That’s pretty much the state of our house at all times. We don’t have kids. We don’t feel the need to prove our social and/or financial status through how our house looks. We have a menagerie of pets and we have decorated (or not bothered to decorate much) to accomodate them. I also am completely unable to decide on the colors to paint our walls (the ultimate irony for an art major). Or save our money for new flooring instead of spending our disposable income on dvds, cool yarn or roving, or computer games and/or perepherals.

The house has changed some since I made that Sims replica of it in 2003. We lost most of our trees to a parasite and had to have them cut down, we acquired a hedgehog and completely redid the office. My parents bought a loveseat for our den Xmas before last. We installed a really cool cat door in the door to the laundry room. I turned our den into a cluttered craft room and the living room into a fiber storehouse and mailing center for my online store.

I guess the best way to describe our house (and our life) is comfortable chaos.

Scout tagged me for a fun meme she’s made up where the tagee takes photos of their usual knitting spot. Hehehe. I didn’t even tidy for it. How brave I am!

Old Coffee Table with books, patterns, basket of needles, interchangable needle sets (Denise and Boye), ballwinder, misc. stuff

My hedgehog needle holders. Well the one on the left is actually a little clay echidna toothpick holder from Australia but it makes an excellent tapestry and cable needle holder. The other one is a little gold pincushion

I usually sit and knit on the loveseat by the old coffee table with Winter sleeping to my left and a cat or two lounging on the back. It’s really cold today so I’m sporting my princess blanket.

Fireplace hearth where I keep projects I’ll be working on soon and my beloved Goko swift and skeinwinder

A closeup on the painting over the hearth. It’s a painting of the Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe where Cody and I were married in 99. My friend Will painted it for us.

Closer view of the hearth. The red and purple roving is stuff I hope to spin before Giftmas. (The purple is sparkly!) Fun baskets and my Goko.

The Ottoman that holds my feet, bags of knitting projects, a cat, the dog, the remote control, a magazine or catalogue..

The built ins and tv stuff. And my beautiful wheel. The tv cabinet is where my big Giftmas present will be: TIVO!! Woo! The stacks of misc projects on the rocking chair and hanging on the cabinet door.

And the stash in the Living Room. The bin on the left has the “good” yarn - fancy stuff from Fiesta, Robin Pascal, Noro, handspuns, Colinette Giotto, and sock yarns (yes there’s Koigu). The middle contains spinning fiber and the Bin on the right has acrylics, synthetic blends and novelty yarns.

Now I have to find five people to tag. I’m not very good with the tagging part but I’ll try!