Thursday, May 5, 2011

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

How about a sale to celebrate Cinco de Mayo? Your cool with that right?

Save 15% off your order by using our CINCODEMAYO coupon code at check out! Use your coupon to save on our Mexican Oilcloth, Chalk Cloth or the Laminated Cottons. Sale ends Sunday!

After your done shopping come back and check out how to make these cool papel picado out of my favorite fabric "oilcloth"! Viva la oilcloth!!! (hope that Spanish sentence wasn't too horribly wrong)

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Great Idea: Baby Arpon Bib

This is the cutest darn thing I seen in ages. In fact, it's one of those projects that I wish I had thought of. It's perfect, right? Craftiness is not Optional has done a stunning job on her Bapron (baby apron) but we think it could be just a tiny bit more practical if it where made from laminated cotton, especially since we just got another bolt of Anna Maria Horner's Forest Hills print in yesterday!!!
Please head over to Jessica's terrific blog that she's filled up with tons super cute tutorials. Soooo.... cute!

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

shipping and handling

My lovely tablecloth is made from the green lattice laminate from Sisboom
We are gearing up to makeover our studio space and I've been blogging about it on my Modern June blog for a couple of weeks now. This piece of the puzzle is to help us get your laminated cotton and chalk cloth orders to you in nicely wrapped rolls, so I thought I would share it here on OCA too!

OOOOOOKKKKKKKKK! That's a really big roll of poly tubing...

Kathie (Shipping Junie of Love... yes, that is her official title) and I have been dreaming of the day when we can ship our chalk cloth goodies and our rolls of chalk cloth and laminated cotton more efficiently. For years we've been cutting down Uline's long poly mailers. We've cut them lengthways and widthways, so that we cut down on waste and costs. They cost us $1.70 a pop, so getting four packages out of one mailer was good business. We've also reused the poly tubing that the bolts came it. Often splitting them in half. It wasn't pretty, but it got the job done cheaply.

I started squirreling away a few dollars here and there to buy a big roll of poly tubing. I figured that we needed to have it on hand before we made over the studio so we could plan on where to put it. HOLY COW, was I right about that! This bad boy is gigantic! I placed my MacBook in the shot so you had an idea of just how big this thing is.

Well, we had planned on attaching it to the wall that the cutting table butts up on to but I don't think that's such a great idea. Mr. Modern June would have a total fit about that!!! Officially, I am not allowed to hang things on the wall. It's not because I am girl, it's just that I really suck at it. ; ) Heck, I doubted that the rack would really stand up once the roll was put on. Engineering is cool, just like magic!

Who knows where this will end up! Stay tuned...

Monday, May 2, 2011

Color Combo's: Picnic Time

Walnut Wood Grain, Red Gingham, Brown Gingham, and Cherries on White

The other day I had to pull out these four oilcloth prints for a few different orders. As I was carrying them to the cutting table and couldn't help but think that they would be great used together. I soon came up with images of having a picnics outside my imaginary and quaint cabin by the make-believe lake. (Of course there's a dock and a row boat along the grassy shore.)

Ahhh....sounds lovely doesn't it? I can see an oilcloth picnic mat made with the red gingham that is sprinkled with cherry appliques now! And a vintage picnic basket  is lined with all four prints! Summer! All I need is the cabin and the lake...