It Happened in France Crafts

Boy has a lot of exciting things happened in the past couple of months. First of all we found out we are getting to lead another ETEAM this summer, to Uruguay and my parents are leading the Jabaticabol, Brasil ETEAM as well. They have been wanting to lead a team since I went on ETEAM the first time in 2007, but church camp has always fallen in the middle of it. But this year ETEAM was pushed back a week and church camp was pushed up a week so it worked out that they are getting to lead. We are all so excited to be hearing in a few weeks who all of our students are.

Well I took a big step with my crafts a few weeks ago. I opened up a shop on Square Market website. I was so nervous to do so, but took the plunge and its been great. The reason I decided to do so is because I am making hats and all of the profits will got to Matt’s parents for cancer bills and gas they have to use to get to treatments. I don't think I mentioned it last time I posted; Matt’s mom was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in June, while we were in Chicago with ETEAM. She is doing really well, she had surgery the first week in August and started treatment later in August. She is now half way done with treatment, which is super because the first half was the very aggressive treatment and this second half is supposed to be easier and she is supposed to start feeling more like her self again. She has handled everything so well though and stayed on schedule with her treatments, she is such a strong woman and fighter!! So I decided to make hats that have a slit in them so you can interchange the embellishments and give them all the profit made from them. Its been amazing to see the response to them, people I don't even know have ordered hats from me, which led me to getting this website store. People can pay through square and I can ship their item to them or if they live in the Tulsa, OKC or Ada areas I can hand deliver them. Ill share the link and pictures of the hats at the end of the post. So with this new website I had to design a logo and that led me to being able to get business cards and I also started up a Instagram account last night for just my crafts. It’s all so exciting but nerve wracking at the same time. My family and friends have been so supportive in this new adventure.

We moved into our new apartment in October, we absolutely love it. It so much larger than our old apartment and in a great location for us! We are all settled in (except for the boxes of my stuff from college we brought home from Matt’s parents house a couple of weekends ago) and we still need to hang things. But we are loving living here!

Well I think that is all the exciting things that have taken place over the past couple of months. Stay tuned for updates on my website, I am going to be making some new products over Thanksgiving break. I am so excited for the Holiday seasons that are upon us!!

squareup.com/market/it-happened-in-france

 Those are the hat color options and the following are some of the flower options, pricing and more options are on here. 

Life Update

Whew, clearly I have not done well with keeping up with this thing. Life is crazy busy, pretty much all the time. Especially this past summer, we were so fortunate to lead another ETEAM this past summer, to Chicago. We had an amazing time, we had twelve students and were able to do and see a lot. We handed out over 15,000 flyers to over 9,000 houses, we also got to help with the churches Veggie-Tales Adventures, its like VBS but different at the same time, we were also able to help some local teachers get their rooms set up for the summer and serve them lunch, and we knocked out the ceiling of basement. We also got to do a lot of sight seeing and getting to know some of the local people.

When we got back from ETEAM three days later left with our church youth group to Arlington, TX for our mission trip there. We had a great trip there, we led a couple of day VBS's for a couple of apartment complexes. We loved getting to bond with the youth group!

Since then we have been working and starting back to school. I have been sewing a lot lately, making some burp cloths and rice packs, and in the weeks to come I have some more burp cloths, blankets, and taggy blankets to make. I so enjoy making things for new mommies to use with their new babies. I'm going to post a few pictures of what I've been up to these past few weeks.

Last week Matt and I started school....again. Hopefully this will be my last fall semester, I think I should be done in May. I meet with my advisor on Friday and I'm going to talk with him about it then. Matt has been working so hard, I'm so proud of him for going back and getting the classes he needs for International Missions.

I am going to try to be better at staying caught up on here, but I say that all the time, so we shall see.