Getting things organized!

Over the past few weeks, I've gone through and documented all of the yarn I have gathering dust in my closet. I've decided to donate some of it (the stuff that is about 20 years old in a color I will probably never wear), but the rest I have assigned an appropriate project via ravelry.com. Yarn will be my first priorty, as I only make accessories with them, and will need some time to accomplish some other goals I have, namely preparing for the 5K David, Chip (his brother), and I are planning to run towards the end of February AND practicing for the studio show in March -- did I mention I LOVE bellydance? Oh, yeah, and there's the whole "find a job that isn't the one I have right now and preferably uses my Master's degree." Hunting for a job is just... fantastic.. right?

Many of the first projects I will be working on will be birthday hats that David promised his family, but does not have time to finish. Hats are fast, and I'm mid-way through my second one. That leaves.... lets see... 3 more to go. Maybe four, depending on how much yarn is left over. I also plan to finish David's scarf before valentine's day... it is about time, I've only been working on it intermittently for 2 years.

It begins...

For one of my New Year's resolutions, I decided to finally get around to living the minimalist lifestyle that I really wanted. There is little room for much of anything living in a tiny two-bedroom, one-bath with myself, my hubby, and our minagerie of pets; Rocky, the boxer; Copperfield, the corgi-husky; and Lord Sesshomarou, the grey tabby kitty. Our tiny living space, and the prospect of moving in the not-so-distant future (we are NOT having babies in a 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom house---never going to happen!), gives me plenty of reason to pare-down on some of my things. Thus it begins....

So, sometime around mid-January, I started digging through some of my crafting supplies, mainly my collection of inexpensive acrylic yarns, and realized that I had a LOT more yarn that I thought I did, in addition to several yards of fabric for various sewing projects.This was about the time I decided to finish these projects I already started, from the dreaded cross-stitch project from 6 years ago that I'm only part the way through, to the wedding scrapbook that never-was, and to make space for crafts that I really could enjoy. Scrapbooking was only something I did intermittently during high school and college, but its not something I'm really interested in. The same goes for cross-stitch; this was a fleeting (very fleeting) idea that I had while working at Emory--waaay too tedious for me, and not really useful (sorry folks that like cross-stitch, I'm just not the type of person to decorate my house with framed cross-stitch projects). So, I think its about time to finish up what I have with these crafts, and move on. This year, it will all get done!