More birthday
Sooo my birthday was on Saturday and I had a great day. Most of my close friends are into crafts like I am, and so we spent the afternoon hitting up a bunch of small craft stores in the Portland area. We went gaga over yarn and fabric and and oohed and ahhhed and awwwed over many things.We first stopped at Knittn' Kitten, on NE 75th and Glisan. The store basically has the feel of a refined garage sale, in that they sell anything and everything, all gleaned, obviously from garage/estate/rummage sales. There were some cool things, and I will keep it in mind in the future for needs.
Next up was Bolt. I had heard a lot about this place, and it was exactly like I thought it would be: very cute, hip fabric in a fun little shop. One of my friends' birthday presents to me was to buy me something that I saw in a store while we were out, but I couldn't make up my mind! Too many cool fabrics, so few ideas.
And unplanned stop was Close Knit, which happened to be right next door to Bolt. It was also a fun little shop, that felt homey and comfortable. But, it was Saturday afternoon and the cramped quarter felt just that - cramped. There were a lot of beautiful hand-knit sweaters though, and I kept telling the knitters in the group that they needed make me a sweater, stat. They laughed at me.
After Alberta St. we cruised over to Twisted, another yarn store. Again, more yarn, a little fresher atmosphere (it being more open, and less people), but we went through fairly quickly considering we had just been at another yarn store. As a fun anecdote, Twisted's slogan, printed on t-shirts and bags, is "Keep Portland Twisted", which is a fun play on the "Keep Portland Weird" campaign.
While I crochet, I'm more of a fabric girl right now, so I was happy to head over to Cool Cottons on Hawthorne, and I pretty much fell in love. What's not to love about fun fabric, in a fun old house, with super helpful ladies? AND A PUNCH CARD! I will be back! I found fabric here that Elizabeth bought for me as a present, and I'll probably make another skirt out of it. I just loved this store, and I'm sure it will be a regular stopping place for me in the future.
Our last stop of the day (phew!) was at Yarnia, a really awesome DIY (Do-It-Yourself) yarn store, and that's the reality. You pick and choose what kind of different threads you want in your yarn, and they spin it onto a cone for you! You have to check out their website to see what I mean. I will be back to this place!
It was a crafty afternoon as the same group of us also spent Sunday afternoon together at a coffee shop crocheting. We schemed up our plan to have a table at a bazaar in the holiday season of 2009.
After all of our shopping, we went to Cha! Cha! Cha! for yummy, cheap burritos.
And how did we cap off the night? By roller skating, of course. And since most of us hadn't skated in a long time (or ever), we were pretty okay with coasting around the rink. Fun!
Pretty good birthday, I'd say!
I also received two accordion birthday cards, both of which played music when opened.
And in closing I'd like to state that I subbed in a first grade class today and I made a little boy cry. I held the famous "goody bag" over their heads all day in hopes of bribing them, and at the end of the day I picked the quietest, most well-behaved group, which happened to be the blue table. Well, the little mister didn't sit at the blue table, and was upset because apparently the blue table always wins. I told him he should tell his table to get their act together (in fewer words), and then offered to let him hold my hand as we walked the whole class to the front door to go home. And he accepted. And I think we parted as friends.
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