Yea it has been forever since i was last on here i know! but so much has been going on in my life both good and a little bad but there are a few huge things. like learning finally how to spin. yay!
Which means by wool and spinning fiber stash has grown and i am not trying to sell a lot of that as well as my crochet items. i wish i had more time to chat but sorry have to run to clean more of the fleece i just got.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Erraven's Addiction
My heart sinks but i do not let the tears show, do not let my gaurd down. The pain that should not be their stabs threw my heart and soon i am i mess. I should have none better then to dream, then to hope. but i do not let it show i lie and fake my way threw to the other side.
Oh well i'll just keep my head down, my dreams closed, my heart locked away now as i throw myself into my work again.
Oh well i'll just keep my head down, my dreams closed, my heart locked away now as i throw myself into my work again.
Friday, April 8, 2011
Stash Monster
Is it something about me or is it every knitting/crocheting crazy person that has the huge stashes. Oh that stash monster has me in it's grips and wont let go. But i must admit not all the yarn is just mine and i did not buy it all. Though i am guilty of adding to it.
The stash monster i am now sitting in the middle of does not look to bad... that is until you count. I have over 200 different skeins of yarn. Yes i said over 200 because i have not done a count in some times. How did i get this much. Well most is thanks to my grandmother who i love dearly. She is why i started to knit. I saw her doing it at around 9-10 years old and wanted to do it to. Sadly she lived to far away to learn from her but another elder woman in my church was happy to teach me and my younger sister to knit.
But over time i lost interest and even when we went up to my grandmothers and helped her redo a room, her yarn room, none the less. She had bags... I MEAN BAGS. like garbage bags of unwanted yarn and we gladly took them and stored it not to see the light of day.
That was until i took up crocheting and needed the yarn. I blew the dust off the boxes and brought down four large totes of yarn cracked it open to find.... Some very interesting things. some yarns i think are older then me or my mother. Even ravelry has a hard time finding the yarn. But also newer ones that are now discontinued but look so beautiful it breaks my heart i can not buy more.
So yes I do have a lot of yarn, but even worse i can not help but make a weekly trip, when fam is out grocery shopping i go to the craft stores. walking around getting lost in colors, and feel of yarns. Fighting with my inter self not to add another skein to my growing stash but the idea of having a new color or brand, or feel to my stash brings me so much joy I just have to pick it up and put it in my basket.
Will this need ever stop... do I want it to stop... maybe not maybe deep down I am very proud of all my yarn and having the ability to just walk up stairs and get what ever my heart wants.
The stash monster i am now sitting in the middle of does not look to bad... that is until you count. I have over 200 different skeins of yarn. Yes i said over 200 because i have not done a count in some times. How did i get this much. Well most is thanks to my grandmother who i love dearly. She is why i started to knit. I saw her doing it at around 9-10 years old and wanted to do it to. Sadly she lived to far away to learn from her but another elder woman in my church was happy to teach me and my younger sister to knit.
But over time i lost interest and even when we went up to my grandmothers and helped her redo a room, her yarn room, none the less. She had bags... I MEAN BAGS. like garbage bags of unwanted yarn and we gladly took them and stored it not to see the light of day.
That was until i took up crocheting and needed the yarn. I blew the dust off the boxes and brought down four large totes of yarn cracked it open to find.... Some very interesting things. some yarns i think are older then me or my mother. Even ravelry has a hard time finding the yarn. But also newer ones that are now discontinued but look so beautiful it breaks my heart i can not buy more.
So yes I do have a lot of yarn, but even worse i can not help but make a weekly trip, when fam is out grocery shopping i go to the craft stores. walking around getting lost in colors, and feel of yarns. Fighting with my inter self not to add another skein to my growing stash but the idea of having a new color or brand, or feel to my stash brings me so much joy I just have to pick it up and put it in my basket.
Will this need ever stop... do I want it to stop... maybe not maybe deep down I am very proud of all my yarn and having the ability to just walk up stairs and get what ever my heart wants.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Erraven's Addiction - Whats going on
been a while since i posted and that is do to the crazyness going on here. I got my spinning wheel and Carders the middle of last week and so have been going mad over learning both new skills and it is so fun. I am suprised how carding is so much fun and i coulf spend all day dying wool, carding it and seeing what comes out. But in teh futer I might like spinning more.
Over that I made a baby blanket that should be in the store as soon as i make a few last touches. I am getting my stash all out and neatly put into a spot. Also winding up balls into cakes and snippets and ends. Maybe they too will end up in my shop. The tangled messes beyond repair are being cut down into flowers to be sold or used.
What else, oh yea and i am making three scarfs for mothers day two for my BF's mother and step mother and one for my own mother.
I got a lovely shipment of hand made soap off of etsy and once i can type it here i will be. I can never remember how to spell it off the top of my head but the soaps are amazing like always.
I got an order for some older supplies i was selling and shipped them out only to have another made to order go out on my hanging stork pouch - photo prop today. Stitches and Bitches was tonight and that is always a lot of fun. Watched my sister who likes the knitting more then crocheting learn to make socks and got to talk to a very cool lady who owns a whole stuidio of weaving looms, and spinning wheels just down the street from me. She was so nice teaching my sister to knit socks like she did.
Thats about it I am planing once my brother comes down and makes my lil pinkie all pretty to post pics and have a contest to pick a name for him. Crossing fingers.
OH and thursday get to go watch some sheep be sheared ^^ to later by their raw wool and hopefully sell in my shop. Hopping to talk more with this woman and try and learn a lot from her so one day I too can own sheep.
Over that I made a baby blanket that should be in the store as soon as i make a few last touches. I am getting my stash all out and neatly put into a spot. Also winding up balls into cakes and snippets and ends. Maybe they too will end up in my shop. The tangled messes beyond repair are being cut down into flowers to be sold or used.
What else, oh yea and i am making three scarfs for mothers day two for my BF's mother and step mother and one for my own mother.
I got a lovely shipment of hand made soap off of etsy and once i can type it here i will be. I can never remember how to spell it off the top of my head but the soaps are amazing like always.
I got an order for some older supplies i was selling and shipped them out only to have another made to order go out on my hanging stork pouch - photo prop today. Stitches and Bitches was tonight and that is always a lot of fun. Watched my sister who likes the knitting more then crocheting learn to make socks and got to talk to a very cool lady who owns a whole stuidio of weaving looms, and spinning wheels just down the street from me. She was so nice teaching my sister to knit socks like she did.
Thats about it I am planing once my brother comes down and makes my lil pinkie all pretty to post pics and have a contest to pick a name for him. Crossing fingers.
OH and thursday get to go watch some sheep be sheared ^^ to later by their raw wool and hopefully sell in my shop. Hopping to talk more with this woman and try and learn a lot from her so one day I too can own sheep.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
12 new learned trats in 12 months
Well i decided that I would learn twelve knew things this year and not just learning how to open a jar things. I learned how to crochet over the last few months and figured i would make the list i have so far of items i plan to learn and have learned and am learning to do.
Crochet
Advance Knitted
Sewing
Spining
Carding my fiber
Racing in a 5K
Tatting
Play Drums
Play piano
Play guitair
and the last two i wanted to be learning to make soap and candles but mom is not so happy about that one
Crochet
Advance Knitted
Sewing
Spining
Carding my fiber
Racing in a 5K
Tatting
Play Drums
Play piano
Play guitair
and the last two i wanted to be learning to make soap and candles but mom is not so happy about that one
Monday, March 28, 2011
OMG
So it has been a week and though i am no longer fighting with this green dot i am now fighting with paypal over more info needed it has already been a week and they keep yanking my chain. fingers crossed that everything goes right this time.
But in lighter new i am working hard on tons of projects and goals i have for myself. after joining a weekly group i have to finish a baby throw blanket today. and work on a surprise for my BF ^^ and maybe get around to the hat for his friend though hopping to hold off so i can give it to him in person so i wont have to charge or lose money.
I also should be getting my wheel any day now fingers crossed i get it soon. Though i need to take a trip to walmart or lowes for some paints. Wish i had time for a pole on what to pant it but oh well i'll think something up for him. Yes him i will be having a pole when he comes in for the name of the wheel but not till he is painted.
But in lighter new i am working hard on tons of projects and goals i have for myself. after joining a weekly group i have to finish a baby throw blanket today. and work on a surprise for my BF ^^ and maybe get around to the hat for his friend though hopping to hold off so i can give it to him in person so i wont have to charge or lose money.
I also should be getting my wheel any day now fingers crossed i get it soon. Though i need to take a trip to walmart or lowes for some paints. Wish i had time for a pole on what to pant it but oh well i'll think something up for him. Yes him i will be having a pole when he comes in for the name of the wheel but not till he is painted.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Bluh
Why... Why does bad days get worse? Today started out amazing i went to a fiber guild for the first time and had a wonderful time. I was on a high having been able to talk with others who did not bat an eye in includding me and being nice and being able to talk to others who injoyed things i did.
then i came home and was supost to be able to get money into my paypal account and bye my babe wheel. But instead i spent four hours fighting with green dot money pack and still do not fully have the money at my ready to buy my spinning wheel.
What would make it better i thought to talk to my bf about maybe him coming to meet me for the first time a bit sooner... only he acted like it was impossibale even after i offered to pay half his way down. Oh well i thought maybe i was being pushy that was until i just finished talking to him and the night he promised me he is now spending hosting a party with his friends.
I try not to be to needy i try not to be clingy and over bearing but when you promise me something then keep that promise. I don't know any more why does it seem one bad day becomes an even worse one like this... and today was to be my wonder day. the day everything went right.... oh well i will try to see the good in this too... but it is hard to right now.
then i came home and was supost to be able to get money into my paypal account and bye my babe wheel. But instead i spent four hours fighting with green dot money pack and still do not fully have the money at my ready to buy my spinning wheel.
What would make it better i thought to talk to my bf about maybe him coming to meet me for the first time a bit sooner... only he acted like it was impossibale even after i offered to pay half his way down. Oh well i thought maybe i was being pushy that was until i just finished talking to him and the night he promised me he is now spending hosting a party with his friends.
I try not to be to needy i try not to be clingy and over bearing but when you promise me something then keep that promise. I don't know any more why does it seem one bad day becomes an even worse one like this... and today was to be my wonder day. the day everything went right.... oh well i will try to see the good in this too... but it is hard to right now.
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