field trip

This weekend was exhausting! My Dad, my aunt, and her partner came to help me turn my messy storage facility into a real, grown-up house. Shirley got the yard cleaned up and ready for landscaping in the spring. Dad and I retrieved the family heirloom dining table from Tuscaloosa. And Aunt Francis arranged things and redid my closets. I finally have a living room and a dining room. I even got some work done on the scarf while they were here and finished two skeins of browny/burgandy yarn from Eilonwy.
The scarf went on a field trip today to Serendipity Needleworks. Ellen, the lovely proprietress got a picture of some of the scarf out if its suitcase. Hopefully I'll be able to snag a copy and post it for you.
I'm still working through yarn from Eilonwy over at Project Cat. She's a spinning demon. She is also the origin of the blue thread yarn that wouldn't stop. At the moment I'm working with a lime green and purple wool. I just finished a yummy mohair in blues and purples.
While I was at Serendipity I got myself and a friend some beautiful yarn from Lorna's Laces in greens, pinks, and brown. It's a custom yarn for Serendipity named after a friend of ours who passed away last year due to breast cancer. The proceeds from the yarn go to breast cancer research.
I was also naughty and got a lovely needlepoint canvas. It's a bowl of seashells and coral. It's going to become a hanging for my living room, which has an aquatic theme. It's my holiday present to myself. I'll try to post pictures soon. My camera is out of batteries and my charger isn't charging for some reason.

And now for some stats:
The scarf is now 2624.5 inches, or, 218.7 feet.
This is 5.5% of the total goal.
This is 17.5% of the height of the Empire State Building (not counting the antenna)
The completed scarf (4000 ft) will be 32.2% of the height of Mt. Fuji.
The scarf is now 39.7 ft taller than the statue of Vulcan (with base) on Red Mountain in Birmingham.