Coastal Reflections

I need it, I want it, I have to have it!

So I'm sitting here minding my own business nursing ds2 and I have this absolutely brilliant idea to turn on the tv.  I scroll through the program guide and notice that QVC has quite a few scrapbooking/cardmaking/stamping shows on today.  Okay, I fall for it.  I click the channel numbers on the remote and up pops a die cut show.  I watch for a bit, but am just not very interested in what they're showing.  I flip to Green Acres instead.   Unfortunately it ends and back to QVC I go.  A new show comes on and what do they tempt me with?  These lovely ink daubers.  Darn them!  I need them, I want them, I have to have them!  "Get me the phone!" I tell ds1.  He meanders aimlessly down the hall in search of the phone all the while I'm yelling "Hurry!". LOL   In his slowness, ds1 actually saves me a bit of money as the holiday color selection sells out before he presents me with the phone.  Oh well.  I did get the metallic selection though.

Now in my defense, I do scrapbook and make cards.  I just haven't worked on either in a very long time.  I like to blame it on the remodeling going on around the old homestead.  I won't have that excuse any longer, however, as there is light at the end of the tunnel with the majority of the house and I can once again reclaim one end of the dining room table for such pursuits as scrapbooking and homemade cards.  I have quite a few stamps I purchased from a yard sale, plus a couple of sets I purchased on closeout from Stampin' Up, and a set dh and ds1 gifted me with for Christmas.  I have to confess that all these were not purchased recently - it was actually at least 3 years ago (or more).  I just have never gotten around to buying ink pads.  (Yes, I'll go hide under a rock now.) 

I don't have the time to run from scrapbook store to scrapbook store - or JoAnn or Michael's for that matter - in search of supplies so QVC is actually a really cool thing in that respect.  With how far we live from those stores now and current gas prices, it actually makes it an even better deal for me as these will be delivered right to my door or mailbox, depending on how they're shipped.  I'm actually getting a little excited at the thought of sitting down and using them.  Uh-oh........ I'd better keep the tv off that channel for the rest of the day!

Astral Lion cross stitch

I am ashamed to admit that I've had this kit for almost 4 years and never opened it until today.  I purchased it at a Hobby Lobby where we were vacationing for $1 on clearance - yep, $1!  (The original price sticker was $27.95!)

Ds1 is crazy about tigers, lions, cheetahs, jaguars, etc. so I have been telling myself that I really needed to sit down and make this for him.  I started it today and hope to give it to him as a Christmas gift, but he'll see me working on it and I have a feeling he'll beg and talk me out of it before Christmas (if I finish it by then - I haven't done any cross stitch in years and forgot how time consuming it is, or maybe I'm just slow ).  

Here's what it looks like - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8203291027&category=34018#ebayphotohosting