A Week of Firsts

I first embarked on this journey to have fun and get rid of my hobbies. I mean that in the best way possible. As fun as it is to play with yarn, you can only have so many scarves before they need to come off the crochet hook and onto someone else's neck. A little funny to remember this, "Early Halloween" post, not that it is Halloween. :)

As I build up my inventory they are carefully folded and stored in a nice little box in the closet. I don't know what will become of this Kwid Creations endeavor, but it got a whole lot more exciting this week! Because it is a week of firsts. How I feel right now:

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First 1st- Custom order. From my sister! She asked if I could make a tree skirt for her Christmas tree. It's a pretty big project and a little more complex than a scarf. But I am up for it and I am excited that she trusts me enough to do this for her. I should probably be a little more confident if I am going to sell my self as a successful person!

and my second 1st- ORDER. I logged on to Etsy this morning and saw I had a little [1] on my dashboard. I have learned the hard way that this can come from someone just favortie-ing or like-ing an item in your shop. So imagine my surprise and glee when I saw it was an ORDER. Like someone actually gave me money for something I made and listed.



Obviously I had hoped for sales, but how over-the-moon happy I am about it is a little surprising. And really fun.



Even as I type this I am grinning like a dumb idiot. I can't wait to get this order shipped and see what else is in store. (Pun intended)

Early Halloween

Remember Christmas in September? When Christmas comes early it's assumed to be a happy thing. When Halloween comes early, it's a scary thing.

A really
scary
terrifying
frightening

thing.



It looks like this:

Horrifying right?

I just dropped a bunch of cash on what I like to call "capital investment." For some time I've been toying with the idea of opening an Etsy shop. My Etsy evolution started like this:

1) Oh cool idea.

2) Wait, you can sell THAT for that?!

3) Other people telling me, "You could do that!"

4) To me telling me, "I could do that!"

To 5) never actually doing that. But I gave it really a lot of thought.

When I saw that Joann's had a huge yarn clearance, I gave it a little more thought. It would be a relatively small investment compared to what I had previously anticipated. And I thought it was time to take the final leap and make a commitment that would push me to start something.

Now I am sitting here in a living full of yarn wondering what I have done. It's this calmness between
"What have I done?" and "What's next?" I'm just staring at my crochet hooks. Hoping to have a Fantasia moment where I suddenly have 20 products to list.



Because right now I think it's just called hoarding.

In other news, Ross comes home from Utah on Saturday and I'm just so sure this is what he is going to say when he sees what I've done.

In the meantime, Ryan believes in me, and that is all I need.