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Day 165: michaels has nothing i want

July 26, 2009 / / 0 Comments

I went to Michaels today because a few weeks ago, I won a $50 gift card there at the Sims 3 ship party.  I needed some safety eyes, which are small black plastic eyes that go onto cute crocheted animals.  It is perhaps the most crafts-oriented thing I’ve ever looked to buy.

Michaels had no safety eyes, nor did they have the few other things I was looking for (scrapbook extenders or ice cream)!  What a lousy trip.

And I forgot to use my gift card when checking out, so I paid cold hard cash for a mini glue gun.

I intend to return to their store at some point and secretly hot glue things to their shelves in the wrong place.

Day 125: arts and crafts

June 16, 2009 / / 0 Comments

At the Sims 3 ship party last Friday, I won a $50 gift card to Michael’s. It certainly wasn’t the biggest prize there, but it got me thinking about crafts.

Katie took a student-taught knitting course in college and I learned enough about knitting to be able to knit the middle of a scarf. I couldn’t start a new project or close out a set of knits, but I could continue a straight, square scarf that someone else had started.

I did a tiny cross-stitch that I enjoyed working on my spare time of an elephant holding something silly, like an umbrella or ice cream cone or something.

I like the idea of crafts. I like things that I can do, somewhat absent-mindedly while other things happen, and end up with a piece of stitched art or scarf or the like. Playing video games certainly doesn’t result in baby clothing when I’m done.

It’s also another skill I can teach my hands, which I find to be quite good at picking up things like close-up magic and juggling. Getting them to expertly handle a set of knitting needles shouldn’t be all that hard, right?

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