I Should Be Thinking of Spinning... But No I'm On Renovations... Again

It is Tuesday. Last week I was making an effort to get my buns in a tight swimsuit so that I could swim for two hours. (You don't want to think about a squash in a swimsuit... too much like veggie tales!). That night, my shoulders felt like there was a nasty little fire burning inside of them. Teapot had messaged them but I ended up having to take meds to put out the flames. Today, a week later, I am expecting my friend for a day of spinning. It is rather difficult to wrap my head around the fact that a week has gone by, and I have been pissing away time all week and getting nothing done in my work books so today I will get out some fibre and spin. Today's question will be spin three separate colours and keep them separate in plying by "Navajo plying" which is a technique that draws on a crochet chain style of plying.

Recently I have been getting the itch to work on my crappy looking house. There have been some dust bunnies move in recently and I'm sure that if I'm not careful, they will let Murphy back in when my back is turned! (If you read here regularly, then you will know that Murphy, of Murphy's law fame, had lived under my china cabinet with his buddies the dust bunnies and they would conspire against me at every opportunity! {No I'm not making this up and I'm not delusional... well maybe a little delusional..}

See this is the china cabinet where they lived!

Until last year when I got the hutspa to kick them out of my house. Now they have taken to living under the deck. But they keep trying to get back in... and when I'm not diligent those dust bunnies reproduce prolifically... it's all Murphy's fault!) I am not happy with the way my house is looking. I suddenly had a brilliant idea the other day. (Teapot was not so sure.) When we moved in to this house, we were tickled pink that off the bedroom there is a lovely little balcony. The problem is that it is on the east side of the house. So in summer time it is far too warm to sit out there until well after dark at which time the bats (which love it) decide to swoop and swarm around it. This makes it virtually unusable.

Notice the junk up there... that's because nobody uses it!

So I decided that I will put my studio out on the balcony.  It is a small space but that is pretty normal for around here. It is about 4ft. by 14 ft. So this spring Teapot and I will purchase 2x4s and we will close it in and weather proof it. It will not be warm but it will be a good space to store my unspun wool and plastic containers full of junk which takes up 90% of my studio.

See... there's plenty of space here for studio storage. And we will use glass to close it in with a couple of opening windows so the light won't change in our bedroom.

 I will keep my loom downstairs and my wheel and Lazy Kate. I will also try to find space for my rigid heddle loom downstairs too. That way I will be able to use the whole sunroom as a living space and then the dining table can come into the room off the kitchen which believe me is an all round better use of space. This also means that we have no choice but to buy a love seat and two, maybe three, new chairs. Our sectional couch just will not work in the sunroom.

As a result of this slight change in our accommodations, we are going to finish the flooring downstairs. This means a year of living with wretched plywood again. The first step to finishing the flooring is bringing the floor up to the level of the kitchen by putting half inch plywood down as sub-flooring. Then we are going to go shopping to buy (finally) the recycled rubber flooring from Home Depot that we chose back in 2008 when we did our big renovation.

This is the flooring from Home Depot

 (It's hard to believe that it will be 4 years since we started the renovation on April 4th 2008.) It is an awesome product and we have already used it in our downstairs bathroom

Sorry this is not the clearest picture but this is the easiest stuff to keep clean. I just love this flooring.

and my parents living room. We thought about putting a hardwood or a laminate product on our floors but with dogs and snow and mud in spring we need something that will stand up to the wear and tear and be easy to clean. I used laminate in the kitchen when we took up the carpet first when we moved in but I can safely say that I didn't really like the product, so we wanted a different option this time around.

Is it hard to tell that spring is getting closer? Every year I go through this... I make plans... I change plans and some come to fruition but some don't. Hopefully this will be the year that gets us closer to being finished. I'm quite frankly sick of living in a renovation zone. But every little thing we do is one step closer to being finished. Last week I had the electrician come and finish all the electrical... except for the outside verandah lights... that he will do in the spring when temperatures warm up. But at least I now have the bathroom lights finished and we actually have a light in our bedroom and now I just have to get the new lights for the kitchen which will take regular bulbs instead of halogen bulbs.

Yup... spring is coming and my nest feathering is definitely rearing it's ugly head... I had better go do some work on my spinning before I get any more brainy ideas!

Are you getting nest feathering ideas too?!