No, not really. I'm not writing about diamonds. But  Bubbebobbie commented on an earlier post, that diamonds are transparent, which is something I didn't address in all my "diamonds" posts. That earlier post was about how some of us don't show the negative stuff about home, life, school, self, whatever, on our blogs, myself being the example. Well, I am just not very good at being transparent, so I guess maybe that is something the Master Craftsman is going to have to cut away at or polish, or whatever.  So in an effort at transparency, I am going to show you the condition of my family room.  Here it is:

That is pretty typical, but it is often much worse. Actually, I think someone must have done some picking up before that photo was taken. At the other end of this room is this mess, and another which is our computer disaster area.

Now, I do have to take full credit for the sewing table mess.  Just in case you are wondering, those two Pizza Hut boxes that are under the mess behind my sewing machine do not contain six-week-old pizza -- they are very handy for storing quilt blocks!  Cleaning up this room was on my list of things to do while DH is out of town, but I am running out of days!  For those of you who can identify with this disaster, I will tell you a sure, but expensive solution.  Get new carpet!  We did a few months ago, and for several weeks we did very well at keeping things in their places.  It was just so nice to have an uncluttered house and a visible floor, that we all made more of an effort to keep it that way.  But you know entropy... our batteries ran down (speaking of which, you must go over and read Alizona's new post on that topic!). It must be time here for new carpet again. Or some initiative...