Today is the 1st Blogiversary of A Jennuine Life. Where has the time gone? I thought I’d take this week to re-share my first post and some of my early projects, but edit the photos better and update any changes that have occurred. Sort of a best of (or worst – since I was still learning?) with fixes.
So, here’s my introduction post from August 20, 2010:
So, this is where I’m supposed to say something incredibly witty about myself and why I’m starting this blog. Well. Umm. Here goes nothing. Can’t promise witty, but it will be about me and why I’m starting this blog
I’m a 30-something mother to Arden, my adorable little girl who I love more than my arms can hold. I’m currently 34 weeks pregnant with my second daughter. My awesome physicist husband Dave and I have been married for 3 4 years. We have two black labs named Laser and Sophie, and three cats named Erwin, Otto, and Poe. We didn’t start out intending to have a menagerie, but between his cats (Erwin and Otto), my cats (Bailey and Frank), losing two cats (Frank and later diabetic Bailey) fostering a PAWS With a Cause dog (Laser), the PAWS dog getting “career changed” and we decided to keep the frustrating but loveable lug, adopting a friend for said lug (Sophie), and finding a discarded black cat (Poe) just before Halloween one year, stuff happens. I’m a sometimes runner and former (and hopefully future) marathoner. I spent over ten years training and teaching Muay Thai and while I miss how empowered and fit that made me feel, I really don’t miss the time investment or all the bruises!
I’ve been crafting as long as I can remember. I made doll’s clothes while staying with my grandma on her antique Singer. My mom taught me how to cross-stitch when I was little, and we sewed a whole bedding ensemble for my cabbage patch doll Krissy Lynn. Later Mom taught me how to crochet (which I’ve since forgotten), and let me go with her to her monthly craft group, and occasionally sit in on her weekly stitch gathering. As an adult, I learned how to quilt, and tried to start my own craft group where a friend taught me how to knit. During my pregnancy, my nesting instinct took the form of sewing and knitting, and I made burp cloths out of cloth diapers, quilts for expecting friends, and knitted like a woman posessed. After Arden was born, I made my husband and my brother-in-law “man slings” after Dave kept poaching my pink one. Now, I’m trying to begin a small business selling “simply sweet designs for tiny people” on Etsy.
My Dad was a home builder and instilled in me a can-do attitude. I’m not afraid of power tools, and am willing to try anything once. I’ve tiled my own bathroom, re-fashioned an antique window into a shadow box/shelf, made a rolling ottoman out of a drawer, and re-screened a sliding door to name a few.
I hope you find something I write here interesting, funny, helpful, or inspirational.
Gotta run,
Jenn
Congratulations on your first year!