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Fiiirst of all, I’d like to say happy 25th birthday to my friend, Steph.  If you have a chance, head over to her blog and leave her some love. Or hit her up on twitter.

I finally finished my yellow dinnerware set. I’ve had it since my friend Molly picked it up for me in May.  The yellow fake-estaware dish set.  There were a LOT of pieces to work with. But, I made a 19-piece set and lots of other random items out of it.

Yayy! Another one I can mark off my list …

And in other exciting news, I have a project to add to my WIP list … oops.

I received my sketchbook yesterday for The Sketchbook Project 2011. My theme is “It’ll be fun, I swear”. I think I’ll start with talking about how I thought this project will be fun …I’ll keep you updated on my progress.

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Here’s what I came up with last week during my last-minute-pull-stuff-together-for-Market-Day freakout:

birdies and coffee on corningware (see, I need new designs!) I have 6 of these.  exciting.

musical flowers pink plate

musical flowers yellow plate

teatime with gram turquoise mug — “one lump or two?”

birdies and coffee on white teacup/saucer — I sold this to my boss…and she gave it to her daughter who loves it!

again, with the birdies. I love the fluted edges on this plate though. I want a whole set!

musical flowers on fiestaware

birdies and coffee on yellow fiestaware

musical flowers on more fiestaware

*whew*

That’s it for a while.  I received a water pitcher that I’ll do up…and I’m thinking of doing napkin rings and sewing matching napkins to go with them as well.  I want to start doing more sets rather than just random pieces.

Thanks for looking!

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I’m preparing for my first ever craft show next weekend and I’m upcycling a buttload of vintage ceramics…fiestaware…pyrex…cornin gware, etc. 

Instead of sectioning them out, I decided to dump them all in one post. I hope you don’t mind. I’ll probably have another big post like this next week as well.  I’ve got about 15-20 more pieces to do up between now and then.  

Vintage Johnson Brothers China (ca. 1970s?)

Tea Time with Gram Cup/Saucer

Tea Time with Gram Saucer

Tea Time with Gram Bowl

Tea Time with Gram Plate

Tea Time with Gram Vintage Pyrex (ca. 1960s-1970s?)

Tea Time with Gram Cup and Saucer

Tea Time with Gram Cups and Saucers (outside) 

Tea Time with Gram Cups and Saucers (inside)

Birdies and Coffee on Vintage Pyrex

Birdies and Coffee Cups and Saucers

Birdies and Coffee Cups and Saucers

Vintage Fiestaware (ca. 1970s and 1950s for Radioactive Red plate)

Saturday Morning Cereal Bowls

Flower Fiesta Bowls

Flower Fiesta Plate

Birdies and Coffee on Pfaltzgraff Stoneware 

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I just had a post about how I started crafting on ceramics. WELL… I made the mistake of going to an antique store to see about getting some cheap dishes to revamp and I discovered… FIESTAWARE!

love it.

Apparently people collect it and if it’s not beat up it goes for about $40 a plate (literally). The guy who checked out at the antique store before me spent $150 on two tumblers the size of double-shot glasses.

Either way…it’s perfect for what I want to do.    I ended up buying 3 plates, 2 cups & saucers and 4 bowls. Weeeee that will be fun.  My purchases, I’m happy to say, didn’t add up to even a third of what that guy paid (whew!). I figure fiestaware collectors aren’t going to want to buy it with my sketchies all over it..so might as well go for the stuff that’s deemed “not good enough” to warrant a $50 price tag. Honestly… I don’t see the difference. I think there was a piece I have that has a little scratch from probably a fork on it, but really, I’m crafting with it so I can cover that (kind of like covering a tattoo!).

I’ve also been ebaying lately and picked up a few other dishes that I plan to craft and throw up on Etsy.

I’ve also FINALLY found my set of pyrex dishes. I found some for cheap on ebay and got the final bowl to complete my nesting bowl collection..well I bought all 4 I guess…so I’ll have multiple of 3 of them, but oh well. I use them A LOT.  Then I can get rid of my plastic mixing bowls.

I was missing the biggest bowl I do believe. Nots ure if my current bowls are the same or opposite (ie: smallest is green with white flowers instead...and I think that's right, so really, I'll have 7 different bowls YAY!)

some random findings from the Spring Blossoms collection

Anyway, that is all for now. I’m excited to get started with this!

ALSO… if one of my photographically-inclined friends would like to help me out with photographing my creations to put on Etsy… I would be much abliged (and  you’ll get a fantastic creation in exchange for your services).  I have the skills…but I’m too lazy and I don’t have a good place to setup the photos OR lighting.

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