... at the end the tunnel is a good way to summarize my month of January... Let me explain: back in June, I posted about our upcoming house renovation -- finishing our basement where we will make a bedroom for our oldest daughter and then redoing our kitchen -- which meant that I would be spending a lot of time clearing the basement where the reno is to be done and compressing my work space with all my fabric and assorted stuff into the only finished room in the basement. Well, while I did spend a fair amount of time down there on and off since then, I have to admit that I had a hard time staying motivated about this daunting task of mine given the sheer volume of clutter to be found there. You have to understand, that when I clean, organize, declutter, I do it at a snail's pace because I look at every single item (down to the last button!) and try to figure out where it should go. I do not prescribe to the cleaning method (my husband's) which involves sweeping it all up into a pile and basically chucking it...
So, since June, I have been trudging down to the basement, spending an hour here and there, slowly sorting and clearing, and it is only in the past week or so that I'm finally seeing the light after all the tunneling I've done. The photo above (where my daughter's bedroom will eventually be) was taken in the first half of January and most of the stuff you see has been sifted through and cleared since then. So, I am celebrating now because I feel like I have finally rid myself of the albatross that's been dragging me down for the last while and kept me away from my creative self and working on some new things that I've been dying to start on... Yippeeeeee!!! Of course, I shouldn't get too far ahead of myself because we still have the actual renovation to contend with and, well, if you've done one of those before, you know what that could be like... Nevertheless, I think it is still cause for me to celebrate and as some wise person once said: one step at a time! Now before I take leave of my basement, I just wanted to show you a point of interest in our basement which we inherited when we bought the house: the supporting column bedecked with beer caps from the 70s...
What do you think?! I wanted to share it with you because it is a contentious topic for our family -- some of us want to keep it as is and others are dead set against it featuring in our newly-renovated digs... Any thoughts or counsel?!...
'Just wanted to also show you a recent photo of my workspace... As you can see, the fabric is slowly finding its place in what I think are some of the best shelving units around (the one in the forefront which my sweet husband made for me) which I will definitely show you more of in future posts. There is still a lot of stuff to locate (a lot of my notions still need a proper home) and fabric lying on the floor to put away, but, bit by bit, I think it will get done...
January has also been sweet since my flower square pattern is featured in the ebook shown below published by Allfreecrochetafghanpatterns.com which has just come out this month (I can't help but also be excited that my photo of flower squares has been used as the background for the cover!). If you're interested, check it out here -- it offers a lovely selection of flower square patterns from beginner ones to a little more advanced and, great news... it's downloadable for free!
While I was writing about the ebook above, I realized that I hadn't shown you yet that one of my pillowcase pile photos (shown below) was featured in last October's issue of UK's Inside Crochet as part of an article on crochet edging... all very exciting to see one of your own photos included in such a lovely magazine as Inside Crochet! Anyhow -- enough of all my horn-tooting! -- I hope you will all have a fine start to the month of February (yes, it's February tomorrow!) and I hope to be back next week with some new goodies that I've been stitching up... Thanks for your visit and 'talk to you then!
