Good Morning Everyone:
My name is Chrystal and my boyfriends name is Matt. We have started American Made Photography and Gifts to share our passion for photography and crafts. I have had a love of photography for as long as I can remember and have always loved creating art in various forms. Matt has always be interested in photography and dabbled in it here and there. He has always enjoyed making things with wood (and fixing thing, very fortunate for me who is only mildly handy). It wasn't until I handed him my camera once on the beach during a sunrise photo session that I realized I would never get the camera back! I even went to school for photography, and he picked it up in minutes!! But we share very similar hobbies and that has been the driving force for us to begin to share the things we create with anyone who is interested.
We both love nature photography, and have a love for the beach, the ocean and fishing! So much of our inspiration comes from the ocean as we both grew up in a small town on the East Coast, and now live in Florida (talk about a perfect fit). We have begun to create wooden signs for our home (we are huge DIY'ers) and found that many were interested in the things we started creating. The first thing we have created was a coastal inspired wooden American flag. We wanted something that looked weathered and would go with our beach decor, so we finally came up with the wooden American flag that is now for sale.
We have actually had quite a few orders come in already. We love having a hobby that we can do together. Matt is the one who does the measuring and puts them together (I'm not really a fan of math...lol). We both work on wood burning all the stripes in the boarder and all 50 stars, and I do the paint mixing and painting. It takes quite a long time to wood burn and paint, but we are getting a little faster at it as we go.
We have two orders complete as of now and are shipping our first sign off to some great friends of mine who purchased the first flag! Two more orders are in the process of being completed this week! Quite exciting! It does take awhile as we both do this in our spare time and on the weekends. Matt is in the Air Force, and I work as a Convention Manager. So this is something that keeps us working together. There are tons of photography that we have taken over the last year here in Navarre, Florida. We are looking forward to offering our photography for sale soon.
It all takes time! If you are interested in any of our photography or our signs please let us know. As we get more inventory we will be working on setting up a website where you can purchase directly. Until then I will be posting some photography and images in our blog.
Everyone have a great Monday!
