Lunch anyone?

Lunch around here is quickly created and immediately inhaled.  I had to fend off the hungry hordes to snap these pics.  Cameron is a master of the "dagwood" sandwich and he learned this skill at the feet of the master, my husband Peter.  The creations are legendary, finely tuned and well received.  It's a feast!

Shawl

There is something soothing about so many squares in delightful colours on their way to somewhere.  All of a uniform size, pleasing to the eye and destined for cuddling.  This shawl will warm my shoulders on those end of summer forest visits.   Each square will be surrounded by a beautiful chocolate brown wool making each one like a picture in a frame.  Sigh..

The Great Craft Room purge of 2014!

Oh my yesssss it was bad...

Mmmm hmmmm...

Yes, this is the sewing table -I used to clear away a spot and sew or create but this room was also the universal dumping ground.

So you can see the dilemma I was in especially after having been hugely influenced while visiting dearest friends in Calgary who live in a small space.  Every  piece of crafting material (soup to nuts) has to be in its place most of the time.  I was especially struck by my friend's handy treatment of her wool stash - a place for every skein and every skein in its place!  The idea began to percolate...I could/would/might clean up my own craft room to see if I could make enough space to cut out squares for a lap quilt I had purchased some fabric for.  The fabric squares in question are 7 inches square so quite a bit of room was needed on my craft table and that meant that everything else in there had to shift.

I think the final garbage bag total was 7 big green garbage bags. The photos at the bottom of the post show the classic crafter trick of putting each project in its own special plastic container thus having it ever handy and my own bad habit of buying lovely bags to do the same.  There are a LOT of empty plastic bins in my house currently.  Post Inn Village is the beneficiary of much of the extra wool, stamps, scrapbooking papers etc.  Sigh - and what took me three days of semi-hard graft is now to be revealed!!!!

 Good Canadian girl must work with Tim's - there is simply no other way !

The results are in - I can see the floor in the cupboard and everything has its place - so thank you Jane and Shannon!