Hope Springs Eternal... or The Road to Hell

By knitters standards, my yarn stash is not very large. I have just one rubbermaid container and one large basket stuffed with my yarn for "someday." When one considers, though, that I started trying to knit in January of 2006 - and that I have thus far completed a mere 5 scarves with two more on needles... Well, it begins to look as though I a more of a yarn collector than a knitter:

I thought *all* of these Knit Witch colors would look good on my baby. And they were on sale:

This is the Hand Maiden Lady Godiva that I special ordered for my clapotis- 4 days before I got sick with baby #3 - and stayed sick for 9 months:

The Muench Touch Me for my Vintage Velvet scarf. It took forever to find 5 balls from the same dye lot. Maybe I'll do something with them before next winter:

I have no idea what these are for. But this past Thanksgiving I visited the yarn shop where my sister-in-law works and found these 2 skeins of Alpaca - from the Alpacas on the farm outside the small town in Tennessee where my husband grew up:

Noro Silk Garden - another scarf?

I've bought multiple blues trying to find the right color for a sweater for my red-headed baby. I thought she was going to get this Julia by Nashua:

but then I found this Mirasol merino/silk blend from Peru when I was on my trip to Arizona:

I found these 5 skeins of Hand Paint Misti Alpaca worsted on ebay. The colors are beautiful, and the almost 10 year old has requested a cardigan vest. I'm trying to predict what size it will need to be for her to take to college when I finally get around to finishing it:

I have LOTS of Elliebelly yarn. My friend dyes it & I feel compelled to buy it when the colors hypnotize me. I save on shipping, so it's a deal, right?

There is also some Peace Fleece and Lamb's Pride of various shades and a Celtic Vest project from Hand Maiden. Probably more. But it is all so pretty! And it does make me happy to take it out and pet it occasionally.