What lovely fabrics to go into my planned red/yellow/white quilt. Yum yum. From the fabulous Amitie, where I met the lovely Cathy, aka the fabulous Miss Marzie and also one half of Audrey & Maude.It's the first time I've 'outed' myself in 'real life' to someone from Blogland! It was very funny.
Me to the gorgeous tall blonde lady: 'Would one of you be Cathy by any chance?'
Blonde amazon: 'Yes, that's me. Why?'
Me: 'Um I'm Lorraine...er, Lily, er Cascade Lily' (with growing desperation in my voice)
Cathy: 'Oh my gosh! Hi! How lovely to meet you!' (with the look on her face going from complete incomprehension, to vague recollection, to realisation!!!)
Then I had to go on to explain that I answer to Lorraine or Lily - my old friends, work colleagues and most of my family call me Lorraine, but my Dad and newer friends call me by my nickname Lily, which I prefer. It's a bit confusing! LOL
Once we got over the awkwardness, it was very exciting to be in the middle of such an amazing store and gushing about all the delectable fabrics and projects which take up every conceivable flat surface (and a lot of hanging space too) in the well appointed store.
I had to concentrate very hard not to be thrown off course away from my desire to get some stripes and more yellows/reds! Fortunately my mum came with me and looked after Tristan and Romily while I shopped! I had about an hour there and could have spent the whole day there if I'd been sans kids!
Methinks Amitie will be a regular haunt for me on my Melbourne jaunts! Grandma will have to do some babysitting :)
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YUM YUM...got a pettern in mind Lily??
Love all your new fabrics ! I would love to be able to visit Amitie! How great that you got to meet cathy while you were there.
You know, I live in Melbourne, but I have never been to Amitie. More to do with my fear of venturing to new places but I think I need to overcome it! Lovely fabrics and I see some that I like.
Meeting fellow bloggers is great. Hedgehog Jen came here last week and we had a ball!
Lovely fabrics.
I don't go there often Lily for fear that I will blow a year's budget in one go -it's a great shop.
Ohhhhhh Lily, lovely fabrics! Lucky you! Well done on outing yourself too! That is so cool, I think I would have chickened out.
What yummy looking fabrics! Can't wait to see you what you make with them.
Hugs
Gail
Delicious fabrics. I have only met one blogger in person but that was really fun.
Hi Lily, it is so much fun when people 'out' themselves when they come in store. It always gives us a real buzz!!! I love your recount of how we met - 'tall blonde amazon'? Glad you enjoyed it so much - I did too - your fabrics are lovely and so were your kids! Definitely get grandma to babysit next time so you can spend even more time in there! See you then!
So nice to meet you the other day. Cathy and I are lucky that we have met heaps of bloggers at work but don't worry, we still get nervous about introducing ourselves. We look forward to having you back again! It really is such a lovely place to visit (and work!).
Lovely Haul - The colours look great - looking forward to seeing what it becomes.
wow what fun.....Cathy is lovely...........and your fabrics are fab.........
I adore red/white/yellow. It's such a fresh looking combination. I look forward to seeing what it becomes. And those photos of your little ones are hilarious. Tristan's hair is IRRESISTIBLE!
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