Welcome to my empire of self-love, inspiration and encouragement.

Where I hope to encourage you in and outside of the craft room, or if you're like me for

many years, beyond the kitchen table.

This is Beyond Crafting.

So we are here with Jennifer Maker.

Jennifer, you are one of the most amazingly supportive and encouraging creators in our

industry.

And I would like to know where did your journey begin?

Well, first hello, Holly.

And thank you for inviting me.

I'm so excited to do this with you.

So where did my journey in what began crafting or logging or running a business or what exactly

because I'm 51 years old right now.

I kind of have a lot of life experience at this point.

Yeah.

So, and that's what's so exciting about you is that so you started out crafting, but then

you've built this kind of empire and you have so many aspects to your business.

So tell me first, how did you get started crafting?

Well, my mother taught me when I was a little girl.

So I've always been crafting my whole life.

Now I wasn't always doing the kind of crafting I'm doing now.

Mostly I did like really nerdy stuff, like creating making costumes for Halloween or

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