Pin-Wheel Dragonfly windchime

It's been some time since I last bought a dragonfly windchime. I saw this one at Walmart yesterday and I had to take it home!

More windchimes.

A while back I'd posted many of my windchimes. Well I have 2 more to add to the collection.

This is a gift from my youngest daughter. Pretty and butterfly themed

This is a gift from a guest who visited my home.

I shopped till I dropped...

The 5 patterned socks,  and the charcoal wool/cotton blend socks

Seriously, I left this morning at 9am, and got home at 3pm.  I have not done marathon shopping like this in years, and alone no less. Usually I get fed up after an hour or two. Today I went to Mega Mall in Ste Dorothe.

I started at a perennial favourite, l'Aubainerie. I like that one. It has a nice selection. Don't bother with the one on sources. Smallest store and lousiest merchandise. The one in Laval rocks though.I picked up a black cotton cami, some charcoal cotton tights and some 45% merino wool 40% cotton charcoal socks. Those socks were only $6.  

I went to most of the stores and not much was appealing to me today. I did get 5 pairs of socks for $10, all with 70 or 75% cotton blend. I just loved the socks with the cat designs and the penguin designs.  I didn't specifically choose the hot pinks, the kitty designs just happened to be in hot colours. 

Dragonfly wind chime

I went to most stores and just looked at stuff. Looked for a few things but didn't find them.  I went to target for the first time, and  well meh. Bought light bulbs  Used the self serve cash.  I found a plush animal blanket like I wanted at Walmart. Helped a lady get a box of kitty litter into her cart. She was surprised that I was not only volunteering to help but that I was not that young either. lol. But it wasn't as heavy as the one I picked for myself.  Also found this little blue plastic balls to put in the dryer that is supposed to help with static. Well I had them in the dryer with the blanket and it seemed to work.

I wandered trough Pier 1 Imports and had to take home with me a dragonfly wind chime. A really sweet one. Has a beautiful sound. It was a bit expensive and not reduced because summer is over, but I just had to have it.

I skipped Reno Depot and Canadian Tire. I'm sure if I'd stopped to have a snack, I could have visited a few more stores. :)  I could have made it till closing at 5pm. 

Dragonfly wind-chimes

Fell in love with this one when I spotted it at the Kaleidoscope gathering It's got a lovely sound too, the sound of the wood is just so different.

I picked up this one in a little shop in Marche de l:ouest.

This one is a gift from my eldest daughter

This is a dollarstore find.

Wind-chimes

I realized by taking photos that I have more then 20 wind-chimes many of which are dragonfly themed. Here are a few of my wind-chimes, those that are not dragonfly themed

This one is a gift from hubby #2, the globe lights up pretty colours at night with the wind

This one I picked up in Perce, Quebec, made from green stones found there locally.

This is a gift from a long time friend, 

This one I picked up in Dubai, at the Mall of the Emirates from a man who sells chinese stuff in a little cart.

This is also a gift from hubby #2 made by an artisan in PEI. We got to visit his workshop and see all the chimes he had for sale. It's huge, and weighs easily 20-30 lbs so needs a strong hook, which I have yet to put up.  You can see how big it is with my cat in the picture.  It has a beautiful song. I look forward to being in Nova scotia and hanging outside my window.

Restringing windchimes

I spent some time today re-stringing wind-chimes lying around my home. I used some dollar store fishing line instead of the various rope the wind-chimes were originally strung with.