For Christmas this year, my lovely mother got me a GPS unit. With the job that I started last fall, I have to do more traveling and that traveling almost always involves me driving around a strange city and if you have heard about my sense of direction you know how scary that is for everyone involved. I have permission to rent a GPS with my rental car but they are expensive. So, when my mom saw some good ones on sale right before Christmas, she decided that it would be a good gift for me. And really, it was an excellent gift. Very thoughtful and extremely useful. However, I realized that I really only would use it on these work trips because I rarely need one in Chicago. And, if I'm only using it on work trips I kind of feel like work should be paying for it. Since she bought the unit at Target I was able to easily return it for a nice store credit.
A couple of weeks later I still hadn't decided what to get with my store credit. I knew that I could get lots of little things with the money but I thought that it would be more fun to pick a slightly larger purchase that I wouldn't normally get for myself. It technically was a Christmas present after all. One day it randomly struck me that I would like to have a sewing machine and that Target might carry them. You know what? They do! And they had a couple of models in my price range. My mom has been sewing for as long as I can remember and I started making things with her when I was really young. But, I never really took much interest in it.
A couple of weeks ago when I was visiting my parents my mom and I took a trip to the brand new Target in Lake Geneva and picked out a nice (basic) sewing machine for me. My mom was overjoyed that I had decided that I wanted one and I think that she had more fun picking it out than I did. I didn't feel bad at all about returning a gift and getting this one.
I finally took the machine out of it's box earlier this week and have learned to use it. I've made some alterations to a jacket and I have a line up of projects that I want to work on. We'll see which ones actually get done. I'll be sure to post if I ever complete anything.
2 comments:
cool! i think sewing is a good life skill...not one i posses but one i'd like to posses. maybe you'll have to give me a lesson or two.
It is a good skill, and not one I can claim to possess. In my day, however, I have had misfortune to make myself a pair of boxer shorts and a dress. The dress was...well, let's just say I ended up wearing a cardigan over it due to a little zipper mishap. For some reason I often have the arrogance to ask myself, "How hard can it be?" Hard.
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