Friday, September 21, 2007
a handmade friday edition
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Ok so i have some of everything for you. Some handmade stuff from etsy and some from renegade to share with you. The best of both worlds! yay!
But first briefly, i bet you are all wondering what exactly stayed in vegas (for those who live abroad there’s an advertising slogan for vegas..what happens in vegas..stays in vegas)
the answer would be BAD BREATH!! Yay! I bought this tin of mints and a mug (stays at nat’s) and yes i do like stuff with my name on it.
I’m glad y’all like my pictures of type, i didn’t know anyone else finds them intresting other than me or say..nat. so thanks for the compliments on them. There will be plenty of vegas, type, and our tour of rocks mext week.
in the meantime i’ve got some etsy stuff for you.
Nell over at Chicken Knits has a shop called Brown Bag Soaps. And you should go buy some of the Somali Rose clay soap. It is THAT good folks. She warned me it would turn me away from that liquid soap/shower puff and cause a revolution in my shower...i should have known cause she was right. She’s also been cooking up some new soaps to be for sale after they cure!
You know i like cheap jewelry that i can afford but looks intresting too. So i hit up Simply Modern With pieces weighing in at $6 you can’t go wrong. I got two.
she even signs the back of them
they are small and really cute and you can’t beat the price and quality.
Next i got some GO CHICAGO BEARS sock yarn from Yarn Magnet She’s been dying up yarn in several teams colors and i think she’s got a good marketing idea. love it. (go bears beat dallas sunday!)
Next i am very happy to announce a new stitch marker person! Y’all who order from us know i like to promote etsy stitchmarker makers. Well. look what came.
Meet amanda. She is the daughter of kimberly from dragonlady designs. She is 14 and already making up some crafty items. I bought several of her halloween themed markers for our upcoming project bags with all the skulls (and she has RIP markers how approriate for knitters!). Even though these are a bit heavier as markers i think the craftwomanship that went intot hem is superb. And don’t you want to support a 14yr old?? go check her out!
ok now for some stuff i bought at Renegade Craft Fair Chicago.
My favorite HANDS DOWN this year went to THE POST CARD MACHINE. now i didn’t find a website for her yet. BUT i did find this you tube video link of what the machine did. It was a brilliant idea, hard to get people “into it” but nat and i totally got into it. The machine talked to us and even sympathized with me at one moment. We picked machine’s choice and got these two nice cards (seriously watch the video folks she’s in a box made to look like a vending machine and she talked to people it was GREAT!)
Next i was very very happy to see my FAVORITE letterpress studio that was missing at flatstock this year was represented at renegade. YeeHaw Industries! I basically made my major purchases there and only bought 2 more things. i was set.
So if any of you have read this blog for some time you’d know i’m a type nerd and i love luchas. I collect letter pressed luchas if at all possible. check out my two newest cards to hang on my wall.
I’m also a notebook junkie. I bought a few of these off their website and gave them away, got a new one!
mmmmm look at that letterpress you can FEEL it mmmmmm
and bought this shirt fromt hem as well SCORE!
next stop the t-shirtproject. y’all know how much i love dogs. yep another shirt.
and last purchase...was from SEIBEI this guys drawings made me laugh. Also someone stole 2600$ from them on sunday and it breaks my heart. to know people were just stealing from vendors. The booth next to ours said a few items of hers were taken late afternoon sunday and SEIBEI said when they were breaking down someone just stole their cash box. But anyways check it out:
it’s on navy blue..sun makes it dark. i LOVE this shirt. And i love etsy. they were there!
i bought nat a etsy zine and i got this stuff. Nat got me a little pink and brown hand stitched dog, i don’t know the vendor cause it’s at nat’s apt.
i also wore one of my sister’s creations all day and want to keep this pretty bracelet. the giant shell is quite pretty on yer wrist and made with help so it’s green too!
ok now go check some of these sellers and sites out and get yourself some good handmade stuff too...and AND WATCH THAT POSTCARD MACHINE LINK VIDEO! I’ll be back next week with a whole slew of vegas photos, and our tour of rocks. have a good weekend!
Posted by Jennifer on 09/21 at 11:06 AM ♥ Comments (11)
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2. left this comment on 09/21 at 03:47 PM:
Wow! What great stuff :) I love the t-shirts!
It totally sucks that people were stealing from the vendors!!! I just don’t understand what’s wrong with people :(
3. left this comment on 09/21 at 03:48 PM:
Thanks for the shout out! I really appreciate it!
And I love that blue bird pendant. That’s so pretty. Great T-shirts too. I love etsy. There’s so much creativity out there.
4. left this comment on 09/21 at 05:37 PM:
Dude, that SUCKS about the theft.
But I am **so** glad I watched the postcard machine vid!! I was howling (well, donkey laughing!) and my son asked me what was wrong, I was crying laughing too hard.
I bought an etsy bandana from etsylabs.etsy.com for a friend, they’re cool! I really love your linkshare today-- the handpainted pendants! the dino sandwich tee!! I’m resisting, barely.
5. left this comment on 09/21 at 05:59 PM:
I massively love the postcard machine. I bet that was very very cool! :)
6. left this comment on 09/21 at 06:48 PM:
What cool stuff!
I cannot get over that Postcard Machine--it’s great! Is it coming out east anytime soon?
7. left this comment on 09/21 at 07:38 PM:
Those thieves racked up some major bad karma for themselves. The postcard machine is a riot. And I’m still pouting that I had to miss the whole thing. I can see if I’m going next year, I should start saving money now for all the stuff that will tempt me. Love all the etsy goodies , esp. those pendants. Six bucks!!
ps. watch your mailbox!
8. left this comment on 09/21 at 09:22 PM:
I so almost bought that Make Me A Sandwich shirt. :)
9. left this comment on 09/21 at 10:30 PM:
hey, have i told you how much you rock? i FINALLY gave my girlfriend her bag last night. she freaked! she loves it sooo much she even took it to work today to show her corporate-type coworkers, who agreed it is seriously cool.
yay us!
10. left this comment on 09/23 at 04:40 AM:
oh my, where do I start!!! too many cool things to look at!!!!! Looks like you had a fabby time while you were away and what ace buys. Such a shame nasties take advantage of these places to steal stuff..karma will get them ;)
11. left this comment on 09/24 at 06:57 AM:
that is so sad about the theft - what is up with some people?????
all that stuff is great - I love browsing around all the links you put up!!!
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1. Erika left this comment on 09/21 at 02:35 PM:
Wow! Cute stuff!
Boo! Theives.
I’ll watch you tube at home (bad enough I’m reading blogs at work.)
You’d best tell me when the knitting skull stuff is available. Or else! (and I can’t believe you & your stuff was gone while the husband was trying to get out of the dog house!!!!!!!!!!)