Hey! If you are looking for me (Vikki), A Shiny Girl’s Blog, The Goat Locker Podcast,

goat tales, workshops, flowers, adventures, or recognizing awesomeness,

you’ve found it!

If you’d like to subscribe - look for the easy button - just a couple lines down - in the big green block.
I publish something every Thursday.

Coming in September 2025
Roots and Rituals: A Retreat of Tea, Flowers and Purpose
All the details will be live on May 10th

My Garden Blooms, Tea and Toast Shop, A Shiny Girl’s Blog

The Goat Locker Podcast can be found at the link below. Why would I start a podcast? Because I could. Really. And I like sharing thoughts, ideas, epiphanies and stuff that inspires me.

Here’s the inside story - proceed at your own risk:

Shiny Girl - because that describes me to a T. I am easily distracted by goats, flowers, music, sunrays through tree branches and good cornbread with no sugar and a couple sticks of butter.

The Rusted Bucket Project began as a container garden business. It was a glorious 3 year “project” that has now metamorphosed into the home base for my blogging, sporadic podcasting, workshops and the not to be missed events at the farm and other beautiful spots.

I’ve worked as a beautician, bartender, waitress, vet tech, stall cleaner, Burger-King drive thru professional, intelligence specialist and operations specialist in the U.S. Navy, horse handler, garden center employee and gardener, just to name a few. Home has been in NC, FL, MD, VA, TN, IL, NE, MN, KS, PA, and Spain. Now I’m back in NC for good.

I created an award for recognizing awesomeness - when thank you just isn’t enough - and I named it
The Golden Goat Award. There is a link to the award at the top of this page.

I identify as: Taurus, Goat lady, Enneagram 9, rule follower, conflict avoider, kinda funny, nature loving, “shiny girl”.

What is up with all the goat stuff? I love goats and I can not lie. Always have.

Nice to meet ya.