I’m here, I’m crafting…just not posting.

I don’t know what’s wrong with me lately.  I think it’s that, since we bought the house the computer is no longer in the main living area.  It used to be in the dining room (the only place we had to put it) and now it has it’s own room all the way up on the 3rd floor of the house…  So…I don’t use it as often.  It isn’t just because it’s on the 3rd floor…it’s that in the winter, the 3rd floor is a freezer and in the summer, it’s an oven.  The 3rd floor is also where my “studio” is…needless to say, I haven’t been up here much.  Until lately…it got terribly hot and I got ambitous and put the window units in…. Awww…what a differnce that made!!  I can work up here now without almost passing out because of heat exhaustion!! 

Well…what have I been doing…???  Sewing.  Yup.  Not knitting, not spinning, not even crochet…  I’ve caught the sewn handbag bug and it’s going strong!!!!  I’ve made five handbags, a wristlet and a box-bottom zipper pouch, two other flat zipper pouches and an evening bag…  I also have fabric for about four hundred other bags.  I am starting another bag as soon as I am done with this.  But I told myself, I wasn’t allowed to start it until I posted something…so here I am.

I do have a few knit projects going, tho…for when I’m down stairs watching the evil TV (I’m addicted to “So, You Think You Can Dance?”) (herefter SYTYCD)  What can I say…??  Dance shows/movies are my guilty pleasure (tho, I have never watched an episode of “Dancing with the Stars” for some reason, I don’t know why…)  I think it’s because I can’t dance AT ALL…or as Avery says, “not without a pole”…  Heh.  Men.  >shrug<  But, I digress… 

Knitterly projects are as follows… 
Clapotis:  Brooksfarm Solo in a tan/aqua colorway (they don’t seem to have a pic of this colorway on the site tho).  Fan-freakin-tastic.  I LOVE it.  I am at the halfway point. 

Forest Path Stole:  Jaggerspun Zephyr in Mushroom, which is a soft tan/taupe color.  I am on the third tier, I believe…tho, I haven’t touched it since I started the Clapotis!

Mead scarf: in Tess Designer Yarns…something wool, in Birch Bark colorway (creamy white, gray, taupe…very soft and pretty).

That’s about it on this end…  I will post some photos when I can remember to take the camera downstairs with me!!!  : )

This is so awesome I just had to post!!!!

If you like homespun yarn, go here:   

http://homespunyarnparty.blogspot.com/2008/02/first-ever-homespun-yarn-party-march-30.html

Whoot!!! You all know where I am planning on being!!!!

…it just slips away from you and you don’t even realize how quickly it happens…

I’m still alive, there has been some knitting, some spinning and much house painting!!!

We have painted, so far, the living room, dining room, kitchen, both bathrooms, our bedroom, and the guest room.  We still have to paint the entry way, hall, stairwell, upper hall, Avery’s library, and my “studio” or craft den…  : ) 

The knitting:  I’ve been working on the Forest Path Stole (found in The Best of Interweave Knits: The First Ten Years) (it’s also from a sold-out back issue, I’m not sure which one).  I’m using Jaggerspun Zephyr in “Mushroom” which is a taupey color.  I haven’t taken a picture of it yet, don’t want to jinx it.  But it’s going pretty well…prolly shouldn’t have said that…

The spinning is even less than the knitting, but is also looking good and hasn’t a photo…  Sorry…  : )

Toodles!!

I really am still here…  I’ve been knitting, too.  I even dyed some fiber and spun a little…a wee little.

Pic’s soon…promise.

Hmm…  What might this be??No, no idea….  Really….

 Really??

Well, then…  Let me tell you….

IT’S THE KEY TO MY NEW HOUSE!!!!!!

Yay!

I will be a home owner… Or at the very least, I will be co-owner of a mortage!! 

We are getting ready to leave for settlement in a few minutes.  I’m so excited, I’m shaking.

Then we get to go to our new house and count windows and take measurements…

Whoo-hoo!

Happy Weekend, all!

Okay…this actually looks like it’s really going to happen for us. I have been hopeful, but also trying to not get too excited about it, if that makes sense. I have learned, many times over, to not count your cookies before you’ve baked them. I mean, what if you burn a whole tray of them??? BUT, we went and finalized the whole loan thing last night and everything seems to be in order. So baring any weird happenings…the house is OURS. Whoot!

Let me tell you a little about it… It’s a semi-detached or duplex, depending on where you’re from. It’s attached on one side to another home, but the other side is open. They say it’s a four bedroom, because of the finished attic space, but I say it’s a three bedroom with a finished a finished attic… LOL Anyway, it’s huge compared to what we have now. First level is the foyer, living room, dining room, kitchen, laundry/full bath and sun porch (which, for the time being is 3 season, we are planning to insulate it to make it useful all year round). The second level has three bedrooms (one will be our bedroom, there will be a library/music room and the other will be a guest room/workout room) and there’s a full bath up there, too. The third level has two rooms, one will be my studio space and the other will be our office. It has a full basement that is not exactly finished, but is perfectly serviceable for storage. The yard is pretty big, for a house in town, .08 acre. It has 6’ privacy fence on all sides and a one car garage (which is located at the back of the lot, outside the fence). The yard has nice landscaping around the edges and two flowering trees in the back corner and the center of the yard is nice and open, plenty of room to play with the dog! There is a paving stone patio off the back of the house with a water garden/fish pond next to it. We will have to learn how to maintain a water garden and how to keep the fish alive!! Wow!! A house that comes with pets! Cool!

We went up to York this past Saturday for the house inspection. It went pretty well. There isn’t much that needs to be done. There is (or was) a leak under the toilet upstairs and they need to either fix the leak or have a plumber sign off that it has already been fixed. It made the floor crack a little in the bathroom, and we said we’d replace the floor so we can pick whatever tile we want. Other than that, there are just a few minor maintenance things that we have said we can do. 

Basically the only things left to do is go to settlement on the 30^th and then move on the 15^th. Whoot!! I can’t wait! I am so excited and antsy… I just want all this to be done! I want to be in my house!! Dammit! NOW! LOL

Whoo-hoo!!!

In knitting news…

I have finished my International Scarf Exchange 5, scarf…  All that is left to do is pick up a few goodies for the box and it’s OFF!!  Prolly send it out on Friday…  Other than the scarf, I haven’t been working on anything and hesitate to start anything else right now because of the impending move.  I think I will just take some time off from knitting and PACK MY WHOLE FREAKIN’ HOUSE IN 22 DAYS, WHILE MAINTAINING A FULL TIME JOB…  It’s be so much easier if I could just take a week off and get it done.  But I can’t.  I’m out of time for this year…gotta work.  Wait…this was the “knitting news” part wasn’t it…and here I am talking about the move again…  Bloody hell, it’s everywhere!!

WE HAVE A HOUSE, WE HAVE A HOUSE. A HOUSE, A HOUSE, A HOUSE….  WE HAVE A HOUSE, A HOUSE, HOUSE, HOUSE HOUSE….

WOW.

Holy crap…

We have a house….at least on we kinda do.  We go to settlement on the 30th, so I’m am not going to truly count it as MINE until I have the keys in my paw…

It’s a four bedroom duplex with a finished attic space (which will be my yarn/spinning studio), living room, dining room, laundry/full bath off a huge kitchen, sun room off kitchen, landscaped yard with full privacy fence, one car garage….  Lots of other stuff, tho I’m so excited (and a little freaked out) that I can’t write anymore…

Gotta go!!!!

Me!!!

Okay…so we didn’t get that house.  It’s all good tho, cuz A. and I talked about it and we think we would have outgrown it faster than we could have paid it down enough to sell it…  It’s only drawback was it was pretty small…as Cape Cod style homes usually are.  So, what does this mean….

It means the game is afoot…  The hunt continues…  We go back up to York on the 11th and look at a bunch more properties…  We’ll find The One…

Happy weekend, all!

Me

If all goes well…this will be our new house…our FIRST house.  So,  this is one of the reasons I have been so absent on here.  We’ve been house hunting… 

I don’t have much time, gotta finish getting ready for work…but I just wanted to share a little bit…

I’m excited…
Me

EDIT:

We are driving up tonight to sign the contract and hopefully will be settling the end of November!!!  WOW!!!!!!!