I have survived!!

Yes! I survived the move! It was tricky here and there but we seemed to have managed to take the contents of our 4 bedroom and 2 bathroom house and shoe-horn it into a 3 small bedrooms and 1 bathroom house.
Just.
Not that everything has a place yet, not by a long shot! But most of it is physically here on the property...except the caravan...and the dogs...
But everything else is here!
I thought I would include a pic of where the removalists put all my craft boxes...almost floor to ceiling!  Admittedly there are bed frames and such in there but even so!!

And the boxes come out again!

Yes! We are on the move again! I mean, hey! we've been in this town now for nearly 2 and a half years!! Crikey! Got to love the Police Service. But Hubbie and I are looking forward to a new place, a part of W.A. that we've never lived in (I've never even seen it!) and new experiences so we're fairly philosophical about things.
But!...That means I have to pack up my wool and sewing room!
Horrors!!
Actually I could just leave it to the removalist to do but the disbelieving looks on their faces when they're faced with three walls of shelving FILLED with yarn makes me uncomfortable so I do it for them.

...They should thank me!
There's a bit of wool still on the shelves in the top picture. I ran out of boxes. But that's okay. When I get another big box like all of the others I can pack up my variegated yarns, novelty yarns, feltable yarns and then probably open the basket box behind the packing boxes in the corning which are full of my cone yarns and pack them too. Do you think we're done?
Oh, how little you know me!
No, still in the cupboard is my small hoard of spinnable rovings and slivers as well as some unprocessed fleece, not to mention my embroidery frames, collection of small cross stitch patterns, boxes of small balls of yarn and just to top it all off, my huge box holding my wedding dress, hooped petticoat and veil.
There!
Now I'm done!
(Well, excluding the magazines and knitting needles but hey, you get the idea!)
So what is my point behind all this?
I don't like packing up my yarn...
...what if I need some of it?
Seriously! I get anxious packing up this vast plethora of yarns and fibres with the misguided thought that somehow a purpose will suddenly materialise for some miscellaneous ball of yarn the minute I tape down the top of the box despite the fact that the last time I looked at that yarn was when I unpacked last time!!
So to try and assuage this miasma of anxiety I have kept some projects out just so I have a couple of projects going that I can vacillate between and distract myself from the trauma of the packing process.
Unfortunately I have completed one already.
The Alpaca Warmers are a pattern I've had on my list to do for ages and since I thought they'd be complicated enough (they have a lace pattern on the back of the hand after all!) I thought I'd give them a go. I decided to use a lovely yarn I have by Moda Vera simply called Angora blend. And they aren't kidding! The angora content of this yarn caused me nothing but problems but not of a knitting nature. All the fine fibre filaments that come off the yarn as you knit make my nose feel itchy the whole time! But when you touch the gloves it makes it all worth while. They are SO SOFT!!!
I chose to knit these both at the same time. The only time this was a problem was the couple of times I had to unravel a couple of rows to fix a problem but it wasn't too difficult. I just decanted the mitt I needed onto DPN's and then knit them back onto the circular needle when I fixed them.

 These took longer than I thought they would but the lace wasn't actually that hard. I just kept losing my place on the pattern because I was trying to read but it really got complicated when I got to the lace pattern up near the fingers. You have to actually look at the mitts to realize where in the lace pattern to start each row. But well worth it!

All done, off the circular!...and now excuse me while I blow my nose again because I can feel the residual effect of tiny fibres!!!

Oh wait. Pointless vanity shots!

So there is one of my distraction projects done. Bother. I wonder what I'll do now....

...that's not going to be a problem, let me tell you! Later :)

Okay, bring out the boxes!!

So, yes, We are going to Carnamah. Not that I'm surprised. And with Youngest son in Perth hopefully fulfilling his desire to do an acting course and become more independant, Carnamah is much closer to Perth than Walpole.

He went to Perth by bus last Wednesday. I was very good. I didn't cry!

Jordan, the reality of the Adventure just starting to set in :)

Waiting for his turn to board the bus!

Mum and Dad and Jordan

Nana and Grandy and Jordan

Mum and Mackenzie and Jordan

 We are still very much up in the air about what he's actually going to acchieve in Perth. He's staying at a nice couple who run a kind of half-way home for young people with special needs. But it will be really great if we can finally get the go ahead from Murdoch about his application!! Then we know what his course is at least and  where he needs to find accomodation. He can't stay where he is forever!

I didn't cry but I did hug him very hard!

 So for Hubbie and I this move will be the furthest we've ever been stationed yet. The comparisons between what we'll be leaving and what we're going to are quite extreme.For example, here are their tourist descriptions and population.

Walpole is a small settlement with a populous of around 450 people on the south coast of Western Australia, approximately 120kms west of Albany and around 430kms from Perth.

Set amongst most perfect surroundings - Walpole is situated overlooking the tranquil waters of the Walpole Inlet. Here you will find a small estuary that flows through a narrow channnel into the deeper, and much larger, Nornalup Inlet.

You will find yourself in amongst the wonderful towering karri and tingle forest where you can feel the gentle breezes as they whisper over hills and vales close by. Down at the water's edge stands of peppermint and she-oak adorn the luxuriant natural harmony of the area. 

This Nockold Street, the main drag through Walpole.

And now for Carnamah

Carnamah is a typical wheat-belt town servicing the surrounding wheat and sheep properties. From late July through to December the shire of Carnamah and the rest of the wheat belt blossoms into a wildflower wonderland. This is one of Western Australia's richest areas of flowering plants, with more than 600 species.

Population 358

And, so far, this is the only shot I can find of Carnamah.

But here's Three Springs main road, the larger town 23kms from Carnamah!

So I'm pretty sure the differences wont be hard to miss. At the moment I'm soaking up visions of trees since I don't think there are many where I'm going. Also trying to stop my brain wondering up the hall to Jordan's room to check on him because he's not there! Have almost packed that room up but it's kind of depressing :( And if Morrelli rings me one more time and tells me the weather's a lovely balmy 41 I think I'll kill him!!

(Not funny! It is SO not funny thinking about the heat in the wheatbelt!)

So there we are so far. I've been making pendants till I'm almost sick of them and knitting feverishly trying to distract myself from thinking too deeply about things. My Mum lent me her Agatha Christie books and they've been a big help. But eventually I'm going to have to force myself to start seriously packing.

SIGH!

Alright then. Drag out some more boxes. Where's the packing tape...

Happy Trails :)