I have pictures to share today! The first is a picture of my den. This is the room that I just repainted. Over the weekend, we got the rugs hung! Just like the upcoming Oscar winners, I have a list of People Without Whom This Project Wouldn’t Have Been Possible(grammer alert! is that a double negative?). Many thanks to many people: MIL – for coming over and bossing helping me paint!. CS – for coming up with the carpet idea and color palette. Carmel – for the great advice re: carpet hanging (tackless strips! how simple!) and my Boar – a demon with the level & tape measure!

One of my favorite reads,Tequilla Mockingbird, recently posted a list of the contents of her car. It is very funny and you may want to check it out, that particular post is from February 16th. This, along with mass chaos, inspired me to go through my various knitting bags. It would have been far funnier to post an itemized accounting of everything I found within. And believe me I considered it. But at the time, my lack of organization (can you say anal rententive??) had me very cranky. It would have been so easy to use one of the nine pens/pencils to jot down on any of the five notepads what I found within those bags. Hell, I could have made a notation on the sanitary napkin I found using any one of the three lipsticks & glosses! I was quite certain however, that had I done anything other than snap a quick pic and get to work, that I would have rammed one of those pens into my eye. Such was my mood. I see that the picture I did snap was not enough – imagine, if you will, another pile of detritus – this one consisiting of magazines, stray needles, needle cases, fuzz, sand and unknowable particles. A picture paints a thousand words anyway, I give you five hundred ….. without further ado, here are two pics – one of the heap that was my knitting bags, the other the heap of crap I found within.