You are listening to episode 14 of the Simple Farmhouse Life podcast.

Today I'm going to tell my handmade story, how I learned to sew, when I started,

what kind of things I've made over the years and then do a little

interview with one of my favorite small shops that I've met over on Instagram and I'm going to have

him share his reasons why they've chosen to work

with handmade sellers and why they value handmade and artisan so much.

My name is Lisa, a mom of six and creator of the blog and

YouTube channel Farm House on Boone. Join me as I share with you my love for

creating a handmade home from scratch cooking and a little mom and entrepreneur life along the way.

I've talked about this a lot on my blog, but I feel like people get kind of hung up with sewing

and making things mostly because of over complicating. I feel like this

with a lot of things I really do. I am the type of person that just likes to get

things done and I don't worry about the details.

So with sewing there are all of these complicated terms and trust me I get

corrected all the time because I don't care about technical stuff. I see a dress and I kind of study how it's

put together and then I try to replicate it and I break every rule in the book. I don't really know how to do darts. I never

based stitch. I hardly ever press and I hardly ever use pins. I just like to do things in my own little way and ignore every pattern, every rule.

And if you're like that and you feel like you can't sew because you don't know all the technical

jargon, right off the bat here, I just want to encourage you that that does not have to be your story

if you want to start making things for your own home.

For me personally, I love Handmaid because I love that expression of creativity of taking something in a raw state and

transforming it into something useful and beautiful. This happens in the

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