Louisa Cornell, ladydawgfan, KateS and Kelly Ryan are the winners of Fun Contest Saturday!
Lori Austin's (aka Lori Handeland) An Outlaw in Wonderland has been named one of Publisher Weekly's Best Summer Books of 2013!!
A big CONGRATULATIONS to Goddesses Lori Austin (Lori Handeland) and Sabrina Jeffries for being named as RITA finalists for their historical romances BEAUTY AND THE BOUNTY HUNTER and A LADY NEVER SURRENDERS!
Sign up for our newsletter by filling out the JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER form in the right column of this page!
Okay, it’s probably hard to tell in the tiny format, but that dressing set is a gorgeous little miniature. I bought it while I was on vacation in New Orleans, where I came across a MINIATURES STORE. Nothing but doll houses, doll furniture, and miniatures to go in the houses. I was in love. I could have spent WAYYY too much money in that store and stayed there all day … if Hubby hadn’t been with me (note to self–must go back to miniatures store sometime without Hubby).
I confess–I have a real weakness for miniatures, dating from when I was a little girl. Make anything tiny and I automatically love it. I really don’t know why. There’s just something about that wee little thing that makes me crow with delight. It might even trump my love of, gasp, jewelry. The only reason I don’t have a doll house is I know I’d go nuts with doll stuff. But if I keep buying miniature stuff for Will and Jane, I might as well have a doll house. Right? RIGHT???
So what kind of specialty store is a weakness for you? What kind of store do you have to avoid if you need to save money? Do you go nuts in shoe stores? Accessory stores? Christmas stores? Where do you always end up spending the most money? (And do you think I should get a doll house?)
Sabrina, you deserve a doll house! I tend to spend a heck of a lot of money on books and have to avoid them because they are totally tempting. If I had the money I would go down to Surfer’s Paradise and raid this creepy little store that has Teddy Scares, BeGoth dolls and an assortment of other rather Goth sort of things. I am wanting to get some really cute rubber duckies off of Amazon because they have vampire ones, frankenstein’s monster ones and devil ones (basically all really cute ones from horror movies) and I just have to add them to my collection.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 4:09 am.
they’re selling rubber ducks here on the christmas market. They have about 30 different kinds on display right now. There’s one with a monocle, bride and groom, one with a bathrobe and bubbles, which is really cute and I even saw the vampire one and devil there
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:41 am.
I have a girlfriend who collects rubber ducks–I gave her a devil one once for her birthday. *G* Hope you find some cute ones for you!
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:49 am.
I’m DYING for ONE lousy basic yellow rubber duck for baby sister’s bathtub. And you think you can find them here in my city? Noooo, there’s like, a rubber duck extinction or something. Not a single damned store carries them, and I’ve been to them all. So has my dad. We’re gutted. The poor child. She’ll move up to taking showers before she can get a rubber duck
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:14 am.
You should give me your adresse so I can send you some stuff next year! Right at the beginning
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:35 am.
I might do that, Steffi!!! And I can do the same for you
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 11:44 am.
Oh I will Sabrina, I might get some next year after I move.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:17 am.
I love stores that specialize in hand-made soap. I buy gifts for everyone & for myself. They always sound good enough to eat & smell divine.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 4:11 am.
Amazing Soaps smells wonderful doesn’t it?
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:35 am.
A reader gave me a bar of Scotland Soap that smells SO good! I haven’t used it yet, because I just want to smell it!
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:50 am.
I can give one answer to the first two questions: Bookstore. I spend more money on books than clothes and shoes. Groceries can either go up or down, depending on what I want. I don’t mind shoe stores, though most of the time it is window shopping, not actual shopping. That goes for the accessory stores. Christmas stores I’ll go to IF I’m with family, since those X-mas accessories are not my top priority to buy and/or window “ogle”.
Depending on the size of the doll house, go for it, Ms. Jeffries!
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 4:22 am.
Shoe stores don’t thrill my soul like they do some women’s. But I do love purses and jewelry. And Christmas stores are a special weakness!
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:51 am.
:Ö) Bed linens, crockery and books drive me crazy. I think Jane would appreciate a quaint little house of her own I´m sure :Ö)
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 7:00 am.
Yeah, that’s what I keep telling myself–Jane needs a house! As long as I’m buying stuff for her and all. *G*
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:55 am.
Honestly, if this is something that amuses you and does not put a strain on the family finances I really don´t see harm in it :Ö)
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:39 am.
Bookstores of course. It is definitely where I spend most of my money and you should absolutely get a dollhouse. Imagine all of the miniatures you could buy for it. You could have it on display all of the time.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:03 am.
Yes, but I would have to dust it all!
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:55 am.
Um, craft stores are my downfall. I can write a list and adhere to it in a bookstore (and honestly I haven’t been in one in ages thanks to my nook) but I will go in for one tiny piece of fabric and end up spending $200 easily at a craft store. Target is also a huge issue for me. My friend and I have a competition to see who can spend less than 50 bucks per person per household when we go there. I always lose.
I love doll house furniture. My furniture is in a cabinet at my mother’s house still awaiting the completion of the build-it-yourself doll house we started almost 20 years ago.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:09 am.
Ooh, ooh, that’s another weakness of mine. I LOVE craft stores. As a beader, I’m always tempted by the jewelry sections.
I would love a build-it-yourself doll house, but I fear it would end up like yours–never built!
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:58 am.
How can anyone spend less $50 in Target? I’ve a hard time spending less than $100.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 11:39 am.
Me, too!
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:13 pm.
book stores. Especially the one here in Bonn. Before the book store was in there, it was a a cinema and it is still built up like that. The ceiling looks amazind, they have very old cameras there on display and parts of mive-rolls.
Wen you go upstairs, there are still three rows of cinema seats, where you can sit down and read in a book. I should try and take some pictures when I’m there the next time. And during the Christmas time it looks especially beuatiful with the Christmas tree and all the ornaments.
then there are the Disney stores (which we don’t have in Germany, but when I’m in London in March, I’ll spend some money there). I love the glasses and mugs there. And I still have my Eeyore notepad, which I use for the characters in my book. Hope Jenkins and Casey Callaghan were invented on this notepad (or at least written down). I love this thing and I can never have enough notepads. Always buying more, because I KNOW that I’ll use them someday. One notepad is stuffed full with characters. i think there are about 30-40 written down, because I know that otherwise I’ll forget something.
And I always buy nailpolish, but rarely wear some. Sometimes I get in the mood, paint my fingernails and already start picking at it 1-2 hours later.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:48 am.
Wow, that’s some bookstore, Steffi! Sounds wonderful!
And that’s my problem with fingernail polish. I always pick at it.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:00 am.
It IS wonderful and we were totally amazed, when we walked in. We didnt have a clue and we probably had eyes as big as plates while walking around in there
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:36 am.
You should definitely get a dollhouse. Immediately.
I always spend too much money in bookstores. I used to go nuts in yarn stores, but I’ve gotten better.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:50 am.
I understand the yarn obsession. I used to crochet. But I haven’t done it in years, so I no longer go nuts in yarn stores. *G*
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:00 am.
I go crazzzzzy in kitchen stores. could very well spend hrs looking at the gadgets. i have a full gadget drawer.
need a orange peeler? got it.
and anything that has to do with citrus- zesters(2 kinds), reamers. glass and wood.
a potato ricer. yep.
I even have a giant potato masher suitable for soup kitchen pots. only 20$. couldn’t leave it there.
corn cob holders that nestle into pairs so you don’t stab yourself looking? yup. and i don’t eat corn on the cob.
name any can, bottle or jar opener and I probably have it.
rolling pins as in plural? yup yup and yup. did you know there were different kinds for your rolling needs? I do
now.
there is a Christmas store downtown that I try to visit each yr. they carry traditional ornaments hand blown in Germany as well as the regular and funky. I don’t have a Christmas Pickle but as I try to buy a new onrament eery yr, I’ll get it some time
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:52 am.
You should get together with Sheridan’s father! I gather he has a bit of an obsession with kitchen gadgets.
My brother likes them, too–he’s quite an amateur chef.
And what’s with the Christmas pickle? Is that some tradition I’m not familiar with? I see them all the time.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:02 am.
the Christmas pickle is an ornament that is literally a pcikle, hidden i amongst the pretty ones in your tree.
whomever finds it is supposed to win a prize. I go to my sis’s but she doesn’t do the pickle. at my bor’s hosue it’s more of ‘find the new star wars or trekkie ornament’ event. have no clue where the custom/game started. probably with a real pickle. ew.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 4:01 pm.
ok googled the pickle. who cares? it’s funny
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 4:26 pm.
it’s made up to sell an odd ornament. why my laptop erased that part?…a ghostie in my machine. the curse of the pickle…
ok I’ll stop now
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 4:27 pm.
and I vote for dollhouse. treat your miniatures to a home.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:01 am.
Thanks, Kathy!
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:02 am.
You totally need a dollhouse! A friend and her hubby worked it out so that their basement is split, half has his model train setup and the other has her barbie collection.. maybe something like that.. where you have a designated area with no spillover allowed would keep your sweetie and you both happy
.
As for spending too much money.. kitchen gadget stores bookstores and craft stores. I can discipline myself and not buy, but it would be especially easy to drop heaps of $$ on library additions (I’ve been collecting good books since I learned how to read and my hubby is just as bad).
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:03 am.
It’s funny, but although I used to like to cook, I got tired of it, so I don’t buy kitchen gadgets anymore. But I’m with you on the craft stores!
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 1:05 pm.
The Container Store. I go nuts and want EVERYTHING in The Container Store. Why? It’s a store about organizing. Organizing your closet, your car, your desk, your office, your pantry, your garage, your computer, your LIFE. The last time I went to The Container Store was 13 months ago. I spent 90 minutes walking around, wanting everything I saw, and left with a tiny bag of ‘stuff’ that cost me $88.
I have avoided The Container Store ever since. But today, today is The Day of Days. Today I am going to The Container Store to buy “gifts for the kids.”
Hahahahahahaha. We’ll see if I get out with my credit card unmelted.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:04 am.
LOL!!! I can so see you going nuts in the Container Store! I would probably have a little of that. I’m actually more organized than people think. But I would love to be MORE organized!
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 1:07 pm.
If we’re talking so restrictions, there’s this one purse store called Kipling… OMG, they have the CUTEST purses ever!!! And shoe stores!!! Of course, fairy stores! Because I collect fairies. Oh, Goodness. I should have been born a millionaire, you know? That would solve sooo many of my issues
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:18 am.
I totally agree! Can we go back and check off the box that says, “Millionaire” before we’re born? *G*
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 1:09 pm.
I know, right??? I’ll trade for big boobs!!! Don’t needs those…
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 2:30 pm.
Tiffany’s. Need I say more?
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:27 am.
I can’t imagine why that would be a temptation for anyone. *G*
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:14 pm.
You mean, besides bookstores??? Kitchen stuff.. I love it!!
Was this the store??
http://www.treefeathers.com/index.html
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:32 am.
No, because that store’s in Nashville. This store was in New Orleans. But that’s certainly a very cool store! Thanks for adding to my addiction.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:16 pm.
Sabrina, I’m SUCH a sucker for miniatures. I can’t tell you how many times I stare at them, touch them, think about buying them … and then don’t. I need a doll house so that I’ll have an excuse to get them. They have SO MANY cute ones! And if I ever found a store that sold only that, I’d never leave. Ever!
Get that doll house! I could at least buy miniatures for YOU.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:53 am.
Yay! I’ll buy it today!
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:16 pm.
Oh, goodness…I love purses and I love books, so those are definitely trouble for me. I tell you though, there is a store in Austin called Things Celtic….I could honestly spend a LOT of money in that store. They have such beautiful hand-crafted items, they have gorgeous and unique jewelry, cool music, interesting books, beautiful photos, coats of arms, fascinating trinkets, mugs and magnets, great clothes, exciting foods….and a really cool cat they got from the local shelter. I would go SO broke if I bought everything I wanted in there. I have to limit myself. I bought a cool hand made maxi dress there….a pretty emerald green. The hub absolutely hates it because it’s a long dress, but I just love it! It’s a beautiful color and it’s so comfy!
Also have bought pewter hair clips, trinity knot earrings, and a poster with the history of my maiden name.
And, yes, Sabrina, get your doll house! You need a place to put all of your minis!
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 11:00 am.
I like those Celtic stores, too. We don’t have one here, but they used to have a good one in New Orleans, and when I went with Ava Stone and Deb Marlowe to an art exhibit in New Haven, we visited the Celtic store there and all came out poorer!
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:18 pm.
oooh Julie, you would go nuts in my city/province. it’s roots are Celtic!
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 4:04 pm.
Obviously bookstores. Always bookstores. But I am also a fabric addict. I quilt, and I love the colors and textures and designs in fabric. I have bins and boxes and drawers of fabric, buttons, trims, thread. I am dangerous in any fabric store, because I need no project to justify buying. I must build my fabric stash! Of course! Sometimes at home I will pull out a bin of fabric and spend a lovely hour or so sorting through it, envisioning how to put the fabrics together in different ways. I also love writing utensils and paper pads, because of the potential they embody. Then there’s vintage china… (I love doll houses too. Thinking of getting a kit to build one.)
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 11:06 am.
Susanna, that’s my sister–she quilts and makes really beautiful purses. I send her fabric all the time. I used to keep fabric for various things and then I decided I was never going to do anything with it, so I started sending it to her. She really uses it, which I’m happy about.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:19 pm.
When I was young, I remember cooing over a miniature jar of mayonnaise. “Oh, it’s so cute!” I caught myself saying… That’s when I knew I had a problem.
And now, of course, I have a miniature dog, a teacup poodle who weighs all of 6 pounds. Guess I still have a soft spot in my heart for tiny things.
Where do I get into shopping trouble? Well, I call Nordstrom’s the Mother Ship, so that should tell you something. LOL And, of course, bookstores, but I suspect that’s true for all of us here.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 11:12 am.
Do you have a doll house? Or just miniatures?
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 6:32 pm.
No, just a real, live dog that weighs only six pounds. No dollhouse or other miniatures.
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 2:12 pm.
Sabrina, i hope you ahve a chance to see the Throne Rooms. Or Colleen Moore’s miniatures. I love them and build my own rooms. Must remember to send you a picture. When I was young one of the mattress companies had a series of miniature bedrooms made. They were beautiful. I happen to love book stores and Liquor stores. Not for the reasons you may think. It is the art work I look at. The labels on the bottles or the bottles themselves. The cover art on the books. I teach art history and studio art at the local university so my eyes always gravitate toward that. Love Will and Jane. I should create a room for them.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 11:21 am.
Debbie,
Have you ever seen Colleen Moore’s Fairy Castle at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago (it’s also online)? It was one of my first targets every time we went to the museum when I was growing up outside of Chicago.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 12:09 pm.
Okay, you have me intrigued now. Do you have any links? I will so check out this Colleen Moore woman. *G*
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:20 pm.
I was curious since I didn’t remember that exhibit from the museum.. granted it’s been ages since I’ve been and my memory’s not so good for that sorta thing but here’s a link http://www.msichicago.org/whats-here/exhibits/fairycastle/ and I must say it sounds awesome.
One cool dollhouse that popped into mind that I remembered seeing is at Windsor Castle in London it’s Queen Mary’s dollhouse and it was crazy large and fancy. You can see a bit of description here http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/default.asp?action=article&ID=34#tosee under what there is to see.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 4:17 pm.
Wow, that is SO cool! If I ever get back to England, I’ll have to go see Queen Mary’s dollhouse, too. We didn’t make it to Windsor Castle last time.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 6:35 pm.
that dollhouse was shown in a bbc doc called “the Queen’s palaces” ! I forgot all about it until now.
I can clip that section out and stick on youtube if you want to see that amazing dollhouse!
I think i will anyway. a saturday morning vid project. pefect to procrastinate making Christmas gift videos.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 7:40 pm.
I was curious so I checked the museum site.. posted the link but comment is in moderation. The museum site has a virtual tour of the fairy castle though
so you might want to hunt it up.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 4:28 pm.
You can check out some of the Thorne rooms here. http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/thorne. They even have a Christmas on. There is a online game through the Art Institute of Chicago where you can”Escape From Thorne Mansion” http://www.artic.edu/aic/thorne-game/index.html You will like it.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 6:07 pm.
That’s amazing! And I’m going to be in Chicago in April, too, for RT!
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 6:37 pm.
I think one of the side trips RT is doing for the those coming in early is a trip to see the Thorne rooms and Colleen Moore’s doll house.
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 1:23 pm.
Sorry! Thorne rooms.I am in between giving exams and rushing to type.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 11:22 am.
Hope you find that perfect doll house, Sabrina. I end up spending more than I should at Stein Mart or, believe it or not, Walgreens
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 11:33 am.
I have a Stein Mart a mile from my house. Can you say, “dangerous”? *G*
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:21 pm.
I avoid vintage clothing stores in California and bead stores in general. However, I plan special trips to Montana to shop at a vintage clothing store because the prices are so reasonable. The last time I was there, I got 4 pairs of shoes, 2 belts, 2 coats, and an alligator purse for less than $200. The 2 pairs of the 1930s Oxfords that I bought would retail in California for between $500-600 because of the condition, and the fact that one pair is made from doeskin suede – the best suede out there. I paid $22 for each pair. It’s a good thing that I only go to Montana once or twice a year because I’d have to avoid the vintage clothing store altogether if it were more than that.
I think you should get a dollhouse. My older sister has the one that our dad made for her. She’s in the process of renovating it. I think she needs to get a second house, though, because she has so much stuff.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 11:49 am.
I LOVE vintage clothing stores. I used to have a vintage swimsuit. I think I got rid of it when we moved. Wish I hadn’t, though–I could possibly wear it now!
We have great consignment stores here–I love to shop in them.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:22 pm.
Well, since Borders is gone, I have saved money.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 11:50 am.
Me, too! I used to always hit their sales.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:23 pm.
Sabrina…I must hook you up with my grandmother. She’s 94, and has been collecting “tiny bits” her entire life. The entire house looks like a doll house!
My downfall (besides the obvious bookstore..) ANTIQUE/Junk shops. I love them. My mom loves them, my sisters love them. If we go in one together many, many dollars exchange hands.
I love unique, beautifully made things. It seems the best place to find them is there.
Happy Friday ladies! That’s right, it’s FRIDAY!!! Have a wonderful weekend.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 12:17 pm.
We used to have a fabulous antique/junk shop here, and I was devastated when it closed! Now we don’t really have anything like that except Goodwill and places like that. I miss that antique/junk shop. My mom and I loved it.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:24 pm.
I forgot–my husband found one recently! I’m going to have to go there with my mom.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:24 pm.
Bookstores are my ultimate weakness, but like TinaF, since Borders left, I have saved money. However, Barnes & Noble bought the Borders+ members list and now I am a member there. This could be trouble . . .
Another store that is a weakness of mine is Christmas Tree Shops. I seriously need a keeper in that store. I go in for one little thing and come out with a cart full!! Jeez Louise!!
And The Vermont Country Store. Let me just say that I am glad that it is a 2 hour drive from my home. If it was any closer, I would be dead broke!!! The website doesn’t do any justice to what it is like to actually walk through the place and experience the sites and smells. You can sample the jams and jellys, taste the meats and cheeses, ask for a sample of the candy, sniff the perfumes, and play with the toys, all before you load up your basket(s) with goodies and lug them to the registers. I can’t get out of there without spending a fortune. My sister and I try to go several times a year (road trip!!).
Sabrina, BUY A DOLL HOUSE!! You’ve earned it!!!
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 12:19 pm.
You’re so lucky to be close to a Vermont Country Store! I love their catalogs. They provide the best electric blankets ever. And I still have socks I got from them. They’re so wonderful.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:26 pm.
I go crazy in bookstores, Christmas stores, and antique shops. Particularly antique shops. I get such a rush just from stepping in the store! … don’t know why, really. It’s a little strange, yes? One day when my husband and I move out of this townhouse and into a bigger place I made a promise to myself that I could make a library and fill it with antiques and books. I guess we’ll have to wait before we’ve won the lottery before we move then
Yes! I think you should reward yourself with a doll house. Maybe after Celia and Pinter’s book has been put on bookshelves in January you will have the excuse you’ve been looking for! A series of books complete is a pretty big accomplishment!
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 12:39 pm.
Thanks, Cheri! Maybe that’ll be my gift to myself. *G*
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:27 pm.
I also have a weakness for miniatures. Also bead stores, artsy crafter stores, and really distinctive gift stores (I know they are good if they have miniatures and artsy craft stuff in the mix!)
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 12:45 pm.
OMG, miniatures AND craft stuff in one store? I would be in heaven! We must go to one at conference sometime!
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:28 pm.
That is a wonderful set. There was a family run theme park in So Cal for many years called Knott’s Berry Farm. (Six Flags bought it from the Knott’s family and it is not the same). The Knotts allowed room on the premises for a miniature museum called Mott’s Miniatures. Amazing! But with the way of buy outs, the museum was kicked out and never found a permanent home. It traveled the strip mall route and I don’t think it exists anymore. I hope the pieces ended up in museums because they were marvelous.
I love kitchen stores. I have to avoid them because my cupboards and drawers are full of gadgets and little grills and such that don’t work any better than the stovetop. I do love my Belgian Waffle maker however. YUM!
Another weakness is the crystal shops that you see in theme parks and antique malls. I love colored glass and crystal. I love to learn how the colors are added. Fascinating.
And of course, I love china shops. They are so rare nowadays, but I remember when whole sections of department stores were devoted to fine china for the bride — yet another thing that went by the wayside as marriage declines in favor and recession forces department stores to retrench. Now the only stores who can afford such a display are those who already have invested the capital for it (if they haven’t been bought out by a conglomerate with a different mindset.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 12:45 pm.
When I was a little girl, we went to Knott’s Berry Farm, but I don’t remember much about it. The miniatures museum sounds wonderful!
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:29 pm.
Gosh, but I do love Will and Jane! I have to avoid Christmas stores, using my stored decorations I decorated both my house and my daughter’s house this year. There are still boxes of decorations not used.
My other extravagance – books. I have always bought more books than the “normal” person, but Kindle and instant access is a very bad! Thank goodness you get a notice if you order something twice. I frequently pre-order and forget I have ordered so I order again.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 12:52 pm.
Jackie, yes, Iove that warning, too! I’m the worst about double-buying of books. *G*
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:33 pm.
Of course you need a doll house! What a silly question! A friend of mine makes food for miniatures. One of my favorites is the Burns Night Supper complete with haggis.
There is a store in Waldport, Oregon that I must avoid at all costs because they make and sell dragons there. It is called the Whittler’s Workshop. I first saw their work in a gift shop in Marina Del Rey and I have hooked ever since. And you can but unfinished pieces to paint yourself.Now I am thinking road trip thoughts, oh no!
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 1:50 pm.
OMG, a Burns Night Supper? That’s so cool!!!
What a great job to have–making food for miniatures.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:34 pm.
I’m going to go with housewares/kitchen stuff and craft shops are weaknesses of mine. I am better about not buying everything in the kitchen stores – teeny kitchens will cure one of that most of the time. Though I can still find all sorts of things to buy in an art or craft shop. I get all excited when things stir my creativity.
and YES you should get a dollhouse. My friend has been building one and I am in awe and covet it.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 2:03 pm.
So your dad’s obsession with kitchen gadgets spilled over to you, is that it? *G*
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:36 pm.
Another YES vote for your dollhouse, although you might find it diverting from your writing. It would be so much fun! Unfortunately I’ve found it’s just as easy to pre-order books for my Kindle as it was otherwise, so my book habit has not been broken. And all those $.99 and free books… And I’m surrounded by unread “real” books as well. I can’t keep away from all those new books.
I’m addicted to pajamas and slippers. It used to be shoes, but now I only own three pairs of sneakers and two are the same except one is almost worn out. I use that pair when the weather looks nasty. I have a pair of flats that kill my toes. This from someone who used to own dozens of shoes and hit every shoe sale in town.
~Donna
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:00 pm.
I think having abnormally large feet would cure anyone of a shoe obsession. Although I do have a pair of cute shoes I’m wearing this winter that I love. So I’m not ENTIRELY immune!
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:37 pm.
I’ve been having that problem, too, with the my Kindle app. Then, the bill comes, and I have interesting conversations with my dh, who reads, but isn’t a “reader,” lol.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 6:32 pm.
My weakness is stores like Office Depot. I can just browse in there for hours, looking for the perfect thing that will of course make my writing go faster and more smoothly. Perhaps a notebook or a stapler, or… Sorry, got carried away. *g*
And yes, you should get a dollhouse. You need to be good to your creative, kidlike side for the sake of your writing. (That’s what I always tell myself.)
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 6:35 pm.
Oh, yes, office stores. I love them!!! I spend WAY too much time in them.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 6:38 pm.
I need to stay out of candy stores. It is my weakness Whenever I go into a book or movie store I am a goner. Yes, I think you should get a dollhouse it is a regret that my family couldn’t afford a dollhouse when I was a child and I always wanted one.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 7:06 pm.
For me, it’s not so much candy as chocolate. I have a great weakness for chocolate, so I really have to avoid chocolate stores. *G*
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 12:44 am.
YAY!!!! i check youtube and someone had already loaded the whole of the series of the Queen’s Palace. The video you seek is ilinked here. the dollhouse tour starts at 17:41min. andit is a rare in depth tour…it’s a squeee for me and I’m not that into dollhouses!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_g8mJfrOx0&feature=related
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:23 pm.
Wow, that is SO amazing! That’s the kind of dollhouse *I* want, with working plumbing and lights and a library stocked with actual books. Oh, and let’s not forget the crown jewel replicas with actual jewels! Astonishing! Thanks for the link, Kathy!
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 12:56 am.
you are welcome!
I am always fascinated by the royal homes. that dollhouse was an ‘oh my gosh’ moment the whole 3 episode were worth a few viewings for me
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 10:58 am.
Oh I think you must have the doll house! It is a moral imperative!
Book stores are dangerous places for me. And shoe stores. Dangerous!
Anywhere they sell English bone china tea cups. I collect them and it can get EXPENSIVE!
I especially love old book stores. I visited a row of old book stores in New Orleans years ago. I spent the day wandering up and down rows and rows of books. Picking up those leather-bound volumes, leafing through the pages. I was a graduate student at Southern Miss studying voice performance and music history. And on a shelf in a dark corner of one of those stores I found a complete set of Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians from 1950. They had obviously been used and handled over and over, but they were in good condition. The cost of a new set was astronomical then. I can’t imagine what it is now. But that day I plonked down my $15.00 for the whole set, watched the ladies wrap each of 15 volumes in brown paper and string and I giggled all the way back to the hotel.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:33 pm.
I bought an entire Encylopedia Britannica in one of those New Orleans bookstores years ago for $25 and have used it a ton through the years. Someone had advised me that for a historical author, old encyclopedias were better because they gave more space to historical matters and there was less technology to cover. Whoever told me that was SO right. I’ve made good use of my 1940′s encyclopedia, and the fact that it was Britannica made it even more useful.
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 1:03 am.
OK, I’m really late to the party but I hope by now you’ve already bought a doll house. I’m going to assume that everyone here has told you to get yourself a dollhouse.
My weakness is any and every store that has something I like when I’m in a spending mood. It’s time to rein it in.
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:58 pm.
LOL, Fresh! You always lay it on the line. That’s what we love about you.
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 1:04 am.
Any store that sells books and Godiva.
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 12:31 am.
I heartily agree with that!
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 1:04 am.
my local bookstore is the ONLY place in the city that does have Godiva, so i win twice!lol
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 10:59 am.
I think you should ABSOLUTELY get a dollhouse, Sabrina. Will would be thrilled, but I think Jane might make you put a eeny-weenie lock on her door.
I go nuts in Whole Foods and Trader Joes. I ALWAYS walk out with way more than I intended to buy. And I’m a sucker for those “all-natural” soaps- especially herb ones. I just can’t pass them up. And Southern Seasons, in Chapel Hill! They are a “culinary store”, you know, the kind that has artisan cheeses and chocolates, teas, coffees, kitchen equipment, cute hand-stitched aprons, etc, etc, etc….In other words- TROUBLE.
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 1:04 am.
Sadly, I love those stores, too. Fresh Market is my weakness. I love Southern Seasons, but fortunately I’m never in Chapel Hill to go nuts there. *G*
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 1:05 am.