I love our house in many ways, but it’s too big. It has a wonderful warm feeling I will hate to part with one day, but our house is too big. It has five bedrooms, three of which are ridiculously huge. I mean, why in the world you would need a bedroom that big? I have no idea, but that’s what we got when we bought this house. So much about this house just spoke to us when we bought it. It had such good energy, but it needed work and still needs some of that work. Plus, it’s huge–with the tiniest kitchen. Again, I have no idea why. Truly, it’s too much for us to keep as clean as we would like, but we are stuck here for now, so we try to make good use of the space. After all, having five bedrooms means Boudica has her own room where the treadmill also lives, and we have an entire room devoted to our son’s music. He has a place for him to practice without dogs and cats getting involved.
But I am about to get my own room–a craft and quilting room–and I am pretty overjoyed about this. Suddenly, I am thinking that five bedrooms has its perks.
Ron and our son moved my favorite table (it’s handmade, and I lucked into it) up to this room, and last night, Ron cleaned it out for me. Today, I started moving my crafts up from the basement, and I am telling you, I have some treasures: I have yarns for scarves, tons of quilt scraps and some longer pieces, two embroidery kits, all of my candle stuff (so many pretty jars), and I found my spoon carving stuff for my dream of carving spoons out of special wood. This has all just been buried in the basement because I am always too busy. This is how it goes (maybe you will understand this): I buy the yarn and wish for the day for me to have time to do something with it. Too often, that day never seems to come.
I am determined to make that day come. I am leaving one more job at the end of this semester, and I looking forward to having some time this winter to craft. It is my therapy. It is so important to me. And, oh my gosh, having my space for this is going to mean the world.
Oh, and I found gifts I have been saving for just the right occasion and then forgetting about them. I have found everything, and my friends are about to get some treats–at least I think they are treats.
Anyway, I am getting a room of my own with my favorite table and crafty treasures. I feel pretty fortunate to have such a space.
photo credit: Vidar Nordli-Mattheson
