished "Couponer"....love buying items for pennys on the dollar! 

The Coupon World

I watched a show on the leaning channel called "Extreme Couponing"...I did not sleep very well due to all the dreaming.....I dreamt I was dragging endless buggies filled with all free items due to my wonderful couponing....and my...those yellow dots were everywhere at Kroger...I was exhausted the next morning...

If any of you have good tips on how to do this ... I am all ears....where to get the coupons, buys, etc..

Happy Couponing!

LIfe and Your Children

Isn't it interesting to observe your children. As babies, how quickly they learn to control you...like crying all the time except when you hold them....then they learn to share...they are like little sponges learning all the things that you and Life has to teach them until they become young adults at which time they think they know so much more than you. They have their jobs, families and friends. You may find yourself placed on the back burner of their lives...only to hear "Mom, we already talked once this week...you act like we havent' talked in a month!" Sometimes they get your love for them mixed up with the words "being noisey" You quitely observe and wonder what they will have to endure as time goes on. Laughter, hurts, peace, acceptance, etc. They are so very busy with their families and jobs...all the while life is zooming by and before you know it....you have grown old and they are well on their way to maturity! I am so lucky to have a Mom that is noisey enough to care about me more than once a week, month or year and I with her....and I see it as love!!! We are in each others lives because we love and respect each other! Yes, isn't life interesting! God is good in all things!

Christain Business

Isn't it wonderful when a company that provides home remodeling, maintenance, painting and landscaping to the public also has a short Bible study and prayer first thing each morning for their employees? I am amazed at the work God is doing and the people that he is employing to do His work too!!!

Laundry Events

Well..wouldn't you know it...the washing machine is singing a dirty tune....the grinding and absolutely no swirling and sloshing anymore...water goes in...water goes out...it is 12 years old so probably time to get a new one. My friend got a pair of those fancy new ones that make you feel like you should dress up to do the laundry and she named the "Thelma and Louise"....don't think I am going to be able to go that route. After all..laundry is just that... laundry.. I am off to hunt for something that is efficient....I have "Dirty Laundry"...as the song says...LOL Update to the Laundry Blog. We bought a Samsung washing machine and base. It is the "Bomb". We found it at Lowe's in the "scratch and dent" isle. There was not a scratch or dent on it. Lucky us. She really is a great machine...