Some more vintage fabric delight

Is it just me or are you getting tired, too? This Christmas business is full on - I am running around finishing preparations (we always host the family), we're wrapping vintage fabric orders ASAP to ensure the parcels have the best shot at getting around Australia before Christmas and, on top of that, we have two very excited boys who are addicted to Santa...we did our first drive around at dusk to see all of the house lights. Phew.

I don't think we'll close over the Christmas break - we'll see how we're travelling. I still have so much vintage fabric to put up this week - I am hoping to get a lot up tomorrow...this is one of my favourites arriving on the website next!

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Inspiration stash packs - want smaller remnants?

Lucienne Day, Miscellany, my own collection soon to be Retro Age collection!

Our stash and scrap packs are always so popular - so popular I had to remove them from the site for several months! They are now back and are hot little items...but this brings me to another idea. The stash are a larger size, the scrap pieces are around 15cm aquare - but is there a need for smaller scraps? I have a tonne (seriously - around six 150l bins worth, at minimum) of smaller pieces - probably around the 2" square to strips to...well, all sorts of sizes. Apart from me learning to sew (hi ho - in the NY!) I don't really know what to do with them. I could sell them on the website by the 100g, 250g, 500g and above and it would be pot luck what you would receive (still gorgeous 1930s to 1970s fabrics) - but are they wanted?

I have a lot of stock sitting here coming your way soon. Verner Panton, Lucienne Day and Heals, to name a few. I am so excited to be finally releasing these hard to come by rarities! I am starting afresh in the New Year...so stand by for a blitzing 2010...

Have a lovely week, everyone!

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What a happy anniversary day!

I have had a lovely day - and there is more to come!

Today is our anniversary...on this day, 11 years ago, I met the man of my dreams for some drinkies at Young and Jacksons in Melbourne. We worked for the same company for a year but had only met each other two weeks previous. I was within three weeks of leaving for a two-year teaching tour in Japan, he was within months of going back to New Zealand. Thousands of days later we are still together and have spent only six night apart - and that was when I gave birth to our boys and then spent two night in hospital getting my gallbladder removed. Had someone told me that night would change the rest of my life I would never have believed them - but, that being said, we are the products of definite love at first sight - no two ways about it. Happy 11th anniversay, babe!

This fabric really reflects my day - bright, beautiful, with a colourful spark. I love the fabric - I have been coveting it but the bolt is going up on the website this week. I think we have around 10m of it - and, yes, it's original 1940s rayon crepe...gorgeous....

PS. And I loved seeing our fabrics in the Herald Sun Home magazine today - it is always so wonderful to see our customers and their creations in print - woot!

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