Project monogamy?

I feel like I used to be so loyal to my projects. If I started something, I finished it. If I stepped away from it... well, I usually ended up frogging it when I found it again, because I knew I'd either never remember where I left off or, since I make up most of my patterns as I go, I'd never remember what I'd wanted it to look like.

While going through all of the crafty bits I have here in Memphis with me, I've found not one, not two, but no less than *five* separate yarny projects that are in some state of incomplete. Two are just because they're recent and I haven't felt yet like I know where I want to go next with them. Two are because I missed a deadline I had hoped to hit, and now am waiting for a reason to continue them. The fifth was because I got the job working on the cruise ships, and left it at home. Who needs a casual sweater in the Caribbean, especially when it adds to your already-astronomical baggage weight?

I've picked up the fifth project again, though I'm fairly certain I'll have to frog it in the end anyway, because I don't think it will fit me or just about anyone else I know and would give a sweater to. Oh well, at least it's practice.

What makes matters worse is that on Wednesday, I bought lace and sock yarns and size 3 DPNs with the idea that I would start knitting socks and soon make myself a really pretty lace shawl (which, of course, I would probably sell instead, since that's what happens to most of the stuff I try to make for myself).

My room

After intensely cleaning my room on Monday, I decided to take a couple of pictures, since you might be interested in seeing the state in which I live.



What I like to lovingly refer to as my "sleeping nook". It seems like a nicer name than "the only place my bed will fit". If you can't tell... I like pirates.

Keepsake shelf. Among other things, it holds:

- Harry Potter books

- Two pirate coloring books

- Christmas ornament from the hotel in Ft. Lauderdale last

November... you know, the one that just hopped into my bag all on its lonesome.

- Pirate legoman from Jason

- Jack Sparrow keychain from Sam

- Various alpaca yarns

- The first yarn I spun

- Gryffindor tie

- And further down, of course, we have Bertram Jude Flamingo.

Aaand knickknacks! I don't normally have a lot. But after finding all of these things while out and about in thrift shops since being here, I enjoy my little whatnots.

Okay, that isn't really much of my room at all. It's rather a large room. But it's kind of hard to get pictures that represent it and don't make it look ghetto. Not that it isn't ghetto. Because it is. But that's what happens when you're an intern in company housing.

Supplies

Cleaning my room and adding things to my new Ravelry account, but found that not nearly everything I own is able to be catalogued in their handy-dandy boxes. So here's a list of what else I have:

Tip protectors - 4
Stitch markers:
5 L
10 S
Cabone rings - 29
Stitch holders:
1 5"
1 3"
Cable needles
3 U-bend
1 Dipped
Stitch counters - 1
Tatting shuttle - 1 (metal)
Boye bloom loom - 1

Spool knitter - 1
Knifty Knitter looms:
Small (5 1/2")
Medium (7")
Large (9")
X-Large (11 1/2")
Embroidery hoops:
5 1/2" plastic
6" wooden
10 1/2" wooden
12 1/2" wooden
American Indian bead loom


Books
Tatting (by Tatsy)
A Cool Girl's Guide to Knitting

I'll update this more later... of course, I have wayyy more stuff than this. Pack rat, what can I say. I am my mother's daughter when it comes to hoarding supplies. You never know when you're going to want it.