Hey Marta – sorry I am just seeing this comment. We get most of our fabrics at online fabric store, and we’ve in the past, ordered a lot of them on fabric.com. I know this is vague, but a lot of this was from our fabric stash, and the links probably no longer work – I hope it helps!

Hey Meghan!

Thank you so much for your sweet words and question!

I must admit, it’s a hard one to answer. Like you said, there are always projects to be had, and things to be tweaked. There are always other things to be done too, so we’re not worried about running out of ideas. ;} I know we probably fall into the home category, but we do consider ourselves more of a lifestyle blog, so we would never move all in the name of ‘more content’. We dream up spaces because it’s fun, and we just so happen to have a blog. Not the reverse. That being said however, where we are living now, has never truly felt like home, { Montgomery – we moved here almost 12 years ago for Jamin’s job } – you can finesse your home as a retreat all you want, but sometimes the location is just never a good fit, no matter how hard you try.

Since Jamin resigned from his job, we like the fact that it’s kind of open ended as to what we may do next. Deep down, we still have quite a few ideas in our hearts that we need to sort out, but we can’t wait to see what happens next. So {a very long-winded answer to your question} our future is a little up in the air right now, and we’re okay with that. ;} It’s a vague answer, but I hope it helps.

Thank you again for “tuning in” and staying with us! ;}

I’d totally read that! Please! (I’m a few days late, but I enjoy this q&a a lot, thanks!)

Hey Courtney!

I have a secret slew of elves that hide in my closet that come out at night and clean the house, do all the projects, and write on our site. We have it made! JK.

Last year, it was just me, running the blog and doing homeschool. With lots of help from Jamin, when he could. I never cooked dinner ;} and I was exhausted most of the time. Both of us were.

It wasn’t always pretty, but we did what we had to do. ;} I was volunteering and spending so much time in the car, etc. with three kids in public school that it was really just a trade off of my time when we started homeschool. But that also meant we both worked most nights once the kids were in bed, and weekends. It was very tiresome, but very rewarding on both ends. First world problems, I know.

We just recently made a major change { https://www.thehandmadehome.net/2014/06/push/ } So Jamin {and our youngest, Malone} now join our ranks this year, full time. Something had to give, for our sanity and honestly, our marriage, and we’re thankful for all of it – the good and the bad. It will be a different dynamic for sure, but we’re doing this as a partnership and we couldn’t be more thrilled.

And guess what? I take baths and rest at night! {Cue angel choir} ;}

That, and loooooooots of coffee get us through the days. And I assure you, our house looked {looks?} like a small laundry bomb exploded most of the time, in all of the rooms, as well. ;} But we both work together now, so there’s basically two of us. I hope that helps. ;}

Hey, Karolina.

This is by design.

Bloglovin is a scraping site, which means they are taking our site and putting it into iFrames and stealing our page views. We wrote a code which bust out of the iframes. This is why you see our site open into a new window and lose your bloglovin bar. You can simply close our new window and the bloglovin page should come back.

To explain it further we are able to offer all our content for free because we sell ads and are paid per page view. If bloglovin or other sites scrape our site and steal our page views you can understand why that is a concern for us.

Hope that helps explain it.

Thank you so much for your encouraging, thoughtful reply. The funny part is that no one else seems to have an issue with my lack of involvement, just me! Ha! I know the truth that my identity is in Christ. Maybe if I hear it enough it will sink in!.

Hey Alicia!

Not at all! Thats why we kept it up for a few days ;} It was very trial and error for us, just forcing ourselves to do it. Jamin obviously knows more than me, but I’ve been pushing out of my comfort zones lately to do more.

We do have plans for a series coming up, so stay tuned! ;}