Vibes & Scribes, my favourite shop!

I’m still making more of the drawstring bags so not much to update on the crafty front, but I thought I’d write a little post about how much I love my local crafty shop. There are other crafty shops in Cork but Vibes & Scribes is the one that caters to the biggest variety of crafts so whatever you are wanting to make, you can probably find things to make it there. (This isn’t an advert, just a review by a happy customer).
There are actually two Vibes and Scribes shops, one is a book shop (which is also great) but the crafty shop is my favourite. It’s over three floors, which can be annoying as there’s no lift, so if you need to go in with a pram or pushchair it’s best to have a friend with you to mind the pram if you need something that’s not on the ground floor. If you were unable to manage the stairs, I’m sure the staff would help find what you were looking for but you would miss out on being able to browse.
The ground floor is the sewing floor - it has all the ribbons, notions, buttons etc and at the back is all the lovely fabric. They also cut the ends of the fabric rolls up into fat quarters along with having the coordinating fat quarter bundles, so sometimes if you just need a little piece of fabric you can have a little rummage through the fat quarters box for some pretty fabric for smaller projects.
Down in the basement is an Aladdin’s cave of yarn. Lovely wool and cotton of all different colours and weights and lots of patterns to turn it into blankets or jumpers or whatnot. The shelves are floor to ceiling with a wonderful array of colours and I love just going in for a look (though that can be dangerous as I always accidentally buy something). Upstairs on the first floor is the paper crafting, painting, all the other kinds of craft that you might want to do that doesn’t involve fabric or wool basically.
Other things I love about Vibes & Scribes include their workshops that they run so that people can learn a new craft or develop in a craft they already know. They even have a loyalty card so that I can pretend to myself that I am spending less money than i actually am! Oh, and if somebody nice gets you a gift voucher, they don’t have an expiry date. They will honour the voucher however long ago it was bought.
They have even been featured on a stamp By An Post!

I forgot to mention how nice the staff are too. The only problem is leaving without buying the whole shop.