Clean All The Things!
This weekend we cleaned all the things. Well, almost all of them. We didn’t get to the bedroom because we ran out of time, but that part of the apartment is the easiest anyway; it’s air conditioned. The rest of the apartment is not, so the nice weather this weekend presented a pressing need to do some cleaning while it was actually livable in the rest of the place.
The kitchen (dishes, stove, floors) was standard cleaning, but the major obstacle this weekend was the Walk-In Closet of Hoardy DOOM. There a nice, big closet that has been filled with half-full boxes of Stuff (mostly junk, Warhammer bits, and miscellaneous Things) that needed to be sorted and consolidated.
With that goal in mind, we hit the stores in search of wire cubby cube thingies. We finally found them at Target in the college section. (I may have also used this trip as an excuse to buy a plastic tub for hand-painting fibers. Don’t judge me.) Hooray! We bought enough to make 12 cubic cubbies, which definitely came in handy.
Here is everything we pulled out of the closet (plus the chairs from the kitchen while floor-mopping was happening):
CRAZY! It looks like a lot, but what you can’t see is that half of those things are empty, and half of the non-empty ones are half-full. It only really took us Sunday afternoon/evening to go through everything. Now the yarn is well-organized inside zippy bags on the shelves, and so are the media, bits for miniature gaming, and our SCA garb.
The kitchen is also nice and clean, with a mopped floor and a whole lot of clean dishes!
But most importantly, check this out: You can actually see (and walk on) the floor in our closet! Woo HOO!
One nice thing was that we left time on Saturday after shopping to do some projects for ourselves. P got to brew a new batch of beer, and I got to dye some Corriedale top I’m itching to spin as well as a special batch of sock yarn that is a prize reserved for a Shawl Wars game I’ll be playing on Ravelry this fall. Here are the fruits!
These are both hand painted, which was blessedly easier now that I have the plastic tub. I got one of those shallow under-the-bed rubbermaid bins that’s nice and long, and that way I don’t have to worry about dye running off onto the floor or things like that.
Overall it was a super-productive weekend! I even have some Creme de Luxe and some girly sock yarn to list on Etsy this week; I’m also going to do my first Giveaway (a bit of that Creme de Luxe!) this week, so keep an eye out for free yarn!
Dyet Yarns blog posts by Adrian "Nuri" Steinhauer are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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