japan

The other week one of my very favourite co-workers returned from a wonderful trip to Japan. It sounds like an amazing country filled with so many wonderful things, she had such a good time that she has already brought another ticket back in October. She brought me a gift which was extremely lovely, these two lengths of fabric, they are so different but so wonderful together at the same time, I want to make something really good out of them, I'll probably have enough to make a couple of things, all I have to do is decide.

Yesterday...

...I had such a good day, on all fronts really. I dropped Mum off at work so I could use her car to run a few errnads I had been putting off and then headed to the op-shops, lately we haven't had much luck with op-shops and finding fabric in them (which is our favourite and most useful thing to find) but yeasterday in only two stops I found all of the above it was amazing, and made me feel really really lucky. All of the linen was in perfect condition and felt like it had never been use, which is rare these days I think. After the op-shops I met up with some lovely frineds and we sat in the park for a while, which was nice as I haven't had much time to do things like that really.

From Meaghan.

Pretty new print!

Meg and I went op-shopping on Wednesday and we found this pretty fabric. We where so happy to find it because we haven't had much luck finding fabric at op-shops lately. We have quite a lot of it, so we will include a piece in our give away along with some other McCranky gifts. Check the post below for more details.

From Claire...

This is...My Favourite place to buy craft!

I thought long and hard on this weeks 'This is' meme, before finally deciding that op-shops, really were my favourite place to buy fabric. I would say that about 90% of the fabrics we use to make McCranky! things come from op-shops. I suppose the reason is becasue fabrics found in these shops are so unique, rarely do I see a piece that i've brough before in another shop somewhere down the line. I love the feeling of seeing a perfect piece of fabric hanging or folded up, waiting to be cut and used to make something wonderful. I've had a quick look at what some other people had said and am quite excited by the prospect of doing some online craft buying. Neither Claire nor I have ever delved into buying fabric over the internet (not that I can remember anyway) but definatley think that some will be done in the near future.