Crafting

So much crafting of fun , useful things to do. So little time most days.

I have learned how to do many things over the course of my life so far , but there is so much more I want to learn to do .

I started young with my grandmother on my mom' side attempting to teach me crocheting. My mother kept that going as time progressed. Mom attempted to teach me cross-stitch/embroidery (heh didn't like that one so much as a kid). In middle school/aka junior high we had Home Ec and Workshop classes. Want to talk about having fun... This girl sure did. Though I did have a slight edge in the baking due to my grandparents in general . I enjoyed watching and helping them cook and bake . I really got a kick out of making useable items like a bag , a metal box, an awl , plastic coin purse/change holder. As I grew older, I did more drawing and painting, but I had more fun getting back into working with yarn. 

And speaking of yarn, I'm still learning all the different types, widths, weights . The endless joy of it, while watching how it changes with brands and years, or for that matter animals.

I enjoy working with leather, to make an assortment of things like medicine bags, dream catchers, shields. I also have been attempting to learn bead-working, for those projects, as well as making jewelry. 

I've even been learning a little bit more sewing techniques for patching up my clothing, or other things .

Now back to yarn, and crocheting. Yes I've done some knitting, as well as loom-knitting. Don't be cruel, it seems easier for me to do the loom knitting than straight stick. I've even done some consignments over the last fifteen years . Mind you mostly small stuff, but still fun to make for people and see their smiling faces with the finished projects.

Alright might as well start at the beginning . 

As I stated in the About Me section. I was privately adopted. Now what does that mean, you may think.

Just like it sounds, but yes there were lawyers involved as well back then. No the adoption wasn't handled through an agency.

One person, that knew another wanted a child, knew a family member was pregnant but didn't want to have the baby, once it was born. So this parent-wanna-be saved up all their money for whatever was needed (lawyer fees ,clothing, formula). Interestingly enough when the time came, the teenager that gave birth to a baby girl, tossed that said baby to the soon-to-be parent' lawyer as if it were a plastic doll.

The new mother did everything that she was told she had to do, to keep the child. Went through with the visits from what's now called child protective services, and even went before a judge to finalize paperwork and such.

Adoption is the act or fact of legally taking another persons child and bringing it up as ones own or the fact of being adopted.

Now I must tell you , that I'm of Mohawk and Apache descent. Well there are a few minor things as well, but those are the two most notable. That being said the adoption took place around seven to eight years before the Indian Child Welfare Act became law. There are many sites out there that can explain what the I.C.W.A is but my short version of it is this. This act was placed into law to help keep the children within the families, and tribes/nations .