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High Resolution Life Podcast, Episode 30 - Josefina Hunter - Transcript

** Video opens with a cat**

Josefina: and she’s back in your seat.

Annette: Welcome to an episode of high resolution life, uh my cat has just decided to take my seat every second, um Josefina is here and we’ve already had an evening before we even started podcasting. So there’s that. I’m gonna go grab my… it’s been a day, it’s been a day but, we’re going to talk about crocheting because crocheting is supposed to be relaxing we’re going to have fun! We’ve got through this day somehow some way. Whoa, we’re halfway there, on a prayer, so this podcast is going to be a a very different Flare from what we had when we were talking about the March for Israel. I have been

Josefina: which I went to by the way

Annette: We went together. So um thankfully she’s been on 100% on board with this whole “hey let’s be spontaneous” Vibe so I appreciate that so we went to the March for Israel and you didn’t crochet while we were there but we’re going to talk about crochet

Josefina: I crocheted in the car

Annette: She did crochet in the car

Josefina: when you were driving

Annette: I didn’t pay attention to that because I was driving

Josefina: it’s okay I crocheted for probably about two of the three hour car ride - for two hours

Annette: this is also our guest Stella - everybody say hi Stella hi Stella…um so yes Josefina has been nice enough to come with the podcast. I’m going to have her introduce herself, we’ve been besties - she’s been one of those besties that have seen you gone go through all, of the uh different versions of yourself. The Good the Bad the Ugly and she’s been through it all so but we’re primarily going to talk about crochet and things. like that just stickers I guess this was from Murphy’s in 1987. I don’t even know it’s vintage yarn so you all might be getting a little bit more of a comedic coping with things version of Annette today so there’s that but just a minute - go ahead and introduce yourself and everything you - do she also does photography - we did headshots today which was interesting time we’re gonna - we’re all in this together so you’re gonna all different facets of Annette on the podcast yeah so, Josefina take it away….

Josefina: So hi guys I’m Josefina um I have, been a photographer for about almost 17 years now. So I was here I was taking headshots today for Annette um but the new career Endeavor is crochet. And I have technically been crocheting for about 20 years but I did not seriously get into the idea of potentially making it a business until about December of last year (‘22)…

Annette: so you became a grandmother

Josefina: yeah basically

Annette: I’m kidding, I’m kidding, I’m kidding!

Josefina: Listen, I don’t ever leave my house unless I have to so she’s kind of not wrong. The pandemic hit and I just decided to live at home permanently. The

introverts were all like party time in here um yeah so I decided become a grandmother thank you for that

Annette: I’m teasing

Josefina: I started uh trying to figure out what I could do with crochet because, obviously you know the hats, the gloves, the scarves, um the blankets and things like that and I’ve done a lot of that like that’s how I learned how to crochet was you know hats and scarves.

Annette: Ironically I’ll be knitting but gloves…is that okay am I allowed to knit even though you’re talking about crochet?

Josefina: I mean, it’s yarn and it’s a fiber art and it’s the same genre…

Annette: Okay, alright, okay, I just didn’t know, I didn’t know if this was like politics - is it bipartisan is it partisan to knit or crochet - is there divide like that

Josefina: technically yes there is to some degree. Like people can get really offended like because crochet is only one hook whereas, knitting is two needles um and so it’s very common when people don’t know what crochet is if they see someone work with just yarn and they crochet they’re like “oh what are you knitting? (And you’re like it’s) not knitting it’s crochet

Annette: all right and then what does that turn into? how do you respond to when people say that?

Josefina: well it depends on like if they say it because they’re actually genuinely curious about what I’m making or if they’re being condescending

Annette: I love how my cat’s being a stereotype right now, 100% Stella. Stella you’e supposed to be interesting and unique and yet she’s, just she’s 100% like hello how are you doing I can’t. We’ll continue…

Josefina: Um, yeah, so it kind of depends on how it’s said, like if people are just curious then you know maybe I won’t necessarily correct them. I’ll be like “Oh, I’m making whatever, I’m making. Let them have that. But if it’s said really condescendingly - usually by a white man. Like when I was a couple months ago when I was getting my car fixed at he car dealership and there was I was crocheting something…

Annette: nothing good starts “with car dealership and a white man”

Josefina: a white man came over to me and he’s like, the you know the once-over kind of thing why does he have to do the (once over are people not allowed to crochet or knit anymore apparently not) and he goes what what are you knitting? and I was like

Annette: this is knitting folks if you learn nothing else from this podcast, if there’s two things in people’s hands - this is knitting so actually this is rather useful that I threw this on here

Josefina: yeah um and I was like I’m making you know whatever toy I was making at the time and he was like aren’t you a little young to be crocheting and I was like there what you okay is it the same thing like a senior citizen discount like I didn’t realize that my crochet hook in hand suddenly means I’m 70 but uh I

Annette: you should be getting that discount from Denny’s - now what the hell I mean does that mean that I can park in a wheelchair spot just because I’m, if you’re too young to be crocheting apparently you can’t be “ have to get a tissue my nose is running”, sorry, fine, keep going

Josefina: no it’s thing like that, if you’re genuinely curious you know know and you say it in a nice way like maybe I won’t correct you, or if I do, I’ll say like oh, I’m crocheting something, but I won’t be like rude, you know.

Annette: It’s okay to be rude, bring back people being rude energy to the chat, Yea, but of my life advice, if you’re not going to be rude, then I’m not going to be rude, but if you’re going to be rude, then I might out rude, your rude and I might make you cry. Yeah, so we’ve had a day so take everything we say with a grain of salt…where does that saying even come from?

Josefina: I don’t…that’s something to Google

Annette: I don’t…grain of salt, take it with a grain of salt, you have to season it before you listen to it. Anyway continue that would be a little hard for white men in case you’re wondering we had an encounter with a neighbor tonight it just was not a fun time so we’re a little salty. Take that with a grain of salt. So, sorry anyway

Josefina: anyway um yeah yes, so last December um I was really trying to figure out like what I wanted to do with my life because I have two degrees. I have a degree in Psychology and one vocal performance and neither of which I can really use the way that I want to use them. um my psychology degree will require a bare minimum a master’s and that’s another $60 to $70,000 in education and I don’t have that right now and don’t want that kind of debt right now either. So that was back burner’d um and while I have done a few like one-on-one vocal coaching sessions for other people like I just don’t totally see myself as a teacher per se. like that’s not necessarily why I got the degree, so I just haven’t done anything with either of the degrees.

Annette: i have whoops

Josefina: and the pandemic kind of ruined the whole traveling for photography thing for me um because I was really just forced to sit down and not do life for like two solid years um and I was sitting in a writing Workshop Zoom meeting thing with a friend um and I was working on a baby blanket and as as I was listening to her or one of her friends talk about whatever story Memoir thing that they were working on and it hit me that, “hey you do you’ve done artsy things your whole life, you could probably make a career out of crochet, I’m sure people do that and literally that night I was like waist deep in CrochetTok on TikTok the little corner on TikTok for crochet things there, and there’s

Annette: I’m not on TikTok

Josefina: So yeah, there’s a crochet corner, CrochetTok, or uh, handmade corners, fibertok, fiber, so then I was okay well, it’s is on TikTok, it’s probably also on Instagram, like because Instagram technically came first so then I was over there and yep. Sure enough I was right there is an crochet corner and rather large one too on Instagram Corner, yeah, it’s more like probably a ball room huh how much how many um what’s big Corner then uh well I said it’s more like a ballroom at this point but how many people? Oh, I don’t know. I follow, I think, 170 plus artists. A lot of old people - actually no I’m teasing I’m teasing I’m teasing I’m being ironic there are people who are younger than I am who are making more money than I am crocheting um currently. But that’s because they’ve been doing it longer than me so that’s, that’s fine. I’m not salty.

Annette: It’s just you’re allowed to be salty tonight after our evening

Josefina: well I’m not salty about that. It’s fine.

Annette: salty about whatever you want to be salty about get you can get high blood pressure here. I’m not advocating high blood pressure, continue…

Josefina: um so yeah I decided that you know I could put the crochet skills to use and wearable items while very pretty do take a significant time to make and and toy making certainly can take some time especially if you’re making a more elaborate toy

Annette: she’s like an elf

Josefina: um yeah now I’m kind of like Santa’s Little Helper because I can make toys. That’s actually what we told my niece Lily, we told her that I was one of Santa’s helpers, that I’m an elf and I helped make the Christmas stores -

Annette: well you are short - you’re not that much taller than her

Josefina: but yeah so I brought some of the toys with me because I have to tag them there’s a market tomorrow so I have my my little business tag price tags and they have the logo on the on the front and then a space to write the pricing on the back you um and so I made Christmas things and while we’re talking about elves - this is Papa elves

Annette: hi Papa from Elf and he’s got the glasses and everything that is amazing

Josefina: um so yes there’s a Christmas Market tomorrow so I’ve been making Christmas things so we have an elf Peppa elf from the movie Elf you guys could buy that, there’s a reindeer

Annette: It’s like I’m four years old and I’ve opened Christmas presents again.

Josefina: See I’m an elf what did I tell you? Speaking of elves there are -

Annette: this is high quality this is like it’s it’s stuffed like a turkey I mean I’m not quite sure it’s stuffed like a turkey it doesn’t have bread in it

Josefina: you’re good

Annette: but it’s, it’s legit like little heart patch I like it

Josefina: and there are two other elves to go with the the the Christmas Vibe

Annette: I love how they you know what the way they even walk, they’ve got…they have…they have swag, swag, swag,

Josefina: as they’re making their way over to me…

Annette: like it doesn’t get any better than this swag swag it’s it’s for the entertainment purposes you know swag swag

Josefina: I can’t

Annette: swag swag ho ho ho ho ho ho we we are Santa’s elves!
Josefina: cannot

Annette: come on, come on I mean come on who doesn’t want cutesy Christmas things? like all the people who hate Christmas, is unAmerican I don’t know even…Jews like Christmas! We wrote the best Christmas songs! Chestnuts roasting on an open fire oh it was the other one Rudolph the red nose reindeer Ree had a very shiny nose and if you ever saw it you would even say it glows but yes you guys could buy these tomorrow

Josefina: yes um or buy them off the website things you know sell out I the will can make custom orders um let’s set these here then I have your favorite

Annette: Balsar? Did I say that right?

Josefina: yes, Bulbasaur, I pulled this out of the bag earlier and she squealed

Annette: um I did

Josefina: she told me she was going to steal it and I kind of need it for the show

Annette: but she doesn’t you guys saw nothing you sit on a throne of Lies. I sit on a throne? I don’t know if it’s made of Lies oh no bubas! I love how he just like, he’s got a little bit of a head and it’s too big - problem like my excuse me

Josefina: and then, this is probably the most entertaining thing that I’ve made this holiday season um it is a Grinch but it’s a grinch pop what closer it’s a fidget toy essentially so and it’s a keychain so you can put it on your key but you can just sit there go like this and I will say that for like 20 minutes after after I finished making it I literally did just that because I was that amused by my own creation you’re like