Shop Hoppin'

The Coastal Creative Shop Hop 2009 is underway. Saturday morning, my friend Shelly and I met up with Edina and started our crawl across north county and down the coast. It took us all day starting at 9:30 am, but we managed to make it to Common Threads, our last stop, by 5 pm. We turned in our full passports, happy and tired.

The information for the Shop Hop

Participating Shops are:

Starry Night Hollow - 895 Saxony Road, Encinitas 760-944-3700 www.starrynighthollow.com

Common Threads - 466 S. Coast Hwy 101, Encinitas 760-436-6119 www.fiberartshop.com

Embellishments - 466 N. Coast Hwy 101, Encinitas 760-633-1440 overbell@cox.net

Aretoy Quilt Shop - 1656 Ord Way, Oceanside 760-630-9234 www.aretoy.net

The Black Sheep - 1060 S. Coast Hwy 101 760-436-9973 www.theblacksheep.com
Beads Crystals and More - 967 S. Coast Highway 101, Ste B105 (Lumberyard), Encinitas 760-942-5222 beadlovers@aol.com
JaziCrafts - 4747 Oceanside Blvd. Ste G, Oceanside 760-414-9645 www.jazicrafts.com

Knitting by the Beach - 616 Stevens Ave Ste B, Solana Beach 858-509-9276 www.knittingbythebeach.com

Canterbury Gardens - 2402 Escondido Blvd., Escondido 760-746-1400 www.canterburygardens.com

You will be entered to win a prize from each shop you visit on your passport. If you visit all the shops on this years Shop Hop, your passport will be entered to win any of these fun grand prizes.

One night stay & breakfast at the Del Mar Grand Hotel and Resort

Two $200 Gift packages from the Kevin Murphy Professional Salon Products recently endorsed by Hugh Jackman in People Magazine

Facial services from "Faces" by Natalie

Gift package from Moda/United Notions

Gift package from E.E. Schenck a notions company

Unique artful creation from Annie's Creative Gardens

Gift package from Quilt in a Day

A funny note about our first couple of shops we visited was that I kept running across things that pertained to motocross. I've spent every weekend the past month and half (before Stitches) at different motocross tracks around Southern California. My husband was racing a series that lasted 6 weeks. I was pretty relieved when it was over, and his next race isn't for a couple of weeks. Our first stop was at Canterbury Gardens, where the woman who works there told me that the owner had broken his leg last week racing his dirtbike. Then at our next stop Aretoy, the owners go out to the race tracks and take digital pictures for some of their products. They had some serious machinery that was able to transfer any digital picture onto fabric, hats, mugs and pretty much anything you want. They had fabric with motocross riders on it, and a quilt that was being made with it. I would really like to make one someday, but it's too big for me to take on right now. My husband was laughing, he said "you can try to get away, but the motocross will follow you". Lucky me.