Craigslist

Hi my name is Kristin Diane Smith and I am addicted to Craigslist. Wow that felt good! Not only am I addicted to buying things off of there but I admit I am addicted to selling as well. If I am bored and at home I feel like I get on it 50 billion times a day. My dog came from there, my washing machine, some of Makennas hair bows, Brydens turtles and various different other dorky things. A lot of times I am looking for nothing imparticular. Mainly to browse. GEEK ALERT.

I was introduced to it I guess in 2007. That year...I made a lot of money on that site. I sold anything and everything and did quite well at it. I got out of the selling aspect of it for a bit and when I got pregnant with Makenna...I pretty much hit the Craigslist jackpot. Who knew that exsisted?

The website is also entertaining and in the past few years has become overcome with spammers. Its awful. They try anything and everything to hack into your email accounts, bank accounts and even try to get you to wire them money. Sad thing is...a lot of people have fallen for it. IDIOTS.  Im not the only person in the family that enjoys it though. My brother actually sometimes replies to these spammers and it is hilarious! Check out his last few Craigslist blogs here:

http://jaksha.blogspot.com/

They are HILARIOUS.

Bow Madness

If anybody knows me well...then you know I like all things colorful, big and beautiful. The bigger the better...the more bling...the better. It doesn't matter what it is. I like big hair, huge pictures and I love big bows. I try and put one on Makenna everywhere we go. I want them to match perfect, be sparkly and have lovely detail. Sometimes this would make my search for bows really hard! I AM PICKY. If I found a bow I liked though, I was willing to pay a good price for them and I certainly have! Makenna rocks bows anywhere from the 10-15 dollar price range. Holy smokes! As many bows as that girl has...add it up people! Thats a crap load of money.  

Well, yesterday when Makenna was napping I was cleaning out some cabinets and came across an art box. I had purchased 3 or 4 rolls of ribbon around Easter time to decorate the kids Easter baskets with. Bryden isn't here to entertain me so I thought what the heck? Im gonna make a bow! I youtubed bow making videos and grabbed my ribbon and got to work! I was actually having a great time. The outcome makes you feel super accomplished. My first bow was hideous. Not only because the ribbon I had didn't go together what so ever but the left hand side was shorter and lopsided lol We all have to start somewhere right? Did I mention that bow making is addicting?! I wanted to make more and more! What did that mean? A WALMART RUN :)

Needless to say...I have found a hobby. I don't plan on selling them but I am tossing around the idea since I already have a buyer ineterested. The bow making buisness is too competitive for me. You have to have over the top wonderful bows for them to sell and I need lots of practice. People want big bows with amazing detail...not little bows with one or 2 colors that look like my 5 year old could have made in 10 seconds... that the people want to sell for way too much (which I have sadly seen). In the meantime though I will be enjoying making them for Makenna and also trying to figure out something I can do for Bryden as well. I can't do one thing for one and not the other. It's become bow madness around here and I have a feeling it's only gonna get worse!

Neighborly Love

Nothing like a sweet old neighbor who brings you these first thing in the morning....

Yup! Eggs fresh from his chicken coop! They are always looking out for us!

Mr. and Mrs. Risner live a couple of doors down from us. We bought the house we are now living in from his daughter. His whole family lives on this road. We are the outcasts lol Since day 1 though, they have never treated us that way. They are the sweet little country couple you see in the movies. So in love after years and years of marriage. They have goats, cows and they have recently added chickens to their little farm and we get to share in their purpose: to poop out delicious eggs!

Mr. Risner used to raise and sell registered Brahman bulls. When Wade was in highschool he purchased one from him. They aren't cheap bulls and Mr. Risner take very very good care of his cattle so naturally Wade was proud. A little over a year ago we found the bull dead and bleeding from his hiney hole in the pasture. Nobody, to this day, knows what happened to him. If you ask Bryden about this story you would think it was the most terrifying thing he had ever witnessed. You see...you just can't leave the cow in the middle of the pasture dead. You have to drag it off. So here is 4 year old Bryden witnessing Wade tie this massive bull to his truck and drag him off. Unfortunatley, I wasn't there but if you get Bryden to tell you the story he can tell you it in emmaculate detail!

So, now enters the redneck side of us. Were talking a $1,500 or more bull. We HAVE to keep something. So we keep the skull and proceed to hang it in our front yard on one of our lightposts that sit to the side of the house. Now that is one expensive yard piece if I might say.

You know you're jealous! Yes, I know the pic is sideways but my computer won't let me do it any other way...or maybe I am a computer retard! Whichever you choose to believe :) Anyways, do you have anything that expensive decorating the front of your house? I think its way better than anything I could get out of a Better Homes and Garden magazine for sure :)

I Have Gone and Done It!

Well, I did it. I joined the world of blogging. All I can say is FINALLY! I love to write and vent. A blog is perfect for that :) Although I thoroughly enjoy Facebook, it just isn't adequate enough sometimes for bigger things I feel the need to share and elaborate on (I just ended that sentence with a preposition...my mom is gonna kill me)! Status updates only say so much. So, IM HERE! Im not really sure where this blog will go. Mostly I would like to share things about my kids, my day, redneck stuff my husband and I participate in and defintley awesome Southern recepies for anybody interested!


I always felt like my life wasn't interesting enough for a blog. Then one day I just glanced though all my pictures I have shared with everyone on facebook and my oh my....WE ARE INETERSTING! I just shouted that like Im trying to convinve y'all we really are or something! I had a funny story for every picture I came across and thought to myself "Now that would make an awesome book"! So welcome to my book...MY BLOG: Out in the Backwoods and Deep in the Hollers.

However, I must admit that almost all of my experiences with blogs haven't always been positive. Through other people, or links on Facebook I have found myself captivated by complete strangers blogs. Now before you think Im stalkerish...hear me out first. Some of the stories I have read, have had me following them through tradgedy and loss. I have been touched by a couple of moms sharing and venting their feelings and going through the emotional roller coaster of loosing a child. I cried with them, smiled and even grieved. Yes, over a strangers life. Im tender hearted in that way I guess. I know that my blog will never amount to the signifigance level of theirs...but I want to captivate people too. Hopefully in the best positive way that I can but we all know that everybody has their good and bad days. I will try and fill it with pictures, our adventures and interesting things I run across along the way. Be prepared because it does get a little rough around the edges when you're married to a good ol' country boy like I am! We are just as this blog description says..."traveling through life southern style and trying to take every back road on the way"!