Day 5:Well, we've seen it all!
First a Royal family from Medieval times, then a mini dinosaur, and now a pooch on the moon. With less than 5 days left to go, what will our crazy and crafty customers come up with next?
It's not too late to submit your entries and take a chance
on winning a $50 American Express Gift Card.
What are you waiting for?
We dare you!
Contest Info: The 1st Annual Most Amazing Hand Crafter Costume Contest entry with the most votes on Facebook by Oct 31st will win a $50 American Express Gift Card.
To Become A Contestant, simply:
Become a Fan of J&O Fabrics on Facebook
Upload a picture of your costume to the Fan Photos under the Photos section
Add a description of your handcrafted costume
To vote, simply:
Become a Fan of J&O Fabrics on Facebook
Visit Fan Photos under our Photos section
Visit our Costume Contest section to place your vote!
Only 1 vote per person will be counted and the most amount of votes wins
Labels: 1st-annual-handcrafted-halloween-costume-contest, conservative, costume-contest, dog-costume, dog-fabric, free-money, frugal-mom, hand-crafted-halloween-costume
Crime:
2008- Atlanta Falcons quarter back Michael Vicks found guilty on charges of operating dog fights in his home.
Punishment:
NFL suspension.
18 mos federal prison and a return to the league by fall 09' season. This time with the Philadelphia Eagles.
While the punishment mentioned above may or may not fit the crime in the eyes of many viewers, one thing is for sure, Philadelphia Eagles fans have not let the controversy stop them from ordering their share of Eagles fleece and cotton fabric just in time for the NFL season. The question is, what are creative fans making with the fabric now that Vick has been drafted to our beloved Philadelphia team?
If you are stumped for ideas, or just plain tired of making the same old NFL crafts year after year for yourself, friends or loved ones, here is J&O Fabrics Top 8 list of Michael Vick inspired fabric projects to welcome him back into society and onto the playing fields; this time hopefully with a little more insight and a little less above it all.
Enjoy!
Top 8 Michael Vick Inspired Craft Projects
1. Eagles fleece blanket. With the Eagles on one side and dog bones on the other.
2. Better yet, a holiday fleece blanket with Christmas dogs on one side and bones on the other.
3. Cotton patchwork quilt in following prints:
4. Boxer shorts or pajamas in jailhouse orange and black/white stripes.
5. Bedding in our popular money print cotton material. Symbolic of all the money gained and all the money lost.
6. Comfy cotton bed cushion for newly adopted X-Vick Pit.
7. Atlanta Falcon / Philadelphia Eagles Fleece throw.
8. Atlanta Falcon / Philadelphia Eagles Cotton quilt.
Labels: dog-fabric, michael-vick, mike-vick, NFL-Fabric, philadelphia-eagles-cotton, Philadelphia-eagles-crafts, philadelphia-eagles-fabric, philadelphia-eagles-fleece
Whenever it rains really hard, my auntie says its 'raining cats and dogs'. I grew up hearing this saying from not only my family, but the elders in my community as well. I never really understood where it came from or why it was used to describe a heavy rain to I did my research and this is what I found.
The metaphor or idiom (whichever you prefer) had several suggested sources ranging from a greek aphorism meaning an 'unlikely occurance', a mythological symbolism for rain (cats) and wind (dogs), to an expression of sensory overload as in the case where the loud sound of the rain caused the ears to hurt, like the loud sound of cats meowing and dogs howling. But the meaning that seemed to have the deepest roots and strongest following was the one that connects the metaphor to a period in time when the streets of 17th & 19th century Britian were so dirty and poorly constructed that many cats and dogs would drown whenever there was a storm. People seeing the corpses floating by would think the animals had falled from the sky.
Further reading gives reference to a poem by Jonathan Swift dating back to 1710 called "A Description of a City Shower " where the author describes a similar scene to that of the rainstorms in England.
"Sweeping from butchers stalls, dung, gut, and blood;
Drowned puppies, sinking sprats, all drenched in mud,
Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood."
If nothing less, my findings certainly gave new meaning to an otherwise beautiful rainy day.
Labels: cat-fabric, conservative, dog-fabric, free-fabric, frugal, novelty-cotton-fabric, raining-cats-and-dogs