There's someone I would like to introduce to you today.
Keara and I met four years ago via our mommy message board. We both had become first time moms in January 2005, we were both moms-at-home, and we soon found out that we share the same birthday! When we lived in Texas, Keara and I lived close enough to each other that we were able to get together in real life to talk and hang out while our little ones played. She and her husband are two of the kindest, most generous, loving, wonderful people I know. I have so many sweet, happy memories of spending time with Keara's sweet family.
Just about two years ago, Miss Keara opened an Etsy shop to sell the handmade tutus she discovered that she loved creating. Her shop took off right away, but she recently had put the business on hiatus when they added baby number three to the family. She has opened up again with a fun new addition - glass tile jewelry.
Here is some more from Keara in her own words:
Hi! My name is Keara and I am a wife to my wonderful husband, Joe, and a mother to three beautiful kids. My oldest son is four, my youngest son is two and my daughter will soon be eight months. I definitely have my hands full!
I am most happy when I am creative. I think sometimes as mothers we can lose ourselves in the hustle and bustle of taking care of our families and we forget to do the little things that make us happy. This inspired me to open up my shop, Live Love Dance Boutique. This really makes me set time aside for my creative time. I started out just making custom handmade tutus and I loved it! I really liked the feeling of accomplishment when I would get the feedback of happy customers and see pictures of the tutus on smiling little girls. I took a break when I was pregnant with my little girl and have recently opened my shop back up with my fun glass tile pendents.
I offer both premade pendents with fun images or personalized pendents with names, words, quotes or pictures! Please come by and take a look around. If you do not see a listing for something that you would like, please convo me and we can make a reserve listing just for you!
When she started posting pictures of her creations on Facebook, I knew right away I needed one! I sent her a favorite picture of the girls, and look what she was able to do:
As you may know, I'm quite the fan of owls. My sister Emily is too, and so I picked up this sweet little guy just for her:
When Dacey turned three, Keara and her boys came to her birthday party. Keara gave Dacey a tutu from her shop and it has been one of Dacey's absolute favorite gifts ever! It has been through two moves and both Dacey and AJ have worn it a lot, and it has held up brilliantly:
This month marked a special milestone for SortaCrunchy - this little ol' blog that I started to talk about cloth diapering and raising babies hit the 500 subscriber mark which just fills my heart with humble gratitude. To celebrate and honor you sweet readers, I am giving away a photo tile pendant from Keara's Live~Love~Dance Boutique. All you need to do is pop over to her shop, look around at her lovely creations, and come back and leave a comment telling me if you won, would you pick one of the premade tiles, a custom-worded pendant, or have her create a photo tile for you? That's it!
Givaway will run from today (August 29th) through Thursday, September 3rd. Thank you for hanging out here with me, and thank you for shopping handmade and supporting work-at-home-parents!
