The stash....

School holidays are good for a number of "things...."

1: Having a lie in (although small blond ones always seem to rise one and a half hours earlier during a holiday in comparison to a school day. Funny that!
2: Visiting your mother and playing on the beach with the small blond one
3: Prepping for a craft fayre... or seven
4: Baking a cake... or seven
5: Sorting out "THE STASH!"

Now, I thought about the stash and whether it needed to be sorted and after about three and a half seconds of deliberation (yes, really that long), I realised that this was a task I had put off for such a long time, that I should actually slap myself for even considering 'whether it needed to be sorted.'

It was actually a very theraputic thing to do. Admittedly, I felt somewhat nauseous thinking about how much money I do spend on my addiction, but, in my opinion, it is a very satisfying addiction and it's not as though I smoke the stuff, melt down the fibres and inject them, or, God forbid, chop yarn with a razor blade and snort it....how wasteful can you get?

It has be proved (medically or otherwise) that knitting is a theraputic past time which releases feel good hormones and relaxes you....

Back to THE STASH...

Please don't ask me how many ziplock bags I filled, but it was at least 15; then add on the existing ziplock bags I had (6), followed by the "I'm not a zip lock bag, I have no zippy bit, but I am a big bag and, oh, are you putting all of that blue yarn in me...? I really don't think I'm big enou....!" and then there was the large cotton bag which is now filled with creams and browns and taupes. I have a bag filled with black yarn. When on earth did I buy all of that black yarn? I thought my blue period was bad enough, but, please.. that's a lot of black!

So now, all sorted and tidy and calming.

I have a new mantra - "I will not buy any more yarn!"

... and then I woke up and realised that I am in the real world and yes, I will buy more yarn - but maybe not for a few months / weeks / days / Lucy has got the new range of Rico baby colours at Woolaballoo.... I wondered if I just....