Hi Everybody! I’m Kendra and I blog over at Adventures of Brad & Kendra. I have enjoyed my time on Rebekah’s sidebar and I hope you have enjoyed reading a bit about me over the past few weeks. Today I wanted to share with you the story behind my blog and Etsy shop.
Brad and I got married back in 2006, on our first anniversary I made a photobook documenting our adventures from the previous year and named it “Adventures of Brad and Kendra Volume 1”. Each year since then I have made a new volume of the book. A couple years ago; Brad and I purchased a domain with the intention of creating a family website; and for a year and a half it sat empty. When I decided to start a blog I figured that these names would fit well considering the blog was going to be about us and our adventures.
My posts range from random family happenings, to DIY/craft projects and recipes. I find that my blog doesn’t fit into any specific niche; just like I don’t fit into many stereotypes that attempt to describe me. Here are some of my favorite posts: Craft Room Reveal, Vanilla Extract, Personalized Chair, Bathroom Stencil.
I decided to start an Etsy shop after perusing Pinterest for a year and discovering that I could make many of the things I liked. I spent a couple days coming up with names, I liked the idea of using my last name and one day while driving home it came to me – Simply {Darr}ling! I use the {} so people know the misspelling is intentional :) Back in June, I tore my achilles and spent the entire summer sitting on the couch unable to walk (you can see my mode of transportation here). One thing I was able to do while on the couch was make fold over elastic hair ties, so I bought some elastic and made A LOT of hair ties and listed them on Etsy! Since then I have added items like Scrabble necklaces, wine cork keychains, makeup remover pads, coffee cozies, chevron table runners, chevron infinity scarves and coming soon are baby burp cloths.
I have many dreams for my blog and shop. First, I dream to connect with my readers and have content that has them coming back everyday to see what the blog has in store that day! For my shop, I hope that people smile whenever they see the items from my shop. Also, Brad and I want to have kids in the near future and I would love to be able to use this as additional income to help pay for them.
Now that you know a bit more about me, I’d love to know some more of you! Come over to the blog, say hi and introduce yourself! I can also be found on Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest!
I LOVE getting to know all my bloggy friends better! Thank you SO much Kendra for being my first GLAMOUR Spotlight sponsor! I have enjoyed seeing all of your fun posts & items in your shop.
hey there! i just saw that we are going to be co-hosting the aloha friday blog hop together so i wanted to come by and say hi.
i love your first glamour spotlight girl, with a name like kendra she MUST be awesome! :)
have a great day rebekah!
Thank you Rebekah for joining our Aloha Friday Blog Hop, we are so happy to have you! Looking forward to get to know you better!
xoxo Pakize
Madame Keke
Hey… Just popping over and following from Aloha Friday. If you get a chance I would love for you to stop by my blog and follow if you like.
xoxo,
Melissa
thisgirlslifeblog.com
Hi there,
Stopping by from the hop, I love your blog and am a new follower :)
Hello, visiting from the Aloha hop. Awesome blog. I’m a new follower and hope you will visit my blog and hopefully follow back.
Best
Angel
nice blog. I’m a new follower and hope you will visit my blog and hopefully follow back.
http://fashionwithfitness.blogspot.com/