Posted on Feb 15, 2012 | Tagged in: Cassie
A BIG THANK YOU to everyone who came out & celebrated Valentine's Day with us at Woodlands Fabrics & Interiors! It was a great success & wonderful turnout! We enjoyed seeing old friends & meeting new ones.
Posted on Feb 13, 2012 | Tagged in: Untagged
An official groundbreaking ceremony was held recently for the Lois Hurt Annex, an additional building to help ease overcrowding at the Montgomery County Women’s Center shelter.
Lois Hurt was a longtime and beloved community volunteer who was a part of MCWC and participated with the group for years. She passed away July 9, 2011 after a battle with cancer. Lois Hurt was highly regarded as an extremely community-minded and loving person, continuing to give of herself to others and local organizations while herself courageously facing the health consequences of her ordeal.
The Women’s Center’s shelter currently has 60-beds for battered women and children fleeing abuse, but it is often full. The overcrowding is exacerbated by the shelter’s rule that teenage boys cannot share a bathroom with other families, and since the MCWC shelter is designed with two bedrooms sharing the same bathroom, a woman with a teenage son can take up two rooms.
Posted on Feb 07, 2012 | Tagged in: Untagged
With 945 new home sales in 2011, The Woodlands has been ranked the #2 Top-Selling Master Planned Community in the country and #1 in Texas by John Burns Real Estate Consulting. The Woodlands exceeded Cinco Ranch at #3 with 862 home sales and Irvine Ranch in Orange County California, ranked #4 with 764 home sales. The only community that reported more home sales was The Villages near Orlando, Florida , an active adult community with 2,307 sales in 2011.
Five of the top 15 communities are in the Houston area, including Telfair (#10), Bridgeland (#13) and Riverstone (#15) as well as The Woodlands and Cinco Ranch.
This is the second year for John Burns Real Estate Consulting’s ranking of top-selling master planned communities. The company ranked sales numbers from 131 projects in all areas of the U.S., representing nearly 23,000 new home sales during 2011.
Posted on Jan 30, 2012 | Tagged in: Untagged
The South Montgomery County/Woodlands Chamber of Commerce's Annual Taste of the Town will be held February 2, 2012 from 4:00 till 9:00 PM at The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel & Convention Center. Your ticket includes food, beverages and festivities. Enjoy mouth-watering appetizers, entrées, desserts, pastries, and beverages from some of the area's finest restaurants, caterers, bakeries, delis and beverage companies. This is the premier event of the South Montgomery County business community.
Don't miss the chance to vote for your favorite restaurant to win the People's Choice Award!
Posted on Jan 16, 2012 | Tagged in: Untagged
The 36th annual Arbor Day Celebration is set for Saturday, Jan. 21, 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. in the award-winning Rob Fleming Park in The Woodlands’ Village of Creekside Park.
Lovable mascot of The Woodlands, Puffy Pine Cone™, will also celebrate his birthday at this event along with the first annual “I Love Puffy” Day. Simply, interpret your favorite pine cone’s outfit for his 6th birthday and receive a free sandwich, chips and a drink at the event.
For the Arbor Day celebration, approximately 31,000 tree seedlings in eight different varieties will be distributed free, continuing a 36-year tradition that began in 1977. The selections of trees include Eastern Redbud, Flowering Dogwood, Loblolly Pine, Red Maple, Shumard Oak, Southern Wax Myrtle, River Birch and White Oak. In addition to receiving free tree seedlings, guests may register at the event to win one of five, seven-gallon native trees. The drawings will take place hourly. You must be present to win.
Posted on Jan 16, 2012 | Tagged in: Cassie
Now that the glitter is cleaned up and the trees are put away... it is time to give a fresh look to the store, and we are doing just that!
Our new swivel club chairs are guaranteed to liven up any room! Used in a garden room or breakfast nook would be divine.
Posted on Jan 09, 2012 | Tagged in: Untagged
Renovations at the South Regional Library in The Woodlands will help open up space and improve the traffic flow of the busiest library branch in Montgomery County.
About $63,000 is being used from the South Montgomery County Friends of the Library funds to enlarge the SMCFOL gift shop, rearrange the counter where patrons check out their books and the circulation work area for librarians to have more space, SMCFOL President Gail Magill said.
“The south regional library has been the busiest branch in the system and we definitely need more room. This will allow us to maximize the space we have,” said Sarah Booth, assistant director for the county’s library system.
Booth said the library, located at 2101 Lake Robbins Drive, posted more than 24,000 transactions for full-time staff member in the 2009-2010 fiscal year compared to 23,000 for the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Library in The Woodlands, about 17,000 in Magnolia and 15,000 in Conroe. With allocated funding for new material as low as it was 14 years due to budget cuts, Booth said the library system is becoming more reliant on groups like SMCFOL.
“There are no words to describe how valuable they are,” Booth said. “The Friends of the Library groups are so supportive … We would not be able to do these renovations without their foresight and dedication.”
Magill said the color selections are being approved and once that is complete, the renovations would take for less than two weeks. The renovations are coming from the $250,000 left from former SMCFOL member Lorna Felton, who passed away in 2009 and requested that the funding be spent to improve the libraries. This is the first improvement to be made from the funding.
“Lorna was such a dedicated volunteer and supporter of our libraries,” Magill said.
The SMCFOL operates a book store inside area libraries where they sell used books to help support the libraries, Magill said. They also hold book sales every year.
Despite the popularity of electronic readers, Magill believes the libraries still have value, especially since they offer computer classes and e-reader classes, as well as other community services, like summer reading programs for students.
Booth said the libraries “don’t work around it, we work with it,” by providing Overdrive, an online program which allows users to download free library and audio books to their electronic readers.
For more information on the renovations, classes or policy changes, go to www.countylibrary.org <http://www.countylibrary.org> .
source: The Woodlands Villager
Posted on Jan 03, 2012 | Tagged in: Cassie
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Are you looking for a fresh color to accent with for the new year? Well, the 2012 color of the year has been announced by Pantone and has been named 17-1463 Tangerine Tango. This bold color is both energetic and spirited and cannot go unnoticed! Called both exotic and friendly, this color is sure to make a statement in the coming year! 
“Sophisticated but at the same time dramatic and seductive, Tangerine Tango is an orange with a lot of depth to it,” said Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute®. “Reminiscent of the radiant shadings of a sunset, Tangerine Tango marries the vivaciousness and adrenaline rush of red with the friendliness and warmth of yellow, to form a high-visibility, magnetic hue that emanates heat and energy.”
Over the past several seasons, orange has been an important color both in the fashion world and in interiors.
Beyonce wearing a beautiful Tangerine Lanvin gown in Los Angeles to the M TV Music awards.
This photo is from the Kravet / Lee Jofa Fabrics showroom in the Washington Design Center, and showcases how tangerine can be successfully incorporated into interiors- even the bedroom.
This bold color also serves as a great accent for art and accessories. These tangerine vases are mixed with silver- fabulous pieces from Global Views, an accessory company that stays right on top of the trends.
Beautiful wallpapers are emerging in this great color, like the pattern Orissa from Thibalt.
If you are looking for a fun way to spice up your new year, Tangerine Tango is the perfect color to get you there!
Hope you have a happy and colorful New Year!
Posted on Dec 19, 2011 | Tagged in: Cassie
After you make it through the holidays & begin packing up your holiday decor, make sure to stop by Woodlands Fabrics & Interiors for something new to spruce up your home!
December 27th through the 31st, all in-stock inventory will be 15% - 75% off!
