As most of y'all know, 2 years ago, I joined a group of like-minded people on Ravelry. What do I mean by like-minded? Well, they love yarn, competition, and Harry Potter. This means for 3 months out of every 4, I'm yarning like a mad woman, trying to get as many points as possible for my team (Slytherin, of course). The fourth month, I spend doing one of the other things I love to do - making charts and graphs. Of the yarny Harry Potter competition results.
But all this yarning and yarning-related activities leaves little time for much else. I've been missing a lot of my other creative outlets: Cooking, baking, sewing/quilting, cross-stitching, and paper crafting/scrapbooking. Not to mention that some day I'd like to finish putting my apartment together. So, I've come up with a plan that I think will help me get a little balance in my life; I'm instituting WIP Wednesday and Stringless Sunday!
WIP Wednesday is actually an idea that came from being in the House Cup (that Harry Potter competition on Ravelry). WIP stands for Work In Progress. Each Wednesday I will work on unfinished projects. I'm starting with my few yarn-related projects that need to be finished up. Once those are all under control, I'll move on to other things: the 2 unfinished quilts in the top of my closet, several pieces of unfinished cross stitch (2 of which are way late wedding gifts), and my perpetually out-of-date scrapbook.
Stringless Sunday is, more or less, what it sounds like. Sundays will be yarn-free days. I will spend the time, writing, crafting, and decorating. This will probably establish more WIPs for WIP Wednesday and I'm okay with that. Hopefully it also means that I'll do a better job of regular blog writing.
So, today was my first Stringless Sunday. I made some charts and graphs and finally fixed up a wall in my living room. I replaced a vinyl wall cling from Ikea, with some pictures I've taken during my travels that I converted to gray scale and enlarged to 8 x10.
Before:
After:
And a bit closer:
