Come Visit Us at the Urban Garage Sale

If you've never been to one of the Urban Garage Sales at Turner Hall you NEED to come check it out this Saturday. Great deals on many local shops and Heavy Rotation has awesome deals on t-shirts. Just in time for the holidays and a great way to support local businesses. This is our second time participating in the Sale and I am looking forward to it being a great time once again. Hopefully I won't buy too many things :) You can check out the Facebook page for it HERE

A Great Weekend!

Saturday turned out to be a great day at the Urban Garage Sale. We were able to get our name out there, let people know where we were going to be and what we are going to do, share some of the fabrics with the public and get some very valuable feedback, oh and can't forget meeting so many great people.

There was a really good turnout at the Sale, unfortunately I forgot the camera so I didn't get any pics of our booth, but I think it looked pretty good and showcased a lot of what we have to offer. Hopefully we have a couple of new blog readers and followers now too. The sale has motivated me to get my butt moving and finish the details in order to get the doors open-stay tuned for an opening date coming soon!

Thanks everyone for coming!!!!

Urban Garage Sale and Teaming Up with Some Very Talented Ladies

So if you are a facebook fan of drawstring studio you've seen me already mentioning this, but I thought I'd give it another plug because I'm so excited about it. We are going to have a booth at the Urban Garage Sale this Saturday at Turner Hall, doors are open from 10:30-4pm and there are going to be so many great deals from a variety of local shops. Our booth will be on the second floor so if you do get a chance to stop by make sure to venture up the stairs to see us. I've been cutting fabric for bundles and getting all of the inventory ready this week. I'm going to debue the checkbook covers there too before putting them on Etsy. Plus if you bring in the flyer, you get $1 off admission. Click here for the flyer

In other news we passed our occupancy inspections and have gotten the verbal ok to open!!!! I will get the official notice in the mail in a few weeks. We're now on the search for shelving that meets the idea I have in mind, yet isn't too too expensive.

I've had the opportunity to join forces with a couple of crafty ladies recently and am excited about what is to come from that. I teamed up with Sara from Sasa Originals to have her create some of her hot/cold animals using some fabrics from our store. I hope to get one in the mail this week so that I can raffle it off on Saturday. Sara makes some amazing kids items-you should check her out-this is one of her owls-meet Betsy!

Also check out So You Think You're Crafty starting on Saturday and look for some fabric from our shop-these ladies always have such great ideas-vote for your favorite-they're down to the last two crafters!!!!

I'm hoping to interview both Sara from Sasa Originals and my mystery partner from So You Think You're Crafty in the near future to give you a better look into what they do.

checking items off the list!

Today was a busy and for the most part productive day in terms of getting closer to being able to set a date for the GRAND OPENING of drawstring studio fabric & design. I've been meaning to get a lot of little tasks done and kept putting them off until today-FINALLY!

Plus I added a few new items to our etsy shop www.drawstringstudio.etsy.com

Also please become a fan on Facebook HERE to stay updated on the latest fabrics coming in, featured projects and giveaways,a s well as featured artists and crafters(I hope to feature my first crafter shortly).

I also started cutting and organizing some bundles for the Urban Garage Sale that drawstring studio is going to have a booth at on June 19th! You can find out more info HERE. We're not only going to have fabric by the yard, cut bundles, patterns, but also hope to have wallets and gift card holders if I can get my sewing machine back up and running soon. This will be our first real meeting and introduction to the people of Milwaukee-so I'm super excited. Now we're just going to be in a mad dash to get out marketing materials together for the show.

I am also going to try to schedule our inspector back out late this week so fingers crossed that we get the final green light!