One Thing Leads to Another

One of my goals for the winter break was to clean out my craft closet, which fit right in with my plan of this morning to put all of my yarn stash on a spread sheet (well, not literally, but to enter each skein onto such a sheet).  I’m about 90% done.  I just have to add the handspun, decide if bibs and bobs (yes, that is a technical term) are worthy of their own page, find the few skeins tucked in odd places about the house (Noelle‘s handspun sits like a work of art [she did do her art degree in sculpture] on one of the living room speakers.  I have to remember to count that yarn!), and I will be done.

But that bit of organization leads to others.  I’ve tidied up the closet, put all the loose needles in one place so that I may size them up and get rid of unneeded dupes.  I’m also thinking that I should have a list of my craft books somewhere.  And that fabric.  I should measure and track it, right?  No.  That’s going too far.  But the embroidery floss should be wound on to bobbins.  That I will do one evening with a good movie on the tube.

Tomorrow is for writing syllabi and thank you notes.  And maybe some actual spinning and knitting.  Why can’t every day be a vacation day?

10 thoughts on “One Thing Leads to Another”

  1. I find myself doing the same thing – yesterday I started throwing out a few things that were out of date and I ended up cleaning out four cabinets ;o)
    Now I have to tackle the stash soon – RR just ordered a handheld scanner so we can finally start putting all his CD’s in a database (he used to DJ). I’m hoping I can somehow tweak it so I can use it to input my stash so I don’t have to take three days to type it all in ;o)

  2. I’m in the midst of unpacking from holiday travel and am discovering the same problem. I start cleaning and putting away in one room and suddenly I’m off making a list of other things I need to clean/put away/organize. It never ends.

  3. Ah organization. Feels good, eh? I bought some file crates yesterday to try and organize some of my own life, but we’ll see when I get around to doing it. 🙂

  4. Ah, organization. Those were the days, before the nearly four year old boy…I’m sure I’ll get back there…some day….Sigh.

  5. I agree-we need more days off. I had a three week christmas break and still didn’t get half as much done as I had planned.
    I love the idea of organizing, I’m just scared to venture there, it may take 3 weeks. 🙂

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