Brand New Year with Brand New Endeavors Posted on January 4th, 2012
Our family is starting 2012 with some exciting new adventures – art, designing, sewing, upholstery and essential oils to name a few.
Breezy is busy creating art, and it is always delightful to peak over her shoulder to see what is appearing on the paper. Emily Rose is juggling several different web design and photography projects — I can hear her fingers flying over the keyboard even now. Besides Rob’s regular work schedule, he has an antique car upholstery job to work on. Me, well, I am tweaking our menus to a more “normal” healthy diet. After going gluten-free 2 years ago and then last year going completely grain free, we are working back to more familiar flavors within a healthy, gluten-free diet. What I like to call the “new normal”.
This past November the girls and I started a new embroidery pattern business. It is a complete joy to work on together as a family. Breezy and Emily Rose both put their creative touches on the designs and then I get to stitch up the patterns and be the “textile manager”. Rob helps with delivery and is our biggest encourager. Clementine Pattern Co. was named after a great-great grandmother (and the fact that we all love the name Clementine helped, too). We will be adding more patterns throughout the year to the Etsy shop and hope to include tutorials & videos on the main website, ClementinePatterns.com. The fact that I love to embroider makes this almost too good to be true!
Something else that we are adding to our family this is year is using Young Living Essential Oils. After reading Stacy McDonald’s blog, The Common Scents Mom, and having actually used some that we were given, we were ready to try some more. So far, we are having wonderful results with the oils that we have been using – more about that in future posts. Stacy posted a great Natural First Aid Wall Chart that shows how she is incorporating essential oils in her family and getting rid of several over-the-counter medications. I already printed and hung up my copy so the whole family can see how to use the oils. We are all very excited to use more natural products and to get the great health benefits of the oils.
We did sign up to be a wholesale distributors of Young Living Essential Oils so that we could get better prices. If you are interested in placing an order through our account, our customer # is 1285966.
January 4th, 2012 at 10:22 pm
I haven’t read many blogs these days, so I had to laugh at myself after reading your post. I don’t think I’ve ever read a blog post that was so familiar! Sounds like another busy year at the Brookshire’s.
January 5th, 2012 at 8:21 pm
Oh Robin, I love hearing about all things your family is up to…I can just picture you all working busily in your home. {sigh}. I miss you all! :)
If I order some oils, I will definitely order through you – can’t wait to read the posts!
Love to your family!
January 7th, 2012 at 9:52 am
Wonderful! We have a few ideas up our sleeves that we would like to tackle this year as well, but seeking God’s guidance. So excited to hear about all of yours–praying the Lord blesses it greatly!
Many blessings…
January 9th, 2012 at 7:50 am
Hi Robin! Just found your blog through Raising Homemakers, although I’ve been reading your daughters’ blogs for a little while! Thanks for your great post today over at RH. It was great and very appropriate and reaffirming for our little family right now! Blessings!
January 9th, 2012 at 2:31 pm
Lovely! It’s so encouraging to watch you work along side your children and feel the joy that comes with it. Your embroidery work is beautiful!
Thanks for sharing and many blessings to you this new year.
Jennie
January 14th, 2012 at 8:14 pm
Excited about the oils and looking foreword to trying some new remedies. New to your blog and so blessed by you already.