Since I’m feeling sassy, I’m having a February $5 off sale on all my wallets on etsy!  Also — if you follow me on twitter or if you found this sale through my blog, convo me and I’ll give you free shipping on your wallet.

Check it out!

Oversized Clutch Wallet — $35

Funky Patchwork Wallet — $25

Wonderland Patchwork Wallet — $15

Funky Patchwork Wallet — $15

Funky Patchwork Wallet — $15

Large Park Slope Patchwork Wallet — $20

Large Park Slope Frog Closure Wallet — $20

Medium Echino Wallet — $15

Enjoy!!

Check out my Cyber Monday sales on Etsy:

Birdies and Coffee Cup

Flower Fiesta Bowl (Gold)

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.

I feel as if I may be neglecting my blog lately. Life has been busy and some surprises have recently caught me off guard.

However, I’m feeling kind of sassy today, so I’m announcing a Post-Labor Day Sale. Right now it encompasses one item: my hard rock quilt.

POST-LABOR DAY SALE Deconstructed Heavy Metal, Rock and Punk T Shirt quilt FREE SHIPPING

POST-LABOR DAY SALE Regular price: $125 Sale Price: $85 ——- This hardcore punky quilt is made from a collection of rock, punk and metal t-shirts. It’s embellished with fabric paint and embroidery. A deconstructivist approach was used to create this unique piece of art. T-shirts include: Slipknot Korn Static-X CGBG Lynyrd Skynyrd The Misfits … and many more Quilt measures 45×45 inches and the batting is warm and natural. The quilting is a traditional pattern and is in a slate grey thread. The binding is slate grey with a black backing. Fabric (aside from t-shirts) is 100% cotton. T-shirts are vintage and well-loved.

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 been up since 4:30 and I’ve got a few things I still need to do in preparation for Market Day.

I decided last Sunday to make some clutches.  And by some, I mean 18.  And I managed to forget to sew on a closure to 3 of them. Unlike some things I make, the closure has to be sewn as part of an earlier step in the process on these.  I decided to use a frog closure on the ones I forgot to sew the original closure on, but I couldn’t find 2 small white closures for the last 2 bags, so I’ll be finishing those later.

Here’s my bounty of clutches/wallets/envelope purses:

and last-minute yesterday, I decided to finally mark my fabric scraps that I don’t want. I realized I didn’t want people unfolding them and such (would be utter chaos) so I used scraps of another fabric to wrap them. Most of the fabrics I’m selling don’t go with the scrap fabric I use to wrap them with, but these two looked pretty cute wrapped.

awwwww. adorable.  I’m putting those on the top of the pile.

Anywho, gotta do those last-minute things and shower and get ready to head out. Want to get there by 7 AM.

In honor of the 3-day weekend and of our forefathers… I’m having an Etsy sale! As always, shipping to Des Moines and Ames is free, just contact me beforehand to arrange a pickup/dropoff.

Feel free to share this around!

Here are items that are on sale:
Wonderland Quilt

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27132485

Lotsa Hearts Bag

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26505809

Flowers and Music White Fiestaware Cup/Saucer

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25808834

Birdies and Coffee Cup

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25807559

Flower Fiesta Bowls

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25796749

Tea Time with Gram Cup and Saucer

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25796541

Birdies and Coffee Cup and Saucer

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25796407

Custom Etsy Banner/Avatar

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=22289621

I’ll have more later, but here’s the quickie recap.

Edit: Here’s a photo from Kelly

Yay! Lotsa dishes and some heavy metal t-shirts...and randomly...my guitar.

Here’s some photos from Steph:

I got to Market Street Media Foundry a lot later than I wanted to because all the roads downtown were blocked off for the Dam to Dam race.  I was pretty flustered, so with the addition of caffeine I was kind of going crazy trying to set up. I had no idea how I wanted to set up or what to do…and I was one of the first people there.Fortunately the people next to me got there pretty early and started setting up, so I figured out what to do by watching them a little bit.

Steph came to help, which was a huge relief since I was so flustered. She helped wrap things and take the change for me … which was awesome!

My biggest and fastest selling item was crayons — which I made last week on a whim and haven’t had time to blog about them or post them on craftster. Needless to say, I’m buying a few boxes of crayolas and a few fun muffin pans to make some crayons for next time (July).

I had a lot of people walk by who were interested in the dishes, but then seemed to be scared off by my Slipknot/Korn/Megadeth shirts. I almost sold my Megadeth shirt, but I just couldn’t let it go, so I talked the lady into buying an Iowa State shirt instead. I think I’m going to price the megadeth shirt a bit higher because it’s mostly hand-sewn (which is why I couldn’t get rid of it!).

I sold a lot of all my designs, except the cereal cereal bowls and the flowers on fiestaware. Otherwise, the musical flowers, tea time with gram and the birdies and coffee interested people about equally.  I had a few comments about how it’s sacriligious to paint on fiestaware and one lady who swore I had fake fiestaware (does it matter? I’m painting on it anyway)…but otherwise, no negative comments.

After Steph left there was this really adorable older couple (think: early 80s) that came through. The old man asked me “what’s chiming about tea cups?” so I had to explain that it’s just my name. Then he went on to tell me about a Peanuts mug he had that had a little guy in the bottom that said “I love you” that you only see once you’re done drinking your tea/coffee. That was such a great idea!  I’ll have to keep that in mind. It was fun talking to them and I love cute little elderly couples.

I met a bunch of my twitter peeps I hadn’t met in person before…which is always fun. Shane Reiser met me, then randomly came back about 20 minutes later with a matching light yellow dish set and pitcher.  Awesome!

Things to remember for next time:

1. make a few copies of my “catalog” so maybe people can take it with them — do doublesided to save paper
2. discount some of the designs that didn’t sell last time (cereal bowl, flowers on fiestaware)
3. do a few more of the colored pieces — lava flowers sold well and a lot of people liked the bright tea cup
4. do a lot of crayons!
5. have 2 places for business cards
6. have a sign about custom designs
7. have a few non-t-shirt rock shirts (tubes, corsets)

That’s all I can think of for now. I think things worked out pretty well. The only thing I think was kind of iffy was when I was writing receipts. I wish there was a faster way to do that. I might have to come up with something creative there.

I’ll be listing everything I didn’t sell on Etsy early on this week. I’ve got 2 months until the next Market Day so hopefully I can sell a few pieces between now and then.

That’s all for now. A few people took photos, so when those pop up, I’ll be posting them.