For I think the 5th time in the last 12 months, I have moved me and all my fiber stuff to yet another room of the house. As people moved out, we worked on repainting/wallpapering assorted rooms, which is why I've been shifting around so much. When my daughter moved back in, the plan was she'd stay long enough to find a job, get back on her feet a bit, then move in with the BF. BF currently lives with his dad. So silly me started a thinkin'. My house is a decent size split level. Three bedrooms and 2 baths on the top level, kitchen, dining and living room on the middle level, family room, bedroom, bathroom on the lower level, laundry room, extra room and furnace room in the basement. When we bought this place 11 years ago, it was a cosmetic wreck, and every room needed a complete re-do. We've replaced every window, the central air conditioning, almost every door (I'm ordering the final 3 this week), gutted all three bathrooms and the kitchen, added the deck, and done some landscaping, though maintenance on the landscaping sometimes escapes me. The one part of the house that hasn't been touched is the family room area. We were planning to do that ourselves but with changes in life, those plans kind of got fuzzy. DD is a handy soul. So is the BF. I suggested it could be mutually beneficial if we treated the family room level as an apartment and they move in there. They can save money while providing the labor for the work. We talked about boundaries, acceptable interactions, shared pet sitting, sharing a kitchen and laundry room and decided to give it a go.
Right now, we are in the tear things out phase. I don't know the exact dimensions, but
trust me, these two rooms are nice sizes. And this is where all my fiber stuff, including my vendor tables which double as work surfaces here at home, has been residing. And you all know we stash to fill exceed our available space. So yes. It had to go. All of it. The big bedroom into which I will eventually move is in the middle of paint/carpeting redo, so my room at the moment is the just finished middle size bedroom. I moved my tv, one table,
comfy chair, and essential fiber tools in there along with my bed and a night stand. I don't even have a dresser for it yet. It won't fit. The rest of my fiber stuff is in the extra room in the basement. In that context, sure, I know where it all is. But being able to figure out which box has what? Yeah, right. Of course there are labels, but getting to it is a whole nuther story. At the moment, I have a tv but it's not hooked up to cable, I have no space to felt, spinning wheels are mostly put away, even the poor lizard who hates any kind of change has been uprooted, moved to smaller digs and shoved in a corner. I figured this would be a good time to knit the two sweaters I have planned for Danni. But. Yeah. Which box are they in?
Which is all a very long winded way of saying I went to a yarn shop yesterday.