I had High dreams of having it much
further along by the time they arrived from Florida but life happens.
"You
wanna here God laugh, tell him your plan!"
Turns out that if I had
gotten what I wanted, and the trailer had been finished before they came back
to Wyoming, I would have missed out on so much!
The idea of finding
something refers to the journey we take as much as what we find in the end.
When this journey started the camper wasn't exactly headed towards becoming Camp Gypsy .
Here are a few sample
pictures of what I originally had in mind;
A
designs of Grey, White, & Yellow
Like I said, I would have
missed all the wonderful memories being made as we take the journey of finding
Camp Gypsy...
One of my favorite blessing along
this journey has been that the memories this lil camper sparked. Many days
after working in the morning and taking a break as the day heats up, Bob &
Judy will share a story of the early days in their marriage. Of a time when
Bob's Grandma and Grandpa had a camp trailer just like this one. Those stories
lead into other stories. (I need to get a recorder before these family stories
are lost)
I feel blessed that I am not missing all of this!
I have a little habit of searching an idea word (like space saving, or turquoise, or lace) on the internet and selecting image and scrolling through pictures
to get ideas. I found that Judy liked for us to look through them together. I started
to save the ones she really liked to my phone. We go out to the camper in
the cooler evening and talk about the ideas and how we could do different
things in the camper. Many times I go next door to find her sitting in
the camper or working again on it. Her smile and her excitement are contagious.
There was one idea I had that I
really thought would be a neat touch. I had seen it on a TV show. They had made
a homemade chandelier for a vehicle. I thought it would be so perfect above the
bed in the camper. After sharing the idea with Judy we just had to go watch the
TV show (I record them, yes I am that sappy :)....lol... Poor Bob just shook
his head and said he had something or another he needed to do and left the
house..lol
This has become another cherished
time we share.
Before long we realized that this was no
longer just a lil cute camper and Judy said, "That's what I want to
call it, "Camp Gypsy!" So from that point forward it has been called
Camp Gypsy. However, we are still on the journey to find just exactly what Camp
Gypsy will be....
Here are some of the inspiration
ideas;
