Hi, it's me. I hope you still care.

Wearing Hope, my love and greatest accomplishment but also the thing that keeps me up at night.

I’ve never thought about a concept more than I’ve pondered Wearing Hope.

Sometimes I think that is super cool, and I love the passion I have for this career. Other times, I think “hmm, how can this be better?” But then again, I think that is still the passion talking, haha.

I’m 26, and I feel that I am in the beginning of my “good old days.”

I’m young and still feel newly married and haven’t bought a house yet, and my husband and I work a lot and play a lot too. We moved last year and its starting to feel like home but sometimes I really miss my college friends.

We love our careers and we care a lot about making others proud and making each other proud and making God proud.

Wearing Hope this year has had very high highs. I got my biggest project I’ve ever had this year and my first 5 digit sale. I really wish everyone could have seen me in that moment — I was actually beside myself and SO filled with gratitude. I will never forget it.

This year has also had some pretty slow seasons, where I have to adjust, and shift, and run ads (which by the way, work well haha).

My skills have become the most dynamic they’ve ever been, and I daily find myself putting my marketing degree to use and thank my parents for forcing me into business marketing (it was the closest thing to journalism that was still a business degree in my opinion at the time). I have gradually found I actually love copywriting, and use just about any excuse I can these days to be writing.

I write short stories in my free time that will never see the light of day. They’re kind of good though I think.

I am a bench jeweler, but I am also a business owner. I am business owner, but also a woman who loves to sew and cook and host her friends every chance she gets and makes 4 coffees a day and also who must sleep 10 hours every single night. I think daily about having a baby one day and how that will for sure be my biggest challenge I think. But I will get stronger then too and figure it out just like all the amazing mothers have.

What’s the point of this blog? Not much, just to check in. Say hey. Let you know that I think about all my customers and clients and friends 23 hours a day, and then I think about my hobbies the other hour, but mostly just about you guys. I hope I’m making you proud and that you still care about my business.

I’ve implemented a new marketing calendar, and its really awesome and truthfully I would love to sell the calendar and concept to other small businesses because I think it would really help small business who don’t know what to say anymore.

I’ve been there, and have had times where I think my next post should just read,

“Hey, I’m young and learning and would love if you could buy something or maybe tell me why you don’t buy from me, because I think you should and I’d love to adjust to make you want to buy something from me instead of Amazon.”

I bet a lot of small business owners would relate, and if you’ve never had a small business then maybe just picture a classic struggling artist because most of us feel that way sometimes. And then imagine how it feels when things start to really work for your business, because the busy times fill me up in a way I think no other career path could.

And it is so worth it.

I am better for it.

I love Wearing Hope so much, it feels like a piece of me and my heart.

I hope you still care.

Kindly,

Natalie