The Red Sweater

I bought a yarn room - and there’s a house around it too!

Things have been pretty quiet on the knitting front lately as Bob and I have been immersed in the joys of house hunting, buying, and fixing up. A 3 month process. And in 1 week, we’ll finally get to move in.

Years of living in the rental have instilled in me a loathing of the white wall. Thus, I’ve spent countless hours perusing the paint chip aisle at Home Depot and endured many conversations with Bob arguing that beige is just another, darker, version of white. Through it all, I believe I’m coming to the unfortunate conclusion that I have a radical color sense, an eye for contrast and a blind eye for soothing blends. And I want the soothing blends. So I’ve just ordered “Annie Sloan’s Color Schemes: For Every Room” to help me see the light, and the paint that reflects it. I’ll let you know how it goes. In the mean time, this is the planned color of my Kitchen.

The best part about the house is the yarn/sewing/inspiration gathering room I’m setting up on the second floor. Yarn store-like cubes of stash will line the walls and my sewing machine will have a permanent home next to the window. Pictures to come when it’s a reality…

National Novel Writing Month - I’m totally on board.

It’s that time of the year again and this time I’m really going to go for it. NaNoWriMo has returned. For those of you who have not yet come across the insane challenge these folks have extended to aspiring writers the last five years, let me sum up:

Write a 50,000 novel in the 30 days of November. You post your progress online and are cheered on and challenged by the hundreds of other participants as you bang out unedited, misspelled drivel. But the goal is that the drivel can be edited later into something beautiful and interesting and publishable. Just get it down on paper. This year, I even have an outline.

Join me?

[UPDATE: I let another November go by without writing more than a couple paragraphs. Well, I’ll always have hope for next year.]