My name is Eleanor and I am the one who is creating with my needles and saws.

Needle History
Honestly, I have too many hobbies. I have sewn nearly all of my life. My mama taught me to sew at a young age. As an adult, when I began wearing the Christian Headcovering, I decided to offer coverings for sale. Over the years I have done so off and on.

For a small side income with my sewing, I had also ran Covered4Him until I sold the site when I was too busy to run it anymore.  My children were very young then and I just didn’t have time.    The sister who purchased the website, ran it for a time, but then decided to discontinue it for her own reasons.

Mostly from here I just dabbled in a bit of sewing here and there and making veils for Etsy.

Where do saws come into this story?

In 2020, my husband and I couldn’t find a carpenter or handyman to make us a set of steps for the home we had purchased.   So my husband bought the tools, and I got to learn what I could about rough carpentry.  I had watch my Dad being quite the jack of all trades while growing up, and I felt like I could possible tackle those steps.  My husband and son dismantled the old ones, and I built some new ones.

This sparked a love of working with wood.

Because I am a homeschool Mama, the idea of learning woodwork to teach my children lit a flame within me. I began learning to use any many tools as I could.  I even learned some basic plumbing and electrical.   It saved money around the house and it was very thrilling to learn.

The woodwork is especially satisfying.  In using a trim router to carve signs and I have found that I just love that particular form of making sawdust. So I decided to add woodwork to my offerings available for sale.

I needed to move back to running a website of my own, as I had only been lightly selling on Etsy the last few years. So I decided it was time for some changes.

This new combined venture needed a new name. So I decided to create Needles and Saws YouTube channel and this Needles and Saws website. The youtube lets me share as I learn and this site lets me share what I make.

Other Hobbies

I also have a website for my photography work.

Yet another hobby I have is drawing and painting. That hobby I have no present intentions of making any websites for because my art is one area I don’t want that stress. It is a protected outlet for me.

I told y’all that I have too many hobbies!

I will share the links to the various socials and sites below. 

Youtube

I also started a youtube channel  for reasons of faith and to talk about headcoverings, as well as being a Christian wife and mama.

RadicallyforJesus:
https://www.youtube.com/user/radicallyforjesus

Needles and Saws:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqmPrtaCi02ssUvnvKe7WEw

Etsy

I do currently still list on here for both headcoverings, and a some of the woodworking signs.  I have a bit of the digital photography on there as well.
https://radicallyforjesus.etsy.com

My photography website
www.focusonblessings.com
I do have images for sale there and also I offer portrait sessions for those who are local to me.

My old inactive blog
https://radicallyforjesus.blogspot.com/
I keep it out there for the old articles.

Facebook
I do have a page for RadicallyforJesus and FocusonBlessings

Instagram and Twitter/X
I have accounts on both of these, but they aren’t used often and are more personal