A marathon and then some

I could run a marathon and continue for a few more miles and still be trailing yarn behind me.  I went through the bags, baskets and shelves of yarn that I mentioned the other day and when you add it all up, not only does it take up so many corners of my house up, but if put end to end I could really go the distance.  Not that I'm about to run a marathon any time soon but I could cover those 26 miles with yarn.  Not only that but I could go almost another 4 miles! That's right, I have nearly 30 miles worth of yarn in my stash...30 miles!  What was I thinking????

The Creative Bug

While the creative bug hasn't actually bitten yet, it is crawling up my arm.  I can feel it's spindly little legs as it looks for that perfect patch of skin for a bite.  Then the itch will start...

My Creativity is Frozen

It all started on Friday afternoon with what should have been a hunker-down and knit snowstorm but instead by the time I got home and bundled in for the evening all I could do was look at my work-in-progress cowl with disgust.  I picked it up a few times as the evening wore on but only got a couple of rows done at most.  My head wasn't into it, neither was my heart and in all honesty my fingers just weren't working the way they should have been, perhaps they were still trying to defrost from cleaning the snow off the car.

I have a problem

"Hello, my name is Christina and I'm a yarn-a-holic."

There, I've admitted it. I have purchased so much yarn in the last year.  It's an addiction.  I know I don't need more yarn but I find myself heading down to my LYS or to Michaels or even to Walmart on lunch and there are very few times that I leave empty handed.

A work in progress

I`m still searching for the right template, font and colour options for this blog so there will probably be a variety of looks over the coming days.  Too late to do anything tonight, my brain has turned to mush and must.get.sleep.

For the love of Ravelry

Oh my goodness!

Oh what I site!  I was addicted immediately.  I didn't know how to bind off and I barely knew how to cast on and knit a stitch but Ravelry was there and all of a sudden I was like a kid in a candy store.

So what is Ravelry?  It is a Knit and Crochet community of wonderfully fantastic and creative people that share their projects, patterns, ideas, and knowledge.  If you crochet (which I give you kudos for as I can't figure it out) or knit then check it out if you haven't already.

Obligatory Welcome Message

I've tried blogging in the past. I've had a personal blog, a product marketing/advertising blog, and a food blog. I found my attention and dedication to these blogs waned as I began to question why anyone cared what I thought about the piece on the evening news, the new product on my grocer's shelf or what I had for dinner. Then, of course, I started to feel bad about neglecting them and  this pressure built and built so I began to avoid posting at all, and, well... that led me to letting them die a slow torturous death by starvation.
 
But now the little voice in my head is getting louder.  'Write,' it says. "Write, write and write some more!"
"But what if nobody cares?" I question.
"Who cares?" it responds. "You must write."
"But..."
"No buts about it!  Get to it, get off your @** and start!  Start now!  Right now!  No excuses!"