May 30 of 31

This morning I first headed to the post office here in Northampton. I had a bunch of stuff to mail out, for me, for Jamie and for someone else. I smuggled someone's SP10 package across the border for them, so that it would be cheaper to mail. Could you believe Canadapost wanted almost 14$ CAD to ship the same package to the USA that I paid 3.76$ for today? Yeah, rediculousness! I got all my mailing done, except for one parcel which I'm hoping there is a post office in Albany, NY in the mall, so that I don't have to bother my mom to stop again at the post office here, because this morning I got yelled at for taking too long.

Then we went to Holyoke Mall at Ingleside. Did some shopping. Did you know that if you are from out of town (internationally) you get a discount card at Macy's department store? You get 11% off of your purchase. Not only that, but because I signed up for a Macy's credit card, for the next 2 days I save 20% off on all my purchases. So right now we've started at 31% extra savings. I found a bunch of onesies for Sean that were already at 30-40% off, so it was mega savings. Sean got spoiled. I bought myself 2 shirts, but I think they're going back tomorrow. I'm not 100% sure about them. Oh well.

After the mall, we headed back to the hotel to change, and then off to the Calvin Theater for the Webs Yarn Harlot Event.

It was really good seeing Stephanie speak. Sean was being a little cranky, so my mom stayed at the far back with him, and my grandmother and I sat and watched Stephanie speak. We got a goodie bag, (pics to follow later - I haven't photographed it yet).


I got to meet Lucy (above) and Laura as well. (Blog links to follow soon). Lucy lives about 45 minutes from Webs and says she has to avoid it. Laura hails from Albany, NY, and came with her 3 year old son. I didn't get to take a picture with her.

Webs. Oh my. Oh my. Oh my. Wow. Wow. Wow. I can't even begin to describe! It's huge. It's massive. I was in heaven. It was fairly overwhelming as well! I loved it.

Because there was over 600+ people attending this event, we were given time slots to show up to get our book(s) autographed. I had gotten Stephanie's first three books autographed back in November when she came to Montreal and spoke at McGill. I only had her current book, Cast Off to get autographed. Another perk... having a baby/child with you, got you to NOT have to stand in line, and sneak in line when you got there. We were given the 8:30 pm time slot, and when we walked in at about 8:45 (after eating a quick dinner at Friendly's up the road), we got to shimmy our way to the front of the line. YOU HAD TO SEE THE LINE UP!

Sean was a hit with Stephanie! (I think he's even getting blogged! She took a picture of Sean & I - Sean with his Montreal Canadiens (Habs) bib). Stephanie asked Sean to smile, and he did for her. He was just overly impressed with Stephanie, and HAD to flirt with her. (That's my boy!)

Stephanie, if you visit my blog - Hi!

We found out tonight, that the sock yarn for her sock is Edmonton's Handpainted Yarn, from the late Virginia (I think that was her name). What a gorgeous colored sock. (I heart the green!) I also learned that Stephanie will not be in Toronto next week when I go down with Kadi for the International Knit in Public Day for the TTC Yarn Shop Crawl. Aw, too bad!

Sean was just such a flirt tonight. While I was browsing Webs with my grandmother, my mom sat by a table and he was just flirting with all the ladies that came by.

Remember this knitted chair? Yeah - it was at Webs tonight. Sean got to sit in it! And so did I:

It was cool to see it live in person, something I'd seen on the internet! How cool is it!

This is the Webs warehouse. It was just rows and rows (deep) of bags of yarn on sale. Oh my! You could seriously get lost in there. I swear.

So, what did I buy tonight? You all want to know, I'm sure. I'll take pictures tomorrow or Friday when I return home... but I bought 2 balls of sock yarn (yeah, I know, I needed more!!) (they were on liquidation, so it's all good!) and yarn for a sweater for me, and yarn for a sweater for Sean. Very nice stuff. Pictures to come. I swear. And Webs, you have to go to if you're evern in Northampton, MA. Really. You'll be blown away!

Sean on the phone with Daddy. He was so serious while Jamie was talking to him. He couldn't understand where Daddy was. It was just too cute. I had to take a picture of him.