Yesterday Mrs. Carl Sagan and I spent all morning surfing at Etsy and emailing our finds back and forth. Every five minutes one of us would continue to ignore the needs of our children, and instead would dash off a quick link or two to some really cute ragdolls, or crocheted cupcakes, or thank-you cards, or bracelets. I’m sure the kids will forgive me when they see the super cute homemade puzzles they’ll be getting in their stockings this year!

We are quite far gone with the addiction, you see. It’s sort of like going to one of those Arts and Crafts shows, which we used to do all the time before it would have involved bringing along three kids apiece with grabby hands and bathroom needs and really whiny voices when bored. Only with Etsy, there’s like, a hundred thousand exhibitors. It’s so fabulous I could die swooning.

This morning, it’s been more of the same. We’ve both discovered the “pounce” feature in which you can see a constantly updating list of what just got sold a few minutes ago. I have a compulsion to check it every six seconds to see what I’ve just missed out on buying. I could have owned that! It’s like I’m about five years late to the eBay party, what with the constant refreshing of my browser and the bitterness over things I am no longer allowed to buy. Which is typical for me, I’m a late adopter. Have you heard about this new thing called the internet?

Mrs. Carl Sagan upped the ante yesterday by actually purchasing two lovely pendants from Madison Craft Studio. I loved them, and wanted some. But buying stuff for myself is always so hard, so fraught with guilt. Last night encouraged me to just go for it, get crazy, spend $15 on myself and call it a Mother’s Day gift.

So this morning I put two pendants in my cart…and there they sat for several hours while I went all around the circle of “I don’t need it” to “They’re too expensive” to “I don’t have anything to wear them with” to “TurtleHead, YOU SUCK.”

So then I clicked “Purchase.” Even though there was a big scary warning under the button that said that once I clicked “Purchase,” there was no backing out, ever, EVER. Eeep!

End result, apparently, there are necklaces in the mail. I’m excited! But guilty. So typical.

In other news, Mrs. Carl Sagan also bought some reuseable vegetable bags from Etsy seller Daisy Dots, because she was tired of waiting for ReMarket to restock. The Daisy Dots version are larger than mine (16×12 instead of 10×13) for a little less money, and have pretty coloured ties to boot. They haven’t arrived yet, but they look like a good option for anxious environmentalists.

Now I must run. At least 100 things were pounced on at Etsy while I wrote this post!