I'm about to lose control and I think I like it...

Oh, readers, I am SO excited!  Two very delicious things are happening this week.

First, I am attending a sewing class:  'Buttons, Zips, Hems, and Tips' - joyful!  All the gory details that have thus far eluded me in my sewing life.  No more Making It Up As I Go Along!  No more Ugly Hems!  And buttonholes?  Don't get me started!  The course will take place at The Makery, which is a place I have been longing to go to ever since I moved to Bath (gasp!  How can it be?) over a year ago.  They do crafty classes in all sorts of disciplines, but this is the first one I've seen that I knew would be REALLY useful for me, and so I booked it as my Congratulations On Your Pay Rise present to myself.

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The second thing is really quite something, and will probably affect this here blog of mine for the forseeable future:  I am getting all my wordly possessions out of storage!  Finally!  After months, and in some cases, a year, I will at last be reunited with my full array of granny trinkets.  This is quite a milestone for me.  Not least because I am a nester, and a house doesn't feel like a home to me until it's cluttered with knick-knacks, but mainly because it is a very definite symbol that I am Settled in Bath.  I may have once written that wherever I lay my hat is my home, but anybody who knows me in real life knows that it really isn't true for me at all.  Oh yes, I can travel light.  I travel very well in fact: I'm not one to complain about a lack of facilities or sleeping arrangements, but this is very much dependent on said situation being temporary.  At heart, I am a homebody, through and through.  Say what you like about how blatantly insecure this makes me (just please don't say shallow) but I really am at my happiest when I am at home, surrounded by my magpie collections, tea in hand.

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(Yeah, I'm kind of a Womble.  One day I'll be Sir John Soane, and nobody will ask me why I hang on to all this crap.  Instead, they will flock to my home and marvel at the Curiosities in every corner.)

So, expect forthcoming posts to contain some hurried before-and-after pictures of my room as it gradually fills up with boxes, to be unpacked, and their contents artfully strewn about the place while I decided how my space is finally going to look.  Pictures on the walls!  A record player!  A sewing machine!  Books!  Videos!  A clothes airer!  Every modern convenience.  You may also be pleased to hear that my boyfriend's laptop has been repaired and returned, so mine is coming home to me this week as well.  All in all, this will make for some exciting blogging to come (if your definition of "exciting" is, like mine, "snooping around other people's houses").  Did I mention I've taken a week off work just so I can potter about my house finding a nook for every knick-knack?  Oh, yes.