Make Your Own Stocking Stuffers! Saturday December 4!

If you're looking for a fun little gift that you can customize, this Saturday, December 4, is your chance! Stop by The Glitter Workshop, 6138 Mineral Point Rd. in Madison anytime between 12-3 to make your own pocket mirrors, magnets or pins while sipping cocoa and snacking on a holiday treat!

We will have pocket mirrors, small and large magnets and buttons available to create with prices ranging from just $1-7! Feel welcome to bring something special to customize your item - a photo (printed on copy paper weight paper,) a fun paper or gift wrap, old magazine or book pages, etc. OR use pre-cut images and papers we'll have available to create something unique on the spot. We'll have everything from vintage comics and classic books to sparkly papers with holiday themes for you to choose from! This is a project that would be suitable for younger kids, as well. You could have the kids customize a gift for a teacher or grandma and grandpa (maybe a magnet from their own drawing?) or make buttons for holiday party favors!

I had such a fun time at the Holiday Craft Lounge last weekend and wanted to offer one more opportunity before the holidays for locals to craft up something special. Hope to see you there!

If you have specific questions about this drop-in workshop, please feel free to comment here or contact me at space.odditiesmail@gmail.com. 

          

                                                     

We're having a SALE.

We're having a 3 day sale on EVERYTHING in our etsy shop. 40% off of all items! That means $9 t-shirts and tote bags, $4 pocket mirrors and great prices on handmade greeting cards to name a few deals. Sale begins today 1/27/10 and will end on Friday 1/29/10 at midnight. Please see my shop announcement for more details. Stop by our shop to find some goodies for yourself, your family and friends, and strangers. You can click the link above or click below to be directed to certain items.



Enjoy your week!

xoxo
andrea

still time to shop!

Just wanted to post quick to let you know that we have just one more upcoming holiday show on December 12 in Madison but there's still time to shop online in order to receive gifts in time for the holidays!

Our Star Wars magnet and pin sets made from vintage comics have been popular this year and we have lots of other items - mirrors, magnets, clothing in baby through adult sizes and more - that would make unique gifts or stocking stuffers! Please stop by the shop here or click on items below to be directed to our etsy shop. Chad also has some great gift items in his shop including a really awesome LOTR Gandalf gocco print. Check it out!



xoxo
andrea

1000 Hearts + GIVEAWAY

Space Oddities reached a thousand hearts on etsy today. Yay!!! I know that it's totally nerdy but I'm excited about this milestone. So I've decided to celebrate with a fun giveaway. I'm giving away a free item of YOUR CHOICE from my shop - so hurry up and enter now! I will be choosing a winner randomly on Friday the 13th! Ooooooh.

To enter to win:

1. Click HERE to check out my shop and find your favorite item

2. Come back here and comment below to let me know what item you would love to win. *anything is fair game EXCEPT for custom orders*

3. Make sure that there is some obvious link back to you (email, etsy shop, blog) so that I know how to reach you if you are the winner.

4. Winner will be picked randomly on February 13 - winner will be posted on this blog 2/13 and also notified personally

Good luck!!

cupcake magnet

cupcake magnet
Originally uploaded by space oddities

I know the picture isn't the greatest, but isn't it CUTE? I colorized Chad's cupcake design that we used for the tote bags and made it into a sweet BIG magnet. It's available in my etsy shop along new star wars pins and other fun stuff.

I really can't believe that our first winter show is in just over 2 weeks. Does that mean it's going to start feeling like winter soon? So crazy. Well, I am going to try to get my supplies taken care of this weekend so I can make make make up until the DIY Trunk Show on the 22nd. I don't have much for inventory now so I'm planning to make LOTS over the next couple of weeks. Wish me luck!

farmer's market, stuff, more stuff.

farmer's market: We decided to go to the west side Hilldale market this week. We weren't feeling up to the chaos of downtown and really just wanted cheese bread and pastries, not a big production. It was really nice and mellow and the kids did great. We polished off a carton of raspberries before we even left the market!

stuff: I was able to clean up the house a little bit which makes me happy. I bought a new vacuum cleaner and a new broom which helped a ton. I also bought a new cordless phone. Our old one broke a few weeks back and since then we've been using a ridiculous ELVIS phone that signs Jailhouse Rock every time someone calls. It was realllly getting on my nerves so I broke down and got a new phone. So yeah, I pretty much bled money this weekend.

more stuff: I made a bunch of pins and mirrors last week and started to get some of them packaged in sets yesterday. I am usually not very efficent with this piece of my business and I usually package things here and there, rarely in batches. This time I decided to try to try doing each piece in an assembly line fashion, hoping to get more done and not have to repeat the same steps every time I need something packaged. So I cut about 100 paper backings and stamped them, cut the same number of paper pieces for the top labels, and started sorting items to be packaged. I didn't finish a ton of stuff completely but I have all of the pieces, so when I'm ready it'll be quick. Yay! Instead of making matchy matchy magnet sets, I made a batch of "mix it up!" magnets featuring six various magnets with images from childrens' books, french novels, pretty papers, comics, textbooks and more. I dig the variety, it makes me happy.



















xo
andrea

foodie magnet set

foodie magnet set
Originally uploaded by space oddities

I finally received the parts I was waiting on for the new button maker! Yay! I spent some of my night experimenting and making magnets and mirrors. The set you see here is 3 magnets made from dictionary definitions - Epicure, Gourmet, Delicious. Perfect set for the foodie in your life.

I also made a batch of mirrors with pretty wrapping paper and will begin adding these designs to my shop this week!

I heart my new button maker!!

pretty paper.

magnet set
Originally uploaded by space oddities

I am a sucker for pretty papers! I collect paper like crazy and often have scraps leftover after projects that I cannot will myself to throw away. Over the past several months I have started to use these scraps to make fun little magnets. Now I can preserve the prettiness on my refrigerator and spruce up my workspace a little. YAY!

The magnets pictured here represent some of my favorite papers as of late. I have a few varieties of these repurposed paper magnets in my etsy shop right now and plan to add more in the coming weeks. These sets are perfect stocking stuffers!

Enjoy your day.

-Andrea

Stuff! Lots of Stuff!

I added a bunch of fun new items to my etsy shop yesterday including new cards, compacts, button and magnet sets. There will be even MORE coming in the following weeks. Check it out HERE