I was just cruisin' down memory lane and came across this old blog post from 2009.  It made me grin from ear to ear. 

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​5/19/09

​This one's a doosie, I promise! On Friday, Grace's kindergarten class is dressing up in the form of what they want to be when they grow up. Naturally, when she told me she wanted to dress like MOD MOM (LOVE THAT!!!), I asked what she thought she needed for her costume. Here's what she said in list form....

1. jeans
2. white t-shirt
3. tool belt
4. dirty fingernails
5. stain on hands and arms
6. fake toenails
7. hair in a bun with a pencil stuck through it
8. sawdust on the jeans

It's really too bad that Little G doesn't know me at all.  

P.S. I'll have photos on Friday of Little Mod Mom Furniture :)

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Back in 2007, when I first started Mod Mom, I also started blogging.  I wrote about everything from dragging the kids to the lumberyard, to design features, to cutting bangs and regretting it. I'm going to be keeping the blog going on blogspot (it's like a life diary!), but I'll also post new blogs here on the website blog. 

In the meantime, here are some of my favorite blog posts from years gone past on blogspot.....
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My Welcome post from 2007
My job according to Grace
My typical day
I get by with a little help from my friends
ABC Kid's Expo 2013

modmomfurniture.blogspot.com

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​Kiersten Hathcock and her family moved to LA for her husband’s job. She had worked outside of the home in marketing for 10 years and was struggling with the idea of putting her kids in another daycare situation. She decided she would do whatever it took to stay home with her children. Kiersten tried being a shared nanny for others as well as doing some contract marketing on the side, but the work wasn’t steady enough. Kiersten also realized she was missing something very dear to her--a creative outlet.

Not long after, Kiersten started Mod Mom Furniture. Mod Mom would lead her to a Shark Tank win and many other adventures (and misadventures) along the way. Here is a bit of her story.

Why toy boxes?
Many houses in LA (where we lived) have modern, streamlined decor, and I started wondering where all of these families were putting their toys. It was not in plastic bins or toy boxes with cartoon characters plastered all over them. With that said, Shark Tank producers encouraged me to lead with the “we needed a toy box” story—and that was kind of true. We were always needing storage. When I looked online and saw there was only one mod toy box available, the light bulb went off in my head. I realized there was a market for modern-looking toy storage that would look good in any room of the house. The only obstacle was figuring out if I could build them.

What made you think you could build toy boxes?
I grew up in Ohio. My parents were both teachers. They told us—my sister and I—we could do whatever we wanted to do, that we had within us everything we needed to succeed.
We did not have a lot of money growing up because my parents were teachers. My dad was a weekend carpenter who made a lot of our furniture. I had no interest in it, but I think it made me less scared to try it out later in life. I thought, “My dad did this. I just might be able to do this.” So, I went online to figure out what I needed to do. I figured out what kind of table saw I needed and how I was going to put it together. I have a lot of do it yourself in me, and I credit my upbringing for that.

Tell me about the early days of trial and error.
Oh my gosh. They were horrible. I was such a novice. I was using the wrong nails in the beginning. I can’t believe the early ones I built are still together. With the first few toy boxes I sold I went back to the buyers a year later and gave them new ones for free. I truly felt badly for them.
When I was designing the Owyn Toy Box I would literally cut the top panel, draw the leaf designs with pencil until the point where I got the balance right, and then I would go in with the jigsaw and cut it. There were no paper or CAD drawings involved.

What was the timeframe between tinkering in the garage and your first toy box sale?
Too fast. I would say within the first three months.....................

READ  THE ENTIRE Q&A here.......
https://littlecolorado.com/blogs/news/interview-with-kiersten-hathcock-shark-tank-winner-marketer-turned-carpenter-entrepreneur-founder-of-mod-mom-furniture 

Q & A WITH KIERSTEN HATHCOCK: SHARK TANK WINNER, MARKETER TURNED CARPENTER, ENTREPRENEUR, AND FOUNDER OF MOD MOM FURNITURE
​March 14, 2018
https://littlecolorado.com/blogs/news/interview-with-kiersten-hathcock-shark-tank-winner-marketer-turned-carpenter-entrepreneur-founder-of-mod-mom-furniture 

LOUISAOHMYDESIGN - ITALY
January 20, 2018
"Meet Kiersten Parsons Hathcock"
louisamydesign.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/my-story-meet-kiersten-parsons-hathcock/

FURNITURE TODAY/KIDS TODAY
January 8, 2018
"Mod Mom Furniture Announces Licensing Partnership with Little Colorado"
www.kidstodayonline.com/article/549433-mod-mom-furniture-announces-licensing-partnership-little-colorado/

​DENVER BUSINESS JOURNAL
January 5, 2018
"Colorado furniture company inks deal to sell 'Shark Tank'-featured toy boxes"
www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2018/01/05/colorado-furniture-company-inks-deal-to-sell-shark.html
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