Oh No!! I've found more knitting magazines!!!

I have a confession to make.  I am a hoarder.

Now don't get too worried for me.  I'm not an all out, can't-move-for-stuff, collects-everything hoarder, but I do have a few just-slightly-beyond-my-control collections, mostly to do with knitting. . .and crafts. . .and art stuff.  And as so many just-slightly-beyond-my-control collectors of stuff, my habit bleeds into other things and other family members.  For example we all seem to have a great many books.  And even though we have a great many books, kids included, we still tend to borrow books from libraries, which every now and then get sucked into our other books so today my dear husband and I have been hunting high and low for three such books.  I am afraid we received a rather official looking letter from our church librarian last Sunday morning informing us that our youngest son had some books overdue, the most expensive one almost exactly a year overdue so find it or else, and therefore something had to be done.  And while looking for the last of these books, and one I am quite certain I have already found once before and returned -- which is one of the problems with just-slightly-beyond-my-control collections because you can't be sure -- I came across a pile of knitting magazines in a place I did not know I had knitting magazines along with some knitting and crochet pattern booklets.  I'm rather excited about it actually because there are two knitting magazines that I have been trying to find and the one was most definitely there and the other is probably there if I look a little deeper, plus there's a Debbie Bliss magazine I had completely forgotten I had bought.  But it's also a little frightening.  You see I started cataloging my collection on Ravelry a while back and found I had entered over 80 magazines and books just from memory.  Then after spending a few minutes here and a few minutes there I found myself up to a hundred and something and now I have found this new bunch.  If I swore not to ever buy another knitting book or magazine again I doubt I have enough years left to finish just one project from each pattern book I currently own and I don't buy a knitting book unless I want to make at least four or five definitely and a couple more maybe.  Add to it that the last project I finished was off a web site and I think my next one will be too and I am completely lost.

Why do I have all these books?  What does this all mean?  Am I a totally lost cause or is there hope for me yet?

I don't know.  But I do know I finally put my two year old shelf up in the kitchen and cleared a lovely spot on my counter.  And I am really looking forward to curling up and looking through some wonderful magazines.  So maybe I'm doing okay.

Except I'm afraid there's still one library book unaccounted for, but I really do think we returned it.

Hello

So, it's a new year and an awfully long time since I posted my one post on this poor thing so here we go again.  I suppose before I do anything else I should introduce myself, in case someone who doesn't actually know me comes across this.
My name is Karen and I am a mother, an artist, a knitter, a cafe owner, worship team singer, assistant running coach, and now a would-be blogger.  I live in a small old house in a small town on the Georgian Bay in Ontario surrounded by beauty and small town intrigues.  And am somehow connected to everyone else on this planet with my laptop and my smart phone.  In short, I am a confused and creative, overworked human being in the early twenty-first century.
And I am working without a net.  Or at least without as much of a plan as I really should have.  And I suppose I am going to see what I can see and sort out what I can sort out as I write to everyone and no-one in my little blog.
So now that I have written a brief introduction of sorts, I will sign off and promise to be a more dedicated blogger as I go on.