Here is my first Angora Rabbit, His name is Foo Foo, also known as Foofer and the Foof, He is awsome, although he can be a bit of a brat sometimes, (like when he's being brushed)

Kromski Sonata!

Here is the fabulous spinning wheel, my Kromski Sonata, I am so in love with it, it's not even funny!

Angora Goats!

Here are two of my newest fiber animals, Maggie in the first photo and Bart in the second. Bart definately lives up to his namesake, Bart Simpson, he is a total trouble maker =)

My how time flies...

So, a lot has happened since my last post. My husband did not get the job he was wanting in Kansas and after a lot of prayer and soul searching (and a bit of divine intervention) we decided that we were indeed meant to move to Utah. We made our move on November 3. We had no job lined up, we did not list our house until the day we moved, we just up and left. It was really scary. We moved into the house that I grew up in, renting it from my mother. Within two weeks my husband had found a job with immediate benefits (very important for a cancer survivor and a man with diabetes) also within that time we got an offer on our house and we are set to close the deal tomorrow. We have been so unbelievably blessed it is amazing!

It is so nice to be living near family. Pretty much all of my extended family lives in the Salt Lake Valley. After almost two years of trials things are finally starting to look up. My husband has found a good job with good benefits and tuition reimbursement. He is hoping to go back to school and get his nursing degree. We have a good place to live where we can have animals and livestock (I see my own flock of sheep in my future) And Yarn Wyrkz is continuing to do well. Everyone is currently healthy and hopefully will stay that way.

I am going to try to be better with posting here on my blog now that things have settled down a bit. Look for pics of my spinning wheel (yes I finally got one!) and the new yarn creations I have come up with. And gorgeous pics of my new home state of Utah. I never realized how much I missed the mountains until I got here and remembered how beautiful it is to look out the window at them every morning.

I am also working on promoting Etsy here in Utah. There are over 150 etsy sellers in Utah and yet when I moved here there were only about 7 members of the EtsyUtah street team. So I have been working with the new team leader to try to recruit some more members and get etsy awareness here in the Beehive State. I am optimistic that there is going to be a lot of growth which will of course help my own business as well as etsy in general.

Prayer Request for Our Famliy

To all of our friends and relatives:Robert has had the opportunity to apply for a new job. The place that he is currently employed is over 50 miles from our house and he drives there and back 5-6 days a week. For this he is compensated with a salary of around $12 per hour, plus a monthly stipend of $38 to "reimburse" the traveling expenses that he incurs through out the demands of his job that require him to have to drive hundreds of additional miles during the week more than his actual commute.

The job he has applied for is located in Ottawa, Ks and is a job with the City of Ottawa processing permits. It is a Monday through Friday 8-5 job, although it is eligible for overtime pay when needed. He will be driving approx 2 miles each way to work and could conceivably walk or right his bike if he gets in a physical position capable of doing that (or if his car breaks down LOL) The starting pay range is from $12 to $16 per hour. Even were he to get the lowest possible salary we would still be saving $300-$400 a month on gas. And most important is what we will gain as time spend as a family. Once you remove his travel time and the extra days he was working, we stand to gain almost a month out of every year to spend as a family however we would like.

I really feel like God has put this in our path and I am requesting that all who know us and who are people of Faith to please join us in prayer that he will be able to get this job. Those of you you are able and willing may also hold a fast for our family in this situation. This is one of the most important things to me in my life right now. I have been going through quite a bit of emotional turmoil about uprooting and moving back to Utah, until now, I really felt that it was our only choice to get out from under the financial situation that we are in, but this seems like an answer to a prayer to help us find some way to be able to stay here.

Pleas help!Feel free to pass this along to all your friends and relatives, we can use all of the blessings we can get right now.

Opening a new shop for Granny

Well we finally convinced Granny to give me the go-ahead to open up an etsy shop in her name. It is going to be called ElzorahsOriginals and will feature her Tole painting. Here is a preview of her work..

Finishing Something Important

I found out this week that my friend's mother has been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. She is 72 years old and she is refusing all treatment. I have been working on an afghan for her in my spare time for almost a year now. I feel so bad that I have not made it a higher priority. I have decided that I am not going to work on anything else until I get it done. It is a beautiful blanket of many colors, but it is slow work, each row takes me at least 15 minutes. So it may be a couple of weeks before I am able to list anything new on my Etsy site. But I feel that getting this finished as quickly as possible is really important. She was so supportive of me during my battle with breast cancer I feel like this is the least I can do.