for some reason...

 ... i considered it so necessary to buy 1,740 yards  of bakers twine this weekend. that's almost a mile, people. 5,220 feet.

it all started with a friday morning phone call from a friend... asking me to swing by the restaurant supply store and grab a spool of red + white baker's twine.

... the same kind of twine that survived the great wedding of 2010.

and a handful of baby showers.

and every birthday present wrapping and christmas treat packaging and gift giving opportunity in the last two years.

so i bought it.

and was promptly re-paid. 

good planning, it seemed, as we stare straight ahead at a month of gift giving and package wrapping. 

but then we got looking.... 

$13.99 for string {it's STRING!} is beyond ridiculous... but totally the going rate for colored STRING these days.

until the magic fingers found this etsy site - where string is half as much as anyone else's STRING.

we especially like this deal.. the deal for the girl{s} who can't decide and have to have it all.

brown. light brown. green. light green. blue. dark blue. black. red. pink. yellow. orange.

i think that will do, don't you?

but wait.

then we found this other site.... with solid color STRING.

solid!

anyone can get their hands on striped STRING.... but who has solid colored STRING?

in all of these awesome colors!

for $1.35 a piece?!

irresistible.

and then some. there are 32 colors.  all of them equally delicious.

so i had her create me a custom listing for all of it.

two of them! one for me, one for my string lover's anonymous friend.

and by the end of the week, i had over $100 worth of STRING in my cart. 

very reminiscent of my days as a ribbon-gone-wild girl.

excess, anyone?