Who doesn't love a sale? Painted canvases (my first love) are expensive, so it's always nice to know where sales and trunk shows are, particularly since mail order from the online shops is so easy. If you need a new canvas to add to your collection, here are some of the most recent bargain spots I've heard of.
Fireside is having a twenty percent off sale on a few selected
Julia's Needleworks canvases. If you order a stitch guide and threads with the canvas, the guide is free and the threads are also twenty percent off. Julia's distributes designs from JHL, Julia, Bill Davis, Beverley Jane, and Jan Ford. Here's where you browse--If you are a grad of the University of Virginia, don't miss the UVA Rotunda box under 3-D!
http://www.firesidestitchery.com/fs/HandPaintedCanvas/index.cfm?fuseaction=GetSalesAndSpecials&saleId=131&saleTypeId=2
Canvases Be Gone is having a one day Memorial Day sale (good only 5/28). Anything you order is fifteen percent off if you use the code SPC50 at checkout. Since the Floral/Fruits/Plants category is already on sale at twenty percent off, if you buy from here you get a total of thirty-five percent off.
http://www.canvasesbegone.com/
Sheena says that Joann's Fabrics has storage containers on sale. She says a lot of other fun things on her blog but this is the pertinent article for ideas about skein and Splendor silk card storage.
http://sheenassweetstitches.com/kitty-palooza/2012/01/sample-post/
Needle Bug in Montgomery, AL is having an After Memorial Day sale. I don't have any details but if you are in that area, drop by and see.
http://theneedlebug.com/
Pocket Full of Stitches has their new trunk show in-house. This time they are featuring The Princess and Me, a company that specializes in small ornaments, all of which come with a stitch guide. Their designs are lighthearted and fun to stitch, especially if you have a large stash of threads to work from. Here are the links from PFOS, which I expect to update daily for a while as that is PFOS' way--new photos every day for a week.
http://pocketfullofstitches.blogspot.com/2012/05/princess-me-trunk-show.html
http://pocketfullofstitches.blogspot.com/2012/05/princess-and-me-trunk-show-day-2.html
http://pocketfullofstitches.blogspot.com/2012/05/princess-me-trunk-show-day-3.html
http://pocketfullofstitches.blogspot.com/2012/06/princess-me-trunk-show-day-4.html
http://pocketfullofstitches.blogspot.com/2012/06/princess-me-trunk-show-day-5.html
http://pocketfullofstitches.blogspot.com/2012/06/princess-me-trunk-show-models.html
Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
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