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

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.

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.

Erraven's Addiction - Spinning

So after days of thinking i want just hand carders when my taxs come in, yes i have taxes coming back wooo hooo (it my first time) So I thought why not get a spinning wheel as well. And so i found and fell in love with the idea of the babe's Pinky from Woolery.
WHy get this ugly cheap item you ask? well here are the pros:
It is cheap so if i do not like it i can sell it and try again with lil money lost
i can paint it and decorate it how every i like and i .love being different
the woolery gives free shipping
it comes with three bobins, two lazy katies, and some roving
i asked around and it is not a bad spindle.
it is light and come with me when i go to spinning groups which i will be going to my first on saturday.
Basicly it was what i am looking for in my first spindle but as i get money this summer from my job i am sure i will be getting more... lol

Erraven's Addiction - Roving

The other week I bought 8 ounces of wool/alpaca mix pencil roving in hopes that i could spin this roving better then i had with other roving on my now beloved drop spindle and i went on last night to spin close to four ounces in one go. But not all of it so i thought with the little left over i would try dying it. But how would i dye it wait to go to the store in the morning for pro dying kits. Nope I did not want the hassle instead i spent a bit looking around on the net till i knew enough to try Kool Aid dying. it is safer then pro dying and easy on you and your wallet now yes i go not have the bright screaming colors but it was so much fun and still so pretty i will not use anything else i think.
For only a few bucks i can dye pounds of roving probably though the two i am working on and the one i did only cost about 50-75 cents each to dye. I used purple, raspberry red, and orange along with some viniger and old cool wipe containers. It takes about 6-7 hours probably from start to finish since it takes time to dry out the roving but i had so much fun so keep an eye out for either the roving, the yarn or items i make with my new hobby.
Next on my list to learn, carding wool, soap making, sowing. ^^ with prayers and grit I can do anything.

Erraven's Addiction - Whats going on

So i have not wrote in a day since i was busy making the baby blanket, washcloths, and baby booties. all of them so cute and i was loving the color but that could not help the mood i need to now vent out and writing has always been where i did it.
Few out side of my friends and family know that my boyfriend who is super amazing and suportive in everything i do. he being the reason i do the things i do most the time. i meet online. i know how odd and strange but it was all by chance and we were friends before he asked.
But today i just got to the end i, this being the first bf i have had for real, want that other person now the dates, and kisses, the sweet things so many take for granted. that many forget should mean the world from the sweet simple word to the hugs every moment to someone who can have that should always mean everything to them. when it does not think of all the people who can't do that with their loved one.

Erraven's Addiction - Whats going on

So hello to everyone after a very trying day yesterday i am doing good and feeling high on life. Yesteday everything was going wrong from taking apart my blanket to my dog destroying my yarn. But it is all good now and i am pushing forwards with all my new ideas of washcloths and blankets among scarves and other such items that i need to buckle down and make i need 60 items by aguest and god be with me to get them done.

Erraven's Addiction - Whats going on

So not much is happening here, just still working on my scarf and my pink baby blanket but i did how ever think up the idea of entering a ton of things in this years fair. as far as i can see from last year i am with my age able to enter both young and adult items for crochet. young has two things i can enter, afghan and other which is not hard for me seeing as i always have items laying around the house but the adult has like a few hundred sub catigories and so i can enter i think everything i feel i can do well in from my amigurumi to other sized afghans, hats and scarfs before i take the items and sell them on my site. someone might just buy an award winning items.

Erraven's Addiction - Whats going on

Hi everyone again. Seeing as i have a bit more time today thought i would get on and say hello to everyone and also that the item i made, the photo props came out amazing. http://posephotoco.com/?p=948 this is the site where the first, teaser pics are up of a lil boy being the first one in my baby cocoon that i made. is it not the most wonderful thing you saw! I am waiting to see all of them and how they turned out before i ask how i can get copys onto my comp to use for my selling of the item.
Also a great new idea i came up with is every friday or saturday i am going to spend at a coffee shop with my crocheting, i am going to take along extra yarn and a hook just in case. As i work on what ever i am working on at the time. I should work a lil on my sisters scarf... so i guess i have to go then oh well talk more later.
Also the contest will still be on as soon as we get those last four people.

Erraven's Addiction - Whats going on

Sorry for all the very slow reply's lately it seems like i have a ton of time but at the same time none at all. God has been so good as to let me always have someone wanting an item from me. From my first sales, (my mom and lil siblings) to a friend needing a hat for her to be adopted nephew, my sister wanting a scarf, a custom order over etsy, trades, or even the latest one two, yes two custom orders from a long time family friend who wanted photo props for her biz! I just finished them and that was what i was busy doing and so not on here. I out did myself making two custom items with a color she wanted, and I did not use a pattern. I did them with in 48 hours since today she had a newborn photo session and I was able to get them to her in time.
I was so proud of my self though i was a bit scared that there would be something wrong with them and that she would not be happy but at this point she said they worked great and since she loved them so much i am aloud to use the pics when i sell these items on my etsy. I am so happy and the moment i have my sisters scarf done I as always have so many things to do:
Dragon
washcloths
soapsaver
shawl
and the item i am glad of is the best I am making a baby blanket. With a mix of pattern i had seen and my own add ins. I am itching to start on it but will have wait. Can't wait till i have no time at all and have to take back orders or employ one of my siblings. With gods grace and my own hard work I will make it happen.

Erraven's Addiction - Whats going on

So after yesterday a friend contacted me to do not one but two custom orders for her i am so excited to get them started and done with now. ^^

Erraven's Addiction - Whats going on

hello everyone again so feeling a bit down today.... like i should be making more selling more making money not spending it >.< oh well. i don't have much to say today bye.