Monday, June 29, 2009

What a Navajo knit freak!

I was sitting there just a doing my thing and thinking of all sorts of stuff to do, well I was looking on the internet and seen some great ideas. Such as the felting projects that are awesome and wonderful, they start out with a knitted item that is so pretty, then they put the purse in a pillow case and put it in the washer, mind you it has to be hot wash. Then after the wash is done it comes out felted, beautiful and I have to say my kind of style, I just love to see other creation made through other people. Did you know that each and everyone of us has a gifted talent? That just surprises me and just think that we carry a talent that we don't even know we have? Think for a moment, we live day after day, not knowing something we have that we posess within ourselves. I did, and I'm finally sharing my talent with others. I am a born again christain and to me God has given me a special talent, He really has.

I know that when I start a project it all of a sudden becomes something that just blossoms out to where "this is not what I was thinking of", but there it is, a project from God Himself. He shows Himself through me, to me that is awesome to see that project that is so pretty and sometimes so beautiful then to see someones face light up at what you made is a great thing to see too! There nothing better than to see a persons day lit up from what you have made with your own two hands, it's something eles. I have been thinking of projects that would catch a persons fancy, so I look and research people, mostly the young girls and women that carry their purses around. Me, I would like to think that I am a hippy girl at heart, loving and kind to the world even though sometimes I'm a little looney tunes myself. The born again hippy girl, I am a simple small town girl from Moab, UT that seen the remarkable changes from being a little town to what it is today, a recreation for the yuppies town. I love Moab, UT then again I love WY, my town up there in the middle of no where in Wright, I miss it there and the beautiful area in Sheridan, WY. I know alot of people may think I'm crazy to think that way of a God forsaken place like Wright, WY. To me there in that no mans land that I really found My Lord Jesus Christ, He took care of me and I really depended on Him in that way.

That is Gods Country in Wright, WY.


This is gonna have a point I'm sure of it just bare with me knitting peeps, I was in church here in Kayenta, AZ at the SBC we sang a song that reminded me of WY. I remember that I'd listen to KSLT radio station they always played the recent christain music that I absolutely loved. I didn't care much for Rapid City, SD but the christain radio station was my station and encourager in my everyday life. Ya, I had a life changing event for my self, got divorced and became a single mother with my son then try'n to make ends meet with working out in the coal mines. Worked in differnt areas of the construction field and they were fun and a vacation for me, then met I thought would be my soul mate but I was wrong. My daughters dad, what a man, at times I think of him and wonder how he is doing? Then I think I shouldn't even go there in my thoughts. Cause he don't care, he says he cares but there are certain people that think they do, but they don't. I don't know if you know what I mean, but that is that. Besides that I got a beautiful little girl out of it, and she is my world and now I know not no one can take that away from me not no one.

As I knit away, all these crazy things come up to me that I try not to think of, especially the one that you miss that you know you will never have. So I always tell Jesus, "please Lord God let me not think of him, take him out of my head, please" in my own way of pleading with Him to do that for me. Then "Poof" it is displaced from my thoughts, then I continue to knit again, there was a point then I got off track, "lol". Ya see I'm a wierdo, when it comes to putting things down from my thoughts, there goes that crazy NavajoChic once again to her woo is me trip, "lol". That's okay we all have that emptiness inside us and we tend to keep it bottled up when we should tell someone or even the world. I'm kind'a still hooked on that "stupid boy" I have to tell you that I love that song by Beyonce "If I were a boy" what if we were boys for one day? "Scarey", you have to go on with life as it is and look toward the heavens and get the strength that you need, we ourselves have no strength with out a higher strong spirit.

Just go on, go on with your talent that you've found and forget the world and let God create in you the beauty that is within you . You may think that life has no meaning but it does and then again your life maybe perfect with a white picket fence and that's great! But know that it ain't all that cracked up to be, ladies, girls, get up and find yourselves, get woman power and overcome the ones that have you under their thumb. "Screw it" go on a vacation to Europe, hike to the highest mountain and scream as loud as you can (make sure to bring water), give hugs and luvs to all your families. Who cares if they think you're crazy, tell that someone you love them, even if they don't love you back. Don't get mad, get girl happy, go sky diving, go skiing, run like Forrest Gump, do something that will enpower you. For me it's simple I knit.



Sunday, June 28, 2009

Knittin 2day?

Not much to do today but really got going on the knitting part, what I mean is that my knitting gets going when I am upset. That is the relieving part of the craft is that if you are stressed or upset take the needles out and knit away. I have a 16 yr old cousin that stayed with me at my home and also my 2 kids, well, my day started out going to church and enjoy'n the time with God and family.

The time that we came home it concerned me that my cousin hadn't shown up last night, thinking that she was already home. That was not the case, she came home at 2:30 pm, she had left last night at 5:00 pm. Hello! No phone call? What the heck! I was upset, I was steamed when I asked where she was. Ignorance was in her court, just walked away with no response to the question, who does she think she is? Obvious she a teenager that is rebellious and ignorant in her ways, which hey, she's not my kid so what do I care? In a way I do, because I don't want any thing to happen to her, especially when she stay'n in my home. I do care that if anything should happen that I don't want to be the one to tell my aunt that something happen to her daughter, because I love my aunt.

I had to be the bad guy to confront her on the situation and she was not being respectful to me at all. Well, thank God I had my knitting needles there when waiting for my aunt to pick her up, I sat there and knitted away. Oh! That was, so just right for me, my level of being upset was down and calm to where I didn't care as long as I got my home back again. I got far on the knitting and so I was happy, I did talk to my aunt and we laughed and we talked. It was good, I enjoyed the time to know the reasons why and to explain the situation that was on hand. I hope that things will work out for that young soul, that she sees the respect is what needs to be in her life and not ignorance.


Let me tell you what when they left I felt a sense of relief and joy that the stress of having a teenager in the home was off my chest. When you are a single mother with 2 little ones it is tough to have teenagers and then to try to discipline them and get the respect from them. They don't have that, it makes me think of my little young ones that they are going to grow up, whatever happens I hope that I have done a good job at raising them. That it will show they are good wonderful kids, with my aunt she has many kids that she has to look after them, they are doing the best that they can. I'm just thankful that I have 2 kids, it makes me think that having many kids would be too much.

I don't know how they can do it? It takes love and patience to give to kids, even with my 2 little ones it is tough to be patient and to have that loving kindness for them. Especially tough when you have to love them and discipline them. I am not sure what many of you are thinking at the moment, all I have to say is that God and knitting go hand in hand. I pray that our lives will grow with overwhelming love and discipline.


I had that along with my sister when we were kids, my son, he shows me abundant love even when I am upset and angry in every situation. He makes me think that those little things to be upset over are nothing and shows me what matters most. He's my little blessing that God gave me reminding the love time and time again and also, I guess to rebuke me. Sounds silly huh? I have a little man that knows more than me at times and it is so funny to have that in your child, but in everyone of your children there is one that is the one that keeps you together no matte what.

I know that this is suppose to be about knitting, but this issue came up today and I thought to share the experience amongst those that love to knit cause we all have issues. Knitting makes all things seem, not so bad, cause of the clicking of the needles and the motion of the way you move your hands, it's soothing. I'm sure that ya know what I mean and that all have experienced the ups and downs of life we endure, now to my knitting peeps have a beautiful rest of the day and enjoy your knitting.


Saturday, June 27, 2009

My Knitting

Hey, you know that I have found a new found love in the last recent years and that is knitting. I love the knitting art, it has a combination of relaxtion and accomplishment, I have always wanted to learn the craft of knitting. It has always been the passion for me to learn or to know of, well, I kept hearing of certain people knitting and of all people Julia Roberts was one of them. That in a funny way stunned me that an actress loved to knit in her past time on the set, I heard one guy say that she had made a scarf for him. To me that was awesome to hear that someone so talented in the acting world has a hobby that she loves to do and shares her gifts to others. so then I felt sorta jealous that she could knit, kind'a weird huh? Actually it's stupid, but it made me want to one day learn this trade of a hobby and from then on out I wanted to learn how to knit. All I have to say is that I am thankful that the E! news people or whom ever I heard this piece of information from, I am thankful.


I was at the computer one day and I was surfing the web just a browsing, when all of the sudden I thought for a moment that maybe I could find something on knitting. Sure enough there was, http://www.knittinghelp.com/ what a great web site on knitting tools and patterns. I had no idea that I could learn this trade of a hobby, I was estastic with joy and anxious to learn, I looked at the videos that had to watch. I looked and looked to try to see if there was any thing to help me out, there it was a video on how cast the yarn to start out. Then there was the video on how to start to the knit and so on to the purl and all that other beautiful techniques to learn to do. "Wow" I am a knitter after all these years of being blinded from this great hobby and now I own it to try to do more awesome things in the knitting world.

You just never know until you try it and then "hey" you are a hooked, soul seeking more of the thing that you sought for. I am so thankful that this has become a part of me and that I can do more, well, the next lesson is sock making that has been the ultimate task on trying to learn and even with me I am not a recipe reader where you have to follow along. No, not me the same with the pattern directions can't get it through this thick skull of mine. But you know I try to read the directions on what the heck they are talking about, still I just don't get it, but if I can get through this then I will be the ultimate knitter just like the rest of the great knitters in the past. Anyways, I have a website that diplays some of my creations, the one thing that I bring to the table is the purses and the caps. In the website I also make jewelry, that is the next passion that I have to tell you about.

What a wonderful past time to do is jewelry making, I also had no idea that I had it in me to don this beautiful work. You know I suprise myself in so many areas, but again you never know until you try it. Yes there is jewelry on the website, it's theme is Navajo. Which makes sense I am after all a Navajo woman, I was taught this remarkable hobby trade from my beautiful cousin that lives in Kayenta, AZ. She is so patient with everyone in our family and with others, does not matter how they treat her she is so kind to forgive and go on. Anyways, she offered to show me how to start and also she so good at business and what works and what doesn't around the area. In the first day I had made 5 necklaces and then the next day made earrings and more necklaces. Now I am hooked with delight and want to do more to add to the creation site! Now I am going to go in to a little of myself and the business that we have.


I am a woman that has always worked all my life since I was 13 yrs old, and I am glad that I did. This time of my life the last year or so I worked at a coal mine in WY and then I quit to come home to be with my family and to be a mom/mother to my little ones. You know when you work at the coal or any mine it takes away alot of time from your little ones that you want so much to spend time with. I am a single mother that loves my babies, working in construction can bring good benefit to your lives and such, but man it takes that precious time away from the ones that mean more than that.


So in all that thought that I wanted was not what I wanted at all, there was that thought that I wanted to quit and be a mother and be a homemaker to my kids. I took that initial step to sell everything that we had and go south for the rest of our lives. What a transition to making the big dough to not having any money to spend except for the essentials for our living.

I made a wise investment on spending more valuable time with the kiddos, so then I spent alot of time just a thinking away and knitting alot too! One day I thought to myself that I wanted to get a purse. Not just any old purse but the purse that was unique and my style that I love, sorta hippish and cute with a distinct sense of a vintage look that is warm. Could not find it anywhere! I got fed up and decided to make a purse that I liked and wanted, so I picked out the color that I thought would suit me. Off I went to knitting my purse, I had no idea that I was wanting to knit more similar ones to it and selling them, then had the idea that I wanted to make felted mini hand bags. All of the sudden it turned another corner and jewelry making came into the picture! To let you know that this is a small business that is still try'n to get the word out to take a look at my stuff. I'll have to give you all my website address
http://dphknitcreationstuff.yolasite.com/ I hope you like the good stuff that I have and hope that you will take the time to see all that I made and maybe you can do or have already tried to want to have some encouragement. Just keep try'n to get it right and if you don't succeed the first time try again.