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Re: So many new faces...How bout an intro poll
Craft of Choice: Quilting/sewing, really anything with fabric
Craft you've always wanted to try: woodworking
Craft you fear: anything that requires me to follow a pattern
When did you start crafting: My mom taught me how to crochet when I was 4.
Kids: One son, 10 months old.
Pets: None right now, probably a dog within the next year or so (waiting to buy a house).
What do you do the 8 hrs you aren't crafting (ie your job): science educator
Craft of Choice: Sewing, crocheting, fabric crafts of all kinds really.
Craft you've always wanted to try: Quilting
Craft you fear: painting
When did you start crafting: I have been crafting as far back as I can remember.
Kids: two angels
Pets: two pups
What do you do the 8 hrs you aren't crafting (ie your job): Family and Consumer Sciences Teacher (Home Ec.)
Add these to crafts I want to try.
I'll play ... Not really new, but haven't posted/crafted in a while due to work, etc.
Craft of Choice: Sewing, DIY
Craft you've always wanted to try: Crocheting/Knitting
Craft you fear: Quilting
When did you start crafting: About two years ago, when DH bought be a sewing machine for Christmas.
Kids: One little girl due to be born on the 22nd.
Pets: One cutie, a 1.5 year old black mini schnauzer named Captain.
What do you do the 8 hrs you aren't crafting (ie your job): I'm a Toddler Teacher.
Craft of Choice: Scrapbooking
Craft you've always wanted to try: Knitting
Craft you fear: Furniture decoration/making, upholstering etc
When did you start crafting: When I was 11 and in bed for six months after a hip operation, my mum got me into cross stitch and paper tole as I could do them on a tray in bed.
Kids: Yes, one 20 month old son called Lucas.
Pets: None
What do you do the 8 hrs you aren't crafting (ie your job): I am a SAHM and Creative Memories Consultant.
Craft of Choice: Really anything crafty... But lately, I have been learning how to sew. And it is super addicting
Craft you've always wanted to try:
Craft you fear: Knitting
When did you start crafting: I can't ever remember NOT crafting
Kids: I have a 4 (almost 5) year old
Pets: We have a 1 year old black lab
What do you do the 8 hrs you aren't crafting (ie your job): I am a full time mom, and I also work at my family's forklift company. It's a small company, so I do a lot of different things there.
Craft of Choice: Sewing / crafty decorations
Craft you've always wanted to try: Crochet/Knit
Craft you fear: Crochet!
When did you start crafting: I always have since a young age, but after my wedding was over it picked up drastically!
Kids: None yet. Baby #1 is due in January
Pets:Two Cats, Glitter and Hendrix, and a white shepherd/yellow lab mix dog named Riley
What do you do the 8 hrs you aren't crafting (ie your job): I'm a hemodialysis technician.
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That's a bummer! I'm in AZ there are lots of jobs here, I think geology is like the only career growing in this economy (due to the metals prices).
Man, I'm late to this poll--sucks I can't nest at work anymore, huh?
Craft of Choice: Knitting
Craft you've always wanted to try: I've dabbled a little in crochet and sewing, but want to get better at both.
Craft you fear: Um, scrapbooking, I guess. Not so much a fear as I-just-don't-get-it.
When did you start crafting: I learned to knit at the tender age of 8, but didn't really get into it until about 5 years ago (20)
Kids: N/A
Pets: 2 cats, Arty and Branwen
What do you do the 8 hrs you aren't crafting (ie your job): Paralegal
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I lurk a lot, but I'm going to try to post more, so I'll answer this poll too!
Craft of Choice: currently it's quilting, but I also scrapbook
Craft you've always wanted to try: knitting
Craft you fear: painting. There's just too much choice when it comes to color and style, and not enough structure like you get from following a quilt pattern. Plus you can't really fix it when you screw it up.
When did you start crafting: Ummm... I think I was 18 or 19 when I sewed an entire outfit and crocheted my first blanket. But when I was a kid I used to "help" my mom sew by trimming the long threads.
Kids: nope
Pets: nope - not allowed in our apartment
Job/non-job non-crafty time: Circulation Supervisor at a local library. (I supervise the people who check in, check out, and shelve your books.) I'm also training for a 10k in October and a half in January.
Craft of Choice: Quilting, Cricut (Card making, scrapbooking) - although I haven't used the Cricut since I got a sewing machine.
Craft you've always wanted to try: Knitting
Craft you fear: Knitting, Sewing clothes
When did you start crafting: I used to scrapbook about 10 years ago, then I just started collecting scrapbooking supplies.
Cricut - purchased 2 years ago, Quilting - Nov. 2010
Kids: none
Pets: Carson, Australian Terrier - see siggy for pic.
What do you do the 8 hrs you aren't crafting (ie your job): High School History Teacher - so dreading the return back to school! I lose way too much craft time.
Craft of Choice: Quilting
Craft you've always wanted to try: Sewing clothes
Craft you fear: Sewing clothes
When did you start crafting: When I was a kid
Kids: 2 - Jared (3) & Jake (15 mos)
Pets: 3 dogs - Brody, Battie & Ginger
What do you do the 8 hrs you aren't crafting (ie your job): full-time SAHM, part-time I am a wedding planner & own my own business
Craft of Choice: cardmaking, sewing, baking(I ROCK cupcakes)
Craft you've always wanted to try: knit/crochet
Craft you fear: painting, refinishing furniture (gotta get over that quick, I've got an ugly rocking chair sitting in my living room!)
When did you start crafting: i've always been creative, but got into it more in the past few years.
Kids: NONE!
Pets: a silly Boston Terrier (Baylee) and the sweetest Akita (Kuma) on the planet
What do you do the 8 hrs you aren't crafting (ie your job): I'm a veterinary technician cats,dogs,rabbits,hamsters,guinea pigs,ferrets. SAX, I'd love to have your job!!!!
Craft of Choice: quilting, but sewing is close behind
Craft you've always wanted to try: scrapbooking
Craft you fear: nothing I can think of
When did you start crafting: on and off when I was younger, but seriously for the past year and a half
Kids: none now, but hopefully one very soon
Pets: two dogs- Molly (Jack Russell/Spaniel mix) and Ella (long hair miniature dachshund)
What do you do the 8 hrs you aren't crafting (ie your job): 7th grade history teacher
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Craft you've always wanted to try: sewing!
Craft you fear: sewing! haha
When did you start crafting: 4 years ago when I became a single mom, needed something to do to prevent the lonely
Kids: DD6, DS4, SO has DS9 and DD8
Pets: 3 cats and a 3yr old cocker spaniel, all rescues
What do you do the 8 hrs you aren't crafting (ie your job): accountant for a hospital system
Craft of Choice: sewing/quilting
Craft you've always wanted to try: scrapbooking, and woodworking
Craft you fear: painting - watercolor especially!
When did you start crafting: off and on since I was a kid, quilting and sewing has been primarily since 2008...
Kids: not yet
( ... we've been ttc for 9 mos.
Pets: two cats - snowflake (Flakinator - to make it more masculine) and mittens - brother and sister ragdolls
What do you do the 8 hrs you aren't crafting (ie your job): I teach middle school French.
Craft of Choice: I really skip around a lot.
Craft you've always wanted to try: quilting
Craft you fear: quilting
When did you start crafting: I am an off and on girl. School consumed my life for the last 4 years so I haven't much as of recent. But now that I am done with school I am really excited to get going on some projects
Kids: none yet
Pets: a hound dog named Titus
What do you do the 8 hrs you aren't crafting (ie your job): I actually don't have one yet... Its kind of complicated, but I just graduated from vet school in May
I am very late to the party on this post!
Craft of Choice: It goes in waves. Currently is is sewing, but I also crochet, paint, random craft stuff...
Craft you've always wanted to try: Smocking (I took a class, not sure if it is for me).
Craft you fear: I wouldn't say "fear" as much as "DETEST"--scrapbooking. Kudos to y'all who love it.
When did you start crafting: When I was very young
Kids: The famous LA
Pets: Yep, a 6yo minpin
What do you do the 8 hrs you aren't crafting (ie your job): Kindergarten teacher (and since the kids came on Monday, it is kicking my rear!!) I forget how EXHAUSTING the first weeks are with them!
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Coming out of lurkerdom to play. I sew, refinish furniture, do mini crafting projects, floral arrangements, and photography editing, basic jewelry making.
Craft of Choice: Photography and editing, with sewing as a close second.
Craft you've always wanted to try: knitting, advanced jewelry making, clay bead making.
Craft you fear: Freestyle painting and drawing. I suck!
When did you start crafting: Youth. Maybe around 4 years old. My mom taught me to sew at 6.
Kids: DS is 20 (yes, years..), DD is 3, and the last addition is still eluding us.
Pets:2 cats and a big old boxer hound.
What do you do the 8 hrs you aren't crafting (ie your job): Nurse Anesthetist.
A little late but thought I'd go ahead and answer:
Craft of Choice: Quilting! And now just regular sewing too.
Craft you've always wanted to try: Knitting
Craft you fear: Knitting. By the way, I have no plans on ever trying knitting no matter how much I desire your knitted objects. I just really have *no* space for another hobby. Quilting & sewing & fabric have taken over my life...
When did you start crafting: As a kid I took a Stretch and Sew class and made my own bathing suit, but that didn't take. I finally decided in college that I wanted to learn how to quilt. (My Mom started quilting when I was a toddler, so it's just always been around.)
Kids: 2 girls, an almost-6-year-old starting 1st grade next week and my 3-year-old.
Pets: 2 kitties, rescued from a...quilting store!
What do you do the 8 hrs you aren't crafting (ie your job): I'm a SAHM who is very much under-utilizing my degrees.
6-yr-old Elena and 4-yr-old Julia.
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I had this all typed out before lunch and somehow closed my browser before posting.
Craft of Choice: So many. Currently obsessed with quilting. I also am into photography if you consider that a craft.
Craft you've always wanted to try: I always wanted to be a photographer, that is why I got into it recently. Other than that, I have always dabbled in a little bit of a lot of crafts. (I cross-stitch, used to knit, crochet, have done some scrap-booking, did some pottery in high school...)
Craft you fear: None that I can think of.
When did you start crafting: My grandmother taught me to cross-stitch and knit when I was very young. She also taught me to use the sewing machine.
Kids: Currently working on number one. That is actually what inspired me to quilt. I was looking at crib bedding and found nothing I liked. I deiced I wanted to make my own... voila I am learning to machine quilt.
Pets: Two Rat Terriers. Liddi, almost 2, (left) and Sammy, 1 1/2 (middle)
What do you do the 8 hrs you aren't crafting (ie your job): I work in TV. The simple way to explain is that I "organize" the commercial spots into what you see on air. That is, if you live in the area of the stations that I work on.
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Tx cycle 2 - 7.5 mg Letrozole & Ovidrel w/ IUI - FAIL
Tx cycle 3 - 5 mg Letrozole + 75iu Follsitim & Ovidrel w/ IUI - CANCELLED (two cysts on R ovary)
Tx cycle 4 - 5 mg Letrozole + 75iu Follsitim & Ovidrel w/ IUI - SUCCESS! EDD July 23rd 2013
hCG Beta#1 (14DPO/IUI): 689.9, hCG Beta#2 (16DPO/IUI): 1319.3
7 week u/s revealed THREE babies, all with heartbeats. 153bpm, 148bpm, and 136bpm
9 week u/s revealed loss of Baby B. A and C are growing on track. A measuring 9w1d with 172bpm and C measuring 9w0d with 179 bpm.
First visit with MFM 12/19 - twins look great and were facing one another! 182 and 185bpm
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NT scan revealed normal measurements between 1.3mm and 1.5mm on each baby. Both with 161bpm. Blood work from 1st Tri screen came back all normal!
Elective sex determination u/s on 2/8 revealed... boy AND girl!
A/s scheduled for 3/5 - still b/g duo! 150 and 148 bpm