Clean Slate Clean

For like, the billionth time, I am starting this blog over :P

Hey there! I'm Jess! I'm 26 at the time of this post. I am married to my best friend, and he's in the Army. We have 2 boys, ages 4 and 1 year. We also have a beagle named Buster. We currently live in Germany, which is where the Army has sent us. It's pretty amazing. Before this, we were stationed in Fort Polk, LA. We had a farm before we moved and I raised Nigerian Dwarf goats and Buff Orpington chickens. 

I love crafting. I started sewing during my senior year of high school because I wanted to make pouches for my sugar gliders. My mom had a sewing machine already, but never thought to teach me before, and so she taught me the basics. Then I started selling pet accessories online and to pet stores and was pretty good at it, but I was still in high school at this point, so my business skills and etiquette was something to be desired. 

Then I started picking up other crafts like knitting, which I never was good at, making earrings (just earrings haha), felt mascots, and crochet. I also love growing herbs and veggies, especially mint, can't live without my mint :3 

While my husband was deployed in Iraq and I was pregnant, I decided to get a rabbit. I didn't want to get a regular rabbit, I wanted a rabbit that could provide. Of course I didn't want to eat it, at least I didn't want to raise meat rabbits yet, but I found one that provide wool. English Angora Rabbits. I loved her so much. I have no clue why I ever sold her, but she changed me, and her wool inspired me to want to learn how to spin.

I bought a  kick wheel, but.. I couldn't exactly figure it out. I ended up selling it 3 years later, so someone else could enjoy it, but mostly because I didn't want it to break during the move. I ended up finding something else better here very recently anyway...

I was looking through a online yard sale type website, and found that someone was selling a spinning wheel, wool combs, hand carders, and a drum carder and the prices were unbelievable. Not like expensive, but super super super cheap and these came with lots of extras. Over $1000 (probably) worth of equipment for $250, plus I even got books and equipment to dye wool. I was sure someone else had jumped on this, but nope! and now they're sitting here, LOL but it's only been a few days and I did try it out. The person I bought the wheel from is coming on Wednesday to help me out and show me how to work this and get my rhythm. I just don't want to mess up any more wool! haha 

I'll be posting pictures in a bit of the loot and show want I have been TRYING to spin up.