Fantastic Find: the Oz Material Girls

The Oz Material Girls are a 'fabriholic' mother/daughter team who started out selling personal items from their own fabric stash. Their hobby quickly turned into a full-blown company selling quilting materials from their online store and also on Ebay. They have heaps of wonderful fabrics and pride themselves on providing their customers with friendly advice, informative communication, super fast delivery of orders, and above all quality products.

The Oz Material Girls are currently celebrating their 5th birthday and have been running lots of giveaways on their blog to celebrate. The current giveaway runs until October 31st and if you enter, you have the chance to win a Shabby Rose Lecien Fabric Gift Pack - some gorgeous shabby rose fabrics and a lovely retro vintage collectable Singer Sewing Machine Tin to store them in. Check here to go to their blog for more details - don't try TOO hard to win though, as my name is already on that prize!

Fantastic find - Prints Charming

Prints Charming - I love this website, in particular the handprinted fabrics - look at these lovely doves!

I would love to be able to put them onto my bunting somehow...

I notice they even run screen printing classes so perhaps I could learn how to print my own designs... now that would make my bunting truly unique wouldn't it!

Ah, yet more ideas to ponder on for a rainy day...!!!

Waterproof fabrics

I have bought some of this fantastic Mexican oilcloth from the lovely Susie at I just love that fabric - the ink has been printed on the first coat of pvc (not on to the fabric) and then coated with a second clear layer of pvc -so it's durable and waterproof, you can just wipe it clean. The colours are bold, bright and gorgeous too - I love the pink hibiscus and tutti fruit stripe - they will look great partnered together to make bunting to use out by the pool.

Keep an eye out on my website for the finished product - coming soon!!! Do take a look at Susie's website too - she has stacks of wonderful fabrics for you to swoon over and she has excellent customer service too - truly a fantastic find!