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Consumer Savvy Carol: Cheap Ways to Organize your Sewing Room

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By organizing you’re sewing space you save time, room and money.

Here are a few ideas to get you started.

First of all NEVER buy anything that isn’t on sale. Most organizing tools can be found at 50% off, second hand, trash picked or you can re-purposed items you already have. Try to be open-minded in you’re search for things to organize with. Shelves, baskets, containers, e gg cartons, candy boxes, shoe boxes, etc. all work. Often times you can find tons of usable containers for as much as 70% off after the holidays. So what if their original purpose was Easter baskets, Christmas boxes, or Dorm room accessories,  all can be re-purposed and used for storage.

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J&O List of Top 10 Recession Inspired Money Saving Tips

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If you were to ask anyone in any of the 50 states that make up the United States of America, how they are fairing in the midst of our less publicized yet still ongoing recession, they would mostly speak of the woes our economic collapse has caused them, or the added pressure their spouses and families are encountering trying to make ends meet. But there is an old saying that speaks to the notion of a silver lining under each and every apparently dismal or challenging event. In fact, there are several that address the issues of turning our stumbling blocks into stepping stones, and our obstacles into opportunities. At the end of the day, it really is only a matter of perspective anyway.
With the holiday season unfolding and pressure from the commercial industry pushing us to work harder so we can make more useless money to buy more meaningless things to put on our overstuffed Thanksgiving tables and under our mass produced yet under consumed Christmas trees, more and more people are opting out of the life draining rat race and finding peace and financial preservation by nurturing more creative and rudimentary ways to maneuver through Americas recession and the holiday season. Frugal, conservative, utilitarian, resourceful, practical
With this notion in mind, J&O Fabrics would like to take a moment to not only thank ex president Bush for creating the opportunity for us to nurture our imagination just a little bit more, but for the inspiring and liberating seed that sparked our list of Top 10 Recession Inspired Money Saving Tips.
Frugal, practical, conservative, resourceful, even utilitarian… yeah, these are some of the words being used to describe the new mindset of many, and the revisited mindset of a few from the old school who have seen depressions and recessions before as we move forward through the holiday and the seasons ahead. In many ways, we’re all in this together and all the better for it, so feel free to add on, pass on, and be the peace in the midst of adversity you are looking for!
J&O List of Top 10 Recession Inspired Money Saving Tips
1. Instead of buying gifts for family and friends from the store, be the manufacturer and save! By making your own gifts, you cut out the middle men and the extra money you spend on packaging, distribution, and retail markups. We have customers from every walk of life calling in for fabric to make no-sew fleece throws and pillows, curtains for their kitchen, even for reupholstering basic chairs in their homes. With free instructional books, instore workshops, and how-to classes right on line, you can be a jack of all trades in no time!

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How to Make Your Own Blanket Wrap with Arms by J&O Fabric Store

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With the winter winds slowly starting to blow in, the threat of high heating costs down the line, and a continuing recession still affecting more than half the nation, keeping warm during the cold winter nights while saving money in the process is the order of the day.

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J&O Fabrics Most Amazing Handcrafted Halloween Contest Countdown Begins!

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With less than 20 days left before J&O Fabric Facebook Fans vote for the winner of our 1st Annual ” MOST AMAZING HANDCRAFTED HALLOWEEN CONTEST EVER” contest, we would like to take a moment to encourage each and every one of our potential losers to really put their creative juices to work on this one, as the growing number of potential winners are already eagerly making their way through our website in search of the perfect fabrics for their Halloween creations. With a $50 American Gift Card up for grabs to use anywhere and anyway you please, what have you got to lose? It may not seem like much, but with the the holidays right around the corner, that fifty can be just the free money you could use for fabric, that new dress you saw at Lord & Taylor, those Steve Madden loafers, or dinner for two. Hey, how you get the gift prize is our business, what you do with the winnings after is yours!

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Infants Learn Sign Language at J&O Fabrics.

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Studies show that infants and toddlers, though unable to verbally express their wants and needs yet, can communicate through the use of sign language with much success.

Imagine wanting water and not being able to tell someone, or needing help putting on your shoes, but nobody can understand you. Sometimes crying is not enough. With sign language, not only is the distress on the caregiver and child alleviated, but the child is learning a second language that he or she can use the rest of their life.

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Customize Your Fabric, From the Cradle to the Grave

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When we are born, we are swaddled in symbolic colored baby blankets marking the arrival of a brand new baby boy or girl. Our new parents set us up in custom designed rooms painted in pretty pastels and primary colors, an expression of love, and a welcome into what in some cases, is an unloving world. We are adored and adorned in the finest trims, prepared to spend our early years in pampered bliss and peaceful joy.

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J&O Welcomes Ringling Bros Barnum & Bailey Circus to Pennsauken, NJ!

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“Ladies and Gentlemen, children of all ages, Welcome to the Greatest Show on Earth!”
The circus has come to town and J&O is celebrating with Ringling Bros Barnum and Bailey inspired fabrics and prints in honor of all the magic and magnificence the Big Top has brought to children young and old in its over 135 years of existence.

Though the official union between the Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey circuses didnt occur until 1919, the entertaining of town folks by men dressed up as clowns, ladies performing eye popping acrobatic feats, wondering freaks of nature, and trainers commanding dangerous animals from exotic places, has been going on since as far back as 1871 when Dan Castello and William Cameron Coup of Delavan, Wisconsin had their group entitled ” P.T. Barnums Great Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan and Hippodrome”.

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Ask Netfah: To Lip or Not To Lip Decorative Cording Tip

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Dear Netfah,

I have a rather plain olive colored Euro sham and comforter that I want to revitalize and use in our guest room. I saw some really pretty cording trims and wanted to know if the ones with the lip are more appropriate for application around the seams on the bedding or the cording withOUT the lip?

– To Lip or Not To Lip Sante Fe, NM

Dear To Lip or Not To Lip,

The great thing about trims is that with a little creativity and ingenuity, they can turn outdated and out of fashion furnishing, garments and accessories into modern works of art.

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J&O Celebrates Parent’s Day !

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Sunday July 26, 2009 marked this years 15th Annual Parents Day. Recognized since 1994 and celebrated throughout the United States with award ceremonies, dinners, conferences and communal gatherings, Parents Day was originally created to acknowledge, honor, uplift and support moms and dads in their often overlooked roles in the lives of their children.

Targeting, but not excluding the roles of the elders and surrogate parents that exist in many communities, Parents Day is an opportunity to acknowledge the investment, commitment and energy given to the children in the attempt to equip and prepare them for tomorrows world.

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J&O Fabric of the Week: Polyester Microfiber

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Microfiber is a fiber with less than 1 denier per filament and is used to make non-woven and knitted textiles. Commonly used for apparel, upholstery, and in cleaning solutions, microfiber has become a very popular alternative to cotton activewear and undergarment apparel because the microfiber material wicks moisture away from the body instead of against it, thus keeping the wearer cool and dry.

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