ILIKEITTOOTOO Handmade Goods- Now available at Mew Gallery in South Philly!

This past weekend Ryan and i were so crazy busy, that i didn't even have a second to update this here thing. Saturday was the Lancaster Punk Rock Flea Market and Sunday was the Mew Gallery Art Extravaganza and both were super fun, aside from me not getting enough sleep and it being so uncomfortably hot on Sunday.

This is just a mini-post of sorts, but i just wanted to mention that I'm now officially consigning my work! My work is actually in a store! During the Art Extravaganza, the girls from Mew each picked out a handful of stuff they wanted for their store, for a whopping total of 36 items! This is super exciting and hopefully my stuff will do okay, but for now i'm going to get some rest!

More On My Plate

Back in July, i painted myself a piano key/keyboard peg rack to be used in my workspace. On a recent shopping trip, The Boyfriend found a whole bunch of small, wooden, wall-mounted coat racks...somewhat similar to these...and suggested that i paint some to sell. I'm not sure if anyone would be interested in them, but i'd have fun painting them and i think they'd turn out pretty cute. So, i bought a few and will be working on them before the flea market comes around.



I'm going to be working on so many different projects the next few weeks, it's crazy!

Shopping Rules. Humidity Does Not.

It is hot like DEATH outside, which made running todays errands totally unpleasant. To make matters worse, my little car doesn't have air conditioning! Well, technically, it does, but it just doesnt like to work. I put gas in the car, ran to the post office to drop off some packages, then went to a nearby thrift store in hopes for some good finds.

There really wasn't anything too exciting. There was a cool looking wooden tray that i would've bought to refurbish, but as soon as i picked it up, it had a really weird, nasty smell coming from it. Unfortunately, the smell stayed on my hand as i continued looking around. Gross! So, todays thrift store haul included a black 80's clutch, a science book, and some sheet music books which i plan on turning into buttons. I don't own my own button maker yet...yet being the key word here...so i'm going to cut them out by hand and send them over to ChristineRenee at Etsy. I'll probably frame the "Fingerpower" cover.



SIDENOTE: Here are some other soon-to-be-buttons that i cut out late last night.



After thrifting, i went to one of my favorite dollar stores just to look around. I'm always on the lookout for bright plastic containers and bins, so much so that i think i actually have too many, so i held off on that. Nearly everything i purchased was pink- a neon pink brush and mini dust pan set for cleaning up my work surface, a bubblegum pink picture frame that i was going to use to frame my Menta print...it's actually a bit too small, but that's okay...and some silver stretch foil wrapping paper with pink stripes that is super tacky -aka- super awesome. The only thing that wasn't pink was this treble clef napkin holder, which also makes the most perfect ILIKEITTOOTOO postcard holder.



I have been actively promoting and blogging like crazy these days, and i almost feel incomplete when i don't update. Unfortunately, I've been neglecting my poor sewing machine, but that'll change since i have the Lancaster Punk Rock Flea Market coming up on October 6. It's nearly a two hour drive, but the first one went so well and everyone was super friendly, so of course i signed up to do it again. If all goes well, i will have new gocco-printed pouches and notecards, recycled journals, plus the usual.