Welcome

I would like to take this time to say hello and thank you for stopping! Nene’s Rustic Market is here to inspire you through some fun and easy DIY crafting projects and so much more! My goal is that you find something here that will inspire you in some way, shape or form. I hope you leave here with a smile on your face and/or with a “warm fuzzy” feeling! Enjoy the journey with us!!

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It’s All In The Name

“Nene”… sounds like I’m “old”, well I am older than my children, BUT….I am not older than dirt YET!! I still have a lot of life and spunk to last a while!

My journey through life has had SO MANY ups and downs, uncertainties, and more than I can count disappointments. Sounds like such a “Debbie Downer”, BUT… there has been some GREAT JOYS in my life as well!!

Let’s get the negatives out of the way first so we can move on to brighter things. Don’t get me wrong, the negatives in my life are JUST as important as the positives as they too have helped shape me into who I am and what I do today.

I have always struggled with who I was put on this earth to be and what my purpose in this life is. Couple these things with the constant “fear of failure” and “fear of success”……go figure…. this is quite the combination to be struggling with now isn’t it? Welcome to my world! Can anyone else relate?

At a young age I made a promise to myself due to things that took place in my childhood. I was only going to marry once, have all my children with the same man and never divorce. I did get married to a man who stole my heart. We had 4 ABSOLUTELY AMAZING children who still, to this day as adults are my world and continue to melt my heart. I did however break the third promise to myself. This was the very first INCREDIBLY HARD decision I have ever made. I not only found myself as a single mother of four, I was the one who initiated the process. You see, he was a very sick man with an addiction, a love for alcohol. I was young and did not understand what it did not only to the addict, but the lasting effects it has on those around and close to the addict. I thought I could “fix” him and our lives would be everything and more than I could ever imagine it to be. Finally after attending Al-anon to educate myself, made the decision that this lifestyle was not only bad for him and I, but was detrimental to our children. By far this was one of the HARDEST decisions of my life. If you have children I am sure you can relate to all the questions you ask yourself. How is this going to affect my children, is this the right decision along with a million more questions….good news is that finally after all of this, as of today, year 2020, he has now been sober 4-5 years and we ALL are moving forward to bigger and better things that life has to offer us.

All 4 of our children have been my BIGGEST cheerleaders in any life adventures I choose to embark upon. They are always there to encourage and lift me up and support me in any way they can. If it wasn’t for them I never would’ve sold just about everything we owned to move out west to make a better life for us. If it wasn’t for them I never would’ve jumped over the hurdle of fear and did what I had to do to obtain a class A CDL to be able to make a better life for us financially. They were right there cheering me on, “mom, you got this”, “mom, you can do this”. What a proud moment! So humbling to be able to not only thank those who trained and those who made the training possible, but most of all thank my children for all of their undying love and support!! WOW! What amazing gifts I have been given, all 4 of them! Words could NEVER express what my heart feels every minute of every day!

Just when you think your heart is overflowing and you couldn’t possibly love another child, you become a grand-parent. You suddenly, literally out of nowhere, have more love to give!! I can’t for the life of me figure out where it all comes from, but I can tell you that with each new addition to this ever growing family, my heart becomes more filled……how is this even possible? Little TayOnna was the first to join this family, then came Mr. Camdyn, then Mr. Tatum and another on the way any day now. As little ones do, they sometimes have a little trouble pronouncing their words as they are learning to talk. Miss TayOnna had deemed my name “Nene” hence where the name “Nene” came from. “Rustic” was born from my love of all things old, country and farmhouse. “Market” was born of the vision to have a multitude of things to offer. So there you have it, the birth of “Nene’s Rustic Market”( May also be referred to as NRM).

My children, as always, have been a HUGE part in all things I envision and are totally, 100%+ a driving force and involved in Nene’s Rustic Market! I wouldn’t have it ANY other way! We encourage, build each other up, brainstorm what the future in Nene’s Rustic Market looks like and all have a driving force and roll in this adventure. I look forward to getting up for “work” every day and being able to work side by side with my children, how awesome is that?!