Sorting

I was reading a post on BariJ's blog yesterday about organizing your embroidery stuff. I'd love to be organized (I want to write that word with an 's' instead of a 'z' but Blogger doesn't let me!) but I'm pretty hopeless at it, as the photo shows. Even the cat looks a bit lost...And this is just one of my craft hang outs in the house. The books, patterns and the hoops are not the biggest problem. The Floss is...My Floss stash continues to grow and I'm kind of fed up with winding all the skeins on bobbins. I'm also a very messy stitcher and don't want to worry too much about numbers and bobbins while I'm creating. So I'm thinking of just sorting skeins on colour (roughly) and put them in little baskets or zip locks, would that work?  I actually would love to own one of those awesome vintage DMC cabinets (like this one) to store my floss but the prices for those on Ebay are just way too high! I guess for now I will just invest in a pack of zip locks instead. ;)

Isn't it ironic?

This is a WIP of my Frog prince embroidery. All was going well, I'm especially happy with the little frogeggs, until I started to tidy up my box(es) of embroidery floss... Because in the process of reorganisation I somehow managed to loose one of the flosses I'm using in this embroidery. It's the water plant colour that has mysteriously dissappeared. I have a colour very similar to it (the one I used for the lily pad) but it's just not right... If I had just let my floss in the chaos it was, I would surely be able to find it right away. : / Anyway that reminded me of the Alanis Morisette song 'Isn't it ironic' which has no ironic examples in it. I didn't figure that out myself, it was on a tvshow. They even had some language professor explain why the lyrics of that song weren't ironic at all and that was in itself ironic. :)