I'm baaack

It's me - the founder of Sh*t That I knit... figuring out what's next!

This is a picture of my first “office”/studio when I was just starting STIK! A blank canvas if you will!!

I realized the other day that I haven’t applied for a new job in 10 years. For a millennial, that’s a pretty long time! And that is because for the past 10 years I have had the great privilege, fortune, and luck to do what I love and chase my dreams. And today I sit here in front of a blank computer screen feeling like that 25 year old again - nervous to jump in the deep end. What will people think of me? Will they judge my rinky-dink new consulting website I built last night after I put my kids to bed? What if this doesn’t work out and I need to go find a full-time job?

But I am fortunate and privileged and lucky enough to have learned in the past 10 years to embrace that apprehension and discomfort. It’s when I am most uncomfortable that I grow the most and see the biggest rewards. I am looking forward to sharing those stories of discomfort and imposter syndrome with you here - in hopes that I am encouraging a new entrepreneur to pursue their new business. Or perhaps I’m encouraging a fellow mom to do something for herself in the face of dreaded mom-guilt! Whatever it is, I have learned to push myself in many areas of my life through the experience of starting a business and it pays off.

So this is me “applying” for a new job to thousands of strangers. I have 60k followers on Instagram - many of whom I’m sure followed for the Black Friday code - not me rambling on… but I’m hopeful that a handful of those will stick around for me. I uploaded our email subscriber list (it’s a scary big number!) last night end scheduled an email to go out this afternoon (ah!!). I’m jumping off the deep end and daring myself not to plug my nose when I hit the water (my husband will tell you that my sisters and I cannot jump off the side of the pool without plugging our noses).

Get that ^^ here.

I hope that I can continue to foster a community here of people who care about supporting female entrepreneurs, small businesses, quality products, vulnerable honesty, ways to stay motivated, stupid sh*t, and hard work. I am eager to start sharing again, to be creative again, to try something new and have fun with the imperfections! Whenever someone asks me advice on starting a business I say just START. It will never be perfect!! So I am following my own advice and just getting started!!

XO

Christina

I hope you’ll subscribe and stay tuned!!

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