tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34302825101652886812024-02-08T05:51:26.238-08:00Make A Thing A WeekToo Many Toastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584200863025817452noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430282510165288681.post-2547897967811651412011-02-22T06:57:00.000-08:002011-02-22T06:57:48.164-08:00Week 26And now I'm officially up to date, finally :)<br />
So here's another pair of the star earrings, because why not. These are red and silver with black beads and look awesome.<br />
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If you like them, <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/68626908/red-and-silver-star-earrings">take 'em home</a>Too Many Toastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584200863025817452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430282510165288681.post-25382847633218232642011-02-22T06:53:00.000-08:002011-02-23T09:19:59.205-08:00Week 25Week 25's Thing is a pair of sparkly star earrings, made from star sequins and seed beads. I want to make like a zillion more of these just because I like the stacking effect of the stars and beads. Sparkly!<br />
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Sparkle up an outfit <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/68613886/blue-and-purple-star-earrings">with these earrings</a>Too Many Toastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584200863025817452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430282510165288681.post-54082025584773559682011-02-22T06:33:00.000-08:002011-02-22T06:33:52.107-08:00Week 24Right before the weather turns all the way to spring, when it's starting to get super windy and a regular hat will get blown off your head, here is a snug fitting warm hat that's super cool. It's guaranteed to stay on your head (hey, it stays on mine and I have a tiny, grape sized child head) Also, you'll never be lost in a crowd, it's nuclear green. I love it.<br />
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You know you <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/68612896/biohazard-hat">need this hat</a><br />
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Human tested, robot approved.Too Many Toastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584200863025817452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430282510165288681.post-56968847053366804522011-02-22T06:26:00.000-08:002011-02-22T06:26:34.611-08:00Week 23And here's Week 23! This Week's Thing was made to be silly. It's an emo whale with flippy spout/hair. I love it, he's really good at headbanging too. And go check out the etsy listing even if you don't plan to buy it. He's huggably stuffed to just the right amount.<br />
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<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/68611347/emo-whale">Go get him!</a>Too Many Toastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584200863025817452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430282510165288681.post-30858575652285944522011-02-22T06:15:00.000-08:002011-02-22T06:15:47.189-08:00Week 22(After a chunk of non-uploading, MTW is back. And my living room is totally renovated too. I can't believe I ripped up every square inch of that awful carpet)<br />
This Week's Thing is a pair of tiny key earrings. I love keys and have a random assortment of them in a box around somewhere. But I had several of these tiny ones so I made some earrings out of them.<br />
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If you like what you see, <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/68610850/tiny-key-earrings"> order them now</a> :)Too Many Toastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584200863025817452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430282510165288681.post-9946686691232903192011-01-19T08:01:00.000-08:002011-01-19T08:01:56.812-08:00Week 21Wow, 21 Weeks already! Almost halfway through my year of Making Things. Today's Thing is a little pair of owls. I made something like 15 of these for christmas ornaments a couple years ago, but I still had the pattern so here are 2 more. This project fulfilled 2 objectives; Make a Thing a Week and use up the last bits of my flame fabric that were too small for most other crafty uses. <br />
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If you like them, <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/66264906/orange-and-blue-flaming-owls">take them home</a>Too Many Toastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584200863025817452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430282510165288681.post-2895855709395838962011-01-13T20:33:00.000-08:002011-01-13T20:33:15.091-08:00Week 20Wow, 20 weeks of making a Thing a week :) This Week's Thing is a narwhal! It was originally going to be a bag but turned out better as just stuffed and cuddly. Although I do have narwhal bag designs in the works. <br />
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<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/65893774/cuddly-narwhal">take him home</a>!Too Many Toastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584200863025817452noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430282510165288681.post-25134019755634603202011-01-06T07:39:00.000-08:002011-01-06T07:39:14.416-08:00Week 19While it's still cold out, I'll crank out some more hats. This one was inspired by a tattoo actually. It's all fleece again with little sequins at the ends of the "pins".<br />
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I love this hat :) You can <a href="http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b230/pocketgoldfish2/Make%20a%20Thing%20a%20Week/mtw019.jpg">love it too</a>Too Many Toastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584200863025817452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430282510165288681.post-67821251367116726342010-12-30T08:30:00.000-08:002010-12-30T08:30:45.194-08:00Week 18Aaaaaaaaaand this brings me up to date with the holiday craziness. More record earrings with sequins. This is what happens when I spend all my free hours sewing presents for christmas; too busy for Make a Thing, but only temporarily! <br />
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get them <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/64976177/cut-record-and-sequin-earrings">here</a> if you like what you seeToo Many Toastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584200863025817452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430282510165288681.post-5492570128864142022010-12-30T08:25:00.000-08:002010-12-30T08:25:26.939-08:00Week 17Week 17th's Thing is a pair of little bell earrings :) I love tiny things! This is sort of a holiday themed pair, but not so much that they can't be worn whenever I guess. I do apologize for the awful pun I wrote in the etsy description, hehehe.<br />
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<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/64973543/tiny-bell-earrings">here they are</a> on etsyToo Many Toastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584200863025817452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430282510165288681.post-60342274820568991302010-12-30T08:20:00.000-08:002010-12-30T08:20:33.193-08:00Week 16Here comes the 16th Thing, more neat little record earrings. These aren't super dangly, just the right amount. And since the week before christmas Target's been getting ready to move onto Valentine's day so maybe these aren't too early for that. <br />
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You can buy them <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/64923730/heart-cut-record-earrings"> here</a>Too Many Toastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584200863025817452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430282510165288681.post-92119047125365787312010-12-27T20:25:00.000-08:002010-12-27T20:25:06.914-08:00hey you guys!Make a Thing a Week will be back to regularly scheduled postings by wednesday of this week (including the 2 past weeks of Things not posted due to holidays)<br />
But in the meantime, look here! My blog is featured in <a href="http://makesomething365.blogspot.com/2010/12/make-thing-week.html">365: Make Something Everyday and Change Your Life</a>Too Many Toastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584200863025817452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430282510165288681.post-72444374000358418352010-12-10T07:17:00.000-08:002010-12-10T07:17:29.184-08:00Week 15Week 15 is only a little late (christmas excitement!) which I sort of have no excuse for because I did crank out loads of earrings to make up for holiday rush. This week's Thing is a pair of monkey earrings made from the Barrel of Monkeys. I made 3 sets of these, all identical, and the monkeys are turned so that they look good as a pair and you don't have one good monkey and one backwards monkey.<br />
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Earrings are for sale <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/64040331/barrell-o-monkeys-earrings">on etsy</a>, yeyToo Many Toastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584200863025817452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430282510165288681.post-68283129149176771332010-12-01T19:22:00.000-08:002010-12-01T19:22:37.942-08:00Week 14And here's Week 14 with another pair of earrings (I made loads of 'em in anticipation of being super busy with christmas projects). These are my second favorites after the rubber chickens and are suuuuper dangley. The gators themselves are a bit over 2 inches long and hang from french hooks. <br />
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If you like them, <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/63432584/alligator-dangle-earrings">you know what to do</a> :)Too Many Toastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584200863025817452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430282510165288681.post-35152078740153664842010-11-29T17:22:00.000-08:002010-11-29T17:22:27.925-08:00Week 13At last, after a short holiday break, here is Week 13! This week's Thing is a pair of dangley chicken earrings. This is my favorite of the several pairs of earrings I made recently, so it seems fitting to list them first. Also, I made some snappy packaging for all the earrings; everything is mounted on cardstock with the etsy store name on it and a little graphic on the bottom. Lookin' fancy!<br />
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xmas is just around the corner, buy <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/63269559/rubber-chicken-earrings">chicken earrings</a> here!Too Many Toastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584200863025817452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430282510165288681.post-29638380786356269832010-11-24T07:00:00.000-08:002010-11-24T07:00:14.067-08:00This Week's Thing will be postponed to the weekend due to holiday traveling and excitement. Have a great Thanksgiving everyone!<br />
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Buy <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/62124693/sugar-skull-serged-scarf">sugar skull scarf</a> here!<br />
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I've been messing around with the Make a Ting a Week blog layout too. The top header is little slices of finished projects (bags, scarves, embroideries, costumes, pj pants, a corset, etc) and I'm working out a better background image but for now this one will work.Too Many Toastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584200863025817452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430282510165288681.post-11625466940682549342010-11-10T06:58:00.000-08:002010-11-10T06:58:14.010-08:00Week 11Welcome to Week 11! Enjoy something PINK! I got the fabric for these legwarmers on a trip to Philly with my good buddy <a href="http://craftyladyabby.blogspot.com/">Crafty Lady Abby</a> and made loads of fluffy things and still have scads of the stuff leftover. <br />
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You can buy the <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/61381832/fluffy-pink-legwarmers">screaming pepto-pink legwarmers</a> on etsy!<br />
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And just for fun, look what my surprisingly crafty husband <a href="http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b230/pocketgoldfish2/molastuffedpanels.jpg">made for me</a> for our wedding anniversary! You know how much I love a mola mola :)Too Many Toastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584200863025817452noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430282510165288681.post-11182157562098827522010-11-04T06:48:00.000-07:002010-11-04T06:48:04.567-07:00Week 10For Week 10, I made another hat (as it's getting to be hat weather already). This one has a neon orange mohawk just for the hell of it :P <br />
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Buy the <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/60780094/mohawk-hat">mohawk hat</a>!<br />
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Still awaiting results of the Scarecrow contest I entered and also a pumpkin carving contest. Why is it taking so long, I'm impatient :PToo Many Toastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584200863025817452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430282510165288681.post-8717992323790711232010-10-27T19:02:00.000-07:002010-10-27T19:02:00.419-07:00Week 9And yes, even though I'm uploading it mere minutes after Week 8, here is Week 9's Thing; an awesome tie dye scarf serged onto fleece backing. Just the thing to keep you warm and maybe a little bit green too as the tie dye part was upcycled from a great thrift store pillowcase find. I washed the daylights out of it, the tie dye is printed on the cotton so it doesn't fade out or bleed. <br />
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Buy <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/60147318/tie-dye-serged-scarf">tie dye scarf!</a>Too Many Toastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584200863025817452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430282510165288681.post-41908395090699138642010-10-27T18:57:00.000-07:002010-10-27T18:57:10.361-07:00Week 8 (at last!)So being the complete genius that I am, I didn't account for sickness in the course of making a thing a week. I usually don't get sick often anyways :P<br />
So here is the late Week 8 Thing; the monster bag!<br />
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Buy grumpy monster bag <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/60146876/grumpy-monster-bag">here!</a>Too Many Toastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584200863025817452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430282510165288681.post-39794984998454557942010-10-21T11:40:00.000-07:002010-10-21T11:40:19.326-07:00quick updateWeek 8 will be temporarily postponed as I have spent the last 2 days sleeping in the bathroom trying to get over this stomach bug. Sorry for the beautiful imagery >__< Week 8 is halfway done, I started on it before getting sick.
Some good news though: I had 2 etsy sales yesterday! I'm mailing them tomorrow because I can't make it to the post office today. It can't hurt that Make a Thing a Week is now updating on <a href="http://kitmcsmash.deviantart.com/">DeviantArt</a> as well as facebook, twitter, and here.Too Many Toastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584200863025817452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430282510165288681.post-83777046506662498462010-10-13T15:22:00.000-07:002010-10-13T15:22:40.461-07:00Week 7Welcome Mr Angryteeth! This was actually a previously made project for a previous Make a Thing that didn't get off the ground as well. I spent the past 2 weeks doing a massive reorganization of the sewing room and it's finally 97% done. Also with Halloween, a commission, and my 2nd wedding anniversary coming up (2 years is cotton, so I've been sewing my butt off) I've been a busy little craft monkey. I really want to make a bag of some kind for an upcoming Thing. But I'm getting off track again, here's Mr Angryteeth:<br />
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and as always, you can <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/58895327/mr-angryteeth">buy him here</a>.Too Many Toastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584200863025817452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430282510165288681.post-52410055028732320442010-10-06T19:19:00.000-07:002010-10-06T19:19:11.093-07:00Week 6Since this week it suddenly turned chilly in VA I decided to make a hat. Oh, but not just any hat, an owl hat! It's cute AND warm and for sale. There will be more of these hats in the future, oh yes :)<br />
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you can buy <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/58310167/owl-hat">owl hat here</a><br />
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Oh! And if you have the chance before halloween, <a href="http://www.lakesideavenue.net/page14.html">go vote for my scarecrow</a>! Mine is the first one in the second row with the burgundy shirt, stuffed animals all over it, and the "Pet Center" sign in the background.Too Many Toastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584200863025817452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430282510165288681.post-4440167415871462492010-09-29T17:41:00.000-07:002010-09-29T17:41:48.427-07:00Week 5This weeks Thing is 2 Things! I'm definitely working on more but my fingers were killing me. I just finished a big project for work which involved tons of sewing (and I don't even have a sewing job, haha) and it involved a bunch of hand-sewing of parts together. ANYWAYS, these Things are cute little fleece barrettes; a pterodactyl and my absolute favorite fish ever in the world - the ocean sunfish (mola mola)<br />
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I very nearly made a school of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mola_mola">mola mola</a>, and was actually watching a David Attenborough documentary on deep ocean waters while I made it. I want to make more! Ok, getting distracted again!<br />
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You can but the <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/57671935/cuddly-pterodactyl-barrette">pterodactyl here</a> and the <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/57672407/nearly-the-greatest-mola-mola-barrette">mola mola here</a>!Too Many Toastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12584200863025817452noreply@blogger.com0