Blue Hen Farm

Good Monday Everyone! How was everyone's weekend? I had a pretty good one. Saturday we began the foundation to the new addition to our little home. It was so exiting seeing something that started out as an idea in my head actually come to life. I love knowing that this addition will benifit all of us, and give us all more room to grow. We do all our construction ourselves, which save us tons of money, and allows us to take our time and build whenever we have the extra money to. I grew up as a carpenters daughter. I spent just as much time behind a scroll saw as I did an oven. I am so thankful for the things I learned from my dad. He was an incredibly creative, artistic person. He did not use canvas and paint to express his artist side but rather, any old peice of wood he could find. He could see past the old dirty lumber lying in a stack, and could transform it into and amazing peice of art. On one of our many fishing trips, he came accross some old oak lumber that had washed up on the shore. He took it home, sanded it down, made some table legs from cedar, and created a new dining room table. My mom still has it in her house, it so beautiful.
 For the longest time, I have been doing a little soul searching myself. We lost my dad almost 12 years ago to cancer, and that left a giant hole in my soul, I think. I have a great life and a wonderful husband and kids, but I still feel like something in my life is missing. Once I opened my etsy shop a few years ago, I really started searching for what it was in life I really loved doing. It has always been hard for me to stick with one thing. I will start creating something, get half way through it and end up hating it. I went through this cycle for about a year or so. I tried everything from sewing to selling vintage, but nothing felt right. I had always thought about selling jewelry, but it has been done so much and its so hard to stand out from the rest. One day I got this crazy idea to use natural material in my work, and it paid off, I was actually happy with the results! I'm now fine tuning my ideas and have began selling my work in my shop. I finally feel like I am doing what I was meant to do, and I feel so at ease when I'm working with wood, I guess it's just in the genes :) I guess that goes back to what I was saying about being so thankful I got to learn so much of my dad's trade. Most women never get such a chance, and I hope my work would make him proud if he were here to see it.