I’ve always been a go-getter. A hustler, if you will. Back in 2012 the goal was to make enough money each month to cover my car payment. I think it was about $300 at the time. I was making jewelry, keychains, wooden signs. I was even doing hair in my kitchen. Whatever I had to do to meet my monthly goal. In about 2014 I decided it was time to create my own website and expand outside of Facebook/PayPal. After about three years of that, I had to come to the realization that the website was not the dream I was after. When I made the decision to move to Etsy is when things started to come together. Slow and steady I climbed closer to my dream. I honest to God never thought I would be the breadwinner of the family. But here we are. 2020 is a wild ride that’s for sure.
I went to the University of Toledo for art and business. And, Yeah yeah yeah, of course I like making jewelry or I wouldn't do it. But making jewelry isn't only who I am. Above all I am a mother of the two most handsome boys I have ever seen in my years of living! There is a lot of things that you can become and un-become (or however you would word that). You can be a student, then quit! You can be a cook, then quit! And can go to school and become a teach. But you can not stop being a parent, so why not be a good one! Right?
..... If you were wondering.....
People sometimes ask me how to deal with the deployment. And well there is no one answer. Everyone handles life differently so of course everyone handles a deployment differently. Yeah we all might be going to the same situation but we are still totally different people. So instead of telling people what they should do I just tell people what I do. And I give myself tough love. I still complain and cry and want to be babied sometimes. But the conversation I have with myself in my head is Tough Love. When I am pretty much at rock bottom during an deployment, I image I am talking to a war widow!
Come again with your complaint....?
See, it totally changes your mind set because you may miss him with every bone in your body. But you still just miss him FOR NOW. She, whoever she is, missing him FOREVER!
Your friend, Aleisha Holloway
owner/makers/design
I went to the University of Toledo for art and business. And, Yeah yeah yeah, of course I like making jewelry or I wouldn't do it. But making jewelry isn't only who I am. Above all I am a mother of the two most handsome boys I have ever seen in my years of living! There is a lot of things that you can become and un-become (or however you would word that). You can be a student, then quit! You can be a cook, then quit! And can go to school and become a teach. But you can not stop being a parent, so why not be a good one! Right?
..... If you were wondering.....
People sometimes ask me how to deal with the deployment. And well there is no one answer. Everyone handles life differently so of course everyone handles a deployment differently. Yeah we all might be going to the same situation but we are still totally different people. So instead of telling people what they should do I just tell people what I do. And I give myself tough love. I still complain and cry and want to be babied sometimes. But the conversation I have with myself in my head is Tough Love. When I am pretty much at rock bottom during an deployment, I image I am talking to a war widow!
Come again with your complaint....?
See, it totally changes your mind set because you may miss him with every bone in your body. But you still just miss him FOR NOW. She, whoever she is, missing him FOREVER!
Your friend, Aleisha Holloway
owner/makers/design