Crafting and creating has been something I have enjoyed since childhood. Busy hands create a quiet mind. I have dabbled in all sorts of hobbies in my lifetime. Ive always been a bit of a homesteader, a gardener and I’ve always had a love for fiber arts. I’ve taught myself how to crochet, knit, paint, you name it i have probably tried it.

This story, OUR story all starts with a luffa though..

In the Spring of 2025, my saint of a mother-in-law gifted my husband and I a multitude of different plants to start our first garden together. If you didn’t already know natural luffas come from a plant. That plant just happens to look a lot like a cucumber start.. Long story short, we had a luffa plant take over our cucumber patch by the end of the growing season here in Indiana.

Me, being the crafty DIY girl I am, decided I’m going to make soap to put in some of the accidental luffa crop we had an overabundance of. Well… That turned into me making an overabundance of soap.. My husband and I decided we would make a business page on Facebook and he was actually the one who came up with our name, “Krafted with Kaos” which suits me and our business perfectly!

By this time its winter and making soap for our friends and family quickly snowballed into creating entire Christmas themed baskets that included our soaps, crocheted wash clothes, sugar scrubs, and room sprays. (When i say snowballed, I mean SNOWBALLED)

After Christmas, our orders slowed down drastically. I found I had a lot more time on my hands now after my day job and on the weekends. That’s when i found my husband’s late grandmothers sewing machine. A beautiful Janome Magnolia that I quickly fell in love with. I had very little experience sewing other than some hand embroidery pieces I had made or patching things here and there throughout the years. I piddled around with it and made some key chains, our daughter some clothes, our boys some laptop cases. Shortly after this I started thrifting for jean jackets, blankets, quilts & even pillowcases. Anything and everything I could give a new life to. I started adding crochet details to clothing or cutting up multiple different fabrics to piece them together to make a completely new item. I kept seeing Quilt Coats & Bags online and I decided to take the leap.. My very first “big” project was a quilt coat for my mother-in-law. I loved it, she loved it, everyone loved it and I was hooked.

Krafted with Kaos is something we have built that I hold near and dear to my heart. When this all started, I kept telling myself this isn’t going to go anywhere. You're going to make this page maybe get a few followers, a few sales and then it will die down and that will be the end of it. Just a Facebook page collecting dust and cobwebs. I kept telling myself that because I was scared. I wanted to be okay with people not loving my work, with failing, so when it happened maybe it wouldn’t sting so bad.

Fast forward to Spring of 2026.. I signed up for a few markets. I received rejection letters from all but one because I didn’t have a picture of my booth set up.. I had never done one of these I had no idea what to expect or how to prepare. For weeks leading up to it I would sneak into my dining room at 3AM while everyone slept to make as much as I could to fill my tables and shelves. I crafted, I sewed, I cut and I created. At that market I decided I wasn’t okay with failure. I wasn’t okay with not hyping up something I was working so hard on to build up, and I did. I never in a million years thought I would create an entire business, an entire website, or even sell things I create. I kept working and creating and here we are today!

None of this would be possible without the unwavering love & support from my family, especially my husband, Jacob. From keeping the baby/kids occupied, picking up all the random things I was buying from people online, building me shelving to store all the things he was running around picking up, setting up and tearing down at markets, all the way down to just appreciating what I was making and all my hard work. He has supported me and cheered me on from the very beginning.

Running and managing a business as a full time employee & mom of 3 littles is not for the faint of heart but I love this business and I absolutely love being able to create well crafted, one-of-a-kind items for people to love too. Thank you for being a valued customer. Your support means more to me & my family than you know!