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About Us
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| My name is Tracy and I am a stay at home mom of 2 awesome kids. Madi is now 6 1/2 and Braden is 4 1/2. My husband Ben and I are about to celebrate our 14th wedding anniversary, can't believe it!
Let me give you my life story is 100 words or less, or amybe more...
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| I grew up in the OC, yes, Orange County, CA, Mission Viejo to be specific. I graduated from Trabuco Hills High School in 1988 (It doens't seem like that long ago) I went to college at Northern Arizona University, NAU, in Flagstaff, AZ and graduated with a BS in Broadcast Production in 1992. After graduation I did what every graduate is expected to do... move back in with mom and dad. Did a little of this and a little of that, blah, blah, blah.
I met Ben is 1993, moved out to Phoenix in 1994 because we couldn't afford to live in So. Cal. My husband still remembers the day we moved in, Aug. 2, 1994, it was 114 degrees, he was thinking "I let this girl drag me away from the beach, WHY???" He was a surfer and grew up in Huntington Beach, his High School had a surf team. Anyways, must have been love!
I did a little bit more of this and that, but never really anything in my field of study.
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| In 1996 I went back to school to get my teaching certification and Masters. After graduating, I took a position as a third grade teacher in the Litchfield Elementary School District at Scott Libby School. Let me just say that they don't pay teachers enough! I loved the kids, but the other stuff I could due without.
Then along came Madi. She was born September 17, 2002, right on her due date. I took my 12 weeks off then went back to finish the school year. After that summer I never went back to teaching. I was now a full time MOM and I loved it. I started scrapbooking and love it! I have always had a very creative side (both my parents are artists). And two years later came Braden. Not much time to scrapbook now.
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| As my kids grew I got more and more into learning about photography and taking pictures of kids, well my own anyway. I started having friends ask me to take pictures of their kids. Light bulb moment, "I could do this and get paid!" I got my first Digital SLR and a few backdrops and started my own portrait business, and in fact I am still doing that as well, only on request. I do a lot with photoshop and creating custom collages and digital art posters.
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| And now, the current chapter of my life, I have started making my own personalized hand stamped sterling silver jewelry. After seeing a mom from my daughter's preschool class last year with her stamped silver necklace that she made, I wanted to learn how to make them. I wasn't easy to figure it out, but I did, with a few life lessons along the way.
As I made the jewelry, I found that people, strangers were asking me how they could learn to do this and where to get the supplies. Second big light bulb moment of my life, I should sell the info that I have acquired. I wrote the ebook, Finding Suppliers for jewelry stamping and opened my Etsy store on April 28, 2008. I started selling the ebooks and got more requests for items. Slowly I started adding inventory to my Etsy store to the point where I am now, busy, busy, busy. Now, as I continue to sell on Etsy, I have this site as well. Thank you to all my customer that have helped make my business take off.
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