I’m Grace, the Curator and owner of Mywhiteporchshoppe I live in Kansas on a hobby farm of 12 acres, with my Husband and our four children. We bought our farm in November of 2013 and have since proceeded to gut remodel the whole house and modernize it both inside and out. We have done all of the interior work ourselves while living in it, and cash flowing all our projects. (Aka messy and takes forever) but soo rewarding to work and wait for what you have, Right?

In the late summer of 2017, I attended my Grandmother’s funeral in Florida I flew down by myself and my husband stayed at home and cared for our three small children. It was a hard and defining time in my life. I got some of my grandmas antique kitchen items and carried them on the plane back to Kansas.

On the flight back to Kansas, I wrote a whole pile of thoughts and ideas and prayers out and one of the ideas was to start a small business selling Vintage and antiques. At the time I had a growing Instagram page 10k followers (i’ll delve into that in a upcoming post ) it was a community of wonderful friends and I posted home and decor/styling.

I had cultivated relationships already and started selling small items on there. On our Farmhouse there is a Enclosed white porch that previous owners had enclosed when the lady who lived here, became too elderly to climb the stairs, turning it into her bedroom. Yikes! No heat and no air but a tight cozy place nonetheless, I turned it into my studio/shoppe/.

It has the best natural light and it opens up into our living room which was so nice when the children were little. We laid out a business plan 5 years at the time and committed to holding my business with open hands. Praying it would be a asset and never a hindrance to our family. And here we are! 5 years later…speaking of later….it’s bedtime here in Kansas and the orders are packed and ready to ship tomorrow!. To be continued… rest well friends!