Knit Knacks

I have a LOT of stuff- my family calls it "knick knacks;" others might call it junk; sometimes I call it crap and now my children lovingly refer to MY STUFF as crap!  When my grandmother passed away, we came home with lots of knick knacks.  She was the Queen Knack.  We gave away stuff to Goodwill, neighbor children, the garbage men, even folk stopping by with condolences.  And still there was lots of stuff left.  I have 4 children so we loaded stuff up and packed it in the car-- "they might want it some day!" we reasoned.  Some blog posts ago I might have mentioned (I can't remember) a correlation between the stuff in our house and the stuff around our thighs/ hips/ waists.  I'm a believer. I can't quote a reference right now; but I believe!

Today I titled this post Knit Knacks because in addition to all the stuff I already have, I am now hoarding yarn.  I laugh.  I can't do anything in moderation, can I?  Tucked in a basket right next to my coloring paraphernalia is skeins and skeins of yarn, oh, and lots of hooks too.  A girl can't use just one hook, right?  Several months ago (maybe even a year) Eldest Daughter and I went to Hobby Lobby and purchased skeins of colored yarn.  Looking at my basket, nothing matches or would look good together.  What does that mean?  Back to Hobby Lobby to purchase matching colors for the colors I already own so I can make a nice looking potholder!

I have a headache.  I opened the bathroom cabinet and a myriad of lotion bottles were staring at me.  Where did all these lotions come from?  Every once in a while I get a hankering for girly things and walk down the cosmetic aisle and sample and smell every lotion and ta da...purchase one or a dozen.  I'm sorry about this post.  It is a random knick-kancky rambling from a strawberry with a headache.  Thankfully on one of those girly shopping sprees I bought a bottle of aromatherapy "Stress Relief" spray.  I'm carrying it around with me so I'll be a bubble of stress relief.  I think I'll go down a few Advil too!

Grainiacs, I've given up coloring for now and I'm working on knitting and crocheting.  I love to craft but haven't taken the time to do it.  I think my coloring has brought out all this crafty behavior.  It's not helping the house cleaning or the organizing the meal planning, but it calms me.  And let's face it-- we all need calm during this season.

Pleasant crafting to you and yours.