I took a day off from work today to meet up with VickiW and SueB for shopping and lunch. VickiW has come to New Hampshire for the MQX show, and SueB lives in Massachuesetts. While we all work with fiber, we all have slightly differently specialties, which makes for fun shopping and interesting conversation.
After touring Sue's wonderful studio and experiencing studio furniture lust, we first went to the Franklin Mill Store, which has an amazing selection of ribbons: embroidered, double face satin, grosgrain, organza, velvet and everything in between, not to mention fabrics of all sorts, plus notions and section with stationary that can be custom printed. Here's what I bought there:
There a couple of custom cards, a boxed set of cards and envelopes, some satin/organza ribbon and two woven ribbons. The horse ribbon is for trim for my daughter's fall wardrobe. Check out the image on the boxed set of cards:
After taking time out for lunch at 3 (yes that is the name of the restaurant!), we went shopping at Tatnuck Bead Company and Necessities for Needle. I picked up these pink beads at Tatnuck along with a few findings for making jewelry. I bought the pink beads as I'm percolating a few new projects. Part of the process is to collect bits and pieces whenever I see items in the colors that I'm envisioning. The beads are part of that.
I had a great day - I needed a day off! Thank you both, Sue and Vicki!Parting Shot: The last snow! This is all that's left in my front yard. I think spring is here.
7 comments:
It sounds like you had a lovely time hanging out and notion shopping with your friends! I should take a day off like that, I feel I really need it! My mother is in Portugal for a few days and the best I could do was a short 1h30 break to have a cup of coffey and talk about life... But we did make a quick visit to the notions shop nearby and now I have the buttons for the Simplicity jacket!
Those cards are the greatest! Glad to see your snow is dwindling. I'll never forget the first year I lived in Boston, after moving there from Dallas, and it snowed the first week of May! Ya gotta be tough to be a New Englander, right?
I'm glad that you had a wonderful day with fiber friends but I'm wondering why we didn't get to see a picture of the studio that produced "studio furniture lust!" I would like to lust along with you, too! *LOL*
Sounds like you had a fun time. Love those cards!
Sounds like a great day. I *think* that Franklin Mill Store was at Stitches Midwest 2 yrs ago - and I dropped some serious coin on buttons and ribbons and stuff.
Love the cards too.
Sounds like such a great time. Are these stores in NH? I usually make it to NH and the North Shore about once a month from way upstate NY and try to hit the Fix and sometimes Martins. I can kind of guess where Franklin Mill Store might be but was wondering about the other two as well. Any possibility of a location and I can do a Mapquest? TIA. I can be reached at bunnypep"at"earthlin"dot"net.thanks
Cancel that request. I just figured it all out. Duh.....thanks, though.
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