Two Stores, two hours - too much

[missmiah]

I gave up.

Hit the PX and Hobby Lobby (one would think that Hobby Lobby would have a friggin' Learn How to Knit Kit, but NOOOOOO).

The only thing I bought was a cheap DVD for me (present to myself for the trauma of shopping, cause I'm spoiled like that) of the original War of the Worlds - including the Orson Well's Radio Broadcast - Invading Martians are Luv - and another present for my dad. Sadly I had already finished all the shopping for my dad so now I have this extra present. I think I'll either see if Sis wants to give it or perhaps hold it until next year.

I know what I want to get mom, however Hobby Lobby is being a sphincter about it - see the aforementioned Knitting Kit. It's what she asked for, it should be simple enough to find. I'm just going to have to do some digging, thank goodness for the internet.

*sigh* I was hoping that aimlessly wandering around might inspire me as to what to get the Sis and the BIL but no such luck. I thought maybe I could think about getting them something cool together but I'm still coming up with nothing and my requests for a Christmas list have been met with ebil silence. NOt that I've actually remembered to send her one either so I can't complain.

Now, do I risk certain annoyance and brave the mall or Volde-Mart (but not the Volde-Mart from before) or give up for the day?

Comments

[revena.livejournal.com]

This is the kit I learned to knit from. If your mom doesn't want a specific one, perhaps ordering something from Amazon will serve?

[missmiah.livejournal.com]

That works, it's even colors she sort of doesn't dislike a lot so w00t. Order placed, deliver ETA is Friday and one more person is checked off the Christmas list.

Thanks.

[revena.livejournal.com]

My pleasure. I love spreading the Klutz press word.

Can you do gift certificates at all, for your sister and her husband? My boyfriend just gave me an itunes giftcard for my birthday, which was lots of fun.

[kauricat.livejournal.com]

I don't know of any good "learn to knit" kits, but there's a great website called http://www.knittinghelp.com/ that is getting lots of good reviews from the knitting communities that I read. There are free videos to show how things are done (I watched a "casting on" video last night and it was very good IMO). I noticed that you can buy the whole series of videos on CD for $20. That might make a good beginning knitting kit, along with some needles and yarn (and there are free patterns on that site also, ranked Beginner, Intermediate, etc, so maybe you could find a nice pattern and get the yarn and needles to go with that).

But I'm sure you can find a neat ready-made kit on the internet too.

[missdiane.livejournal.com]

As far as the brother and sis in law, what about a joint gift of a fancy gift basket? You could either buy one ready-made or have fun making one on your own by going to the grocery and finding snacks like pretzel chips and gourmet dips (Robert Rothchild stuff is a little pricey but soooooooo worth every penny).

You could do a dinner theme by purchasing a bag/box of fancy dried pasta (the tri color stuff looks festive) along with a jar of gourmet tomato sauce, fancy breadsticks, and either a bottle of wine or if they're not alcohol drinkers, sparkling cider.