When I was moving, I uncovered these fabulous dishes I was working on back in 2009. I totally forgot about them, but am hoping to finish them before Craft Saturday on April 30.
Except … I have no idea what to put in the ribbon on the hearts. There are 4 plates that need something filled in and I plan to make the mugs to match. I was going to do Mom, Dad, Love and something else, but realized if a family that didn’t have a mom, or didn’t have a dad might want these dishes and be offended. My best idea so far is to keep it blank and personalize it for the person who buys it, but that’s not probably the BEST way to go about it.
I am so going to sound like a used car salesman, but EVERYTHING MUST GO!
Okay, maybe not that annoying. But still — 40-60% off everything in the store.
I’m doing this for a few reasons.
1) I am moving. And I would like to deplete my inventory before I do so.
2) I am creating my spring 2011 line of dishes and want all of last year’s line gone
3) I am going to revamp my etsy store with new photography and package things all fancy and fabulous
So check it out. Oh also, free domestic shipping with the code “FREEBIRD”.
She’s gettin’ a tattoo yeah, she’s gettin’ ink done.
Wow that’s an old song.
Anyway, I posted a while back about beautiful body art, and I’m excited to say that I’m now the proud owner of some. I’m going back to get a couple of things added and a little touchup work with the pink. He didn’t want to overwork the skin because he knew I was going for a lighter look — I wanted this to look almost like watercolor.
I’m kind of excited to see how it heals. It’s pretty awesome. Looks like brush strokes just the way I wanted it.
For those of you who don’t know, I’m participating in the Art House Coop’s Sketchbook Project this year. That’s what the little doo-hickey on my sidebar is all about.
I received my sketchbook last week. My theme is “It’ll be fun, I swear.”
So far, I’ve just been playing around with simple pen drawings and watercolor. I’m going to try to make it more about hand-lettering than anything.
Here’s some photos of my progress for this week. I’m going to scan each page in when they’re finished so I have a digital copy since I have to mail it in and they get to keep it in their archives. It will travel across the country. How cool is that?
Right now I’m keeping it on my kitchen table so I can work on it while I’m cooking dinner rather than munching on things. Good plan, eh?
Regular price: $15
Sale Price: $10
5 custom designs Available (below are examples of banners I’ve done)
You can e-mail me at calee@chimesdesign.com or PM me on twitter (@chimes) OR convo me on etsy if you’ve got questions, concerns or special requests.
ALSO — heads up! I’ll be doing Market Day in Des Moines on July 25th and will be having a special that day ONLY at Market Day. All dishes will be buy one, get one half off. I may be cooking up some more specials, and even a raffle or giveaway… STAY TUNED!
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.
I’m preparing for my first ever craft show next weekend and I’m upcycling a buttload of vintage ceramics…fiestaware…pyrex…corningware, 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)
A while back I bought a buttload of dishware. I finally got around to making some things AND taking photos of them.
I’m too lazy to repost everything since I just posted this all on etsy and craftster…so here’s some photos.
Upcycled with some lace
Gotta have my morning tea!
...even if it's neon yellow!
I based this on Michael Miller's Lava Flowers fabric collection. Cup/Saucer are from The Cellar for Macy's in Casper.
another cup from my parents' collection (stains from easter egg coloring on the inside) — if anybody wants this, let me know — I won't sell it on etsy because of the Easter egg color stains!
not sure how else to describe this. Started with a lace pattern and tried coloring it in. Just a LITTLE bit much for me.
Sketchies on a Glading McBean Franciscan El Patio plate
red on the outside, white on the inside. definitely one of my favs!
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