Best What's New In My Shop This Week & Fun Announcement!

Hi friends, Here is a quick update on what is novel this calendar week inward my Etsy shop. The spill foliage necklace - this is a 1 of a kind! I alone had 1 modest shard from a plate inward this china pattern - which is difficult porcelain - I intend it turned out great. I added a few coordinating Swarovski crystals to the bottom of the pendant for a picayune sparkle. There is alone 1 similar it, then if you lot similar it, select grip of it! 

As always, I am continually working on novel pieces together with volition convey to a greater extent than inward my store soon, including to a greater extent than or less "new" vintage china patterns that I have't used before, then live on certain to depository fiscal establishment gibe back.

Fun announcement! 

I simply opened upwards a novel store on Zazzle together with convey been super-busy putting my artwork (original illustrations, paintings, together with graphic designs) on all of the cool products they offer. They convey everything from t-shirts to lavatory towels, leather totes to soft guitar cases, also equally cards together with invitations - together with SO much more.  

I genuinely opened ii shops there, 1 strictly for designs called laurabethlove, together with the bit is to a greater extent than for fun, popular civilization text designs that's called Text__Me. 

Even cooler? Most products tin live on customized past times the customer, then you lot tin add together a monogram, your name, etc. to whatever of my designs to personalize them for yourself or for a gift.

  

Here's a peek from Text__Me:

Offline together with Be Badass pillows from Text__Me

  

Team Wine and Crazy Maker t-shirts from Text__Me

Uploading designs to products inward the shops is fourth dimension consuming, together with I convey lots to upload...but I am genuinely looking forrard to creating invitations together with cards because it's something I've never done earlier but that I've e'er wanted to do. I'm excited for that! 

Here's a peek from laurabethlove:

 

Art Nouveau Mystical Woman guitar soft illustration from laurabethlove

She Who Dares leather tote from laurabethlove

But get-go I convey to become all of my existing designs uploaded there  first, then it volition live on a picayune acre until cards together with invitations volition live on available. When that happens, I'll live on certain to part them!

Now on the jewelry:

I promise you lot similar them! All items shown are available for sale in my Etsy shop, then live on certain to depository fiscal establishment gibe them out for to a greater extent than information on each piece.

Let me know what you'd similar to run across next! 

If you've purchased from me together with desire to present off your jewelry delight ship me a photograph of you lot wearing it together with I would LOVE to characteristic it on my spider web log and/or my Facebook page! 

Feel costless to ship me photos through Facebook or e-mail them to me at sales@dishfunctionaldesigns.com or fifty-fifty through an Etsy message. I LOVE seeing folks enjoying what I brand then ship me those photos! 

All items shown inward a higher house are available for buy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/dishfunctionldesigns

Have a neat week!
love,

 Laura

My broken china jewelry is e'er available for buy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/dishfunctionldesigns

Check out my novel jewelry didactics books together with DVDs!

Learn how to solder together with brand unique jewelry!

Article, images, together with designs copyright ©Laura Beth Love for ™ 2017 all rights reserved

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Best In Grace together with Love

I only dear this quote from Heather K. O'Hara as well as I wanted to portion it alongside you. Hope you lot bring a neat Thursday! 

Have a neat week!

 Laura

My broken china jewelry is ever available for buy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/dishfunctionldesigns

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Best Put The Pumpkin On The Table - Creative Pumpkin Centerpieces & Tablescapes

By Karin Lidbeck for Country Gardens

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Beautiful together with rustic harvest tabular array from Jenny Steffens

I'm inwards honey amongst this await of berries together with white pumpkins from Ella Claire Inspired

Orange + Blue = Yes

Beautiful natural centerpiece

Have a nifty week!

 Laura

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Best Orange & Blue For Autumn

I can't non verbalize close orangish too blue. What a cracking color combination! And non solely that, what a cracking means to display your blueish too white china but amongst about orangish pumpkins or gourds during autumn. 

Whether yous collect blueish English linguistic communication transferware, Blue Willow china, or my favorite—amazing Flow Blue china— autumn is i of the best times of the twelvemonth to demo off your blueish china past times pairing it amongst the warm orangish too yellowish tones of the season. 

Right directly I create got the plate shown hither (flea marketplace find, 2 for $4!) displayed on a tabular array amongst a few mini pumpkins on top. And that's it—plain too simple, no froufrou, no glitter, no ribbons, no magic dust, simply a mini celebration of color. As a affair of fact, if I were going to add together anything else at all to this look, it would survive a bed of 2 or 3 fall-colored autumn leaves below the pumpkins, too that's it. 

I honey looking at too beingness inspired past times amazing too creative tablescapes (and I create got a novel weblog postal service coming presently showing a few of my favorites!), but to state yous the truth, they're actually non my personal mode for my ain home. 

Unless I am dressing upward my tabular array for a old exceptional termination such every bit Thanksgiving, I driblet dead along my tabular array pretty much straightforward too simple. Sometimes I simply don't create got the fourth dimension to pose into it, or the extra coin to pass on it! 

Plus, the to a greater extent than materials I pose on my table, the to a greater extent than nosy my truthful cat gets - too he has to create got a actually unopen await at everything. 

How create yous decorate your tabular array for fall?

Have a cracking week!
love,

 Laura

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Best Those Lord's Day Mornings

I don't know if it's because of the changing low-cal of spill or simply because I got a total 8+ hours of sleep, but there's something magical inward waking on a Lord's Day morn — java loving cup inward manus — as well as existence completely inspired to brand art. 

Do I pigment alongside watercolors, or perchance acrylics, or practice I practice some ink drawings? I become dorsum as well as forth, deciding on my tools as well as my medium — my trend of carry to instruct whatever creative magic from within my being, out — as well as into the world. 

It's my raw drive, my spiritual force into the universe. At least, that's what it feels like. 

Nothing else volition do. I tin become downtown on Lord's Day morn as well as walk simply about our charming lilliputian farmer's marketplace as well as selection upwards an amazing pastry or perchance some apples or locally harvested honey—but my heed is similar the transcendental silver string that connects me to—and never leaves—my house where I practice art. 

I desire to lead the brushes, the colors, I intend virtually watercolor icon as well as I imagine the movement, the catamenia as well as spread of color inward the water, the bloom, the transparency, the drying, the contemplation of the side yesteryear side layer.

Without whatever formal training, thoughts of rules—and fright of non next them—try to force into my mind. I force them away.

I desire to practice something new, to delineate it out from within myself - I know that it's there, I tin experience it all the time. I intend virtually how I tin instruct it out of me as well as into the world. But fifty-fifty that's non actually plenty for me. I desire to brand something beautiful. I try. 

It doesn't accept to live on fantastic or amazing — it exclusively has to be.

Have a slap-up Sunday!
love,

 Laura

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Best Broken China Jewelry - Quick Update New Items

Hi friends, this is simply a quick update to demo you lot a few novel pieces of broken china jewelry that I finished a few days agone too lately listed inwards my shop. 

I'm working on roughly novel pieces today too hopefully volition accept those finished too upward inwards my store inside the adjacent solar daytime or so, but I idea I'd become ahead too part these pieces amongst you lot correct away. 

I larn a lot of comments on the Statue of Liberty china pattern. You don't oftentimes come upward across historical America or Americana patriotic china patterns, then this actually is a unique piece! 

The majestic or plum transferware plate shown at the cease of this post is the plate I used inwards my instructional DVD, Make Vintage too Upcycled Jewelry: Dishfunctional™ Plate Necklace, which you lot tin discovery here. 

Learn how to brand broken china jewelry amongst my DVD workshop!

I promise you lot similar them! All items shown are available for sale in my Etsy shop, then survive certain to banking concern gibe them out for to a greater extent than information on each piece.

Let me know what you'd similar to run into next! 

If you've purchased from me too desire to demo off your jewelry delight shipping me a photograph of you lot wearing it too I would LOVE to characteristic it on my weblog and/or my Facebook page! 

Feel complimentary to shipping me photos through Facebook or electronic mail them to me at sales@dishfunctionaldesigns.com or fifty-fifty through an Etsy message. I LOVE seeing folks enjoying what I brand then shipping me those photos! 

All items shown higher upward are available for buy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/dishfunctionldesigns

Have a smashing week!
love,

 Laura

My broken china jewelry is ever available for buy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/dishfunctionldesigns

Check out my novel jewelry didactics books too DVDs!

Learn how to solder too brand unique jewelry!

Article, images, too designs copyright ©Laura Beth Love for ™ 2017 all rights reserved

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Best Tom Petty 1950-2017

I was shocked as well as poor when I heard that Tom Petty had died - as well as at the immature historic menstruum of 66. He left behind a lifetime of music that as well as thence many people loved, as well as that he volition endure remembered past times for ages to come.  

What an amazing as well as skillful legacy he has left behind. Rest inwards peace Tom.

Have a smashing week,

 Laura

My broken china jewelry is ever available for buy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/dishfunctionldesigns

Check out my novel jewelry didactics books as well as DVDs

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