New Year New Blog!

(Me)

By profession I am a seamstress, crafter, and believer in an open 

mind when it comes to customers and their special projects. 

Stitchouse, my company was started when my husband Ryan

and I decided to have a baby. It was very important for me 

to stay home with the baby and with the price of child care

being so high I would be working just to pay for it. Living in 

Lawrence Kansas with a Fashion Degree I had to get creative. 

Being a stay work from home mom has been great, but with 

Ryan in school and working a super cool, yet extremely low

paying job times have been tough. I have never found myself 

so broke in my entire life, but I have never felt so rich in love 

and happiness either. My new phrase is Broke, but nor poor.

So being the broke early thirties woman, wife, and mother I have

learned to get crafty.  We are on food stamps (which kick ass BTW)

and have learned to make certain sacrifices, but in no way would

I say I feel deprived of anything. I have a loving family, a beautiful

home, cuddly pets, fun friends and a fabulous customer base.

Money in the bank is the only thing I could possibly need. 

It's okay to struggle because it gives you perspective on what you 

truly need. Growing up with most everything I wanted this has been

an adjustment, but I am really learning the value of a dollar and

how to stretch it. 

This blog is about crafts, food, lessons, and all the other stuff 

I enjoy and maybe you do too. 

Let's get started...

Here's a little home project I did for baby Charlie with the help

(as usual) from my dad.

Yes, you may have seen something like this on Pinterest, 

that is in fact were I nicked the idea. They are the most 

coveted Bekvam shelves from Ikea that are only $3.50/pc. 

What I have done here though is applied them to a board 

three long and applied the entire piece to the wall. This 

was a sure fire way to A) get the shelves perfectly aligned

and B) to ensure they were screwed into studs for maximum

sturdiness! Not super tricky and I feel it gets the shelves

away from their spice rack looking (because they are) origin. 

I painted them a neutral salmon color because it matched 

the Charlie window frame picture gallery. 

On that note of sturdiness I have recently heard a sad story 

involving a 3 year old girl getting killed by her very own 

dresser falling on her. I took that as a sign to get large wobbly

objects like dressers and out TV stand bolted to the wall. 

We have just recently gotten a new flat screen TV (I know

I'm suppose to be broke right?! NFM no interest for 36 mo)

which sets upon an old yet quite lovely TV stand my dad

made back in the day. Because it is on carpet the whole thing 

proved to be a bit unstable if some sweet unsuspecting child

comes a walkin' and a rockin' and pulls the whole thing  down.

So I noted the small drill whole in the TV's plastic stand and 

screwed it to the wooden stand and then used L brackets and 

drilled it to the wall where the studs were of course. After 

getting a new drill for Christmas I was quite pleased to have a 

project to do! 

PRODUCT REVIEW:

Bosch PS20-2A 12V Max Cordless Lithion-Ion Pocket Driver

$60

I used this drill at the picturing framing shop I worked at and 

it is by far THE best drill I have ever known (and I have known

a few). It is compact, but man does this thing have power! And

it has a back up battery and charger. So you are never without

power. It is heavy duty, yet small. It is like Secret deodorant

"strong enough for a man...but...for a woman" 

Well folks that is all for now, but I'll keep it coming!

With this new year fresh as a daisy there's all sorts 

of promise here and with you. I will try my best to keep

you interested and coming back for more!

Ta Ta for now!