Man, it has been a long time since I posted anything here! And so many awesome projects have been started or finished, or are still in project limbo. I'm going to try to write some posts and post some photos of the finished projects. The biggest "unfinished" project right now is my very own baby to knit for, due in September. My house has been baby clothes central since we saw the first ultrasound and realized we were going to have a real live baby with the right number of fingers and toes.
We are also in the middle of building the dream house that my partner has been planning and scheming about for the past three years or so at least, and this is a completely new type of project for me. I mostly nod and smile while he talks about square footage and plumbing, but it is amazing to see a whole new house materialize next to the one we live in now. The only really frustrating part of the process (other than the self-inflicted austerity measures) is that we lost access to the attic of our current house as part of the project, and every day I find something that I need for a cooking or crafting project that is packed away neatly in some inaccessible corner of the attic. This means that, although the plum tree is bursting with ripe plums, there will be no plum jam this year!! There will also be no bundt cakes and no cookie cutter shaped cookies and I will have to buy new ribbon to festoon my friend's bridal wreath. Somehow, things like this are much more frustrating during pregnancy. Luckily, I made sure that the sewing machine was downstairs before the seal-up happened, which has saved me (and my partner) from hormone-induced rage.
