Dear Friends,
Mike and I celebrated our 26th anniversary on June 4th. I wanted to do something special for him on the embroidery machine. I think embroidering for a man can be challenging at times. They don’t care for all the bling and fussiness of machine embroidery. After giving it some thought, I grabbed a hankie out of his drawer and decided I would put 26 to commemorate our years together.
The frame was built into my machine, a Brother 1250D as well as the numbers. I used wash away, tear away stabilizer and did the stitching with cotton thread rather than embroidery thread. I didn’t want the shine of polyester or rayon embroidery thread. I just wanted a subtle look.
He loved it! Mike is my biggest supporter and my best friend and I love him so much. We met and married in college. God has always been the center of our lives and I know it is because of that that God has blessed us many times over. That is not to say life hasn’t brought us challenges and difficulties.
2013 was a very difficult year with much happening in our lives. I’ve written bits and pieces about it in previous posts. Some things just can’t be written for public eyes but one of the many large events was moving across country. You know my words for this year have been “Forward Strong.” For the first half of this year that is what I have been doing. I’ve focused on myself and on being healthy which was much needed. I have focused on our home and the differences that life in Michigan has offered. I feel that life is much back in order, the way it is meant to be.
Now I find myself yearning for a simpler life. Now that there is order there needs to be calm and I need to embrace the calm. With that said, I truly want my embroidery business to get off the ground. It seems I run into stumbling blocks at many turns. I think that is normal though for new businesses and I’m not letting it keep me from moving forward. What I am doing though is letting it slow me down and now I’ve decided that slowing down is quite ok. I’d been finding it stressful because of the many ideas I have that I want to get out, the many digitized designs I have been creating and want to share and even sell, the newsletter that you have signed up to receive and have yet to get one.
Now that things are in order in my life I need to embrace the calm for a bit. Those designs will someday be available, the newsletter will someday get to you. I’m going back to my roots of just sharing what I’m working on with you and letting go of the pressure of getting the business started. It will happen and I look forward to it. Thank you for being here and sharing my journey.
I love you all,
Nancy