Jamison was born third of three children to high school sweethearts Les and Kelley Kennedy. Their relationship couldn't have been more cinematic: Les was on the football team, Kelley captain of the cheerleading squad. While the couple fell short for prom king and queen, they did win the "most likely to get married" superlative their senior year. Shortly after graduation, the pair found themselves expecting their first child. It goes without saying that they also found themselves walking down the aisle almost immediately after getting the news.
Eager to provide for his budding family, Les took on more hours at his parents' seafood restaurant, a staple for both locals and tourists alike. Only a year after giving birth to their first son, Russell*, Les and Kelley welcomed a second chid, Christopher*, into their lives. A little over two years later on December 21, 1989, Jamison Elise danced into the Kennedy home and completed their little family.
As a child, Jamison never had a problem hanging with her two big brothers. With her spunky, competitive nature and thick skin, Jamison held her own both on the playground and on the Mario Kart track. Growing up, she was quite the tomboy, not afraid to get dirt under her fingernails or scrape her knees. However, in an attempt to save her femininity, Kelley pushed years of ballet on her daughter. Jamison conceded to ballet classes, but as she got older, put her foot down when it came to cheerleading tryouts and pageants, much to her mother’s dismay. Her real passion was in creating, whether it was customizing the front of her binders with collages of magazine clippings and Lisa Frank stickers or bedazzling every stitch of clothing in her closet. Her most favorite pastime, though, was watching her father in his shop, busying himself over whatever project he was working on at the time. She might not have inherited her father's culinary skills, but she did pick up his craftsmanship. When she turned 10 years old, she was finally allowed to help build her very first birdhouse, which she painted to vaguely resemble their home and is still hanging on a tree in the Kennedy’s backyard. As she got older, she was allowed to do more complex jobs and given more creative freedom in the workshop. Slowly but surely, she began taking her father’s workshop over; she spent her saved up allowances and hard earned waitressing money on her own collection of power tools, saws, and sanders. With the guidance of her wood shop teacher and the help of monthly craft workshops, Jamison began producing much higher quality work than birdhouses: ornate side tables, Adirondack lawn chairs, picnic tables, bookcases.
Since high school, Jamison has kept her waitressing position at her family's restaurant, but her main source of income comes from custom furniture jobs and independently selling her pieces. She attended some college, but dropped out after a year of skipping more classes than she attended. At the age of 22, she still lives at home with her parents, though they are encouraging their little birdie to leave the nest sometime soon.
likes: whiskey, fender telecasters, leopard print, drunk texts, tattoos, furs, campfires, wood grain, bbq, strangers, road trips, pumpkin spice lattes, boots, red lipstick, sharpies, bikinis, messy hair, sand, bedtime stories
dislikes: mismatched socks, flat pillows, dr. pepper, the smell of acetone, most video games, twitter, split ends, grammar nazis, nail biters, white wine, blackberry phones, pushy tourists,
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