Awesome wife!

My dad had one of the smaller Lincoln welders (gas though, not fluxcore) was a GREAT little machine. There is a HUGE difference between running it off a 30amp 110v circuit and a 20amp circuit. I had a 20 amp in my garage and it never seemed to run as well as at his house. If I forgot and plugged it into one of my 15 amp circuits, it would weld REAL BAD and keep blowing the breaker (also had some lights on that circuit).
I would spring for a welder with gas and also go with a bit bigger one (run 220v out to your garage, yes, 2 separate 110v circuits, as ,long as they are off different legs... get a 220v breaker to put in the box and wire it up!)