Welcome to Joe and Em’s Handmade Life in the Real World. We are two awesome people living in Colorado who just happen to like making stuff with our hands. We sew, bake, cook and attempt to make as much as possible ourselves. We have been living a semi handmade life for a while now and are trying to increase the amount of handmade work that we use around the house and in our lives. One of the joys of the handmade life is that you know exactly where whatever you are using/eating is coming from. The problem with living the handmade life is that you never have enough time to make everything that you need/want. That is where we come in. We are a busy couple with both work and school, and we are going to try and live a more handmade life. This means that we will be spending a lot of our time behind sewing machines or in the kitchen, but this is a sacrifice we are willing to make.

So what might you find at joeandem.com? Well from Em you will probably see a lot of posts about recipes that we have recently tried, orginization tips, craft projects that have been recently finished as well as most of the photos taken for this site. From Joe you are going to see a lot of sewing projects, probably some wood working projects and he is also a pretty good assistant in the kitchen. Joe and Em work together on pretty much every project and so there will be very few posts that don’t involve both of them.

Em’s posts will be showing up on Tuesdays and you can catch Joe’s on Thursdays. Stay tuned as we hope to start this little adventure soon. Oh, and once we get started any handmade items that we have lying around will be available at Joe and Em’s Five and Dime Store.