will take over her old room! Hayley has been gone for 2 weeks (first to chorus camp, then on a plane BY HERSELF to go to Grandma’s for a week). In that time, she has turned 13, and has called home exactly twice. On her new cell phone (b-day gift from Mom and Dad - couldn’t send her on a plane without one) - and the ringtone she picked was the theme from The Office. That’s my girl! She’s doing great, and we’re driving to Charlotte to pick her up today, but she is just growing up too fast! She’ll probably have grown another inch when I see her. Shea, of course, has been growing up too, but I think it’s easier to see the first one grow up when there’s still another little one behind her. Here’s a pic the girls got together and took of themselves:

Anyway, before she left, Hayley moved in to Holly’s old room, and we’re fixing up her old room as an office/yarn room. We can’t move the computer and its assorted stuff in there until we get the electricity upgraded in that room, but we can do just about everything else needed. The only thing really missing at this point is a comfy knitting chair for me, and we haven’t found one we can afford yet. Looking in through the door to “my” corner:

Notice that the swift and ballwinder have permanent homes, much to Mark’s chagrin. The unit the swift is on has wheels, so I can just roll it to where I need it.
The desk area:

We found this great desk at World Market - we wanted something really simple, yet elegant. Mark picked the curtains, and we chose the wall color based on that. Backwards, I know, but it worked for us. Here’s my little corner, sans chair:

Bookcase with knitting magazines and ballwinder, and a yarn-holding moose. The red pig was Mark’s choice - he found it when we bought the curtains and had to have it! Imagine a nice comfy chair right here - it will be my quiet getaway place.
And of course the closet:

I’ve been kind (OK, OCD) enough to label it for you so you can get the full effect. You never really know just how much yarn you have until you put it all into one place. I still have to move other craft stuff in there that has been stored in my room.

In other news, the Socks of Kindness are finally done. They weren’t hard, but the repetition kicked my butt for a while. Now that they’re finished, I absolutely love them, and hate that I dragged them out so long.

The yarn is from Mama E - Signs of Spring, I believe an exclusive KnitPicky colorway that I picked up back in March when Mama was here for the dyeing workshop.

Currently there are lots of boring socks on the needles - a brown one for Mark, a rainbow one for me (which may be frogged), one for me in Mama’s Pajamas (another Mama E exclusive), and my carry-around striped one. Oh, and another pair of cute baby socks for another new baby at school. I’m waiting for some yarn to come in from Turtlegirl - she was destashing and just happened to have some SWTC Bamboo in a colorway that The Queen sent me a ball of a few years back. I think that it’s going to become the Artisokka Rose sweater instead of the ArtFibers, which just doesn’t do the pattern justice. I know, poor ArtFibers yarn just can’t decide what it should be. I’m starting to contemplate Clapotis.

I’m off to go get ready to go get my girl - I’m so glad she’s coming home. It has been SOOOO quiet around here!

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