Mookie and I on our way to the 2011 Sew Expo in Puyallup. Gotta love car photos. We switched things up this year and headed for IKEA first thing. We picked up Mookies new dresser, a night stand, and lots of kitchen gadgets. Love their little coffee frother!
Met up with my bud Barbi (didn't take a single photo(darn it) so gleemed this one from her blog..isn't she cute in her new snuggy). Anyhoo, we met up at IKEA and went to luuch, then spent the rest of the day catching up, shopping, thrifting, and drinking starbucks! What a great time. Mookie and I were so tired by the end of the night.
Next morning we are all set, tiara's on, glitter bags ready, and money in our pockets. First stop at the Expo was to check in with Annette, let her know the dress is here and we are ready for the fashion show on sunday. Spend the rest of the morning hours shopping the booths and talking to vendors. Lots of touching fabric, wooing and ahhhing over bling and creative juices flowing. So many projects...so little time. In the afternoon, we headed for the mall for some real shopping. remember, we live on an Island so our options of fashionalbe duds is limited. We were not disappointed.
Saturday night, we headed out to Pacific Fabrics fabulous after hours party to shop and meet Suede from season 5 of Project Runway. He was so sweet and talked with Mookie about getting into the fashion field, gave her suggestions of classes and experience that will be helpful to her in the future. Mookie bought one of his new patterns for her next project and plans to enter it in the Simplicity Contest.
Here is the pattern Mookie bought...he even signed it for her. It's a cute little wrap dress. Mookie went with some animal print and metallic fabric for the dress. I'll share pics when she gets it done.
Some of our goodies we picked up for projects this year. Lots of bling and trims to embellish. Not as much fabric as we have picked up in the past, but all are going to be made up quickly this year. Some of my favorites were the pin-up guys mookie found to make a pillowcase, and the lacey canvas we found to make anothe tote bag.
More later on the the big fashion show...off to the vet with Lily.
I thought that too! What??? No pictures??? How lame are we? And we blog for goodness sake!!!! And then you took the ugly one of me and my snuggie!?! Oh well. I had SO much fun catching up....far too long of catching up to do! We must not wait that long next time. My mom and I went to Pacific Fabrics after the sewing expo and I recognized Suede's name from you talking about him...saw the pattern and the first one I saw was the one Mookie (trying to get used to calling her that on the blog, it is hard) bought and I told mom how much I loved that dress. Will look a lot cuter on tall thin Mookie, than on me. But LOVE it!
Posted by: Barbi | March 09, 2011 at 09:02 PM