About Me

  • About Me: Christian, wife, mother, grandmother, pianist, singer, writer

Television

  • Favorite Shows: None currently, I haven't watched TV since hurricane Ivan messed up the satellite dish...LOL
  • Favorite Episode: Pickles
  • Characters you relate to: Aunt Bea
  • Show I wished wasn't cancelled: Andy Griffith!! Ahhh, I'm telling my age!!

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: The Grass Harp, Steel Magnolias, Driving Miss Daisy, Crimes of the Heart, Fried Green Tomatoes, Emma, Little Women

Style

  • Where I shop: Amazon! JC Penney, Cato, Hudson's, thrift stores, hand-me-down's, Dollar General is my fav...LOL
  • Brands I love: anything modest, but colorful and pretty...
  • I like to wear: Skirts!! Dresses!! Pinafores, Aprons!! comfy shoes, slippers
  • Can't live without: Long denim skirts!! Tank tops in hot weather, boots in cold weather...
  • Prized Possessions: my baby blanket and bonnet, quilt tops made by my husband's grandmother (signed) and my grandmother, iron skillet from my grandpa for our wedding gift, everything that has family history, and antiques...
  • Guilty Pleasure: Tanning in my tanning bed...

Books

  • Favorite Books: Fascinating Womanhood, Mrs. Dunwoody's, Chin Deep In Bubbles, Little Women, Secret Garden, and many more!
  • Favorite Authors: Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Eudora Welty - from Jackson, MS, many more
  • Favorite Genres: vintage books, cookbooks, decorating, history, herbs, gardening
  • Recent Reads: KJV-bible, Eight Cousins by LMA

Music

  • Favorite Artists: All Southern gospel quartets and singers
  • Favorite Albums: too many to name
  • Favorite Genre: Southern Gospel, old hymns and praise & worship songs
  • Favorite Songs: Prayer Is the Key
  • Favorite Lyrics: I'm blank
  • Songs for Roadtrips: singing along with radio or gospel tapes/cd's
  • Guilty Pleasure: Recently, The Rez Trio, Zhaoui, Fleur de Lavende
  • Songs I repeat the most: Hymns
  • Band I wish I was in: The New Chuck Wagon Gang

More About Me

  • Heroes: Jesus! My husband!
  • Interests: homemaking, gardening, all feminine skills, piano,
  • Expertise: learning something new everyday
  • Website: http://www.feminineways.com

Travel

  • Places I love: The beach and the mountains
  • Places I've been: FL, AL, MS, GA, SC, NC, OH, IN, KY, TN, LA, TX
  • Dream Vacation: Ireland, Scotland, France, England, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greek Islands, Africa, Australia

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: Southern, Cajun, Mexican, and too many more!
  • Favorite Dishes: Southern Fried Chicken, Fried Shrimp, Shrimp Gumbo, Taco Pie
  • Favorite Desserts: Cheesecake, Homemade Dishpan Cookies
  • Favorite Drinks: Coca Cola, Sweet Tea, Coffee, Herbal Tea, Orange Soda
  • Favorite Junk Foods: Chocolate
  • Best meal ever: Dungeoness(sp?) Crab Legs dipped in hot sauce, ketchup, cocktail sauce and melted butter...Mexican cornbread with ham, cheeses, peppers, corn, etc...Good thing I don't have these too often, I'd be way too fat...
  • My Original Recipes: http://community.webtv.net/gayekyc1/MyFavoriteRecipes
  • Favorite Restaurants: Rainer's Catfish, Paw Paw's Catfish House, McElroy's (destroyed by Katrina), Herb's Fish Camp (a thing of the past now, he died and new owner's tore it down and built a new one in the old South MS Music Hall)...too many changes!
  • Foods I hate: not many...LOL