{ About }



Hi There!! My name is Lisa I'm a mommy of two, wife, daughter, niece, aunt, cousin and friend first... Baker, creator, sort of decorator, wanna be blogger.... and a Pinterest addict too!! I'm a little bit country and a little bit rock and roll! Please join me in my journey as I create a cozy home and do a bit of DIY, baking, creating and inspiring along the way!!!

 So happy you are here!!

Get to know me.....

~I am born and raised in Connecticut, but truly believe in my heart that I should have been born a southern belle and raised in the south.... y'all!!

~I believe in Jesus and find him in all things.... most of all when I look at my children....
~I was in fact named after Lisa-Marie Presley....

~I am a mommy of two... Gracie (6) and JJ (2)....They are my life... period.

~My husband and I met at the gym where we both worked, became best friends and married three years later.... true story!!

~I am addicted to gold fish and diet coke.... in no particular order.

~I attended private schools all my life straight through college....

~I have worked (to this very day) in the fitness industry since I was seventeen and have always dreamed of competing in a professional fitness show....It will happen.

~I was a young equestrian and it will always be a part of me....

~I grew up an overweight child....

~I was 31 and seven months old when I lost my mom to cancer....My daughter, Nicolina Grace who is her name sake, was one year, nine months and sixteen days old the day she passed....Hardest day of my life.....

~I am an only child.... and always wished I had an older brother.

~I love to collect books, benches, baskets and chalkboards.... always have.

~I wear only one fragrance, Happy by Clinque, I began wearing it after my second boyfriend broke up with me during my freshman year of college. I vowed I would be "happy" and have been wearing it ever since....

~Cold Mountain is my favorite movie....ever.

~Sweet Home Alabama & The Notebook are tied for second!!

~I am going to be 37 (OMG) this coming November and I still have my "blankie" my Nonna gave me when I was a baby....

~I love all children.... Their innocence and love melt my heart...

~All I ever wanted to be as a child was a mom.... And Wynonna Judd!!

~I don't need an alarm clock to wake me.... Sleep and I aren't friends.

~I originally planned to major in Art and be an art teacher.
~I graduated college with a BS in Psychology and a minor in business.

~I just now know what I want to be when I grow up....

A designer, event planner and own my own antique shop or bakery, or both.

~I am deathly afraid of heights and drowning.

~I love the fall and everything about it....

~I am a lover of all music, but country remains closest to my heart.

~I would play "teacher" everyday when I got home from school.

~I love to dance.... alone or in a crowd.

~I am profoundly shy.....

~I am addicted to Pinterest. No cure.
~I don't like to drink alcohol.... I'd rather drink coffee or tea....
~I have a phobia of throwing up and avoid it at all costs.

~I love my morning coffee in the afternoon....

~I dread talking on the phone.

~I am so much like my mother it's scary....
~I have always wanted to play the piano & guitar....
~I prefer farmhouses over mansions....
~I wear sweatshirts year round....collect those too!!

~I love horror movies, but will have nightmares for weeks!!

~I collect lip gloss, earrings and wallets...it's a problem!

~I am left handed.

~I am a self taught baker and blogger.

~I am a home body.... always have been.

~I can eat pizza seven days a week for breakfast, lunch & dinner.

~I have been working out since I was 17 and will do so the rest of my life.

~I make my bed every morning.
~My biggest fear....disappointing my dad.
~My first celebrity crush... Patrick Swayze....
~My favorite childhood memory was going to Church every Saturday night with my Nonna....
~My biggest pet peeve.... People who blow their nose at the dinner table..
~My first car was a 1982 V8 Firebird....
~My mom was and always will be my hero...

This is Me.....

Thanks so much for stopping by!!
Please come back again soon!!

~Lisa


Photos by Kelli Dease Photography