My friend Martha

martha teaches vacation bible school; Sunday school and a class on prophecy!

She is my dearest friend in Christ!

Her husband Frank is so wonderful and he fixes things for me. He teaches special ed @ church and is an accomplished lawyer!My grandson Nick loves him!

Back a few years ago ,actually many years ago, my dear friend Martha lee came into my life. Through a Sunday morning Sunday school class.From the moment I met her I was immediately drawn to her. Her smile lit up the room and she made you feel so welcome.I knew from that moment she would always be a huge part of my life.So today on her birthday I wanted to say to her how special she is and how much I love her. I don't know what I would have done without her these past years. She has prayed with me, and for me. She has been to my mothers funeral and held me together. She was there when I had both my heart surgeries and when I had my wisdom teeth out. She is not just my best friend but she is my family and I love her dearly!!! Happy birthday darling girl!!! I hope and pray you have many more to come.

Prim Fun day!!!

This is Jackie Chitwoods Booth and she has Primfabulous stuff!!!

This is Kindred Spirits booth!!!! Great stuff but you need a fat wallet!!!
Some of my finds today!!!

Found this great spool lamp w/ shade!! An OLD primitive basket that was 20% off!!!

I decided today that I was going to one of my fave antique malls so I headed to Lebanon Tenn. My friend Jackie Chitwood runs the mall. She also puts on the Gathering season here in Nashville a show you definetly do not want to miss!!!Here are some of my finds!! I always enjoy Lebanon Antique Mall and it is a very short drive from Nashville. Here are some pics of my fave booths!!I hope you enjoyed these. I needed to get away and do something fun so I did. I had to go to Target and pick up Rx's at Providence and decided to antique shop!!!I also ate lunch out and now I am home to decorate. Have a primfab rest of your day!!!

PRIM BLESSINGS,

CANDI

Gloomy day outside

American table!!


Easter table!!!








Just because table!!!!

I love a good gloomy day. Today I have opted to spend at least half my day in my pj's cleaning!My house needed it. I find tranquility in cleanliness!!!This helps me relax and my family. Which is just Lloyd and I except for our 3 kitties and Grands on the weekends.I am also changing a few PRIMS around. My table being one. I offered some changes yesterday on my blog re: my ever persistent insanity over changing my mantle!! So today I will share a few of our dining room. I am in full throtle cleaning mode so better get with it. Have a Primfab day!!!!

BLESSINGS,

CANDILOU

Silly girl Prim Girl

Being a prim gal certainly is fun but there is a lot of hard work involved as well. With all the dusting and rearranging there is never a dull moment. My dear friend Martha,said to me that she didn't understand about the changing around and buying and selling. She is a french country gal with a beautiful home and everything is always in it's place. Me(PRIM LOVER) may change furniture daily!! It's a Prim thing!! Do I hear an AMEN Prim sisters!!!LOL!Here is a Prime example. I will show you several different ways I have changed my mantle. Of course it does not look like any of these now!!I am obsessed with changing my mantle and tables!!!Oh well. This is the fun part though. Light a nice scented candle. I prefer Black Crow Candles, and my Starbux iced coffee and I am all set to get my prim on!!!Now, I can decorate!!!Like a teacher without her books, or a sailor without his sail. a prim gal must decorate or all else will fail!!!LOL!! Just being silly. After being so sick yesterday I am ready to decorate.

PRIM BLESSINGS

CANDILOU

LIFE LESSONS

Good morning! Today I am thinking it is going to be a trying day as I struggle with pain from SLE. Systemic Lupus!!It has a potential to be extremely nasty and I have had yrs of experience living with it but I can safely say it is very painful and I am rarely in remission. It is something I have had to commission myself to adjust to daily regimens of medications,rest and stress reduction. I am type A and this is very hard for me. I struggle with pain daily. Some days worse than others. I know a lot of people with SLE are worse off than I am and who and what right do I have to complain?I am still alive and functioning.PRAISE to GOD!!!!It changed the way I look, the way I feel, The way I live my life. I am simply gliding through on the stepping stones of life and thru pain and perserverance and God's grace I make it. Thus far at least. So with that being said. I need to go and live my day accordingly. I am so thankful that I have prims to occupy my mind with something I enjoy doing. Instead of sitting around worrying and not being able to do a thing about it I just live with the pain and bear it.

PRIM BLESSINGS.

CANDILOU

My friend!!!

I want to dedicate my blog today to my dear friend Sandie Maldanado. Although I have never met Sandie in person it seems as though we have known each other for years. We met through a simple face book page and have become great friends. She and Hayley James are driving to Nashville in the fall and I am so excited to see them and meet in person. For those of you who don't know Sandie, she is in the new Country Sampler magazine and both she and Henry have created an absolutely gorgeous home. She is one of the sweetest people I have ever known and so much fun to talk to everyday. I have met so many wonderful people on Fb and I just wanted tp dedicate my blog to this special sweetie today as she has really touched my heart!!!!Hope you all have a blessed and Happy Day!!!!

PRIM BLESSINGS,

CANDILOU

I LOVE THESE LITTLE THINGS AND HANG THEM ON PEGS AND OVER BONNETTS. TOO CUTE.ALSO GOT MY NEW QUILTING AND WILL POST AFTER I GET IT FIXED ON MY BED. ALSO PICKED UP JUDY CONDON'S NEW BOOK. PRIMFABULOUS! AND A BROWN CROCK JUG COVERED WITH FABRIC AND THIS DARLING COLONIAL TABLE RUNNER. WE ALSO WENT TO LUNCH AT DUMPLINGS IN THE SLEEPY LITTLE TOWN OF SCOTTSVILLE. I LOVE SMALL TOWN CHARM. COMING FROM A CITY GAL, THAT IS SAYING SOMETHING. HEADED TO SOME YARD SALES TODAY!!!

PRIM BLESSINGS.

YESTERDAY MY FRIEND VICKI AND I HEADED UP TO KENTUCKY FOR A LITTLE SHOPPING. WENT TO MY FAVE STORE MCCLARD'S AND FOUND SOME GREAT THINGS!

CANDILOU

FAIR WEATHERED FRIENDS

I WONDER SOMETIMES, WHY IT IS THAT WHEN SOMEONE CALLS HIMSELF A FRIEND, CONSTANTLY GOES BEHIND YOUR BACK AND HURTS YOUR FEELINGS?WHY WOULD I CONTINUE A FRIENDSHIP WHEN IT IS SO TOXIC? I HAD THIS HAPPEN RECENTLY AND MY DAUGHTER BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION,WHY DO YOU EVEN HAVE A FRIEND LIKE THAT? I REALLY DON'T KNOW. I HAVE NEVER BEEN ONE TO LET PEOPLE GET VERY CLOSE TO ME FOR THIS VERY REASON. I ALWAYS HAVE BEEN A LONER AND I PREFER SPENDING TIME WITH ANIMALS. THEY ARE ALWAYS THERE AND ARE NOT MEAN AND HURTFUL. TODAY IS A NEW DAY. I AM DELETING TIS PERSON OUT OF MY LIFE AND GETTING A FRESH CLEAN START. I DO NOT LIKE GAMES AND I DON'T LIKE PEOPLE THAT STAB YOU IN THE BACK.LIFE IS SHORT. I AM SICK AND I DON'T NEED THIS KIND OF STRESS. WITH THIS BEING SAID I AM GOING TO ENJOY MY DAY AND CONSIDER THIS A LIFE LESSON LEARNED!

BLESSINGS,

CANDI

I believe every day is a good day. Today, I have been busy.I had to do some things with Lloyd and errands and I am going to visit my brother. I managed a load of laundry.That's a great big Hooray for me. This week has been crazy busy. I have some prims I want to change around butI just don't have the energy to do it!!! I am sure many of you know I have Lupus so I try to grab the gusto when I can. On days that I feel really well,I am like a crazy person trying to accomlish everything and the next day I can hardly do anything. It sucks to have this illness. One thing it has taught me tho, is to always stop and smell the flowers.Enjoy the little things and always have a starbux coffee every day!!LOL!This is my vice!!!So with this being said, I thinkl will head over to Starbucks! It's gonna be a great day. Pain'yes; Know what I say? Pain Shmane!!! I am so used to it . Hard to believe, isn't it? Blessings.

CANDI

Mama's banana pudding!!!

I wanted to share my Mama's homemade banana pudding recipe!!! Easy and delicious!

2 cups milk

2 tbsp flour

1 tsp vanilla

3 (yellow) eggs( save whites for meringue)

cook milk add eggs and vanilla until smooth. Add the 2 tbsp. flour/and let boil.

1 box of vanilla wafers

4 large banana's

in a large pan add the entire box of wafers.

crush if you like.

slice banana/s and add on top

pour hot pudding over wafers and banana;s

Meringue:

3 egg whites

1/2 cup white sugar

1/4 tsp cream of tarter

Beat until fluffy and pour over pudding .

put in oven long enough to brown the top.

Fabulous!!!

Prim Days and God's Blessings

As I focus today on God's blessings I am reminded that God loves us and accepts us for who we are. No matter how bleak things look, if you know the Lord Jesus then you know that you know that his love wraps around us and we can rest in this blessed assurance!That is what sees me thru my life. Being a Lupus person, having sick brothers, and so many other things,these are hard times for this prim girl.BUT, I will prevail and will not complain because I know GOD has a plan for MY life!!!That being said I am praying for each one that reads my blog today and is blessed.I hope you have a fabulous Tuesday and be thankful for what you have.I know I am. I have to go clean and change some prims. God's Blessings to you!!!

Candi

FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHALL NOT PERISH BUT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE!!!IT'S IN THE BIBLE!!!!

Today is Monday and I am trying to decide my day's activities. I need to make a Walmart stop and get some Activia yogurt drink as that is the only place I can find it.I also have yard work and housework. I reflect on my days at the Hospital when I got up and dressed for work and headed out the door to fight the traffic downtown at 7:00a.m. Then I parked in the garage across the street and hit the floor running. I loved loved loved my job. I loved the Dr. I worked for. The people and other Dr.'s in the office and the patients I grew attched to. I usually didn't see the pt's as they went to the clinic across the street and I worked in the executive offices. I felt important. I felt like I accomplished something with my life. Then one Friday afternoon I was called in by a HR exec and I knew the minute I walked in that was it. I was cut!!! The hospital laid off hundreds and I was in that cut. My life that I loved was over. That was it. I held up until walked out the door and I couldn't breathe. I literally was sick at my stomach. What was I to do? Who was going to take care of Dr. Carr? Who was going to calme the patients that were scared? God, please don't let this be happening!!!!!Please!!Along with that I lost my insurance. My HEALTH ins. I have Lupus. I have no ins!!!!That same time I lost a lot . It was a hard time and we were moving to an apt that had a pool and was beautiful and I could be enjoying swimming and shopping.But it wasn't like that. Do these companies not realize how this screws our lives up? I quit going to church at this same time due to inside things I didn't care for.It was a HARD time in my life and still to this very day I am not completely over it. Saying all this, my saving grace was my love for primitives. It gave me something to look forward to. Something to enjoy and delve into. It has helped tremendously I will have to say, but now instead of fighting traffic in downtown Nashville I am changing prims, scouring yard sales and antique stores. I know you probably think it's nuts. I would go back to that hospital in a new york minute. But, I am headed to Walmart instead and I think I may change my dining room around. Who knows???

prim blessings,

Candi lou

God bless The Animals!!

I wanted to dedicate my blog today to all you animal lovers out there.Including myself. I am saddened today over a kitten who had no name. A kitten who knew love only through the gentleness of my friend Jenny that helped him in his final hours.God bless you Jenny and Rebecca Helwig a good friend of mine that is a rescuer. You see, these babies have no voice. They can not speak and tell us what is wrong. It saddens me and sickens me that human life could be so cruel and I will never ever understand this.These are my babies featured here. Abby is the black/white old cat and she has passed on but lives in my heart forever until I see her again. Oscar is the beautiful maine coon looking cat. Gus is the old man grey and white and baby Henry is our newest addition. I will not put the little angels face on here but it is on my wall and Jenny Carter's wall. If you have an animal love them. It will be the BEST friend you ever had. This kitty touched my heart and many others so it's little life was not in vain. I changed mind. I put the little baby's picture on the top. He deserved a lovely life like my cats. I am very sad today about this.

Prim Blessings,

Candi

Wednesday's

I woke up ready to hit the floor running. I cleaned the fridge and freezer, vacummed, mopped , cleaned litter boxes and washed 2 loads of clothes. My problem is if I could stop decorating along the way I would finish!!!And stay off of FB!!LOl I also watered all my flowers early as this heat is unbearable. So, here it is at 9:00PM and I did not accomplish what I wanted. SIGH!!Maybe Thursday. So now I am sitting here with my loveable Henry.And that's a great way to end a day!!Blessings to all!

CANDI

Dark and stormy day!!

It is a dark and stormy day. This puts me in a mood to decorate. I love just ripping everything apart and starting fresh. It's fun for me.I change cabinets, dough bowls, buckets, everything.First before anything I light my candles. My fave is the black crow candles!!!they smell so delightfully prim!Especially nice is the Keeping Room. Also Early Spice cake. and I recently ordered some and hope they come today. Well. laundry is calling.

Have a perfect prim day!! I know I will!!!

CANDILOU