Rizzi, that stinks,,, I hope you can find some room. Last night I was dreaming of a big studio space clean with storage. Maybe in a carriage house in back of my nice big home<----still dreaming.
I feel ya! 40 miles to the nearest, Walmart, Joanns, Micheals, or Craft Warehouse for me...over 100 miles to Hobby Lobby (I had to google it) No wonder I'd never heard of HL lol
They used to be a good art supply store--now they sell mostly home dec. I buy paint and brushes there but order canvases online from dick blick--HobLob's are terrible. man i wish there was a dick blick store where i lived.
We have great one's here (if you like them) but they started in my state...and the corporate HQ is here.
we have no hobby lobby. Joanne's is just adequate and we have Michaels. Our Michaels is very subpar. I hardly ever find what I need there. The one over in the valley is much better but its a hard drive over the mountain to get there. If I could get over my fear of driving that mountain I could probably go more often. LOL.
I love Hobby Lobby. And if you shop their online store they're constantly having reduced-free shipping deals and 40% off one item coupons. Their 'home' brand is my favorite brand of yarn. It's literally called "I Love This Yarn". It's acrylic but way better then Red Heart, and with a much tighter weave so it doesn't get unraveled when I crochet it.
talena, i know, i have lived here on and off for my whole life... i came back soi could buy a house and regretted it ever since.. and now without the house i have no idea what is keeping me here... i might move again in a year or so...
I have a love/hate relationship with the HOBLOB. The 40% off coupons are nice, and like Doctor FrankenStein, I love their cotton "I love this yarn" brand, even more when it is on sale! But, I HATE all the cheap and poor quality homegoods. I mean, I don't know about y'alls HobLobs, but every time I go to ours, there are aisles full of furniture with broken legs and chunks of wood missing, and missing glass tabletops and peeling finishes that they are trying to get rid of for 75 PERCENT OFF! Yes, the tags are always capitalized, and screaming at me how good of a deal the pieces are...lol
I never buy home goods from them so I never really noticed anything like that. Usually I go for yarn, stuffing, findings, shrinky dinks, felt, bitty wooden boxes, glass jars, bottled ink, and Perler beads.
Oooooh I buy shrinky dinks there too! And sometimes strathmore paper if Dick Blick doesn't have any good deals going.
I will say this though-once, my daughter broke one of those Tiffany looking froggie lamps and I went to pay for it and the woman was like, "This is broken."
"I know," I said. "My kid broke it, so I need to pay for it."
She looked at me like I was nuts. "Uh, no. You don't need to pay for that. We break stuff here all the time. Don't worry about it."
We only have a Michaels, but it's not worth it to go there for art supplies, it's so overpriced... I can get the same supplies at our school bookstore (which is overpriced itself) for half the price or Curry's for even less than that in most cases. I do go there for knitting stuff though.
