Yes, it's really that big!

Here's a look at just how big the first Austin Country Living Fair is. 

 Antique Alley!! (only half)

 The Show Barn! 

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Stay tuned I'll be posting photos of the booths all week!!

Texas wildflowers of love

The tiny bit of Texas that I have had the honor to enjoy has been cover in wildflower!! 

LOVE!!

CLF Finds: Vintage Quilts

This post is for my Aunt Marianne that I have enjoyed getting to know again on Facebook! I've lived away from home for nearly half my life now, it's nice to be able to connect on a daily basis with family that you never get a chance to see.

Here is the Dusty's Too Country Living Fair booth was filled with lovely vintage quilts of well love goodness!! I'll have more to show you later on in the week.

xoxox!

Working with...

After a long day of travel (and travel drama) I am here!!! I am in Austin and ready to shop the Country Living Fair today. Today I'll be combing the fair for vintage goodies to rehab with oilcloth, laminated cotton, and chalk cloth.  I'll TWEET my way through the fair, so please follow me on Friday and hep me decide what I should buy up.@modernjune and follow #CLFair.


I thought I would show you what I have to work with, what I brought from home! Bundle #1 is a few fat quarters and two half yard cuts of chalk cloth

 Bundle #2 is two yards of oilcloth and some cotton bias.

Bundle #3 is just a bunch of oilcloth scraps.

Bundle #4 is two yards of laminated cotton, some oilcloth bias, a jar of buttons and a lot of ric rac. 

Sooo.... What am I going to do with all of this? 

Tomorrow I'll fix up my finds on the stage, it'll be my own little trash to treasure show. But wait, there's more, I'll even be raffling away a two of the projects to some lucky winners.

Best in town: Pearls Cupcakes

Fair Time!

I am so excited to be attending the first Texas Style Country Living this weekend. You know it'll be big if it's in Texas!! Speaking of big, I have big news... I am going to do a presentation on Saturday at 11:00 and signing books at 12:00. Your coming, right?

So here's what I'm going to do this year, since I won't have a booth I'll spend Friday combing the fair for vintage goodies to rehab with oilcloth, laminated cotton, and chalk cloth. I'll TWEET my way through the fair, so please follow me on Friday and hep me decide what I should buy up.@modernjune and follow #CLFair.

Then on Saturday I'll fix up my finds on the stage, it'll be my own little trash to treasure show. But wait, there's more, I'll even be raffling away a two of the projects to some lucky winners.

It'll be very strange to just go to shop and do a demo, I feel like a princess crafter or something a little less silly. How can I just go and enjoy myself and not be a vendor? We, (Junies and family) thought long and hard about attending the show with all our wares like we've done for the Ohio and Georgia CLFairs. Unfortunately, I just had to say no for this year, 7 months of home reno and life with a teen and a tween just took too much out of me this winter. Basically, my family would have mutinied.

Check out the whole fair event schedule here! 

Discount advance tickets are on sale on-line until Tuesday 4/24!

Visit countryliving.com/fair for fair videos, photos, & more

...Truly incredible shopping is the hallmark of the fair and it's better than ever this time -- an amazing, huge amount of antiques furniture, industrial and primitives, lots of artists and artisans, and the absolutely biggest selection of the cutest handcrafted jewelry you've ever seen. Trust us you won't find a better fair for mother's day gifts OR furnishing a home or apartment. AND there's lots to do in between shopping too!

See you at the fair or on Twitter this weekend, 

Kelly

Bunny Luv

Spring Bada-Bing

 Last weekend was another great Spring Bada-Bing, the Richmond Craft Mafia's big spring show. Trust me this is not you Mamma's craft show. Before the show got going I sent my daughter, Maddie,  out with my cell phone to take some photos of the things that made her happy. 

Check out the great list of vendors here! Enjoy...

Why do I have to wait so darn long for custom work?

Are you about to buy a custom item from Modern June? Are you wondering why you have to wait 4 weeks for a simple tablecloth? The reason is that is that we care! We really do care about each and every order we take in. 

In March alone we had 88 custom sales. For us, that's amazingly awesome and overwhelming!! We were shocked, it was record breaking, we almost doubled our best holiday season in 30 days!! Did I mention that it's only March? 

I learned a lot last month, as we tried maintain a 2-3 week turn around time for custom orders:

1. We run out for fabric in a blink of an eye! One day everyone wants the same fabric and we run out, then we have to wait 2 weeks for more. Sadly, we don't have the money or the space to have 2-3 bolts of each fabric on hand, not when we offer over 70 prints. (Someday!!)
2. Haste makes waste!! When we move as fast as we did in the last 6 weeks we make mistakes. They are costly to us in several ways, most importantly, YOU suffer. We don't like to make mistakes, not were your concerned. That's just how we do business. A simple math mistake on an elasticized table cover is major for you, if I cut it wrong they just don't fit and we have to make it again. We just can't let that happen, we care to much about you.
3. Burn out... is bad when you make custom items. I have a lovely staff that I need to keep happy!! I need my Junies to be thoughtful and caring when they make your custom items. See #2. We are a small little company and we care! We can't loose that love'n feeling!!

To combat the demand we hired a new Junie so that Jonathan and I could breath a little, once Dianne is fully trained we'll be moving along a bit faster. We're also trying to keep a good stock of fabric on hand, but we never know which fabric's going to be the it fabric. One day we sell out of a print buy two bolts and no one want's it again for months. Fabric is just like that, it goes in waves!! ; )

When I opened my Etsy shop in 2006 I mentioned this at check out...

... I insist that your happy, happy, happy with your Modern June purchase. 

I stand by that today. We pride ourselves on offering goods that make life easier, so please understand that waiting is a good thing!!

XOXOX,
Kelly McCants, the luckiest tablecloth maker in the land!

Yesterday, new RCM member Karen Shonk, appeared on Virginia This Morning on WTRV.  She had a great time sharing all the goodies that we, the members of Richmond Craft Mafia, are giving away over at the Young House Love blog!!

This is all to promote our upcoming Spring Bada Bing show this weekend!!

We're taking over $350 dollars of great loot. Head on over and see all the goodie and enter to win!! Wednesday, April 11th at 8pm EST or at 10,000 entries (whichever comes first). While your there check the 15% off coupon codes that you can use in our individual shops now through then end of the month.



My coupon code is YHL15!!

XOXOX,
Kelly, a proud reinstated member of the Richmond Craft Mafia!! 

Happy Easter Eggs!!