So let me tell you my story.
I'm a mother of four. My oldest is currently serving an LDS mission and expected home in just over a year. My 2nd child is at college and loves it. My next two daughters are still at home learning and playing and growing daily. I love creating. My mom taught me to use my hands from a very young age. I started to create by using scraps of material from beautiful bridesmaids dress mom made, to create clothes for Barbies and other dolls. I ventured into more complicated sewing as I grew older and started having children of my own.
Mom also taught me to love wreaths. She usually had a wreath on her from door, but she also had one hanging on the wall in our entranceway. Over the years growing up, I learned that there are so many ways to create with you hands. I ventured into cake decorating and have made several elaborate birthday cakes, and a few wedding cakes, but that stresses me out. The thought of something happening and having little time to fix a problem, like a dropped cake, just isn't worth the stress, so I save decorating cakes for family. That usually happens once or twice a year now.
I love sewing, it must stem from that time with mom and the fancy taffeta, satin or other beautiful materials that were used to make special occasion dresses for others. (And eventually for me as I started dating in high school and going to formal dances.) I now sew clothes and formal dresses for my daughters. From time to time I venture in to quilting. I still love walking through a fabric store and smelling the starch and feeling the fabric. I loved it so much that for a while I even worked there, but it was with a sad heart that I moved on to another job so that I would actually bring home a paycheck and not just more material.
I love spending time outside in my garden. In the front yard I have a rose garden and a flowerbed. For the last few years I've let my daughter who is into agriculture take care of those, but now that she's moved onto college, it's my turn again and I'm enjoying getting my hands dirty. We also have a large vegetable garden in the back yard where we grow beans, peas, peppers, tomatoes, zucchini and other squash, onions. Sometimes we grow corn, watermelon, and asparagus. I also have a berry patch where I get to munch on delicious strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries. In the fall I get to spend hours enjoying our harvest as I start canning these delicious foods so that my family may enjoy them throughout the winter.
Creating with my hands is a wonderful talent that I enjoy. It's very important to me. It's my relaxing time.
I love living in Utah. Having our majestic mountains so close is amazing. During the summer months, my family and I spend as much time up in the high altitudes and we do at home, or at lest it feels that way. We venture out to enjoy things such as fishing, camping and hiking. Sometimes it's just a visit to get away from the heat, noise, and congestion of the valley. It's truly a haven on earth to be so close to the Unitas.
I live in the suburbs of Salt Lake City Utah. My husband and I moved here over 13 years ago and have enjoyed it here as well as raising our children here. A part of me will always feel like home is where I grew up, but every time I return there I realize that home is here now, where my kids learned to walk, speak, cry over math, drive, and eventual move outward and upward to greater things.
My love of creating led to a desire to always have a wreath on my front door. In fact, I think it was one of the first things I crafted after getting married. I currently have 8 wreaths that adorn my door at different times throughout the year. The love of creating something beautiful that anyone who walks or dives by can admire led me to create some wreaths as gifts for family and friends, even sell a few. So I decided that it was time to go beyond my own personal reach and begin selling here on etsy.
I want to share my talent with others, to help the adorn their door with a beautiful wreath to welcome others, and to inspire some to create there own decor (but hopefully just buy mine).
Each wreath I create is unique. They may come from similar supplies and from the same crafty mind, but I have tied each wreath with my own hands to create something beautiful and dazzling that you can love and display on your own front door.
I'm a mother of four. My oldest is currently serving an LDS mission and expected home in just over a year. My 2nd child is at college and loves it. My next two daughters are still at home learning and playing and growing daily. I love creating. My mom taught me to use my hands from a very young age. I started to create by using scraps of material from beautiful bridesmaids dress mom made, to create clothes for Barbies and other dolls. I ventured into more complicated sewing as I grew older and started having children of my own.
Mom also taught me to love wreaths. She usually had a wreath on her from door, but she also had one hanging on the wall in our entranceway. Over the years growing up, I learned that there are so many ways to create with you hands. I ventured into cake decorating and have made several elaborate birthday cakes, and a few wedding cakes, but that stresses me out. The thought of something happening and having little time to fix a problem, like a dropped cake, just isn't worth the stress, so I save decorating cakes for family. That usually happens once or twice a year now.
I love sewing, it must stem from that time with mom and the fancy taffeta, satin or other beautiful materials that were used to make special occasion dresses for others. (And eventually for me as I started dating in high school and going to formal dances.) I now sew clothes and formal dresses for my daughters. From time to time I venture in to quilting. I still love walking through a fabric store and smelling the starch and feeling the fabric. I loved it so much that for a while I even worked there, but it was with a sad heart that I moved on to another job so that I would actually bring home a paycheck and not just more material.
I love spending time outside in my garden. In the front yard I have a rose garden and a flowerbed. For the last few years I've let my daughter who is into agriculture take care of those, but now that she's moved onto college, it's my turn again and I'm enjoying getting my hands dirty. We also have a large vegetable garden in the back yard where we grow beans, peas, peppers, tomatoes, zucchini and other squash, onions. Sometimes we grow corn, watermelon, and asparagus. I also have a berry patch where I get to munch on delicious strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries. In the fall I get to spend hours enjoying our harvest as I start canning these delicious foods so that my family may enjoy them throughout the winter.
Creating with my hands is a wonderful talent that I enjoy. It's very important to me. It's my relaxing time.
I love living in Utah. Having our majestic mountains so close is amazing. During the summer months, my family and I spend as much time up in the high altitudes and we do at home, or at lest it feels that way. We venture out to enjoy things such as fishing, camping and hiking. Sometimes it's just a visit to get away from the heat, noise, and congestion of the valley. It's truly a haven on earth to be so close to the Unitas.
I live in the suburbs of Salt Lake City Utah. My husband and I moved here over 13 years ago and have enjoyed it here as well as raising our children here. A part of me will always feel like home is where I grew up, but every time I return there I realize that home is here now, where my kids learned to walk, speak, cry over math, drive, and eventual move outward and upward to greater things.
My love of creating led to a desire to always have a wreath on my front door. In fact, I think it was one of the first things I crafted after getting married. I currently have 8 wreaths that adorn my door at different times throughout the year. The love of creating something beautiful that anyone who walks or dives by can admire led me to create some wreaths as gifts for family and friends, even sell a few. So I decided that it was time to go beyond my own personal reach and begin selling here on etsy.
I want to share my talent with others, to help the adorn their door with a beautiful wreath to welcome others, and to inspire some to create there own decor (but hopefully just buy mine).
Each wreath I create is unique. They may come from similar supplies and from the same crafty mind, but I have tied each wreath with my own hands to create something beautiful and dazzling that you can love and display on your own front door.