01/02/2026
Happy New Year to my Whiskey Stitch family 🥃🧵✨
(Yes, I’m a day late… but would it really be me if I posted on time?)
Whew! 2025… where do I even begin? Baby, we have BEEN. THROUGH. IT.
• Kicked off the year surviving a 🏈Super Bowl season with record January sales! Thank y’all BIG 🫶🏼
• Celebrated 7 years in business and then barely survived 🍓Strawberry season. (Shoutout to Brett, SWAT medic, and Rachel for responding to my fall out, after I ignored self-care and overworked myself 🫠 Go me.)
• Also celebrated a record LOW sales month (hi, May 👋🏼)… but that came with the most exciting news for both my business and our family👇🏼
• May 28th, TJ loaded up the Jeep with our valuables and our sick puppy (fresh off a nasty surgical infection) and drove cross-country to our NEW HOME
• June 5th, Austyn and I boarded our one-way flight HOME… 🥔IDA-HOME ✈️ (but not before SeaWorld, a trip to Estero, a pedicure, and absolutely wrecking Mrs. Rachel’s life for 6 days 😘)
• July hit me right in the feelings. Starting my business over from scratch? 🤯PANIC. Marketing myself outside my comfort zone? 🤯🤯DOUBLE PANIC. But God always shows up; usually right after a mental breakdown, and this time was no different 😅 I didn’t miss Florida… I missed normal. Thank the Lord for a husband who knows how to talk me off the ledge and faith that carries me through.
• Fast-forward ⏩ to fall🍂 September = second record-high month (thank y’all again!). Homeschool routines tried to come back… and then promptly got bulldozed by holiday chaos, rush orders, cereal dinners, and frozen pizza. Some things never change.
•And now here we are… starting January 2026 with a sore throat and ear pain because ✨balance✨ 😁
Running a small business is not for the faint of heart. It isn’t built in a day- it’s built every single day I show up.
•Thank you to my customers, my friends, my family… and those customers who became friends and then family. Your support, ideas, patience, and trust keep this business alive. I may be the one behind the machines, but this business is built on ALL of us. ❤️