April 1, 2013 by Lauren
Josiah and I have been doing a lot of thinking, and we think its time to rebrand the blog and shop. So we are changing from The Burlap Bag – high quality handmade goods to The Plastic Bag – low quality machine-made goods. It just seems like a good fit. A whole shop full of items from China and blog tutorials on microwave dinners and gluing yarn to plastic plates.
Give us your thoughts!
In other world news, today is the first of April.
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March 20, 2013 by Lauren
giveaway time!
We love this poster. And so do a lot of people. Hopefully it's your cup of tea - because we're giving it away!
Always be yourself. Unless you can be a a unicorn. Then always be a unicorn.
I’d say it’s a pretty solid life motto. And one of you could win it as a print.
How you can win dis:
We have 6 different ways you can enter this giveaway for one 12×18 poster print. Please leave a SEPARATE comment for each entry… so if you do all 6, you should leave us 6 comments here! If you leave them all in one comment we will NOT count them as multiple… it gets too crazy with +100 comments!
-Option 1: In the upper right hand column, sign up for our newsletter OR to get each post emailed to you. Then leave a comment telling us you signed up. (already signed up? tell us!)
-Option 2: Leave a comment on one of our other posts! Then leave a comment here that you commented.
-Option 3: Post a pin to pinterest about the giveaway. Or a post on facebook. Or on twitter. Or some other social media! Then tell us here.
-Option 4: “Like” The Burlap Bag on facebook! Then tell us here. (already “liked” us? Leave a comment saying so.)
-Option 5: Follow The Burlap Bag on the instagrams. (or our kittehs! haha.) Then tell us.
-Option 6: Leave a comment with another funny quote that you’d like to see on a poster!
The giveaway officially ends April 3rd at 1:00pm central time.
AND IT’S OVER! Congrats to Shelley T. for winning. Check yo email!
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February 27, 2013 by Lauren
Ok. This is totally one of those "oh obviously, why didn't I think of that" projects. Can you call it a project if it takes 10 seconds? I feel like I ask myself that a lot. I JUST LIKE SIMPLE THINGS, oK?!
Well. I didn't actually think of it. I saw this on the interwebz and it wasn't sourced. So I made a lovely new graphic because I can, and I made the color match our hammer brand. You can barely see the yellow brand band in the photo but I know it's there.
Attach magnets to tools to hold screws, nails, and other metal things.
Just glue on a magnet and you can hold metal stuff! (If you use hot glue, you can take it off if you decide you no likey the magnet later in life.)
Also, we thought we’d be super smart and think about doing this on our drill… and found in the process that our drill actually HAS a magnetic strip built in so it’ll hold your screws. DOH…. but you COULD do this on a screwdriver or wrench.
Obviously, don’t make it hold like 5 nails and do some vigorous hammering. You’ll hurt an eyeball.
This is perfect for those whimpy IKEA nails, or if you’re just tacking up a picture. Josiah always has me be his “nail holder”, so YOU CAN’T MAKE ME ANYMORE. (sorry for all the yelling. it’s been a long day and someone gave me caffeine!)
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February 19, 2013 by Lauren
No awesome posts this week… Lauren is in Las Vegas! Nope, definitely not my first choice of places to go… But I’m helping one of our artists with a trade show here. A couple of photos to keep you entertained….
Our hotel… Yes seriously… A castle
And then a person in a robe in a casino at 5:30pm! Ha. Oh what a week this will be.
(Le shop is still up and running! Josiah and I are apart for pretty much the first time in more than 4 years)
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