I have this room. A room that when we first moved in, we painted pale green with a blue border. A room that was to be our nursery because we were going to get pregnant soon. A room that was going to hold my yarn, but soon, it was gonna be a nursery.
Over the last year, this room became the place where we just stored things that didn’t have a home. The closet is full of Christmas decorations, the floor was covered in yarn paraphernalia. It was pretty much a mess. I knew where things were, but we certainly didn’t leave the door open. Not just because it was a mess, but because the dog would eat the yarn, and the cat would use it to sleep on.
Mike asked me one weekend when we were cleaning, if I wanted to clean out that room.
I said no. It was too depressing to clean. If I cleaned it out and it was still a craft room, that meant we still weren’t close to having a baby. I wanted to be able to clean it out and it become a nursery. I didn’t go in there except to grab what I needed, or to wind yarn. It shouldn’t have all my craft stuff, it should have a baby.
Well since that won’t happen for most likely another full year (doinig IVF at the beginning of the year and then waiting 9 months, if it even works), I decided well I need to get the yarn out of the living room (Mike asked if it was taking over).
While we were at Ik.ea yesterday buying the bed part of our sofa bed, we found the desk piece that fits onto the bookcase I have in there. So we got it. Might as well move my sewing up there too so I’m not sewing on the dining room table on Thanksgiving day.
It may look unorganized but I can tell you where everything is.
Bags waiting to be finished, yarn waiting to be made into something. Scrapbook stuff waiting for..well nothing because I don’t scrapbook with paper anymore. The little cubby on the far right, second from the top-the one jam packed-that is all odds and ends from projects I’ve made. Never know when you might need a scrap.
Ok forgive the plethora of lamps on the top of this cabinet. And the gumball machine. And the random candle. And the Easter decoration that keeps finding it’s way out of the holiday bins. I was really showing off my roving (on the bottom shelf) and you can see my spinning wheel on the left side. The basket is a basket full of stuffed animals and the blankets Granny made.