right here is the very first in the series of “Meet Our Advertisers”: Jen from MOMSPatterns!
How long have you been in business? I’ve been in company on eBay because 1998, as well as had my own vintage stitching pattern site because September, 2006!
What inspired you to go into the vintage pattern business? I utilized to offer costume patterns, up until a dear buddy of my mother’s discovered a box of 1940s patterns in her aunt’s attic. She asked if I’d be thinking about selling them, as well as I originally, extremely snobbily said, “Oh, I’ll try however I can’t see that there’s a market for utilized OLD PATTERNS.” picture my surprise as well as pleasure when they offered for much more money than my new patterns! I adore the styles as well as fashions from the past, so started focusing on the vintage styles as well as couldn’t be happier having a task handling what I LOVE.
What did you do before this? I utilized to foreclose homes for a large, widely known bank!
Where are you based? I’m in a town called Orange Park, which is best outside of Jacksonville in Florida. Hot, damp & sunny … all the time.
More fun questions:What’s the weirdest/best/most unusual/most gorgeous thing you’ve ever found? Dabbling in vintage clothing, I discovered almost ninety (yes, 90!) vintage new old stock DeWeese bathing fits from the 1970s. My buddies Michelle from Dollhouse Bettie as well as Ang from Dorothea’s wardrobe vintage are selling them on consignment for me as well as we are reveling in the whole Charlie’s Angels feel of them!
What do you have in stock that you can’t believe hasn’t sold? many of the 1930s as well as 1940s fantastic DuBarry patterns I just recently added … They’re just great … really!
What do you dream about finding? A box of 100 or much more uncut 1920s McCall’s vintage stitching patterns … An original Fortuny Delphos evening gown … as well as great houses for any type of of my cherished patterns for sale!
What do you delight in many about working with vintage clothes as well as vintage stitching patterns? I like the high quality of vintage clothing. The interest to details … the shirring, the draping as well as the utter beauty of the days gone by.
What do you desire somebody would ask you about your site? may I link To You / blog about You / promote For You?
It’s a great day at work when … I wake as much as emails from people telling me that they just discovered the MOMSPatterns site as well as they had SO much fun taking a look at styles that their mom or grandma had produced them … when I can link somebody with a pattern they utilized to like SO much however lost … as well as when there’s a good stack of orders to get filled & shipped!
If I ran the Web for a day I’d … Make sure I was top on Google for ALL vintage stitching browse keywords & combinations so I might make sure I was reaching anybody who was thinking about vintage, sewing, as well as vintage sewing!
The blogs I checked out (other than ADAD) are …Random Acts of vintage (My buddy Lisa’s blog)
You’d laugh if you understood this about me … I CANNOT SEW!!
Jen has likewise provided to run a month long sale for you! discount coupon code ‘nowiknowjen’ 15% off. From today up until the end of the month!
More discount coupon details … you can utilize the code over & over & over once again all month long, so as you see much more patterns added throughout the month, you can STILL utilize that code! totally free s&h to USA & Canada with the purchase of 5 or much more patterns, discounted shipping rates offered for worldwide orders.
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