Hi Everyone! Today, I’m going to share with you the next part of Theresa’s story by posting her interview questions and responses. Tomorrow will be Part II of the interview and then on Friday a super duper project and tutorial for one of the upcoming holidays. I haven’t seen it yet myself but I was told by Theresa that I would LOVE it and so will all of you! Please feel free to leave comments for either Theresa or me this week. Ask questions, leave your thoughts, tell us if you ever spotted Treefrog somewhere lurking about..!
ABOUT ME…
1. Your full name Theresa Kelly (aka: **Treefrog** on most message boards) (Kim: I’m glad that the mystery of TreeFrog Kelly has been solved this week. I’m taking full credit of releasing you from your incognito alias)
2. Are you married? Yes To Ken for 15 years (And we ALWAYS forget our anniversary!) (Kim: He sounds like a great guy, especially since you said he laughs at my dumb posts *grin*)
3. Do you have children? How many and how old? Yes, 3, Brian 29, Dawn 26, and McCade 9. (All I can say is Oops!) I also have 3 Grandkids, Molly 6, Madison 5, and Ethan 1, and I miss them terribly, they don’t live close by! Maybe one day! (I’m trying to finagle a way to get them here and then not return them, LOL!) (Kim: 40 is not too old to have a baby these days. I don’t think McCade was necessarily an OOPS but more like an unexpected treasure *smile* He seems like the sweetest kid!)
4. What is your favorite color (Red, love love love it, if I could have a red house I would, but I had to settle for a red roof and shutters, LOL), food (Fried Chicken and Ken makes the best!), holiday (Christmas of course! But I also love Thanksgiving because we go to Ohio every year to visit family, McCade loves his Aunt Heather and cousin Jessica, they spoil him rotten!), day of the week (Monday, it’s the day I get the most done around the house), time of the day (mornings, when everyone else is asleep), season (Spring and Fall, can I have 2?), craft supply (My Cricut, Gypsy and Design Studio and LOTS of paper), television show (Glee), movie (Gone With The Wind ,I think I’ve watched it a million times!), book(s) (Political Books, I like to know what’s going on in the world! And The Left Behind Series, what a contrast huh!), song (I listen to mostly Country but don’t have an actual favorite), actor/actress (Don’t really have a fav but I like Sam Elliot, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, Nicholas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones, hum, all men……and good looking ones at that! LOL) comedian (Rodney Carrington), place to shop (Any Scrap/Craft store and if I had to pick one other than Hobby Lobby), visit (I would love to go to Italy one day) (Kim: That’s funny you said you’d have a red house if you could because my husband has heard me say that same thing over and over. I would LOVE a red house but instead I have lots of red walls and red furniture. I just can’t get enough of the color. Plus, I have red hair, my oldest son is a redhead….you would think I’d get sick of the color!)
5. What do you like to do in your free time? Scrap, Craft or Alter/refinish/refurbish furniture (Kim: Oh yeah! Bring it on! I’d love to see some of your refurbished furniture. I should take photos of some of the pieces I “pimped up.” *wink*)
6. Who is your idol/hero? That would be my Dad! He was Amazing, and so down to earth, everyone Loved him! (Kim: That’s awesome. I bet he thought the same of you! *smile*)
7. What five adjectives would you use to describe who you are as a person? Trustworthy, Honest, Imaginative, Loyal, Organized (as much as my family allows me to be!) (Kim: See! I knew you were a good person)
8. If I were to ask your significant other, friend or family member who knows you very well to describe you as a person what five adjectives do you think they would choose? Loud, Funny, Honest, Organized, Straight Forward/To the point. (Kim: Loud? Is that because you are always LOLing? *smile*)
9. Do you have a favorite saying/quote? Yes What is it? What goes around, comes around! My Dad used to say that all the time and it is soooo true, I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve actually seen it come true so I try and live by that motto! (Kim: Yep, that is a good one and I have to say this usually does happen. I also live by the easy to remember quote “practice what you preach.” )
10. Favorite genre of music…. Country and Bluegrass (Kim: A little twang never hurt anyone. I used to be heavy into the country but nowadays I listen to pretty much everything.)
11. List your pet peeves… Rude/Lazy People, Messes, The Government! (Enough Said!) (Kim: Amen sista!)
12. What was your most embarrassing moment? (Hopefully not this!) When I was a kid we used to go in the flood control where we lived and catch frogs and tadpoles which was right next to the police station and one day we had our buckets and cups and were getting ready to head home with our “catch” of the day and the Police helicopter took off and came over head and told us to leave or the police were coming, well I was climbing up the ladder to get out with the cup of tiny tadpoles and frogs in my mouth (I still can’t believe I would have done that, yuck) but I looked up at the helicopter and you guessed it, everything in the cup went ALL over/in me. In my mouth, down my shirt, in my hair, and whoever was behind me even got it! Everyone was laughing, even the police in the helicopter were laughing (that’s how close they were and found out years later they always knew when we were in the flood control and didn’t really care but that day they were trying to be funny and scare us) Well from that day on I was known as Treefrog! (Kim: Maybe it’s because of my warped sense of humor but this question and the next one are my favorites in the interview. It always makes me giggle what you gals share with all of us! Love the story and can only imagine how freaked out you must had been!)
13. What was the funniest thing that has ever happened to you or you have done to someone else? (Other than the frogs/tadpoles all over me!) Was when we moved out here it was our first year and our first snow (you have to remember I grew up in So. California and I hadn’t seen snow till I was 18 yrs. old and itonly snowed in Vegas a couple of times but didn’t last too long.) and there was a board in the yard and I thought I would hop onto it to get out of the snow and hopped and my feet came right out from under me like I was flying (the board was iced over). I was laughing so hard I was crying (literally, and I even think I peed my pants, I don’t know I was all wet and covered in snow!) and every time I would try and get up I would fall again, my husband, son and neighbors were laughing so hard they couldn’t even get to me to help me. They said it looked like someone kept knocking my feet out from under me. Finally I gave up trying to get up and just crawled to the door. (OMG I’m sitting here laughing thinking about it and the hubs asked what’s so funny and I told him what I was writing and he’s on the floor laughing again, said it was the funniest things he’d ever seen!) I’ve fallen numerous other times since then too, I just can’t seem to stay on my feet here, LOL! And the dogs have knocked me down a few times also! (Kim: I have a hard time standing on both feet too – even on dry ground *wink*)
14. Share a memorable moment in your life, a time you will never forget. Well it would have to be the birth of all of my children. Each one was totally different but very memorable. (Kim: moments that are hard to forget)
15. What do you find yourself doing that you said you would never ever do? Being loud just like my Mother (she was full blooded Italian, so use your imagination!) And I do have a tendency to curse at times! LOL (Kim: I imagine you laughing loudly…A LOT…am I right? It has to be because of all of the LOLing in our emails *wink*)
16. Name three things you are completely and utterly proud of. Building Our own House! think that counts as ALL Three and then some, LOL! (Kim: My hubby built our house in Michigan and you’re right – it does count for all three thingsthat you’re utterly proud of because that’s a MAJOR feat)
17. Do you consider yourself to be a risk taker? Well Yes and No, Well if selling your home and then tracking across the country in a Travel Trailer and not having a destination in mind, I guess that would be a BIG Risk. But in eveyday life, then No. (Kim: Wow….that still amazes me. I would say that is a risk taker too…)
18. Have you ever won anything? Yes What was it? I’ve won a few Cartridges and recently I just won a Cricut for my sons school. (Kim: you won the Easter Egg contest on my blog in March)
19. If you were able to skip a day of work or whatever you typically do during the day, how would you spend your day? I would love to go on Old Historical Home Tours with McCade, Him and I are sooooo much alike and he gets a big kick out of it too. The rest of the family thinks that it’s boring. What do they know! (Kim: That does sound like fun)
20. What is the craziest thing you’ve ever done? River Rafting, it was a Blast and I’d love to do it again! (Kim: It looks like a blast but I’m too chicken to try)
21. What makes you happy? Being with my family! (Kim: Nothing better)
22. What makes you sad? Not having my grand kids close by. (Kim: That must be really hard. )
23. What makes you angry? The Government! (Enough Said!) (Kim: Yep, I totally agree with you on this one)
24. Do you have any pets? Yes What are they? 5 Dogs, 2 turtles and 2 cows (hey what else do you do with 10 acres, but they stay with the neighbors cows (so they don’t get lonely) and we rotate them back and forth from their property to ours, we thought it was easier then mowing, LOL LOL LOL!!!) Oh I’m so funny! (Kim: Seriously or are you pulling a funny on me? )
MY CHILDHOOD
1. Describe yourself as a child… I was a pretty shy kid, A little chunky, my Mom is Italian so Bread and Pasta were a staple in our house and I love Bread and Pasta! Loved to be outside and at the beach. Loved to go anywhere on my Dad’s Harley with him. I loved to create things and used to hand sew clothes for my dolls. I didn’t get a sewing machine till I was in Junior High (Middle school is what it’s called now, LOL) I took a sewing class and fell in love with it and used to sew almost all my own clothes (except jeans). In High school I went right into Fashion Design and since I was so shy (and didn’t know how to say no) all the teacher’s would come to me to mend their clothes or fix zippers or hem (to this day I WILL NOT fix a zipper if it’s broke, LOL) (Kim: Oops…just deny the large box I just Fed Ex’d out to you yesterday then…it’s full of jackets and pants that need the zippers repaired.)
2. Where did you grow up and what are your memories of this place? I grew up in Bellflower Calif. I loved the place, we would stay out all day until the street lights would come on so I guess it was a pretty safe place. If any of the kids did something wrong the neighbors would call your parents (or just scold you and threaten to call your parents) so everyone knew everyone. I always knew when my Dad came home because he Drove a Harley and I would “hear and feel” him come home and all the kids would run to my house so they could get a ride on his Harley. That was back in the 60-70’s and everyone thought he was a “Biker” because not many people had Harley’s back then (like now, almost everyone has them) but he was far from a biker, (he actually looked just like Ross Perot but covered in tattoos, he was in the Navy for 30 years.) (Kim: Sounds like you had a great childhood full of some wonderful memories!)
3. What did you enjoy doing as a child? Reading, going to the beach and being outside. We used to go Camping alot and deep sea fishing too. (Kim: Deep sea fishing must have been awesome! I lived in Michigan surrounded by the great lakes. We used to go minnow dipping, spearing and salmon fishing in the spring but I’d have to say deep sea fishing must be the cat’s meow!)
4. What was your favorite comic/cartoon character? I loved the Flintstones, and still do! (Kim: I forgot about the Flinstones – I used to love it too)
5. What was your favorite outdoor activity as a child? I loved going to the Beach, we would take the bus or ride our bikes down there and spend all day. What is your favorite outdoor activity as an adult? Gardening, but not lately, it’s been WAY to hot here. I love to be near/in water and love being on a boat and/or Sea-doo. I also like to go hiking, there are so many great parks to explore. (Kim: You do sound like a water baby – do you live close to any water now?)
6. Were you crafty as a child? Yes What did you enjoy doing the most? I loved to sew and make paper dolls and play with my doll house, I would make furniture to go in the house with all kinds of things. (Kim: I did the same thing but it was always for my Barbies – loved those things)
7. What was your favorite toy? I had a doll called Thumbelina, she was only about 8-10” long (I still have it!) You pulled a string and the doll wiggled like a real baby. My best friend and I both had one and we also had a carrier, stroller, clothes, diapers and bag and all kinds of things to go with it and pretended to be moms for hours at a time every day. (Kim: That’s so sweet!)
Alrighty, that’s it for today! Make sure to check back tomorrow for Part II of Theresa’s interview and to see some more fun photos of herself and her family!
Thanks everyone!
xKim
P.S. I just hopped over to see what’s new over at Binky Blossoms , Theresa’s blog, and she has the cutest layout using the Dinosaur Tracks Cricut cartridge that you have to see! Of course, she has tons of other things too – cards and layouts that she has designed for BBTB2 …they’re just too cute for words!
Designed by Theresa (**Treefrog**) Kelly 
