My Very First Blog Post

Ok so I'm a little slow on jumping on this whole blogging thing, I just didn't feel comfortable putting myself out "here" until recently ~ I've taken the plunge on many new things recently so now seems like good as time as any! So a little about me ~

My name is Jen I've been with my best friend Matt for 10 years now (married for 6), we have a daughter savanna who is 5 and a son Gage who is 6 months and my studio mascot "Koala" (he's a cat). We live in Wyoming where the winters can be long and the wind seems to be blowing at all times - actually it's not that bad, people are pretty friendly around here and the air is nice and clean.

I've had a variety of different professions, from working at a big box store, managing a bar and restaurant to doing accounting for an airline, but once I had my babies I really wanted to be the one raising them during the day. That led to selling clothing on ebay fulltime ~ this went on for about 2 years and then one thing led to another - I discovered the world of altered art and mixed media and dabbled in that for awhile ~

I found my creative process again and my journey found me to making jewelry and using vintage pieces that may have been broken in some way to make other things out of them. I discovered Etsy and fell in love with the whole thing, I seen so many talented artists on there for many different things, it took me awhile before I felt "good enough" to share my stuff, but here I am making a go at it and hoping for positive results.