So I'm thinking of having a online Garage Sale

I have TONS of fabric and I mean TONS. It's almost embarassing -- almost, lol. You would not believe how much of our storage unit is taken up with fabric. So...I'm thinking of having a little garage sale here on my blog with fabric and sewing stuff and stuff I've sewn -- which would be clothing from my kids, some samples for boutique eBay auctions, some big 3 sewing patterns, etc. Also, if you are interested in little girl dance costumes, I have a rack full of Miss Em's previous years of costumes that I'm going to add to my little garage sale.

I am backlogged on my school work which is due in 1 week...mainly due to my school only computer's motherboard dying (fyi, an extended warranty on a computer is a good thing or never buy a refurbished HP computer), so I'm going to finish that stuff this weekend, then I'm going to pull out fabric, etc. for the garage sale. I'll post a big announcement of the time and day it will start. It will be a Paypal only garage sale.

I need to do this because I've moved my crafting area to take up my vanity area and all my fabric/crafting needs to fit into one closet and not scattered throughout the house, lol.

Fabric Shopping!!

I just had to share. I happened upon reprodepot fabrics to look at something and I just couldn't pass these up. I usually never order from them because it can get expensive, but aren't these adorable??




I got these two prints for a skirt for Ms Em. It's going to be a full skirt with a flat front waistband and elastic back. I'm picturing it in my head now, so cute! The pink is going to be the waistband.



And I just can never pass robot fabric up. And this was robot knit, so Mr E is getting a t-shirt out of this.



And last but not least, I am a diehard sock monkey lover. I made him pants out of the lime green print last year, so this one was on sale for only $5/yd at reprodepot and I picked it up tonight. It's a brushed poplin. And it's so hard to find elastic waist pants at his size right now, he's getting to big for 4Ts, but regular 4/5s are way too long and I can't find many with elastic for school and he still needs to be able to rip 'em off quick for the potty.

So reprodepot has some great sale prices right now on some things. So you fabricaholics out there might want to do some shopping. I am ever the enabler :)

Sassy Skirts

A local quilt store is having a "Sassy Skirt" contest. They have a little Inspirations Club once a month -- for $5, you get basically an hour long commerical to see all the new products and fabric and then get a discount at the end to shop, plus sometimes they throw in a freebie pattern. And they have a raffle drawing for a prize from the new stuff.

So with the contest, if you win, you get your choice of 40% off a Bernina or 40% off fabric purchases for a month. Woohoo!! Anyway, I'm entering. You get extra points if you use this book, but I make these twirlie skirts all the time, so I'm going to make one for my dd, and her skirt will be a bit funky with some tulle and lots of ruffles and maybe some glitz with some hot fix rhinestones. I picked up the fabric last night and plan to get started this weekend.

Speaking of contests, I'm debating on doing something for the county fair. It's due May 29th to turn in, but the fair is not til June 8th. I've never entered before, and it looks like fun. Plus, there's never much sewing stuff entered anyway. My mom used to have me enter the kids stuff for baking at the local fair where we lived, I won once for a cake. They have a kids contest here too, I think my dd would just love it. I'm going to ask her if she wants to sew something. She is a wonderful sewer. She's made headbands for all the girls in her class and she's made herself her own skirts.

Oh and I went to Hancock's yesterday and dug through their flat fold knit table. I just love that table, you never know what you are going to find. I found these two cotton knits. The retro 50s one I just love, the little thought bubbles say "Jeepers!" Too cute! And the white floraly one is adorable, it looks very kid's boutique-y. And the cool thing is, it's dyeable. The print is on top of the fabric, like PRR fabric used to be, so you can dye the background. I'm not sure what to dye it yet, green, peachy, or maybe lavender. I need to test some swatches first.