Monday, May 2, 2011

Better than the Royal Wedding!


I saw the mail lady dropping off our mail and she said
"I have a few packages for you I will get them out of my truck after I finish delivering on your street."  OMG!  Really?  It's got to be my oilcloth fabric samples I ordered from jolly old England! 

As I wait for the mail lady to come back I was practically hyperventilating in anticipation.  I keep going to the door looking to see if she came back yet......what the heck was taking her so long (mind you it had only been about 15-20 minutes).  I was like my 5 year old when he is expecting something in the mail.

Nope not there yet...

Let me check again...nope

It's here!!


And...it wasn't my package from England!  It was the lovely Stella & Dot Necklace I ordered from Jo-Ann Coe at a fun party last week.  Love it.


And the other package was a pair of sneakers my hubs ordered so he will be excited (probably not as excited as I am about fabric samples).  Two boxes of happiness but, I am on the edge of my seat waiting for my oilcloth samples.  I know they are busy other there with the Royal Wedding and all but this is important!  As luck would have it they arrived a few days after the Royal Wedding...and they were in this little tiny envelope LOL!

Okay, so I am a little disappointed...could they be any smaller? 
I am laughing at myself that I originally thought they were in two big boxes!


You get what you pay for, they were free!  I don't know why my expectations were so high, duh!

On the positive spin, I got a good idea of what the patterns looked like from their website and the samples did give me a good indication of the texture of the fabric.  Really sturdy and definitely wipeable.

These are the three I am considering for my dining room chairs.  I'll use some of the "samples" from their website, otherwise you would need magnifying glass:



These others were just for fun, maybe something for a future project.




I also ordered some samples, well a few yards from http://www.fabric.com/they should arrive by the end of the week!  Yes I am a little obsessed.  The samples from England where from http://www.norfolktextiles.co.uk/

Cheerio!


















1 comment:

Loopy said...

You must have felt like Nolan waiting for Nana to bring the First Aid kit over.