The purpose for our weekend trip was to attend Nki’s graduation (with a Master’s Degree) from TWU in Denton. A side portion of our trip is to do some shopping unavailable in Bwd. The night before we left, I found addresses of the stores we wanted to visit and entered them in Sara’s (my orange van) navigation system. She is sooooo smart, she took us right to Hulen Mall, which was near our first stop -- a Men’s wear store to buy N. a suit coat.. That accomplished, we found an Academy store for some particular very special fishing accessories. While N was finding the little plastic grub thingies, I browsed. Found lots of Burt’s Bees products, an entire end-cap of red white and blue sparkly stuff like necklaces, pony tail holders, terry cloth swim bags, etc. Academy is one of N’s favorite places to browse, but not one of mine.
Third stop of the day was to Circuit City to look at digital video cameras. [Side note, we seem to get a new video camera every time Nki graduates] Found one with a hard drive that should be pretty easy to use and download , not only for the graduation, but also to record our yearly long trips . I may also try to figure out how to attach video to this blog site.
Lunch was at an interesting place named MImi’s where we had chicken wraps w/ soup.
Our final destination for the shopping trip was the Arlington Sewing Center. Sara already had the address entered, we just told her to guide us there and she advised us where to turn, what lane to get in, and how much longer to the next turn. As you might guess, this is not N’s favorite place to shop, but he was very patient with me.
This is the shop where I find very special embroidery designs. The customer looks through an enormous book of designs, picks the 10 or 20 she wants from the gazzillions listed and they will burn it on a CD of them for about $5 per design also included is a color picture of the design and a color chart showing what thread was used. (I have paid as much as $20 for a special design I wanted from a lady who digitized it just for me) This is a pretty good deal. I asked the lady who owns the shop if she had LARGE alphabets for putting words on church banners. She did some research and could only come up with one item that would meet my needs. It is a very large program with FIFTY (50) fonts that can be sized as large as a person’s embroidery hoop allows and may be slanted or printed in an arch or any number of other configurations. N asked some technical questions that hadn’t occurred to me to ask--i.e. format for Singer machines, save to desktop, etc.
YES--I bought it and--- as I write this--have not had the time to play with it yet. I’ll include a picture when I get it all figured out. Maybe Monday afternoon or Wednesday will be good times to play. I also picked 10 separate designs for a disc and have already embroidered one of them. A really cute stick figure angel.
After we were through at the Sewing Center, we told Sara to take us to Allegheny Street and she guided us right there. We had a great brisket supper that had been cooking most of the day and we organized things for the very early breakfast on Saturday morning. N’s graduation is at 9 in Denton (about an hour away) and her three 1/2 friends who are going to the ceremony with us are coming for breakfast at 6:30. Three and a half, because GB is bringing her 7 month old son Owen. The other guests for breakfast are M. and S. Nki made coffee cake and I prepared a fruit salad. Then we went to bed.
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