I Do Retail Therapy!

Wonderful happening in the Puget Sound area this weekend. There is a 4-day LYS tour -- 25 local yarn shops within -- what -- 100+ miles?

So today I went to Bad Woman Yarns in Wallingford, WA. I've been lurking on the CrochetSeattle! group list of a while, and I wouldn't have found out about the entire LYS tour if it weren't for an email yesterday asking for volunteers. Well, I volunteered -- even though I don't crochet that well, and even though I've never met any of the member of the group. Had a nice email conversation with a lady named Josie, so this morning I found myself in Wallingford. What a great little artsy town, and what a fantastic little mall the Wallingford Center is!

Turns out there wasn't much to do sitting at the little CrochetSeattle! desk just outside Mad Woman Yarns. There was, however, a mobius wrap crocheted from just two balls of Mini Mochi yarns on display, made by Josie. The owner, Lee, was trying it out, struggling with the second row (and saying while she poked her hook into the loops of the first row that we all have trouble at this stage). The mobius wrap is so colorful, and it looked fantastic over the black turtleneck it was displayed on. I could just see myself wearing it. So I bought two balls of the hand-dyed yarn and I'm going to look for my "f" hook and see whether I can do it. Might be a good project to take to Daytona Beach on Monday while I sit with my mom and dad at rehab -- or even on the plane for that matter.

Anyway, so I ventured out, I met a couple of people, I bought a couple of things... Good retail therapy!

Oh, yes, there is a dress shop at Wallingford Center that I absolutely fell in love with! It's called Yazdi I, and it's full of the kinds of clothes anthropologists love to wear to work. There were some long flowing dresses with incredible ethnic looking long drapey things to wear over them. I want one of those outfits! I kept thinking how cool it would be to go to an interview in something like that. The stuff wasn't cheap, but it wasn't that bad either. I wonder how many other cool dress shops I might find like this in the Seattle area -- I've been looking for clothes like these for years!

There is also a decadent cupcake shop at Wallingford Center. It's called Trophy Cupcakes and the coconut was sinful! A couple of doors down at 4 Your Eyes Only Optical I found some $440 frames, red (of course, to match my new hair color) that I'd love to have (did Camille pack my prescription from under the fridge magnet?). Just what I need -- designer frames. But maybe I do, maybe I need a collection of designer frames! Now wouldn't that be uplifting!

Ahhhhh -- retail therapy!!!!!