Probably Busy On a Project... or not.

I haven't posted ever about projects, related to sewing or otherwise. To be honest, I have not really been working on anything crafty lately. Before I graduated I had hoped to finish my gorgeous, brilliant, 16.5 pound niece's blanket before we visited Portland at the end on March. It is now the middle of April and I am still 3 inches from the finish line, which is exactly where I was 2 months ago. And honestly, I would feel like a big cheater if I started working on anything for our baby with my niece's blanket unfinished.

So, in short, I have been avoiding the needles. Now that I am no longer knitting instead of not doing my homework, now that I've nearly watched all the X-Files through for the second or third time, now that I am officially without job or school and really have absolutely nothing better to do, I have very little desire to work on crafts. Totally lame, I know.

What I did do was spend two weeks cleaning my house and getting it ready for an unexpected visitor (not the baby). I cleaned a lot of crap out of the garage so that there is now space actually to stand while doing the laundry, I moved the office from the master bedroom into the former library, relocated two of the bookcases from the library to new homes, cleaned and painted the master bedroom, moved all our crap into it and cleaned the now guest room for the visitor. It was a crap-ton of very unpleasant and tedious business.

I don't have any before pictures, but the master bedroom looks 500 million times better now than it did while it was an office. Which loosely translates into a room of smelly, dirty boys. Although I kept my sewing machine and yarn stash in there, working in the office was usually to be done over the din of video games and under a pile of candy wrappers.

Now it's blue and we live in it and I never want to be in any other room of the house.
In fact, I like it so much I am having an incredibly difficult time gathering the wherewithal to hang our pictures, which are still propped up against the wall a week after moving in. I just can't bear to have any interruptions in the pure bliss of blue. It's ridiculous, I know, but there you have it.

Now I'm out of projects for a while. I wont be working on the baby's room until our house guest vacates the premises, and Rex does not think it is safe for me to work on the sanding project that I got pregnant in the middle of (which is just fine with me really).

I guess it is time to get back to stitching! What do you folks do when you become uninspired by your favorite pass time? Starting a new project is so not an option, I've got about five unfinished ones in my stash bag(s).