Is This Heaven? No, It’s Hobby Lobby
Posted: January 25, 2017 Filed under: Art | Tags: art, arts, canvas, crafts, heaven, hobby, hobby lobby, shopping, woodburning 6 CommentsMy most excellent husband ordered me a Weller wood burning kit from Amazon, and it came in today. I was surprised and excited to see it after coming home from a long day of packing transfers and emptying cabinets and drawers. I got a ton of goodies from work, including our fax machine/copier/printer, but that’s another post.
After we went through the bag of personalized for display stuff and dribs and drabs of supplies, we went to Hobby Lobby for some wood and stuff for me to practice. I got:
- 6 wood slats
- 3 4×6 wood frames
- 7 oz. of beautiful driftwood chips
- brass wire brushes
- needle nose pliers
- one small stand up wooden letter O (on clearance for sixteen cents)
- 2 8×10 watercolor canvases
- 5 10×10 canvas panels
Those last two are not for wood burning. I can’t go to a craft store and not pick up a canvas or two. I don’t have it in me.
We wandered, and I walked the aisles just touching things as I passed by. Soft fan brushes, sparkling beads, rubber stamps, feather boas. I love Hobby Lobby. Michael’s is nice and all, but it isn’t Hobby Lobby.
Hobby Lobby is huge, and it just flows together so nicely. You hardly realize that you’ve just crossed through beading on your way from fine art to seasonal because the transition is the opposite of jarring.
The ceilings are so high, and the store is so brightly lit, but it’s still somehow cozy from all the warmly inviting furniture bits. There is so much. Arts and crafts for years and decades and centuries. So much.
There’s even new age hippie ass ambient music at just the right volume.
I could spend forever there.
If there is a heaven, I just hope it looks like Hobby Lobby.
’round these parts it’s Michaels, though I think there’s a HL up north a ways. I’m not that crafty, but when you need something along those lines, it is quite the toy store. A Joanne’s Fabrics is sure to be in the immediate vicinity, too. Makes you wonder whether Michael and Joanne got somethin’ goin’ on between ’em. 😉
I do like JoAnn’s too, but we only have one in the area and it isn’t close.
I love Hobby Lobby too! A great place to shop for Operation Christmas Child shoebox items!
I want to go to Hobby Lobby now…
Sounds amazing. I went mad for craft shops when I was making stuff for my wedding. Such fun!
I had the best time making stuff for our wedding!