THE CRAFTY SMITHS

We are Jeff and Kate Smith! We are a husband/wife home business specializing in heirloom woodworking, including CNC machining, laser cutting and etching, and all the hand-tooling you can think of. We started The Crafty Smiths in 2011 (we originally called ourselves JSK Creative Designs, but no one could remember it). We sold small crafts before investing in a hobby-grade laser cutter so we could cut out paper snowflakes and engrave simple wood signs. We discovered that our wood snowflakes were a hit! Those were the early days of our business, when both Kate and I had separate full-time jobs that we enjoyed, but wanted to find something to do in our spare time that could actually help pay for our hobby! We figured it would be great if someday we could quit our jobs and work together from home on a business that we created from the ground up... After 7 years in Phoenix, we made the move back to Washington state and purchased a home with a huge shop in the backyard. It took Jeff nearly..