But WHY Engraving?

But really Why?

I get it! From a young Girl behind the desk in the District Court Office, turned Stay at home mom to venturing out in Network Marketing then years later starting her own business Engraving.

She’s worn a lot of hats over the years, like A LOT! 

The most important hat I’ll ever wear is my motherhood hat but it does really lead into why I started this business so let’s first rewind!! 

I became a Stay at Home Mom in 2015 after I went back to work for three weeks and it became alarmingly aware that with my epilepsy, still waking at night and driving 45 minutes to work it wasn't going to work for our family. 

That was when Keith was starting to need some help and we really had NO money to hire help. It was me, some family or the elderly men in our community who gracefully pitched in when I couldn’t.

Home is exactly where I needed to be, helping out in the home, caring for our kids and being on call for the farmer. 

I always felt like something was missing though. Selfishly maybe I wasn’t ready to give up working all together.

Here's where I started bridging the gap!

In 2016 I dabbled in a wellness business online, made NO money and it really put an awful taste in my mouth for network marketing! 

I mean who hasn't had a "bad" experience with network marketing!

So I silently quit, felt a little ashamed that it didn’t work out and then proceeded with all the other duties and then we had our second kid! 

After experiencing immense overwhelm I knew I had to tread lightly with how I continued caring for myself and it felt like something was missing. The program I was doing before that I learned in my last business was no longer working. 

Here's where so much change happened!

Then something that honestly sounded too good to be true landed in my lap. Literally, I wasn't looking like I had before.

Once again it was Network Marketing, I was judgemental nancy and hesitant as heck but I was desperate as a mom of two for change my health habits so I blindly started another business. 

This time it was COMPLETELY different. 

This time, the ONE yes changed me for the rest of my life. 

It is where I gained so much knowledge about myself, healed my gut, started going back to therapy, created confidence, found my relationship with Jesus, felt I found my purpose again, cultivate community and started making an income WHILE getting to be a stay at Home Mom and help my husband when needed.

Exactly what I felt I was missing for several years!

So really WHY laser engraving? Why would I shift! 

I finally had made it but In 2024 I felt God pulling me out of a season I had been in for 6 years! I kept hearing God tell me there was MORE! 

After an intense, grief filled few years I had felt I lost that purpose. Things felt shaking and I felt I lost the purpose of why I started a business in the first place. 

That season was pivotal in business, big enough I wrote an entire blog on it! 

I felt I really needed a JOY business after losing myself for a season. 

I remember coming home from a soccer practice at the end of 2024 with an idea.

I can either go buy more engraved jewelry for myself to wear for my Medical ID or I can start creating it. 

Within a month I purchased all of the equipment, started researching and in less than three months I started creating jewelry, wood keepsakes, cutting boards, water bottles and so much more. 

The little nudge of God calling me higher has allowed me to serve a community in the wellness space and create meaningful pieces for people near and far.

It’s filled a gap in the community and it has filled my heart with JOY getting to be a part of so many stories already.

The thing is I’d never be in this moment right now if I didn’t take action 9 years ago becoming a Stay at Home Mom or if I didn’t join the network marketing businesses. Each season has shaped me into who I am today. 

It's built a trust, strength and confidence I cannot explain.

This journey has really made me understand I am unemployable.

Whatever is set in front of me can be figured out and that my time and home with the kids being this young is short.

That I am far more capable than I give myself credit for!

That I can either work for someone else, work myself to the bone or go out and create and cultivate meaningful busineses that will last a lifetime. So thats what I'm here to do!

If you feel God calling you into something MORE. It's your time to listen.

It doesn't need to make sense to anyone else, heck it may not fully make sense to you.

You do not need to have every single detail figured out.

Often times hope, joy and trust are just enough to start and creating a very successful business.

Now what is that idea you are sitting on?

With LOVE,

Ashley