Truly Mama: The Tales of an Entrepreneur, Gentle Mama, and Wife

Truly Charis creates rich, bold and unique colors by striving to capture the colorful diversity of nature. From this, we bring you woolies inspired by nature with timeless style. Each year, we launch 2 color collections per year: a Spring / Summer Collection and a Fall / Winter Collection. Take a peek into our creative process.  Ariel and I begin by gathering color inspirations and creating color formulas in an effort to replicate the depth of these colors in our wool fabric. We combine both our knowledge and experience when developing our color formulas, but we do not always yield our expected results. Throughout this fun and exciting color-producing process, we find ourselves with more colors than we can select for our...

Years ago I trapped myself in an image of being a perfect wife, a perfect mother, and a perfect Christian with unattainable standards. I compared myself to all of the women around me with their well-organized schedules, well-dressed families and their clean homes. I compared myself to the snippets of beautiful images with witty captions shared on Facebook from women I admired. I read and re-read Proverbs 31 in awe of the descriptions of this woman (not realizing at the time that it was an oracle to King Lemuel from his mother even though it was in the first sentence)....