The Majesty of Space Bags

In our tiny apartment, I've been getting that crazed, overcrowded feeling that makes me cranky. In an effort to reorganize better, I started taking my roving inventory out of the clear plastic Rubbermaid tubs and packing them into Space Bags... those storage system bags you see on TV that you suck all the air out of? Such total life savers! They were made for items whose bulk is mostly made of air. My entire inventory is now the size of a travel garment bag. Very awesome. And testing shows that the roving bounces right back once open, even after prolonged storage.

I think my whole personal stash is going to go this route too.

I have finally finished Clue #1 of the Mystic Rose knit-along shawl. Kept going straight into Clue #2. It seems essentially the same as one, just wider. I've made a crap-ton of mistakes that I will NOT rip back to fix, however I may make another one at a later time in a different yarn. Not right away though. I've discovered that I NEED a mindless, no-chart-needed knitting project to go with my complex ones, otherwise my brain tries to shut itself down.

I have not gotten much further on the Silk Roses roving I am spinning. I did a little of it yesterday, but since I've been trying to catch up on the shawl, I have not been spinning much since I started it. I do want to get it spun up before I order my loom for my birthday. That's going to happen sometime later this week.

Two rovings were posted to my shop last week, along with some new stitch markers. I have a couple more sets of stitch markers coming too... the coordinated sets of Czech fire-polished glass beads make for some lovely sets.

I suppose I should say something...

I've been putting off making my next entry because I'm waiting on a friend to vet a surprise thing I'm doing... but she hasn't gotten to it yet so it's in a holding pattern. Possibly tomorrow though!

New rovings are up in the shop, and there will be a third tomorrow. Tomorrow is Mom's Day Off but I'll still list the last of the triad. They're all named after foods... and no, I'm not on a diet. I don't know what happened there.

Expecting a big purchase from Fire Mountain gems tomorrow, so more jewelry in the weeks to come. I had my first jewelry purchase from my Etsy shop yesterday, so that's good timing. Very motivational.

Something less motivational happened this week that I'm mortified about, because it is my fault in the sense that I trusted someone else in my family to take care of part of my business, and then they screwed up. I don't like total self-reliance in everything, but in the case of my baby business, I should have taken care of such things myself. My bad. I hope it turns out okay.

Sorry about the vague, but after my "Social networking" post last week, I just don't want to air everything to the world, ya know?

Sometimes when I blog, I remember this creative writing class I took in college. I don't know if you've heard of my professor, the "mad hugger" (it was on TV back in the 80s... one of the news programs, I don't remember which) but he was my creative writing proff, and he asked us to do journal entries which we then turned in. He commented on them, saying they were very candid... got an A. I think my point is though that I don't filter stuff I put here very often. They feel like diary entries when I do them. I try to keep them on-topic for fiber, knitting, and the shop, but yeah... it's my only blog, so I do vent sometimes.

Thanks for reading, in any case.