09/05/2026
❤️ My Creative Kreations Story — Part 3
In April/May of 2016, life changed direction again and we moved to Pocatello.
By this point, Creative Kreations had grown tremendously. I had accumulated well over 10,000 ceramic molds, and as you can probably tell from these pictures... moving my business was no small project. 😂
I set everything back up and kept going.
But our time in Pocatello ended up being much shorter than we expected. My husband was injured and had to have surgery, and only about six months after moving there, I found a place back in Blackfoot.
So in November of 2016, we packed everything up AGAIN and came home.
Thankfully, this would be the last major move for several years.
Once we were back in Blackfoot, Creative Kreations didn't have a traditional storefront. Instead, I made whatever space I had work.
My garage became part of the shop.
My basement became part of the shop.
And eventually FOUR storage units became part of the shop. 😂
It wasn't exactly the beautiful ceramic studio I had pictured all those years before, but it allowed me to keep doing what I loved and keep the business going.
And then, in early 2019, I decided to try one more time.
Creative Kreations had a storefront again. ❤️
I was so excited.
I wanted it to be more than just a place filled with ceramics. I wanted people to be able to come in, create something of their own, spend time together and hopefully leave a little happier than when they walked through the door.
And for a little while, I got to see that happen.
The two little artists you see in one of these pictures are my granddaughters, painting ceramics in Grandma's shop. ❤️
That picture means even more to me looking back now.
Unfortunately, that chapter wasn't going to last very long either.
My husband suffered a stroke and was no longer able to work. At that point, I knew where I needed to be.
I needed to be home with him.
So I made the decision to close the storefront.
But I didn't close Creative Kreations.
I went right back to the garage, the basement and those storage units and continued doing what I had learned to do over all those years:
I adapted.
Looking back now, I think that's one of the biggest lessons this journey has taught me.
Creative Kreations was never really a building.
It wasn't a storefront.
It wasn't an address.
It wasn't even the thousands and thousands of ceramic molds I had collected.
Creative Kreations was something I carried with me.
Every time life changed the plan, I found another place to put the molds, another place to pour ceramics, another way to fill the orders... and I kept going.
And then came 2020.
And once again, life was about to change everything.
❤️ To be continued...