Saturday, December 26, 2009

Volume 1, Issue 38, December 26, 2009: Georgetown Fabric Haul





I'm feeling a little bit better today. I got some money for Christmas and I was so excited. Usually, when I get Christmas money I spend it on clothes but this year, I've decided to be more frugal and smart on my spending. Which is good because I'm going to need all of that extra cash to fund all of my upcoming projects and hustling schemes.

Today I went out to vent and shop and I ended up in Georgetown because I heard that there was a fabric store there. The fabrics store is called Exquiste Fabrics and the fabrics were indeed exquiste and painfully expensive. The store was kinda of small but they had extensive collection of fabric that included: imported fabrics from all over the world, couture fabrics from desingers such as Vera Wang, DKNY, Valentino, Gucci, there had a section of fabric that contained fabrics from previous seasons. But it was so expensive.

Imagine you see the most beautiful and softest cotton fabric that is seaform blue and lavender with orange koi fish, when you look at the price, which was $52.90 per yard to want to shank someone. I saw so many dream fabrics there, but many of them were way out of my price range.

Dream Fabric=$52.90 per yard
Budget=$150
Yardage need=3 1/2 yards
$52.90 x 3.5 yards= $185.15?! FML!!!

I didn't even add in the costs for notions. It sucks when your a student on a budget. You want to find the best looking fabric for your garments and projects but it's hard because the nice fabrics are always the most expensive and they break your budget.

Luckily, I found some nice fabric for one of my upcoming projects. The staff was very nice at the store and I walked out only spending $23.32.

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