About

     Hello,  I am so glad you stopped by for a visit. My name is Nancy and welcome to my "Handmade with Love x2" world, which I am so happy to get to share with you. To tell you a little about me, I have been blessed by God to be a wife to a sweet guy I like to call " Mr. Handy" and mother of 4 amazing children (the youngest of which has special needs) along with being Nana to 4 beautiful grandchildren.

     "Handmade with Love x2" started out as the name I chose for the small craft business my husband and I started a few years ago to help supplement our income after we had decided that I would give up my full time job a to stay at home with our youngest son with special needs. I had always sewn and crafted and my husband loved working with wood and was quite the Do It Yourselfer so it seemed to be the perfect fit for us.  Soon afterwards though it really started to take on a whole new meaning for me. Going from a two family income to one meant we had to cut corners everywhere we could and even though we started our own business money was still very tight. However I was determined to dive in a make it work, after all I knew that me being at home was what was right for my family. Though saving money was a priority I did not want to sacrifice offering my family with (what I thought at the time was but soon found out wasn't but more about that in a different post) healthy nutritious meals and a home that didn't just look clean but actually was. So armed with some extra time on my hands (which I wish I still had) and full access to the internet, I set out on my mission to arm myself with a wealth of information which in turn is what set me on my path that transitioned my family from our old ways into our new handmade with love world.

Being Handmade with Love has become about getting back to our roots, by growing our own food and preserving it; changing the way we eat by getting rid all the processed foods we used to eat and replacing them with healthier versions of some of our favorite recipes.  Also we became more reliant on all natural health and beauty products along with ridding our home of all those toxic chemical cleaners I used to clean with. This journey has been an enlightening one and I have learned a lot over the past few years and I am learning more and more everyday. So stick around and join me as take you along for the ride as I share with you new recipes, gardening tips, craft ideas, DIY projects and whatever else I may learn along the way.