When I was moving, I uncovered these fabulous dishes I was working on back in 2009. I totally forgot about them, but am hoping to finish them before Craft Saturday on April 30.
Except … I have no idea what to put in the [...]
She’s gettin’ a tattoo yeah, she’s gettin’ ink done.
Wow that’s an old song.
Anyway, I posted a while back about beautiful body art, and I’m excited to say that I’m now the proud owner of some. I’m going back to get a couple of things added and a little touchup work with [...]
For those of you who don’t know, I’m participating in the Art House Coop’s Sketchbook Project this year. That’s what the little doo-hickey on my sidebar is all about.
I received my sketchbook last week. My theme is “It’ll be fun, I swear.”
So far, I’ve just been playing around with simple [...]
I recently marked down a LOT of items on my etsy shop for an Independence Day Sale. I decided to extend the sale into a summer sale.
As always, shipping to Des Moines and Ames is free. Just contact me before buying so I can adjust the shipping price and arrange a drop-off/pickup.
Here are [...]
Here’s what I came up with last week during my last-minute-pull-stuff-together-for-Market-Day freakout:
birdies and coffee on corningware (see, I need new designs!) I have 6 of these. exciting.
musical flowers pink plate
musical flowers yellow plate
teatime with gram turquoise mug — “one lump or two?”
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I’m preparing for my first ever craft show next weekend and I’m upcycling a buttload of vintage ceramics…fiestaware…pyrex…cornin gware, etc.
Instead of sectioning them out, I decided to dump them all in one post. I hope you don’t mind. I’ll probably have another big post like this next week as well. I’ve got about 15-20 more [...]
A while back I bought a buttload of dishware. I finally got around to making some things AND taking photos of them.
I’m too lazy to repost everything since I just posted this all on etsy and craftster…so here’s some photos.
ta. da.

Hi there. I'm Calee. Not Caylee. Also known as chimes or the chimes. I'm 27, a designer, a runner, a self-proclaimed fitness queen, a craftster, a foodie, a music snob — some might call me a hipster. Here's the unabridged version.
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