A Pretty & Preppy Giveaway - Winner!

Congratulations to #75 Tim, Karla and Titus Curington! You have won our Pretty & Preppy giveaway and get your choice of travel mug! Yay! I just love giveaways!

I really wish we could have given one to everyone who entered and although we couldn't, you all get 15% off all purchases through Sunday, September 19th in our shop. Woohoo! Now's the time to stock up on all the pretty new items you've been eyeing all week. ;) Just enter PnPGiveaway01 at checkout to receive your discount. :)

Thanks for entering! We love you all!!

A Pretty & Preppy Giveaway

The giveaway is now closed. Thanks to everyone who entered!

I must admit I've been feeling a bit funky today. I'm a bit sleep-deprived and well that's making me a bit edgy. I don't like being edgy .. don't like it at all. So what's an edgy girl to do but host a giveaway! Woot!

I like giveaways. Giveaways make me happy. Giveaways make me smile. And since we've been talking amongst ourselves about having a Pretty & Preppy giveaway, I've decided today is THE. PERFECT. DAY! Aaahhh ... I feel my edginess melting as I type this :)

For those that don't know ... basically there would be no Lola Pink Fabrics if it weren't for Pretty & Preppy. We got so caught up buying gorgeous fabrics for our shop, we figured out pretty quickly that we'd have to come up with a Plan B or go broke. Ok, ok ... I admit ... maybe it was more of a "me" rather than a "we". Mom would just laugh when I'd send her the list of fabrics I wanted to buy.

So now that Lola Pink Fabrics is blowing and going, it's time to breathe some life back in to Pretty & Preppy. We've given her a makeover (thanks to Posh Pixels Design Studio) and given her a new home, PrettyandPreppy.com.  We've also dusted off the sewing machine and are super busy stocking her shelves with bunches of new products and new designs.  The Cloth Diaper Burp Cloth is just the beginning. Just today we decided on 2 more new products to add to the lineup. Woohoo! I would definitely recommend bookmarking the site because you just never know when new stuff will become available.

So, who's ready for some details? I know, I know ... it's about time!! Up for grabs is your choice of one of our best selling products, a Travel Mug! ooooh, ahhhh Sweet, right?! I just love these and use mine all the time.

To enter, just go check out our shop and let us know which product your loving.  It could be a travel mug, one of our new burp cloths, or maybe a water bottle, or even one of our fabulous snap wallets. The choice is yours and we're dying to know what you think.

But we can't let you get by with one measly entry .. so let's bump it up shall we.

• Entry #1 ... tell us what you're loving in the shop
• Entry #2 ... follow Pretty & Preppy on Twitter (@prettynpreppy)
• Entry #3 ... become a fan of Pretty & Preppy on Facebook
• Entry #4 ... follow this blog
• Entry #5 ... become a fan of Lola Pink Fabrics on Facebook
• Entry #6 ... Tweet the giveaway

That's it ... simple right?! If you don't mind, please only one entry per comment. It makes things a bit easier on our end. {thanks!} Oh and definitely make sure you let me know how to reach you when you win (email, twitter, etc.) Winner will be picked via random number generator Friday evening, September 17th.

Good luck, everyone! Can't wait to see what your loving!

Fabric in Action - Burp Cloths

Hey, Everyone! Hope y'all are having a fantastic day! Just a quick post to let you see what we were up to this weekend. In one word ... SEWING ... lots and lots of sewing! Yay!

I made the fantastic decision to stop by mom's house on Thursday and picked up a tremendous amount of fabric from our new collections. The amount of fabric I got was ridiculous and further reminded us as to why we started Lola Pink Fabrics to begin with ... I am a hopeless fabric addict!! I just can't help myself when I'm surrounded by such pretty fabric. I get all breathless and starry eyed ... LOL. It's quite the sight!

I grabbed some of the new Fandango by Kate Spain which I absolutely ADORE, Spirit by Lila Tueller, Paradise by Pat Bravo, Opal Owl by Tina Givens, and Gypsy by Felicity Miller. SCORE!

After getting all the fabric loveliness home, I promptly set about cutting off the selvages and stuffing it in the washer. I'm almost embarrassed to admit that it took 2 loads .. whoops! So maybe, just maybe I might have gone just a wee bit overboard.

So now .. what to do with all that fabric? We've been looking to add some new products to our Pretty and Preppy site and I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it all ... Cloth Diaper Burp Cloths! Mom came over and we got to work ... all weekend long!

 I just love these! Granted most people actually use these for burp cloths but seeing as how there is no baby around the house, I use them as cleaning cloths. They work amazing!  I imagine though when my niece Perry Margaret is born, they will get quite the workout.

Did anyone labor away Labor Day weekend as we did or did y'all kick back and enjoy a nice family barbecue?

Labor Day Sale

Thank you so much for making our Labor Day sale a huge success! For those who missed out, we still have a crazy amount of fabric in our Sale section on the website. Great collections such as Nicey Jane, Meadowsweet, Dolce, and Flora & Fauna are 20% off. Woohoo!!

We hope everyone is having a fantastic Labor Day weekend! Because we love you so much and love cutting fabric, we're offering 10% off all orders above $50 and 15% off all orders above $100 ... this includes all sale fabrics! Woot!

Mom's coming to Lafayette tomorrow for a "Sew Day" and we are so excited! It's been a long time since we've had one of these but they are always a lot of fun and it's amazing how much more sewing we can get finished.

We've decided to extend the sale to our Pretty and Preppy shop as well. Now's the time to stock up on all the fabulous items made using our fantastic fabrics!  Includes or Pretty Water Bottles and Travel Mugs!

Happy Sewing and Happy Labor Day!

A Scrappy Project - Bunting Tea Towel

Whew .. finally got a chance to finish up Mom's new tea towel and it turned out pretty dang cute even if I do say so myself! The Beyond the Sea fabric from Cloud9 is so much fun to work with.

I loosely followed Michelle Engel Bencsko's tutorial for her bunting pillow that I found on her blog, Cicada Daydream. For those that don't know, Michelle is the designer behind the fabulous Cloud9 fabric collections which we absolutely LOVE!

I started out cutting a bunch of triangles. I varied the size a bit from the tutorial and went with triangles that were 4 inches across and 5 inches long.

Initially I cut out 12 of them but then went back and added 2 more. {Note to self: when starting and stopping a project, it is best to verify the size of things before you guess and proceed.}Alas, my 2 extra triangles are a bit smaller than the first 12.

I made bias tape from the Earth solid fabric from the same collection. Then it was just a matter of pinning everything in place and top stitching it all. Too easy!

I love how it turned out although now I wish I had used a matching thread for the bias tape. The white looks OK but I think a turquoise would have looked much better.  Also wish I would have noticed that I had two coral pennants lined up. Grrrrrr

So there you go, Mom ... your very own tea towel! So now maybe she'll quit trying to steal mine! ;)

On a side note, did you happen to notice my water bottle with Coral Weed wrap in the first picture. I told you we loved the fabric!