Moxie Monday: Material Girl from Cosmo Cricket

Well, hello Moxie Fabbers! I hope this blog post finds you well. Believe it or not, we're at the beginning of a rather regular week. As in, there's no special issue promotion, I'm not on vacation, nor am I at a tradeshow. It's just business as per usual, and as much as I love those "special" weeks we share here in the Moxie Fab World, I love business as per usual the best of all. :)

(Thanks to everyone who left comments in last week's posts for Stamp It! Cards Week! Oh my goodness but we had ourselves some fun, didn't we?)

There's nothing business as per usual with today's Moxie Monday, however. Unless, of course, you are talking about the way that Cosmo Cricket keeps cranking out collections that rock this moxie fab world of ours--their business-as-per-usual modus operandi. Take the Material Girl collection, for example. What I love the most about this line is not just how it inspires me visually, but I love how it runs a thread through my life that stitches me through to my past.

When I was a girl, my mom made most of my clothes. We spent hours and hours at the fabric store choosing patterns and fabrics, and while I would rather have had store-bought jeans with their even, flat-fell seams and glossy threads, and while I might have wished for more fancy dresses to wear to my piano recitals, my mother was on a tight budget and had a gift for putting in buttonholes and zippers at a time when the equipment with which these were made was cumbersome, clunky, and confounding at best.

When I grew too old for homemade clothes, I watched my mother continue to make her own wardrobe in an effort to save money as she worked as an elementary school teacher. Surrounded by grandmothers and aunts who also created magic with a sewing machine, I learned how to sew myself. I made my own original patterns to create custom Christmas gifts for my friends and later found myself sewing the entire layette for my babies, decor for my home, Halloween and dance costumes, and countless nightgowns for Christmas Eve.

And so, it is a cherished, humble nostalgia that whispers to me as I look at the 12 x 12 papers that Material Girl offers. It takes me back to a long-lost time that is not quite as far away from my heart as I thought:

Measuring Up

Tailor Made

Snip Snip

In Stitches

Calico

Inspiration

Ready Set Chipboard

Elements

Cardstock Stickers

Borders

Where does this line take you, friends? I'd love to hear. Leave me a comment by midnight MST on Sunday, March 7 and I'll choose two random winners to receive some nostalgia of their own.

Before I sign off for the day, a couple of things. Business as per usual, I'll be announcing all of last week's winners in my weekly Winnerday post (soooo exciting!) Remember, you must send me an email to claim your prize, so be sure and check in to see if you are one. (I know, I can h-a-r-d-l-y stand the suspense, either!)

And of course, I'll name the Trigger Targets from last week's Tuesday Trigger and have a new Trigger for you tomorrow as well.

Also, you've got until tonight at midnight to enter the Fun with Floss Challenge. I'll show the five winning projects on Wednesday's post, so if you want to be considered, now's the time.

I am a material girl,

~Cath

PS Speaking of challenges, don't forget the Olympics of Stamping Challenge that goes through March 8! Gold, silver, or bronze, you're a winner just for entering! :)