Organizing

I've been sick for days and days. The longest I've been sick for a while--and between napping and napping and napping, I kept waking worried about work or thinking about projects I wanted to start.

So, yesterday, as the illness was beginning to relent, I whipped together a needle case for all of the my double-pointed knitting needles. My aunt gave me a needle holder years ago, which I love and use all of the time, but it officially doesn't have enough space for both single and double points.

So, here's the new concoction:


Neatly bundled up. . . but rolled out to total width, it's about 42 inches long. That's more space than I really need for knitting needles, but my collection seems to keep growing.


Not a very difficult project and I still had to take breaks throughout the day to nap between steps. Being sick is so strange. But having a new needle case is lovely. . .

What a productive weekend. . . it helped that I took Friday off.  But I made loads of things, cleaned my office, tidied the house and generally cleaned, and even had a little time to make a helpful thing for myself (and to beat the gentleman in my life at Scrabble. . . plus lots of snoggling with the wee dog).  I know!  None of this sounds terribly exciting, but it is.  The new tidiness of the house will relax me for the rest of the week and I reclaimed much needed open space on my desk for work once again!

Here's the little thing I made for myself.  

My headphones are constantly getting knotted  and attached to pens or wrapped around things in my bag.  

Well, no more!  This little stuff sack is going to help keep my bag organized.

Tidying

This is my favorite word of late, in all of its variations except for "tidiness" which for some reason feels less like something to aspire to and more like an imposition by someone else. Why? But I want to be a tidier person. I want to throw things away and square things up and I want to look into my office at home and say to it, "oh, how tidy you are, little office."