Even the finest clothing pattern can be marred by the use of subpar fabric, just as great recipes are ruined with stale ingredients and brilliant movie scripts are wasted with unrealistic animatronic dinosaurs. Keep your home-sewn effects special with today's Groupon: for $15, you get $30 worth of fabrics, buttons, buckles, and more at Mood Designer Fabrics on West Pico Boulevard.
Featured on Project Runway, Oprah, and Martha Stewart, Mood Designer Fabrics supplies fine fibers to professional designers and student sewers alike. Its palatial fabric facility is chock-full of cloth for all manner of sartorial and domestic projects, facilitating customer quests to craft fashionable duds for themselves or for helpless mannequins who rely on humans for wardrobe changes and cheesecake feedings.
Mood's linen-loving staff helps customers navigate the dizzying array of options, including material such as denim ($8–$14/yd.) for custom-fit skinny jeans and seersucker ($6–$14/yd.) for the creation of warm-weather attire and ironic snowman sport coats. Home fabrics include backed canvas ($18/yd.), perfect for fashioning drapes thick enough to hide the shame of having no windows. Mood Designer Fabrics also carries sewing supplies, trim, and dozens of fabric accessories, including buttons ($0.25–$21 each), buckles ($0.50–$16.95 each), and appliqués ($1.95–$11 each) to ensure the aesthetic excellence of any fibrous creation.
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The Groupon Guide to: Choosing Your Own Adventure
Thanks to electronic readers and the recent discovery of free will, traditional fiction is increasingly giving way to futuristic hyperfiction that places you in the driver's seat of a book. Uninitiated readers can start activating their adventure synapses with this excerpt from the popular You Live It! series of interactive novels, Escape From Smugglers' Cove.
Page 26: Blind Darby and his assistant with a hook for a hand carry a bag of loot into their smugglers' shack. Your grandfather always warned you not to follow smugglers.
- If you follow the smugglers into their shack, turn to page 32.
- If you hop onto your motorbike to go find Chief McCullough, turn to page 17.
- If you place the old amulet into the swamp in order to raise Swampman to wreak his muddy vengeance on the smugglers, turn to page 9.
Page 32: You deftly creep into the foyer of the candlelit crime shack. The smugglers seem to be gone, but they have left the computer on. You play around on Facebook for a while.
Page 17: You hightail it down the gravel road before realizing that Chief McCullough is on vacation. You pull over and play around on your phone for a while.
Page 9: Instead of doing the thing you chose, you head home to see what's on TV. During a long commercial break you pull out your phone and play around on Facebook for a while.
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