Squeeeeeeee!

Look what came in the mail today! I got these all 1/2 price at a wonderful online store that is going out of business. Sad to see them go, but so happy to have gotten such a great deal on these needles! I hope to switch all my straights over to wood for above size 6 (smaller than that & I know they will break). I got a size 6, 8, 11 & 13 in 14" Brittany needles & size 7 & 8 in 12" Lantern Moon. I love them & am now going to hunt up something lovely to knit with them. I no longer care about the hats.

2 down 2 to go!

I had a plan back in December to make 3 hats for my neighbors & one for my mom's friend. Well I didn't get them done as fast as I had hoped to what with house hunting & moving in the beginning of February, but I have finally gotten back on track with it!

The pink is an alpaca/wool blend & so soft!

The purple/green is wool & was wonderful to work with, nice & soft.

I've gotten 2 done & have 2 more to go, sort of. The pink was meant to be for my mom's friend, but my daughter loves it so I'm not sure who will end up with it, I've started a second in the same pattern, but with a different pink yarn. So that brings the total up to 5.

The purple-green one is meant for my old next door neighbor. I have a white one that was meant to be for the neighbor across the alley, but I can't decide if I like that or want to do another. The yarn called its self worsted, but was really more of a DK so it's more of a beanie than a tam like I was going for. I'm going to wash it & see how it looks today & decide if it's ok or not, it's acrylic so I don't expect much when I wash it. Will get a pic of the 2 in progress & the white later/tomorrow.

I've a Clan

A deer clan in my backyard. There are 5 or 6 of them & my backyard seems to be the be all to end all of hang outs. Here's 4 of them

While I'm fine with them needing to eat in my yard during the winter I'd prefer them to no spend all their free time here in the summer. Any tips short of a bear trap or a deer stand in the yard are welcome.

Craft Room/Office

Trying to get the joint cleaned out & unpacked is taking longer than I'd hope it would. Still not sure how I will set the room up. I'd like to have an area for desk/office stuff, an area for sitting & visiting, plus my yarn area. The room isn't huge so I'm thinking the yarn will just be through out the room & will have to work on making a good divide between the office & the sitting/visiting area. Step one in that will be getting a smaller desk, this thing is huge! I think I want something more like this

While this is still big it's not a corner desk which is what I have now & am sick of staring at the wall all day so I took all the top stuff off it & have it facing out in to the room. It's got to be close it 5" across from tip to tip!

Part of me just wants to get a simple plain table & use that. I need an area big enough for a laptop, a pen holder, a soda & a stack of papers.

Anyone got any suggestions on how to get the most from a mid-sized room I'd love it!

Moving sucks, but unpacking sucks more

Got 3 more boxes unpacked, but still have another dozen or so left. 4 boxes left are the miscellaneous bullshit boxes so who knows when/how/if those will get unpacked. Went down to the old house to do the walkthru with the realtor & am shocked how much junk is still there. I think I am going to see if a girl from my last job wants to come help clean it for a few bucks. I think overall that I'd rather part with my yarn budget for the month than clean all of it myself.

I've been quiet

I feel like I had been defining myself by my illnesses rather than by who I am. I think it was part of my learning process. I was tired of all aspects of my life being disease & this blog is very much so that. I think what is best for me is to simply do a post once a month or so with what is going on in relation to my conditions. I found blogs talking about my conditions to be great as I was learning about being disabled & there aren't a ton of EDS ones & just about nothing on Poland's so I do want to keep charting things, but it's not so great mentally to have it be an everyday discussion.

EDIT: This was the last post I made on my disability blog. I had been posting a bit on a new blog that was mostly about craft stuff. In early 2011 I decided to merge the 2 blogs & every now & again moved a few posts at a time from the old blog to the new one.

School

Next year Beth will be old enough for kindergarten & I've no clue what to do. Not to be all spechul snoflayke about it, but the public school seems kinda ick. The teachers I've heard are great, but there are 22-24 kids per class with just one teacher. The "goals" of the year Beth can already do quite well. The local Catholic school would be great in terms of curriculum, but as we aren't Catholic & the tuition isn't in the budget at all that's probably out (I am going to talk to them just in case). Homeschool in theory is great, but I'd like a few hours a day by myself & she is a total extrovert so I do know she'd love going to school. Ugh.

No real point to this other than I just wanted to get this out of my head.