Trials of a Messy Chick!

Well hello children!

So what's going on in this brain today?
CLEANING!!!

MESS!!!

MY ROOM!

That's right folks, I am one messy chick.
I don't enjoy cleaning. Never have and probably never will.
There are a few reasons for people like me to actually bother cleaning:

1.  Moving - I have no current plans to move at this time.
2. Guests - While I have a no going in my room policy when people come to the house, there was the possibility that my niece was going to stay in my room with me!
3. Guilt - The parents actually going up to your room for some innocuous thing like fixing a running toilet and having a small freak at the state of my room.

For the record, I do feel guilty, but I had already planned to start cleaning up said disaster area!

Is it ironic that my friend Liane and I had a conversation about the same thing a couple of days prior? Maybe. But that conversation was one part of the picture as to why I started to clean again. She had seen one of those cleaning shows that said start by doing 10-15 minutes a day of cleaning, then it seems manageable.

                              I have spent the 5 days of the last week doing 15 - 20 minutes of cleaning. Progress is starting to show! But I have the biggest section left to go. Maybe by next weekend!

Prior to the conversation with Liane came a challenge from my Slytherin group on Ravelry. Specifically Cattiekins (one of my Rav/FB friends also known as Tracy!). She started a get organized month before the crafting game we do gets started. The pictures you see are before shots of the yarn areas only.

So I had actually started organization. Trips to the Dollar store to get containers.

Yesterday I bought more cleaning products, swiffer sheets, garbage and recycling bags.

It is still a work in progress. As I guess my life is still a work in progress. 

Its funny that I have guilt about this. 

Well then why don't I fix it? 

I have no answer at this point. I may never be able to put the connections and issues together. But I think 6 months to my 40th birthday, I would like to keep it clean. I know its a promise I've made before. But I truly want to continue towards clean!

Maybe now that I've outed myself, I can keep it going!

I will show the progress as it comes!

Sorry for the long pause!

It has been a sort of somewhat busy few months.
What did I do? I have no real clue.
I have thought of doing entries and then just not gotten there!

So I am writing this one to get back in the game!
Here is a selection of things I have worked on, have been languishing and are currently in progress.

I have worked on this lovely shawl pattern known as Color Affection.  I think this is a pretty picture taken with Hipstamatic. You can make out the 3 colours quite well. There is grey, a pink that has some variegation in it (for those of you who don't know it means various colour, not one consistent colour) and another pink. It turned out lovely & I can't wait for a nice cold day to wear it.

Moving on to the Languishing. This the cuff of a hoodie sweater coat that I have been working on for almost 2 years. Last year I just didn't pick it up. It is the only thing in my WIP pile (Work In Progress). I have done the main body. I picked it up to start a couple of weeks ago and have found it much easier to work on. I suspect that has to do with the amount of knitting I have been doing for the last few years.  So the plan is to spend August getting as far on this as possible so I can wear it in the fall.  The blue is gorgeous and looks great on me!

The only WIPs I have left other then this are blankets meant to use scrap yarns as I go.
Which leads me to another project:

This is a blanket of small hexagons. You add the hexagons as you go along. It takes me now about 1hour & 15 mins to finish one. The main reason being is that it is starting to get heavy as it gets larger & therefore more to manipulate. Also we are in a crazy heat wave so it slows it down. This will be done someday. Not sure yet when. Probably sometime next year.

This is a sample of my knitting life. I am also beginning to organize the stash. Find and catalogue all the needles. Clean the dying area. So I am on a crafting crazy!

Cheers until next time!