Posts Tagged ‘Beads’

Compulsion and Obsessiveness

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

A new bead catalog arrived today but I’m not going to look at it.

Ok, I looked at it, but I’m not going to pick it up.

Ok, Ok, I picked it up, but I am definitely not going to open it.

On page 55 are some incredible shell shaped gold beads that…oh…you caught me.

I’m just looking though, I have absolutely no intention of placing an order.

At least not a big order.

I mean, just a few packages….a few dozen packages….a few dozen dozen packages is not a big order right?

A BIG order would be like one package of everything.

Hang on.  The discount on that would be…

I wonder what TWO packages of everything would cost?

That would be pretty compulsive though right?   And absolutely positively completely obsessive.    So I won’t order two packages of everything.

Now that I’m not ordering two packages of everything…ONE package of everything doesn’t seem so bad.  Right?

Maybe I just need to put this company on speed dial…

Another New Addiction…er…Hobby

Monday, January 12th, 2009

It’s all my friend Heather’s fault.  Really.  When my computer died and I was floundering for something to do…because I don’t have thirty other projects that need to be done, I noticed that she had made some jewelry and put it on our craft site.

“Hmmm,” I thought.   “I’ve never made anything like that…I’ll bet I could though.”  So I went to Michael’s Crafts and bought a few things.   By the following weekend I had made nine trips to Michael’s and had put together a dozen or so necklaces and a heap of memory wire bracelets.  I began to research more medieval and rennaissance period patterns and colors for necklaces and was collecting Michael’s coupons from wherever I could find them.

Then the evil…I mean malevolent…I mean wonderful Heather, told me about a bead company online.  I made an order for…twenty-eight pounds of beads.  Subsequently I made a somewhat larger order.   I am waiting for my fourth order to arrive sometime this week.  I will tell you more about this amazing company after you have fully comprended the extent of my addict…hobby….HOBBY.  It’s just another Hobby.

Here for your viewing pleasure is a picture of the last few weeks worth of handiwork.  No spare moment left unbeaded…

Over 150 Necklaces in the past few weeks...that's just a hobby right?

Over 150 Necklaces in the past few weeks...that's just a hobby right?