Why I Left My Previous (successful!) Direct Sales Company for Trades of Hope

Today is my 2 year anniversary of jumping into the Direct Sales world, so I thought it would be appropriate to share why I decided to leave my previous company (that I was making a decent income from) and join Trades of Hope!

I just want to put a disclaimer in here that I am in no way mad at or bashing my previous company. I’m not going to name the company out of respect, but those of you

We’re back with another camper update after way too long! We figured we should probably get these up before we start working on our new house here at the camp. We don’t know when we will be in that house, so don’t worry, we will be living in our camper for a while longer!

It’s crazy to look back at these photos and see what our camper used to look like! In the next photos we started painting, and it really transforms the place. In these photos we are removing the

Sometimes when God leads you to a door, He pushes you through it! We were simply looking for a place to go in Florida that would allow us to work in exchange for low rent, but we found so much more! We didn’t really have any plans when coming to Florida. Our main goal was to not get established in jobs or ministry in the North, since we knew that was not home for us. Our plan was to trust God completely in coming down to Florida, as we did not

The #1 one thing on our wish list for the next place we moved was a porch. This was before we decided on a tiny house–especially a camper. Unfortunately, our camper didn’t have a good awning. Luke didn’t want to try it out while we were up north and it end up not going back down, so we decided to wait until we got down to Florida before we really tried it. Well, Luke got it up in the first couple days of us being down here! The bad thing

Happy Friday! It’s been a while since we’ve posted here on the blog. It just so happens to be our very last day as Northerners, because we’re heading out on our camper journey down to Florida tomorrow! We’ve been staying with my parents for the last 3 weeks, and we are so ready to get down to the South and start our new lives (and get back to blogging more). The one advantage to staying in Northern PA has been seeing all the Fall colors. It truly is a beautiful

Happy Friday, everyone! If you haven’t noticed, we have been kinda MIA for the past few weeks. Don’t worry, we have tons of blog posts coming in the future! We have been so busy working on our camper, and we’re in the official moving out stage, so we really haven’t had time to write up our long blog posts.

Anyway, here is another Fair Trade Friday post! My mom wanted to model some of her Trades of Hope items, so she is going to be featured in this post! And yes,

I was able to spend the most amazing weekend in Nashville at the Trades of Hope retreat and training called Empower. I roadtripped down with some other ladies! We stayed in Dundee, OH with one of the ladies’ brother-in-law’s in Amish country and picked another one up in the Cincinnati area on our way down. This trip was…. wow. It’s taken me all day to write up this post because of how many things I could talk about with this trip. I feel like it would be a really long

Happy Friday! If you’re following us on Instagram, you would have noticed by now that I’m in Nashville this weekend! I’m actually attending the Trades of Hope conference called Empower! I wanted to sneak this post in from our Tuesday night adventure over to our local county fair, especially since I was sporting some fair trade jewelry.

Still getting used to the whole “modeling in the middle of public spaces” thing, but people were walking by making comments that we must be famous. Haha, maybe they’ll come find our blog one

Our camper update for today is about the floor in the back room, which needed to be replaced where the bunkbeds had been. Again, Luke is going to be typing this one up since he was the one who did all of this work! I did my best to take pictures when I could.

This project created a lot of trash.

I pulled/cut out all of the water-damaged parts of the floor. Once I had it opened up, I realized that a puddle had accumulated beneath the floor. I cut slits in

It was a crazy weekend! We headed up to Norwich on Thursday night so we could get ready for the garage sale we were having at Luke’s parents’ house. We sold about $100 of just our stuff, and considering that we were probably going to just take it to a thrift store anyway, that’s a win! We were able to put that money toward a new futon that will be going into our camper! (With the help of his parents–thanks!) Can’t wait for it to get here this week!

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