grabbed a random image i had in my collection that seemed easy enough and did get further then my last attempt at inkscape.
got a decent trace out of the image that i can work with but now i am trying to fill some area's in but there is still a line visible and i have no clue how to resolve that.
it's probably an easy fix but after searching for about an hour i decided to just ask here instead of being stubborn
![Funny :HaHa](./images/smilies/icon_new_haha.gif)
added the svg to the point i am at now including annotations.