Dressin' Up My Landscaping

When we drove into our neighborhood for the first time, I just was in awe of how beautiful every house was.  And the landscaping in the south is just a dream for me!  I am just in love with the front porches, hanging plants, palm trees, magnolias, hydrangeas, and on and on!! I was so happy that the house we chose had everything I wanted, especially a big beautiful yard and a front porch!  

I am spending lots of time researching southern landscaping and since I'm an amateur gardener and pretty much know nothing, I'm looking for trees, plants and shrubs that will be easy to maintain.  I am going to keep the rose bushes and add some of my favorites.  These are what I am considering now:

The Windmill Palm

Frost Proof Gardenia

Endless Summer Hydrangea

Debutante Camellia

And Mosquito Grass

My husband has apparently encountered 2 rattlesnakes in the past few days and one happened to be near our house!  Oh my goodness has this sent me into a researching frenzy about these horrible creatures and found some remedies that I am going to try to keep them AWAY from my yard.  So I will be trying moth balls and powdered sulfur.  I will be spreading that around the perimeter of my property like they spread salt around the little girl in Hocus Pocus.  Or garlic to keep away vampires.  You get the idea.  If anyone else has any tips to keep away uninvited pests, PLEASE let me know!

Southern Way of Life - Makeup

I have been dying to write about all that has been going on with our big move!  But I will write a post about that later.  It all happened so fast, in literally a week, but we have officially moved to Bossier City, Louisiana!  We are loving it and I am absolutely in love with the little town we moved into and the amazing house we found!  I am chomping at the bit to get my hands into landscaping our amazing yard and arranging my front porch!  But in the meantime, I have discovered another thing that I need to work on:  my makeup!

It is something that I had forgotten since my days at the University of South Carolina, the humidity.  It is sweltering!  But I love that big 'ol sun that shines down on us all day!  Cloudy, overcast skies were the norm in the northeast, causing the worst of moods to come out of everyone.  But down here, I feel happy and excited when I open all my curtains to the beautiful view out of our windows.  It makes me so grateful for this opportunity my husband has received to move us down here.  It Pittsburgh, we didn't have beautiful neighborhoods with sidewalks and NO HILLS!!  It glorious to me!

Anyway, I realized that my makeup was running off my face when I was outside and I started to do some research on the southern belle face.  I'm loving these tips and tricks of all of these gorgeous women who love where they live and adapt to the weather.  I love that they are always made up to a T and I'm dying to get my hands on a few products!  I don't wear liquid foundation, I wear BB cream and Bare Minerals as my foundation.  But in a recent trip to Sephora, I found this GORGEOUS makeup palette that was not only all natural by Tarte, but it was WATERPROOF!!  I could barely contain my excitement!  What was even better was how beautiful the case was!

                       

It has 6 eyeshadows, blush, bronzer and highlighter inside and they are so perfectly summery and natural!  They stay on my face all day and I only have to reapply once or twice throughout the day (if I'm outside a lot!)  They have more in the Aqualillies line including eyeliner, mascara and lipstick.  I will definitely be picking these up the next time I stop in!

Aqualillies for Tarte Amazonian Clay Waterproof Makeup

Petroleum Clubs

Good Morning!

In my research about the petroleum lifestyle, I've found there are a few clubs that are an awesome starting point!  I have been worried about getting to know people in the field and what to expect (which is the reason I started Landman Wives) but I found these websites and there is a place for us!  They are spread out around the south and the midwest.  I read about some ladies who back in the 60's started their own club, Black Gold, for wives of men in the oil & gas field.  There was no catering back then, so they would take turns hosting dinners for the rest of the members at different locations.  That is so awesome and what I was thinking about!  A time where we could get together and meet each other, have a sense of community, no matter where we moved!

So far these are the clubs I have found:

Texas
Petroleum Club of Houston

Petroleum Club of Fort Worth

The Dallas Petroleum Club 

The Petroleum Club of San Antonio 

Texas-Exes Petroleum Club 

Petroleum Club of Midland 

Lake Tyler Petroleum Club 

NOMADS


Oklahoma
Petroleum Club of Oklahoma City 

Petroleum Club of Oklahoma City, Edmond 


Organizations
Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) 

Texas Oil & Gas Association 

Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association 

Texas Alliance of Energy Producers 


Here is a complete list of Crude Oil and Natural Gas Associations throughout the country:
Crude Oil and Natural Gas Associations

The Birth of Landman Wives!

Hello, Hello!

Landman Wives is a little idea I had, as we have gotten the news that there is a possibility that we are going to be moving to one of several places down south.  I have been trying to research about these cities, neighborhoods, schools, playgrounds, lifestyles, etc and there is no resource for families like ours who have to go with their husbands to better jobs!  I thought, well since there is no community for us, I might as well just be the one to start it!  So here it is, Landman Wives, our home away from home.  The place I would love for us to come to when we feel alone and have to figure everything out for ourselves.  When we are changing our whole lives around and we feel so overwhelmed by all of the things we have to do, we could come here, and talk with other women who are in the same position.  I am going to try to put all of the research I've done on here for everyone (and for myself) and organize it so it is easily accessible when we need advice!  I can't wait to get this started and maybe we can make friends in the places we are moving to or find ones in our own communities that we didn't even know where there!  That way, we aren't alone, we have someone who understands the lifestyle of a Landman Wife!

All in love,

Megan