New Line of Ombre Style & Hand Dyed Kitchen Goodies Lessons in Homeschooling

So when I decided that watching my kids leave for long hours each day on big yellow bus wasn't going to work for me, I had to figure out what would.  Trying to start up a real home decor business... real artwork for galleries ...mother ...cook ...clean ...and teach all at the same time can get a bit overwhelming especially if I don't utilize my time correctly PLUS I have a husband too and I'm pregnant. What I really wanted was my career plus to watch my children grow up. I'm selfish like this, I really don't want to share all the moments with other teachers. I want all those interesting comments and the excitement while learning all to myself. Maybe at some point they will make the decision to go to school and maybe if I feel they are mature enough to make that decision I will let them HA! But seriously I greatly enjoy my children and if your going to have a home based business with children running around you better include them OR ELSE they will find away to include themselves (and it might not be good). Yes it's a touchy subject and I don't talk much about homeschooling. I find it brings out the worst comments in people. Of course at times I want success faster and to produce more. I have ideas I can't do cause time will not allow it. But I have come to the understanding that I have other responsibilities at this point in life that can take over at any given moment. Someday my children will be grown and faster then I realize for sure, then I will have lots of time to myself to explore any given thing. 

Surprisingly children love to help lol and they are more capable then people realize. The work goes faster together and they learn valuable lessons in work ethic and technique.  Dyeing fabric is a process: You learn measurements, keeping a clean workspace, timing, proper steps to achieve the desired results and the beauty of seeing white turn to wonderfully bright fabrics. Listen some may call it child labor but my kids wouldn't take No for an answer.  They must help, they must learn but mostly because that's what they're programmed to do. They soak everything up, they want to be involved in what you do.  You can also tell when they're over it, after 3 hours of this my son deiced he wanted to make an animal trap and left. My daughter started using the spoons to play the drums. That's my cue to stop and clean up even if I want to keep going. 

Drum playing 

Dancing to some music right before boredom kicks in, this means his learning session is over

Even while silk screening the towels I let my daughter stand on the chair behind me and watch. My son loves painting plates and helping pack shipments. Sometimes they can't do certain steps yet but they can watch and they want to. I figured what's the point of staying home with them if I shoo them off each day to get work done? Ignoring them while home is pointless I might as well go to work and let them go to school. Plus they will get my attention in some terrible way if I do that. Do I always want them right under me NO ahaha.... But I'm their mother and they want to be close to me it's normal. For my family this business and this set up is very functional for us at this point. My husband works two jobs and this "extra" I make helps out greatly so it's born out of necessity and resembles nothing of a hobby. I work it as a real job along with my other real jobs and I lucky for me I truly enjoy it plus I'm my own boss!!

Soooo here is the new line of goodies that as a family we created enjoy from ours to yours..... available in my Etsy shop now.