I even amazed myself!

This weekend was dedicated to yarn.  To unpacking, organizing, making sure it was secure in its new home and otherwise taking care of my stash.

As I went through every skein of yarn and decided which basket, cubby or yarn tree to put it on, it told me whether it was getting anxious to be something or whether it was content to ride things out for a little longer.  I'll have to tell you that a LOT of my yarn is anxious to be something.  I may have to hire people to help me knit or weave it all...I don't know how I can meet up with the demands.  It's starting to make ME feel a tad anxious.

The only thing left in my studio is to put together my loom.  But, David was working until 2pm yesterday and we had a party at 3pm (outside, in May, wearing jackets...unfathomable), then the girls came over for dinner at 5, so there was no time to get the loom opened up.  I'm very ready to start Art Box #2 and just waiting for the ability to get that loom ready...I may even go wind some warp this evening.

Despite all the unpacking I was able to knit a good bit...quite a bit in fact.  On Thursday night I finished a pair of socks.  Then this weekend, I managed to finish a hat that I'd started last year that I've been hating...I mentioned it earlier this year, mom's mother's day gift AND got caught up on my block-a-day sock-yarn blanket.  Plus, I made pretty good progress on the little monster I'm going to finish up before heading to TX in 10 days.

And you know what...despite all this progress...I don't feel like I worked even a little bit this weekend.  How absolutely wonderful!

Today's picture is of the polaris hat, finished.  I'll work on the scarf again after the monster is finished.  I like getting some of these things DONE!

What I have Left

This is 7 boxes...all that's left to unpack.  I'm so happy that that's all I have left.  It means that by the end of this weekend, I'll have my loom set up, my table organized, my yarn all in its rightful places...and I'll be happily crafting away again.

I predict by next week I'll have all the pictures hung and everything unpacked and organized...just in time for vacation!

45 minutes

Depending on what you're doing, 45 minutes can seem like forever or a really short period of time.

45 minutes is what I had to work on my studio last night. We ended up getting home much later than planned because we went to weigh in--down .4 pounds, David another 4.4--and then shopping--down at least 2 sizes in pants--and the dinner--fajitas--so by the time we fell into the house, there wasn't much time to get into the studio and make much progress...only 45 minutes.

But I figured it was better than nothing, so I determined that we were going to get in there and see what we could accomplish in 45 minutes.  I set the timer so we'd know when to stop and start getting ready for bed...and then we started plugging away at boxes.

We made really good progress even though it seems like we started and then 5 minutes later the alarm went off...it really was 45, though, and the rest that's left I can manage on my own tonight and this weekend.  I'm enjoying putting things in my new shelving units, and planning all my scrap projects (by weight of yarn)...and just in general being in my well-lit, roomy, beautiful studio.

I love the floors.

I love the windows.

I love the wall color.

I love my private little bathroom.

I love my yarn.

I love my loom.

I love having it all open.  I really did want to kiss everything and work myself to exhaustion...but I forced myself to stop after 45 minutes and go to bed, which I needed more than I needed my yarn fix.

Tonight I will knit!

The picture is of the studio last night right after we stopped working.  That whole back area was piled with boxes up to the tops of the windows.

Tonight...

Tonight I have a date to clean out my studio.  David has promised to help since he's going to be gone Thursday through Sunday.

There are boxes piled to the ceiling and a person can barely move around in there, much less try to figure out how to organize things, but organized it must be because I am taking Saturday (at minimum) to be a pajama day which means that I'll be knitting, snuggling with the kitties, and otherwise relaxing.  I'm desperately in need of a late morning sleep-in...I think I'm more desperately in need of throwing some yarn around some knitting needles and making something.

It's been a week now since I've been able to knit or do anything crafty.

I may go crazy if I have to wait any longer.

Seriously.

Today's picture is of my new shoe shelf.  See how nicely everything stacks in there.  It's the perfect size, which means that I'll have to weed out old shoes when I buy new ones. (or I could double stack them...)

We're Back!

We moved back to the house yesterday.  There are boxes everywhere and the amount of dust is unbelievable, but it's my house and it's beautiful and I'm so very happy to be there.

The kitties were too.  Pearl jumped into all of her favorite windows and howled for us to come see her.  Then went to another window and repeated.  She was so cute.  The rolled around in the dirt, climbed all the boxes and looked confusedly at where the new closets are and wondered why their running path was cut off.  But they were very happy to be home, too.

Last night's priority was to get the bathrooms usable (thank you very much Alyssa), find clothes to wear to work today (accomplished without too much trouble), get my bed set up (thank you David), find our sheets and pillows (this proved a tad more difficult) and then get our final protein meal replacement located, made and consumed (this proved most difficult of all as I think the shakers were in the very last box we opened in the kitchen).

Today's picture isn't of knitting as I can't find anything knitted to take pictures of.  I also haven't had any time to knit since Tuesday, so am a few days behind on my sock yarn blanket (will hopefully make up for that on Saturday or Sunday).  Today's picture is of the new light we got for our foyer.  It's gorgeous.  The colors are vibrant and pretty and I love the heart shaped scroll work.  It goes perfectly with the red walls.  A very lovely new addition to the house.