Thinking of Japan
After the recent tragic events in our global community, here are a few ways you can help heal a nation.
Share Your Dreams for New Etsy Tools
The winners of the Handmade Code Contest have been announced! It’s true: you can organize your Favorites, put your shop on sale, and much, much more.
Meet Up With Etsy: Dublin and Galway
Frolic through the lush valleys with soda bread in hand — Etsy wants to meet you, our lucky Irish, this Wednesday and Saturday!
Shipping How-To: Custom Forms, Duties and Taxes
This is a follow-up to the excellent Seller How-To: Shipping published last fall on the Etsy Blog. I’ve repeated some of the Customs Forms information below and added some new tips and helpful links on duties and taxes. Shipping internationally will go smoothly most of the time. Every so often a package can get stuck… Continue reading
Happy Chinese New Year!
Guonian! Today we move from the year of the ox to the year of the tiger. For the next fifteen days, join in the Chinese New Year celebrations, making sure to catch the culminating Lantern Festival, where people carry paper lanterns in the street in a giant parade and young men regale the crowds with… Continue reading
The XXI Winter Olympics and Paralympics
Hello Canada, hello world! The XXI Olympic Winter Games are being held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (home of the Vancouver Etsy Street Team) February 12–28, 2010. The X Paralympic Games are held a month later in the same venue. All the athletes who compete in these games are incredible, and watching what the Paralympic… Continue reading
“This Is Not a Black Holiday; It Is a People’s Holiday.”
Those are the words that Coretta Scott King, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s widow, said after President Ronald Reagan signed the King Holiday Bill into law on Nov. 2, 1983. Fifteen years earlier on April 4, 1968 the man many now refer to simply as MLK was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee. In lots… Continue reading
Wham, Pow, It’s Boxing Day!
“In this corner, weighing in at 157 pounds….” Ok, so here in the U.S. we don’t really know much about Boxing Day but we do realize that it doesn’t have anything to do with pugilism! A little research on the topic unearths quite a bit of interesting — if not completely consistent — information about… Continue reading
New Rules: Support Your Local Economy
Stacy Mitchell is a senior researcher with the New Rules Project at the Institute for Local Self Reliance (ISLR), an organization started in 1974 to work with citizens, activists, policy makers and entrepreneurs to help communities improve their economies, reduce waste, manage local infrastructure and provide better overall living environments. The New Rules Project “challenges… Continue reading
Etsy International: Cécile Guérard’s Top 10 List
When Maria and I (Liz, a.k.a. muka) visited Paris earlier this year, we had the pleasure of meeting Cécile Guérard at a quaint office in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. She shared with us some wonderful ideas on how to grow Etsy in the French market and showed us a bit of her artwork. We enjoyed our visit very… Continue reading
Our Thoughts and Gratitude Go Out to Veterans
With the backdrop of two active wars and the recent tragedy at Fort Hood, our hearts, thanks, prayers, and sadly our condolences, go out to those in the military and their families this Veterans Day. Veterans Day, formerly known as Armistice Day, was originally set as a U.S. holiday to honor the end of World… Continue reading
October 24 is International Day of Climate Action!
If you haven’t heard already, tomorrow, October 24, 2009, people all over the world are coming together in places as simple as your local park and diverse as the Taj Mahal and the Great Barrier Reef to send a big, loud, important message to world leaders: “Solutions to climate change must be equitable, they must… Continue reading
Our Thoughts Go out to Our Friends in Asia
As many of you have no doubt seen on the news, the Samoan Islands were hit hard by an earthquake-induced tsunami and then today another earthquake. Indonesia has been rocked by two huge earthquakes, and typhoon Ketsana has ripped through Laos, the Philippines, Vietnam and Cambodia. More than 1000 people have died and countless others… Continue reading
Notes from Etsy’s Canadian Meet Up
Sara, Chad and I had a fantastic trip up to Canada this past weekend and had the pleasure of meeting with Etsy sellers, buyers and friends in both Toronto and Montreal! We’re Etsy Admin for Product, Engineering, and International, respectively, and we learned a lot from our travels North. Though Air Canada added a wrinkle… Continue reading
World Malaria Day: Don’t Get Bit!
Yesterday, April 25th, was World Malaria Day. The World Health Organization (WHO) first instituted this day at their 60th annual World Health Assembly in 2007. While malaria has a particularly large reach in sub-Saharan Africa, it is also a major health crisis for people in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. According to WHO,… Continue reading
