We Are Back!

It’s been a while. Not just for a blog but for A.R.C. To be honest…we needed a break. We needed time to re-evaluate, and we needed to just be a family for a while. God blessed us with ARC during a really hard season. One where the LORD knew we needed Adventure … Rest … and Community during a very specific season. He was going to use it to help us provide for our family, He was going to use it so that we both had creative outlets and He was going to use it to meet some amazing people. We were on board, with different definitions and interpretations of what that looked like but we were in. Mike saw the big picture.: a store front full of possibility. I saw a quieter outlet, one where I could write and help Mike create. We tried both and the truth was we were forcing each other into the other's vision.

It didn’t work…

So then we tried being content creator’s, trying to promote a brand and a culture: we wanted to live the ARC life, encouraging people to take a break from their busy lives to live a life of Adventure, Rest and Community. But for us to promote A.R.C. we became absorbed by the reality of producing content and we could no longer live the A.R.C. life. It felt off, it felt hypocritical, it felt inauthentic … it was not us.

So we stopped…

We shut down the site, we stopped social media, we decided to focus on our family and if A.R.C. happened it would happen.  We even had multiple opportunities to sell the laser and A.R.C. to the next small business creator … but in the end each sale fell through. So for about a year we haven’t really promoted A.R.C. We did some earrings at Tulip Time, but other than that: unless people knew about us we haven’t pushed for A.R.C. to happen. Interestingly, people have asked and wondered where we went. We continued to receive orders and although A.R.C. was not our primary focus it was still something we did and we realized it is something we enjoy doing.

So we are back…

We are different… but we are back. We relaunched the site to keep people informed and to help streamline sales. We hope to create blog content that is reflective and encouraging.  We will have some new things this coming year to share and promote but for now we want to say: Hello, it's been a while and we have missed you. If you have any engraving needs, let us know. If you have any creative ideas you want to see happen, reach out because we would be honored to help you. Until then, Happy Sunday! We are thankful for you.