Well, we had snow… but this last week has been a true roller coaster ride in temperatures.
MONDAY- January 21, 2013
This last week we have had temperatures that went from 0 degrees F. ( -17.78 C. ) to 40 degrees F. ( 4.4444 C. ) and then back down to 10 degrees F. ( -12.22 C. ) – all within 36 hours. Snow has fallen, melted, turned to ice, and then more has fallen. While a January thaw is normal, this pattern is not!
Squirrels dig through the snow
to get to the peanuts that are put out for them!
Once full the take them and bury them elsewhere.
The other news in Maine
is there is a true cold and flu epidemic…
everyone around me has it, and it seems to last nearly six weeks.
So far I have been lucky!
The last two weeks have been extremely busy
here at Brick House Fabrics.
We were contacted by two different people doing shows-
one a musical, one a theater production.
Everything like this involves getting things done NOW.
Well, we did it.
For one we imported a fabric for 30 skirts.
It came in, was measured,
and was sent out the same day to North Dakota.
What they did not take we will be listing today.
It is a retro modern graphic fashion design.
Watch for it on the Fabric News blog.
The other fabric is for a production of
The Lion in Winter.
They wanted the Medieval Beast Fabric for tapestries,
a perfect choice!
We have been promised pics,
and will let you know when they come in!
A lady recently wrote about the Schumacher red bird fabric.
She has wallpaper of it in her kitchen, and wants to make pillows to go with it, for another room. We sent samples, they were a match. Her next question was about a design element for the room… was it strange to have different sizes of pillows. She wanted larger pillows on a couch, and smaller ones for chairs. I wrote no, it was not weird… many people layer pillows.
It seemed like a good time to post Sabina’s pillows that she made last year from the black bird toile fabric.
See Sabina’s pillows in
Postcards from Away.
WEDNESDAY- January 23, 2013
It is cold. This morning it was 5 below 0 F. and the wind was howling. While the wind has died down, it is still just above 0 F. It is going to be a cold night. I just went out to mail a “Fabric Emergency” off, and the moon was out- very large and pale- floating just up from the horizon. This Saturday it will be full.
For those of you who are wondering what in heck a Fabric Emergency could be, (you are thinking.. it is only fabric.) It goes something like this.
Someone emails about a project- do you have such and such, can you get it? Or someone sees a fabric and needs it RIGHT NOW. Things unfold from there.
We have had quite a few over the years. One involved a stool maker in Germany, a show at a castle, and a quail fabric. She was doing a special show at a castle in Germany, and needed the perfect fabric for it… and needed it fast. I started cutting, and packing, as it was late in the day on a Friday. We got it to the post office with about two minutes to spare.
Todays Fabric Emergency involved a little girl, a school project, and her father. The little girl’s class was doing a quilting project, and she needed a large seahorse for it. He had been looking locally and not found anything that would work…. and gone on line and found the embroidered seahorses. One of the samples would do, so after many emails to make certain he was getting what he needed, he bought it, and it has gone out. I have asked for pics of the project when done, he says he will oblige!
Speaking of projects,
Karen in Ohio,
sent pics!
See them in the
Postcards from Away- Home Decorating.
Yesterday two new fabrics were listed.
One is a blue and gold toile fabric
with an olde world look.
The other was the reef toile fabic in a new color way- slate blue.
Today I listed an amazing poppy tulip fabric.
I LOVE it!
It has a huge pattern
using cerise, pink, and orange with green
on a grey background.
It is also available on white,
which should be listed tomorrow.
