http://fiberwitch.blogdrive.com/ Fiber Witch Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:05:00 PST http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2008. Crafts Spirituality Writing http://fiberwitch.blogdrive.com/archive/23.html Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:08:35 GMT I've decided I need to revise my goals for this year. For one thing I'm doing absolutely horrible at keeping up with my blog. Also, my boyfriend and I are now in the process of buying a house. So I have to factor in all the extra time and expenses for moving. It will be awfully nice to have a place that is ours. Finally, I can hang my pictures without worrying about putting holes in the walls. I can paint. I don't have to live with white walls any longer. On the other hand, my craft room will be tiny. Its the smallest room in the house. At least until we build the addition that we... (more) http://fiberwitch.blogdrive.com/comments?id=23 http://fiberwitch.blogdrive.com/archive/22.html Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:53:34 GMT More and more I am seeing the advantages of teaching. Right now all I want is time off. I would love to just stay home for a week and do my stuff. I dread coming in to work everyday. As a teacher I would have summers, Christmas, and Spring Break. That would be so nice. It would make up for so much too. I know teaching can be really stressful. But there are compensations. It would allow me time to focus on the Creative Center without having to go without a paycheck for any amount of time. The hours would be more predictable and shorter. I know I can teach since I've done it... (more) http://fiberwitch.blogdrive.com/comments?id=22 http://fiberwitch.blogdrive.com/archive/21.html Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:29:34 GMT I'm not doing so well on some of my goals. Namely updating this blog at least once a week. I'm getting there though. Getting into a habit takes time and planning. Every time I get off track I just have to remember to focus again and get back on track. Some of my goals are proving easier to accomplish. I have started my first knitting class and with it my first sweater. So far I have only had to rip it out once. The class is nice because it means I don't have to figure everything out for myself. If I have a question, I can just ask the teacher. That is a new experience for me. ... (more) http://fiberwitch.blogdrive.com/comments?id=21 http://fiberwitch.blogdrive.com/archive/20.html Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:46:51 GMT Its a new year. I know that traditionally people make resolutions at this time of year. I, however, have decided to make goals instead. I have 15 goals for 2008. 1. Finish at least 15 of my current projects. 2. Take at least 5 classes. 3. Teach at least 1 fiber class. 4. Write the business plan for my creative center. 5. Organize my craft room. 6. Have $500 in my savings account. 7. Pay off all my credit cards. 8. Make 3 sweaters. 9. Finish fixing up my loom. 10. Learn to weave. 11. Fix both of my spinning wheels. 12. Learn to spin on both of my spinning wheels. (One is an Ashford... (more) http://fiberwitch.blogdrive.com/comments?id=20 http://fiberwitch.blogdrive.com/archive/19.html Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:01:28 GMT I have plans to take classes in fiber arts. I want to take a knitting class, now that I actually know a little bit of how to do it. I know you're suppose take classes to learn how. But that is never the way I've done it. This will be the first class I have ever taken. Usually I teach myself what I want to learn. But with the plan of opening the Creative Center, I want to see what classes are actually like. Soon I want to start teaching my own classes. I have been teaching a couple of the girls at work. That is going well. In fact its going so well, that the last girl at work asked... (more) http://fiberwitch.blogdrive.com/comments?id=19 http://fiberwitch.blogdrive.com/archive/18.html Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:37:19 GMT My boyfriend often watches me knit or crochet. He says he would never have the patience for that. I have to laugh at him, because he does model railroads. But not the usual HO scale. Oh no, he has to do N scale, and complains that it is still a bit big. N scale is 1:160. I can barely see the little details that he puts so much time into. Yet he doesn't have the patience for needle work? I guess it takes a different kind of patience. To me its relaxing, meditative even. The repetative motion could almost put me in a trance. Or if I'm not in the mood to meditate or think, I can read... (more) http://fiberwitch.blogdrive.com/comments?id=18 http://fiberwitch.blogdrive.com/archive/17.html Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:18:30 GMT Well, the plan is not down on paper as yet. But I am getting there. I want to open a school to teach the old arts. Its going to take me a while. Right now I look at all the work that will have to go into it and wonder if I can ever get it done. I've decided that this first year of planning will be the easy part. The first thing I want to do is name. If I give the dream a name it feels more real. The problem with that is that I have a hard time coming up with names. I have a hard time with names in my writing as well. Some of the character spring into my head already named. Those... (more) http://fiberwitch.blogdrive.com/comments?id=17 http://fiberwitch.blogdrive.com/archive/16.html Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:06:42 GMT For months now I've been trying to figure out how I want to include my crafts in my life and what I want to do with my life. Sometime in the last twenty-four hours I figured something out. I've been thinking too small. I've thought of trying to sell my crafts, maybe an occasional class if I can find somewhere to teach. That is thinking way too small. I want to pass my love of arts and crafts on the future generation, even my generation. I've always dreamed of owning my own business. Today my mind has been going a million miles a minute with plans for a school or center or something... (more) http://fiberwitch.blogdrive.com/comments?id=16 http://fiberwitch.blogdrive.com/archive/15.html Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:24:47 GMT My life has taken so many twists and turns in the last two years. Two years ago I was all set to become a preacher and change the church and thus the world. Then came the realization that the church I wanted to change had more I didn't agree with than I did agree with. It would be easier just to start over. Of course all this took time. And by the time I reached these conclusions, there was a new man in my life and we were trying to figure out a way to be together. I was also studying religions and concluded that my beliefs were closer to paganism and Wicca than Christianity. In the... (more) http://fiberwitch.blogdrive.com/comments?id=15 http://fiberwitch.blogdrive.com/archive/14.html Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:37:10 GMT Lately I've been working almost exclusively on knitting. It continues to amaze me how well its going. I've always been able to pick up new forms of needle work so quickly, its like I've done it all before in a former life or something. But right now its knitting that I'm focused on. I have two projects going. A wrap for myself. And a Christmas stocking for my nephew. The wrap is over half done. I still have a couple of hurtles to it. I've figured out how to change yarn. The next thing is connecting yarn with nothing to tie to. The last hurtle will be adding a row to the side. I... (more) http://fiberwitch.blogdrive.com/comments?id=14