A Room for All of My Things

When we first moved together to this house in Arizona after Jim's retirement, Jim and I shared a room we called the office. For the most part it worked but when working in there he likes his Pandora playlists playing loud and I like to listen to podcasts and I had to use earbuds or headphones. Without complaining to each other about the invasion of space when we wanted to concentrate on things, we both knew that it would be nicer to each have our own dedicated space.

With the goal of separate offices in mind, we decided to change our guest rooms setup, we have one room with a king-sized bed in it and that room stayed the same. We had a room with 2 queen sized beds in it as well. That room is now mine. We took one of the beds out of it and moved it to Jim's office. We took my tables and all my crafting supplies and moved those things into the former 2 queen bed guest room. Some closet storage was also changed. Holiday decorations and luggage are now stored in Jim's office. My supplies are now in my office and the king guest room. Yes I need room in 2 closets, don't judge me please.

This move also gave me a chance to do some sorting and organizing. I rounded up all the yarn in various bag and boxes. They are now sorted by weight and in clear bins so I can see what I have and be reminded of what projects I have planned to do next. I have 4 goals for knitting or crocheting right now. They are to finish all planned patterns for the Shawl in a Ball yarn, finish planned patterns for the Summer Nights yarn I have, make for markets bags with the crochet thread I have on hand and to finish making the tasseled scarves collection I started with all the ladder yarn I have. I also have a quilting goal. The quilt I want to finish is a panel quilt. The hand quilting of each block is done. I need to get all the blocks joined and a binding put on. 

Of course, all this organizing feels good. I know myself enough to know that I will get an idea in my head and mess it all up looking for something, probably very soon if I stay true to form. 

I just realized on reading through this looking for silly errors (and I am sure that I still missed something because I always do) that I forgot to mention the socks I intend to make with the sock yarn I bought with my niece in Longmont. So, add that to the list of to do's and I will be one busy, never bored girl. 

Back with more again soon. 

Take care and stay cozy! 

Warning, I'm Gonna Whine

Whine, yes, yes I am gonna about 2 things this morning. 

First up is Twitter. What the hell are they thinking over there. I use twitter to post affiliate links and shop items when my Etsy shop is open. That is just a small part of my activity on Twitter. The majority of my time is spent retweeting creative types, vintage sellers, authors, photographers and more. 

My tool for doing these retweets is TweetDeck. I have a column for Notifications that lets me know who has retweeted me and I return the favor. It is so easy to scroll down the list and open up the timelines of those I want to retweet. That column is now broken and will not load or rather it has not loaded for the last 2 days.

Trying to use the Notifications from my profile page is just sooooo clunky and in no way is worth the frustration when compared to the list I can get from TweetDeck. 

I like Twitter, the good, the bad and the ugly of it. I will miss it if it collapses. I do hope it can survive Elon.

Whine number 2 is personal. My hip is feeling much better these days thank goodness. But I have a new issue and it bugs me when life goes this way. I am the one who is supposed to wake up fine every day. Jim tends to have all the aches and pains. 

I had an accident when we were moving some furniture around yesterday. We decided to do away with our shared office so Jim can have his room and I can have my own. It is a good idea but is going to need a lot of work to rearrange furniture and the organization of closets. I managed to catch my little toe on my right foot and break it. I spent a lot of time elevating and icing it yesterday. 

This morning it is sore and swollen and purple so I am looking forward to another day of the same. The  biggest pieces of furniture have been moved but the closets need to be cleaned out and my crafty debris needs to move from my old room to the new one. It is going to have to wait a few days I think.

Back with more again soon. 

Take care and stay cozy!