A little gift to myself

So I have a policy.  I do not work on my birthday.  This has become a really, really important policy the last few years as I tend to work insane hours at this time of year.  Forcing myself to take a me-day, with zero guilt, is possibly the only thing that prevents some sort of tragic event occurring before the end of the year (between my team and I, my daughter and I, just in my own head...).

This year I have a cold.  Which is actually better than last year when both my daughter and I were home with colds.  Not exactly the calm, me-first, relaxing day that was supposed to be :(  Also, the cold gives me permission to hibernate rather than feel obliged to go out and be social (sorry BridgetJ).

After spending the morning wandering about on Ravelry I am now actually going to do something even more fun:  <drum roll> I shall now organize my stash!

My kind aunt paid attention to my wish list and bought me hanging closet organizers from IKEA that, quite conveniently, fit the width of my tv room closet perfectly (doncha love it when that happens?).  The virgin closet looks like this:

I have also made the wonderful discovery that standard photo boxes fit perfectly into the compartments, which is lovely as I have been using them as project boxes.  This will be helpful when the bookshelf they are currently housed in gets reclaimed by my wasband.  Then again that may happen approximately at the 12th of never...

So off I go to photograph yarn and partially completed projects for uploading to Ravelry before fitting them into their lovely new home.  By the end of the day the stash may be the only organized thing in my life, but it's something!

PS same kind aunt spent rather a lot of time trying to hunt down a set of small 4" Hiya Hiya interchangeables at a bricks-and-mortar store for me from my grandmother, but had to settle for mail order.  Otherwise the stash organizing would probably be taking a back seat to me attempting to learn to magic loop :)