Beginnings

As I have said in my about me, I am a 25 year old married woman and mother to a 2 year old boy.  It has took me 7 years to get to where I am today but it has made me grow stronger in the long run.  I started my business only about 2 months ago but it has been an ongoing thing for almost a year.  I am still in the developing stage but I am learning as I go so I suppose that is the important thing. 

My business started right after I got out of college.  I got my degree online because at the time I was taking care of my brother in laws 6 kid's while he and his wife worked and he went to school as well.  I decided that since I had nothing else going on and I wanted to get a college education for a long time so I thought I would go for it.  Well it is funny the way fate works because 2 days before I started my first day of school I found out I was pregnant with my now 2 year old.  Upon further discussions with my husband on the subject, we decided that I would go ahead and continue my plan and we would figure out things as we went along.  All I can say was it was a hard 2 years, but not many people can say that they were doing homework 2 hours after giving birth though ;-).  The hardest part about it was that I felt like it did rob me of the first year of my son's life.  I had to focus on my school work everyday and with going to an online school I did not have any breaks at all. 

After I had graduated with my Associates of Arts in Psychology I had begun to realize that I did not want to go back.  While it was nice to be able to look back and say I did that and I am thankful for the knowledge that I now possess I realized that it was not the path for me.  I thought long and hard about it and realized that the only thing that I had always come back to was art.  I enjoyed making and creating things that was my calling in life.  Well with student loans going to be coming due I decided that I would do what I had wanted to do since I was little, and that was to sell my arts and crafts.  My husband was always supportive of whatever I did so that did not change when I came up to him and told him about my plans.  So after about 6 months of researching and creating things I finally opened up my shop on etsy.com.  For the time being I am just focusing on selling things on there but I eventually want to expand and go to crafts shows and maybe one of these days opening up my own brick and mortar shop. 

So with my business being at home it gives me an opportunity to be able to spend time with my son, I have a choice on when I want to work and I can always stop and spend time with him.  I do not have any deadlines because I am going at my own pace.  I am finally in a happy place in my life, busy, but happy     :-).

 I am looking forward to writing on my blog and sharing what I am working on currently and the antics of my son (and boy are there a lot!).  If  you want to visit my shop the link is....http://www.etsy.com/shop/ACarter85  Thanks for reading!