Weddingbee Blog

I [heart] sales.

This weekend, Flax (a totally hip art and design store in San Francisco) hosted a warehouse sale for overstocked, discontinued, and sample merchandise. Mr. Eggplant and I stopped by on Saturday morning for a visit to find some materials for invitation making.

We entered the warehouse entrance and were greeted by tons of goodies on sale. They had everything from paper mache boxes to premade bridal shower invitations. There were so many goodies that I forgot to take pictures of them. Oops!

Envelopes were sold for pennies a piece.

Flax was also selling colorful textured paper in huge 34×44 inch sheets for only $1 per sheet. To give you an idea, a sheet that large would produce sixteen 8.5×11 pieces of paper (super cheap invitations!). Flax had tons of gorgeous paper, but none in our colors.

Rolls of ribbon were $2 a roll for 11 yards. Not bad.

For all the bay area/SF brides out there, Flax is a great store to purchase art supplies, gifts, and all kinds of neat stuff for your wedding, including:

Totally cute Kolo mini paper albums for $3.75/piece, great for making personalized favors or thoughtful bridesmaid gifts.

Gift wrap in all imaginable patterns, including pink Parisian.

Adorable stamps to match, $27.95 for six.

And vintage post cards, $14.95 for 18 cards.

On their website, they also have some fun animated instructionals on techniques like gold leaf decorating. As if I needed any more fuel to feed my craft addition!