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Getting the Most for Your Shipping Buck When Buying Floss Online

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Getting the Most for Your Shipping Buck When Buying Floss Online

Let's face it, buying floss online can be expensive because sometimes the postage seems like it costs more than the floss! With this dilemma in mind, we decided to do a little shipping experiment to see how many skeins of floss we could stuff into a one ounce envelope and a two ounce bubble bag. We got 6 skeins of floss into a one ounce envelope with a card (we needed to make sure the envelope was stiff and flat enough to go through postage machines without getting caught) and was able to mail it with a single first class...

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Have Floss, Will Travel

Posted by Kim LaPolla on

Have Floss, Will Travel

I rarely promote products not sold in our shop, but I just found the most perfect, for me and possibly for you, traveling cross stitching case and have to spread the news. It is the Smatree hard-sided laptop case.** It is obviously made as a case for a laptop, but it is a cross stitcher's dream. It is hard-sided and zippered all the way around to keep everything secure and neat when traveling to and fro. The top half is great for keeping your paper pattern or your iPad/tablet, if that's how you roll. There is a stiff divider between...

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