A month’s worth of rain forecast to fall over the next two days -
guess we’ll be singing in the rain! 
I’m getting ready to join in the 5 Weeks To A Clean And Organized Home! challenge over at the Christian Homekeeper’s Network. (wish me luck….)
Toward that end, I bought a small dresser at Kmart to house my yarn stash. I was tired of tripping over totes full of yarn in the bedroom.
It was on sale for a very good price but unfortunately, for that good price, what you purchased was not so much a dresser – more a box of boards and some screws. And those metal slidey things that drawers need to open and close. Grampy spent three hours turning the boards and screws and slidey things into a dresser.
He didn’t mind (much)
I packed the new dresser full of yarn, stored some more yarn in under the bed totes (no more tripping) then remembered a cool idea my friend Kimela mentioned that I’ve been meaning to try. (Kimela is very clever with yarn – you can take a look at a couple of her projects here and here)
Kimela told me she was working on afghan made up of yarn scraps that she rolled randomly into “crazy balls” of all different colors.
Neat!
I started pulling the yarn back out of the dresser and rolling it into crazy balls to make a rug.
A new rug for spring is a great way to make my home sing.
Here it is so far…
And since I had the camera in my hand anyway, I took a picture of my pretty Claudia.
She makes our home sing every day.
Enjoy more of Making Your Home Sing Monday - Visit Nan at Mom’s The Word.
Don’t forget the Spring Cleaning project at CHK beginning April 1st.
Tags: making your home sing monday blog meme, spring cleaning challenge
Man I have a lot of bits of yarn, I think making a crazy rug is just the thing to do with it! Also, I am tired of tripping over totes too. Maybe now that I actually have a bed frame, I could get some smaller ones and store them under the bed. You always inspire me with some great ideas.
Oh, that is a great idea and I think your model makes it that much better.
What a great idea! I have to admit that I don’t have any yarn as I don’t knit (or sew or crochet for that matter). However, I sure do have lots of things that I need to keep organized and store! Thanks for linking up today and your puppy sure is cute!
What a beautiful peice of furniture. Is there a name for that style- straight lines, round knobs? I like the simplicity.
[...] enough of a saving to include the little flower cart standing next to them. Once again, like the chest I bought to hold my yarn, the little flower cart wasn’t so much a cart as a pile of boards, screws and curved pieces [...]