SALE SALE SALE Clearance

SALE SALE SALE

As I was booking my one way ticket to crazy town aboard the crazy train in anticipation for our busy season, which will officially commence on the 15th, I realized it might help a bit to get rid of more things. 

We have experimented with several ideas of things we could add to our shop. But after finding that Roman Shades in them selves keep us busy enough these things never quite made it to the shop. And since we are busy enough and content with just window treatments we are getting rid of our other "ideas" today. 

EVERYTHING IS NEW AND NEVER BEEN USED. ALL HANDMADE BY WINDOW TREATMENTS BY MELISSA, LLC.

To Place Your Order Write An Email To windowsbymelissa@gmail.com and include the sale item you are interested in in the subject line.

Please follow our blog. I will be doing another sale. I have more stuff to put up, but it takes a long time to put a sale post together. So more items will have to wait until next week. Please follow the blog so you can be notified of the next sale.

PLACEMATS, NAPKINS and TABLE RUNNERS
Set of four doublesided placemats with matching table runner. 
Runner measures: approximately 15" wide by 54" long
Place mats measure approximately 20" wide by 15" long
Made from a medium weight jacquard fabric and are reversible.

PRICE: $35, SHIPPING: $5




Set of four place mats with matching napkins in Premier Prints Zig Zag in Village Blue and Natural
Place mats measure aprox. 20" wide by 15" long
Napkins are aprox an 18" square

PRICE: $28, SHIPPING: $5




Set of six place mats with matching napkins in Premier Prints Lulu in Summerland (gray and yellow)
Place mats aprox. 20" wide by 15" long 
napkins aprox. 18" square

PRICE: $32, Shipping: $5


Set of FOUR place mats in heavy weight home decor fabric.
each measures aprox. 20" wide by 15" tall
Colors are burgundy red, gold with blue turquoise and yellow butterflies.

sorry for the upside down picture. . . 

PRICE: $16, Shipping: $5

Set of four place mats with matching table runner in rust red/gold irridescent medium weight home decor fabric.

Runner measure aprox. 14" x 54"

place mats measure aprox. 14" x 20"

PRICE: $32, shipping: $5

PILLOW COVERS

Set of 18" zipper closure pillow covers with 3/16" piping. SET OF TWO

PRICE: $20, Shipping: $5

ONE 14" x 27" lumbar zipper closure pillow cover with 3/16" piping. This beauty is such a steal because my seam ripper got away from me and made a tiny hole in the corner on one side. That is what the second closer picture is.

PRICE: $8, Shipping: $5

Picture is sideways, sorry :/ Yours truly is affectionately referred to as "technologically challenged." 

ONE 12" envelope closure pillow cover in Lulu Summerland (gray and yellow).

PRICE: $5 Shipping: $5

ONE SET OF TWO 18" envelope closure pillow cover in Lulu Summerland (gray and yellow).

PRICE: $12, Shipping: $5

. . . sideways. . .  

ONE 12" x 18" lumbar envelope closure pillow cover in Lulu Summerland (gray and yellow)

Price: $10, Shipping: $5

Set of TWO 18" ZIPPER closure pillow covers with 3/16" piping in P.Kaufman indoor/outdoor fabric. Colors brown and cream. 

PRICE: $18, Shipping: $5

This set of pillow covers fits a 14" pillow form.

They are both made from Premier Prints

in Zebra Breeze.
Set: $8, plus $5 for shipping

SET OF TWO 12" pillow covers in

Shumacher zebra in the colorway Dune,
zipper closure.
 Set: $8, plus $5 for shipping

ROMAN SHADES

Relaxed Roman shade made in white linen, lined with black out liner currently equipped for inside mount. Enhanced with 2.25" black grosgrain ribbon. 32" in width and 63" in length.

Quantity: TWO 

Flat Roman Shade, currently inside mount. Made from a Robert Allen Floral and lined in drapery lining. Measures (1) 31 1/2" width x 59" length and (1) 48" wide x 59" long

$10 each plus $15 for shipping

Flat Roman Shade, cerrently outside mount. Made from Waverly "Groovey Grille" in licorice. Lined with drapery lining. Measures 53" x 48". Quantity: ONE

$10, $15 for shipping

 Flat Roman Shade, made from knock off Imperial Trellis. Color: citrine, fabric: polyester. Quantity: ONE It measures 35" wide by 35.5" long.

PRICE:  $10, plus $15 for shipping 

ONE FLAT ROMAN SHADE measuring 24" wide by 60" long lined with BLACKOUT in Robert Allen Dwell Dot in gray.
PRICE: $35, shipping: $15
CURTAINS and VALANCES 

Khanjali Peacock Valance 15" long
Price: $10, shipping: $5

FABRIC

(Image sideways, Stripes are vertical). Terrace Gate Stripe in baby pink. 54" wide medium weight home decor fabric.

$5/yard. 15 yards available. We will do custom cuts on this item so please include the amount of yardage you would like in your email inquiry.

White polka dots on lemon yellow 54" wide home decor medium weight fabric.
$5/yard. 30 yards available.

Brown and Green Striped Indoor/Outdoor fabric. Medium weight fabric 54" wide. $5/yard. 10 yards available.

Blue and gold Scrolls. 54" wide medium weight home decor fabric. (Image is sideways. The stripes and scrolls actually horizontal). 

$5 per yard, 30 yards available. Will do custom cuts of yardage. Please include  the amount of yardage you would like in your email inquiry.

 Brown Dots 54" wide medium weight home decor fabric.
$5/yard. Will do custom cut yardage on this order as we have lots in stock. Please include how much yardage you would like when inquiring via email.

Zebra stripe medium weight home decor fabric 54" wide.

$5/yard. We have at least 50 yards of this in stock, so when inquiring please include how much yardage you would like.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS of sale:

1) All sales are final. No returns. No refunds.

2) Items will sell on a payment received basis. Items will not be held. Whomever pays for the item first will receive them.

3) All items are sold as is. In cases such as curtains or roman shades, alterations can be made before the item is shipped.

a) Curtains: The only alterations that will be made to curtains are length, width or to add hidden tabs. We will not be adding or removing lining in this instance. Alterations will have an additional fee. The fee will be decided on a case by case basis.

b)Roman shades: The only alterations that will be made to roman shades are the length and mount. They can be shortened and can be made to be inside mount or outside mount. Additional fees will be charged for these alterations on a case by case basis.

4) All items in this sale are ready to ship and will ship via USPS priority mail at purchasers expense.

5) ALL Pillow covers are NOT sold with inserts. Covers only.

6) Poufs may be sold with or without filling. Please specify.

7) All purchases will be made via paypal invoice.

NOTES:

1) ALL Roman Shades have cord locks.

2) ALL pillow covers have same fabric front and back.

3) The pillow cover are sold as covers only, no inserts.

TO ORDER

Just write me an email at windowsbymelissa at gmail.com

Meet the team!!

Meet the Window Treatments by Melissa TEAM!!

I have a very successful team full of smart and educated women whom have played a significant part in the building up of this wonderful business. To them, I owe so much. They are an inspiration to me and have helped me more than they know. 

First, me: My name is Melissa. I grew up in Chandler, Arizona and lived there all my life until I moved to Virginia to go to school. My mother was a reading teacher and home economics teacher. She taught me everything I know! My mom was never satisfied with things you could buy at the store. She always made everything herself. And if she couldn't she'd have my dad make it. One time she was getting rid of a coffee table with glass pieces in it and she had my dad take the cupboards from the kitchen and put the glass pieces in the,. It looks lovely!  Long story short, this is how I grew up and so I make everything in my house! 

I have a BA degree from Southern Virginia University in English. I started this business in an attempt to stay at home with my babies and not have to work outside the home. When I was successful at accomplishing this task I brought on others who wanted to stay at home with their kids before having to go out of the home to work. 

Here they are!:

Shannon 

(We had to do a shop integrity thing for etsy, so all the pictures that I have has our shop name in them :) Except this ONE):

Oh man, this was a hundred years ago. Good times.

Shannon is spectacularly smart! She was working as my assistant answering my emails, doing quotes, etc. She was working with us so she could stay home with her baby, Chloe (in the picture above), for her first year. Shannon has recently left us because she's way too good at everything she does and had to go to work. She has a BA in History and is licensed in the following: Series 7, 63, 65, 9 and 10 and AAMS (accredited asset management specialist). She had to go work for the big wigs at Charles Schwaab or someone else equally as not much fun as Window Treatments by Melissa. . . .  But we won't hold that against her. . .  ;) P.S. Shannon is my cousin and that makes her more awesome. 

Trena

(If anyone has ordered pillow covers from us, send us your pics so I can toot trena's horn!!)

Trena makes our pillow covers, slip covers, window seat cushions and is also my personal therapist ;) I don't pay her enough. Trena has an AA with an emphasis on Education, has a BA in history and currently working toward her RN. Yowza! Trena has her own etsy shop too, but I'm not going to tell you what it is. Ha! If she wants me to after reading this, I will. But between us, nursing school and Six year old Owen and One year old Emma, I think she doesn't need the publicity. ;) 

Sara

no picture. :( 

But I have pictures of her work!

Sara, has recently left us as well, but we owe so much of our success to her. She is so very talented and contributed much to our business! She is a mom of four! That in itself is a major accomplishment. She has a double major in studio art and mathematics. 

And now we have Becky and Janeen 

I will admit that there is a special place in my heart for these two. 

Becky has recently become a new mom to sweet baby Paul! Becky has taken some time off to get used to being a mom. But when she returns in the next few weeks she will be continuing work for us making valances and curtains. Becky has a masters degree in physics and before baby Paul became her number one job she was working for the community college as an adjunct professor conducting labs, etc.

Janeen

and Janeen. Oh what I have put Janeen through! Oh the many phone calls of desperation, "This order is due in two days and I'm not going to make it!!! Save me!!!" 

In the spirit of horn tooting, Janeen is also among my smart ladies having neared completion on her degree in education. She is mom to three ages ranging from 10 to 2. 

The reason I say there is a special place in my heart for these two ladies is because their positions with our business came to be out of a very trying and difficult time for me. 

When I started hiring seamstresses to work for me it was in an effort to keep mothers at home with their children as long as possible before having to leave the home to work. I reluctantly took on two seamstresses having been somewhat familiar with their financial situations. At the time I did not have the work load to share with them, but being a faithful person to promptings I knew that if I heeded the promptings I was given that I would in turn be blessed with work. After taking on the two women I was, indeed, blessed with enough work to go around. Unfortunately, these women that I had hired suffer from personal problems of insecurity and other personality disorders. It was this insecurity that lead them to choose to take offense and misinterpret an email that was sent where no offense was intended. These two women both quit (on my birthday!) sending me back all of their orders in an effort to punish me for what they had misinterpreted and chose to be hurt by. As I said, in taking them on I was very blessed with work. So I had three people's work to do. I did not get to spend Thanksgiving with my family. I had to work on their orders. I even had to work on Christmas. Janeen and Becky came to work for us during this time. They offered to take on the orders that the former seamstresses has left me with. They had agreed to do it at no cost or to wait until I had the funds to pay them, as I had paid the former seamstresses in advance to do the orders that they had sent back to me. Having been familiar with their financial situations, I thought I was being kind by paying them in advance. But they returned the orders and kept the money. So Janeen and Becky helped me make up for their negligence by waiting until I had more funding to pay them with. I appreciated this as it was Christmas and I know funds were tight for them as well. Time was limited for them too, as it always is around the holidays and they still did my former seamstresses work. I am so grateful to them. 

Becky and Janeen and are two beautiful women inside and out. And I can say this about all of my team. They are a group of women that can be counted on to deliver. They can be counted on to come through even when I make mistakes. I made the mistake of judging my former seamstresses incorrectly. I assumed that even if I made a mistake that they would understand that I am human and be forgiving. But instead they punished me for being human. My current team is a group of women that can be counted on to come through with they agree to finishing even if I have a human moment and offend. 

 I am so lucky and blessed to have these women work for me. Their quality of character cannot be matched!   To make up for someone else's negligence, someone they don't even know, during the holidays and without immediately being paid for their work just to help me. . .  well, that is a friend for life. I can say that with the help of these women we made it through that tough time without missing a deadline and without any complaints! And that is something I am very proud of. I do still feel sad sometimes as I missed out on my daughters second Christmas. It was the first Christmas that she could actually open her gifts and really enjoy and understand what was going on. And I had to work during that to make up for my former seamstresses. 

As for my former seamstresses, well, I don't hold it against them. I had a hard time for a while. But one day it clicked. Their actions speak volumes about who they are as people and it does not speak well for them. THe kind of person that could do that to another person is someone very troubled. Understanding how embarrased they must feel for their childish behavior and punishing me for something that didn't even happen, well, I just plain feel bad for them now.  I used to feel angry toward them, but now I just feel bad. How can one just keep money they didn't earn? and punish someone through the holidays? That is someone who clearly has struggles with their own selves and their own insecurities. I feel very sad for them that the person they chose to be was someone who could not be counted on, who could not come through with they agreed to and kept the money for which they had agreed to. 

I still feel very sad and am even crying now as I think of missing that Christmas day with my children. I can never get that back. But I also think about what I gained from that experience. A team of friend that I can rely on to build up my company and my name. A team of friends ho are on my side and not out for themselves. 

It is this loyalty and focus on building a business rather than focusing on themselves that has made us who we are today. This loyalty we have to each other sets us apart from the rest. We know that it is only by the success of this business that we will be able to stay home with our children. So for each other and for our families we are dedicated to producing the highest quality product so that we can ensure the happiness and loyalty of our clients. Because as long as happy clients keep returning we will be able to stay at home with our young children where we belong. 

We are all focused and dedicated to our client's happiness. And this is what keeps us building higher and higher! And I have a team full of smart and educated women who realize this and who are not selfish and only doing this for themselves. They do it for each other and for you! We would be nothing without you all and are so grateful to you! It is because of you, our readers and clients, that we can stay home with our young children. Thank you all so much. We appreciate you!

Orders shipping on or before October 13th

Scheduled to ship on or before October 13th 

Ellen Mottolla--pillow covers and placemats (shade has shipped)
Bodie Houston- Pillows
Julie Mecham
Erin Nehama
Kim Cummings
Johanna O'loughlin
Twilighted Abyss
Townsela- Shades (ribbon valance coming later)

Fall Inspired Decor and Fabric Finds from Decorate23

Decorate23

I am enjoying the relief from the dropping temperatures.I live in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley in Southwest Virginia. The leaves on the trees are changing more and more every day. The Fall palate has me inspired to add browns, yellows, oranges and reds to my house. 

The Blue Ridge mountains, a few miles from my home. I love where I live!

Changing or adding color to a room doesn't have to be expensive. There are a lot of things you can do to add a little fall to your home.

I have been looking at the shop Decorate23 and have found a lot of fall inspired fabrics. Here are a few I found.

Fabric

Pillow Covers

Decor

Accessorizing your home with colors of the changing seasons doesn't have to be expensive. Especially with the affordable prices that Decorate23 offers. 

Enjoy the fall weather!

Report on our September Sponsor Family and 50% off coupon extension

In September we sponsored Brewer.

It was a little bit of a slow month, but we were still able to raise $150 for Brewer and his family! 

If you or someone you know would be a goo candidate for our sponsor program email us at windowsbymelissa@gmail.com. We'd love to hear their story and help out.

As a side note, we also want to let you know that we are extending the 50% off our fabric by the yard coupon through next week.

Giveaway Tuesday!

Giveaway Tuesday:

Fabric!

I am offering a 50% off coupon for all our fabrics TODAY ONLY. If you see a fabric you like in our shop please contact me there for further information on how to get your coupon.

I appreciate all of you very much and want to express my appreciation to you during a difficult time for me. Your patience is very much appreciated. More than you know. Enjoy the coupon!

This coupon applies to any fabric option in our shop and accounts for any amount of yardage.

I have a lot of fabric in stock that isn't listed, so if there is something particular you are looking for please just ask. I have about three times as much fabric as is listed in the shop. So I am happy to help. I even have some of the fabrics that the treatments in my listings are made from. So please feel free to ask. 

Happy shopping!