Micheals comming to Bayers Lake

Stitcher ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

on condition I am not any longer to speak my mind... I should say to you, "Men of Athens, I shall obey the Gods rather than you."'

I went into a couple of Michaels on my travels in the summer and was not impressed. Okay if you do cross stitch but it didn't seem to carry much else.

(Ruby, I think your sig line is in HTML or something, it goes wandering off the page !)

Good for Bayers Lake. Michael's is not known to anyone for their stitching section. They mostly have kits and their floss selection is not complete and basically that's it for the stitching dept. They do sell yarn, but not a great selection.

They DO have a 40% off coupon most weeks, so if you want something big, like a pasta maker for your polymer clay, it's a good deal. Their prices are definitely jacked up to keep that 40% off any item in check. I bought my mat cutter there using the coupon, so it was worth it.

I still buy most of my stitching things at the local shop.

Ruby - we have a Michael's here in Moncton - not impressed at all. Their prices are very high - and 70% of the shop seems to be stupid fake flowers. They offer 40% off coupons every other week but then that only applies to full-priced items - and the flyer has most of the stuff in the shop 50% off - which brings most of the stuff almost down to normal prices. Their stitching section sucks - royally. I'll always go to my LNS for needlework supplies. They can leave any time as far as I'm concerned.

Sharon

We have no needlework shops in this area. I usually order from one of the shops in Moncton or middleton . I have been in a couple in the USA and was not very impressed . I had hoped the one opening here might see the niche for needlework. Ruby Socrates speaks to jury at his trial: 'If you offered to let me off this time on condition I am not any longer to speak my mind... I should say to you, "Men of Athens, I shall obey the Gods rather than you."'

The Michaels near me is okay for kits, mostly cross stitch and some accessories. They do carry nearly all the colors of DMC, including a few of the Perle cotton colors and most, or maybe all, of the Linen and Light Effects colors. They have several kinds of aida and some linen and fiddlers cloth. I even see a piece of other even weaves on rare occasion. They have some beads and some embellishments. Not a lot, but enough to make it an interesting place to wander in if you don't have an LNS nearby.

My particular store stocks a lot of knitting and crochet yarn, needles and instructions.

I was there a few days ago and picked up a few odds and ends and my friend bought one of the DMC Anna Griffin little purses to make for her granddaughter.

My opinion is that if you don't have a real LNS available, this can be a bit of a help. You won't find anything wildly different, or exotic, but it does come in handy.

Lucille

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 22:49:04 -0500, "Lucille"

Perhaps if I write a letter to the manager and point out the advantages of them stocking some needlework supplies they might make and effort. One can but try. ruby Socrates speaks to jury at his trial: 'If you offered to let me off this time on condition I am not any longer to speak my mind... I should say to you, "Men of Athens, I shall obey the Gods rather than you."'

Stitcher ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

on condition I am not any longer to speak my mind... I should say to you, "Men of Athens, I shall obey the Gods rather than you."'

It looked like the type of place where the 'manager' is one of the employees paid slightly more per hour who picks up the slack and gets to work very hard for the extra. They did not appear to have more flexibility than say the 'manager' at Crafts Canada. In fact, the two I went into were very much along that line.

You can try to write, but Michael's is a "trendy" store - a few years ago, there was a lot more XS stuff, including some basic Leisure Arts type leaflets only. Now, however, we are into knitting so the needlework is pared down and the yarn punched up. Similarly, rubber stamping, scrapbooking, beading, fabric painting. . .

ROFLMAO You nailed my interest level EXACTLY! Cheryl

I think I find it annoying too! No offense to anyone who does it. I'm always amazed when I go into Hobby Lobby for a quick thing or two and find the "srapping" aisle to be totally full of women with tons of kids and gobs of papers and cut outs and stickers. There must be a full 4 aisles with tons of the stuff. To each his/her own.

My boss is a packrat and is always joking about how sooner or later he'd put all of his clippings and such into a memory book. As an appreciation gift, we all pitched in $ and some of us put in our time, and I led the Scrapbooking project. Ugh! I'd never scrapbooked before, and I can honestly say I don't think I will again soon. There were too many fiddly bits of paper and unruly stickers to mess with. I exhausted my entire vocabulary of profanities working on that. I don't know what posesses alphabet sticker manufacturers to include 5 Q's but only 4 U's on a sheet... The scrapbook turned out beautifully, and the boss was thrilled. (He nearly cried.) But I would be reluctant to do it again.

It's funny, the Michaels here isn't like that at all. There's always been the 1 full depth of the store aisle of yarn/crochet/knitting supplies and patterns, one of needlework, 1 short aisle of beading, 2 of baskets (??) 2 or 3 of fake flowers, 1 of scrapbooking, etc.. The entire front wall of the store is covered in pre-made wreaths that give me the shivers. (They bear an uncanny resemblance to funeral wreaths. One looks precisely like the one that was on my grandfathers casket at his viewing.)

S.

And I may add that my Michaels (and my Rag Shop) usually has the stitching stuff 10-20% off on a regular basis, so using those 40% off coupons are practically impossible. I think it is a ploy to get ya in there and up to the register. Even with the 10-20% off, there is no bargain.

And remember to never bring up more than 15 skeins of DMC to the register.....remember that rant a few years back? Having to ring each up separately without a smile!

Diane

I second that thought. Anything that takes that much of my time and then is hidden in a book is not for me. I have tried it and didn't care much for it. Most of my pics are on discs.

The reason I tried it was my best friend's sister does those scrapbooking parties. In order not to offen her when I was issued an invitation, I went and purchased stuff. But that lead to having to decline future offers that kept coming my way. I should have said no to begin with.

Diane

An acquaintance of mine also does scrapbooking parties. She thinks it's just heartbreaking that my excuse for not doing scrapping is that no one would want my works of art after I'm gone.

But, let's face it -- I have no kids, and the next generation of blood relatives is 3000 miles away and have never met any of my friends here, so those pictures would be meaningless to them. The "kids" appreciate more when I spend my time and money knitting for them.

And it's not like I have a big family birthday party every year like she does, with 20 relatives in attendance and a fancy cake and decorations. Since my birthday falls on a big holiday weekend, I'm lucky if my birthday consists of me and a friend going to a Chinese restaurant rather than absolutely all my friends being more concerned with getting out of town early for their romantic three-day weekend. OK, so we get one picture of my friend eating an egg roll and one of me digging into the Duck in Plum Sauce, and that's it. Most years, I don't even get a cake, and when I do (because I bought it myself), it's usually a frozen Pepperidge Farm 3 Layer Chocolate Cake. Not enough to make a scrapbook out of.

I can totally understand where you are coming from. I am different, having lots of family around, but.....still. I don't think that any of them would be that interested in looking at the albums. I am not putting down anyone who does scrapbook. I think that you should nurture your creativity whatever it is. I just know my family. Heck, I am not sure they even go for the cross stitched peices. LOL

Karen, you can always have a "Happy Birthday" from me! I think the Chinese Buffet is the perfect place to eat a Birthday dinner. My DS and I love to go there. And, hey, I have some happy memories surrounding a Peperidge Farm frozen cake that my dear late Aunt Billie used to serve around the holidays. She was the one who got me into crafting!

Di who really does not care for Home Selling Parties.

Karen C - California wrote:

Seaspray wrote:

There is scrapbooking and then there is SCRAPBOOKING! ! ! ! :-) I was also invited to one of those scrapbooking parties about 1 1/2 years ago. The friend who's house it was at showed a small book she had made using photographs of plants/flowers she had photographed around her property and then had identified by long time local residents. THAT is the type of book that can be carried around and shared in a way that photos on a disc just don't match. I've also re-done two photo albums of trips DH & I have made so that if someone is interested, they can go through the book and not have to have one of us hovering over their shoulder to give them a play by play account of what was happening. A couple of people going to Alaska have asked to borrow that book so that they can get more of an idea of what to expect than what a travel agent may tell them. That being said, my scrapbooks/photo albums tend to be on the lean side as far as the number of stickers, doo dads and journallling. :-)) I just don't have the patience to sit there for the same amount of time that I can devote to a stitching project. I did buy one of those square punches and made my nephew a collage using photos from throughout his life. I sent it to him before he graduated from high school. He has since started college and is now in a different state than the rest of my sister's family. He didn't take it with him but my sister has it hanging in their kitchen so they can "see" him every day. It's something they can look at without having to turn the computer on I guess there are people who can't see the attraction of what we do either. That's fine with me, it means more stitching stash for the rest of us. :-)) Liz from Humbug

"Seaspray" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

Family, no, but almost every time I have friends over, it's "Do you have a new scrapbook?" or "Did you scrapbook your vacation yet?" They even know on which shelf they can find the scrapbooks. A few have even perused my scrapbooks while planning they're vacations.

I've done scrapbooks for my mother; two about my father, one of their 50th wedding anniversary, and one of my new house. When they hear she has a new one, her friends at the retirement home ask to see the scrapbooks. Those will definitely go on to my nephews, who have fond memories of their grandfather. If mine don't get left to anyone, no big deal -- I enjoyed the creative process involved (which is far, for more than gradeschool worksheets...), my friends have enjoyed the product, and that's enough for me.