A Trip to Hobby Lobby

This doesn’t count as a trip to town because I was there for a dental appointment. I think I’ve mentioned before that Vince and I have been getting our x-rays, cleaning, etc. done at the Missouri Southern University’s dental hygiene school. It’s hygienists that are about to graduate and everything is done under the supervision of hygienist instructors and a dentist. Somehow Vince has gone twice and both times he went from 8 to 3 with a 1.5 hour lunch break and got everything done in one day. It took me THREE trips – two mornings and a full day. I’m not sure what was different but before I go next year, I’m going to make sure I get a one day and done appointment. For the x-rays, cleaning, polishing – everything, we pay $30. I don’t know how much I paid the first time I went to a dentist here and got x-rays and the full new patient visit but when I went back just for a cleaning with no x-rays; nothing special, it was over $200 so spending an entire day and saving $170 . . well, it’s good for me except I spent more than that at Hobby Lobby and I wouldn’t have been there unsupervised except for that dental appointment. 🙂

I’ve always been against giving money for Christmas gifts. I felt like it showed a lack of caring . . not caring enough to think about the perfect gift, not caring enough to go find it, not caring enough to wrap it all up. I think it was because I never liked getting money for Christmas because it only happened after I got to be an adult and, for the most part, it was given because the giver didn’t want to spend the time figuring out a perfect gift. But, Addie loves to shop and for her, money is the best gift. When they were here for Thanksgiving, she told me that she has a new rule . . no clothes for Christmas. Hmmm . . I always felt pretty lucky to be getting any kind of gift but times have changed. I told her I was probably going to give her money and she could buy what she wants and that thrilled her.

But, that means nothing under the Christmas tree! I was thinking I’d pick up some little gifts – she loves drawing so a marker set, drawing pads – things I know she will use, not the kind of thing she’ll play with once and throw away.

When I walked into Hobby Lobby, I saw this:

She loves Baby Yoda (and I guess that’s who is on the waffles). Then I saw a cotton candy maker. Who wouldn’t love that? So I got those two things. I already found some kind of winter pajamas for her that I knew she would like. So . . that’s about all she’s going to get, along with a bit of cash.

I’ve been thinking I’d like to try my hand at making the shorter decorated hat pins for sticking in little cross stitched pin pillows. I ordered a few things from Etsy but when they say 12 mm beads or 20 mm beads, I wasn’t envisioning how those would look on the pins so I thought I’d pick up some beads at Hobby Lobby, play around with it and see if I enjoy it before ordering from Etsy.

I also got a few packets of beads for adding to some of the cross stitch pillows.

They had all kinds of household items on sale so I picked up a couple of trays. One is long and narrow and I think I’d like it on the dining room table to hold salt, pepper, Tabasco . . the things we keep on the table. I might end up using it for some kind of decoration but it’s long and narrow so I doubt it.

It was a fun shopping excursion without the watchful eye of the keeper of the finances! 🙂