I like yarn. Yarn is so pretty. 
There is yellow yarn, and pink yarn, and that purple thing in the back is the yarn Gordon’s Aunt gave me, because she likes yarn also and she buys it but doesn’t always use it.
By the way, someone offered me a lovely hand-dyed yarn a few days ago and I meant to reply and forgot: I would love to get it, but you have to let me pay you for it.
Yarn is soft and pretty and there is something so comforting about having a stash of it. I am not even sure why it makes feel good, but it does. I actually got pissy this morning because I was looking for a particular yarn, Fortissima Mexico, (I saw it on Yarn Harlot, yep reading craft blogs, there is no hope now) and couldn’t find it a the price I wanted. I am also cheap, you see.
Gordon’s vice.
He has, oh I don’t know, probably around half a thousand at least, probably more. He’s been collecting them since childhood. This is just a tiny sample of his collection and he is now giving me crap about it, because it doesn’t adequately showcase it. :eye roll:
There are the twelve inch figures, and the heavy weights and the light weights, and the GI Joe guys, and the guys in the garage… Certain things are very important, like weight class, and the number of points of articulation. Guess what he’s getting for Christmas?
Of course, there is also our drug of choice.
We probably drink about three teapots a day, often more. 
Green Tea, black tea, herbal tea, horrifying mix of, it’s all good.
Tea is very comforting to me. When I was a little kid, I would get up in the morning, drink strong black tea, have a sandwich, usually bolonga, sometimes ham, and get my butt off to school.
Loose tea is the best, I think, but Gordon kind of hates it , because our kettle, even though it has a built-in sieve, us
ually lets a few tea leaves through and it drives him nuts.
The only thing that might be better than tea is hot coca, but I can’t have any. Coca must have sugar in it, and sugar and I don’t play nice. Sugar-free coca might be a crime against nature and I refuse to drink it.
Mmm, I need another cup of tea.
Do you have small comforting vices? Own up. And books don’t count – that’s too easy.
–Bones (have to hide the TV screen from the boys when the bodies are on)
–Marzipan (my 2 boys (3 & 1) love it as well)
–Philosophy stuff (cinnamon buns shampoo!)
–Shutterfly
–Rainy days
–Bubble baths
–Hiking
I know you said no book vices, but seriously? It’s my vice. I don’t hoard anything else, I don’t really buy anything else for myself, and it’s my only escape from the three tiny tornado’s I have here. When they follow you everywhere from the bathroom, to the shower, to standing right beside your chair or are crawling into your lap and clinging to your legs as you walk, you NEED books… they can’t follow me to Kate Daniels land… lol I can go there all alone
My kids are 5, 3 and 1 (and we are pg with #4 so…)Calgon didn’t work, so books, the next best thing 
Besides Books then? My Espresso/Latte Machine. I couldn’t live without my morning Iced Latte. Right now? Peppermint Mocha Latte’s
(you can crush lots of peppermint candies in your blender, add choco syrup and add fresh from the cow milk and YUM!) SO yea, those two things 
Don’t care if it’s too easy, books are by far my biggest vice. I love them, and buy far more than I can read. A glance at my LibraryThing collection shows that I currently own 127 books I have yet to read, and still I keep buying more.
Other than that, I keep buying pretty, nicely bound notebooks that I never actually write more than a page or two in. My husband has managed to get me to stop doing it quite as much, but I still probably buy one a year or so.
Third, Coca Cola. Drink FAR too much of the stuff.
I have the book vice thing covered because I only go to the library. (I’m cheap and all of those books are free to read!)
But my real vice is horseback riding, which is prohibitively expensive and will render me horse poor when I finally take the plunge and lease Harvey, my favorite horse.
Besides books…running, working out, writing, and drawing my characters the way I imagine them but no one else probably visualizes them…I am also known to spend many classes trying to make the minutes go faster with the time-honored traditions of doodling, curling my hair around my pen, and making lists titled “Things I Would Rather Be Doing” (which usually start with 1)Sliding bamboo shoots under my fingernails).
I also have a weakness for hot tea and a good book on a really stormy night.
Is it just me, or is that collection of action figures reminiscent of something William may have?
I don’t really collect anything, but I’d have to say that my favorite place to go whenever I need “comfort” is the library. It doesn’t matter where it is or if I’ve even been there before, all library’s smell the same and I know that somewhere on the shelves is a book that can take me away. So it’s not really books that are my vice, does that count?
Vices BESIDES books??? Hmm. Hot showers and yummy smelling bath products. And scented candles- My favorites are Cinnabon scented candles. Yuuuuum. All the smell, none of the calories. Just inhaling that fragrant goodness should cause you to gain pounds!
And, cookie dough. Yuuuum. Not candles, just eating the cookie dough. I have been known to eat the dough while waiting for the rest to bake!
Hah hah- it is dinner time and I am food obsessed.
i like stuff. it’s the best thing to collect.
My vice is coffee with lots of sugar and cream. When I’m at home, I add some cinnamon.
Miniatures, jewelry, 1/2 dolls, kaleidoscopes, perfume bottles. Not necessarily in that order. Not-so-small vices. (You can see a few of my miniature scenes here towards the bottom of the page: http://community.webshots.com/user/chiliburger2005 )
They look lovely. The baby Room Scene 2 is basically an actual room, heh. And I really liked the fat black kitty.
Thanks for looking, Ilona.
Makeup I don’t really wear it alot but I love it. Skincare too. I am magnetically attracked to Sephora. Oh and Lush bath products and they don’t help with there buy this get this free I’m a sucker for that.