Whimsidoodle.Etsy.Com: first post

Welcome to my blog. This is my very first post, so please bare with me as I attempt to make a go of this. I must admit... I've been holding out on joing the "blogosphere". I figured, "what do I need a blog for, everyone already has one, so at one point in time do they become obsolete?", but then I started to look at it differently and started realizing what a fun way to say what I want to say, show pictures of my work and my family and whoever wants to read it can... sign me up.

I left my job in December of 2007 to be home with my baby. Since then I have been piecing it together. My new tagline = "Piecing it together through a hodge podge of projects". I think that pretty much sums it up. In march I opened my very own shop on etsy - whimsidoodle.etsy.com. I've really been enjoying finding my creative side again.

Etsy is a fabulous community filled with amazing artists and more importantly very nice, caring and helpful people. Soon after I joined etsy I stumbled across the MaineTeam. A group of Etsy members who happen to all live in Maine and thought it would be great if they banded together and help promote one another. Check out the MaineTeam blog!

I should probably take this opportunity to introduce myself... everyone looks the best on their wedding day, so naturally........My name is Jennifer Payson. I am married to a wonderful husband and father, Jeff. We have two girls at home - my step-daughter Julia and our baby Kelsey (I can't believe she will be a year in July already!) Jeff is a phys ed and health teacher for k-8. Julia is a vivacious first grader and a phenomenal reader and miss kelsey is crawling all over the place these days. How fast it goes by!