Why?

I would love to credit this, but I found it on a blog that did not credit it, and couldn't trace its source. If it's yours, let me know!

I had to ask myself this question when I started this blog: do we really need one more blog clogging up the blogosphere? Do we really need one more "pin it" button, or one more "DIY challenge", or one more person's opinion on EVERYTHING?

No, no we do not.

But when you're trying to promote a business, they tell you, "Start a blog." (I don't know who "they" are. Don't ask.) Apparently it doesn't matter what kind of business you have, there is a market for your blog. This amazes me. Do you make handmade marshmallow shooters? Write a blog! Do you give free advice about how to grow organic produce in our backyard using only your own compost? Write a blog! Do you create avant garde paint-by-number masterpieces? Write a blog!

Let me just say, I could not live without other people's blogs. I learned how to lower my grocery bill via a blog. I learned how to highlight and contour my face via a blog. I learned how to do my own foil stamping via a blog (which is so super exciting, and part of what my first post will be about!). But it still blows my mind that there is a blog out there for practically everything.

And here is mine. I have decided to use this blog as a challenge to myself to get out of my creative slump. After I drink multiple cups of coffee (seriously, I should have an IV), and after I homeschool my two crazy daughters (which I do through the help of another homeschooling mom's BLOG), and after I clean my house and do my (everyone's) laundry, and make PB&J's, and write Bible study lessons for our youth small group, and organize our next fundraiser, and fill already placed orders for invitations...somewhere in there I will create a new invitation suite.

This blog is a place for me to collect my inspirations, to show you (o, land of mythical readers) the process behind the creation, and to, OF COURSE, plug my business. Because let's be honest, there would be no blog if I weren't trying to grow my business.

So if you actually manage to find this blog and this page, and you don't feel like listening to me go on and on about 110 lb. card stock versus 65 lb. card stock, or die-cutting, or hand-foiling...just look at the pretty pictures :)