Knitting bag?

I am a gal who loves bags and shoes, but with being a stay at home mommy I don't have need or a budget for a ton of them. I did get excited though about Hip Mountain Mama's giveaway for an Off Hand Designs Fiona Tote in Foliage print.
I have been a big fan of their bags ever since I spyed a Tonya bag in a knitting magazine. I cannot afford one, ever, so I just look and admire and think they are pretty. . . all the while dreaming that one day, maybe just maybe something crazy will happen like I win one. . .
Suzy has a really cool site with items for both parenting and knitting. Just up my alley!

Baby girl gets her own room

It's almost completely finished. We have taken my craft room this week from full of yarn, fabric, fiber, patterns, tools, machines, etc. to this:

After dragging everything out we painted the walls a pretty purple. Rocky found cool Ikea storage shelves on craigslist so we went and picked them up. And lookee, EVERYTHING fits!

Not all of my stash/supplies left the closet, but much of it did and now Z's clothes, shoes and blankets fit nicely in here.

And today we finished the bed. I've never refinished furniture before. This was my bed from when I was a toddler until I was close to 8 I think. It had a dark stain finish and a cat decopage on the footboard. Very vintage, very retro, very icky after being in storage for 20+years.
It's a youth bed. Bigger than a crib/toddler smaller than a twin. We had painted it white and used it for the boys nursery from when M was born. I didn't want white for Zuri and the boys had been rough on the finish so it was going to need some touching up anyway so I stripped it down to the bare wood. Hours of stripping, sanding, peeling, picking, etc. later and a coat of satin poly finish and voila. The beautiful Cherry bed comes to life!

Now we just need to get her bedding, hang a few wall decorations and the window treatment and her room will be complete!

The day has come. . .

for Zuri to get her own bedroom. . . we knew this day would come and it crept up on us. We've been avoiding doing anything about it, but today we started making it happen.
Several major areas in our home were disrupted in the attempts and at the end of the day only part of her room is cleared. I won't show you her room yet since it's not done, but here's where 1/2 the stuff went that was in there. My new sewing area is 1/2 of the bonus room. It will be an adjustment to be sewing upstairs and have much of my supplies still downstairs. We have discussed some remedies but until we can get Zuri into her room, and settled, this is how it will be. This is not the permanent solution. Our plans are to still construct a 2nd bonus room for my crafting room. For now I am pleased with how it has worked out with the space we had. It beats the alternative of having to pack it all away!
The plus side is that I can attempt to sew while the kids are playing sometimes too!