The first couple of months of the challenge were awesome, and I felt like such a zen, calm person.  I was all, "La di da, I'm so balanced.  Lookie here, I don't need new craft supplies."

A couple months ago the cracks started showing, but I thought the weakness would pass.  I kept trying to convince myself that I could buy sweaters and unravel them for the yarn and it wouldn't count as actually buying craft supplies.

A couple weeks ago I started hearing voices in my head, like some sort of addict, "Just a little bag of sequins will make you feel better and they'll be less than a dollar!"

I've started to think that maybe if I go buy non-craft stuff, just to buy something, that it will help curb my craft supply cravings.  I keep imagining ridiculous buying sprees at the dollar store.

Last week in Radio Shack I spied some perforated circuit boards (which I've wanted to buy for years do some sort of embroidery on), but now I was thinking that they wouldn't count for the challenge because something from Radio Shack shouldn't count because it's not a craft-supply store.  Water-tight logic, right?

And today my "newly-purchased-craft-supply starved brain" came up with, "If it's a gift it wouldn't count, right?!?!"  And I had visions convincing Andrew to buy me stuff as "gifts."

And tonight, in my darkest moment yet, my thoughts have turned to murder.

Yes.  Murder.

Ha!  Just kidding.  But OMFG this is so much harder than I thought it'd be.  On the bright side, we're almost half-way through the year.

NOTE: Photos are of clay with doily impressions.  The were in mosaic art on Philadelphia's South Street.  Random?  Yes.  Relevant? No.  But better than a pictureless post.