Meet Your Passions-Backyard Kentucky Derby Party 2015

Have you taken the time to research your passions?  Do you know what activities add to your life and make you happy?  It took me a long time to figure out how I get my happiness.  I had to learn how to push aside my unrealistic expectations and replace them with realistic, attainable and fun expectations.  I have a nurturing heart and I love to be around people.  I also love my home.  Notice I said home and not house?  I love making houses into homes.

I have spent years turning my house into a home, over and over again.  I enjoy the hunt for fun things.  I love hunting in consignment stores, on Craigslist and in garage sales for that one thing that is just a bit different.  Many items in my house comes to me through these channels.  It is fun.  It is my passion.  It is not work.  I like to share my finds with friends.

(My old laundry cart re-purposed into a Mint Julep cart)

Where ever I live it is important for the place to feel like home.  One way I make that happen is to have friends in often.  I have hosted sit down dinners, buffet dinners, tea parties, sports watching parties, BBQ’s, potlucks, dessert parties,  pizza parties, Miami Vice party and most recently a backyard Kentucky Derby party.   According TobyMac “There are seven days in a week and someday isn’t one of them.”  The trick to meeting your passion is to quit worrying about being perfect.  Think about the possibilities.  Don’t limit yourself. Devise a plan and make it happen.

(Barbara, Tom, Michael, Linda, Julie and Tom)