Thinking about how steemit changed my life ^_^

This morning I woke up with a thought: I have to thanks this cozy community for many beautiful things happened to me since I've been here on Steemit!

Just 1 and half year ago I've never heard about Steemit and my "relationship" with the crypto's world was very very simple: I knew there were cryptocurrencies, in the past I had been  curious, in the past I'd read something about them, I also had some "pennies" long go by now, but nothing more. My hubby, at that time, knew the cryptos less than me. 

During the first days of January 2017 my hubby read on twitter about steemit (yes, thanks a steemian who wrote n twitter we started ur adventures here!) and he thought to try it. His first 2 posts doesn't work well, but before to let go the idea to write on steemit, he talked to me about it. When he said to me the word "crypto", I thought it could be interesting to deepen this opportunity. At that time I was thinking it was time to manage a new blog  to share my contents in English language about my art and my handmade creations. So I started to read more about Steemit and I understood why the first 2 content of my hubby didn't work: he wrote them in italian and, at that time, there were just few italians here! 

Sure, I started to publish my contents here in English, even if my English was really poor. It worked and so also my hubby started to write in English (his English was better than mine ^_^). The first month he had some doubts about how to change this crypto in fiat, so I "experimented" for first the exchange. The first time I exchange cryptos for fiat was super  and together we started our journey on the steemit community! In time my hubby studied the crypto's world more than me, he used his knowledge in different fields (before to be an artist, he was a journalist and his father was one of the best expert of the italian bourse here in our city) to grow up. 

Thanks to this wonderful place, we knew many interesting people and we met some of them during the Steemfest in Lisbon! Reading contents and chatting with people from all around the world now I know more about life and culture in other countries. I improved my English too and it's great! 

I wrote every day here and I shared my contents on twitter and on my page on facebook too, so I used steemit to share every news about my works with my followers!

Sure, as you can understand, the most important reason to thanks Steemit it's the earning! Yes, everyone of us started to be here for the earning and so it's important to talk about it! Thanks to steemit (sure, it's now my main job, but it's a great help for family's balance), during a 1 and half year, I  collected money for:

- to buy a new camera to take my photos (I sell my art and my creations on line, so for me it's important to have a good camera ^_^), 

- to buy a  Wacom Intuos to improve my skills in digital artworks, 

- to visit cities in other countries,

- to pay an old debt (yesterday I made the last payment!!!!).

I have to say a big THANKS to this cozy community and to steemians who follow me, thanks to you my life is changed in better and I really hope it will be the same for you! 

So, enjoy to be here, it's really a great opportunity to grow up (not just for the money, but because it can give you many different emotions!).

See ya soon and steem on!

Silvia