With Sunshine started by accident. I had an interest in sewing but didn't know a bobbin from a presser foot and it didn't help that I didn't even have a sewing machine.

When my husband and I were visiting his grandmother and she was going through her junk closet and pulled out a basic model brother that had never even been opened! She told me she was going to get rid of it and knew that I had been looking into buying one, so she gave it to me!

How nice is that? That was probably the best gift anyone has given me, besides God's gift of my family of course. Anyways, I spent the next year teaching myself, through trial and error and LOTS of internet tutorials, how to use my machine to make clothing for my children and their cousins.

Then another gift of a newer sewing machine really changed things completely. I went from being limited to straight and zigzag stitches to being able to do all kinds of wonderful things.

Once I started using my new machine, I couldn't stop and I ended up making so much that I knew I needed an outlet that would allow me to sell my handmade goods.

So I opened an Etsy shop that I ultimately ended up closing because I became discouraged from no sales after a month. My husband encouraged me to start another one almost an entire year later and we came up with my new shop With Sunshine.

I'm so glad for everything that's brought me down this journey and I hope there's much more to come. If you're interested in following along in the fun, you can find all of my social media sites along with my blog link on www.withsunshine.com.

~Allison