I’ve got a couple of goodies that are on sale until January 1.
Teensy Flowers Plate // $5 — normally $15
Baby Blue Zippy Pouch // $5 — normally $10
That’s Kinda Kitschy Zippy Pouch // $5 — normally $10
Big Beautiful Butterflies Wallet // $25 — normally $35 (there are 2 of these!)
Get ‘em while the gettin’s good … before January 1.
Hello bloglings. Tomorrow is my first Market Day of the season. They’ve been going on since May, but I’ve not had a chance to do much crafting until this last month.
For those of you who don’t know and are around Central Iowa, you should come check it out. It’s pretty awesome.
Actually, for you newbies, here’s a description from their website: Market Day is an indie craft market: their vendors craft — but they don’t make your grandma’s crafts. At Market Day, shoppers find screenprinted posters and tees, postcards of monsters, stenciled paintings of mermaids, kawaii earrings, macabre pottery, and more. And? They’ve got their share of vintage housewares, clothing and jewelry, too.
Find Market Day at the Des Moines Social Club in the Kirkwood Theater — at 400 Walnut Street in downtown Des Moines, IA. Click here to get directions.
What am I selling? Why dishes of course. But actually, since I moved twice since the last craft show I did, I don’t have any new dishes. I do, however, have a metric butt-ton of new zippy pouches because these are super easy to transport and are reallllly fun to make.
Zippy pouches are $10 (at Market Day, $12+shipping on etsy). Dishes range from $5-15 for single items and $35-75 for sets (again, 10% more expensive on etsy + shipping).
Also, did I mention that Market Day is from 9 AM-2 PM? COME ON DOWN.
We are moving again soon. And this weekend is the last weekend that I don’t have plans before the move, so I’m getting my last hurrah out of my system because all my crafty stuff has to go in storage as soon as possible.
I started going through my craft stuff and decided to finish off some UFOs this weekend.
I started with some bags …
(geometric little zippy pouch)
… and some more — 17 to be exact — quilted cards …
… but then I found a whole mess of white fabric, which I had no idea I had — my granny had left it in a bunch of unfinished projects she ultimately didn’t get to finish and her craft supplies were gifted to me. So, I decided it was time to finish my vintage scrap fabric (courtesy of Adria) strip quilt.
I’m still in progress today. I could have finished last night but I really don’t have room in our tiny apartment to lay out the quilt, and this is one that I have to lay out and think about. Here’s a photo of the progress. I’ll post a tutorial once it’s finished. It’s really quite easy, but takes a bit of thinking.
Here’s what I’ve done so far:
Here’s what I’m doing today:
And that’s my day today! Patchworking and probably running 6-8 miles. If I finish the quilt top in just a few hours (hoping so — I got where I currently am now with this quilt top in 3 hours yesterday), I’ll work on some more bags. I found the motherload of scraps I was saving of Wonderland …
… so I’ll probably be making some more zippy pouches out of that. I’m loving the zippy pouches. I need to make some more wallets, but I like to make the zippy pouches so much more. I figure I’m doing this for fun and not for money, so if this stuff sells, great, if not, I’ve got Christmas presents taken care of. Or maybe I can keep something for myself for once.
I decided this weekend to start curating things on my blog kind of like I do on pinterest — but only the top 5. Show you people some pretty things. I’ve got a LOT of stuff lined up (if you’ve seen my pinterest boards, you’ll understand).
1. Sweet Heart Button Purse by nonsuch on Etsy | 2. Kathy Van Zeeland French Kiss Sachel | 3. Halston Heritage Jenny Fold Sequin Clutch | 4. Bloom Small Leather Wallet by sewzinski | 5. Felix and Jayne Clutch
I’m going to be doing Craft Saturday this month on April 30th, so I’ve been working on some crafts.
I made a rule for this show — I can’t buy any new supplies — only use what’s in my stash and scraps. That way I can reduce the clutter and save some cash.
I had half a mind to get rid of ALL of my crafting supplies when I moved last month, but I decided to keep some of it. I might have gone insane without it, but I was getting kind of burnt out. I needed to find something new and interesting and fun. No more crafting for OTHER people. It’s okay to craft for yourself. Sometimes. And the stuff you make doesn’t have to be useful (these are actually useful things I learned from Amy Sedaris’s book).
I present to you — little zippy pouches.
These cute little pouches are perfect for makeup bags, emergency kits for your purse, travel crafting supplies and many more uses. I’ve had one that I made a LONG time ago that I used for my makeup in my gym bag. They were also a great project for scrapbusting. I’m a big fan of wonky asymmetrical patchwork and I made myself use ONLY what was in my scrap bag for these — so no cutting any new pieces. There are 3 here, but I’ve got 5 made and will be making a few more. They’re kind of time consuming, but I enjoy making them, so I’m going to have a few for the show at the end of the month.
And yes, I’ve also decided my label is going on everything. It will go on the inside of most of my stuff, but I thought it made these pouches look a bit more finished and since they’re scrappy to begin with, I thought it was a nice touch.
It’s been so long since I had a weekend of hermiting and crafting. The cat’s away so the mouse will … be lame and stay indoors on a Saturday night?
This used to be my typical Saturday night: run, shower, laundry, movies, crafting, sleep.
Lately I’ve been doing things. Like a lot of things. I went to a concert last night with Shelly (I will blog about this later once she gets pix/video up), I’ve been going out with friends to Welch Ave., Fong’s, The Lift, etc., we had prom last weekend … eeeeep! This is entirely too much stuff for me — it’s been fun — but I need a break!
So, I’m hermiting.
Tonight is going to be a craft-a-thon. I’ve had a request for 2 tea wallets and 2 market bags since posting on facebook that I was going to have a craft-a-thon. I’ve got a Ziggy Stardust tea cup I want to finish, some potholders, a zip pouch and I have a couple of new hot projects that I’d like to crank out quickly to stash bust my scrap fabric.
Anywho — as I finish things, I’ll be posting pix here of what I accomplish tonight. Let’s hope I do a few more things so I don’t look like I spent the night thinking about crafting and not actually crafting.
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1. Two Bags for my niece
My mom requested that I make Emee a couple of bags for some of her toy sets. These need handles, but I haven’t come across anything that I’d like to use for handles just yet. I made these bags out of a skirt I had in high school that I never wear anymore. It’s really cute purple fabric that shifts to blue in the right light and has a metallic silver brocade on the edges.
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2. Potholders
I started making a string quilt a while back with a bunch of random scraps, but I wasn’t pleased with what I was getting. So I decided to make the blocks into ugly potholders. The potholders have been lying around for a while awaiting the binding edge, so I’m sewing the binding on tonight.
Here’s what my potholders look like …
As you can see … I’m pretty excited that I finally finished these.
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3. Lil Zipper Bag
Over the summer I’d made some little zipper bags with some fuschia and gold Heather Ross mendocino fabric that was given to me by my friend Adria. I love this fabric sooo much, might I add. Definitely one of my all-time favorites. Anyway, for whatever reason I’ve had one little zipper bag sitting around unfinished. So I finished that off tonight as well.
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4. Ziggy Stardust Tea Cup
I made Mark a cute tea cup for our 2-month anniversary with the lyrics to our song on it … and I decided I wanted one that’s similar for myself. Yes — I said — FOR MYSELF. I never craft for myself. I wrote out the lyrics to Ziggy on a teacup last week … but decided that it needed to have a bit more pizazz, considering it *is* Bowie. So, I painted it up. I’m not too happy with the results, but maybe it will grow on me after I bake it. I like the one side, but I think if I would have left it a bit simpler it would be nicer … oh well. This can end up on craftastrophe I guess.
As you can tell by my face, this is the side I’m not too happy with. I dunno what to do with it just yet … Probably just bake it and hide it away in my apartment. 
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I think that’s all I’m going to get to tonight, but I’m going to continue tomorrow and get 4-6 tea wallets done, possibly some dis-cards (Denyse Schmidt style) and maybe another craft for myself — heating pad cover.
Everything is fair game this month.
Both my stores, chimes design and toDIYfor, are having a 20% off special this month. To participate, convo me on etsy with the item you’d like to apply the sale to and I’ll adjust the price and reserve it for you.
An extra 5% off if you blog or tweet about my sale and include the link to your blog post/tweet in your convo.
Easy peasy.
As per usual, I’m offering free shipping to Des Moines and Ames as long as we can arrange a drop off/pick up.
Well kiddos, it’s almost that time again: Market Street Media Foundry’s Market Day is this Saturday!
Here’s me and my booth from last Market Day.
For those of you who don’t know what Market Day is … check out the info on MSMF’s website. It’s Saturday from 9 AM – 2 PM at 118 SE 4th Street in the East Village in Des Moines. I’ll be there along with a few other artists I’ve blogged about as well as some very talented friends and designers that I haven’t blogged about.
Anyway, I’m going to be crafting up a storm this week for some last-minute things I’d like to have available to everybody at Market Day.
I’m planning to have a couple of really good deals going. I am planning to do buy-one-get-one-half-off (BOGO?) on my dishes because I’d like to make some new things and I don’t have room in my apartment for any more dishes! I haven’t quite decided what else to do, but that’s kind of a big deal. 
I’ll also be selling some crafty craft supplies. I’ve got some fabric that I need to put prices on (between $2 and $5 a piece) and I’ll be selling my bead collection again at 3 pkgs/$1.
AND … here’s a big deal for you blog followers! If you plan to come to Market Day and would like an even better deal than the dish deal I’m already doing, just do a blog post or advertise me in some way and e-mail me or comment on this post with the link to whatever you did. I’ll send you a coupon for the special deal. Ideally, blogging about me is the best, but I know not all of you have blogs, so tweeting about me, my store and my wares is good or whatever works! I just want to get my name out there.
Anyway, that is all for now. I’ll have some more crafty updates as I make things this week.
