I've always been crafty and artsy as those would say who know me best. My father's mother was a master of sewing & knitting and my mother's mother loved needle point and crafts galore. One of my favorite memories is seeing all of her cute little creations at the holiday church bazaar every year. My mom used to make a lot of her own clothes but she's also an all around crafty gal. My most notable memories of her are painting on wood or most recently beautiful Theorem paintings.

I dabbled in sewing when I was a tween but was frustrated by the sewing machine. Little did we know then but it really was the machine that was the problem! Then many years later and many crafts & creations later (from wood-working to candle making) I walked into a quilt shop and thought, let's give this a try. That was 2007 and the year my first daughter was born.

I bought my first sewing machine, a 1979 Kenmore at a tag sale for $25. It was a great machine! (That's when I realized that the machine I used as a tween was the problem all those years ago.) Well, quilts very quickly turned into bag making. My best friend and I would spend every Friday together sewing and sewing bag after bag. We had so many we started selling at craft fairs and we would get so many people asking us to make them a custom bag that we would get invited over to their home and they would invite their friends and then we would make lots and lots of custom bags! We had so much fun together, meeting people and making their bags. I started my shop here on Etsy way back in 2009 selling bags and fabric covers and zipped cases for Weight Watchers books, it was a niche I found that kept me going for quite a long time, about 8 years I believe. Over this period time marched on of course, kid turned into 2 kids and they continue to get older, jobs changed and increased in hours and it was hard to fit bag making in to our lives. Lot of changes, ups and downs...but now I've found a calling back to my quilting roots and find that quilting, knitting, crocheting, something everyday in-between the chaos of life is just about right to keep me balanced.

And that's my story in a nutshell.