great skiens of yarn!

dear god,


today i discovered heaven. yarn heaven. it was beautiful. so incredibly beautiful. please send me lots of cash so i can return to yarn heaven many times. it would be very awesome of you. thanks.


love,


michelle




a bit much you say? well - then you've never been to yarn heaven. up until this point in my knitting/crocheting adventures i've stuck to the basics - michael's and joann's. they've been wonderful for someone with a yarn addiction on a budget. today however - i let myself wonder into the local (non-chain) yarn store and well....it was heaven.


shelves upon glorious shelves of glorious marvelous yarn! tons of cute storage containers for all your supplies! i fell in love (if you couldn't tell). i managed to only let myself leave with enough yarn for a current project i'm working on - but it was tough. i could see myself going into some serious debt there (which needs to not happen...must save money not spend money!)


so yeah - that's my story for the day. i fell in love with yarn heaven. oh - and isn't the picture below a cool idea? i'd love to have a craft room and do something like this....





p.s. i'm currently accepting donations to support my addiction. please and thank you.

p.p.s. i have a few posts from the past week(end) to actually post...hopefully i'll get around to it soon....

Black Friday

i spent most of black friday at work - wahoo! some of my co-workers actually got up this morning at 4am! crazies......

i hadn't planned on doing any shopping myself but as the day wore on and i heard about more and more deals i just had to go and take a peek....

yeah...that "peek" cost me more than i planned. now (after i finish this post) i'll go search through the bags and see what needs to be returned :)

but really - how can you pass up on movies when they cost $3.98? that's cheaper than renting them! i only have one more shopping trip to do tomorrow (besides the returns) and that's to the yarn store - i have a great coupon and i have to use it, right?

oh! i have one more thing to add to my 'thankful for' list: i am thankful that i no longer work in retail. i saw the looks of the workers - even though they were polite and smiled you could see it in their eyes that they wanted to wonk you over the head with something....(tis why i never listened to my mother when she nagged me to get a job at kohls. i would have gone insane)

and with that - it's time to show chris the loot (he's very excited :))

Gobble Gobble

today i am thankful for......

christopher

my family

my friends

cats

yarn

holiday themed underpants

homeade mashed potatoes

and much much much more.......

Hope you all had a Fantastic THANKSGIVING!!

Oh!

the view from my treadmill is not spectacular. in fact - minus the tv (when it's on) it's rather dull. i find myself staring at this outlet as it's rather high on the wall (for the air conditioner). it seems to have taken on a personality. this tiny little face saying 'Oh!' hmmmm....

have you heard the new song by Leann Rhimes - 'Nothin' Better To Do'? i love that song. currently listening to it in fact. although it did make me hurt my hip. well - i suppose i made me hurt my hip but nonetheless.... i was listening to the song while walking on the treadmill and got a bit spunky and sassy (did i really just use the word 'sassy'?) in my walk and it got rather bouncy. i may have also waved my hands about in the air. (nerdy..i know...but chris wasn't home) as a result i think i pulled a muscle in my hip and it hurt for weeks afterwards...ouch!

this blog is turning into treadmill stories. i don't really have much else to yak about. oh - i got some new yarn today! i know...i know..i shouldn't have. but it's for this extremely cute teddy bear pattern i found. i also bought stuffing. hopefully it turns out. i'll post pics when it's done. oh! and i found this posting there (at Micheals) - Warm Up America. Check it out - great idea for using up any scraps of yarn you can't figure out a use for! :)

what else?

i'm still stuffing envelopes at work! My fingers - aside from getting numerous paper cuts - were also getting rubbed raw along my right pinky from the outer lip of the envelope. then i discovered the latex gloves (of which the blood center is littered with!) and they are wonderful!

alright - dinner is served and i'm outta here :)