Halloween Sales!

We will be Open on Halloween from 10:00 to 3pm.  So come join us for a treat and pick up your Halloween projects for 50% off.
Happy Trick or Treating!
Nadine & the girls

Subway Art! Loving it!

A cute one for Thanksgiving off of Todays Fabulous Finds

I found this at eighteen25 I love this one!!

another cute one from eighteen25

I am loving all the Subway Art out there in cyber-land.  I could never figure out how to do it myself but I found a lot of great bloggers out there that are sharing theirs for free.  These are just a few of the ones I found.  If you google "free subway art printables"  you will find a ton!!  Well, I am off to the thrift store to see if I can find some fun funky frames. Oh, and I guess I better stop and get ink for the printer since I plan on keeping the printer busy!!

Nadine

Quilt Aid 2011

Our finished quilt

One of the blocks we will be selling

this is the other block for sale

We are honored to be invited to participate in Quiltaid 2011   We will have the 2 blocks above available for sale on November 1.  Along with the finishing kit designed by the Material Girls Quilts.  For more information on Quilt Aid check out their web page.  Each of the 6 shops involved will be selling 2 blocks a piece and a finishing kit designed by that shop.  If you have any questions or want to order the patterns and finishing kit either call the shop 801-495-4290 or you can order online at  our website www.thematerialgirlsquilting.com 
Nadine

Washer necklace tutorial

We talked about these at the ghoul-friends night out.  Since my husband is mister fix it and these are made out of washers I had to do them and enlist his help.  They were easier than I thought, cheaper than I planned, but the drying time was longer than stated on the bottle.  I made mine into a bag charm, but I hve seen them as necklaces and bracelets as well.

What you need
- a stainless steel washer---size doesn't matter just get what you like
-spray adhesive
-pencil or fabric pen
-cord of your choice...or even ribbon
-embellishments for cord if you want
-scrap of fabric
-bottle of glossy accents - sold in the stamp area of joanns or micheals

--trace your washer onto your fabric, both outside and inside hole
--cut out both
--spray washer with adhesive and place fabric on the washer
--squeeze a thin line of resin along the outer and inner edge
--fill in between the lines--the thicker a cost of resin the longer it takes to dry but the more 3d it will be.
if the resin starts to fall over the edge I just ran a q-tip along the edge to clean up while wet.
--let dry (mine was over night)
--thread your cording through, embellish and tie off
DONE and let the ohh and ahhing begin!!

---I did read on the internet you can speed up drying time by heating the resin from below...I have not tried this so try at your own risk.

Fall Wreath for Ghouls Night

This is the wreath we made at our "Ghouls Night Out"  We used Burlap for our wreath and then embellished it.  We love Burlap at Material Girls.  We had another project planned for the night too but after all of our laughing, eating and whatnot we only had time to finish the wreath.  Thanks to everyone who came and stay tuned for our next "Girls Night"
Thanks,
Nadine
PS. Thanks Chris for making the yummy cake bites!!

Ghouls Night OUt

Tomorrow is our first annual "Ghouls Night Out"  (Friday October 21) It starts at 6:30 and will go until around 10:00 or so.  The cost is $25.00 and that includes the kits for both projects the wreath and our Boo'd Ghost, Games, Prizes and some yummy food.   Call the shop to reserve your spot as we only have a few left.  Also, its "the Deer Hunt weekend" and we have some fun sales going on so be sure and stop by.

Nadine & the Ghouls!

QR code

If you look to the right side of our page you will see a funny looking barcode that looks like this....

This is a QR code.  WHAT??  How you get this to work is you download a QR code reader app for your phone or other devices that has a camera.  You line the 3 squares up with the view finder provided with the app and click.  The code will then take you to whatever information is stored in the bar code.  Ours is our website.  Others I have seen are videos, pictures, information.  I promise you will see these popping up everywhere. We at MG at just ahead of the curve...for once.