birdies!

adorable birdie bunting up in my shop now!

Belle of the Ball

I don't really do a shop update entry often (because I'm not very good at selling myself)...but...this lovely lady and 4 of her friends are now listed for sale over in my Etsy shop!

where i realize i don't blog every day

My last post was about how I've decided to do the craft-a-day challenge...then I remembered that I don't blog every day! No worries, though. Even if I dash off a short entry, I will be posting. I've been wanting to get into this blog a little more anyhow.

My partner-in-crime and I have started a shop on Etsy destashing a lot of our supplies (!). She found these vintage tins and we turned them into card kits. They were in dire need of remaking as they were rusty!

This was yesterdays kit: a Christmas tin:


This was today's, a love spell kit:



Of course, I have to plug our new shop. If you are in need of supplies, hit us up!

i love buttons

Once on Ebay a long, long while ago I bought 5 (FIVE) large sized priority mail boxes of buttons. Some new, some vintage. Thousands of buttons. I sorted them out and sold off what I didn't want, kept a whole host of others, and for a very long time coveted them. I wouldn't use them for anything because it was so cool to me to have 5000 buttons at my disposal.

Lately, though, I look at the button bins and think, damn, that's way too many buttons. Lets make stuff!

Aren't these buttons lovely?







I think the yellow is my most favorite.

I turned these into bobby pins and they are now listed in the shop!

a bag and an update

First, the bag:

While cleaning out the massive amounts of junk left in a closet and in the garage, I came across two old, hand pieced quilts. Too lovely to throw away but way too much for me to salvage to their former glory, I cut them down into usable pieces. I did some zig-zag stitching for reinforcement and just quilted lines to give it some stability.


I LOVE it. I wish I knew how old this quilt was.



I lined the inside with some vintage floral print (found in the same bag) and gave it a magnetic snap.



An update: I finally did a shop update. (Yay! if you have a coupon!) Cozies, pouches, and bobby pins. The quilt bag. (Free shipping on the quilt bag!) Coming up: wallets, card holders, tote bags.

Oh. And. If you Twitter, you can follow me now!

And Facebook too under the email collectedmess1 (at) gmail (dot) com.

Oh! And if you ever want to trade, I have some bags and whatnot in my Flickr stream!

Who doesn't love a sale?

Announcing the Collectedmess shop sale!

Everything is priced to go to make room for this summer's new additions! Coming soon there will be new bag designs, new pouches, new fabrics, new pictures!

Everything is drastically reduced and ready to ship!

The Collectedmess Shop sale is going on now!

There was a break there...

And I didn't tell you about it. Massively busy. Sick with icky stuff. Feeling lazy. You know how it goes.

But. But. I'm back and will be updating more regularly!

Two things:

1. Major. MAJOR. Shop update going on. It's everything left over from a recent craft show. Lots of new stuff...

2. If you're looking for a donation to make this holiday season, please consider this one: send a pre-paid phone card to a soldier overseas. Believe me, it makes a difference.