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I love these designs and hope they appeal to the quilters at the next craft show. These are 1-1/4" and get mounted on a coordinating colorful scalloped & embossed circle.
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I crack me up.
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I love these designs and hope they appeal to the quilters at the next craft show. These are 1-1/4" and get mounted on a coordinating colorful scalloped & embossed circle.~ ~ ~
A nice woman at Wednesday's craft show asked if I had any magnets. She doesn't wear pins but really liked my work and picked out two she would buy if they were magnets. So I said I would make them for her and took down her contact info.
She's not the first person to mention magnets to me, including my crafty friend at work, Jen. But I've resisted and I wasn't sure why until I was telling Jen about the conversation yesterday and she asked, "What is it about magnets that you don't like?"
I finally realized. "I hate clutter on the refrigerator!"
Alrighty then. Seems I have issues, eh??
So now I've gotten over myself and ordered 250 magnets from a wholesaler yesterday. For every pin design I make, I'll also make magnets. I even already have a metal board on which to display them.
Btw, I have anti-clutter issues in general, but our refrigerator . . . oy. Steve has a bunch of magnets on our refrigerator that annoy me. Some are from businesses from 30 years ago that he's probably never used and probably long gone by now. (My other annoyance with his inability to let go of things is he keeps his college textbooks. Why??)
I can't even remember what else is on the refrigerator because I've apparently successfully blocked it from my mind. I'm okay with a few "tasteful" magnets, which would of course be, according to MY taste only. So annoyed was I by his helter-skelter collection of magnets that I moved my select few tasteful, useful magnets to the side of the refrigerator so they wouldn't have to associate with the likes of his.
Oh! I just remembered something else! He gets a free advertising magnet with each purchase of chemicals for the hot tub. So he kept putting them on the refrigerator. As they accumulated, I'd sneak 1 or 2 into the garbage occasionally. Finally, I couldn't take it anymore so I took all of those down and put them on one of the metal lockers in the basement. (They came with the house, a row of 4 metal school type lockers.) He has stuff in the lockers, I don't, so now I don't have to look at them anymore. He can collect to his heart's content.
She's not the first person to mention magnets to me, including my crafty friend at work, Jen. But I've resisted and I wasn't sure why until I was telling Jen about the conversation yesterday and she asked, "What is it about magnets that you don't like?"
I finally realized. "I hate clutter on the refrigerator!"
Alrighty then. Seems I have issues, eh??
So now I've gotten over myself and ordered 250 magnets from a wholesaler yesterday. For every pin design I make, I'll also make magnets. I even already have a metal board on which to display them.
Btw, I have anti-clutter issues in general, but our refrigerator . . . oy. Steve has a bunch of magnets on our refrigerator that annoy me. Some are from businesses from 30 years ago that he's probably never used and probably long gone by now. (My other annoyance with his inability to let go of things is he keeps his college textbooks. Why??)
I can't even remember what else is on the refrigerator because I've apparently successfully blocked it from my mind. I'm okay with a few "tasteful" magnets, which would of course be, according to MY taste only. So annoyed was I by his helter-skelter collection of magnets that I moved my select few tasteful, useful magnets to the side of the refrigerator so they wouldn't have to associate with the likes of his.
Oh! I just remembered something else! He gets a free advertising magnet with each purchase of chemicals for the hot tub. So he kept putting them on the refrigerator. As they accumulated, I'd sneak 1 or 2 into the garbage occasionally. Finally, I couldn't take it anymore so I took all of those down and put them on one of the metal lockers in the basement. (They came with the house, a row of 4 metal school type lockers.) He has stuff in the lockers, I don't, so now I don't have to look at them anymore. He can collect to his heart's content.
I crack me up.
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Saturday, June 6, 10:00-8:00
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7 Comments:
It's funny how our own likes & dislikes influences what we make to sell! I think magnets are a wonderful idea for your stiched creations. After all, they're not going on YOUR refrigerator!!!
I don't like fridge clutter either! I solved it by picking up a bulletin board at Target. It's silver-toned & magnetic. You write on it like a white board. We keep all of our fridge clutter there and it's propped on a desk. I didn't want to commit to giving it space on a wall and this way I can put it in a closet when we have company or it just bugs me.
How are you planning on facing the magnets so the paper doesn't get wet or dry out while on a magnet?
p.s. I don't wear pins any more. Magnets would be more to my fare.
Bonnie - it's up to my customers to keep their magnets dry! I don't face the pins with anything protective either - they are just paper. I wear mine constantly and you'd be surprised at how durable they are. They (pins and magnets) are inexpensive enough - use them up, I'll make more! ;-)
The one thing I dislike about my stainless steel refrigerator is that I can't hang magnets on it.
The fridge and freezer in the GARAGE are for icky magnets, of course! My fridge is magnet city. But most of it is... arranged. I even have little "spells" I do with those alphabet letters (ok, call them prayers if that feels better to you). I put them in crossword format. And then I get pissed if someone knocks them out of alignment. I'd like Stefani magnets, too!
I have to admit that my fridge is covered with papers and magnets. Some of the magnets have memories as I made them almost 25 years ago.
We hung on to our college textbooks for years and a couple of moves. Finally in Connecticut we discovered a charity, Hands Across the Water, that took textbooks and so made the move back to Rochester textbook-free! Might Steve give up his textbooks if they were going to a charity?
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