Bohemian Bluestocking

It's amazing what you can accomplished when you are unemployed/underemployed. Projects get DONE. period. end of story. It knitting, knitting, knitting, sewing, cooking, milk chocolate brownies, ginger carrot soup, homemade bread(?!), mopped floors(that just amazes me to no end -- I rarely mop the floors.)

I sorted all my embroidery floss and wrapped it onto little DMC cards.

And while it's certainly not boredom because I have plenty to do, I am wondering at all the things I've managed not to finish since I moved to Pittsfield. In the process of finishing some embroidery project(done after I sorted/wrapped all that floss) I came across/finished a dishtowel, as far as I can determine, has been sitting in the workbasket for over 10 YEARS. I packed it up unfinshed when I moved to Pittsfield from New Hampshire. I don't know if I should be horrified or humiliated.

Leave it at that. 

The homemade bread was yummy.

I keep telling myself that if I have an happy outlook the day won't look so bad. But it still does. You know those late winter days when it dusk ALL DAY LONG!? I got some knitting done though, 3 cotton scrubbies and 2 dishcloths. A friend of mine makes this wonderful olive oil/cocoa butter soap, so I think a trade is in order next tiime I see here. This winter is just drying up my skin, so much that I want scrape if off and start over. 

I made a list of the unfinished projects in the 2+ "sewing" laundry baskets and 2 "knitting" baskets. And this is the plan. It ALL gets done by mid-April. It has to get done. I'm unemployed, except for some pieces of stitching work, so there is NO EXCUSE this time around (I made this promise to myself last late winter, and very little came of it.) I start back at Shakes & Co at the end of April, so there's the deadline. And it's not insurmountable, either. Very manageable, in fact. And the other basket, of completed objects, is growing big enough that it might spill over into 2 baskets, which would mean I may actually be close to being down to 1+ basket of sewing projects. Which would warrant of real cry of "whoopi!"