Cleaning the craft room overdue?

Recently on Ravery I joined the "Surmount the Stash" group.  Their theme is "Are you becoming overwhelmed by your stash? Feeling guilt for all those WIPs sitting unfinished while you purchase more stash? Join us for moderation in purchases and focusing on finishing what you started."

Before you can knit from your stash, you need to find the stash.  I admit my "knitting room" is a mess.  I started separating the books, yarns, accessories, etc.  What I found out is that I made more of a mess than it was before I started. 

I will get it straight.  After all as of 30 Dec I was officially retired.  I'll need to knit from the stash as I won't be making the kind of money I was before.  Admittedly, I did start stocking up last year.

So here are the before photos.  Who knows when the after photos will be taken.

Well, it's Christmas Day 2011. 

Tom and I opened our gifts last night as usual.  We started this back when the kids were old enough to understand that Santa didn't bring all the gifts.

Tom and I decided that this year we wouldn't go overboard on gifts for each other.  I gave Tom 4 German wooden smokers and some tools he needed.

Tom's Aunt Micky gave me a boy German Doll and Tom gave me the matching girl doll. 

We have a house advent calendar. Tom put a very small Steif bear behind one of the doors.  I thought it was my Steif bear, then on Christmas Tom gave me another German Steif bear.  I had always wanted one and Tom picked out just the right one. It's one of the light colored bears about 2 ft high and I love it.