A Brand New Bag & The Bracelets!

Soon to be listed on Etsy...and by soon i mean probably tomorrow...is this bag! It's made out of one of the coolest vintage fabrics i've ever found and it has abstract sailboats in amazing neon colors! I have a good amount of fabric left, so i hope to make one for myself, though i can honestly say that i never really take the time to do that.



While making it, i was watching Full House- Season 1 and came across one of my favorite episodes EVER, in which DJ & Kimmy form their own band called The Bracelets!

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Here's a new Purple Bow Bag that i made last night! The fabric is this crazy neon purple and neon red printed corduroy that's totally obnoxious, but in a good way. Unless of course you're one of those folks who is completely horrifed by dayglo colors...or color in general. (It's okay, i wear a lot of black). The picture below is of Emily, who i met back in April when i had a trunk show at Best Friends Boutique in Phoenixville, PA. As you can see, she purchased the green and purple leopard print Bow Bag.





Also, here are some new Keyboard Pouches i made using really thick vintage sheets with a large floral print, and a custom Boombox Pouch i made for Ryan. He picked out this boombox, a yellow zipper and matching lining, and the back is made out of bright green wool with a navy blue grid pattern.



There's not much else to report here for today. Tomorrow, Ryan and I will be heading over to our local Etsy Street Team meeting for the first time ever and going to see 30 Days of Night, which i am DYING to see. Woohoo!

First Attempt at First Friday

Last night, The Boyfriend and i went to First Friday in the city for the first time ever. We walked around and saw some art, but it was so hot out that we weren't there very long. My favorite work was by Ben Tour at the Lineage Gallery, and you can see some of it if by visiting here. There was an artist set up on the sidewalk who was selling these painted metal sculptures, and i loved them all! I had a hard time choosing and settled on this one, which is funny because it just happens to have my name on it.

*Edit- The girl below was made by a husband and wife team, Morton Art Emporium. I just found their Myspace page.



A few months ago, my aunt stopped by to drop off a binding machine that her company was getting rid of. So, the other night i ran to Staples and bought a pack of plastic binding combs, so i could fiddle around with this new gadget. I set out to make myself a small mailing list book that i could just put onto my table at shows and flea markets, because i usually just bring a few pieces of paper and then end up having no room to set them out.



For the cover, I used some neon ILIKEITTOOTOO printed paper over some spare watercolor paper i had lying around. To fill up the book, i used regular notebook paper and paper from a partially used journal that had blue, green, and yellow gridded pages. I then hand stamped each page with a magnetic letter stamp set.



Here's what it looks like now:



I can't wait until the next flea market so i can use it!

To quote The Boyfriend, "sKullz R keWl, LoLZ!!!1!"

So, my plans sort of got messed up yesterday and i didn't get to start work on the garage. I was online A LOT and kept checking the forums on Etsy, and actually started promoting my blog and such. I did step out to drop some packages off at the post office and took my mom to one of her favorite stores, which i usually cannot stand, and got these funny little folks:

"Stan the Strong Man"


"Sweet Tooth Ruth"


They're Halloween ornaments that i thought were just too cute and funny and they were super cheap, so now they're on my red shelf full of other cute, colorful, and obnoxious things.

On a productive note, I set out to Gocco-print some skull notecards (which i did a while back but the screen got effed up), but printed some for stickers instead. I used the same neon paper, AGAIN, and printed skulls with black ink, ran the skulls through the Xyron and then cut them out by hand.





There are 5 each of 6 colors, and right now i'm trying to figure out how to package and price them. Any suggestions?

Color Saturated Saturday

Today, Ryan and I headed to Jersey to hit up the Goodwill and to go to a flea market. I didn't really feel like sifting through all the crap at Goodwill and almost immediately got all stuffy and felt gross. I did manage to find this crazy-colored plastic statuette of two kids looking like they're about to kiss. I love it so much that i might make it the official ILIKEITTOOTOO mascot. Not that i really need a mascot or whatever.



Apparantly it was an off day at the flea market because there weren't too many vendors set up. Some family members of mine had suggested i purchase a space to see if i can squeak out a few sales, but i'm not sure people are willing to shell out the bucks for handmade stuff when there are crazy bargains everywhere.

Even though Saturday wasn't the most bumpin' day at the flea market, i got a few things. Here's my haul:

Super strong plastic magnetic flower hooks:
2 packs of 8 Magnets


Large "Skull-Knocker" Earrings:


And!

An embarassing amount of Nylon stud earrings:
Dots, Teardrops, Flowers, Hearts, etc, etc, ETC! These will be added to my Punk Rock Flea Market deadstock earring inventory


Oh, i also got the newest issue of Craft: Magazine at this vendor who sells current and recent issues of tons of different magazines at a few $$$ off regular price. Sweet!