craftgrrl | Niles, IL crafty resource (Reply)

I keep forgetting to post about this, in here. There's a little-known (or so it seemed) crafty resource here in the Northern suburbs of Chicago. FibreCraft, the company that makes about 1/2 - 2/3 of the "kiddie craft" type supplies sold in, say, a WalMart Fabrics & Crafts department...actually has an outlet store you can shop in as retail customers. I think if you go further West along the street that the Niles WalMart is on, you first see on your right their wholesale warehouse. I've been told that just past the thing that looked like miniature Leaning Tower of Pisa, though, is this outlet store of theirs. I haven't checked it out yet, myself, but when I was working, I had some customers mention it to me. I thought of it because my husband and I drove past it, the other day. We're not talking really high-quality supplies, here, but if you or your kids or your students have any good uses for things like pompoms, googly eyes, pipe cleaners, fun foam, glitter, popsickle sticks, jingle bells, small wooden boxes...that sort of thing...it's a good source. Why pay even the discounted prices of a place like WalMart, when you know they've got to be making at least one more layer of profit than the company the supples are coming from?! The place should particularly come in handy on those many occasions where every kid in a given grade from a local school has been given the same project needing the same supplies, or crafty birthday parties have recently been all the rage for kids, and the retail stores are sold out.

By the way...if any of you just happened to shop at the Niles WalMart, and have recently noticed the absence of a certain evening worker in Fabrics & Crafts...longlonglong dark hair often bound up into a bun, glasses, dark clothes, knew what she was talking about, probably often looked like she wanted to do dangerous things to her coworkers...that missing worker is me. I quit because my husband and I are expecting. Best of luck shopping there...I never convinced them to let me train anyone.