Rain Rain Rain

Posted by on November 30, 2010
I’ve been working like an ELF yesterday and today trying to finish all of the shirts I have. I’m down to my last 12, yes TWELVE!!!!!!!!!! Woo Hoo!!!! I WILL finish these by the end of this week! Here is one of my favorite designs for Christmas, especially for older kids (with an older looking font). I did a red turtleneck last year for Browder which G will probably wear this year!
If you’ve followed my blog for a while, then this picture looks familiar! This is where I sometimes pile all of my “DONE” shirts ready for pickup! Most of these were done yesterday and today!

Here is the weather photo for today ~ RAIN!!! It has rained all. day. long. I resisted a good afternoon nap and have slaved behind this machine most of the day.

How cute is this????
This is a daughter of a customer and Mallory has one of these precious headbands. I want to take a picture of her with it on and will try to do so and post this week. These are by ZoeLynn & Co. and can be found HERE (Facebook) and HERE (Etsy). They are really cute and she has some great fabrics for Christmas too! Check her out and become a fan on Facebook!
So much for my WIWW (The Pleated Poppy)!! I failed miserably! I will try to take a pic every now & then and post, but as far as every day… I’m just not that stylish! HA! I still LOVE the blog and will keep up with what everyone else is wearing! I added her and another great blog to my blog list ~ both unrelated to applique but fun to read!
We have at least 7 new designs coming to Applique Cafe. There was also some confusion as to the Elizabeth’s Embroideries Lamb design from my previous post. The website owner misunderstood my post and thought I was claiming it as my own! Most of you know a lot of the designs featured on my blog are from all different sites. I changed it so that you can see it’s clearly from her site, and I may start adding captions underneath all of my right-hand-side pictures so you know where the design came from! She & I e-mailed this morning and it was a simple misunderstanding. I will add that info in my spare time….
As far as taking on more work! Maybe next week? We’re heading to Atlanta for the SEC Championship Saturday so I’d like to finish my 12 and enjoy my weekend and then might take on a few orders before Christmas!
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The ATL!!

Posted by on October 28, 2010
My birthday was in September and Jeff & I were supposed to go on a mini trip to Reynold’s Plantation in Georgia. Busy-ness thwarted our plans (I opted out due to our heavy schedule) so we rescheduled and went to ATLANTA this week to shop and spend the night! It was a great little 36 hour trip! Monday I shopped ~ we had no plans other than finding a Forever 21 store which we found at Perimeter Mall. I had visited this store once before on another Georgia trip and wanted to go back. I am FAR from 21, but they have a HUGE store  (like 4 stores) in Perimeter Mall and Jeff so kindly sat outside on a bench while I shopped! I got several cute sweaters and racked up on costume jewelry!! Sometimes you just need a fun necklace to throw on with that plain black top. Most of the below were BELOW $8!! The cross necklaces were like $4.80. Most everything in the store is very reasonable and unique!
We also hit Anthropologie, Restoration Hardware, a Container Store and I hit Marshalls too and found some great bargains! If we saw a store we liked, we’d just stop and go look. Haven’t done that in FOREVER!! I can’t even remember the last time we strolled through a Mall! Oh, and we ate Cheesecake Factory for lunch! Monday night we walked a block from our hotel and ate at BONES, which was Y-U-M-M-O!! Monday was tons of fun and a successful shopping trip for ME (always fun to find fall clothes when it’s 88 degrees outside in late October).
Tuesday, we visited SEWINGMACHINE.COM (the Atlanta store of course). We got a great tour of the place from Steve and there was so much to see that we had to leave for lunch and then go back! Here are some of the pics I took. My wide angle lens is in the shop, so I had to use my other lens for these pics and it wasn’t easy to get the good shots!
These are GIGANTIC rolls of Stabilizer! Now that I think about it I didn’t even look at the price on these. I’m guessing people who mass produce or mass applique/embroider things buy these – factories maybe?
When we got there Steve immediately took us outside to a SewingMachine.com truck that was backed up to the loading dock. In the back were these SIXTEEN PR650’s that a customer had purchased and he was getting ready to have delivered! WOW!!
There was embroidery thread for days!
Here is the ISACORD wall!
This was a very LONG room FULL of industrial type demo sewing machines, sergers, etc. Amazing sight!

These are a couple of the mega rolls of STABILIZER! I would have taken one home but I don’t think I have room in my dining room for these…

They also sell lots of cute acrylic blanks for the CAD cutting machines – they sell embroidery paper and all of your vinyl and ink sheets for vinyl cutting, ink sheets for t-shirts, etc. Vinyl cutting as in the car window monograms, decals, etc. that you see everywhere right now. As you can see below, sippy cups, mugs, snack containers, etc for the embroidery paper inserts.
And here is a magnificent 4 head embroidery machine! I could really crank out some stuff with this!
While we were there Steve’s sister was printing shirts, people were in and out buying supplies, machines were being serviced, etc. It is a busy place! They sell anything and everything related to sewing and embroidery (among other things). Jeff & I were amazed! I also learned how to use the cap hoop so I’m anxious to do a couple of visors I’ve had since this Summer to do. Great trip and I’m so glad I finally got to see the infamous ATLANTA store! I asked Steve how they handle internet orders since everything comes out of that store. He said the UPS man comes at a certain time every day so when it gets close to that time, they pass out orders and everyone helps get them together to ship.
We also visited InTown Quilters in Decatur, GA (my 2nd trip to this fabulous fabric/quilting store). I will post those pics later since this post is already long!
I sampled a zig zag tiara yesterday and have 2 more AC designs to sample today. As you can see, I’ve changed my blog to match our website and there is now a BLOG link ON the website (www.appliquecafe.com). I also went through and deleted a bunch of right column pictures yesterday and am going to try to update them more. I know you all get tired of seeing the same ole pictures!
Back to work! p.s., our house was videoed while we were gone, so we’re just waiting for it and the photos to be edited and handed over to the listing agent. Hopefully we’ll have a sign in the yard soon!
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SewingMachine.com and Camping (and fabric)

Posted by on October 12, 2010
We had a GREAT weekend camping as well as my day trip Saturday to West Point, GA to SewingMachine.com! Here are a few pictures from Saturday. I tell you they had the WP store in tip top shape ~ it looked GREAT! Here are several brands of threads they offer ~ Floriani, Fufu and Isacord. They also sell the Isacord REAL thread chart for $10 ~ it has real thread samples which makes ordering easy! I only had the printed color chart so I was excited to come home with the real chart!
Thanks to everyone who came to the “event” on Saturday! It was fun getting to put faces with names and hopefully everyone learned something, if not from me than from the other people who came and/or the SewingMachine.com staff that was present! I don’t have pictures, but we also learned about the CAD cutter which is similar to a Cricut (if you’re familiar with that) and cuts vinyl, fabric and ink sheets for other craft projects ~ we’ve all seen vinyl lettering on acrylic gifts, monograms on cars, etc. I came home with one and can’t wait to try it out! I didn’t realize SewingMachine.com sold the blank acrylic gifts, embroidery paper and CAD cutting supplies!
Here I am giving my spill ~ I have no idea what all I said and just hope it made a little bit of sense! I was pretty nervous and am used to sharing behind a computer keyboard, not in front of a group!
I’m a huge fan of Heat N Bond Lite, so here I am showing it to the group!
We also got to see the new PR1000 10-needle by Brother. A girl can dream?? 4 more needles!!
Beautiful….
Here is a picture of our TENT! Camping was SO MUCH FUN! I am a dirt-o-phobe at home, but there is something about camping that I love! Tromping through the woods to go to the bathroom is not so bad! The kids all had a BLAST! Camping is certainly something they will remember as a great childhood memory! It was quite interesting getting ready on Saturday go to over to West Point. As I stood in the bathroom in my dress blow drying my hair, a young girl stood there (waiting on her sister to finish showering) staring at me. I can only imagine that she thought I was CRAZY. Who wears a dress and makeup, and dries their hair when CAMPING??
Here is a picture of Jeff monitoring Applique Cafe from our campsite! Yes, in the woods we had a laptop and internet service (via an internet card).
When we got home Sunday Browder & I drove to Enterprise to pick up the little kids. I dropped by the Enterprise Sewing Center on our way out of town ~ “Singer” and got some new fabric (because I need MORE!!). Not a great idea to take 3 kids in to a fabric store, but they did pretty good!
LOVE LOVE LOVE these 2. I don’t usually buy big prints of anything but couldn’t resist. The right one is corduroy too. If I could sew, I would have bought enough of these to actually sew something!
Left AUBURN stripes, middle is a cute striped DENIM.
Browns
I love anything green (left I thought might be cute with some sort of zig zag design).
The middle & right fabrics are both corduroys!
I need more fabric like I need another job, but I couldn’t resist! I love corduroys too and thought these were all cute fabrics! Now off to get some work done….
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