I've decided to put aside some of the boxes for a while,
and get things cleaned up and organized a bit around here.
I am begining a project journal,
purchased a nice bound journal (black bound)
with grid pages, rather than lined (or blank)
and it has a ribbon for keeping your place.
I want to list every project I have going on,
and approximately when I started them
and be able to put a completion date in as well.
For instance, the quilt I'm making for a wedding gift,
a quilt I'm making for a Christmas present,
the cross stitch- projects I have going,
the knitting project's I have going.
(I probably have about a hundred started things)
the problem is where to begin with the list...
I don't know how I could possibly start with the oldes one,
because I may find an even older one somewhere...
meanwhile...
I'm taking off for my home in Canada for a week...
don't know that I'll be able to do anything till I get back.
My home is in Nelson, British Columbia...
one of the prettiest spots in the world.
By lake Kootenay, in the Selkirk mountains.
We weren't rich enough to afford lake front property,
but we can see it through the neighbors across the street from us.
We are below the Kokanee Glacier about 9miles outside of the town of Nelson.
Have made some really good friends there,
so I'm heading up there to see them
as well as winterize the house.
There are year round neighbors
who keep an eye out on things-
we hope to retire there and be year round residents one day.
We found the spot,
because my husband was born there in Nelson,
and still has a few relatives left there.
So maybe we are odd people,
but we dream of mountains and lakes
rather than sand and sun
as our ideal place for retirement...
I find it easier to bundle up than to find some way to cool down.

Thought it might be fun to keep an account of my escapades...
that is, my hoped for projects in crafting and quilting.
at this time, I am going through boxes that have been waiting 6 years
(yes I really mean 6 years) to be sorted out.
They're full of crafting and quilting projects and materials.
I long to have a sewing/craft room in my home,
but the rooms get filled as soon as they get empty.
One kid leaves and another needs to come back.
What am I to do, let my grandchildren live in a cardboard box under a bridge?
I don't think so...not when I really do have space for them to come home for a short time.
I have found several projects I want to finish, several I want to start,
and a bunch of things I will probably sell on ebay.
as things get going, projects and ideas for projects, maybe eventually the sewing room,
I hope to post pictures. If people want to follow my blog, great...If not, it's theraputic for me.
meanwhile, I also spend a lot of time traveling, and will post thoughts and info about that.