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[@Oldsoulfactory]

Thank you Momma for all you have done and continued to do. I cherish all of these crochet binding moments together. All of us kiddos wouldn’t change it for anything 🥹💖

[@CatCakeCrochet]

Stacy!! This video made me cry, I relate so much to everything you talked about. My daughter’s been sick for a few days and my house is trashed and crochet was on hold. I really needed to hear everything you said. I absolutely feel the guilt all the time, so I stay up super late and sacrifice sleep to try to get things done, and then beat myself up when I don’t achieve my goals. It’s so kind of you to put that positive energy out into the world. I love that your family was involved in your cloth diaper business and now you do the shows with Tara. You’re so inspiring ❤

[@Stacymakes]

Awww. You're doing great mama!! 🥰🥰

[@HighCliffCraftyCreations]

Quinn, sending you love and hugs. Hope you little one is feeling better.

[@ASquareGranny]

Stacy, you are a BUSY BUSY BUSY GAL!!! Maybe as an empty nester, I forget what it’s like to have so many irons in the fire…idk, but you are a MASTER. It was so fun testing your ADORABLE pattern for you…I hope to have the pleasure and honor again, sometime! I have some bigger yarn coming for Gordon! Hugs…☺️🫶🏻🧶 ~ Lisa

[@Stacymakes]

Thank you! ❤️❤️❤️

[@awestruckcrochet]

Stacy 😭😭 not me over here in tears after the mom talk 🥰🥰 I'm so glad you decided to leave that part in your video. We all feel this and sometimes we feel like we're the only one. It's nice to hear that it's not just ourselves. Gordon is so cute! Can't wait for the release date!

[@Stacymakes]

Awww. Sorry I made you cry but definitely know you are not alone!! ❤️❤️❤️

[@ASquareGranny]

PS…sharing you heartfelt thoughts was such a beautiful, brave, vulnerable, kind, generous, and thoughtful thing to do in this space! Thank you so much for putting yourself out there; I appreciate YOU. Your words really resonated with me. I’ve heard the quote: “The days are long, but the years are short”….ain’t that the truth?! I feel like raising our 4 is a blur sometimes, too. 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡

[@Stacymakes]

Aww thank you 🥰🥰

[@thecozybuckeye]

Thank you so much for the shout out! I love Gordon! I will definitely try him. Now, girl I loved your mom talk. We are so similar in so many ways. The parallels are crazy. What you said almost made me cry because those struggles were so so real when my kids were little & even now. I’m always struggling to be present & take care of myself. Sleeping, eating, exercising. Being a perfectionist at everything takes its toll. There are never enough hours, lol. I’m so glad you shared those feelings and I know it will touch a lot of people. I hope we get to meet up someday. 🥰

[@Stacymakes]

Yes we need to find a way! ❤️❤️ Thanks for watching! I didn't do your eyes justice on my first try but they were better than what I used to do by 100% lol

[@QuiltedCupcake]

Yes! Exactly how I thought.

[@Stacymakes]

@@QuiltedCupcake appreciate you! ❤️❤️❤️

[@ASquareGranny]

SAME, April!!! I truly feel like Stacy and April both are kindred spirits & not just because of our demographic closeness. We’re contemporaries, I think is the term? Regardless, both of you are ROCKSTARS. 💖

[@thecozybuckeye]

@@ASquareGranny You are so sweet!!

[@shannonoliver5414]

Love Gordon the Gator. Thank you for sharing your heart. My kids are grown now and i’m also retired from working but i can definitely remember what it was like to juggle all those things you talked about. Now i get to watch my grandson 2 days a week and it is a joy. Plus i get to knit and crochet almost as much as i want which is one of the perks of getting older. Good for you for all your hard work and dedication. 😊

[@Stacymakes]

❤️❤️ thanks for watching and sharing your story as well.

[@nathleyjohnson3597]

Hi Stacey thanks for the talk this is helping tremendously sometimes I feel out so I look at KZbin videos for inspiration thanks a bunch ❤❤❤

[@DianeBaird-h4f]

This was an amazing video Stacy..I am 70 years old..I have 4 children and I had an in home day care..some days I had as many as 13 little ones coming and going everyday..I decided to work some evenings and Saturdays at a small fabric store just to get some adult interactions..my children grew up and have often told me how much they resented the day care children..talk about guilt..I 75% raised 2 grandchildren..I worked a full time job at that time and was divorced..every single day on my way home from work to pick up grandchildren from daycare I prayed for strength and guidance and patience to be both mom and dad to M and K..we made it thru by the grace of my prayers..all of this is to say that even today I have guilt for things I should have done for them and I think I should have done better..thank you today 6/30/24 for sharing this beautiful reminder..we do the best we can at the time with what we have physically and emotionally..thank you.

[@Stacymakes]

Oh you're so welcome. 🥰🥰 Bless your heart for giving your grandkids a place to call home and feel loved 😍

[@bethferguson705]

Aww 🥰 Mama is the most important role. Loving yourself means giving yourself leeway to just BE. It's okay to ignite your soul. 🕊️

[@Stacymakes]

Yes 🙌

[@samsgrammy]

Love Gordon the Gater! I'll be waiting for that pattern. I can totally relate to the mom guilt thing! Your advice is right on! Wish someone had said those things to me when my children were little. Stacy, your transparency and common sense are refreshing and inspiring! Love when you speak from the heart!

[@Stacymakes]

Aww thank you for watching. ❤️❤️❤️

[@cheridefries4980]

Yes, yes, yes! Everything you said is so true, Stacy. My children are grown and now I have grandchildren. While you are in it the days are long…but the years are short. How wonderful of you to share your life with all the creative young moms. ❤❤ I love your cute gator with floppy legs! I can just picture a whole line of cute little shelf sitters in a nursery or playroom. A forest, farm, jungle, zoo, and pet group. 😊 I think a capybara would be a good candidate for this style, too. Thank you for a great video, Stacy! ❤❤

[@Stacymakes]

Thank you!

[@kellidixon4386]

I'm in my early 50s now, but at one point, I was a single mom of 3 putting myself through collage and trying to work FT. I can relate with things seeming like they were a blur. It was HARD!! Fast forward to now, my husband has been working on the road, my kids are mostly grown (two in their twenties and my youngest turned 18 but will be a senior this year) and I don't work now because I travel back and forth between my son and husband. He just took a job which will settle us in SE WI eventually, so that part will get much easier. I took up crochet last winter because I needed something to give my life purpose. I quickly fell in love with it and will do my first market in August. I have been building inventory and learning new things from all of you awesome fiber artists on KZbin. Your videos help me so much with knowing what to prep and how to stay organized. So THANK YOU, for doing what you do. You truly make a difference to so many. I am excited to try Gordon, and hope that you will make a horse pattern with that body. I have been looking for a horse in this price point that is low sew. Good luck, and thanks again!

[@Stacymakes]

Thanks for watching!

[@Watchin_ghost]

Thank you for leaving "that part" in! It really puts things into perspective. Thanks for that bit of wisdom.😊

[@Stacymakes]

Thanks for watching

[@katieduffy593]

I loved your 'super-long story'! And Gordon is adorable.

[@HighCliffCraftyCreations]

Stacy! This is all the feelings I am having the last year. My kids are almost 3 & 5 and as much as I want to crochet and show my kids how Mom can do it all and be a successful business person. I feel this stress of managing my day job, and having to be the appointment person, house person, ect. Since my crochet business is less than a year old, I'm still learning and when I am sitting on all these items, it makes me feel like failure. However, when my kids fight over who gets the next plushies or get mad when it goes for the eventual market I will get into. I get that sense of pride and it helps my brain slow down. Stacy, just thank you for that as I am crying at my desk I can't thank you enough for that motherly advice.

[@Stacymakes]

You're so welcome my friend. Keep on doing the thing! It's hard but rewarding! 💓❤️💓

[@krissi_kreations]

Thanks for sharing! Mom guilt, wife guilt, work stress, side business stress, balancing finances - I completely relate with it all!! We just have to do the best we can do with the time we’re given!

[@Stacymakes]

You betcha 🥰🥰

[@GoingCrochetzy]

This is so relatable and I am so happy you had you”ted talk”. I feel this and I think a lot of other people will get help through this

[@Stacymakes]

Hugs my friend ❤️❤️

[@cottontailcrafts1719]

I love the duck lovey. I need to try a lovey. I love Gordon thanks so much for letting me test him!! Another hit!

[@ComfortLoops]

Stacy were you talking to me because this hit so hard! I know you know I’ve been dealing with balance and this was the exact words I needed to hear! This was a special one and I will come back to it every time I am in the trenches with these little and trying to be creative. Love the gator pattern, can’t wait to make one myself!

[@Stacymakes]

Glad you could relate and pull from it, my friend. ❤️❤️❤️

[@camillescrochet777]

Well said. Important message to share. Alligator is fantastic!

[@Stacymakes]

Thank you! ❤️

[@QuiltedCupcake]

This video touched My heart. ❤❤❤. Thank you for sharing this important message. Mom life is hard and messy but also worth it. Wise words my friend!

[@Stacymakes]

Aww thanks for watching! 🥰

[@desertbloomcrochet]

Thank you so much for talking about mom life balance, that really resonated with me. With 3 kids elementary ages, part time music teacher, involved with my church, and trying to run a crochet business, it is definitely a busy season of my life. I have been questioning whether or not to keep up with everything, or trying to step back from the crochet business. But it does give me that calm and stress relief that is so needed. Thank you for sharing your experience.

[@Stacymakes]

So glad you enjoyed that portion ❤️❤️ Blessings ❤️

[@SimplyJayCreations]

I relate so much so much to everthing you were saying and I’m so glad that you keep it in. I am currently a stay at home mom and have been since my son was born and he is 5 now and about to start kindergarten and I have 2 others that are going into 5th grade and I am also watching a friends daughter 2 days a week now and finding that balance is very hard and constantly feeling bad about that I love to do which is crochet so thank you I felt like this conversation was a warm mom hug and thank you ❤❤❤

[@priscillahernandez2004]

😭💕 thank you for leaving the last part in, Stacy. I don’t have a small business but I’m starting to homeschool my daughter and have high expectations for my home 😢 it is a lot and sometimes I end up feeling disappointed in myself. I needed to hear every word you said.

[@Stacymakes]

Oh I homeschooled for 1.5 years in there too and finally had to admit I couldn't add that and work and be finally the other things. It felt horrible to "fail" but continuing was just going to fail them more and I couldn't do it. Best of luck in your homeschooling journey ❤️❤️❤️

[@priscillahernandez2004]

@@Stacymakes thanks so much 🥰

[@paulamarth]

Thank you…my cup is running low and it’s refreshing to hear that other go through it but that I shouldn’t;t let it and that I should find a better balance. I agree with the mind shutting down when crocheting, when I’m not crocheting all I’m thinking about is everything I have/need to do.

[@KelliRaabe]

Hi Stacy, I love, love, love Gordon the Alligator and can't wait for the pattern to be released! Wish I had him last week when I was crocheting for VBS prizes! I love your videos too and I watch Tara's as well!

[@Stacymakes]

Thank you for watching ❤️❤️

[@sk13507]

I love della the duck, the beak was super hard for me. OMG....LOVE that you shared your story and I know every mom go through it . Although I am in a different stage of my life now, I remember the time when I had a 9-5 job, then go pick up the kids, make dinner....etc. Life is crazy but we get through it. Thank you so much for sharing. Ohhh....I can't wait for Gordon.

[@Stacymakes]

Aw thanks for watching! ❤️❤️ Gordon is out now! 🐊

[@minini5571]

I love your new flat bottom babies! Terrific design!❤ Loved your message in this video…all of us have so much on our plates at any given time. Finding the perfect balance is a journey, for sure.

[@susiekeithahn1557]

I love your mama Ted talk! Gordon Gator is adorable. I’d love to see a deer. There really aren’t many.

[@Stacymakes]

Great 💡

[@belindaslomp1253]

I loved that you shared your story. My kids are adults and don’t live at home but yes do feel guilty sometimes that the washing not done or dishes but just need to sit and crochet in my happy place. It will still be there later! Unles I can teach the dog to help out. Haha. Have a wonderful day. And I love Gater

[@Stacymakes]

Thanks for watching ❤️

[@reginajeronimo758]

Yes! Yes! Yes! Exactly ❤

[@KelliHediger]

Gordon is a grand slam! Love, love!

[@Stacymakes]

Aww thank you! 🥰

[@christinarimas]

Super excited for Gordon!!

[@Stacymakes]

Thank you! ❤️

[@paulamarth]

Thank you…my cup is running low and it’s refreshing to hear that other go through it but that I shouldn’t;t let it and that I should find a better balance. I agree with the mind shutting down when crocheting, when I’m not crocheting all I’m thinking about is everything I have/need to do. Glad you kept it…excited for Gordon but looking forward to the pig…can’t find one I like.

[@Stacymakes]

Pig is done just need testing! It's adorable 😍😍

[@paulamarth]

@@Stacymakescan’t wait!!!! 😊

[@MyLuckyDucky1]

I can’t wait for the Gordon the gator pattern his super cute

[@HookedOnCrafts]

Love Gordon!

[@Stacymakes]

Thanks!

[@Monique_Monigurumi_designs]

Mom guilt is definitely a thing! I am just now in my late 50’s learning to take time for me and book withit

[@jennifergraham8963]

Can't wait for Gordon!!

[@Stacymakes]

He's ready now! Live on Etsy

[@stephaniecordova5218]

❤

[@nathleyjohnson3597]

Waiting for the gator release

[@MarketMakesByTricia]

Hi😃

[@KayOPella]

So excited about your new patterns! Would love to see a monkey with that body type.

[@Stacymakes]

Great idea!!

[@jeanneroser9762]

Love love love ur alligator! Gordon the Gator is adorable!! How can I purchase him or one similar in his color!❤❤😊🌴 P.S. I live in Florida

[@Stacymakes]

Hi, A completed Gordon plushie or the pattern? ❤️

[@jeanneroser9762]

@@Stacymakes completed. How much pattern?

[@Crochetma4life]

Im ready to buy the gator pattern lol

[@shaunawhyte6422]

Hi Stacy…you mentioned that the Premier Gumdrop is comparable to Sweet Snuggles Lite. Would I be able to use the Premier yarn in the same pattern where I’m also using Snuggles Lite?

[@Stacymakes]

I only mix the premier Gumdrop and sweet snuggles lite. The parfait chunky is too small with SSL in my experience

[@irene-joycejarrett5020]

A KANGAROO

[@lolasky204]

Too many commercials

[@Stacymakes]

I "let YT" place ads for me and you just mark a "level" of aggressiveness for them. I marked mid but went to check the ad placement they did on this one and they had 8-9 ads in this one video! Eek. I manually removed all but a few and spaced them out. Thanks for the heads up. Something will definitely look into in the future. 🥰 Other videos of the same length has far less ads, so not sure why they placed so many.

[@toschaferguson5749]

Thank you for your heart felt message. It was well received ❤️🩵💙💜