Last night I had the urge to knit. I've been on a knitting hiatus the last few weeks in favour of spinning and the occasional ME2 splurge - Damn you Kaiden I thought we had something! The other day my Willipus got into the bookcase and pulled out all my craft books to make a train shed. After cleaning up the mess I found myself flipping through the ( Read more... )

With only 2 days left in May I'm calling this one a fail.  The living room and bedroom remain only partially completed.  I've got a list of things to do as long as my arm.  The storage bins I bought for the living room coffee table don't fit by a half cm.  I haven't even managed to have a mat cut for the piece of art I wanted to hang by today.  I'm ( Read more... )

Since Friday things have been pretty derailed May Cure-wise.  I've been sick.  No very sick but sick enough that, as Willipus would say, I'm out of puff.  Add to that little restful sleep and I've been great company.  This last weekend was the bedroom weekend.  I had high hopes seeing as my mom was down to occupy the boys, but we made no real ( Read more... )

Day 7 - Get Your Get-Together Together:  We're going to have a BBQ but like a dolt I haven't sent out an email yet.

Day 9 - Create a Landing Stripe:  The front entrance is always a problem area for us.  Shoes, coats, bags, strollers all just get shrugged off and dropped here.  Half the sandbox and stacks of publi-sacs destined for the recycling ( Read more... )

Having learned from our first project weekend, The Great Kitchen Overhaul was broken up over 5 days for a total of about 8hrs. I'd written a long post in my head, mostly because this room was spread out over 5 days. In the end all we did was clean everything out, sort, purge, organize and then put what was left back.

Thursday - The Refrigerator, ( Read more... )

This week in the January Cure isn't all that work intensive. In fact its pretty laid back to me. Maybe I'm just an over achiever. I've been trying to get other things off my list done that don’t have specific time allotted to them in the Cure.

Day 4 - Monday - Get a Fresh Perspective in 10 min

I cheated and did this weeks ago for both the living ( Read more... )

The yarn I'm spinning keeps splitting on me.  I don't seem to get more than a meter without is breaking.  It often goes just above where I'm rejoining.  According to the internet I'm working on the wrong wheel ration.  Not enough spins per treadle.  I could try flipping the bobbin around and spinning in the opposite direction. But then I'd have to ( Read more... )

This weekend did not go as planned.  Friday I swept and dry mopped everything I could one handed.  I ran out of time to wet mop but the house wasn't looking too bad ( Read more... )

I've got that silk blend in my stash and I want to spin it for lace.  Of course I'm not there yet.  I started come more coridale, Toffee, trying to get the hang of drafting something finer.  Its tricky.  It breaks on me all the time.  I guess that means I'm getting a lot of practice joining/splicing.  I'm going to ply it with another colour and am ( Read more... )

Set up the outbox and put one thing in it.  This was a no-brainer.  I cleared a corner of the basement for the outbox.  Tossed in a couple pieces of bric-a-brac I'd been itching to get rib of and some paperbacks to be expelled from the library.  For good measure I added the remaining bits of frankentree.