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Fast forward a couple years; the boutique is fabulous and constantly evolving to include new artisans, the tea party space is booked nearly every weekend, Holly Goes Lightly is more popular than any person on Main Street and then…hubby said he was ready to retire. What did that mean? Retire into our little life on Main Street or take on a whole new adventure?

After talking about our options and love for living tiny, I made the craziest of suggestions…what if we sold it all, bought a travel trailer, and traveled the country? Mind you, I’ve never camped and thought moving into our 500sq ft was tiny but was now suggesting to go uber tiny and travel around despite not ever actually being in a travel trailer before. Again…I found myself letting my fingers do the walking over my laptop keys to Craigslist; searching for a new adventure…one that had never been uttered or even thought of before.

Things happened quickly after that; I mentioned the idea to a few people and just like that…it was a reality. I spoke to a friend about the possibilities of retiring and she was super excited to take it all; my boutique, my tea party space, AND my little rolling shoppe, Holly. There was just one hiccup…timing. We decided to close the boutique just after Christmas and had until the end of January to make it all happen; found a travel trailer we liked online via a dealer, bought the second one we saw, took delivery a week later, and by January 19th…my youngest daughter’s birthday and my parents’ wedding anniversary. It was a whirlwind, which is just how we generally do things; fly by the seat of our pants kinda decision makers. Is there any other way?


But, as usually happens in living spontaneously…plans changed yet again. As we took delivery of our 2001 travel trailer, hubby was promoted instead of retiring and we had to commit to another three years before retiring. What did that mean? It meant that we would be living in our tiniest of tiny homes but staying in Tulsa at a private RV park instead of roaming the open road. We took it in stride and I began my biggest, little renovation to date. Below are the pictures of some of the projects we did; others thought we were crazy but to us…it seemed like the perfect next step in an already BIG but tiny adventures. 


Layout after our renovations were made

Our interior living space before renovations

Interior space in the middle of renovations. We removed the dinette to add a buffet and coffee bar, and we removed the bunks to create a desk space for sewing and blogging. Added new floors, lots of new paint, and trim...not yet painted; even a chandelier

The original bunkhouse

The transformation

My new create space; much better than bunk beds

Transformed into a hanging closet

Jewelry storage


A very very small bathroom...better use of space; we showered in our RV park clubhouse

New planked walls and handy storage

Kitchen space before renovation

Freshly painted with stained stove cover and newly cut out cabinets

Bedroom before renovations

Bedroom after our personality added

Added insulation in window and created a tufted headboard

The side of bedroom closet in sitting room

Dinette removal and wall build

Way more practical than a 3ft wide dinette







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