Shopping Online

I was supposed to have a rare shopping opportunity with my BFF yesterday and it didn't work out.  While posting my complaint about it on FaceBook, my buddy Terri @ myseniormoments suggested that since I always get the short end of the stick when we have vehicle problems, I should just shop online.  Well, I'm here to tell you......I do plenty of that!  Here are some of my recent acquisitions

This first picture is a Photo/Panting done by the Photographer that took Riley's senior portraits.  She is quite the artist and has many talents.  When I saw some of her Photo/Paintings, I just knew that we had to have one of the horses!  I found some pictures of The Girls and sent them to her and we finally decided on this one.  The overall size is 30 x 30 and it is stunning!! 

What happens is this.  I had a 20x30 photo printed of this picture and had it shipped to her.  She actually tears the edges (in this case to make it about 19x19) then she affixes it to a canvas.  In this instance, she did an abstract border in colors to complement the picture. The wonderful thing IS, we didn't actually discuss colors and it just so happens this will look perfect on our green living room wall!!Another awesome aspect of this painting is that the sides of the canvas, where it wraps around the frame, are painted as well.  That gives it a wonderful unique finish and I don't have to frame it :).
If you'd like to see some of her other work, go here Christina-M-Ehlinger~Artist for starters.

I had planned to give it to Chuck for X-Mas, but she got it done so quickly and I received it last week.....and our anniversary is this coming Friday (the 12th)....soooooo.....I'm giving it to him for our anniversary!  I can't wait!!  We don't always exchange gifts and usually just treat ourselves to an "All we can eat Lobster or King Crab fest" at home.  He'll be so surprised and I know he's gonna absolutely flip over it!  I can't wait to get it on the wall, as we have a perfect empty spot behind the love seat that has just been waiting to be filled for about 6 years now!  Next weekend I'll get to post photos of it on the wall!! I can't wait!  Squeal!!!!!!!!!

The next picture of online acquisitions is just one box of many that I have been buying since I went to Alaska in May and acquired serious knitting fever.

Not only did my lovely daughter, Terri, get me to finally take the 'knitting plunge', she also gave me the bug for only the finest yarns!  When I did alot of crocheting, I always preferred some of the better brands (such as Lion and Bernat over Red Heart), but oh, she had to get me into using wool and wool blends and alpaca and all sorts of beautiful colorways in scrumptiously delightful spun yarn! 

And I have found a couple of WONderful websites that often have WONderful sales on this sort of delightful yarn!  I will give you an example of what my new passion is doing to my checking account.  I found a sweater pattern, using Noro yarn, similar to that in the above picture.  The color  I selected is darker hues, but still multi-colored.  Anyway, the pattern calls for 11 hanks (sort of a skein)so I ordered 12 to be safe and I found it for a terrific sale price! Normally $20 a hank for $14.00!  Weeeeeeeee.........Adds up tho', as do the many other great finds I have found......but they were all on sale!!  So that makes it okay, right???  Right???

See what happens.  Make me get a new bionic hip and keep me house bound for 6 weeks with a desk top, a laptop and an iPhone.  I can search, find and order from any room in the house!  When I have to explain the piles of yarn and my lack of $$......I'll blame the Percocet.  Buwahahahaha

I'm Craving a Coach

and it has nothing to do with my horses....or Cinderella.....nor does it have wheels!  I love purses/handbags/pocketbooks, whatever your choice to call them is.  Actually, I haven't heard them called 'pocketbooks' since my Mom passed.  She always called them that.   Hmmm....now I'm wondering where that expression came from.  Okay, so Wikipedia says:

Pocketbook may refer to:

• Purse, a bag for carrying possessions and/or money, sometimes known in American English as a pocketbook

I guess it's 'Early 1900's American English'.  Whatever........Anyway, I want a Coach.  I love purses and have dozens.  Most of them are leather and thus, last forever!  I have a collection of Vera Bradley bags, some of which are pretty worn (as they are fabric) but I simply can not, WILL not part with them.  I love them, each and every one and they have served me well!  My problem with Coach is that I like/need a large purse and when you're talking Coach in MY size, you're talking $$$$$$$$$$!  But they have a dark brown leather called Mahogany that I have always loved.  It is to die for!

Gads........what am I thinking!  I am officially 'retired' with my current income having been deemed as 'unspendable' by the boss man and I'm craving a potential $3-400 purse!  Actually my checks go into our Money Market account and he DID tell me that it "is there if I need it".  To me, this would qualify as a 'need'.  For him....I'm thinking not.  LOL  Maybe if I referred to it as needing a new Saddle Bag.  After all, Terri coaxed a Coach out of Mike for her birthday by referring to it as a Gun Case!  Hmmm...I might try that.

I did go and buy myself a new computer chair today and am ever so confident that it will be just what I need!  Actually I did some research last night to see what the various stores in the area had to offer and finally found just what I want and need at Staples.  You can even check and see if your local store has it in stock and they did!  So off I went today and trudged on in and alllllll the way to the back of the store where the furniture is, and I couldn't find that particular chair.  An associate came over and asked if he could help me, so I described the chair and he couldn't find it either.  So he went to look on their computer and still didn't see it, but he also wouldn't let me look.  Anyway, I left.  Went out to the Tahoe and looked it up online on trusty Max The Mighty iPhone.  Still said they had them in stock.  So I called; talked to a gal; gave her the item # and she said they had 5 in stock.  So I told her my story-that I'd been in and the guy couldn't find it and that I was sitting outside (gave the old hard to walk because of surgery story) and she put me on hold and had them check the warehouse and BINGO!  She said she'd have one brought up front for me so I could try it and it seemed pefect, so mine is in the box, sitting in the garage waiting for Chuck to assemble.  The feature that I needed so badly was a "knee lift" and this was the only chair under $400 that had that feature.  (this one was on sale for $169).  This way, I can raise the seat up in front so that it tilts back and 'forces' me to sit back with my spine resting against the lumbar support.  It has a mesh back and padded seat and it pretty well built for the price.  So...........if he ever gets done messing with the horses and gets in here, I'll get him to assemble it and we shall see!

I suspect I've bored you enough for one day and shall go harvest some pretend crops on FB or go out and water my real flowers.

Only 9 days till my sweet babies arrive!!!!!!  HAPPY DANCE, HAPPY DANCE, HAPPY DANCE!!!!!!