I often joke with my hubby that when it comes to technology that I know enough to be dangerous and frustrated but somehow I am able to figure it out! A little bit of a delay but finally it is ready! My desire was to merge my website and blog into one spot. I started mamaroots several years ago when my oldest son was just a baby. I have always been a crafter, but it really was motherhood that allowed me to focus my crafting and desire to make things. Originally I was going to name my company "roots" but in talking with my good friend Lisa and talking about how it needed a little something more and then mamaroots was spoken- it has been with me ever since. Now that baby that inspired my company is up to my collar bone when he measured how tall he was last night and my second son turns 4 in just a couple months, but mamaroots it still just as much a part of my life.
So welcome to my new site- it will still look and feel like my original blog, but with the added bonus of extra pages that were similar to my website. I hope you enjoy it- I am excited to share it with you. Because I loved my first 2 years of blogging at blogger and think it is fun to see the evolution I am leaving www.mamaroots.blogspot.com up as an archive-
For the fun part- this is the first in a couple give-aways to celebrate my new move. As you may know, my last name is Willow (with hypenated hubby last name). Willow was actually not my last name by birth- but it was a name I gave myself as a teenager while I was discovering my spirituality. I played under these 2 willow tree sisters my parents planted at the farm where I grew up. On a good rainstorm it was the perfect spot to play a favorite game of pretending to be a beaver! As I grew, I still found myself often under these willow trees and knew that they were in integral part of me. A few years later circumstances led to me being able to legally change my last name to Willow- I can't imagine myself without my tree!
My first giveaway to you is a blooming pregnant mama sculpture from the Willow Tree company. I really like that simplicity of this companies creations, not to mention their name! They leave the faces without features very similar to the Waldorf tradition I craft in. This sculpture is called Cherish and I have one at The Womb Room that was gifted by my sis in law and I have been saving this one for a special time to give-away. This sculpture represents the roots of me, my name, my crafting, and my company- I would love to share it with someone.
All you need to do is leave me a comment here and you will be entered in a drawing. Enter before midnight on Sunday Feb 28- I will draw the winner on March 1. Good luck! Let me know what you think of the new site!
