we're looking at our second big snow of the week. i was digging around my knitting books and found some forgotten gems, and pulled them out to read. one was a christmas stockings book, and i want to knit stockings for the kiddos for next christmas. i also dug up yarn for a future project. i guess this is what "nesting" is to a knitter.
there's a good chance tomorrow will be a snow day. if that's the case, hubby and the boy will be around. instead of planning a lazy day of doing nothing (except making soup in the crock-pot - curried yellow split pea soup - and making an pineapple upside down cake, which i think i'm delusional with this one, considering the only baking i do is from a mix) i'm actually going to try to tackle the attic. that colossus has been haunting me for months, and it's the first time since the holidays i can actually do something about it. well, i think the least that will get done is moving around the stuff i dislodged during the holidays, and putting back all the crap i moved around. at the most, hopefully tidying up the side with the kids' clothes, maybe bringing down the boy's old baby toys to sort what the babies can use, and purging old magazines. i have a couple of boxes of in styles, real simples and martha's, and they all go except for martha. and this is a biggie - i'm thinking of getting rid of a box of old letters. not love letters, but letters from old college friends whom i haven't talked to since graduation. there's nothing bad in there, they're not holding me back, and they don't take up much space - the box is an old copy paper box. but i don't need them anymore, and like the magazines i plan to recycle, they are best disposed of and taken to their new home, the landfill outside allenwood. it's time to move on with the future, and let go of the past.
i actually started knitting something different! this awesome knitted dishcloth, in the shape of a heart (who knew?) that i saw on a blog recently. my wrists and arms ache from knitting cotton, but i'm having fun with it. it's a simple quickie knit, which is a nice respite from the slogging i'm doing with the swirl shawl, and i'm holding off on pixie's sock monkey becos i can finish it as a WIP for ravelympics. i guess this is what constitutes as training for ravelympics, which starts friday!
i'm planning something in the coming weeks. it's a big thing for me - i'm having fun with it. i hope people enjoy it. just watch this space...the details are coming in the near future.
there's a good chance tomorrow will be a snow day. if that's the case, hubby and the boy will be around. instead of planning a lazy day of doing nothing (except making soup in the crock-pot - curried yellow split pea soup - and making an pineapple upside down cake, which i think i'm delusional with this one, considering the only baking i do is from a mix) i'm actually going to try to tackle the attic. that colossus has been haunting me for months, and it's the first time since the holidays i can actually do something about it. well, i think the least that will get done is moving around the stuff i dislodged during the holidays, and putting back all the crap i moved around. at the most, hopefully tidying up the side with the kids' clothes, maybe bringing down the boy's old baby toys to sort what the babies can use, and purging old magazines. i have a couple of boxes of in styles, real simples and martha's, and they all go except for martha. and this is a biggie - i'm thinking of getting rid of a box of old letters. not love letters, but letters from old college friends whom i haven't talked to since graduation. there's nothing bad in there, they're not holding me back, and they don't take up much space - the box is an old copy paper box. but i don't need them anymore, and like the magazines i plan to recycle, they are best disposed of and taken to their new home, the landfill outside allenwood. it's time to move on with the future, and let go of the past.
i actually started knitting something different! this awesome knitted dishcloth, in the shape of a heart (who knew?) that i saw on a blog recently. my wrists and arms ache from knitting cotton, but i'm having fun with it. it's a simple quickie knit, which is a nice respite from the slogging i'm doing with the swirl shawl, and i'm holding off on pixie's sock monkey becos i can finish it as a WIP for ravelympics. i guess this is what constitutes as training for ravelympics, which starts friday!
i'm planning something in the coming weeks. it's a big thing for me - i'm having fun with it. i hope people enjoy it. just watch this space...the details are coming in the near future.
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