Third Time is the Charm
Posted By drsao on October 25, 2011
Do you remember my talking about TRYING to go to the new Hobby Lobby in Midlothian, VA on Saturday? I was TOTALLY on the wrong street (Midlothian Turnpike instead of Hull.) My friends told me it was by the “new” Wal-Mart and the car dealerships, but I have geographical and spatial difficulties – and perhaps other “difficulties” as well because I keep thinking that the Wal-Mart on MIDLOTHIAN TURNPIKE is the new one…..NOT!
Anyway – after driving up and down Midlothian Turnpike on Saturday, I finally just GAVE UP! I even left my Virginia Scrappers meeting a bit early to allow for extended AISLE BY AISLE shopping time.
Sunday (after first GOOGLING THE ADDRESS OF THE NEW HOBBY LOBBY to put into my GPS) I set out with high hopes – FINALLY – to get to see the new Hobby Lobby.
EXCITEMENT - I found it!
Here it is – I whipped out my camera – as I always do when I am about to do something exciting. CLICK…..ok…..ready to go inside. I was so excited that I forgot to notice where I parked my car!
OH NO - closed on Sundays
Groan…….and did you notice that there were other cars in the parking lot? There was a steady stream of potential shoppers walking to the door – only to read the sign and sadly walking back to their cars. GOODNESS GRACIOUS – I am all for worship – but I hadn’t anticipated this one!
Well, they say that MISERY LOVES COMPANY – but I didn’t feel all that wonderful – and the other SAD SHOPPERS did nothing to cheer me up either. :):):)
Monday was SWEET FROG day (Grandangel Cooper’s school was benefitting from the frozen yogurt sales for the day) and HOBBY LOBBY was in the same area – so I decided to try it ONE MORE TIME! If I didn’t meet with success, I could still cheer myself up with a cup of frozen yogurt smothered with fruit and nuts! LOVE SWEET FROG – it is on my LIST OF FAVORITE THINGS!
SWEET FROG
Well, as they say – the THIRD TIME IS THE CHARM…..I found HOBBY LOBBY and I got into HOBBY LOBBY!
AND……..EVERYTHING WAS ON SALE. It was a feast for the eyes!
If you decide to go, sign up for the e-mails and you will get the weekly 40% off coupon in the mail. (Thanks for that tip Kathy O.)
I thoroughly enjoyed myself but I couldn’t help but wonder if they are going to be able to compete in the local market, because Hobby Lobby doesn’t accept the 10% off Quilter’s Card Plan that Joann’s and Hancock’s do…..and from what my humble eye could behold I didn’t think they had many things that the others did not have. I don’t imagine that many serious quilters would shop there for fabric.
However they do score high on customer service. There were at least THREE times as many employees as customers in there on Monday, and they were all so ready and willing to help. I even found one nice guy who could translate the GERMAN on the package of some modeling clay that I was trying to purchase. THERE WAS NOT ONE WORD OF ENGLISH on this package and I needed to know if it was the air or oven dry type. WHERE ELSE COULD YOU FIND A GERMAN TRANSLATOR FREE OF CHARGE!
Sales!
HM….I wonder if PURPLE PANDA QUILTS would accept store bought Christmas Stockings for the foster children – there are some cute ones here! I will have to ask her!
OOOOOPS
I was having such a wonderful time until I saw this little display….
…..and that made me REMEMBER that I have not completed even one pair of knitted socks. I did get motivated to make my second sock – but now I can’t find the first one…….so that put a damper on my WILL TO CONQUER! 🙂
SO – to knit socks or not to knit socks – that is the question. If I SAY YES, then I need to buy sock yarn and start over. I need to think hard about this question because January 1st is when I make my TO DO LIST for 2012. Knitting a pair of socks has been on that TO DO LIST for more years than I can even remember ……. and I am SO CLOSE to doing it……..so close…….
AT LEAST I HAVE A PICTURE of the one sock that I knitted – and I am sure that I put it in a LOGICAL PLACE. I am SO ORGANIZED that everything is put away – I just need a system for KNOWING WHERE I PUT THINGS AWAY! loll
MY LOST SOCK
OK – so I have decided (I think fast!) – IF I find the first sock, then I will finish the second. Look how far I am on the second one!
Sock #2
The object of this excercise was that you persisted and got there. I remember now that all Hobby Lobby’s are closed on Sunday. Good for them (sorry you were there on the wrong day). We are having so much fun with the Ghastlies – yesterday I went through 204 comments on my blog. Finally got smart and turned the approval ‘thingamajig’ off. Glad you enjoyed it. Judy C