Wow, okay I'm tired! Did I mention I was tired? My poor husband is exhausted too! He worked from the hotel during the trip and work was giving him a really hard time, drama etc. So he was just stressed out of his mind. We did go eat lunch two days in a row at a wonderful little Nob Hill Cafe that had pasta and it was BEYOND yummy. I also met up with Halsted, one of my oldest online friends. I met her over 9 years ago online and she taught me a lot about computers. I was about 18 at the time. I had always wanted to meet her and she took me to a wonderful restaurant but I was too shy to ask for a photo. She was wonderful, and didn't even seem to mind my awful babbling.

Top of Nob Hill:

I of course went to the conference, but I also stopped by Art-fibers. Okay ya'll all know how much I love Knitch in Atlanta? Well I must say I have found another yarn store that I adore, but in an entirely different way. Art-fibers hardly had anyone in the store. One women working, and a delightful older women from england who was walking around clutching baby alpaca and happily petting it. She was very sweet and we talked a bit. There is a nice section to sit in and a huge racks for "yarn tasting". Let me first explain, all of the yarn in the store is MADE for Art-fibers. You can't buy it any other place in the WORLD! So the yarn tasting racks contain a sample of EVERY yarn in the store and you may swatch ALL you want, and each yarn had several sample swatches. The swatches where amazing. I wanted to stay there for hours, but I only had 1 hour. I actually ditched out on 1 hour of the conference to go to this store (shhh don't tell my boss) but it was the part on paper prototyping and the only time I was actually bored at the conference, everything else was very interesting.

Art-fibers:

I spy a Marnie MacLean pattern!

Yarn Tasting:

So yeah, back to the yarn. They actually don't like people taking photos but she allowed my too and I didn't want to be impolite so I only took a few. I wish I could have gotten some of the swatches! They seemed to have hundreds of yarns of every time you could imagine. LOADS of silk blends. Oh and it's all on cones or these foam inserts so it keeps the cost down and is better for the environment. I bought two cones, each was $60 and contained enough yarn for a women's medium sweater. And it was SILK yarn too! I'll have those photos for you in a few days, I haven't had a chance to take them yet. In my view knowing how much say, debbie bliss yarn costs with a silk or alpaca blend etc, I think it was a great price.

Preview of Stash Acquisition:

At dinner with my Aunt Pat

The Hotel:

The Conference:

Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D. who is a great speaker:

He used phrases like "it sucks" and "Suicidal rabbit"

Husband working:

We arrived back in GA at 5am so we promptly went to bed and caught a few hours sleep. On the airplane my feet swelled up horribly and it totally freaked me out! I've never had that happen before, so weird!!