Bread and Badger

Our mustache shot glasses were just featured on Lark Crafts! Here’s what they have to say:

We’re all a little bit fixated on mustaches around here lately with the release of our new book Stache. We notice them on the staff at our local coffee haunts, spot them on a fellow driver in our morning commute, and even imagine them on the faces of people who, perhaps, could really rock the mustache look. It was with that affection for this mainstay of fashionable facial hair that I dove into Etsy’s treasure trove to explore the trend of displaying stache wonders on everything from jewelry and dinnerware to wearable items and printed goods. It seems crafters the world over are embracing the craze. What is it about the lovely curl of a handlebar that we find so utterly endearing? What you see below are some of my personal favorites.

via The Mustache Craft Craze « Lark Crafts.

We’ve been featured in this About.com article about Kids’ Parties & Celebrations by Megan Cooley:

When I was a kid, my sister and I used to play “Gordy and Jack.” It was a simple game named after our dad, Jack, and his best friend, Gordy. Not much to it–we’d go through my dad’s closet and come out wearing sports jackets, ties and really big shoes and then laugh at the hilarity of it all.

A fun new trend for kids’ parties today is to set out fake mustaches and red lips for kids to wear. I keep seeing these mini costumes popping up at parties, and there’s usually a backdrop set up where the children can have their photos taken.

Here’s a roundup of links to this idea, in case it’s an activity you want to use at your next kids’ party:

• Pamela Smerker, of Party Starters, had her kids make mustaches and lips from construction paper, as you can see in the photo here and on her blog.
• Jolly Lollies: Disney’s FamilyFun magazine makes it easy to keep those mustaches and lips in place by attaching lollipops to them. Cute and yummy!.
• You can buy felt mustches and lips on sticks from an Etsy shop called Maro Designs.
• If you prefer more colorful ‘staches and lighter lip colors, check out what Smitten Sticks has to offer.
• Or you can make your own following Simplymodernmom.com’s tutorial.
• Why not give your kids a giggle every morning as they drink their milk out of these glasses etched with mustaches from the Etsy shop Bread and Badger?

Once the kids have their mustaches and lips in hand, hang an empty picture frame (glass removed, too) from a tree branch, have them stand behind it and take a some shots with your camera. After the party ends, print out the pictures and send them off as thank-you cards.

Mustaches ‘n’ Lips on Sticks.

Our Mustache Rocks Glass was just featured in a gift guide on Lotus’s Workshop blog!

In honor of my new found appreciation of really freaking random holidays, here’s to Legal Drinking Age Day! No I’m completely serious (or at least as serious as I can be after a shot or two).

A new personal favorite is the black cherry Mike’s Hard Lemonade. A lot of friends of my boyfriend refer to Mikes and other flavored drinks as bitch beer, but I’ve never seen any of them turn it down (in fact you leave it in the fridge unattended while they are over and the stuff seems to mysterious vanish instantly).

Personally I can’t stand the taste of beer, but rum, now there’s a drink. Especially for cooking. I make rum spice cookies and rum pizzelles, and my brother’s rum ice cream recipe is the best (combine that with a pizzelle shaped into a cone and yay!). Another alcohol baked goodie I’m very partial to is sherry cakes.

There are a lot of makers on Etsy who celebrate the joys of alcohol.

My Alcholic Friends by The Dresden Dolls

As always remember to enjoy your booze with brains. Underage drinking can damage still developing bodies and minds, driving drunk is selfish and moronic and if your beer is a coping mechanism as well as a beverage you have a problem and need to seek help and support to deal with that problem.

We were featured on Craftzine.com blog : Wedding Bazaar July 1, 2010!

Custom etched pint glasses (or champagne flutes!) would be an awesome wedding present, and Amanda Siska of Bread and Badger says her etched glasses have been especially popular as groomsmen’s gifts. You can choose from her in-house designs or set up a new one with your own artwork and text… whether it’s zombies, robots, your favorite video game, or your wedding date, these glasses will mark the occasion in style.

Get ideas from Amanda’s flickr set of past custom work, or contact her about a new design (prices vary depending on the details). Pint glasses start at $15.

A little etsy love blog just featured an assortment of our products:

a little etsy love: Must be Saturday … Bread and Badger Feature.

Amanda and Sean, the creative brains and brawn behind Bread and Badger will rock your world with their awesome etched glass designs! They put the fetching in glass etching! The talent and eye for detail is amazingly visible in all of their products. Stop by and check them out for yourself! Tell them a little etsy love sent ya!

We were interviewed for a piece in the Minneapolis Examiner about the mustache trend and our mustache pint glasses:

A curious trend has risen the past couple of years: the Mustache. I don’t mean that many more men are sporting handlebars and the like, but mustaches have been appearing on everything from t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, jewelry, and vending machines. Yes, you can buy a mustache (fake, of course) for about 25 or 50 cents that comes in its own plastic capsule.

This phenomenon has even reached a considerable amount of young women. I, myself, would be horrified to spy any evidence of hair on my upper hair and yet, other females my age buy these fake pieces of hair pieces with their own money (assuming) and post pictures of themselves online.

You can even battle other users with who’s got the better ‘tache via Flashyourstache.com

Can’t grow a ‘tache? Buy one! Buy 250 of them!

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Amber of Whiskerworks has this to say about the mustache, “It’s a curious thing, isn’t it? Mustaches becoming a trend, featured in all sorts of ways from clothing to kitchenware to toys. My shop (Whisker Works) mostly caters to weddings, both for photo booths and funny portraits. So in that sense, the buyers use these mustaches in a hilarious way, almost as a joke.

Or a funny disguise; an easy and hilarious way to dress up and transform the mood of a party.

On a basic level, a mustache is an easy and natural way of personal expression, one that doesn’t require poking holes in your body or spending a lot of money. It can say as much as a tattoo, yet isn’t permanent.

The style of a mustache tells a lot about how a person wants to come across; how it’s manicured, how it falls, it’s length, whether it curls up or down, etc. It’s just so bizarre that a form of masculine identity is becoming almost unisex these days – 90% of my mustache purchases are from women! Perhaps a lighthearted side of gender equality, who knows? “

Mustache Pint Glasses Set of 2 by BreadandBadger $28.00

Amanda of BreadandBadger has talked about how the Mustache has transformed her business, “Mustaches have been an unexpected phenomenon that our business has gotten fully swept up into. I created the mustache pint glass after I’d heard about mustache parties where people were drawing (or tattooing) curly mustaches onto their fingers to hold up over their lips. I thought it would be funny to have a cup you could drink out of that would give the same “temporary disguise” result.

I never realized how popular they would become, or how widespread the appeal would be. Young girls love them. Older men love them. Children think they’re hilarious.

Our mustache glasses (now available on at least 7 styles of glassware, plus reclaimed ceramic mugs) continue to be our top-seller almost 2 years after the first explosion. They’ve brought our business more notoriety than any of our other designs. I keep trying to come up with something that will be as popular with our customers, but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to top the humor of the mustache. “

via Mustache Mayhem: unexpected growth in the mainstream – Minneapolis Pop Culture | Examiner.com.

This is one of my favorite press clippings of all time! It’s an article on Shelterpop about how the mustache trend needs to go away, featuring our mustache pint glasses. This is especially hilarious since this glass continues to be our top-selling item, despite the fact that we’ve created lots of new products and designs since it came out. The mustache has certainly had it’s day in the sun, and we’re happy to help it to move along, but who can blame facial hair enthusiasts for hanging onto this humorous design for a while longer?

Trend watching? More like trend-waving; five design fads we’ll happily bid farewell to.

Your editors here at ShelterPop have a serious fixation for all-things design (you think?). Day in and day out we study the world of home decor. So, it should come as no surprise that we might get a little (read: extremely) tired of certain design fads. We’d like to to highlight some trends of the recent past that seem to be holding on for dear life. Some that, frankly, we’d like to see disappear deep into the design vault of trends passed.

Mustache-themed napkin rings and glasses are playful — but have we had enough? Photos: Modern Dose and Bread and Badger

1. Shave it Off

Attribute it to boredom, perhaps, but there will always be at least one out-of-left-field trend every year. The weird and wacky trend of 2009: Mustaches translated into home accessories. Modern Dose’s mustache napkin holders were a huge hit. And we didn’t help the cause by highlighting the trend back in September. But they’ve had their deserved day in the sun, and it’s high time to make room for a new facial-follicle fad, according to Jaime Derringer: “While I think mustaches are amusing, don’t people see that beards are way more awesome?”

via 5 Design Trends We’d Like To See Disappear – Shelterpop.

We etch recycled glass bottles with our original designs, and they’re versatile enough to be used as a vase, or a cruet for oil and vinegar (they come with spouts too!). This rockin’ guitar bottle was featured on My Grandma’s Closet:

Music to my eyes.

Etsy seller BreadandBadger is keeping me up past my bed time.

Made to order glassware with awesome graphics.

via My Grandma’s Closet: Music to my eyes..

Our reclaimed bicycle mug was featured on A Scrappy Design as a design trend to watch our for:

via: A Scrappy Design: {Trend Watch: Bicycles}

One of our limited edition reclaimed scooter mugs was featured on Handmade Spark!

Reclaimed Scooter Teacup and Saucer- Powder Blue

I have always loved the look of vintage scooters. But you know what they say “scooters are cool until your friends see you riding one”. Here are a few other uses for vintage scooters!

via Just Cruisin’ – Vintage Vespa | Handmade Spark.