Hobby Lobby

What a selection. I usually come
Here with the wife as I am not into crafting much but there is a lot more to these stores. Including coin collection materials and other hobbies outside of crafting.

Amazing selection of holiday décor or a reasonable price. I also love how early they put the Christmas decorations out, I like getting a head start on my Christmas crafting.

Good selection, wide variety. Some items are reasonably priced, other stuff are a bit pricier. Their seasonal stuff is constantly rotating, so there’s usually something new. Very organized. My only complaint is the customer service. Employees are slow to help and often don’t know how to locate items. They ran out of a product I wanted, so the cashier offered to do a rain check. I said sure, and filled out the form for it. They never called me about it. I went back a few weeks later and it was back in stock, but was annoyed that they hadn’t bothered to carry through with the rain check.

Clearance, clearance, clearance. If I am speaking your language check this…50,60,70 EVEN 80% off. Walk the isles, all of them, and you will find deals galore. Print a 40% original price coupon or pull out the Hobby Lobby app to scan that bugger. If if is not on sale– do not buy it, it will go one sale In a week or two. Take a cart, you will fill the cart with bargains.
Every moment spent walking around HL is inspiring. Your head will be spinning with all of this things you have pinned on Pinterest. Paper crafts, holiday decorations, frames, yarn, flowers, stamping supplies are only some of the things you will find inside this store. Hobby Lobby has a huge selection of framed art for your walls. The Fabric department always has someone working.
Plan for a good ten minutes checking out, it is the only buzz kill to the whole Hobby Lobby experience. They do not scan a single item, everything in that cart of yours has to be entered into the register by hand.

My wife loves this place way more than me because I’m not an arts and crafts kinda guy, but it’s a nice store with anything you could ever want, seriously I’ve never seen a store so big. My head spins every time I come in here due to the sheer expanse of the place.

I love the store’s lay out and employees ! But. at closing time, the employees become very rude and pushy! They act like Hitler ruling the nazi camps.

I love Hobby Lobby! Amazing selection, amazing prices and amazing deals. I could find a million things I needed here. There are always sales. Be sure to look online or download their app to get the weekly coupons and save even more!
My only complaint, and reason I gave four stars, is because some of the employees are snappy and rude. Some are helpful. But most give me rude answers to my questions, or give me an attitude like they don’t want to be there.
Also, I do understand their logic, but I wish they were open on Sundays!

Hobby Lobby always has great sales and coupons but the staff is usually hit or miss. No one says hello or asks if you need anything.

I’d give it more stars but the employees suck! They have the attitude that they hate being there and they hate you. I asked 3 different female employees a question and they all looked annoyed and miserable. On a positive note they had the curtains (chevron) that I couldn’t find anywhere else and it’s a perfect place to buy a gift!

Hobby Lobby is one of my go-​to places for craft supplies, party decorations, or whatever oddly specific item I am looking for.
They have such a large supply of «stuff»! It is a great catch-​all if you can find the item somewhere else. The major plus to Hobby Lobby is that everything is super cheap. If you look online, they always have a 40% off coupon for any one item. And they are allwwwwayyys having sales, «If it is not on sale this week, it will be on sale next week.» You can also get your receipt price adjusted up to two weeks after your purchase. That is significant here because you can count on your purchase going on sale.
The service here is a little slow. Checking out can take longer than it should compared to other retail chains… that issue is pretty trivial.
Get your craft on!

You can loose your mind in this place! I went in there last month to get pipe cleaners and came out spending $ 40 before my coupon! This has now become my new favorite store. I somehow always spend more than an 15 – 30 minutes in this store just walking around. Don’t go to this store close to any holidays or around Halloween! Its insanely busy!

Before shopping here make sure your car insurance is up to date. These craft people may be creative, but they lack driving skills. I think they are so excited to get home with their goodies and start creating new «crafty» things, that they lose all common sense behind the wheel.
However, while I was in the store I found everything I needed to create a Halloween costume and discovered they have a lot of other stuff that I didn’t know I needed. They had aisle after aisle of stuff you can use to make other stuff. Who knew there was so much stuff in the creative craft world.
Walking through the store was like walking through a time warp, one aisle you’re celebrating Halloween which is later this month and the next couple of aisles is Christmas which is months away. The aisles in between were dedicated to autumn and Thanksgiving. Hobby Lobby can make help you make your home festive for any holiday or celebration.
There seemed to be be staff everywhere, putting out new merchandise and keeping displays organized. Being overwhelmed with all the stuff, I couldn’t find gift tissue so I asked a girl putting out scented candles. She politely told me they were over there next to the gift bags. Wow, why didn’t I think of that. Maybe it was because I was so overwhelmed with all the stuff. Yes, I then had to ask where the gift bags were hiding.
If you’re creative, Hobby Lobby is your candy store.

This place is freaking awesome. SO much stuff in one spot! Really amazed me with their selection. I’ve only been here a couple of times. It has this distinct smell which is like a mix of a craft shop and cracker barrel. A lot of the stuff they sell here somehow reminds me of cracker barrel. Also the place was founded by Mormons, I think (?) so sometimes you’ll see some Christian-​inspired crafting stuff which is neat, if you like that sort of thing.
I could see people of all ages liking this store. From little kids looking for fun things to do at birthday parties (beading kits, etc.) to crafty teenagers looking for fun stuff to do as well (model kits of cars, planes, etc., girly stuff too like sewing and jewelry making) to college kids looking for art supplies for classes, to older folks who just enjoy making quilts, sculpting, crafting, scrap booking, you name it. I personally came in there looking for wicker baskets for my raffle at my charity event. The staff is helpful and friendly! Also by the checkout they sell candy in old-​timey wrappers! So cool!
I should mention if you forgot to bring a coupon (which I did) but you have a phone which can access the intarwebzzz go to their website and click on the weekly coupon deal and BAM! I got 45% off one of my items, which rocked.
Also by the checkout stand… they sell pre-​made roadside memorials which kinda freaked me out a little bit. For $ 90. O_​_​_​_​o;

Hobby Lobby is a bad bad place for me only because I can never leave there without purchasing something!
HL was a big time saver and money saver for me for my wedding back in July. I was able to find so many items that I needed and at a great price that you couldn’t tell it was DIY when I was completed.
My recent trip there was to purchase a black wooden «LOVE» sign that I had my eye on to display with our wedding photos. To my surprise it was already 50% off so my coupon wasn’t needed. It fit my vision perfectly!
If you ever need anything for the holidays, or just are bored and want something to do, this is your place to go!

I love Hobby Lobby, along with every other girl in the world… especially those D-​I-​Y fans! I don’t go often since I live a little far, but I made it in today and had the greatest cashier. Her name is Kristin and I believe she is new to the Hobby Lobby staff. She was so incredibly nice and really cared about me and providing me with great customer service. She spent extra time searching and digging to see if I qualified for any special sales. We had great conversation that I almost didn’t want to leave! It really goes a long way having such fantastic customer service… and great sales!

I LOVE this place. If i didn’t live so far away, I’d come here all the time to wander. When my roommate moved in, we wanted to add some more color to the living room to match her horrifyingly bright and purple (with rhinestones) table. She wanted a quote board. I wanted a place to put random memories.
We came here and found a large white board, a set of cork bulletin-​board like things, paint, paint sponges, and really strong magnets.
I LOVE magnets and they had strong silver little ones that i’m almost certain are made from some sort of rare earth metal. And they weren’t super expensive either!
I also found bumpy purple fuzzy cloth (i’m serious, fuzzy purple cloth that has bumps built in) and pink swirled fuzzy cloth (really really soft) and I made a blanket for my roommate as a welcome-​to-​living-​with-​me-​in-​my-​crazy-​world gift. She loves it to death and refuses to let her cats play with it willynilly.
So thank you hobby lobby for all the awesome things you offer! I’m definitely returning soon!
now… if only you weren’t so big inside that I got lost about 5 times.

Daaaaamn, homie!
I needed some miscellaneous holiday items, and my grandma recommended Hobby Lobby as a cheap place to pick up a few things.
Grandma knows what she’s talking about! Hobby Lobby was a freaking GOLDMINE.
The place is huge. If you come here, you need to have an idea of what you want; otherwise, it’s pretty overwhelming.
I slowly meandered the aisles, and one by one, found the items that I needed.
The best part? Pretty much everything was on sale. All of their Christmas items are HALF OFF right now. You read that right! I bought a crapton of holiday décor for less than $ 20. You really can’t beat that.
One downside? The lines move reallllly slowwwww.

I know it’s a chain, but I’m only writing about Hobby Lobby because there are people that don’t know about it. That’s like saying you’ve never seen the show «Friends» before or you didn’t hear that Princess Diana died. If you tell me you’ve never heard of Hobby Lobby I’ll believe you, but I’ll lose all respect for you.
It’s not LIKE IKEA, but I still call it the IKEA of St. Louis, because it’s the only store (that I can afford to shop in) where my excitement levels even approach the same stratosphere as IKEA excitement.
Hobby Lobby is a Christian-​run company (i.e. closed on Sundays) that sells lots of arts and crafts, as well as a bevy of ornamental shit with which to decorate your house. Walking through the store it might seem like a lot of sweat shop-​produced crap, and it is, and it might also look like your grandmother’s house, but I’m telling you, carefully selected merchandise from Hobby Lobby can really class up a place. No matter what your motif is, there is SOMETHING here that will «go». Believe it or not, Hobby Lobby and IKEA alone were responsible for taking my interior design from «dorm room» to «I just got kicked out of my mom’s basement and am subletting from a guy I met on Craigslist». This place is a babe magnet BIG TIME.
If you’re decorating a kid’s bedroom, you pretty much have to go here.
Do not EVER go here without printing off an online coupon first, and every section of the store rotates when it is on sale. So pretty much anything you want will be on sale (like meaning 50% off) every 3 weeks or something. I’m not joking. I wish every company had sales like Hobby Lobby has sales.
To summarize:
If you need a gothic cross to hang above your fireplace, a pink feather boa bedazzled with the saying «Live. Love. Laugh.», or any kind of craft or art supply, Hobby Lobby is your new Disney Land.
See also «scrapbooking» and «framing».
Basically, Hobby Lobby is the Wal-​mart of… crafts and cheap home décor. A poor man’s Pier 1.

So where have I been? This was my first trip to a Hobby Lobby… EVER.
I went with an artistic friend of mine who wanted to buy painting supplies. I was looking for Christmas decorations for my «table top» tree (aka the small tree-​shaped rosemary bush I found at Lowe’s). I wasn’t sure that I’d be able to find much by way of small tree decorations, but holy crap! They had more than I could have imagined, and it was all half off! Add to that the 40% off coupon from their website and I made off with a with quite a bit crafting loot!
I took a few minutes to peruse the rest of the store and I must say… if you’re looking for anything crafty (painting, sewing, floral, mirrors, doll houses, WHATEVER) you’re probably going to fine it here. On the other hand, if you’re looking for serious and varied art supplies, I think you’d be better off at a real art supply store… but in the end, even though I’m not a crafter, I did find what I was looking for, and at a reasonable price, too. Overall good stuff.
PS-​If this store’s inventory proves anything, it’s that the women of St Louis County LOVE LOVE LOVE their artificial flowers.

If you are looking to be crafty in any sense of the word, but you’re on a budget… this is definitely the place to go.
Speaking as a girl who has tried out every hobby from model cars (no joke I was an interesting kid), jewelry making, knitting, and scrap booking, I have needed to find a place where I will not drop every cent I have on my latest great endeavor. They carry all these products here, not to mention fabrics, cross stitch patterns, those weird black felt color in posters, beading, ad frames for any picture you would want to hang on your wall. Also, a pretty substantial silk flower collection if that is your thing.
I have not found yarn or needles cheaper anywhere around this part of town, so I keep going back. Also, the parking lot at this place is massive so I never have trouble finding parking, nor do I ever feel crammed in the store with the other customers. Love it!