Purses

Procrastinating and realising I need a woven basket purse for the summer! Etsy is full of vintage ones, I've discovered, and I am planning to pick one of the following:

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Boy's Birthday / Etsy Love

How cute is this card I got made for Ron, by CookieBits! I was super impressed, and I think I'll be back to her shop for more hand cut cards!

I also got him this vintage bowling shirt from BeyondTheDoor on Etsy. It's to make him more of a player, just like Charlie (haha!). We Love our Two & a Half Men! I should get a picture of him in it though, it looks great on him!

AND  this Agenda is in the mail (I can not wait!) from Etsy seller An Artful Agenda

There's my Etsy love from the last little while .... always another great shop to be found. Got any new favorites to share?!

Heavens to Etsy

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Etsy has changed their whole layout AND Blogger has changed again since I was last online! It has been awhile. . . But some new items are brewing  for Dust & Dawn around here. As you can see, more Melamine will be a part of that! Yay!

What have you been up to, darling blog readers?

One of my items...

 was included in a treasury on etsy :D

That should get a few views, right?

I keep on making things for gifts and not for etsy. It's easier though, y'know, to know what people want and would like? It is hard to know what everyone else would like. But I try to stick to what I like so at least it has a direction to go in.
Yesterday I actually made something for myself. Craziness.

So if it were your birthday tomorrow, what would you want?

A Happy Valentine's

to fulfill my girly needs

to fulfill my ha-ha needs

so cute...

so random...

so us...

And I got him this Whaley cute card

:)

Judge me and Fix me

Any volunteers to make this have more contrast?! I need a photoshop buff. Because the spool is yellow, it just doesn't do high contrast black and white it seems. Ultimately I'd like it to have a hard edge around the spool too, and more black lines. I'm not sure if I love it yet but I'm thinking it would work as a logo if it had the contasted lines I'm talkin' about. What do you think?

Before & After

Now I'm goin' around with my bottle of spray paint... hmmm... what else would look good white....?

Updating the Shop

There are a couple new items in the shop and, if all goes well, a couple more will be joining them today! INCLUDING the most amazing vintage red suitcase.
I am really excited about what I'm adding. . .

But, I'm curious, what do you guys think Dust & Dawn needs more of / less of?
What would make it stand out?
What sucks about it?
I know that I need more items to draw more people...

So go ahead and leave anonymous comments if you want, I just want to hear the honest truth!

an Etsy shop

Here's what I've been up to lately!

Time to advertise to the world ... there is much more to come, but you can look at what I had time to upload today!

Get shoppin' folks, it's all one-of-a-kind, first come first served!

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And this is my 100th blog post!

Etsy has some mighty-fine things to offer

hehehe this is probably the best hand-made doll I've come accross...ever.

from pocomedio's shop on etsy.com

"Estelle enjoys picking scabs (not necessarily her own), pushing all her brother's flat Lego pieces together oh-so-very tightly and repeating everything you say in a robot voice. Some people tease her about her frizzy bangs and long sausage like pigtails. These people are easy to spot - they have big handshaped red marks on their foreheads. They just don't know what's cool. She's a trendsetter."

These tissue-paper pompoms are really fun - and only $30 for a set of 7, in a huge range of colours, whats not to like?!
From pomlove's shop on etsy.

And I may just copy this idea for a bag... other than the lumpiness of the bottom corner there. But I like the handle idea and I could easily make that out of lengths of fabric.
Drika B's shop has plenty of bags all about the same with different shapes. I don't blame her cause it's simple and nice!