Craft: the magazine

I have been looking for the magazine, Craft: for quite some time. I've asked JP several times when he was in various locations around Vancouver to pick one up for me, and he couldn't find it. In fact, he went so far as to suggest it didn't even exist(gasp!). I asked my friend at Big Girl Feet where she picked up her copy and she was kind enough to name the store and location, so JP and I were set to trek into the city this weekend for magazine glory(plus some other goodies of course). (Hi, my name is Denise, and I am a magazine-a-holic...)

But then this morning I was in small pharmacy close to where I live and there it was! Tricky little feller - just 1 km from my house! Innocently hiding on the bottom shelf, smack dab in the middle of the store's magazine rack. Now this is super amazing because yes, I live Way. Out. There. I'm so happy to find the magazine, but sad because I don't think there will be three more people like me who will pay $17.99 for a magazine Way Out Here.

And then yesterday I read this, on Carol Browne's blog:

I've given this some serious thought and, I'm officially finished with Martha Stewart Living. I'm going to cancel the subscription I've had for 7 years. I feel like a traitor, but, today after reading the March issue - the gardening issue - I realized that I've read this same gardening issue every March for 7 years. I've kept every issue I ordered and I never refer back to them. Many of the articles tell you to refer to her website anyway. And I figure if I really want an article, I'll just buy it off the newsstand

And I agree 100%. I've been subscribing to Martha Stewart Living since 1997. And lately it just does not have it. It's become a big yawn. So I won't renew my subscription when it ends in the fall. And that will leave a hole in my budget for Craft: the magazine.