Hello. My name is Shannon and I am a fiber addict. It has been 19 days since my last fiber purchase.
I have decided that I have used up my yarn budget for the rest of the year. That means for the next 217 days, I can not buy any yarn......unless I have a gift certificate. I do have a credit at Purls, but I am saving that until this yarn diet becomes a serious safety threat to someone else. See, I do have will power (19 days done.....217 to go). Tips to keep me on track? Stay away from yarn sales, re-organize stash, concentrate on finishing projects still on needles.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
The Dreaded........Yarn Sale!!!
OK, I freely admit it. I have impulse control problems.
I have an ongoing struggle with myself on how much I spend on yarn. Well, for those of you that don't already know, Tucson Yarn is having a moving on up sale going on until next saturday (5/16). (They are moving next door to where they currently are housed.) What is it about the word "sale" that makes ones common sense leave? I ask ya'. Now don't get me wrong, I love all the yarn I bought and if it hadn't been on sale, I probably would not have bought it (for a while, at least) but I am becoming a serious detrement to myself. I often joke that "at least it's not illegal" well, I might have to declare it so for the rest of the year. No more yarn sales for me! If I know of one, I will have to declare that place off limits until the sale is over. My willpower is weak when it comes to yarn. I was joking with the ladies as I was getting ready to carry my 3 (count them.....3) bags out of the store that come winter, I was not going to have to turn my heat on, I would just throw the yarn in a pile and dive in for warmth. It is a real possibility here, I'm not joshin'. Between the bags of yarn that I have not found a place for yet and the Avon boxes (check out my website at www.youravon.com/shannonorr) there is very little room in my apartment for the dog to find a place to sit. I'll stand, thanks.
The good news is that I almost have the second sleeve finished on the Sandra Kimono Jacket. I am also 1/3 of the way finished on the Anne Ruana which I still hope to have finished by Labor Day of this year.
I have an ongoing struggle with myself on how much I spend on yarn. Well, for those of you that don't already know, Tucson Yarn is having a moving on up sale going on until next saturday (5/16). (They are moving next door to where they currently are housed.) What is it about the word "sale" that makes ones common sense leave? I ask ya'. Now don't get me wrong, I love all the yarn I bought and if it hadn't been on sale, I probably would not have bought it (for a while, at least) but I am becoming a serious detrement to myself. I often joke that "at least it's not illegal" well, I might have to declare it so for the rest of the year. No more yarn sales for me! If I know of one, I will have to declare that place off limits until the sale is over. My willpower is weak when it comes to yarn. I was joking with the ladies as I was getting ready to carry my 3 (count them.....3) bags out of the store that come winter, I was not going to have to turn my heat on, I would just throw the yarn in a pile and dive in for warmth. It is a real possibility here, I'm not joshin'. Between the bags of yarn that I have not found a place for yet and the Avon boxes (check out my website at www.youravon.com/shannonorr) there is very little room in my apartment for the dog to find a place to sit. I'll stand, thanks.
The good news is that I almost have the second sleeve finished on the Sandra Kimono Jacket. I am also 1/3 of the way finished on the Anne Ruana which I still hope to have finished by Labor Day of this year.
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