Starting up

Hello all and welcome to my small, and very obviously just starting, blog!

I'm not quite sure where to start, so I'll make this a getting to know me post ^.^

I had learned a little bit of crocheting while in college several years ago, but it was limited to the slip stitch and making very long and narrow scarves. I had begun to seriously pick up crocheting as my main craft over a year ago when I lost much needed space for scrapbooking. I began with dish towels and a couple of wash cloths, but was very quickly getting bored with square shaped items.

Then I learned about Amigurumi, and my love of crocheting skyrocketed!

At first I started off with cupcakes, many of my friends know my love of baking so I thought it would be a great and simple starter project. Domed top with wavy edging as frosting, a cup for the cake part, with some stuffing and sewing it was finished! After a couple of attempts at following other people's patterns I wanted to see if I could my own pattern. After some fighting with the yarn and curses at math equations, I successfully created my own cupcake pattern!

It was for a Christmas gift art trade that I finally delved into the world of making little animals, and everyone who saw them loved them! So from then on I decided I would stick with creating cute little critters, and that's the short and simple story of how I got to where I am today.

Besides crocheting, I am a self taught amateur baker (cupcakes are my choice of baked treat!) and scrapbooker. Outside of the crafting world I love going to Renaissance Faires, Anime Conventions, playing The Sims 3, and playing on various internet pet breeding sim sites. I live with 2 cats, only one of which is actually mine.

That's pretty much it about me. I hope you enjoy my blog and critters as much as I enjoy sharing my creations and tips with you! (pictures will soon be forthcoming!)

~Koda