Never has one engineer had so many talented people do his portrait…aflame. Haim (reclining above) is feeling very loved. Haim could not choose just one winner for the Haim on Fire contest. He wept while we forced a decision out of him (“it’s my contest and I’ll cry if I want too!”). So we let… Continue reading
I went out to St Paul, MN to attend Craftstravaganza on April 28. I had such a great time meeting sellers and enthusiastic Etsy buyers face-to-face! I also met a ton of folks at the show who didn’t know about Etsy, so I did my best to clue them in to the Etsy lifestyle. Special… Continue reading
Some Etsians have taken it upon themselves to outpour their love/hate relationship with Etsy into a new contest. The object of their admiration and frustration? None other than Haim, one of the founders of Etsy and one of the hardest workin men in the Etsy handmade biz. Haim was up a gazillion hours, toiling away… Continue reading
Join us, along with Make Magazine (our office mates), Peter Kirn (Create Digital Music) Instructables, Popular Science, and more for a night of paper projects! You can bring any project you want, but paper is our theme. As always, it’s show and tell – there won’t be presentations. Think of it as an informal science… Continue reading
Please come help usher in the Spring with some of the Etsy Metalsmiths at the Etsy Labs on April 27. NinaDinoff, PreciousPups, Stamp, and mylittlestore will be there to represent! They’ve organized the entire thing and we’re happy to open up the Labs to them. This is a free event and there will be spirits… Continue reading
We’ll have a stack of books on easy DIY t-shirt modifications, all the sewing machines and sergers in the Etsy Labs arsenal, a large and strange array of notions, appliquemaking bar, and pitchers of grapefruit mimosas. Yeah, yes, come to it. Please see photos too on flickr. Continue reading
Etsy went down to Pittsburgh to check out the scene and take part in Shadowcraft. We met many a fun Etsian and were totally impressed by their eggcrates stacked up the wall. Walls are boring and egg crates are boring, but somehow the combo of the two–when in crafters’ hands–is amazing! Note: This was originally… Continue reading
Hey everybody, there were such good ideas being bandied about on this forum thread that we decided to launch a quick little contest. Design a new Etsy bumper sticker! We encourage teaming up: if you’re not a swell designer, but you’ve come up with a good slogan or the other way around. • 11.5″ x… Continue reading
Come on down to the Etsy Labs for our very first Supplies Swap! Tired of wading through your home’s knee-deep overflow of feathers, string, art supplies, and construction paper? Do you have trunk loads and/or small piles of old clothes, beads, books and papers, yarn, miscellaneous whatnots? Are you coveting piles of other kinds of… Continue reading
And the weiner — er, winner — is…Wiener Bench by JackRabbit. We were impressed by JackRabbit’s ingenuity and dumpster diving. She scavenged discarded and broken furniture from the curb on trash night where she lives in Philadelphia. She also posted on Craigslist and collected sweaters headed for the garbage. The labor-intensive process of unraveling the… Continue reading
BlueBrocade says:
Eating homemade food, served in handmade dishes feels nourishing on so many levels. Just as we need to take time to savor the process of making, tasting and enjoying our food, being mindful of the vessels that hold our meals is just as meaningful. Read more
