Like most good things, this shop is the product of
love & passion.
When I was little, I wanted to be a veterinarian more than anything in the world. I loved animals and I wanted to be able to help them. I went to college unsure I still wanted to follow the doctor path, but I knew I had time to figure it out.
Spoiler alert: I did not become a veterinarian. I still love animals though! Several jobs, two marriages, a few deaths of people I loved fiercely, and three kids later, I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up. The painful lessons life has taught me make me value time more than anything.
In 2016 I left the corporate world that kept me away from my family for 50 hours a week and dove head first into full-time entrepreneurship. I figured I could build my parachute on the way down. In those first few weeks I often said I would go scoop dog poop and clean people’s bathrooms if I had to because I could take my kids with me instead of paying someone else to raise them Monday-Friday.
It is said when you are setting goals you need to identify what you want to move toward or move away from. I HAD to make things work because I knew what I was NOT willing to do any longer.
I’ve always been a maker of things. Someone who tinkers and plays. There’s a level of vulnerability when it comes to making something for someone else.
Ta-da! Look what I did!
There’s also the fear that the made thing won’t be well received.
What if they hate it?
But, any maker of things will tell you that usually their inner voice says, “Do it anyway.”
So you do. Er, I do, because I need to. And because I am lucky enough to be able to.
If you’ve gotten this far, I promise I’m not always this serious. I am always this honest. The world needs more raw/open/realness.
So here I am, risking being seen in all of my glory.
I hope you like what you see in my shop.
Thank you for stopping by!
Brittany Lammerts
