I’m Kelly, I’m so glad you’re here.
Hi !
I have always had a love for all things art and crafting. Now I want to share that love and experience with others.
As a mom of two busy boys and a wife to a hardworking husband, I shifted from a stable 9-5 job to explore new possibilities. After 15 years of feeling comfortable and enjoying my colleagues, I realized I wasn’t passionate about my work anymore. I decided to leave my comfort zone, become a stay-at-home mom, and pursue my creative side. Surprisingly, everyone I shared this idea with, including my husband, was supportive. Sometimes, a crazy idea isn’t so crazy; you just need a little encouragement to step outside your comfort zone.
Now my kids ask “mom what is your job going to be?”
While being a mom is a EXTEMELY important job, for me, it doesn’t feel like a full identity.
But is DIY-project-blogger a thing? Can I make things people want to read and buy?
The answer is short - I’m not sure yet.
I have a heart for helping, I was a darn good project manager, and I like to make people happy. I like to create, appreciate a good challenge and have always had an affinity for art, decorating, crafting and making things from scratch. Can I use these skills that might be hard to turn into a resume for a new 9-5, to create something you, my reader, will want to keep coming back to? Stay with me and well find out together!
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use it, the more you have.”
Maya Angelou
There are projects that go well, and those that, quite frankly, fail miserably.
We have all seen them, the Pinterest fails, and I am no stranger. I had an ambitious idea to take a large Ikea photo (you know the giant ones of a city everyone had on a large wall of their budget apartment) - and turn it into a beautiful crayon art masterpiece. I had never tried melted crayon art, but I had a vison, a very large vison. Fast forward to the epic failure that included hours trying to gracefully melt crayons with a hair dryer and the entire piece being sent to the trash. No photos were taken, I was too embarrassed, and on a tight budget I no longer had art for my apartment wall.
But peppered among the failures there are also successes - some of which I made many many years ago and still look at with pride at how they turned out - and that is why the process is worth it.
Truth is I have A LOT of ideas like that, many thanks to the wonderful world that is Pinterest. And for me, I don’t want to specialize in making one type of craft, which is why I haven’t made it as a craft fair vendor or Etsy shop owner yet. No, for me I find joy in the process. I relish in the excitement of seeing an idea online and figuring out how to do it, which either leads me to success or the aforementioned failure, but then I get to move on.
So why a blog?
I hope that I can continue to be inspired to create, and along the way document my processes - both the steps and materials used - and share them here. I want you to see that these projects are either possible, or various levels of challenging, so that maybe it can inspire you to give DIY a try too.
Interested in seeing the highs and lows of DIY crafting? Follow along as I see “can I actually do that” like I think I can? Because life is too short, and I have so many things I want to try - and maybe along the way I’ll find my next “job” and identity - only time and trying some DIY projects will tell.