What I'm doing over my winter break.

As the fall semester was coming to a close, I pondered what I was going to do with my semi-free time off before the Spring semester kicked in. I do have several jobs, but as they are all extremely flexible and for the most part "as needed", I knew that I'd be spending a lot of time browsing Netflix Instant Watch, wishing that I was back in school so I wouldn't be so bored. My initial plan was to read Anna Karenina in it's entirety, as I have a terrible habit of starting to read that book and then putting it away half way through, despite the fact that I love it as I'm reading. It's just one of those books you can't put down for fear of never picking it up again, you know?

Anyway, I started making a bunch of cowls for Christmas gifts since, despite my several sources of monetary income, I'm almost nearly totally broke all the time. Crocheting is an extremely fast, easy and natural hobby of mine, so crocheting practical gifts this holiday season made the most sense. I was searching the internuts for some new patterns to use for a scarf I want to make for myself, when I came across Design*Sponge.

Well oh ho ho! if I didn't spend the next several hours scouring their website and various other DIY blogs, bookmarking all my favorite DIY projects with the intention of attempting at least a few of them. Well, that was yesterday and I'm already on my fourth project (this cute yarn wreath from A Beautiful Mess).

It only seemed natural that I would decide to start documenting everything that I'm making. At first it was just going to be a Facebook photo album "What I did over Winter break" but I decided instead to blog about it, knowing full well that the only people that would ever read this blog would be myself and the few other people I might decide to show it to. Regardless of who does or does not read my adventures in DIY project making and crafts, I'm still happy to have a medium in which to keep track of all the creative-ish stuff that I do over my break.

Now all I need is a functioning camera to actually take pictures of the things that I'm making and then I'll really be ready to get this blog started.

-Dani