You know it’s going to be a fabulous day when you wake up, check your e-mail and see that somebody nice and talented has included you in her etsy treasury.
MimiBird included me on her Birdies Tweet Tweet treasury today. 
Check out the adorable things she picked out. Mine is definitely not the cutest.
Happy Monday! In honor of yesterday’s holiday, I didn’t have to work today. However, I have a whole bunch of crafting to do, so I used today to catch up.
I’ve had some lovely vintage ceramics sitting around the house and I finally had a chance to play with them today. I had a lot of fun with the salt and pepper shakers and the vintage pitcher.
salt and pepper shakers
Floral Party pitcher
Birdies and Coffee Creamer
Birdies and Coffee Mug
I was perusing craftster.org and I came across an image that looked pretty familiar …
Except the totally cute spoon … so cute!
Somebody on craftster.org saw my work and was inspired to create a few cups of her own. So exciting!
A fellow craftster just blogged about my gorgeous yellow water pitcher and some of my other ceramics in the craftster.org blog. I’m really flattered. You should check it out!
It’s not often that I get press, so I’m pretty excited about this.
It’s been a really long time since I’ve painted dishes. I quit for a while a few months back because I have a pretty large inventory and it was taking up most of my kitchen. However, a few of my girls and I were antiquing one day and I found some really great dishes that I just had to snatch up.
Needless to say … whoops! Especially since I’m moving in less than a week … but, oh well. I’ve got more cute dishes!
I found a pretty complete set of pyrex grey dishes, so I’m working on making 4 place-settings with a dinner plate, salad plate, saucer and teacup. I just received some teacups that I ordered off ebay — so I’ll be painting those soon. I have about 12 additional plates to the ones that will make up the 4 place-settings.
My little birdies pattern looks really cute on this set of dishes. It’s simple and not over-powering. It’s also something that can be easily replicated on several pieces so it looks pretty consistent across the board.
I toyed with the idea of making each dish have a different pattern, but I think that idea’s going to go on the backburner and I’m going to try working with a cohesive set first. I also thought about adding a small quote on the pieces, but people are so subjective about text that I thought it best to just stick to a pattern for now.
Check out my Cyber Monday sales on Etsy:
Butterflies in Wonderland Baby or Lap Quilt
OBEY Andre the Giant Men’s Winter Set
Mention the code mrfidgets and receive FREE SHIPPING on any order until December 15.
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.
I’ve got a TON of stuff I have to do this weekend! It’s crazy, but I’m staying in and getting it done!
I’ve got an order for some customized wedding rehearsal dinner invites based on the sunflower invites I listed the other day. It’s going to be a whole package: invites, envelopes, mailing labels, table place cards and tags for favors. I’ve got the invites and labels done. I need to pick an envelope and order it. I am designing the place cards and tags today.
I’ll probably put my string quilt away. I’m getting sick of looking at it and I know I’ll just end up working on that instead of these projects that need to get done.
Anyway, wish me luck. I also need to run sometime today, so hopefully the weather cooperates. I had a bad week for working out and I ate terribly the last 2 weeks…so I’m definitely feeling like BLAH right now.
AND … I’m off!
It’s been a while since I painted dishes, and I am not really feeling the groove. Regardless, here’s some new dishes. This is a set of 8. 14″ plates and 9″ bowls. I was given this set at the last Market Day by a friend of Steph’s.
There’s also a water pitcher, which is what he picked up first… but I haven’t gotten to that yet. I want to do something different with it, and I’m not sure what. That’s the reason it took me so darn long to do this set in the first place, but I decided to go for it tonight.
I’m waiting to hear back from him to see if he wants them. If not, I’ll probably be selling the set at this month’s Market Day...which is coming up FAST. (July 25 for all of you who are interested…which should be all of you. 
I want to come up with something new and fresh… which I have… I just haven’t had time to execute it. I have a 16-piece set of white dishes I bought from a high school friend 2 weeks ago that is definitely turning into the coolest dish set ever, but first, I have to draw it out on paper (I normally don’t do that, but this is going to be totally badass).
I recently participated in a heavy metal swap on craftster.org. This was the first organized craft swap I’ve done through the site, and I think it turned out pretty well.
For those of you who don’t know, basically in a craft swap you decide that you’re going to make a certain number of items and find out a lot of stuff about what your partner likes. Craftster does a lot of themed swaps like the metal swap (next up, MJ swap).
My partner was really into a lot of the same kind of stuff that I was into…Children of Bodom, In Flames, Pantera…etc. But she was a HUGE Maiden fan. I took this as an opportunity to get to listen to some Maiden since I never really gave them a chance. I got really excited about crafting some Maiden stuff since I got kind of into the cheesiness of the music. I decided that I’d only make her maiden stuff so she wouldn’t outgrow it later (like she might have with some of the newer bands).
We decided that it would be fun to make some über-girlie items with a metal theme. She seemed pretty interested in kitchen items, so that’s what I made.
Potholder set (with Eddie and Aces High lyrics on the back)
Grocery Tote Bag
Grocery Bag Dispenser
I tried to make it cute... but it didn't quite work. The inside is a pink floral (the top too) and I quilted the outside with silver...but Eddie's just so fugly.
and…. Breakfast with Lemmy — the one non-maiden item. Mötorhead. Ace of Spades. (what’s with the aces theme??)
I was the first one to send, and my partner was the first one to post her stuff… apparently I rocked the eff out of this craft swap. :) So hopefully I get a rockin’ package in return (actually my partner is sending late b/c she wants to thoroughly rock the eff out of MY package too).
Sooo I’m switching gears and crafting for my all-time favorite musician… Michael Jackson. (okay, here’s where I almost went on a “to those of you who are now riding the MJJ train… seriously get off it” rant…but I restrained myself) You guys all know how I feel about him (or at least you know now…most of you knew before), so yeah, I’m a little bit upset about the whole deal but on the bright side, I’m getting to experience him all over again and am discovering things I never knew existed.
