Don'tcha think by the time you finish that Embroidered Lady you will own the place free and clear? Think of the stash as equity enhancement.
xox Kay
Heh. I've been telling myself for the last year that my yarn buying (you are correct, SEX is quite a different thing indeed) is as a squirrel storing nuts for the winter, in that if I follow through with my plan to quit my job and go back to school, I will not be able to add to the collection the same way, possibly not at all, for some significant time and I need to Be Prepared.
Thank you for the definition of aventure - it is apropos and I have enjoyed filtering certain ideas through that it.
Best of luck with your real estate aventures.
The very best of good luck with the lovely house, which you richly deserve to have and to care for. Thank you for a delightful weblog, full of treasures and enthusiasms -- any admirer of Alice Thomas Ellis is a friend of mine -- and for your generosity in describing your intersecting worlds with such brio. I solved my stash problem, to a barely perceptible degree, by encouraging my taste for fine surface embroidery; it's amazing how many hanks of stranded cotton can be stored in a large hatbox.
you know i adore you.
Stash is security. Some people save for retirement, I save for nuclear winter. Should I be dying from radiation sickness, by God I can still knit my cares away.
It all sounds like a great aventure to me (I, who am reading Guillaume de Machaut today) -- and a goodly supply of goods is a good thing.
In re: Book Stash. I find that the office mailing address solves all Amazon reproach. Well, most of it. So long as I remember not to take books home while they still look NEW.
From one literate & knitting Anne to another, I wish you tremendous luck on your Aventure. My husband and I embarked a house aventure four years ago, and it's brought us to all kinds of unexpected places - some terrifying, some better than we could have dreamed. We don't regretting getting in the boat for a minute.
As for the stash: moving is probably the best thing you could do. In my experience it is the only proven way to reduce stashes and slow their future growth. I have some fond hopes that cultivating a Yarn Stash might help me better to control our rampant Book Plague and CD Inundation - rather like those foreign vines that flourish when transplanted, choking out the local flora. I fear, however, that all three stashes will continue to burgeon unchecked.
I think your blog is terrific.
That would be "embarked ON a house aventure." My fingers tend to move faster than my brain.
One shouldn't move on to new words without appreciating the mineral and (manmande) glass called aventurine.
The manufacturing process for goldstone was discovered in seventeenth-century on the island of Murano (Venice) by the Miotti family, which was granted an exclusive license by the Doge. Persistent folklore attributes the discovery and secret of goldstone to an unnamed Italian monastic order, giving rise to the alternate name "monk's gold" or "monkstone".
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Curiously, goldstone is one of the few cases where a synthetic simulant provided the eponymy for the similar natural stone. The original Italian name for goldstone is said to be "avventura" or some similar word or phrase indicating its accidental discovery, hence the mineral name "aventurine" for forms of [feldspar]] or quartz with mica inclusions that give a similar glittering appearance. Yet another name for goldstone is "aventurine glass", but this should be discouraged to avoid confusion with the minerals.
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Carl
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So we'll just give you loads of yarn etc. as housewarming gifts.
(If only I could figure out how, I would give bookcases as housewarming gifts. Anyone who doesn't desperately another couple of bookcases isn't worth knowing.)
We just embarked on our new house aventure as well - in our case a farm aventure. I have no idea how we will pay the mortgage (the bank resists my concept of yarn as legal tender) but it is obviously so right that we are sure this will work out! As a note of optimism, we made an offer on our farm, they sold it to someone else, and then the other folks reneged and stole away in the night, so we got our farm after all. I REFUSE to say if it's yours you'll end up with it, but bear in mind over those agonizing times of waiting for things to fall into place that there are many ways for things to come right in the end...best of all possible luck!
Best of luck with your aventure. It sounds like a marvelous place; I really hope it works out.
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