It will be missed

In Monday's post I promised the next post would be about crafting again. This may not be so much about craft-ing , as much as it is about things I found to be craft-y. I hope I'm not breaking my promise here, but haven't had much time to be so crafty lately.

Maybe I should spend less time buying crafting supplies, and more time using them. There's a thought. But in this economy, I feel it's my American duty to help stimulate consumer buying. Yeah, that and the fact that I've been working everyday for the last few weeks and it will continue throughout March. Welcome to my part time job. I could go for a good snow day, or sick kid day. I didn't just say that, did I???

I'm off track - back to the craft-y stuff. It's a sad day here. Our local Wal*Mart, who I'm not normally a fan of, is doing some remodeling and "restructuring" of their merchandise. And apparently the big wigs at WM decided that the fabric department isn't as profitable as they would like, so they are removing it. Gone. No more. This is very sad.

We had a great WM Fabric department. One of the best in the area. And believe me - I checked the other ones. Ours was the best. Now it wasn't "quilt shop" quality or anything, but it was good fabric. You need interfacing? Run to WM - it's cheaper than JoAnn's. You need plain red broadcloth? Run to WM - it's 30 miles closer than the next fabric shop. Not anymore people. I will have to travel at least 30 miles now to buy fabrics. Oh, this is not good.

What is good though is that I was in there just a day or so after they started reducing their fabric. They started at 50%, and will end at 50% - so there was no reason to wait it out. 50% was as good as it was going to get. So much to my children's anguish, I shopped around and stood in line for a few goodies.

These are for kids lounge pants. Hopefully I'll get some time this week to work on these! This was just pieces of some of the prints I liked. Nothing special planned for it. It will fit in somewhere, sometime. Amazingly - for catching them at the beginning of the sale, it was still pretty picked over.

But I went back in yesterday to check what's left and found ribbon. These were 1/2 off as well. As you know, ribbon isn't very expensive anyway, so I hit the jackpot. I don't sew with a lot of ribbon, but use it a lot in card making, so I stocked up.

I got all of this, and some yellow that's not in the picture, for just over $6. And I think it's close to 30 yards of ribbon. Woo-hoo! What a great deal. How can you pass it up??

I knew it was a good deal when the fabric cutter lady at WalMart (yes, Amanda - they are all still the same ladies there) even thought I was getting a good deal. Such sweet ladies that work there - Wal Mart's Fabric department and their sweet ladies will be missed.

Happy Friday, friends! Have a great Valentine's Day with the one you love!