The Atlanta Home Show

What a beautiful day to spend time at the Cobb Galleria Centre for the 36th Annual Spring Atlanta Home Show.  This is the largest home show that showcases over 350 exhibitors with the very latest home and gardening improvement products, and services.  This is the place where you can drop in on a cooking demonstration, walk through an indoor landscaped garden or talk to a kitchen designer about your particular needs.

I had a chance to meet Ahmed Hassan who is a celebrity landscaper and original host of DIY Network’s Yard Crashers.  I was so excited to meet with him (including my husband) and to learn what was going on with him since he had left Yard Crashers.  Alot of people do not know his story of how he has got to where he is now .  Ahmed was a trouble teen and had to make a dramatic change in his life to get himself out of the streets. He did this by becoming a landscaper and love it so much that he has been doing this for over 15 years.  During that time, he was pick up but the HGTV and DIY Networks for his high energy personality, motivational spirit and his love of people and beautiful outdoor spaces.

Since becoming a Landscape Professional Celebrity he has been working with the California Federal of Corrections to help teens to find what opportunities that are out there for them in the areas of Landscaping and Gardening.

Since leaving the show he has his own business and no longer doing the landscaping but he is doing a variety of projects in the Environmental Green Living and Landscaping Consulting.  For more information check out his website – http://www.ahmedhassan.tv/ and  become apart of his facebook page:   www.facebook.com/pages/Ahmed-Hassan-Celebrity-Landscaper

I truly enjoyed hearing Ahmed Hassan speak and please check out his calendar of events to meet him on his website.  There were so many more things that I did at the Atlanta Home Show. Check out and see what I saw by clicking here:

Gardening Month is Here!!

Since this is Gardening Month, I want to let everyone know that I am one of the dynamic speaker at the 7 days Spiritual Body Building Tele-summit where my discussion topic is on Changing Your Temple:  Gardening with Planting: The Right Foods! I would love for you, your friends, coworkers and family to be a part of this very special tele-summit .  For more information to sign up for the 7-Day Tele-summit – Spiritual Body Building click here:  http://resultsbyrenee.com/spiritual-body-building-telesummit/

April is Gardening Month and this year I have decided to plant an indoor seedling gardening.  This is my very first time doing this and I decided to use a seedling gardening kit with organic gardening soil. I always wanted to be a part of the seed to sprout process of growing vegetables and flowers garden.  What I have done in the past, like many people, was purchase my plants from fellow gardeners and plant it in my little garden.  I never did thought how they were able to start off with a tiny seed  and produce a little sprout which would later become a healthy plant.  This year, I wanted to experience this by planting cucumbers, lettuce, squash, spinach, marigolds (for keeping the pest away from the tomatoes), zinna flowers, cosmos flowers, tomatoes, onions, sweet peppers and  carrots. Check out the pictures below on how I started my gardening adventure:

To see pictures of the different seeds that I use for my garden click here!

Next week, I will discuss about my day at the Atlanta Home and Gardening Show!

 

Spring Ahead for Lente

Being a Christian, this is the season for Lente and is it a time to give up something and gain something better.  I decided to sleep for one hour earlier in order to wake up 1 hour early in the morning to see this wonderful sun rise.  Since the weather is getting warmer I have been running in the AM time with my beautiful black labs.  Doing this has given me a chance to enjoy my afternoon more and it allows for me not feel rush to finish everything that I have to do that evening.  This also has given me the chance to accomplish everything that I need to do for the rest of day.  I have a question that to ask you:

What are you willing to give up in order to gain something better?

Let me know what your answer to this question by emailing me at the comments section of this blog.

I also had the excellent opportunity to be a guest host with the Itunes webcast of “Low Carbo Conversations”.  Listen in to what was discussed and let me know what you think of the broadcast!

Click this link here:  http://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/lcc-episode-105-courtney-locklear-and-emily-drews-on-the-paleo-meat-obsession/22434

Enjoy this wonderful spring week!!