Coming Soon: BooBoo's Bags

Some of my favorite memories involve watching my mom create things with her hands.

For most of her life, she spent her days caring for other people. She was a nurse, a caregiver, a problem-solver, and the person everyone called when something hurt. She spent decades helping others heal, often putting their needs before her own.

To her grandchildren, though, she's simply "BooBoo."

The name started with her first grandchild more than twenty years ago and somehow stuck. Now everyone calls her BooBoo. Family, friends, neighbors—it's become part of who she is.

What many people don't know is that behind that nickname is a woman who has survived more than most people will ever see.

Years ago, our family lost my brother, Pat.

There are some losses that divide your life into before and after. Losing him was one of them.

Grief has a way of changing everything. It changes holidays. It changes conversations. It changes the way you look at the future. It even changes the things you do with your hands when the house gets quiet.

For BooBoo, one of those things became creating.

She started knitting and crocheting more. Not because she was trying to start a business. Not because she had some grand plan.

She simply needed something to do with all the love that still had nowhere to go.

So she made bags.

One after another.

Some while watching television. Some while thinking about her grandchildren. Some while remembering my brother. Some during long days when life felt especially heavy.

Every stitch carried a little bit of her story.

Every finished bag was proof that even after heartbreak, beautiful things can still be made.

That's why we're excited to announce something new.

Coming Soon: BooBoo's Bags

A collection of handmade bags created by a retired nurse, a mother, a grandmother, and one of the strongest women I know.

These aren't factory-made products.

They're handmade. One at a time.

Each one is created with patience, care, and the kind of attention that only comes from someone who genuinely loves what they're making.

But BooBoo's Bags is about more than yarn and patterns.

It's about resilience.

It's about finding ways to keep moving forward after loss.

It's about creating something beautiful from pain.

It's about honoring the people we carry with us every day.

For our family, it also represents something bigger.

As many of you know, Unfiltered. Unhealed; was created to tell the stories people are often afraid to tell. Stories of grief. Addiction. Survival. Healing. Loss. Growth. And the messy reality of being human.

BooBoo's Bags is another chapter in that story.

A reminder that healing doesn't always look like therapy sessions, self-help books, or inspirational quotes.

Sometimes healing looks like sitting quietly with a ball of yarn.

Sometimes it looks like creating something useful.

Sometimes it looks like a grandmother making bags while thinking about the people she loves.

In the coming weeks, we'll be sharing photos, stories, and the first collection of BooBoo's Bags.

We hope you'll follow along.

And when you see one of her creations, we hope you'll remember this:

Even after loss, there is still room for joy.

Even after heartbreak, there is still room to create.

Even after the hardest chapters of our lives, beautiful things can still be made.

Love,

Jenn Kelly 🌪️☕