Long before I had an apartment, or knew where I was working, long before I even knew what city I wanted to live in after graduation, I did know one thing: I had to have the Blue Flora plates from notNeutral. I saw them in Lucky months ago and knew I absolutely had to have them for my apartment. No other plates would do. But as things started to accumulate here and there, my parents said I had to stop getting things for my apartment until I actually had one. So the ordering was postponed. The day after moving into my apartment I went to the notNeutral website ready to order the plates, and the small plates were sold out. You may think I'm crazy, but I was totally heart broken. I was set on having those plates, and I really didn't want any others. I decided to call the store in LA and see how long it was going to be before they got them back in. I found out that they had them but the website hadn't been updated and that I could order them right there over the phone. I decided to get the matching bowls and vase as well, and to wait on the coffee service and cups & saucers until later. About a week later a box showed up and I was super excited. I unpacked the vase, and the bowls and was so happy. I got down to the plates, what I wanted the most, and all of them were broken in half. So the next day I called notNeutral again and told them and they sent me a new set for free! They showed up today, in one piece, and gorgeous. I'm so excited to finally have them, and I'm so grateful to the folks at notNeutral for sending me the second set. That is pretty classy business practice.I also thought that to just throw the broken ones away would be wasteful, since they're so cute, so I decided to save them to be used for a project. And this is where I need your help. I need suggestions for what I might do with the broken plates. My one idea so far has been to make a mosaic trivet and maybe a matching set of coasters. The only downside to this idea (the coasters especially) is that they would be kind of bulky. So what do you think I should do?
2 comments:
geez you are like blogger extraordinaire! i cant keep up with this!
i definitely think you should do a mosaic, but don't know much about it and will therefore be of little help determining which project is better, but i'll be glad to read the post when the mosaic is complete!! :)
You could make a mosaic flower pot or vase - that way, the bulkiness wouldn't matter. Or you could make a backsplash - you know, something tile-like that you can hang above the back of the stove to keep food splatters from ruining the paint. : )
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