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<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en-us"><title>Search results (tags) for: "listings"</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/listings/" rel="alternate"></link><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/feeds/search/tags/listings/" rel="self"></link><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/listings/</id><updated>2009-11-13T10:22:00-05:00</updated><subtitle>Search results (tags) for: "listings"</subtitle><entry><title>Etsy International: Cécile Guérard&amp;#39;s Top 10 List</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/etsy-international-cecile-guerards-top-10-list-5545/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-11-13T10:22:00-05:00</updated><author><name>cecileguerard, muka</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/etsy-international-cecile-guerards-top-10-list-5545/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;p style="margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;When Maria and I (Liz, a.k.a. &lt;a href="http://muka.etsy.com"&gt;muka&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/highlights-from-etsys-2009-european-visit-3776/"&gt;visited Paris earlier this year&lt;/a&gt;, we had the pleasure of meeting C&amp;eacute;cile Gu&amp;eacute;rard at a quaint office in Saint-Germain-des-Pr&amp;eacute;s. 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 much and thought she'd be a wonderful contributor to The Storque. Translated from the French by &lt;a title="lilyofdesert profile" href="http://www.etsy.com/profile.php?user_id=7265950" target="_blank"&gt;lilyofdesert&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;I paint from my house in Normandy, two hours from Paris, where I have a workshop; I see birds alight in my garden, I hear the ocean come and go. When I don't paint, I write. I'm made of a two-stroke engine, that's just the way it is! I like what is created, what is beautiful, what offers a meaning or brings surprises. Etsy is a wonderful place to find all of this! It's cheerful, simple, warm. I love to shop from one shop to another and I'm always a little bit moved afterward; our need to create new from chaos, to bring harmony into our lives, to surround ourselves with quality products &amp;mdash; that's a whole philosophy in itself, my philosophy.&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/11/cecile_studio.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Painting and writing: I need these two life-sustainers, and they are bound together. Etsy defends and promotes handmade work, and this is as remarkable as it is necessary! Deciding what to do, creating things based on what we are, defining ourselves through our work &amp;mdash; this is one of the paths to freedom, right? I just finished an exhibition, but you can find my paintings and my books on my &lt;a href="http://www.cecile-guerard.com/" target="_blank"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; and see the pretty things I like there.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Je peins dans ma maison en Normandie, &amp;agrave; deux heures de Paris, o&amp;ugrave; j'ai un atelier : je vois les oiseaux se poser dans le jardin, j'entends les allers et retours de la mer. Quand je ne peins pas, j'&amp;eacute;cris. J'ai un moteur &amp;agrave; deux temps, c'est comme &amp;ccedil;a! J'aime ce qui se cr&amp;eacute;e, est beau, a du sens ou surprend. Etsy est un&lt;br /&gt; endroit merveilleux pour trouver tout cela ! C'est gai, simple, chaleureux. J'adore aller de boutiques en boutiques et j'en reviens toujours un peu &amp;eacute;mue: notre besoin de cr&amp;eacute;er &amp;agrave; partir du chaos, d'introduire de l'harmonie l&amp;agrave; o&amp;ugrave; se d&amp;eacute;roule notre vie, de s'entourer d'objets de qualit&amp;eacute;s: c'est toute une philosophie, ma philosophie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Peinture et &amp;eacute;criture : j'ai besoin de ces deux respirations et elles sont li&amp;eacute;es: &amp;nbsp;Etsy d&amp;eacute;fend et valorise le travail manuel et &amp;ccedil;a c'est remarquable autant que n&amp;eacute;cessaire ! D&amp;eacute;cider de ce que l'on fait, cr&amp;eacute;er &amp;agrave; partir de ce que l'on est, se r&amp;eacute;aliser &amp;agrave; travers son travail, c'est l'un des styles de la libert&amp;eacute;, non? Je viens de terminer une exposition mais vous pouvez d&amp;eacute;couvrir mes peintures et mes livres sur mon &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cecile-guerard.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;blog&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; et retrouver les jolies choses qui me plaisent.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_quote"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt; 1. &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=30267348" target="_blank"&gt;Hand Printed Cushion - Coussin imprim&amp;eacute; &amp;agrave; la main&lt;img src="http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_430xN.88229666.jpg" alt="" width="430" height="369" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Flowers or stars? I love this constellation with a color somewhere between green and yellow. A tasteful and original print. By &lt;a href="http://kalla.etsy.com"&gt;kalla&lt;/a&gt;, $30.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div class="gmail_quote"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fleurs ou &amp;eacute;toiles? J'aime cette constellation &amp;agrave; la couleur ind&amp;eacute;finie, entre vert et jaune. Une impression discr&amp;egrave;te et originale. By &lt;a href="http://kalla.etsy.com"&gt;kalla&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;, $30&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt; 2. &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24620734" target="_blank"&gt;Oatmeal Fig Printed Napkins - Serviettes de table imprim&amp;eacute;es&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_quote"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24620734" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://ny-image3.etsy.com/il_430xN.69292079.jpg" alt="" width="430" height="430" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_quote"&gt;These napkins are so sophisticated, like all the things from this Swedish seller. She celebrates the beautiful things in nature with perfect taste. By &lt;a href="http://Lottahelleberg.etsy.com"&gt;Lottahelleberg&lt;/a&gt;, $24. &lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="gmail_quote"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Elles sont tr&amp;egrave;s raffin&amp;eacute;es comme tout ce que fait cette cr&amp;eacute;atrice originaire de Su&amp;egrave;de qui c&amp;eacute;l&amp;egrave;bre les belles choses de la nature avec un go&amp;ucirc;t parfait. By &lt;a href="http://Lottahelleberg.etsy.com"&gt;Lottahelleberg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;, $24.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt; 3. &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=29724284"&gt;Teal Buds - Pencil Case&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=29724284"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/11/teal_pencil_case.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;An ideal size to store my pens, watercolor brushes, or my makeup, according to the mood of the day! By &lt;a href="http://alliebeans.etsy.com"&gt;alliebeans&lt;/a&gt;, $17.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_quote"&gt;&lt;em&gt;D'une taille id&amp;eacute;ale pour ranger mes feutres fins, mes pinceaux &amp;agrave; aquarelles ou &amp;agrave; maquillage selon l'humeur du jour! By &lt;a href="http://alliebeans.etsy.com"&gt;alliebeans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;em&gt; $17.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt; 4. &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24480242" target="_blank"&gt;And the sea erases - Photography - Et la mer efface - Photographie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_quote"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24480242" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://ny-image3.etsy.com/il_430xN.68812671.jpg" alt="" width="430" height="430" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;I like the poetic work of this French photographer. This picture opens unknown territories: the sea deposits stars on the sand, and this makes me dream! By &lt;a href="http://Labokoff.etsy.com"&gt;Labokoff&lt;/a&gt;, $28.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;em&gt;J'aime le travail po&amp;eacute;tique de cette photographe fran&amp;ccedil;aise. Cette image ouvre des territoires inconnus : la mer qui d&amp;eacute;pose des &amp;eacute;toiles sur le sable, cela me fait totalement r&amp;ecirc;ver! By &lt;a href="http://Labokoff.etsy.com"&gt;Labokoff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;em&gt; $28.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt; 5. &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25809596" target="_blank"&gt;Gold Wave Ring - Bague en or&lt;img src="http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_430xN.73282126.jpg" alt="" width="430" height="342" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;This ring's a little rough but not too much, a little from elsewhere but no one knows where; I find this shape quite mysterious and ageless. By &lt;a href="http://onestonenewyork.etsy.com"&gt;onestonenewyork&lt;/a&gt;, $100.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Une bague un peu brute mais pas trop, un peu venue d'ailleurs mais on ne sait d'o&amp;ugrave;, je trouve cette forme assez myst&amp;eacute;rieuse, sans &amp;acirc;ge donc de tous les temps! By &lt;a href="http://onestonenewyork.etsy.com"&gt;onestonenewyork&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;em&gt; $100.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt; 6. &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=29095749" target="_blank"&gt;The Book Vase - Le livre vase&lt;img src="http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_430xN.84291066.jpg" alt="" width="430" height="430" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;This object will disturb the order of your library. It makes you think about the meaning of words and writing. Cleverly, the designer has slipped flowers between the pages of the vase. By &lt;a href="http://theshophouse.etsy.com"&gt;theshophouse&lt;/a&gt;, $44.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div class="gmail_quote"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cet objet vient troubler l'ordre de votre biblioth&amp;egrave;que. Il fait r&amp;eacute;fl&amp;eacute;chir sur le sens des mots et de l'&amp;eacute;criture. Astucieuse, la cr&amp;eacute;atrice a gliss&amp;eacute; des fleurs entre les pages du vase. By &lt;a href="http://theshophouse.etsy.com"&gt;theshophouse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;em&gt; $44.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;7. &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=30231561" target="_blank"&gt;Bird Keychain - Porte-cl&amp;eacute;s oiseaux&lt;img src="http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_430xN.88106680.jpg" alt="" width="430" height="430" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_quote"&gt;These small birds delight me! You can hear them whistle in the depths of your purse. By &lt;a href="http://inmybackyard.etsy.com"&gt;inmybackyard&lt;/a&gt;, $8.
&lt;p style="margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ces petits oiseaux m'enchantent! On les entend siffler au fond de son sac. By &lt;a href="http://inmybackyard.etsy.com"&gt;inmybackyard&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;$8.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div class="gmail_quote"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8. &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=30306460" target="_blank"&gt;Porcelain Chicago Flag Cup - Tasse en porcelaine&lt;img src="http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_430xN.88359666.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;These are so bright they'll make you start your day off right. By &lt;a href="http://CircaCeramics.etsy.com"&gt;CircaCeramics&lt;/a&gt;, $35.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div class="gmail_quote"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Elles sont lumineuses et vous font commencer la journ&amp;eacute;e du bon pied. By &lt;a href="http://CircaCeramics.etsy.com"&gt;CircaCeramics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;em&gt; $35. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="gmail_quote"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9. &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17584965" target="_blank"&gt;Circular Handmade Paper Tags with Cotton Strings- Etiquettes en coton&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17584965" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_430xN.45772401.jpg" alt="" width="430" height="285" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;These are appetizing and tender like macaroons! They would also be perfect for Christmas gifts. By &lt;a href="http://artbynaomi.etsy.com"&gt;artbynaomi&lt;/a&gt;, $4.75.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Ils sont app&amp;eacute;tissants et tendres comme des macarons ! En coton, &amp;agrave; semer dans la maison ils seront aussi impeccables pour attribuer les cadeaux de No&amp;euml;l. By &lt;a href="http://artbynaomi.etsy.com"&gt;artbynaomi&lt;/a&gt;, $4.75.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt; 10. &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27910602" target="_blank"&gt;Chelsea Flower Cards - Six Cartes fleuries&lt;img src="http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_430xN.80313522.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;Such a good mood emanates from these cards. A cheerful and fresh creation that makes you want to write little notes to friends. By &lt;a href="http://tamar.etsy.com"&gt;tamar&lt;/a&gt;, $12.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div class="gmail_quote"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Quelle bonne humeur &amp;eacute;mane de ces cartes. Une cr&amp;eacute;ation fra&amp;icirc;che et joyeuse qui donne envie d'&amp;eacute;crire des petits mots &amp;agrave; ses amis. By &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://tamar.etsy.com"&gt;tamar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, $12.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="gmail_quote" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/guest-curator/"&gt;Guest Curators&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/etsy-international/"&gt;Etsy International&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/gift-guides/the-world-traveler/243"&gt;Gifts for the World Traveler&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;


</summary></entry><entry><title>Seller How-To: 5 Tips for Item Descriptions</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/seller-how-to-5-tips-for-item-descriptions-6017/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-11-11T16:48:00-05:00</updated><author><name>daniellexo</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/seller-how-to-5-tips-for-item-descriptions-6017/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://daniellexo.etsy.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right;" src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/02/daniellexo.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="152" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;Do you have writer's block when it comes to crafting your Etsy item listings? You're in luck! Optimize your shop with the following five tips for effective and descriptive prose in your product listings. You'll have a way with words in no time!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Create an inverted pyramid.&lt;/strong&gt; The most important information about your item should be first in your description &amp;mdash; not only because shoppers want the details on your items as soon as possible, but also because it's a smart way to optimize the way your description displays in Google search results.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/11/descr_.jpg" alt="" width="492" height="485" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tip: Always use the Google search results preview.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Short paragraphs and bullet points are your friends.&lt;/strong&gt; Visitors to your shop might be looking for a specific size or material, so make it easy for them to glean that info from your descriptions by cutting out superfluous language and making good use of bullet points. Think about your descriptions as a way to answer your buyer's questions (within reason, of course).&amp;nbsp; Here's a forum thread, &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6093673"&gt;20 Questions Your Buyers are Asking&lt;/a&gt;, to help you get an idea of what those questions could be.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Keep an eye on your web analytics results.&lt;/strong&gt; (Find out how to set that up in the &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/faq_selling.php#ga"&gt;Seller FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.)&amp;nbsp; Keep a list of the keywords visitors searched for when they found your shop and write with these keywords in mind. Remember that your tags are keywords used by Etsy Search, but your most important tags and materials should also be scattered throughout your descriptions so that internet searches (through Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc) can find you too! These sites are more likely to pick up keywords from your descriptions rather than your list of tags.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. Just like a good therapist suggests, use "I" statements.&lt;/strong&gt; Speaking in the first person will help you connect with your visitor on a personal level &amp;mdash; and isn't that what they are looking for when they come to shop on Etsy? Show a bit of your personality! Think of your item descriptions as you would when meeting a new friend: you want to be polite, but you also want to be your natural self.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. End with a link.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Did you know you can copy and paste Etsy URLs in your descriptions and they will function as a hyperlink? Use this to your advantage. If your visitor has read your item description and is not biting, don't let them float away off the computer, to another website, Etsy shop or back to their search results. Instead, give them a link to learn more about you, see your entire shop, check out your policies or even a link to send you a conversation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Want more tips? Check out these links:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/writing-for-an-online-audience-how-to-750"&gt;Writing for an Online Audience&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/section/howTos/article/the-etsy-seller-handbook-all-our-how-tos-about-selling/2383" target="_blank"&gt;Seller Handbook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


</summary></entry><entry><title>Etsy Success Tips: Make Your Shop Work for You</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/etsy-success-tips-make-your-shop-work-for-you-5086/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-09-10T10:15:00-05:00</updated><author><name>palomasnest</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/etsy-success-tips-make-your-shop-work-for-you-5086/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://PalomasNest.etsy.com"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right;" src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/09/palomasnest.jpg" alt="" width="139" height="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Caroline, who runs the successful Etsy Shop &lt;a href="http://PalomasNest.etsy.com"&gt;Paloma&amp;rsquo;s Nest&lt;/a&gt;, has some expert advice for sellers. Read on to find out some of her tips! &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;Etsy sellers are known for the time, love, and energy they dedicate to their craft &amp;mdash; using quality materials, originality, and great attention to detail. Buyers come to Etsy for a special shopping experience, and your shop is your window to the world. Make sure you are putting your best foot forward so buyers like what they see and come in for more. This post is to encourage you to use the tools Etsy provides to make your shop a success!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/09/successart1.jpg" alt="" width="501" height="217" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Photo by &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a title="Check out TammysTreasureChest's store" href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5673744"&gt;TammysTreasureChest &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So, Who Are You, Anyways?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;Your Etsy shop is loaded with great products...but is it loaded with great information about you and your business? Your Shop Policies, Profile and Location sections are the perfect places to share this information &amp;mdash; they tell your buyer about who you are and what type of shop you have. Part of the process of buying handmade is knowing from where and whom your purchase is coming. Buyers LOVE to know the story behind a product, so share a little in your Profile section!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;Basic Shop Policies help to legitimize your online shop, and they can reassure customers that they are making a secure transaction with a reliable seller. After all, this is a business you are running, so be sure you are coming across as a professional. Try your best to not leave these sections blank. For more help with Shop Policies, check out this post: &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/service-tips-for-sellers-creating-policies-that-work-2095"&gt;Service Tips for Sellers: Creating Policies That Work&lt;/a&gt;. These &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/title/profile-writing/"&gt;posts&lt;/a&gt; delve into crafting a Profile page and other text bits of your Etsy shop.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/09/successart2.jpg" alt="" width="498" height="216" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Photo by &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a title="Check out kittybblove's store" href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6725260"&gt;kittybblove &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Than One&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;Are you ever disappointed when an item you&amp;rsquo;ve been admiring is sold, or the link you are using is no longer active? Don&amp;rsquo;t let your lack of inventory be the reason your customers can&amp;rsquo;t find you! If your designs can be remade (and you are willing and able to create like-designs or multiples), or you are selling supplies, be sure to take advantage of the &amp;ldquo;Quantity&amp;rdquo; feature when listing your items.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;Many sellers like to list each and every item, one at a time, and then simply relist it when it sells; while this method does give you a fresh listing each time, there are many sometimes overlooked benefits to listing larger quantities of your item at one time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;Some of these benefits include:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Your links stay active &amp;mdash; both in your buyers&amp;rsquo; Favorites lists, and in blogs and other sites all over the web that may be linking back to your Etsy shop listing.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;You can see long term stats on your listing, such as views and hearts, which can be tracked over time and give you valuable information about your product and any marketing efforts (such as Showcase slots). This will also be relevant to your &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/title/google-analytics/"&gt;Google Analytics&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;You won&amp;rsquo;t &amp;ldquo;miss&amp;rdquo; a sale because you didn&amp;rsquo;t relist another item quickly enough. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;If you're featured in a high traffic area, such as the homepage of Etsy, your item will remain featured until you're sold out. Higher quantity means more sales and more happy shoppers.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/09/successart3.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Photo by &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a title="Check out KeysAndMemories's store" href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5104393"&gt;KeysAndMemories &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The &amp;ldquo;Top Three&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The top three spots in your shop carry a lot of weight here in the interconnected world of Etsy. Many Etsians love to shop by searching through other members' lists of Favorite Sellers. Ever notice the three photos that show up next to the avatar on these Favorites lists? They are the first three items (the last three you listed) in your shop &amp;mdash; NOT necessarily your "Featured Listings."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;Make sure these three most recently listed items are representative of the variety of items available in your shop, or you may be missing out on catching your target audience...if you sell mittens, hats, and scarves, don&amp;rsquo;t let three hats sit in the &amp;ldquo;top three.&amp;rdquo; Mix it up, so it is clear you offer more than one style of items. Take care to notice this each and every time you renew or add a new item listing. It serves as a mini snapshot of your shop.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/09/successart4.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="217" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Photo by &lt;a title="Check out Canemah's store" href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5014982"&gt;Canemah &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Photos Photos Photos&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Images are your most powerful tool as a seller. Luckily, Etsy offers sellers many opportunities to display multiple images of your product in your shop. Take your &amp;ldquo;good&amp;rdquo; photos a step further, and ask yourself if they are living up to their potential as important marketing tools for your shop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ask yourself these questions:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Are your photos consistent throughout your Etsy shop? &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Do they lend a cohesive look to your brand and convey a strong sense of quality?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pay attention to the various backgrounds or props you are using in your photos. Are they in line with your shop style and the story you are telling through your work?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;Extraordinary images will build recognition for your shop. There are several great &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/title/photography-how-to/"&gt;photo tutorials and tips &lt;/a&gt;offered right here on Etsy's blog; if you combine these tips with your own brand and vision, the photos of your work will stand out in a crowd, both on Etsy and throughout the Internet.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;Best of luck with these tips and happy selling!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These tips were first published in the Etsy Success newsletter; sign up &lt;a href="http://mailinglist.etsy.com"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for a plethora of more great tips and advice (and be sure to frequent the &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/the-etsy-seller-handbook-all-our-how-tos-about-selling-2383/"&gt;Etsy Seller Handbook Series&lt;/a&gt; for a collection of all our seller tips).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


</summary></entry><entry><title>Tech Update: Sorting Your Item</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-update-sorting-your-item-4913/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-09-09T10:30:00-05:00</updated><author><name>amydec, sean11, TechUpdates</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-update-sorting-your-item-4913/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/faq_selling.php#what_are_tags" target="_blank"&gt;Tags&lt;/a&gt; are keywords sellers attach to their items during the &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/help_guide_listing.php" target="_blank"&gt;item listing process&lt;/a&gt;. After selecting a category for your item, sellers can attach up to 13 keywords or tags. These tags are used to help surface items in Etsy's Search, and they currently determine which subcategories your item falls under.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="im"&gt;For example, an item in the Bags and Purses Category with the tags "Clutch" and "Applique" will appear in the &lt;strong&gt;Clutch&lt;/strong&gt; subcategory and &lt;strong&gt;Applique&lt;/strong&gt; subsubcategory of &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/category/bags_and_purses/clutch/applique"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bags and Purses&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/09/SortYourItem_CategoryPage.png" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Etsy suggests subcategories for your item on Step 2 of the item listing process, where sellers are asked to "sort your item." These suggestions come in the form of links based on the tags you enter or suggested subcategories you choose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the past, these suggested subcategories appeared as "Related Tags" and the suggested subcategories could come from anywhere in Etsy's category tree. Beginning today, we'll only suggest subcategories relevant to your chosen top-level category. We're also making it clearer that these suggestions are not only tags, but also directly relate to the Etsy Categories.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Why are we doing this? We believe this update will help reduce mistagging and confusion during the listing process, and help make the Etsy Categories more relevant. This update should make the item listing experience feel a little more logical.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="im"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/09/SortYourItem_New.png" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There is no need to edit or re-tag your listings. You can still enter tags not suggested by Etsy during the item listing process, and the order of your chosen subcategories does not have an impact on your placement in Etsy's Categories. For tagging tips, see this article on &lt;a title="current best practices for tagging items on Etsy" href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/guidelines-tips-tagging-on-etsy-281" target="_blank"&gt;current best practices for tagging items on Etsy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;We're taking a thorough look at categorization and tagging on Etsy, and this small adjustment is part of that process.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/virtual_labs.php"&gt;Check the Virtual Labs Schedule for Shop Critiques&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/seller-handbook"&gt;View the Etsy Seller Handbook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


</summary></entry><entry><title>Tech Update: Introducing Rearrange Your Shop</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-update-introducing-rearrange-your-shop-5050/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-09-03T15:15:00-05:00</updated><author><name>kutty, okaysee, quiiver, TechUpdates</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-update-introducing-rearrange-your-shop-5050/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;p&gt;Today we released a new feature for all sellers that allows you to rearrange the order of the listings in your shop. When the &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-update-beta-test-of-new-rearrange-your-shop-feature-4051/"&gt;preview video&lt;/a&gt; got a record-breaking response, we knew this was a feature many sellers wanted as soon as possible! We want to thank all of our &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-update-beta-test-of-new-rearrange-your-shop-feature-4051/"&gt;beta testers&lt;/a&gt; over the last few months who provided feedback and greatly improved the feature during development.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Below, we have detailed instructions on how to use the Rearrange Your Shop site feature. Please note the following:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We will throttle the feature to all sellers over the next two days, so for a short period only a subset of sellers will have access.&amp;nbsp; The selection process is random.&amp;nbsp; You will know if the feature is turned on by going to &lt;em&gt;Your Etsy &amp;gt; Shop Appearance&lt;/em&gt; and viewing the bottom of the page.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;You need to enable the feature before you can start using it. See instructions below on how to enable this feature.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We recommend that you have a high speed internet connection when using Rearrange Your Shop.&amp;nbsp; The feature pulls a lot of data to your browser and requires a cable, DSL or other high speed connection for best performance.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The feature was tested on and is confirmed to work with the following browsers: Internet Explorer versions 6 to 8, Firefox version 3 and higher, and Safari version 3 and higher. We do not recommend using this feature on browsers that are not listed above.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;This feature was built with a systemwide "on/off switch." What does this mean? Under extreme circumstances when Etsy needs to manage the load on our servers, we could temporarily disable this feature for all sellers. Sellers would be notified with a message under &lt;em&gt;Your Etsy &amp;gt; Shop Appearance&lt;/em&gt;. In short, our Engineering Team could turn off this one feature without taking down the rest of the site &amp;mdash; be it for maintenance or for site speed and performance reasons to maintain the shopping experience on Etsy.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here is how to get started:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sign in and go to &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/your_etsy.php"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Your Etsy.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Click on &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop_appearance.php"&gt;Shop Appearance.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;At the bottom of the page you will see a section for &lt;em&gt;Rearrange Your Shop&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/09/rys_your_etsy.jpg" alt="" width="508" height="185" /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Enable the feature and save.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Go to your shop's homepage (&lt;a href="http://yourshopname.etsy.com"&gt;yourshopname.etsy.com&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Under Featured Items (if you have that enabled), you will see a link to "Rearrange Your Shop."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/09/sample_shop_with_rys_.jpg" alt="" width="491" height="530" /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;When clicked, you will be placed in an new mode where you can drag and drop listings. Here is a screenshot of when you mouse over a listing:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/09/rys_highlight_item.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="500" /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Finally here is screenshot of moving a listing:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/09/rys_move_item.jpg" alt="" width="505" height="497" /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For additional questions, you can reference the brief FAQ below.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the Rearrange Your Shop feature?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rearrange Your Shop feature allows sellers to rearrange the item listings in their shops to any order they wish.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How does the feature work?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To rearrange your listings, you click and drag your item listings to change the order on any page of your shop. Remember, each shop page has a total of 21 listings. If you want to move a listing between pages, you can click on a listing and select the page it should be moved to. Note, if you hold down shift when you move a listing between pages, it will keep you on the current page. Normally when you move a listing to a new page, you will be taken the new page.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What happens when I add a listing or relist after I change my shop layout?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you add a new listing to your shop, that listing will appear first, even if you rearranged your listings previously in your shop. Once a listing is added, you can rearrange it in your shop as well. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What will shoppers see when they view my shop after I rearranged my listings?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The default view for shoppers will be the new custom layout you created. Shoppers can still choose to sort listings based on time listed and price.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does rearranging listings change the way I feature items in my shop?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No, the Featured Items section will remain the same and is managed separately.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do I turn the feature off?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;You can turn the feature off by going to &lt;em&gt;Your Etsy &amp;gt; Shop Appearance&lt;/em&gt;. From there you can disable the feature. When you turn the feature off, shoppers will see your listings sorted by the time they were listed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can I rearrange listings for each of my sections?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At this time, you can only rearrange listings for the main portion of your shop, not each section.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are some features Etsy might add to Rearrange Your Shop in the future?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the future, we would like to add the following enhancements to Rearrange Your Shop:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Adding more keyboard shortcuts for faster rearranging.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Including the custom order in more areas of Etsy, including the shop view under Your Etsy and the Etsy Mini.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Changing behavior such that when you edit a listing or relist, it stays in the same location in your shop.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We are so happy to be launching this new feature for all sellers! &lt;strong&gt;Please let us know if you have comments or questions in this &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6271336"&gt;Forum discussion thread&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/strong&gt;(We'll close commenting here in order to better follow the conversation.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://mailinglist.etsy.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/article_images/icon_EtsyEmails2.jpg" alt="" align="right" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;P.S. If you would like to receive breaking, vital Etsy news as it happens &amp;mdash; delivered straight to your email inb&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;ox&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; &amp;mdash;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; then sign up for &lt;a href="http://mailinglist.etsy.com/"&gt;Etsy News Alerts emails&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Read more about it &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/etsy-alerts-the-new-news-emails-1663"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Expect this as an Etsy Alert email in your inbox if you already subscribe to the list.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can also get an RSS feed of all TechUpdates &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/feeds/author/TechUpdates"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


</summary></entry><entry><title>Tech Update: Beta Test of New Rearrange Your Shop Feature</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-update-beta-test-of-new-rearrange-your-shop-feature-4051/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-09-01T14:30:00-05:00</updated><author><name>kutty, mcfunley, objecked, quiiver, TechUpdates</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-update-beta-test-of-new-rearrange-your-shop-feature-4051/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;UPDATE: We have completed the final phase of beta testing for the Rearrange Your Shop feature. During this final phase, the shops included in beta testing will be available for everyone to view. If you come across one of these shops, you will see that the sort order for the shop's items will say "Custom" instead of the default, "Most Recently Listed."&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The final step after this phase is to provide the feature to all Etsy sellers. Thanks so much for your patience while we test the new feature &amp;mdash; we know sellers are eager to use it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[The following was originally published on June 9, 2009.]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today we began a closed beta test of our new Rearrange Your Shop feature with a handful of selected Etsy sellers.&amp;nbsp; This feature allows sellers to arrange items in their shops by dragging and dropping items.&amp;nbsp; To give you a sense of how this works, we recorded a quick product demo. (Watch the video above.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Over the course of the next few weeks we will gather feedback on the user experience, expand the beta to include more sellers, and we will post an announcement on the blog when the feature is available to all Etsy sellers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For additional questions, you can reference the brief FAQ below.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the new Rearrange Your Shop feature?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The new Rearrange Your Shop feature allows sellers to rearrange the item listings in their shops to any order they wish.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How will I know if I am part of the beta?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; We will send an email to beta participants.&amp;nbsp; Sorry, we cannot accept additional beta testers beyond the original group at this time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How does the feature work?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To rearrange your items, you click and drag your items to change the order on any page of your shop. Remember, each shop page has a total of 21 items. If you want to move an item between pages, you can click on an item and select the page the item should be moved to. When moving an item to a new page, the item will always appear as the first item on the new page. Finally, when you've completed your new layout, you can save or cancel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What happens when I add or relist items after I change my shop layout?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you add a new item to your shop, that item will appear first, even if you rearranged your items previously in your shop. Once an item is added, you can rearrange that item in your shop as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What will buyers see when they view my shop after I rearranged my items?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The default view for buyers will be the new custom layout you created. Buyers can still sort items based on time listed and price.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does rearranging items change the way I feature items in my shop?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No, the Featured Items section will remain the same and is managed separately.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can I rearrange items for each of my sections?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At this time, you can only rearrange items for the main portion of your shop, not each section.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We are looking forward to sharing this new feature with everyone &amp;mdash; we just want to make sure it's the best it can be!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;P.S. We closed commenting on the Storque post because the record-breaking number of comments was slowing down the load time on the post! Please continue to give us your feedback in this &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6181848"&gt;forum thread&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://mailinglist.etsy.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/article_images/icon_EtsyEmails2.jpg" alt="" align="right" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;P.P.S. If you would like to receive breaking, vital Etsy news as it happens &amp;mdash; delivered straight to your email inb&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;ox&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; &amp;mdash;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; then sign up for &lt;a href="http://mailinglist.etsy.com/"&gt;Etsy News Alerts emails&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Read more about it &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/etsy-alerts-the-new-news-emails-1663"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Expect this as an Etsy Alert email in your inbox if you already subscribe to the list.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can also get an RSS feed of all TechUpdates &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/feeds/author/TechUpdates"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


</summary></entry><entry><title>Tech Update: Caching and Site Speed on Etsy</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-update-caching-and-site-speed-on-etsy-4702/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-08-10T15:05:00-05:00</updated><author><name>chaddickerson, TechUpdates</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-update-caching-and-site-speed-on-etsy-4702/</id><summary type="html">

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&lt;p&gt;In recent weeks, Etsy has been experiencing record site traffic, and we are grateful to the buyers and sellers who are visiting Etsy now more than ever, even in summer months. In fact, the past three weeks have been the three biggest traffic weeks in Etsy's history. With the surge in traffic, the demand on our systems has grown, and we have had to make adjustments to deal with the increasing demand. One of the methods we have used is known as "caching." In a nutshell, "caching" refers to the practice of saving a copy of the original source of information in a place that is faster to access than the original source of information. When lots of users visit the site, the speed of access is important, but since a "cache" is a copy, the copy can be slightly out of sync with the original information.&amp;nbsp; In those cases, there can be a "lag" when the information is accessed from the cached location.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many of you have experienced this in the past two weeks during our high-traffic period, as you may have noticed item listing edits appeared to lag in updating. In all cases, the price of an item has always been reflected accurately when a buyer places it in a cart. After further tuning of our systems to deal with the recent surge in traffic, I think we overcompensated with our caching approach on listing pages, and I have asked the Engineering Team to change our caching strategy back to the way it worked previously. In practical terms, this means that sellers' edits to item listing pages should show much more quickly. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Caching can be a complex subject. You may be familiar with the term "caching" from your use of a web browser like Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer or Opera. With this type of caching, your web browser pulls data (usually images) from remote systems on the Internet and saves a copy of (or "caches") that data on your computer to make access to the information faster. In that scenario, instead of going repeatedly to a far away server to fetch an image, your computer saves a copy of the image on your hard drive to make the web page load faster. As web sites have grown rapidly, computer systems that power web sites like Etsy have developed caching practices of their own to speed delivery of web pages. &amp;nbsp;When a site like Etsy is slow, fewer buyers come to the site, and shopping is more difficult and frustrating.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are different caches (or copies) of information that live in different systems inside a large web operation. At Etsy, we use Solr (open source search software) to provide the fastest search experience for users. Our use of Solr resulted in immediate increases in search speed and volume (see the post &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-updates-improving-search-3545" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;), making it easier for buyers to find and purchase items on Etsy. To achieve that level of speed, Solr essentially acts as a high-speed cache, or copy, of the original listing data. As new listings are created on Etsy, they enter a queue that updates the items in the site search cache (or copy) in a matter of minutes in most cases, keeping the copy synchronized as closely as possible. Visitors to Etsy are rewarded with a fast search experience.&amp;nbsp; Compared to a year ago, Etsy's search is roughly 10 times faster while handling twice the volume of listings.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We also use a number of other caching mechanisms to keep the web site fast and responsive as our traffic grows. We have always used caching as a means to increase the speed of the site with the ultimate goal of making it easier for sellers to manage their shops and for buyers to find and purchase products in those shops. Our goal is to always provide the freshest information possible to our buyers and sellers as they use Etsy. As we continue to grow, we may have to make trade-offs to keep the site fast and speedy for buyers and sellers, but we will do our best in the future to minimize any lags you may experience and do a better job of explaining up front any changes that might affect the user experience. &amp;nbsp;In trying to provide greater stability on the site, we ultimately turned one of our system tuning knobs too far in one direction, and I apologize for the confusion it caused.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please see this &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6245768"&gt;Forum thread&lt;/a&gt; for discussion.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://mailinglist.etsy.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/article_images/icon_EtsyEmails2.jpg" alt="" align="right" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; If you want to get the breaking, vital Etsy news as it happens &amp;mdash; delivered straight to your email inb&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;ox, then sign up for &lt;a href="http://mailinglist.etsy.com/"&gt;Etsy News Alerts emails&lt;/a&gt;. Read more about it &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/etsy-alerts-the-new-news-emails-1663"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Expect this as an Etsy Alert email in your inbox if you already subscribe to the list.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can also get an RSS feed of all TechUpdates &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/feeds/author/TechUpdates"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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</summary></entry><entry><title>My Top 10 Monogram Pendants</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/my-top-10-monogram-pendants-4549/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-07-31T13:20:00-05:00</updated><author><name>TeenAngster</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/my-top-10-monogram-pendants-4549/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/authors/TeenAngster/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/02/alison_.jpg" alt="" width="88" height="131" align="right" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Giving (and receiving) a generic gift is always such a letdown ("Another toaster? ...You shouldn't have..."). Becoming a guru in the art of gift giving need not be brain surgery: simply give the joy of customization! Knowing that something was handmade just for &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; elicits a warm and fuzzy feeling, and if you've been looking for ideas to get you started, you need look no further. This Top 10 collection is devoted to the art of custom monogram pendants. Show off your birthright by wearing your initials!&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27660173"&gt;Fine Silver Monogram Necklace &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27660173"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/d/d3e/505/il_200x200.79471144.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I adore the muted lines of this primitive-style hand-sculpted metal clay pendant. Once fired it becomes fine silver.  By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://MadisonReeceDesigns.etsy.com"&gt;MadisonReeceDesigns&lt;/a&gt;, $34.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27660173"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://MadisonReeceDesigns.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2.&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28200151"&gt;Tiny Initial Necklace &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28200151"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/3/357/9c9/il_200x200.81285213.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Simple and sweet, this tiny initial necklace by &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://simplyuboutique.etsy.com"&gt;simplyuboutique&lt;/a&gt; is perfect for those with an affinity for modern typography. (Sans-serif fans, put your hands up!) $16.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28200151"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://simplyuboutique.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3.&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26727064"&gt;Custom Initial Pendant &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26727064"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/c/cd8/3b4/il_200x200.76345986.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Looking for something a little fancier? The cursive lettering of these pendants is quite effusive! By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://Laladesignstudio.etsy.com"&gt;Laladesignstudio&lt;/a&gt;, $25.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26727064"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://Laladesignstudio.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4.&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28430803"&gt;Two Initial Square Pendant in 14K Yellow, White, or Rose Gold &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28430803"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/9/97b/e5a/il_200x200.82062173.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You and your honey can wear your hearts on your sleeves (er, necks) with this custom pair of initial pendants. By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://SorellaJewelry.etsy.com"&gt;SorellaJewelry&lt;/a&gt;, $335.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28430803"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://SorellaJewelry.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5.&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28263932"&gt;1877 Sterling Silver Antique Signature Monogram Necklace&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28263932"&gt; &lt;img src="http://ny-image3.etsy.com/il_430xN.81708667.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These monogram necklaces come with a bit of history. According to &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://dlkdesigns.etsy.com"&gt;dlkdesigns&lt;/a&gt;, "While looking through my old book collection, one of my favorite pastimes is coming to margin notes and signatures from those who have held the books before me. This 'e' is an original clipping snipped from an antique dictionary from 1877. The first page includes many names signed almost like you would in a yearbook. Own a piece of history, 132 years old." Amazing! By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://dlkdesigns.etsy.com"&gt;dlkdesigns&lt;/a&gt;, $36.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28263932"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://dlkdesigns.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6.&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26103739"&gt; Black and White Nouveau Monogram Glass Frame Pendant&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26103739"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/b/b13/57d/il_200x200.74266694.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This Art Nouveau beauty is fit for a queen! Best of all, you can unlatch the frame and slip in a photograph if you elect to change the design. By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://theMIX.etsy.com"&gt;theMIX&lt;/a&gt;, $25.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26103739"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://theMIX.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7.&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24041148"&gt;Custom Vintage Initial Locket Necklaces &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24041148"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/9/927/013/il_200x200.79080812.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These charming lockets are made from vintage West German glass cabochons. Get yours before they're gone! By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://shescraftyhandmade.etsy.com"&gt;shescraftyhandmade&lt;/a&gt;, $23.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24041148"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://shescraftyhandmade.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8.&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28469346"&gt;AQUA letter of your choice monogrammed wax seal pendant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28469346"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/e/e3e/c15/il_200x200.82189525.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Does this pendant look familiar? It just may be if you're a watcher of reality television phenomenon &lt;a href="http://abc.go.com/primetime/bachelorette/index?pn=index" target="_blank"&gt;The Bachelorette&lt;/a&gt;! This particular piece was proudly worn by Jillian (with the letter "J" emblazoned upon it) this season. Publicist Lisa Hanson told us how this necklace came to be on the show: "&lt;span style="color: #010101;"&gt;Recently I purchased a necklace for myself from little miss &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://RitzyMisfit.etsy.com"&gt;RitzyMisfit&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;span style="color: #010101;"&gt;Her customer service was so fabulous and I loved her necklace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #010101;"&gt; so much that I decided I wanted to help her grow her business.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #010101;"&gt; I emailed and asked if she was interested in sending one of her necklaces to Jillian, this season's Bachelorette, while the show was filming in Hawaii.&amp;nbsp;She made and overnighted the necklace and, of course, Jillian wore it on the show!&lt;/span&gt;" By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://RitzyMisfit.etsy.com"&gt;RitzyMisfit&lt;/a&gt;, $28.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28469346"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://RitzyMisfit.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9.&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25074214"&gt;copper CUSTOM dot &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25074214"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/c/c9d/cf5/il_200x200.70810999.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Spice up your neckline with a custom copper dot (and maybe show off your allegiance to Etsy while you're at it!). By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://museglass.etsy.com"&gt;museglass&lt;/a&gt;, $22.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25074214"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://museglass.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10.&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28311823"&gt;Silver Petite Initial Necklace &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28311823"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/2/236/508/il_200x200.81660406.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I love the delicate simplicity of this tiny letter. Make a statement &amp;mdash; subtly. By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://threebirdsdesigns.etsy.com"&gt;threebirdsdesigns&lt;/a&gt;, $17.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28311823"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://threebirdsdesigns.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/Trends/"&gt;Trends&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/gift-guides/summer-fashion/133"&gt;Summer Fashion Gift Guide&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/search_results.php?search_type=all&amp;amp;search_query=custom+initial+jewelry&amp;amp;order=most_relevant&amp;amp;ship_to="&gt;Search for Custom Initial Jewelry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/showcase.php?showcase_id=jewelry"&gt;Sponsored Jewelry&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/showcase.php?showcase_id=jewelry"&gt;Pendant Picks&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/top-ten/"&gt;More Top Ten Lists&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/category/jewelry"&gt;Jewelry Category&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


</summary></entry><entry><title>Etsy Finds: Access Yourself</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/etsy-finds-access-yourself-4503/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-07-30T12:00:00-05:00</updated><author><name>emilybidwell</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/etsy-finds-access-yourself-4503/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/authors/emilybidwell/"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right;" src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/06/emilybidwell.jpg" alt="emilybidwell.jpg" width="79" height="121" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;C'mon, girls: access yourself! Etsy's &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/gift-guides/summer-fashion/133"&gt;summer accessory&lt;/a&gt; hot list is here to save your weary wardrobe with juicy jewel tones, cool classics and the latest in summer trends. These &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/search_results.php?search_type=all&amp;amp;search_query=summer+accessories&amp;amp;order=date_desc&amp;amp;ship_to=&amp;amp;view_type=gallery&amp;amp;page=2"&gt;accessories&lt;/a&gt; are must-haves for summer and fall, so go ahead and layer it, belt it and top it with these Etsy gems. Be sure to check out &lt;a title="Summer Fashion Gift Guide" href="http://www.etsy.com/gift-guides/summer-fashion/133"&gt;Etsy's Summer Fashion Gift Guide&lt;/a&gt; for more accents and ornaments.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/6zej5"&gt;Statement Necklaces&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Make a serious statement at the neckline! Transform an everyday piece from your wardrobe into a stunning evening look with sculptural and voluptuous necklaces.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28450509"&gt;Chiffon and Tulle Ribbon Necklace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28450509"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/9/92b/82f/il_200x200.81696178.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://BejewelledBespoke.etsy.com"&gt;BejewelledBespoke&lt;/a&gt;, $55.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28450509"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://BejewelledBespoke.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28232857"&gt;Metallic Leather and Ribbon Necklace &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28232857"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/d/d95/2af/il_200x200.81396325.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://TannerandHide.etsy.com"&gt;TannerandHide&lt;/a&gt;, $42.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28232857"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://TannerandHide.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28083729"&gt; Salome's Golden Necklace &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28083729"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/e/ea3/c2f/il_200x200.80897247.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://wontonlove.etsy.com"&gt;wontonlove&lt;/a&gt;, $42.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28083729"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://wontonlove.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24205639"&gt; Feather And Rhinestone Necklace &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24205639"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/c/cf7/a0b/il_200x200.67897220.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://Ferociter.etsy.com"&gt;Ferociter&lt;/a&gt;, $120.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24205639"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://Ferociter.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28281141"&gt; Wild Hearts Fringe Necklace&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28281141"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/c/c8f/a02/il_200x200.81556218.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://jozae.etsy.com"&gt;jozae&lt;/a&gt;, $24.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28281141"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://jozae.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27504750"&gt; Chestnut Bow Necklace &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27504750"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/0/014/ef2/il_200x200.78950878.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://bettula.etsy.com"&gt;bettula&lt;/a&gt;, $32.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27504750"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://bettula.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/140Jf"&gt;Headbands&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now is the time to nab a super feminine headband that will match the coy twinkle in your eye. 1940s glamour, sweet florals, and summer festivals are the inspiration for this group of pretty toppers.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26816387"&gt; Urban Jungle Animal Print Headband &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26816387"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/8/869/5be/il_200x200.76646685.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://jenniferloiselle.etsy.com"&gt;jenniferloiselle&lt;/a&gt;, $41.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26816387"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://jenniferloiselle.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28105936"&gt; Silver Leaf Headband &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28105936"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/6/66a/c43/il_200x200.80971718.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://IceCreamCandy.etsy.com"&gt;IceCreamCandy&lt;/a&gt;, $39.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28105936"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://IceCreamCandy.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25805606"&gt; Flower Headband - Purple and Blue &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25805606"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/e/e32/69e/il_200x200.73270220.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://Amandallynn.etsy.com"&gt;Amandallynn&lt;/a&gt;, $16.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25805606"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://Amandallynn.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28028208"&gt; Turquoise Bow Headband &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28028208"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/1/1c9/d76/il_200x200.80709122.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://BeSomethingNew.etsy.com"&gt;BeSomethingNew&lt;/a&gt;, $32.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28028208"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://BeSomethingNew.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26062799"&gt; City Wings Headband by L.A. NATIVE &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26062799"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/0/03b/49d/il_200x200.74136037.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://LANATIVE.etsy.com"&gt;LANATIVE&lt;/a&gt;, $96.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26062799"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://LANATIVE.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27753981"&gt; Peony Flower Clip and Headband &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27753981"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/d/d93/fce/il_200x200.79789565.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://PbbFLowers.etsy.com"&gt;PbbFLowers&lt;/a&gt;, $14.95.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27753981"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://PbbFLowers.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/20IDa"&gt;Summer Scarves&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lightweight, gauzy scarves and wraps have been a hit all summer. Mix and match prints for an eclectic fresh look that will carry over into fall.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26343803"&gt; Beads - Jersey Cotton Scarf &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26343803"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/f/fef/773/il_200x200.75070132.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://alisontauber.etsy.com"&gt;alisontauber&lt;/a&gt;, $34.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26343803"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://alisontauber.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27877073"&gt; Wondagon Hand Printed Neckarf &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27877073"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/a/acb/3d8/il_200x200.80201208.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://WonderWonder.etsy.com"&gt;WonderWonder&lt;/a&gt;, $18.50.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27877073"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://WonderWonder.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20844264"&gt; SALE Spring patchwork silk scarf &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28615612"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/e/e22/cf4/il_200x200.56623051.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://konane.etsy.com"&gt;konane&lt;/a&gt;, $24.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20844264"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://konane.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21302543"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Silk Head Scarf - AQUA PRINT &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28615612"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/c/c50/6e8/il_200x200.60025655.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://NadineNewYork.etsy.com"&gt;NadineNewYork&lt;/a&gt;, $12.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28615612"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://NadineNewYork.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=23893366"&gt; Plant Life Handprinted Scarf &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=23893366"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/c/c82/bf4/il_200x200.66849875.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://inmybackyard.etsy.com"&gt;inmybackyard&lt;/a&gt;, $20.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=23893366"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://inmybackyard.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28157354"&gt; Bamboo Jersey Scarf &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28157354"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/0/004/d45/il_200x200.81143638.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://prettypennydesigns.etsy.com"&gt;prettypennydesigns&lt;/a&gt;, $16.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28157354"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://prettypennydesigns.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/category/bags_and_purses"&gt;Bags and Clutches&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Purses in vibrant hues and eye-popping colors will bring even your shyest dress to the dance party.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27933193"&gt; Leila Clutch &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27933193"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/b/b4c/9fa/il_200x200.80391164.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://percyhandmade.etsy.com"&gt;percyhandmade&lt;/a&gt;, $55.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27933193"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://percyhandmade.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27862965"&gt; Buttercup Clutch &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27862965"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/d/d90/17e/il_200x200.80154009.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://rejive.etsy.com"&gt;rejive&lt;/a&gt;, $34.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27862965"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://rejive.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27252843"&gt; The Wendy Clutch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27252843"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/e/eed/e1e/il_200x200.78104928.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://anaapple.etsy.com"&gt;anaapple&lt;/a&gt;, $38.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27252843"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://anaapple.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19192507"&gt; Zebra and Straw OOAK Handbag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19192507"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/7/7d4/53c/il_200x200.51118531.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://purseapalooza.etsy.com"&gt;purseapalooza&lt;/a&gt;, $45.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19192507"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://purseapalooza.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28490326"&gt; Owl Messenger &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28490326"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/b/b5e/388/il_200x200.79745570.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://mehran.etsy.com"&gt;mehran&lt;/a&gt;, $65.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28490326"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://mehran.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26954437"&gt; Canvas and Leather Saddle Bag &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26954437"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/4/47e/e2c/il_200x200.77103312.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://HOWEVER.etsy.com"&gt;HOWEVER&lt;/a&gt;, $68.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26954437"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://HOWEVER.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/sBfHj"&gt;Hats&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/2XvxP"&gt;Sunglasses&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Panama hats and fedoras paired with aviators evoke summer adventure, while fabulous sun hats and large sunglasses hold their place as summer essentials.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24338954"&gt; Linen Hat &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24338954"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/5/5a3/9e9/il_200x200.68339742.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://sanchia845.etsy.com"&gt;sanchia845&lt;/a&gt;, $75.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24338954"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://sanchia845.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28425026"&gt; Aviator Sunglasses &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28425026"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/f/fcb/a3a/il_200x200.82042686.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://Chigal.etsy.com"&gt;Chigal&lt;/a&gt;, $18.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28425026"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://Chigal.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26835340"&gt; Perfectly Sassified Hat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26835340"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/5/503/b0c/il_200x200.76709008.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://IfTheHatFitsByJackie.etsy.com"&gt;IfTheHatFitsByJackie&lt;/a&gt;, $35.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26835340"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://IfTheHatFitsByJackie.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28411613"&gt; Anya Vintage Sunglasses &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28411613"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/e/e70/c09/il_200x200.81997807.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://sippingtea.etsy.com"&gt;sippingtea&lt;/a&gt;, $42.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28411613"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://sippingtea.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25110761"&gt; Summer Raffia Fedora Hat&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25110761"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/5/5e2/273/il_200x200.70935025.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://onnesti.etsy.com"&gt;onnesti&lt;/a&gt;, $78.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25110761"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://onnesti.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28127526"&gt; Vintage French Black Sunglasses &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28127526"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/0/099/2f7/il_200x200.81044908.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://Vintage50sEyewear.etsy.com"&gt;Vintage50sEyewear&lt;/a&gt;, $45.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28127526"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://Vintage50sEyewear.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/LnNxH"&gt;Belts&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/1Nc93Q"&gt;Bracelets&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/LrNX2"&gt;Shoes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Leather belts instantly transform the silhouette of unstructured dresses and tunic tops. Go for fun, colorful bangles and bohemian printed shoes to complete your look!&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27170326"&gt; Brass Studded Leather Belt &lt;br /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27170326"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/6/69d/d98/il_200x200.77831567.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://aykutozen.etsy.com"&gt;aykutozen&lt;/a&gt;, $199.99.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27170326"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://aykutozen.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26141158"&gt; California Poppy Leather Belt &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26141158"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/1/1a5/0da/il_200x200.74392558.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://RHolmesCustomLeather.etsy.com"&gt;RHolmesCustomLeather&lt;/a&gt;, $175.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26141158"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://RHolmesCustomLeather.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27965973"&gt; Lace Up Ballet Moccasins &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27965973"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/0/055/e0c/il_200x200.80497908.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://spirocreations.etsy.com"&gt;spirocreations&lt;/a&gt;, $140.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27965973"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://spirocreations.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16872505"&gt; Handmade Sandals &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16872505"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/d/d16/822/il_200x200.43425266.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://scotatto.etsy.com"&gt;scotatto&lt;/a&gt;, $150.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16872505"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://scotatto.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27982933"&gt; Colorful Festival Wood Bracelet &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27982933"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/6/6a6/9ff/il_200x200.80555293.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://emmsgems.etsy.com"&gt;emmsgems&lt;/a&gt;, $12.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27982933"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://emmsgems.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=13620618"&gt; Copper Forged Bangle Trio &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=13620618"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/a/a89/2e9/il_200x200.48796369.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://Mocahete.etsy.com"&gt;Mocahete&lt;/a&gt;, $40.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=13620618"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://Mocahete.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;Looking for more &lt;a style="color: #0192b5;" href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/etsy-finds"&gt;Etsy Finds&lt;/a&gt;? Try these links:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/gift-guides/summer-fashion/133"&gt;Summer Fashion Guide&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/category/accessories"&gt;Accessories Category&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a style="color: #0192b5;" href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/title/trends"&gt;Trends&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a style="color: #0192b5;" href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/Gift%20Ideas"&gt;Gift Ideas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Need a daily fix of &lt;a style="color: #0192b5;" href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/title/etsy-finds"&gt;Etsy Finds&lt;/a&gt;? Sign up for the &lt;a style="color: #0192b5;" href="http://mailinglist.etsy.com/"&gt;Etsy Finds e-mail&lt;/a&gt;! Conveniently delivered to &lt;strong&gt;your&lt;/strong&gt; inbox!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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</summary></entry><entry><title>Etsy Finds: Trendspotting</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/etsy-finds-trendspotting-4372/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-07-13T12:00:00-05:00</updated><author><name>marymary, mtraub</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/etsy-finds-trendspotting-4372/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/authors/marymary/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/05/maryandrews.jpg" alt="" width="90" height="134" align="right" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Etsy shoppers are seldom satisfied with the conformist culture of mainstream retail. Ever edgy and innovative, Etsians share the collaborative role of global tastemaker. Today&amp;rsquo;s Finds are a virtual trend map, so that you might explore all of Etsy's hot product trends before they translate over to the mass market. With Etsy spending trends as your guide, your style will be effortlessly on key. Check out Etsy's &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/gift-guides/"&gt;Gift Guide Hot List&lt;/a&gt; for more emerging trends and contemporary styles.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h2&gt;Tour de France&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;We're right in the thick of the Tour this year, and outdoor biking, international travel, the flavor of the French countryside, and shades of yellow are making appearances in Etsy's marketplace. You'd best hurry while shopping this latest trend, as items are selling swiftly during the competitive bike race. See you at the finish!&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27600279"&gt; little plate speedy delivery&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27600279"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/e/e09/856/il_200x200.79270974.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://CircaCeramics.etsy.com"&gt;CircaCeramics&lt;/a&gt;, $30.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27600279"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://CircaCeramics.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27136734"&gt; honeybee recycled bike clock &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27136734"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/e/e6c/412/il_200x200.77719935.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://1byliz.etsy.com"&gt;1byliz&lt;/a&gt;, $36.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27136734"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://1byliz.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27168328"&gt;Handbag with bicycles in blue &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27168328"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/6/602/bf9/il_200x200.77823503.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://jenniferladd.etsy.com"&gt;jenniferladd&lt;/a&gt;, $60.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27168328"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://jenniferladd.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27589396"&gt; TOUR DE FRANCE earrings &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27589396"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/4/4d3/c41/il_200x200.79309287.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://madebysam.etsy.com"&gt;madebysam&lt;/a&gt;, $49.50.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27589396"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://madebysam.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25653225"&gt; Bike inner tube journal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25653225"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/6/652/633/il_200x200.72756191.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://palepink.etsy.com"&gt;palepink&lt;/a&gt;, $29.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25653225"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://palepink.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=23813079"&gt; Reusable Paris Snack Bag &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=23813079"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/1/138/cef/il_200x200.66577387.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://evelynfields.etsy.com"&gt;evelynfields&lt;/a&gt;, $5.99.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=23813079"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://evelynfields.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27567693"&gt; Brian bicycle note cards&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27567693"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/5/5cf/5d7/il_200x200.79162725.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://PeonyPaperie.etsy.com"&gt;PeonyPaperie&lt;/a&gt;, $12.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27567693"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://PeonyPaperie.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26498764"&gt; The Cyclist &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26498764"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/d/dbb/730/il_200x200.75591211.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://WhatOnceWas.etsy.com"&gt;WhatOnceWas&lt;/a&gt;, $25.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26498764"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://WhatOnceWas.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Summer Dresses&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/2wzY5"&gt;summer dress&lt;/a&gt; is a classic essential, ripe for reinvention. Look to Etsy to find the most fashion-forward trends before they hit the runways. When shopping dresses on Etsy, you can feel confident that you are supporting the designer directly and, while you're at it, saving yourself quite a chunk of change. For more of the latest in seasonal trends, shop our &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/gift-guides/summer-fashion/133"&gt;Fashion Guide&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26811239"&gt; Pretty Birdie's Summer Dress &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26811239"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/3/3d7/70a/il_200x200.76629117.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://stephanieteague.etsy.com"&gt;stephanieteague&lt;/a&gt;, $135.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26811239"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://stephanieteague.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24001460"&gt; LINEN DRESS WITH LACE &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24001460"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/5/5cc/01c/il_200x200.67209698.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://couvert.etsy.com"&gt;couvert&lt;/a&gt;, $125.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24001460"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://couvert.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25902110"&gt; burnt rose tunic &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25902110"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/f/fbd/0d0/il_200x200.73589973.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://sohomode.etsy.com"&gt;sohomode&lt;/a&gt;, $60.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25902110"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://sohomode.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26468984"&gt; Goblin Hood Babydoll dress&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26468984"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/e/e38/1c3/il_200x200.77946059.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://malam.etsy.com"&gt;malam&lt;/a&gt;, $225.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26468984"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://malam.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27443836"&gt; 1960s fabric dress&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27443836"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/3/37d/306/il_200x200.78749329.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://cristinapires.etsy.com"&gt;cristinapires&lt;/a&gt;, $150.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27443836"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://cristinapires.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=22557628"&gt; Pamela Blouse &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=22557628"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/3/30b/373/il_200x200.62376902.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://dianereafsnyder.etsy.com"&gt;dianereafsnyder&lt;/a&gt;, $54.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=22557628"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://dianereafsnyder.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27449066"&gt; Summer Sailor Dress &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27449066"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/a/a2a/c1d/il_200x200.78765646.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://luminia.etsy.com"&gt;luminia&lt;/a&gt;, $50.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27449066"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://luminia.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25487624"&gt; Cotton stone gray formal sundress&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25487624"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/4/4ee/bbf/il_200x200.72207211.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://JRoseAtelier.etsy.com"&gt;JRoseAtelier&lt;/a&gt;, $215.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25487624"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://JRoseAtelier.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vintage Cameras&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/A5Zko"&gt;Vintage cameras&lt;/a&gt; are all the buzz among collectors, interior designers and creative experts. Snag an unusual vintage camera for an instant decor centerpiece, to add to a budding collection, or for your next alternative photography project. Find more rare vintage cameras in our &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/search_results.php?search_type=vintage&amp;amp;search_query=camera&amp;amp;order=date_desc&amp;amp;ship_to="&gt;Vintage Category&lt;/a&gt; and be sure to have a look in our &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/gift-guides/vintage-what-s-old-is-new/163"&gt;Vintage Gift Guide.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27510333"&gt; ansco 1950s ready flash camera &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27510333"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/d/d93/2cc/il_200x200.78971913.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://5gardenias.etsy.com"&gt;5gardenias&lt;/a&gt;, $24.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27510333"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://5gardenias.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26971571"&gt; Vintage Camera In Sky Blue &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26971571"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/1/1ef/64e/il_200x200.77161192.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://SweetLoveVintage.etsy.com"&gt;SweetLoveVintage&lt;/a&gt;, $24.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26971571"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://SweetLoveVintage.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26865619"&gt; Beautiful Antique Folding Camera &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26865619"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/6/64b/f94/il_200x200.76808764.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://domestikate.etsy.com"&gt;domestikate&lt;/a&gt;, $50.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26865619"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://domestikate.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27597648"&gt; Konica Autoreflex T&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27597648"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/8/85c/337/il_200x200.79260876.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://MentaEra.etsy.com"&gt;MentaEra&lt;/a&gt;, $35.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27597648"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://MentaEra.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27460364"&gt; Vintage GAF seventy six XF &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27460364"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/2/278/7a2/il_200x200.78804516.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://buygollymissmolly.etsy.com"&gt;buygollymissmolly&lt;/a&gt;, $9.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27460364"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://buygollymissmolly.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27340150"&gt; Vintage Voitlander Perkeo II Camera &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27340150"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/0/0d3/94e/il_200x200.78398642.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://carmenandginger.etsy.com"&gt;carmenandginger&lt;/a&gt;, $58.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27340150"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://carmenandginger.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26902651"&gt; Vintage Retro Diana Camera&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26902651"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/a/aa8/8e5/il_200x200.76932947.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://VintageEtc.etsy.com"&gt;VintageEtc&lt;/a&gt;, $150.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26902651"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://VintageEtc.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26094135"&gt; Brownie Bulls-Eye Camera&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26094135"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/3/334/28e/il_200x200.74650853.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://JuJuToo.etsy.com"&gt;JuJuToo&lt;/a&gt;, $29.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26094135"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://JuJuToo.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gadget Cozies&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Whether you're out exploring during summer vacation or getting ready for back to school, your favorite electronics will be safe at your side with Etsy's &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/16bacr"&gt;chic cases&lt;/a&gt;. Laptops, cameras, and MP3 players will be protected in a style that's all your own. For more gadget cozies, shop our &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/gift-guides/geek-chic/100"&gt;Geek Chic&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/gift-guides/teens/60"&gt;Teen Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27602809"&gt; leather wallet/camera case&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27602809"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/9/907/9cd/il_200x200.79278805.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://valhallabrooklyn.etsy.com"&gt;valhallabrooklyn&lt;/a&gt;, $28.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27602809"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://valhallabrooklyn.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27623657"&gt; Stereo Hi-Fi iPhone Camera Case &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27623657"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/4/43a/928/il_200x200.79348349.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://craftingwithlove.etsy.com"&gt;craftingwithlove&lt;/a&gt;, $28.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27623657"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://craftingwithlove.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27606052"&gt; iPod Sock with Flower &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27606052"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/8/88e/6f9/il_200x200.79289523.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://KnitStorm.etsy.com"&gt;KnitStorm&lt;/a&gt;, $14.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27606052"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://KnitStorm.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27000547"&gt; goodyear - laptop sleeve&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27000547"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/2/2ec/1f0/il_200x200.77258828.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://brokesy.etsy.com"&gt;brokesy&lt;/a&gt;, $85.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27000547"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://brokesy.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17048662"&gt; Felt 3rd gen Nano Cozy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17048662"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/1/1e6/768/il_200x200.44006789.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://kersplash.etsy.com"&gt;kersplash&lt;/a&gt;, $14.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17048662"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://kersplash.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27319901"&gt; MacBook sleeve &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27319901"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/d/d79/58a/il_200x200.78330133.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://blackeyedsheep.etsy.com"&gt;blackeyedsheep&lt;/a&gt;, $29.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27319901"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://blackeyedsheep.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26832438"&gt; 15 Inch Laptop Sleeve&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26832438"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/4/4ab/601/il_200x200.76699055.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://byrdandbelle.etsy.com"&gt;byrdandbelle&lt;/a&gt;, $52.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26832438"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://byrdandbelle.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21847552"&gt; mp3 / ipod sleeves&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21847552"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/7/7c4/fce/il_200x200.59984560.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://cipolla.etsy.com"&gt;cipolla&lt;/a&gt;, $11.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21847552"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://cipolla.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shades of Mint&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Look to Etsy for the latest in color trends. Refreshing shades of mint green, jadeite, and aqua are infusing everything from soap to faux taxidermy. Grab your next find in this cool-as-a-cucumber hue.&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;Shop our &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/color.php?ref=fp_nav_colors"&gt;Colors feature&lt;/a&gt; to discover a world of items in your favorite color.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26658970"&gt; Mint and White Coral DRESS &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26658970"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/3/384/b35/il_200x200.77769413.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://MagnolijaDRESS.etsy.com"&gt;MagnolijaDRESS&lt;/a&gt;, $195.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26658970"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://MagnolijaDRESS.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27455528"&gt; 2 Fire King Jadite Jane Ray Cups &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27455528"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/c/c95/add/il_200x200.78786565.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://jaditekate.etsy.com"&gt;jaditekate&lt;/a&gt;, $16.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27455528"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://jaditekate.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27229946"&gt; Absinthe - Soft Mint - Lemon Balm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27229946"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/7/7ec/a19/il_200x200.78028079.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://gloilocksandbody.etsy.com"&gt;gloilocksandbody&lt;/a&gt;, $5.50.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27229946"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://gloilocksandbody.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27184625"&gt; Dear Jadite Deer &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27184625"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/2/230/351/il_200x200.77878271.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://Paperbullet.etsy.com"&gt;Paperbullet&lt;/a&gt;, $25.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27184625"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://Paperbullet.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26803339"&gt; long frame pouch &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26803339"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/3/3b6/193/il_200x200.76602746.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://oktak.etsy.com"&gt;oktak&lt;/a&gt;, $32.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26803339"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://oktak.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=22513734"&gt; Love Blooms - 8x12 Fine Art Print &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=22513734"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/d/d29/2d3/il_200x200.62229912.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://urbandesign.etsy.com"&gt;urbandesign&lt;/a&gt;, $24.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=22513734"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://urbandesign.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27558393"&gt; the mint &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27558393"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/8/851/6e1/il_200x200.79131189.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://motleyhandmade.etsy.com"&gt;motleyhandmade&lt;/a&gt;, $15.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27558393"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://motleyhandmade.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26842070"&gt; Gems on Sterling Silver Necklace &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26842070"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/b/bc2/138/il_200x200.76731384.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://kerrihale.etsy.com"&gt;kerrihale&lt;/a&gt;, $38.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26842070"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://kerrihale.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;A Dark Perspective&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With hit novel, TV, and movie series like Twilight, True Blood, and Harry Potter dominating the market, look to Etsy for the very best in these dark and mystical trends. Shop our &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/gift-guides/steampunk-and-noir/84"&gt;Steampunk and Noir Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;for additional finds in creating your own Gothic drama.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27079233"&gt; Poems and Possibilities &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27079233"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/e/edf/388/il_200x200.77524611.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://AftonRiver.etsy.com"&gt;AftonRiver&lt;/a&gt;, $50.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27079233"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://AftonRiver.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21392869"&gt; johnnyhead tea light &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21392869"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/1/1e9/419/il_200x200.58459815.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://mudstuff.etsy.com"&gt;mudstuff&lt;/a&gt;, $24.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21392869"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://mudstuff.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27551550"&gt; Lace Over .02 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27551550"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/c/c6b/03e/il_200x200.79107680.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://ThisIsKate.etsy.com"&gt;ThisIsKate&lt;/a&gt;, $19.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27551550"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://ThisIsKate.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27547144"&gt; Ensoleille &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27547144"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/4/414/54a/il_200x200.79093217.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://SundraSandrusi.etsy.com"&gt;SundraSandrusi&lt;/a&gt;, $35.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27547144"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://SundraSandrusi.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24751027"&gt; Black Lace Clutch &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24751027"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/2/280/a3c/il_200x200.69725720.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://BadkittyHawaii.etsy.com"&gt;BadkittyHawaii&lt;/a&gt;, $40.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24751027"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://BadkittyHawaii.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27625272"&gt; Vampyr Ring II &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27625272"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/2/27a/93b/il_200x200.79354041.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://norsola.etsy.com"&gt;norsola&lt;/a&gt;, $165.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27625272"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://norsola.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26837034"&gt; The Vampire Lestat Drops &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26837034"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/d/d73/fbf/il_200x200.76715807.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://redheart13.etsy.com"&gt;redheart13&lt;/a&gt;, $23.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26837034"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://redheart13.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=23663471"&gt; lace armwarmers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=23663471"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/9/9bc/82d/il_200x200.66078198.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://cotylee.etsy.com"&gt;cotylee&lt;/a&gt;, $18.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=23663471"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://cotylee.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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</summary></entry><entry><title>Tech Updates: Share Your Favorites</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-updates-share-your-favorites-4218/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-07-01T18:30:00-05:00</updated><author><name>sean11, TechUpdates</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-updates-share-your-favorites-4218/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;p&gt;Today we rolled out a number of improvements to Etsy's popular Favorites feature. These enhancements are designed to make Etsy Favorites more usable, visible and sharable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Use 'em&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sold items can now be added to your Favorites.&lt;/strong&gt; Sometimes you just aren&amp;rsquo;t quick enough, and an item you want is sold out by the time you see it. You can still add it to your Favorites. Views and hearts now continue to accumulate on items even after they&amp;rsquo;ve been sold. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tip: Convo the seller to see if they can make another item for you or if they're planning to list another.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No more grey boxes to delete.&lt;/strong&gt; Many Etsy community members have complained in the past about the clutter of anonymous grey items in their Favorites with the text &amp;ldquo;Listing expired or removed.&amp;rdquo; This would occur when an item expired, was being edited, or belonged to a shop in &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-update-vacation-mode-for-sellers-now-live-2513/"&gt;Vacation Mode&lt;/a&gt;. These grey boxes are no more. Here&amp;rsquo;s what happens now:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;When an item you&amp;rsquo;ve hearted expires, it will be removed from your Favorites. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;When an item you&amp;rsquo;ve hearted is being edited by the seller, it will not appear in your Favorites while the editing is in progress. When the editing is complete, the item will return to the spot you had it in your Favorites.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;When an item you&amp;rsquo;ve hearted goes into Vacation Mode, it will remain in your Favorites &amp;mdash; you will just be unable to purchase the item until the seller returns from vacation.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;See 'em&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A &amp;ldquo;heart counter&amp;rdquo; has been added to item pages.&lt;/strong&gt; You can now see the number of hearts for any item, active or sold, along with views in the new &amp;ldquo;stats&amp;rdquo; section on the lower right of item pages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tip: If an item gets blogged about and then sells, it can still show off its street cred with more and more hearts and views.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Show off your Favorites on your Etsy Profile.&lt;/strong&gt; You now have the option to display the last six items you added to your Favorites on your Etsy Profile page! These items will be displayed below the "Favorite Materials" section of your Profile. To turn this feature on, sign in to Etsy and proceed to &lt;em&gt;Your Etsy &amp;gt; Public Profile&lt;/em&gt;. Check the checkbox at the bottom of the page next to &amp;ldquo;Favorite Items&amp;rdquo; and click "Save Changes" to start showing the world the cool stuff you find!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/06/FavoritesProfile2.png" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Share 'em&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t keep your Favorites to yourself! (Unless you want to.) &lt;/strong&gt;Now when you sign in to Etsy and proceed to &lt;em&gt;Your Etsy &amp;gt; Favorites&lt;/em&gt;, you will see a link for a new Share widget on the upper right. Pop this open for options to share your list of Favorites with your friends or with the world. With this widget you can easily share your collection of Favorites on &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com" target="_blank"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com" target="_blank"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;, embed them on your blog, or copy and paste the web address for your public Favorites page. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/07/FavoritesShare2.jpg" alt="" /&gt;Happy hearting!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://mailinglist.etsy.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/article_images/icon_EtsyEmails2.jpg" alt="" align="right" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S. If you would like to receive breaking, vital Etsy news as it happens &amp;mdash; delivered straight to your email inb&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;ox&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; &amp;mdash;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; then sign up for &lt;a href="http://mailinglist.etsy.com/"&gt;Etsy News Alerts emails&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Read more about it &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/etsy-alerts-the-new-news-emails-1663"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Expect this as an Etsy Alert email in your inbox if you already subscribe to the list.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can also get an RSS feed of all TechUpdates &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/feeds/author/TechUpdates"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


</summary></entry><entry><title>Tech Updates: Facebook Connect</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-updates-facebook-connect-4147/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-07-01T17:42:00-05:00</updated><author><name>sa451, sean11, TechUpdates</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-updates-facebook-connect-4147/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;p&gt;Today we made it easier to share your Etsy activity with your friends on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com" target="_blank"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;, a social networking site many Etsians use.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When you sign in to Etsy, you will see a link at the top of the page (next to "Conversations") for &lt;strong&gt;"Facebook Connect&lt;/strong&gt;." Click that link to activate an overlay that you can use to establish a connection with Facebook.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/06/FacebookConnect_Overlay3.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Once you're connected with Facebook, you will see your Facebook Profile Picture at the top of every page on Etsy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/06/fbss_facebook_top.png" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What can I do while I'm connected with Facebook on Etsy?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can share your Etsy activity with your friends! When you list an item or heart an item (add an item to your Etsy Favorites) while connected with Facebook, you will see an option to share that action on Facebook in the form of a story published to your Facebook News Feed. Click the "Post this item to Facebook" link to activate a pop-up from Facebook with a preview of your story before you publish:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/06/fbss_story3.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These links to share your activity on Facebook will only be visible while you're connected with Facebook, and all posts from Etsy to Facebook are made explicitly by you. You can disconnect with Facebook at any time via the "Facebook" link at the top of the page. If you're not interested in connecting with Facebook from Etsy, you can remove the Facebook option by clicking the "don't show again" link on the Facebook Connect overlay.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We hope you enjoy this additional option to share the Etsy experience with your friends!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;FAQs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is Facebook Connect?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Facebook Connect allows you to bring your &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com" target="_blank"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; account into Etsy, so you can share what you're doing on Etsy with your friends on Facebook. You have complete control over what is shared.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do I connect with Facebook on Etsy?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After signing in to Etsy, you will see a link for Facebook Connect at the top of the page, next to "Conversations." Click this link and then click "Connect with Facebook" to establish a connection to Facebook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What can I do while I'm connected to Facebook on Etsy?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can share select actions you take on Etsy with your friends on Facebook. These actions currently include adding an item to your Etsy Favorites ("hearting" an item) and listing an item on Etsy. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After hearting an item or listing an item, you will see an option to post the item to Facebook. Clicking that link activates a pop-up from Facebook where you can preview and annotate your post before publishing the item to your Facebook profile and Facebook friends' home pages.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can I post items I've renewed or relisted on Facebook?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;At this time Facebook Connect on Etsy allows you to post newly listed items on Facebook but not renewed or relisted items.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does Etsy automatically post to my Facebook profile?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No. All posts to your Facebook Profile and News Feed from Etsy are made explicitly by you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do I disconnect from Facebook?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You will know when you are connected to Facebook on Etsy because your Facebook Profile Picture will appear at the top of all Etsy pages next to a "Facebook" link. Click this link and then click "Log out of Facebook" to terminate your connection with Facebook. This will log you out of Facebook completely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I have no interest in connecting with Facebook. Can I remove the Facebook Connect link so I don't have to see it when I sign in to Etsy?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes. To remove the Facebook Connect link, click it to activate the overlay and then click "don't show again." The Facebook Connect option will no longer appear when you sign in to Etsy. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you change your mind, you can re-enable the Facebook Connect option by going to &lt;em&gt;Your Etsy &amp;gt; Account Info&lt;/em&gt;. On the Account Info page, you will find a "Settings" section where you can enable or disable Facebook Connect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I signed in to Etsy and I was already connected with Facebook. Why?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This occurs when you sign in to Etsy while being logged into Facebook, if you've connected with Facebook through Etsy before. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I use the &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/connect-with-us-on-facebook-1371/"&gt;Etsy Shop&lt;/a&gt; application on Facebook. Is Facebook Connect the same thing?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Facebook Connect is separate from the Etsy Shop application. You can still use the Etsy Shop Facebook application and other Etsy Facebook applications. Facebook Connect allows you to share actions you take on Etsy, such as the items you list or add to your Favorites, with your friends on Facebook. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have a &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/etsy-seller-how-to-creating-a-facebook-fan-page-4085/"&gt;Business/Fan Page&lt;/a&gt; for my Etsy shop on Facebook. Can I use Facebook Connect to publish my Etsy activity on my Page?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not at this time. Facebook Connect on Etsy allows you to publish Etsy activity on your Facebook Profile, but not your Pages (sometimes called Fan Pages or Business Pages). We plan to enable this functionality in the future.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We're closing comments here since we want to follow your discussion in &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6204974"&gt;this Forum thread&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/social-networking/"&gt;Read More Posts About Social Networking&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/authors/TechUpdates/"&gt;Find Out About More Tech Updates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://mailinglist.etsy.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/article_images/icon_EtsyEmails2.jpg" alt="" align="right" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;P.S. If you would like to receive breaking, vital Etsy news as it happens &amp;mdash; delivered straight to your email inb&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;ox&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; &amp;mdash;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; then sign up for &lt;a href="http://mailinglist.etsy.com/"&gt;Etsy News Alerts emails&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Read more about it &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/etsy-alerts-the-new-news-emails-1663"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Expect this as an Etsy Alert email in your inbox if you already subscribe to the list.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can also get an RSS feed of all TechUpdates &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/feeds/author/TechUpdates"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


</summary></entry><entry><title>Handmade Code: Etsy Hacks</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/handmade-code-etsy-hacks-4225/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-06-24T14:17:00-05:00</updated><author><name>ehax, Vanessa</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/handmade-code-etsy-hacks-4225/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsyhacks.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right;" src="http://developer.etsy.com/files/etsyhacks.jpg" alt="" width="76" height="76" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;As part of our &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/Handmade%20Code"&gt;Handmade Code&lt;/a&gt; series, we're bringing you news and how-to's about the innovations emerging from the Etsy Developer Community. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;L&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;ocated at &lt;a href="http://developer.etsy.com/"&gt;developer.etsy.com&lt;/a&gt;, the&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; Etsy Developer Community&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; serves as a hub for third-party software developers who are making neat and helpful programs for Etsy shoppers and sellers. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;In this edition, Ian of &lt;a href="http://www.etsyhacks.com/" target="_blank"&gt;EtsyHacks&lt;/a&gt; tells us all about his most popular application, &lt;a href="http://www.etsyhacks.com/greasemonkey/copy_listing/" target="_blank"&gt;Copy Listing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are many aspects of having your own Etsy shop that are fun, exciting and rewarding. Managing your shop is not one of them. When my wife, Sara, started her shop &lt;a href="http://twolittlewrens.etsy.com"&gt;twolittlewrens&lt;/a&gt; on Etsy, she found this out quite quickly. Once she found it out, I also found it out, because she started making me manage her shop so she could get on with actually making things.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I realized that Etsy's engineers probably had a to-do list of epic proportions, and any changes I might want would probably take time to appear. So, since my day job is in software engineering, I started building tools to help me avoid some of the drudgery until the features I wanted appeared on the site. (This backfired somewhat, since Sara announced that I could start packing orders in my newly-acquired spare time. Such is the life of the spouses of&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/etsy-addict/"&gt; Etsy addicts&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I started sharing my work on &lt;a href="http://www.etsyhacks.com/" target="_blank"&gt;etsyhacks.com&lt;/a&gt; so that other Etsy sellers (and their long-suffering family members) could benefit too. There are now over thirty "Etsyhacks," varying from the simple to the complex, but one of the most popular is "&lt;a href="http://www.etsyhacks.com/greasemonkey/copy_listing/" target="_blank"&gt;Copy Listing&lt;/a&gt;."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/06/IMG_4122.JPG" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Here I am with my daughter Evie, hard at work.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's the basic idea of the application? What need does it fill?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lots of Etsy sellers sell variations on a theme. The majority of their listings are the same, with only a few tweaks here and there to account for different colors, patterns, and options. Currently, if you want to make a new listing based on an existing listing, you have to find a similar sold item, re-list it, and edit it to suit. This isn't particularly useful if you're starting a new product line, or if you don't want to have to search back through your sold items to find the right item to re-list. What you need is a way to copy an existing, for-sale listing. The "Copy Listing" Etsyhack does that.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Where do we go to find it? What's the URL, etc.?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can download it at &lt;a href="http://www.etsyhacks.com/greasemonkey/copy_listing/"&gt;http://www.etsyhacks.com/greasemonkey/copy_listing/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Who is it for?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's for sellers who want to quickly list a number of similar items. Unfortunately, it's only for people who use the &lt;a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox" target="_blank"&gt;Firefox web browser&lt;/a&gt; at the moment, because it uses the &lt;a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748" target="_blank"&gt;Greasemonkey&lt;/a&gt; add-on for Firefox. But the good news is that you can run Firefox as well as Internet Explorer, Safari, or any other web browser, and just use Firefox when you want to use "Copy Listing." (I love Firefox. It's a great web browser. You should try it even if you don't want to use Etsyhacks.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt; How do you use it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, you need to have &lt;a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/" target="_blank"&gt;Firefox&lt;/a&gt; installed. Then, install the &lt;a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748" target="_blank"&gt;Greasemonkey add-on&lt;/a&gt;. (Greasemonkey allows you to run programs &amp;mdash; like the Etsyhacks &amp;mdash; that modify web pages when you view them, adding extra useful features.) Installation instructions for those are at &lt;a href="http://www.etsyhacks.com/greasemonkey/installing_greasemonkey.html" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.etsyhacks.com/greasemonkey/installing_greasemonkey.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="float: right;" src="http://www.etsyhacks.com/greasemonkey/copy_listing/images/copy_listing_before.png" alt="" width="205" height="159" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Before:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Then, in Firefox, go to the &lt;a href="http://www.etsyhacks.com/greasemonkey/copy_listing/"&gt;Copy Listing&lt;/a&gt; page and click on the orange "install" button. &lt;img style="float: right;" src="http://www.etsyhacks.com/greasemonkey/copy_listing/images/copy_listing_after.png" alt="" width="205" height="181" /&gt;Greasemonkey will pop up a box asking you to confirm that you want to install the software. Once you've said "yes" to that, you can go to a listing in your shop and there will be a "Copy this item" link in the "Page tools" section of the listing page (in the right-hand column). Just click on that link and you'll be taken to a "Create new listing" page with all of that listing's information already filled in. Make your changes as you go through the listing process, and then click "Finished" and you're all set.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;After:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The one thing it doesn't do is copy your photos, because that is rather hard to do. Hopefully you're going to be uploading different photos anyway!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Are there any costs or further opportunities/ways to get involved?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Firefox and Greasemonkey are both free, provided by a community of developers for the benefit of all. The hacks are free, too &amp;mdash; I'm of the opinion that people should be able to use these tools, even if their shops aren't generating revenue yet.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Etsyhacks is supported by donations &amp;mdash; people pay what they think is right, or what they can afford, if they want to, when they want to. Sellers can also "sponsor" a hack &amp;mdash; paying a fee to have their shop featured on the hack's page.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can also contact me and suggest a hack you'd like to see. Not everything is possible, but I'll do my best! Send me a message (just convo me at &lt;a href="http://ehax.etsy.com"&gt;ehax&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt; What should one do if there's a bug or a problem? Who should one contact?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not Etsy! Because of the way the hacks work, it can look like a bug with a hack is a bug with Etsy. If you're using any Etsyhacks, the first thing to do when you find a bug is to disable Greasemonkey (click on the monkey icon at the bottom right of your Firefox window &amp;mdash; the monkey will go grey) and then reload the page. If the problem goes away, then it's a problem with a hack, and you should send me a message (just convo me at &lt;a href="http://ehax.etsy.com"&gt;ehax&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt; What's one surprising/fun/amazing story you've heard about someone using your app? Or what is your favorite part about the app?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I often see forum posts and &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/twitter/"&gt;tweets&lt;/a&gt; from people who've saved themselves time and effort with the "Copy Listing" hack, or who had been putting off listing a new product line because it was going to take them hours. I like knowing I've helped people.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Are you using EtsyHacks? Post in the comments below!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/title/etsy-addict"&gt;Read More Posts about Etsy Addiction&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/Handmade%20Code"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Handmade Code Posts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


</summary></entry><entry><title>Etsy Pets: My Top 10 List for the Active Pet</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/etsy-pets-my-top-10-list-for-the-active-pet-4131/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-06-07T12:45:00-05:00</updated><author><name>Vanessa</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/etsy-pets-my-top-10-list-for-the-active-pet-4131/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/authors/vanessa/"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right;" src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/04/Vanessa_Finder.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ok, whose dog is jumping up and down at the door? They want OUT! Here are my Top 10 cute and practical pet needs. I've included a little something for the indoor pet as well &amp;mdash; you know, that indoor cat who would like to bring the outdoors in, or the turtle who yearns for a bit of greenery to call his own.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24008846"&gt;Picnic Cape &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24008846"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/0/0d7/d3b/il_200x200.67234809.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Don't forget to bring the &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/search_results.php?search_type=category&amp;amp;category=pets.treat.biscuits&amp;amp;search_query=dog&amp;amp;order=most_relevant"&gt;doggy treats&lt;/a&gt; to the picnic! This capelette will come in handy when the park gets a bit chilly in the evening. By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://bugduds.etsy.com"&gt;bugduds&lt;/a&gt;, $22.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24008846"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://bugduds.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25068359"&gt;NEW //   Spring Love Pet Collar &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25068359"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/6/690/783/il_200x200.70792209.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Doggies can be dirty little piggies, and a fresh new &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/category/pets/collar"&gt;collar&lt;/a&gt; should do the trick. By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://TheHydrant.etsy.com"&gt;TheHydrant&lt;/a&gt;, $20.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25068359"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://TheHydrant.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25807948"&gt;Blue and Green Patchwork Leash made with Lilly Pulitzer Fabrics &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25807948"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/3/31d/5a1/il_200x200.73277270.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And how about a fresh new leash to go with that brand spanking new collar? By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://PinkysPetGear.etsy.com"&gt;PinkysPetGear&lt;/a&gt;, $13.99. Browse more &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/category/pets/leash"&gt;leashes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25807948"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://PinkysPetGear.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25809915"&gt;Wag more...bark less...badge &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25809915"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/b/bde/ed6/il_200x200.73283480.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;More attitude, yes. But mean dogs suck. By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://thedogcoatlady.etsy.com"&gt;thedogcoatlady&lt;/a&gt;, $1.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25809915"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://thedogcoatlady.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25806921"&gt; TALK TO THE PAW Pet Tag &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25806921"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/6/6c4/ecd/il_200x200.73273201.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/category/pets/tag"&gt;pet tag&lt;/a&gt; is not mean...but it is &lt;em&gt;sassy&lt;/em&gt;! By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://PoochyCouture.etsy.com"&gt;PoochyCouture&lt;/a&gt;, $10.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25806921"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://PoochyCouture.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25444095"&gt;Dog On Holiday Dog Shampoo &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25444095"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/8/88f/9b4/il_200x200.72059637.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I just love this dog shampoo's packaging. Who is that on granny's lap? A Boston terrier? By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://Scrubyourbutt.etsy.com"&gt;Scrubyourbutt&lt;/a&gt;, $13.49. Find more &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/category/pets/grooming"&gt;pet grooming items&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25444095"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://Scrubyourbutt.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6863352"&gt;Tropical Vacation &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6863352"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/2/23a/453/il_200x200.10782214.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Speaking of vacation," said the kitty, "Get me outta here!" By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://2hounds.etsy.com"&gt;2hounds&lt;/a&gt;, $75. Etsy is bursting with &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/category/pets/portrait"&gt;pet portraits&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6863352"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://2hounds.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24469521"&gt;Turtle Tortoise Transport Receptical Number 29 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24469521"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/e/e81/efe/il_200x200.68777892.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The turtle will be chaperoning the kids to the seaside this summer. A turtle with that much responsibility needs a proper mode of transportation. By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://FlatOutFun.etsy.com"&gt;FlatOutFun&lt;/a&gt;, $43.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24469521"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://FlatOutFun.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25498342"&gt; Critter repel doggie shampoo bar (or outdoor soap bar) &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25498342"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/1/161/f88/il_200x200.72243752.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You don't want critters on your critters! By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://luxuryfalls.etsy.com"&gt;luxuryfalls&lt;/a&gt;, $3. Find more &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/category/pets/grooming/flea_repellent"&gt;flea repellents&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25498342"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://luxuryfalls.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24934978"&gt;Punky Puppie Paint Fur color &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24934978"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/0/0e8/2c5/il_200x200.70344640.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And last but not least (ok, maybe the least practical), hair dye for your punk rock puppy!&amp;nbsp; I cracked up when I read this line of the description: "NEVER ATTEMPT TO BLEACH YOUR DOG!!!" This is an amazing item. By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://GokiChan.etsy.com"&gt;GokiChan&lt;/a&gt;, $3.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24934978"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://GokiChan.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:center;font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;a style="color: #0192b5" href="http://www.etsy.com/gift-guides/pets/134"&gt;Handpicked Pet Items&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/showcase.php?showcase_id=pets"&gt;Sponsored Pet Picks&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/category/pets"&gt;Pet Category&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:center;font-weight:bold;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/Etsy%20Pets/"&gt;Etsy Pets Blog Articles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


</summary></entry><entry><title>Seller Workshop Recap: Tags, Titles, Descriptions and Most Relevant Search</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/seller-workshop-recap-tags-titles-descriptions-and-most-rele-4090/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-06-02T11:30:00-05:00</updated><author><name>daniellexo, sean11</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/seller-workshop-recap-tags-titles-descriptions-and-most-rele-4090/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;p&gt;Thanks to everyone who came to our May 28, 2009 &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/virtual_labs.php"&gt;Virtual Lab&lt;/a&gt; on Tags, Titles, Descriptions and Materials and the new &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/your-shop-101-hitting-the-sweet-spot-with-etsys-most-relevan-4007/"&gt;Most Relevant&lt;/a&gt; option in Etsy's Search. We had some great questions come up, and we wanted to make sure we shared the answers with those who couldn't make the workshop. Here's a quick Q&amp;amp;A&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Q: How long should my item titles be?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A: We suggest three to seven words. The most important words in your title should be first, as the first 18 characters of your title are going to be seen in Gallery View in Etsy Search, and the first few words will be the ones displayed on external search engine results (&lt;em&gt;see this Seller How-To: &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/seller-how-to-optimizing-your-etsy-shop-for-search-engines-3835/"&gt;Optimizing Your Etsy Shop for Search Engines&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;). If your item titles are too short they will not grab a buyer's attention, and if they are too long they will distract buyers, so balance is key. It's great to be creative in your titles for your branding, but we recommend beginning titles with the specifics. Try to think like a buyer and use words that your customers would use when searching. Generic-sounding titles don't attract potential buyers as well as specific titles, so don't be afraid to be specific! You'll improve your targeting and attract more buyers in the market for your items.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Q: How important is the order of your item's tags?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A: Your first tag is your item's top-level category. If you are interested in promoting your item in a &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-update-announcing-new-art-subcategory-showcases-3942/"&gt;Subcategory Showcase&lt;/a&gt;, your next tag should match that Subcategory. We suggest tagging in order of importance, and in general for each of the item fields (Tags, Titles, Descriptions, Materials), go with the most important information first. Note: Major changes to tagging guidelines or the listing process will be communicated in advance. Our current &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/guidelines-tips-tagging-on-etsy-281/"&gt;tagging guidelines&lt;/a&gt; still apply.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q: Should I use all 14 tags?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A: Yes! It is important to use 14 relevant tags that properly describe your item. See this &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/guidelines-tips-tagging-on-etsy-281/"&gt;article on tagging&lt;/a&gt; for lots of tips!&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Q: Should I be tagging a striped item with "stripes," "striped" and "stripe"?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A: No. Using the root word "stripe" is enough, and our search function will pick up these variations. No need to use multiple variations of a word.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Q: What about "floral" and "flowers"?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A: Yes. Those words are different enough to be used as two different tags. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q: How much of your item's description shows up in a Google search result?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A: The first 160 characters of your item description appear in Google search results, so be sure to include the most important information first! Be as specific as possible and use words that you think your customers would use. Item dimensions and measurements are important pieces of information for buyers but can go lower down in your description. Lots of great information on search engine optimization can be found in &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/seller-how-to-optimizing-your-etsy-shop-for-search-engines-3835/"&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q: I sell soy candles. Should I be adding "soy" to my item titles, tags and descriptions?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A: Yes. The fact that your candles are made of soy is an important selling point. Include this information in the title, description and as a tag, as it is relevant information.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q: I've heard that if I use only a few tags my items will show up higher in search results sorted by Most Relevant.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A: The best strategy for placement in search results sorted by Most Relevant is to describe your items accurately and thoroughly, using words your customers would use. It's important to follow our &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/guidelines-tips-tagging-on-etsy-281/"&gt;guidelines for tagging&lt;/a&gt; and to keep your tags relevant (and to use them all!). Improvements to relevancy on Etsy are being rolled out regularly and frequently, with the goal of matching well tagged, thoroughly described items with the often very specific searches shoppers are performing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember, if a shopper is searching for "emerald green earrings" and you've only tagged your item "jewelry," for example, your item won't be found in that shopper's search results. When you describe your item thoroughly and accurately with specifics and details, you give your item more opportunities to be found by buyers looking for your items. Items not described well are simply not seen by the right people. Also, note that optimizing a listing for a single search term you have in mind will actually limit your visibility &amp;mdash; you won't appear in as many searches as you might otherwise. The more tags you can use the better.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/your-shop-101-hitting-the-sweet-spot-with-etsys-most-relevan-4007/"&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; for more tips on optimizing your listings for search results sorted by Most Relevant. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q: What percentage of searches on Etsy are currently using the Most Relevant option?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; A: A very small percentage of searches on Etsy (less than 1 percent) are currently being sorted by Most Relevant. The Most Relevant search option is not the default search option. It is a feature in active development and updates are being rolled out regularly and frequently behind the scenes, just as with other search engines. Searches sorted by Most Relevant are leading to purchases at a higher rate than searches sorted by Most Recently Listed, and we're actively monitoring the performance of the Most Relevant search option &amp;mdash; as well as your feedback &amp;mdash; to make it even better.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q: How important are Materials in search results sorted by Most Relevant?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A: Materials are a factor in search results sorted by Most Relevant, but not an important one. Item tags, titles and descriptions, in that order, are the most important item fields in search results sorted by Most Relevant. However, don't forget that Materials is an option in the Advanced Search.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&amp;nbsp; Why is item listing date a consideration in search results sorted by Most Relevant?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A:&amp;nbsp; It's true, an item's listing date is also a factor in determining relevancy, though not the most important one. We've found shoppers value fresh results for their favorite searches. This is common among other search engines &amp;mdash; you'll find Google often returns relevant &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; current (recently updated) results.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q: If I put "free shipping" at the beginning of my title, will that hurt me?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A: It can. Remember that in Gallery view, Etsy shoppers can only see the first 18 characters of your title, and you have a better chance of making a sale when you attract shoppers that are searching for specific things. People do perform searches for "free shipping," but they usually qualify those searches with something specific. We recommend doing the same: include "free shipping" in your title if you like, but start with something more specific.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q: Does using your &lt;a href="http://team.etsy.com"&gt;Etsy Team&lt;/a&gt; tag hurt your item's performance in search results sorted by Most Relevant?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A: Team tags are relevant for Team-related searches. Using one or two Team tags will not hurt your chances of being found in search results sorted by Most Relevant.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q: Is the price of an item a factor in relevancy?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A: No. Price is not a factor in search results sorted by Most Relevant.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q: How would you tag something that can be made in any color scheme?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A: Use "custom" or&amp;nbsp; "personalized" as a tag.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thanks to everyone who participated in the Seller Workshop Virtual Lab! &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Please keep an eye on the &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/virtual_labs.php"&gt;Virtual Labs schedule&lt;/a&gt; to find out about upcoming Seller Workshops.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; (EDITOR'S NOTE: The previously noted discussion about &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Search Engine Optimization (SEO) on June 15 has been postponed.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related Articles:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/your-shop-101-hitting-the-sweet-spot-with-etsys-most-relevan-4007/"&gt;Your Shop 101: Hitting the Sweet Spot with Etsy's Most Relevant Search &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/guidelines-tips-tagging-on-etsy-281/"&gt;Guidelines &amp;amp; Tips: Tagging on Etsy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/seller-how-to-optimizing-your-etsy-shop-for-search-engines-3835/"&gt;Seller How-To: Optimizing Your Etsy Shop for Search Engines&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/writing-for-an-online-audience-how-to-750/"&gt;Writing for an Online Audience: How-To&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/seller-how-to-making-the-most-of-your-descriptions-635/"&gt;Seller How-To: Making the Most of Your Descriptions &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;


</summary></entry><entry><title>Your Shop 101: Hitting the Sweet Spot with Etsy&amp;#39;s Most Relevant Search</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/your-shop-101-hitting-the-sweet-spot-with-etsys-most-relevan-4007/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-05-21T13:33:00-05:00</updated><author><name>Vanessa</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/your-shop-101-hitting-the-sweet-spot-with-etsys-most-relevan-4007/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;p&gt;What's the ultimate goal of the &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-updates-sort-search-results-by-most-relevant-3932/"&gt;Most Relevant&lt;/a&gt; option in Etsy's Search? To get shoppers more quickly to the exact items they want. But how does Etsy get them there? The answer is bound up in our site's collaboration with &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;, our sellers. We need sellers to create listings that accurately and fully represent their items. The goal, really, is to arrive at that magical moment &amp;mdash; that sweet spot &amp;mdash; when shoppers find the items they love and sellers do the happy dance!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Although that sweet spot feels magical, there are a lot of algorithms and number crunching going on behind the scenes. Etsy's Most Relevant Search is a living feature in active development, and it will evolve over time as we monitor its performance and make improvements to the listing process. However, as a seller, you can follow these golden rules when listing your items:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6382027"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/05/tags.jpg" alt="" width="395" height="263" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25088145"&gt;"ANY 3-Letter Word in ASL Your Choice" &lt;/a&gt;By                                                                 &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6382027"&gt;MoonlightAura&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags&lt;/strong&gt;: Tags, also known as "keywords," are the most important part of your listing! Sellers can use up to 14 tags right now; use as many as you can to accurately describe your item. Use the most important words in the tags, even if they are in your title. Remember, the first tag determines the category your item. Look at that category's subcategories and include the relevant one as one of your tags as well. Please see this &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/guidelines-tips-tagging-on-etsy-281/"&gt;how-to&lt;/a&gt; for thorough tagging guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Titles&lt;/strong&gt;: Titles can be a catchy and creative way to lure in a shopper, but keep in mind that titles should also be descriptive. Think about it from the computer's point of view: a computer is not going to understand something titled "Welcome to My World," even if that is a really awesome title for your self-portrait art photograph. "Self-Portrait Art Photograph - Welcome to My World" may not be quite as catchy, but our computer friend crunching the algorithm will know how to translate that for relevant searches.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also, consider if from the point of view of a shopper who is scanning a search results page in Gallery view: when you put your descriptive title first, those words quickly communicate what your item actually is to the shopper. Then when they click through to your listing page, they'll see the rest of the title and get hooked by your clever branding.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Super long and unnaturally written titles don't work well for Most Relevant, and they are unappealing to shoppers. A good, accurate, buyer-friendly title can help your relevancy; a super-long title, jam-packed with keywords &amp;mdash; or, conversely, a short title with no descriptive information &amp;mdash; will hurt it. Aim for the "sweet spot" in the middle here. Make sure to put very important search words, such as what the item is, in the title. For more tips on Titles, see this &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/shop-makeover-series-the-fine-print-919/"&gt;how-to&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Descriptions&lt;/strong&gt;: Thorough and meaty descriptions will boost your relevancy. Having inadequate descriptions for your items will bring down your relevancy.&amp;nbsp; Think about what keywords your ideal buyer would be using in her searches, and try to weave that into the story you're telling.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For example, "This handmade lamp would fit into a chic, modern home or office decor &amp;mdash; perfect for contemporary design collectors. When designing this lamp, I was inspired by mid-century interiors and decor, so my piece has a bit of a retro furniture style. Its glossy finish and vivid green make this lamp a statement piece for your living room or workplace. I made this ceramic lamp by hand with a special glaze and fit it with standard hardware. It measures 16 inches high and 6 inches wide. Lamp shade is not included." This is just an example to illustrate that considering your target market when writing your descriptions will lead to proper relevancy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19849687&amp;amp;ref=sr_gallery_4&amp;amp;&amp;amp;ga_search_query=rollerderby&amp;amp;ga_search_type=handmade&amp;amp;ga_page=&amp;amp;order=date_desc&amp;amp;includes[]=description"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/05/subculturesampler.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6206945"&gt;ElizabethOcean&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19849687&amp;amp;ref=sr_gallery_4&amp;amp;&amp;amp;ga_search_query=rollerderby&amp;amp;ga_search_type=handmade&amp;amp;ga_page=&amp;amp;order=date_desc&amp;amp;includes[]=description"&gt;paper doll&lt;/a&gt; description includes the words "Bike Messenger, Rockabilly, Steampunk, Rollerderby, Goth Lolita"...because you can't fit all that in a title!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Extra tip:&lt;/em&gt; If you've made the item, use the active (not passive) voice. For example, "I made this item using reclaimed silver." Passive voice works better for vintage items: "This item was made with reclaimed silver."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;While you want your descriptions to be thorough, you don't want them to be intimidatingly long blocks of text. Many online shoppers simply scan text. &lt;a href="http://Daniellexo.etsy.com"&gt;Daniellexo&lt;/a&gt;, the Etsy Admin who runs the &lt;a href="http://mailinglist.etsy.com/"&gt;Etsy Success email list&lt;/a&gt;, suggests breaking out your description text into easy to read paragraphs. She notes that you can use bullet points to call out important info, like dimensions, customizations or alternate sizing.&amp;nbsp; For more tips on Descriptions, see these &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/title/descriptions-how-to-seller-handbook/"&gt;how-tos.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Extra tip:&lt;/em&gt; Following the instruction is this how-to will also be good for your search results in Google and other search engines. Learn more about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Etsy &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/seller-how-to-optimizing-your-etsy-shop-for-search-engines-3835/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19964290&amp;amp;ref=sr_gallery_1&amp;amp;&amp;amp;ga_search_query=potato+sack&amp;amp;ga_search_type=handmade&amp;amp;ga_page=&amp;amp;order=date_desc&amp;amp;includes[]=materials"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/05/potatosack.jpg" alt="" width="338" height="390" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;I found this Haute Potato Bag by                                                                  &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5167182"&gt;SasakiCreations&lt;/a&gt; by searching Materials for "potato sack."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Materials&lt;/strong&gt;: Fill this section out accurately with all of the materials that are used in your item. Think in terms of supplies (for example: chain, fabric) and content (for example: metal, copper, cotton). Most Relevant takes Materials into account as well as Tags, Titles and Descriptions; however, Materials are weighted lower than these others. Also, remember that shoppers can choose to search by Materials in the &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/search_advanced.php"&gt;Advanced Search&lt;/a&gt; page.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Recency&lt;/strong&gt;: An item's listing date is also an important factor in determining relevancy, as we've found shoppers value fresh results for their favorite searches. Sellers should experiment with what time of day and which days of the week work best for their types of items. Consider things like time zones and climates around the world. What time of day do you think &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; customers are on the hunt? Use the Craftcult site (&lt;a href="http://craftcult.org/" target="_blank"&gt;craftcult.org&lt;/a&gt;), and scan the times that your items and shop get hearted. What times are bringing the best results?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To reiterate, Most Relevant will be an evolving site feature, and this is normal for search algorithms around the Web. Thank you, sellers, for taking the time to make your listings the best they can be.&amp;nbsp; We know this is a time-consuming process, but we hope that the results will benefit both you and your buyers and create that magic moment. We want you doing the happy dance!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Please join &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Etsy Admin &lt;a href="http://Daniellexo.etsy.com"&gt;Daniellexo&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://Sean11.etsy.com"&gt;Sean11&lt;/a&gt; for a &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tags, Titles, Materials and Descriptions&amp;nbsp;discussion in the &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/virtual_labs.php"&gt;Virtual Labs&lt;/a&gt; on Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 3 p.m. ET. Please bring any questions you have.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


</summary></entry><entry><title>Artistic Endeavors: Top Ten Travel Photographs</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/artistic-endeavors-top-ten-travel-photographs-3966/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-05-19T17:05:00-05:00</updated><author><name>katiearms</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/artistic-endeavors-top-ten-travel-photographs-3966/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;p&gt;I'm going to share an embarrassing fact with you: I've never left the United States. &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/authors/katiearms/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right;" src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/05/katie_storque_.jpg" alt="" width="133" height="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, before I hang my uncultured head in shame, I'll have you know that this summer, I'll be spending a few weeks studying abroad in Provence, the south of France. (I just got my passport, complete with awkward photograph and everything!) To get my traveling juices a'flowing, I've collected my favorite exotic photographs. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not popping overseas this summer? No worries! The &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/search_results.php?search_type=category&amp;amp;category=art&amp;amp;search_query=travel+photography" target="_blank"&gt;travel photography&lt;/a&gt; section is just a hop, skip and a jump away. It's so interesting to see another country through someone else's eyes. Profitez de votre voyage!&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;1.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24783473"&gt;Tibetan Woman &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24783473"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/0/0a9/8b0/il_200x200.69834635.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://rongouldstudios.etsy.com"&gt;rongouldstudios&lt;/a&gt;, $30.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24783473"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://rongouldstudios.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;2.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20603391"&gt;Summer Road 8x12 Fine Art Photograph &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20603391"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/5/555/58a/il_200x200.55817518.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://judemcconkey.etsy.com"&gt;judemcconkey&lt;/a&gt;, $30.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20603391"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://judemcconkey.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;3.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20232950"&gt;goat with camels &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20232950"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/b/bee/88c/il_200x200.54582408.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://loveallaround.etsy.com"&gt;loveallaround&lt;/a&gt;, $20.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20232950"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://loveallaround.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;4.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20135615"&gt;Twin Volcanoes - 5x7 Print &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20135615"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/7/7e7/f52/il_200x200.54259130.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://southamericatraveler.etsy.com"&gt;southamericatraveler&lt;/a&gt;, $15.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20135615"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://southamericatraveler.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;5.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21347680"&gt;Cinque Terre 8x10 Photograph &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21347680"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/2/2d2/d08/il_200x200.60595862.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://rebeccaplotnick.etsy.com"&gt;rebeccaplotnick&lt;/a&gt;, $18.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21347680"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://rebeccaplotnick.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;6.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=23863073"&gt;Halong Bay - 10x8 (Free Shipping) &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=23863073"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/b/bca/938/il_200x200.66746924.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://elgarbo.etsy.com"&gt;elgarbo&lt;/a&gt;, $18.99.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=23863073"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://elgarbo.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;7. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14068350"&gt;Taj- Agra, India 8x10 art print &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14068350"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/a/a03/bef/il_200x200.34229644.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://binaross.etsy.com"&gt;binaross&lt;/a&gt;, $58.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14068350"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://binaross.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;8.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=13512688"&gt;South Iceland &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=13512688"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/d/d3d/4f6/il_200x200.32433050.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://lynann.etsy.com"&gt;lynann&lt;/a&gt;, $35.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=13512688"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://lynann.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;9.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24159370"&gt;the walking nun &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24159370"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/3/3b5/0b0/il_200x200.67741450.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://xolulu.etsy.com"&gt;xolulu&lt;/a&gt;, $15.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24159370"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://xolulu.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;10.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=23382110"&gt;Bridge of The River Tay Scotland &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=23382110"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/6/606/0c9/il_200x200.69214969.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://kclarkphotography.etsy.com"&gt;kclarkphotography&lt;/a&gt;, $20.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=23382110"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://kclarkphotography.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/title/artistic-endeavors/"&gt;Artistic Endeavors Series&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/etsy-international/"&gt;Etsy International&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/photography/"&gt;More Photography Posts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/search_results.php?search_type=category&amp;amp;category=art.photography&amp;amp;search_query=travel"&gt;Search for Travel Photography&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/category/art/photography"&gt;Photography Categor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


</summary></entry><entry><title>Tech Updates: Advanced Search</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-updates-advanced-search-3710/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-04-30T12:08:00-05:00</updated><author><name>davidgiffin, sean11, TechUpdates</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-updates-advanced-search-3710/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;UPDATE: There is a now a link to &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/search_advanced.php"&gt;Advanced Search&lt;/a&gt; in the header at the top of every page on Etsy. Look for it next to the Search button.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After a busy period of testing and refining, we&amp;rsquo;re excited to announce some significant enhancements to&amp;nbsp; Etsy's Search&amp;mdash;and the shopping experience on our site. These changes were outlined in our &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-updates-improving-search-3545/"&gt;March 9 article on Search&lt;/a&gt;, and a number of you have had the opportunity to preview them in recent sessions in the &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/virtual_labs.php"&gt;Virtual Labs&lt;/a&gt; about Etsy's Search. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;What&amp;rsquo;s changed?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Simplified search dropdown menu.&lt;/strong&gt; The main search dropdown menu now offers the following options for searches: Handmade, Vintage, Supplies, All Items, Sellers. Previous options included &amp;ldquo;Handmade Items: tags, titles,&amp;rdquo; &amp;ldquo;Vintage Items: tags, titles,&amp;rdquo; &amp;ldquo;Supplies: tags, titles," &amp;ldquo;Handmade Items: tags, titles, descriptions&amp;rdquo; and "Materials." Modifiers like tags, titles and descriptions have been removed from the search dropdown menu, and the Materials option has been moved to our new &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/search_advanced.php"&gt;Advanced Search&lt;/a&gt; page (more on that in a minute). Etsy searches item tags and titles by default.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/04/Search_Dropdown.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Redesigned search results pages.&lt;/strong&gt; Search results pages for Handmade, Vintage, Supplies and category-specific searches have been redesigned. The Search Tools, Search Tips and Matching Sellers boxes have been moved from the right side of search results to the left side of the page, following a standard in use on many ecommerce websites and search engines. There is now a price filter on all item search results pages, including the pages you get when you click on links for Tags and Materials on item listing pages. Additional filters will eventually be incorporated into this area on the left.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;When no results are found for a search, users will now be presented with suggestions for searching and see recently listed items on the site.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Advanced item search.&lt;/strong&gt; We now have an &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/search_advanced.php"&gt;Advanced Search&lt;/a&gt; page, accessible via the Search Tools box on every item search results page.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/04/search_advsearch4.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/search_advanced.php"&gt;Advanced Search&lt;/a&gt; page offers a variety of ways to search for items on Etsy. You can search within Handmade, Vintage, Supplies or All Items. You can also search within the categories specific to Handmade, Vintage and Supplies. By default, searches within these areas will include sellers' item tags and titles, but you now also have the option to include item descriptions and item materials in your search as well. You can also limit your search by including only item tags, titles, descriptions or materials in your search, or any combination of these attributes. You may find that including item descriptions is useful for some searches but not for others, or you may find that limiting your search to item titles returns the best results for your needs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Expect this Advanced Search page to grow as we roll out additional enhancements including improved options for searching by seller and by location, as well as more intuitive ways to refine your search.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What&amp;rsquo;s next?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re refining a forthcoming option to sort search results by Most Relevant. In its initial rollout, we anticipate that users will have to actively choose to reorder the default search results (search results will continue to be sorted by Most Recently Listed by default). This new Most Relevant option will allow users to sort search results by Most Relevant in addition to Most Recently Listed and by price.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A number of you had the opportunity to preview the Most Relevant option in recent search-focused sessions in the Virtual Labs. We have another search Virtual Lab coming up next Tuesday, April 21. Anyone who is interested in testing different searches will be given access to a special area on Etsy to try out new search features and discuss the future of Etsy Search with us. Join us &lt;strong&gt;Tuesday, April 21 at 3:00pm EDT&lt;/strong&gt; (check when this is &lt;a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=4&amp;amp;day=21&amp;amp;year=2009&amp;amp;hour=15&amp;amp;min=0&amp;amp;sec=0&amp;amp;p1=179"&gt;in your time zone&lt;/a&gt;) in the &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/virtual_labs.php"&gt;Virtual Labs&lt;/a&gt; to talk search.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As we noted in March, improving the item listing process is central to improving the quality of Etsy's Search, and we&amp;rsquo;re hard at work on improvements in this area. We will share more details about listing process improvements as they near completion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There&amp;rsquo;s much more to come, so keep the detailed feedback coming and stay tuned. We will continue to communicate our progress in this area here on the Etsy Blog, in the &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/forums_board.php?forum_id=5000003"&gt;Etsy Forums&lt;/a&gt; and to the &lt;a href="http://mailinglist.etsy.com/"&gt;Etsy News email list&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;We've closed commenting on this article; please join in &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6119830" target="_blank"&gt;this Forum thread&lt;/a&gt; to discuss your questions or comments about these improvements to Etsy Search. Also, be sure to mark your calendar for our next special Virtual Lab session on Tuesday, April 21 at 3:00pm EDT.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://mailinglist.etsy.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/article_images/icon_EtsyEmails2.jpg" alt="" align="right" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;P.S. If you would like to receive breaking, vital Etsy news as it happens&amp;mdash;delivered straight to your email inb&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;ox&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;then sign up for &lt;a href="http://mailinglist.etsy.com/"&gt;Etsy News Alerts emails&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Read more about it &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/etsy-alerts-the-new-news-emails-1663"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Expect this as an Etsy Alert email in your inbox if you already subscribe to the list.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can also get an RSS feed of all TechUpdates &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/feeds/author/TechUpdates"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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</summary></entry><entry><title>Etsy Email: Special Delivery</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/etsy-email-special-delivery-3601/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-03-12T12:46:00-05:00</updated><author><name>matt, missbatch</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/etsy-email-special-delivery-3601/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;p&gt;As the Etsy marketplace grows, we're continually looking for new ways to encourage discovery of all the&amp;nbsp; stellar items offered on the site. &lt;a href="http://mailinglist.etsy.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Etsy Finds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://mailinglist.etsy.com/" target="_blank"&gt; emails&lt;/a&gt; are just one avenue of discovery and are sent out daily with lovingly curated content from Etsy's staff and guest contributors. Whether they're highlighting the latest handmade trends, undiscovered shops, vintage treasures or decorating ideas, you never know what new treats will turn up in your inbox!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To keep &lt;a href="http://mailinglist.etsy.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Etsy emails&lt;/a&gt; looking eye-catching and inviting, we're in the initial, or "beta" phase, of testing out some new email template designs, starting with &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/etsy-finds/" target="_blank"&gt;Etsy Finds&lt;/a&gt;. (Check out a sneak peek of one design below.)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Along with the larger, extra-enticing item photos, we'll also be including some promotional placements at the top and/or bottom. Sometimes these spaces will let you know about upcoming events and special happenings on Etsy &amp;mdash; like this week's &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/virtual_labs.php" target="_blank"&gt;Shop Live with Rosie O'Donnell in the Virtual Labs&lt;/a&gt;. From time to time, we will also use these spaces to feature relevant content, upcoming events and paid promotions from strategic partners.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you're already a subscriber, check your inbox to see if you received today's test email. Not a subscriber? &lt;a href="http://mailinglist.etsy.com/"&gt;What are you waiting for?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let us know in the comments below what your own favorite Etsy discovery has been, and what types of items you're most interested in finding next.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;Looking for more &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/etsy-finds/"&gt;Etsy Finds&lt;/a&gt;? Try these links:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:center;font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;a style="color: #0192b5" href="http://www.etsy.com/gift-guides"&gt;Gift Guides&lt;/a&gt; |&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/guest-curator"&gt;Guest Curators&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/title/trends/"&gt;Trends&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/Gift%20Ideas"&gt;Gift Ideas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Need a daily fix of &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/title/etsy-finds/"&gt;Etsy Finds&lt;/a&gt;? Sign up for the &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://mailinglist.etsy.com/"&gt;Etsy Finds e-mail&lt;/a&gt;! Conveniently delivered to &lt;strong&gt;your&lt;/strong&gt; inbox!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


</summary></entry><entry><title>Tech Updates: Improving Search</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-updates-improving-search-3545/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-03-09T13:00:00-05:00</updated><author><name>davidgiffin, sean11, TechUpdates</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-updates-improving-search-3545/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;p&gt;Today, we rolled out some small improvements to the search experience on Etsy. In addition to explaining these improvements, we want to share with you more about our approach to improving Etsy&amp;rsquo;s search function. Improving search on Etsy is an ongoing, collaborative effort involving the entire Etsy community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, what&amp;rsquo;s launching today?&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Search dropdown menu choice has been made persistent.&lt;/strong&gt; Previously, when performing a search under Vintage for example, the search dropdown menu would switch back to Handmade after clicking to view an item in the search results. Your dropdown menu choice is now persistent when searching under Handmade, Vintage, Supplies or All Items&amp;mdash;until you change it. We&amp;rsquo;ve also made it easier to return to your search results from an item listing page&amp;mdash;just look for the &amp;ldquo;Search Results&amp;rdquo; link in the breadcrumb navigation below the Etsy logo. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Search result sort order has been made persistent. &lt;/strong&gt;Similarly, if you like to sort search results by price for example, Etsy will remember your preference and allow you to keep sorting search results the way you want to for the length of your session on &lt;a href="http://Etsy.com"&gt;Etsy.com&lt;/a&gt;, until you decide to change it (or open a new browser window and start a new session). This is another small way to help make Etsy more searcher friendly.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A price filter has been added to search results for Materials.&lt;/strong&gt; You can now set a price range for search results under Materials&amp;mdash;look for the price filter under Search Tools on the right.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re working on a lot more that we want to tell you about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where We Are&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Etsy&amp;rsquo;s search is faster and more active than ever. After &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-update-improvements-to-search-3109/"&gt;replacing Etsy&amp;rsquo;s search technology with Solr&lt;/a&gt;&amp;mdash;an industry-leading, open-source search system&amp;mdash;we&amp;rsquo;ve seen significant increases in search speed and volume. Etsy engineer David aka &lt;a href="http://davidgiffin.etsy.com"&gt;davidgiffin&lt;/a&gt; led this work, which has led the way to all-time highs in the number of searches per day on Etsy. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Improving the speed of search on Etsy is part of a larger initiative aimed at making Etsy&amp;rsquo;s search simpler and more effective on the buyer side and more intelligent on the seller side. When we talk about the &amp;ldquo;buyer side of search,&amp;rdquo; we are generally referring to the search bar, dropdown menu and search results. When we talk about the &amp;ldquo;seller side of search,&amp;rdquo; we are referring to the item listing process, especially tagging. The listing process on the seller side directly impacts the search experience on the buyer side. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s what we&amp;rsquo;re working on now:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Simplifying the Search Dropdown Menu&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The current search dropdown menu is a confusing experience for many. For starters, there are too many options. In addition, we&amp;rsquo;re asking users to work too hard when we ask them to think about things like tags, titles or descriptions when they search. Most buyers or browsers don&amp;rsquo;t think in such a nuanced way when searching.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The default search option on Etsy is &amp;ldquo;Handmade Items: tags, titles.&amp;rdquo; The majority of searches are done with this setting, which excludes the description field for handmade items. The description field is also excluded from the search options for Vintage, Supplies and All Items. Many Vintage and Supplies sellers on Etsy have expressed concerns about this (there is an option to include the description field for Handmade items). We understand that concern and agree that the fields available to be searched should be consistent across Handmade, Vintage and Supplies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We believe that including the option to search item descriptions will improve buyers&amp;rsquo; chances of finding unique items that delight them. So we will be including an option to search descriptions for Handmade, Vintage, Supplies and All Items on search results pages, and making the search dropdown menu exactly that: Handmade, Vintage, Supplies, All Items. The other existing search dropdown options such as &amp;ldquo;Materials&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;Sellers: usernames&amp;rdquo; will still exist, as will the search dropdown options available from other areas of the site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the first step in a gradual streamlining of Etsy&amp;rsquo;s contextual search dropdown menu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Improving Accuracy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Currently, Etsy&amp;rsquo;s search results default to a reverse-chronological order display, with most recently listed items first. Item fields like tags and titles are weighted equally, which doesn&amp;rsquo;t always help buyers find what they&amp;rsquo;re looking for, particularly when item titles are written in a playful but non-descriptive way. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There will be no immediate changes to the way search results display on Etsy. Our goal is to give browsers and buyers an option to sort search results by relevancy, in addition to recency, to help them find items of interest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our current work on relevancy involves weighting some item fields more than others. What do we mean by weighting? We mean the importance attributed by the search engine to the types of fields being searched. For example, to return quality search results by relevancy, we may find we need to give item tags slightly more precedence than titles and significantly more precedence than descriptions. This would be due to the nature of the data: tags are usually more specific than titles, and descriptions need to be processed appropriately to determine relevancy. The recency of listings is also an important factor in returning quality search results on Etsy and will continue to be weighted highly. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We will continue to communicate our progress in this area. Improving search on Etsy is by its nature a collaborative community effort, as everything listed on the site comes from the community. Sellers need to understand how Etsy&amp;rsquo;s search function works in order to list items effectively and have their items be found.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Redesigning the Listing Process&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That&amp;rsquo;s why we&amp;rsquo;re focused on redesigning the item listing process, which is really where it all begins when it comes to search on Etsy. Our search index is updated constantly by thousands of sellers around the world, all of whom have different ways of describing their items. We&amp;rsquo;re working to make this listing process more structured, intelligent, understandable and fun, and the steps we&amp;rsquo;re taking are all done with the search experience in mind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re taking a thorough look at Etsy&amp;rsquo;s category structure and our current use of tags. Incorporating more structure here will ultimately enable category-specific filters on search results pages, allowing users to narrow down their search intuitively. It will enable multiple ways to shop: for example by category, by recipient, by material or by technique. Better data collection during the listing process could enable buyers to filter search results by location or by shipping preference. Making tag entry more intelligent and social will also help improve the Etsy search experience. We&amp;rsquo;re exploring a variety of ways to provide more direction and clarity during the listing process so that it&amp;rsquo;s easy for sellers to list items in such a way that the right people will find them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/talking-shop-with-etsy-ceo-maria-thomas-volume-2-3528/"&gt;Etsy CEO Maria Thomas&lt;/a&gt; mentioned recently, we have Sep Kamvar, &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://ask.enquiro.com/2007/whats-hot-at-the-search-insider-summit-two-words-sep-kamvar/"&gt;one of the world&amp;rsquo;s brightest minds in personalized search&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;rdquo; working with us on this area in particular. Expect improvements throughout 2009. Details will be announced here on the Etsy Blog, in the &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/forums_board.php?forum_id=5000003" target="_blank"&gt;Etsy Forums&lt;/a&gt; and to the &lt;a href="http://mailinglist.etsy.com/"&gt;Etsy News email list&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Come Try It Out&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Improving search is an ongoing, iterative process involving continual testing and evaluation. We&amp;rsquo;ve been busy testing search adjustments with users here in Brooklyn at the Etsy Usability Lab as well as remotely, and we&amp;rsquo;re about to begin a series of &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/virtual_labs.php" target="_blank"&gt;Virtual Labs&lt;/a&gt; where we&amp;rsquo;ll give anyone interested access to a test area to try out different searches and discuss the future of Etsy search with us. The first of these sessions will take place this Friday, March 13 at 1:00 pm EDT (check when this is in &lt;a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=3&amp;amp;day=13&amp;amp;year=2009&amp;amp;hour=13&amp;amp;min=0&amp;amp;sec=0&amp;amp;p1=179"&gt;your time zone&lt;/a&gt;). Save the date and join us!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where We Want to Go&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Search enhancements we&amp;rsquo;re actively exploring include things like links to related searches on search result pages, spell-checking functionality to suggest searches for misspelled words, and advertising options for search result pages.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re excited to partner with you to make search on Etsy better. There&amp;rsquo;s nothing quite like the feeling you get when you find that perfect, one-of-a-kind item on Etsy and we want more people around the world to experience it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We've closed commenting on this article; please join in &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6073007" target="_blank"&gt;this Forum thread&lt;/a&gt; to discuss your questions or comments about these improvements to search. Also, be sure to mark your calendar for the special Virtual Lab session on Friday, March 13 at 1:00 pm EDT.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://mailinglist.etsy.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/article_images/icon_EtsyEmails2.jpg" alt="" align="right" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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</summary></entry><entry><title>Artistic Endeavors: Nosideup&amp;#39;s Favorite Drawings</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/artistic-endeavors-nosideups-favorite-drawings-3448/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-03-06T17:00:00-05:00</updated><author><name>nosideup</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/artistic-endeavors-nosideups-favorite-drawings-3448/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5515929"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right;" src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/02/CIMG1723.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="156" align="right" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/category_sub.php?tags=art.drawing"&gt;Drawing&lt;/a&gt; is my favorite artistic medium. Drawings are bold statements; what you see is what you get. They have an unparalleled freshness and spontaneity, and can be careful and elaborate, or raw and direct. They are regularly used to study and create a "grander" piece, but to me that's what makes them so desirable: their humbleness and their lack of self-importance. We all draw as children, and I admire beyond words the artists that can keep that brilliant expression on their pages. Go on, grab a pencil and enjoy yourself! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20541271"&gt;Paolo &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20541271"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/3/38e/d12/il_200x200.55611752.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What I love about AshleyG is the very personal world she's created. Having the chance to own an original of her work (and her mythology) must be a pleasure. Its expression seems to change from sad to mischievous from day to day. By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://ashleyg.etsy.com"&gt;ashleyg&lt;/a&gt;, $115.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20210548"&gt;pam - original &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20210548"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/5/57d/871/il_200x200.54508642.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is an absolutely stunning piece. It's got such a personal style and an instant magnetism. It's simultaneously deceptively simple &amp;mdash; very strong. By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://BretPendlebury.etsy.com"&gt;BretPendlebury&lt;/a&gt;, $20.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17144743"&gt;BUNNY RABBIT original graphite drawing with mat &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17144743"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/d/dbb/0fc/il_200x200.44327799.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This bunny is so cute. It's vivacious and fabulously uncomplicated. It feels like it's made with love. By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://DearDodo.etsy.com"&gt;DearDodo&lt;/a&gt;, $22.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20026839"&gt;Torso - Original Drawing &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20026839"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/e/ec1/5d3/il_200x200.53892718.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Firstly, you have to really know what you are doing to draw hands like this (they are devilishly complicated to draw). Then you have to be ingeniously reckless to grab a brush and trace the thick, bleeding pitch-black area. By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://LivaRutmane.etsy.com"&gt;LivaRutmane&lt;/a&gt;, $88.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19302981"&gt;drawing five &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19302981"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/c/cbb/4cb/il_200x200.51482765.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is what I meant by childlike expression. It's free and rule-less, and perhaps a bit disturbing. Detaching yourself from what lies before you requires tons of confidence or ingenuity, or a rare mixture of both. By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://thegoodmachinery.etsy.com"&gt;thegoodmachinery&lt;/a&gt;, $70.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=15676880"&gt;sketch 28th september - 'a simple hand gesture about feeling lost...' &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=15676880"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/9/98f/b54/il_200x200.39490532.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is a bit more abstract, but I'm a sucker for textures and patterns. I find this composition rather delicate. I really fancy the white on the dark paper and the glove-like hands make me think of magic tricks. By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://restlessthings.etsy.com"&gt;restlessthings&lt;/a&gt;, $55.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19888724"&gt;RETRO RADIO 3 - Original Drawing &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19888724"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/7/711/dd2/il_200x200.53430192.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I like the nerdiness of this drawing. I like the texture of the color, like trying to color something very consciously in school, being careful not to draw outside the lines. By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://CB78.etsy.com"&gt;CB78&lt;/a&gt;, $45.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21514298"&gt;Naomi/ Tiny canvas print &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21514298"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/2/2ca/d5f/il_200x200.58865911.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I like the loose detailing in this piece (the lips, the puffed sleeves). Some of the detail in the clothing seems scratched or penciled on top of the pastel, and that creates a very interesting contrast. By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://tushtush.etsy.com"&gt;tushtush&lt;/a&gt;, $20.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=18274523"&gt;Naked sketch &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=18274523"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/a/a47/59c/il_200x200.48082341.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The first thing that draws you into this piece is the critical, thoughtful look in the eyes. Then you realize how masterfully the body has been traced &amp;mdash; the sharpness of the lines and the soft precision in the elbow is sensitive and sincere. There's a very real sense of expectation and pondering. By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://maronresur.etsy.com"&gt;maronresur&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11397262"&gt;vellum drawing (Repeat but not so....) - hand drawn original &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11397262"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/b/b81/36d/il_200x200.25556785.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This one makes me laugh. It's cheeky and rude, but it gives me the impression of being very intimate, maybe because of the scribbling. I like the energy of the lines. By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://meanrebeccajean.etsy.com"&gt;meanrebeccajean&lt;/a&gt;, $40.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/title/artistic-endeavors"&gt;Artistic Endeavors&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/search_results_category.php?search_type=category_tags_art&amp;amp;search_query=drawing"&gt;Search the Drawing Sub-Category in the Art Items&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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</summary></entry><entry><title>Artistic Endeavors: Dollhead&amp;#39;s Favorite Collage</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/artistic-endeavors-dollheads-favorite-collage-3454/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-03-05T16:00:00-05:00</updated><author><name>dollhead</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/artistic-endeavors-dollheads-favorite-collage-3454/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://dollhead.etsy.com"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right;" src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/02/-1small.jpg" alt="" width="160" height="197" align="right" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Collage can be executed in so many styles. I love them all, but I seem to be most attracted to the extremes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;I have collected work that uses collage in both simple and bold fashions, as well as detailed and visually complicated images. I aimed to pick original works of art because, although I love the idea of making and selling prints, one-of-a-kind pieces are so precious.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;I love the contrast that collage can create, especially when the art is created with mixed media. The use of&amp;nbsp;existing&amp;nbsp;images or pieces of paper can balance out&amp;nbsp;the imperfection of painted surfaces, pencil, and crayon marks. To me, it feels like controlled chaos sometimes; on the line between free form painterly fine art and careful graphic design compositions.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;I guess it says a lot about where I'm coming from, as a&amp;nbsp;commercial&amp;nbsp;artist who spends many hours working on a concept with a purpose, who also needing to just shut off my brain and just allow the stream of consciousness to take over. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;My choices originate from these extremes, and some step outside of the realm of traditional 2-D collage. I hope this selection inspires everyone in some way!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14719934"&gt;Java Goddess &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14719934"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/9/90d/fce/il_200x200.36342272.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I love the imagery and colors of Java Goddess. The design is very balanced and graphic. By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://WinonaCookie.etsy.com"&gt;WinonaCookie&lt;/a&gt;, $100.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=18768307"&gt;Willow Vine, Original painting/collage, 8 x 20, on canvas &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=18768307"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/6/621/c61/il_200x200.49717999.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is so pretty! I love this oval shape. (I've been a bit obsessed with it myself lately.) The patterns are terrific also. By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://SherylSprattDesigns.etsy.com"&gt;SherylSprattDesigns&lt;/a&gt;, $55.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14290674"&gt;Collages around  -  original mini book &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14290674"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/f/fb0/250/il_200x200.34943603.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How cute is this? I love &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/category_sub.php?tags=books_and_zines.book"&gt;handmade books&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; especially quirky, imperfectly cut ones! The pages are all cut in different shapes and the collage is minimal, yet so whimsical. By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://yaelfran.etsy.com"&gt;yaelfran&lt;/a&gt;, $36.50.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=9603900"&gt;Original Owl Collage &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=9603900"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/6/69b/4b8/il_200x200.19681795.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is an extremely impressive piece. The detail is obsessively dreamy and its size deserves a grand white wall and a regal wooden frame. Love! By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://kimmyhoots.etsy.com"&gt;kimmyhoots&lt;/a&gt;, $500.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20617025"&gt;an idea strikes 6 ORIGINAL mixed media collage &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20617025"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/1/130/2c8/il_200x200.55863002.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sometimes less is (way) more. This collage speaks volumes to me. It also seems like it would converse well with other elements in any given context or wall display. By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://gretchenmist.etsy.com"&gt;gretchenmist&lt;/a&gt;, $46.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20617025"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://gretchenmist.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21088340"&gt;Life Is A Bowl of Apples  Original Mixed Media &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21088340"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/b/b2c/4cf/il_200x200.57436042.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How many bowls of apples have been represented in art? It is so great to see a really fresh approach! I love this piece &amp;mdash; those tiny dots are maybe my favorite part. I also love the flatness and subtle variations of the two main colors. Yum! By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://ZenDotStudio.etsy.com"&gt;ZenDotStudio&lt;/a&gt;, $125.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21088340"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://ZenDotStudio.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14311069"&gt;Lost - Original Paper Cut Collage &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14311069"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/a/aca/c14/il_200x200.49100647.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I'm drawn to this for its antique quality. It reminds me of an old doll illustration from the 19th century &amp;mdash; something that might be on display at a corner shop. The stamp lettering adds the element of story. By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://DearDodo.etsy.com"&gt;DearDodo&lt;/a&gt;, $45.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14311069"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://DearDodo.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=15910814"&gt;H2o - Collage di Guglielmo Mazzenzana &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=15910814"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/e/ea3/984/il_200x200.40266444.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I can't stop looking at this piece. It is both tense and dreamy at the same time...it represents a place on the other side of a double rainbow, I think. By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://abatefaria.etsy.com"&gt;abatefaria&lt;/a&gt;, $1150.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=15910814"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://abatefaria.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20651369"&gt;Bird House Fabric Collage Pillow &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20651369"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/e/e50/f1d/il_200x200.55979080.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is such a lovely example of fabric collage; I want a whole collection of these pillows on my sofa! By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://sweetdovedesigns.etsy.com"&gt;sweetdovedesigns&lt;/a&gt;, $24.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20651369"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://sweetdovedesigns.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16023824"&gt;Raccoon Wall Plate &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16023824"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/1/1ff/66e/il_200x200.40639632.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;i consider this to be ceramic collage! The mirror adds a live element. By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://ArtsparkTheatre.etsy.com"&gt;ArtsparkTheatre&lt;/a&gt;, $16.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16023824"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://ArtsparkTheatre.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Looking for more artwork? Check out these links.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/title/artistic-endeavors"&gt;Artistic Endeavors series&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/showcase.php?showcase_id=artwork_for_every_room&amp;amp;ref=fp_sc_artwork_for_every_room_030209"&gt;Artwork for Every Room Showcase&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/gift-guides"&gt;Art Gift Guides&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/search_results_category.php?search_type=category_tags_art&amp;amp;search_query=collage"&gt;Collage Sub-Category&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


</summary></entry><entry><title>Tech Update: Introducing a New Recently Listed Items Site Feature</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-update-introducing-a-new-recently-listed-items-site-fea-3514/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-02-27T19:00:00-05:00</updated><author><name>jared, matt, TechUpdates, Vanessa</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-update-introducing-a-new-recently-listed-items-site-fea-3514/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;p&gt;Etsy admin/guru/spiritual leader &lt;a href="http://jared.etsy.com"&gt;Jared Tarbell&lt;/a&gt; has developed a new site feature: &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/recently.php"&gt;Recently Listed Items&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With Etsy's marketplace growing along with some sellers' concerns about the &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/community-topics-some-thoughts-on-recently-listed-items-3332/"&gt;traffic jam&lt;/a&gt; of items being uploaded to the site, we want to do our best to show you as many fresh items as we can. &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/recently.php"&gt;Recently Listed Items&lt;/a&gt; will be linked to from, not surprisingly,&amp;nbsp; the "Recently Listed Items" ticker on Etsy's homepage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/02/Etsy____Your_place_to_buy_and_sell_all_things_handmade-1.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Check it out! It's a super fun way to "speed shop."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Please note that we can't guarantee that this new site feature will show every single listing, but we hope this will help.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;All items below were found using: &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/recently.php"&gt;Recently Listed Items&lt;/a&gt;. See what you can find before the page fills up!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Let us know what you think in the comments!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://mailinglist.etsy.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/article_images/icon_EtsyEmails2.jpg" alt="" align="right" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;If you want to get the breaking, vital Etsy news as it happens &amp;mdash; delivered straight to your email inb&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;ox, then sign up for &lt;a href="http://mailinglist.etsy.com/"&gt;Etsy News Alerts emails&lt;/a&gt;. Read more about it &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/etsy-alerts-the-new-news-emails-1663"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Expect this as an Etsy Alert email in your inbox if you already subscribe to the list.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can also get an RSS feed of all TechUpdates &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/feeds/author/TechUpdates"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


</summary></entry><entry><title> Tiny Decor Blog&amp;#39;s Top 10 Eco-friendly Fabrics on Etsy</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/reviews/tiny-decor-blogs-top-10-eco-friendly-fabrics-on-etsy-3494/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-02-25T10:15:00-05:00</updated><author><name>tinydecor, Vanessa</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/reviews/tiny-decor-blogs-top-10-eco-friendly-fabrics-on-etsy-3494/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;p&gt;Looking for earth-friendly supplies? I found this useful &lt;a href="http://craftingagreenworld.com/2009/02/10/top-10-modern-eco-friendly-printed-fabrics-on-etsy/" target="_blank"&gt;post on Crafting a Green World&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="http://tinydecorblog.com/blog/" target="_blank"&gt;Tiny Decor Blog&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a class="local" href="http://greenoptions.com/author/jackie21"&gt;Jackie Hernandez&lt;/a&gt; shares her favorite eco-friendly fabrics for your craft projects &amp;mdash; and if you're not into making something, she notes that most of these shops have ready to use items as well. Her "original post on the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://tinydecorblog.com/blog/2008/07/31/top-10-modern-and-eco-friendly-fabric-sources-on-etsy/" target="_blank"&gt;Top 10 Modern, Eco-friendly Fabric Sources on Etsy&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;was the top post on the Tiny D&amp;eacute;cor Blog in 2008 and continues to be in the top 3 posts so far in 2009." Anything that helps crafters be green &amp;mdash; starting with sourcing supplies &amp;mdash; is a good thing in my book. Here's Jackie's list:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In no particular order, here are the top 10 modern, eco-friendly, screen printed fabrics on Etsy:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5317735" target="_blank"&gt;Kalla Textiles&lt;/a&gt; are handprinted in Japan by designer&amp;nbsp;Hitomi Kimura&amp;nbsp;with water-based inks on cotton/linen blend fabric. &amp;nbsp;I am personally enjoy reading the &lt;a href="http://kalladesign.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Kalla Design blog&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;where Hitomi shares her studio, inspirations, and printing in progress.&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5317735" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1296" src="http://go635254.s3.amazonaws.com/craftingagreenworld/files/2009/02/kallatextiles1-300x224.jpg" alt="Kalla Textiles" width="300" height="224" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=36645" target="_blank"&gt;Aunty Cookie&lt;/a&gt; offers limited edition &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=36645&amp;amp;section_id=5104910" target="_blank"&gt;screen printed fabrics&lt;/a&gt; by designer Shannon Lamden. &amp;nbsp;Fabrics are printed with water-based inks on a linen/cotton blend. &amp;nbsp;Aunty Cookie also carries adorable screen printed &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=36645&amp;amp;section_id=5472954" target="_blank"&gt;fabric trims&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=36645" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1297" src="http://go635254.s3.amazonaws.com/craftingagreenworld/files/2009/02/auntycookiefabric-300x224.jpg" alt="Aunty Cookie Fabric" width="300" height="224" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5792730&amp;amp;section_id=5689275" target="_blank"&gt;Moyou fa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5792730&amp;amp;section_id=5689275" target="_blank"&gt;brics&lt;/a&gt; are hand screen printed on hemp/cotton blend fabric with eco-friendly, solvent-free inks. &amp;nbsp;Designer Amy Kerr creates a&amp;nbsp;unique blend of Australian design and Japanese aesthetic. &amp;nbsp;Learn more at the &lt;a href="http://moyou-design.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-01-08T18%3A09%3A00%2B11%3A00&amp;amp;max-results=7" target="_blank"&gt;Moyou Design Blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://craftingagreenworld.com/files/2009/02/moyou.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1309" src="http://go635254.s3.amazonaws.com/craftingagreenworld/files/2009/02/moyou-300x224.jpg" alt="Moyou Fabric" width="300" height="224" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=61802" target="_blank"&gt;Cicada Studio&lt;/a&gt; offers linen/cotton blend fabrics professionally printed in the USA. &amp;nbsp;The newest collection Mod Quad features 4 bold geometric patterns in contemporary colors. &amp;nbsp;Learn more about designer Michelle Engel Bencsko on her blog &lt;a href="http://cicadadaydream.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Cicada Daydream&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=61802" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1298" src="http://go635254.s3.amazonaws.com/craftingagreenworld/files/2009/02/modsquad-300x300.jpg" alt="Cicada Studio Mod Squad" width="300" height="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5221479" target="_blank"&gt;Hollab&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5221479" target="_blank"&gt;ee&lt;/a&gt; still has a few hand screen printed hemp/organic cotton blends on Etsy. &amp;nbsp;At the end of last year designer&amp;nbsp;Bianca van Meeuwen entered a joint venture with a couple other Australian designers to create &lt;a href="http://craftingagreenworld.com/2009/01/28/ink-and-spindle-eco-friendly-fabric-and-yardage-printing/" target="_blank"&gt;Ink &amp;amp; Spindle&lt;/a&gt;. &amp;nbsp;Her new works can be found at the &lt;a href="http://www.inkandspindle.com/shop/" target="_blank"&gt;Ink &amp;amp; Spindle shop&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5221479"&gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1310" src="http://go635254.s3.amazonaws.com/craftingagreenworld/files/2009/02/hollabee-300x225.jpg" alt="Hollabee Textiles" width="300" height="225" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5530554" target="_blank"&gt;Daisy Janie&lt;/a&gt; offering continues to grow with a new collection due Feb/Mar 2009. &amp;nbsp;The designs by Jan DiCintio are professionally printed in the USA on a linen/cotton blend.&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5530554" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1299" src="http://go635254.s3.amazonaws.com/craftingagreenworld/files/2009/02/daisyjanie-300x300.jpg" alt="Daisy Janie Fabric" width="300" height="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5823369" target="_blank"&gt;MARAmiki&lt;/a&gt; designs are all hand drawn, then screen printed onto linen/organic cotton blend fabrics by designer Mara Snipes in her Chicago studio. &amp;nbsp;She uses&amp;nbsp;water-based, non-toxic inks and her fabrics are finished without chemicals or solvents. &amp;nbsp;See all her designs on the &lt;a href="http://www.maramiki.com/store/yardage/" target="_blank"&gt;MARAmiki website&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5823369"&gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1304" src="http://go635254.s3.amazonaws.com/craftingagreenworld/files/2009/02/maramiki1-300x199.jpg" alt="Maramiki Linen" width="300" height="199" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5745690" target="_blank"&gt;Umbrella Prints&lt;/a&gt; are hand screen printed on organic cotton/hemp blend fabrics with water-based inks by designer duo Amy Prior and&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Carly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;Schwerdt. &amp;nbsp;They have added a bunch of new yummy colorways this year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5745690"&gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1305" src="http://go635254.s3.amazonaws.com/craftingagreenworld/files/2009/02/umbrellaprints-300x224.jpg" alt="Umbrella Prints" width="300" height="224" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5094972" target="_blank"&gt;Of Paper and Thread&lt;/a&gt; fabrics are hand screen printed with&amp;nbsp;solvent-free ink on a linen/cotton blend. Designer Danielle Smeets also&amp;nbsp;shares a visual treat of in progress fabric designs at the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.ofpaperandthread.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Of Paper and Thread Blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5094972" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1300" src="http://go635254.s3.amazonaws.com/craftingagreenworld/files/2009/02/ofpaperandthread-300x300.jpg" alt="Of Paper And Thread Fabric" width="300" height="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5736927" target="_blank"&gt;Pippijoe&lt;/a&gt; fabrics are hand screen printed with environmentally friendly inks on hemp, hemp/cotton blend, or linen/cotton blend fabrics. &amp;nbsp;Check out the &lt;a href="http://www.pippijoe.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Pippijoe Diary&lt;/a&gt; for more of designer Caitlin Klooger&amp;rsquo;s craft adventures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5736927"&gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1301" src="http://go635254.s3.amazonaws.com/craftingagreenworld/files/2009/02/pippijoe-300x300.jpg" alt="Pippijoe Fabric" width="300" height="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[&lt;em&gt;Images courtesy of 1,2)Hitomi Kimura of Kalla Textile Design, 3)Shannon Lamden of Aunty Cookie, 4)Amy Kerr of Moyou, 5)Michelle Engel Bencsko of Cicada Studio, 6)Bianca van Meeuwen of Hollabee,&amp;nbsp;7)Jan DiCintio of Daisy Janie, 8)Mara Snipes of MARAmiki, 9)Amy Prior of Umbrella Prints, 10)Danielle Smeets of&amp;nbsp;Of Paper and Thread, 11)Caitlin Klooger of Pippijoe&lt;/em&gt;] &lt;em&gt;See &lt;a href="http://tinydecor.etsy.com"&gt;tinydecor&lt;/a&gt;'s shop on Etsy too!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Want more? Check out these links:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a title="Supplies" href="http://www.etsy.com/search_results_category.php?search_type=category_tags_supplies&amp;amp;search_query=eco"&gt;Supplies Tagged "Eco"&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/How-Tuesday/"&gt;How-Tuesday Projects&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/Earth%20Tones"&gt;Earth Tones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you're looking for a project, check out this &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/how-tuesday-favor-bags-with-brooklyn-bride-3422/"&gt;how-to video&lt;/a&gt; (especially if you're a bride who wants that handmade touch at your wedding)!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


</summary></entry><entry><title>Top 10 Signs That It&amp;#39;s Time for a Fresh Start</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etc/top-10-signs-that-its-time-for-a-fresh-start-3473/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-02-19T15:00:00-05:00</updated><author><name>Vanessa</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/etc/top-10-signs-that-its-time-for-a-fresh-start-3473/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Realization that I've had the same toenail polish on since my friend's wedding in November. (I also realized that one's toenails grow very slowly. No, they do not look like &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20940289"&gt;these nails&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I picked up a pile of mail on my desk only to reveal the cards I meant to send out for Christmas that had turned into Happy New Years cards, but will now be sent out as awkward &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/search_results.php?search_type=tag_title&amp;amp;search_query=paper+goods+St+Patrick%27s+day"&gt;St Patrick's Day/Please-don't-write-me-off greetings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Begging my co-workers to crack my back. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=10331973"&gt;Massage oil&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is inappropriate, right?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Chaperoning my husband's college age sister to Ft. Lauderdale for Spring Break because I'm that desperate for sunshine. I'm scoping out the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/category_sub.php?tags=clothing.swimsuit"&gt;swimsuit styles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Yoga after I don't know how long, muscles I didn't know I had a-quivering. When the instructor said "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=sr_gallery_1&amp;amp;listing_id=14948625&amp;amp;ga_search_query=child+pose&amp;amp;ga_search_type=tag_title"&gt;child pose&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;" I interpreted that as "fetal position."&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;SPLIT ENDS SPLIT ENDS SPLIT ENDS. Help me, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16337242"&gt;Jojoba&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Rationalization of pajamas as elements of my "look." These &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21183417"&gt;slippers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; work, right?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I want to buy this &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20207640"&gt;spa kit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; as a post-Valentine's Day gift for myself.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I'm thinking about writing my representatives to have &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" target="_blank"&gt;Daylight Savings&lt;/a&gt; (just the "Spring Forward" day) made into a national holiday. I am really, I mean &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt;, excited that it's staying light out past 5pm. (There are some fun &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/search_results.php?search_type=tag_title_vintage&amp;amp;search_query=sunset"&gt;vintage sunset items&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; BTW.)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;While browsing Etsy, I caught myself saying, "Ooo! I need these super cute &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20630930"&gt;Carpal Tunnel Syndrome arm-warmers&lt;/a&gt;!"&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;You feel me? Post in the comments below!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/Top%2010%20Lists"&gt;Top 10 Lists&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/rejuvenation/"&gt;Rejuvenation&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/gift-guides/redefine-your-style/118"&gt;Redefine Your Style Gift Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


</summary></entry><entry><title>Top 10 Birthday Wishes for Darwin!</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/top-10-birthday-wishes-for-darwin-3396/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-02-12T15:00:00-05:00</updated><author><name>katiearms</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/top-10-birthday-wishes-for-darwin-3396/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;p&gt;Some of us are fans of biology, others are just amazed by his gloriously bushy eyebrows. (Apparently he once &lt;a href="http://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/04/10-fun-facts-about-charles-darwin/" target="_blank"&gt;ate an owl&lt;/a&gt;?) Happy 200th birthday, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin"&gt;Charles Darwin&lt;/a&gt;. You've got monkeys on my mind!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19193541"&gt;living toy series note card -  LITTLE MONKEY GIRL and CHARLES DARWIN &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19193541"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/c/c09/3bc/il_200x200.51121184.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://teriko.etsy.com"&gt;teriko&lt;/a&gt;, $2.50.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19193541"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://teriko.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14017048"&gt; Frozen in Flight - TtV &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14017048"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/0/0a6/5c8/il_200x200.34065766.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://dsbrennan.etsy.com"&gt;dsbrennan&lt;/a&gt;, $30.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14017048"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://dsbrennan.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19032144"&gt;Fish Flower -- Art Print &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19032144"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/7/7bb/7e1/il_200x200.50588219.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://LeLapinTriste.etsy.com"&gt;LeLapinTriste&lt;/a&gt;, $18.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19032144"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://LeLapinTriste.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=18261425"&gt; Charles &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=18261425"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/5/580/7a9/il_200x200.48038298.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://hisss.etsy.com"&gt;hisss&lt;/a&gt;, $14.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=18261425"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://hisss.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=13385515"&gt;Crane Flies (Tipula) &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=13385515"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/4/4f0/658/il_200x200.32017044.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://dsbrennan.etsy.com"&gt;dsbrennan&lt;/a&gt;, $30.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=13385515"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://dsbrennan.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19735531"&gt;Darwin Coral Tusk Necklace &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19735531"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/1/176/ebc/il_200x200.52918364.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://urbanheir.etsy.com"&gt;urbanheir&lt;/a&gt;, $90.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19735531"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://urbanheir.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16690438"&gt; White Bronze Fossil &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16690438"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/8/817/3ab/il_200x200.42822601.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://AchAchLiebling.etsy.com"&gt;AchAchLiebling&lt;/a&gt;, $45.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16690438"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://AchAchLiebling.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=18392162"&gt;Monkeying Around - evolution glass set &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=18392162"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/4/45c/9e1/il_200x200.48470195.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://BigHelmetHead.etsy.com"&gt;BigHelmetHead&lt;/a&gt;, $8.25.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=18392162"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://BigHelmetHead.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vt_related_1&amp;amp;listing_id=20885376"&gt; Evolution of Humans Darwin illustration on Denim Blue T-SHIRT SIZES - S,M,L,XL &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vt_related_1&amp;amp;listing_id=20885376"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/e/e6a/f78/il_200x200.56141373.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://isotope.etsy.com"&gt;isotope&lt;/a&gt;, $14.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vt_related_1&amp;amp;listing_id=20885376"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://isotope.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=18132717"&gt;idiot brain pendant - hangs on 18 inch chain &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=18132717"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/5/510/709/il_200x200.47612698.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://bethtastic.etsy.com"&gt;bethtastic&lt;/a&gt;, $15.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=18132717"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://bethtastic.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://isotope.etsy.com"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/title/trends"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/category_top.php?top_tag=geekery"&gt;Geekery Items&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/title/science/"&gt;View More Science Related Posts&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/Top%2010%20Lists"&gt;Top 10 Lists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


</summary></entry><entry><title>Artistic Endeavors: My Top Ten Fine Art Photography Prints</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/artistic-endeavors-my-top-ten-fine-art-photography-prints-3367/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-02-06T15:20:00-05:00</updated><author><name>katiearms</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/artistic-endeavors-my-top-ten-fine-art-photography-prints-3367/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: ; font-weight: ;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Lange" target="_blank"&gt;Dorothea Lange&lt;/a&gt; once said, &amp;ldquo;One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.&amp;rdquo; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photography is a different animal than painting and sculpture. The camera gives us the chance to reach out and pluck moments from time with one satisfying, immediate click of the shutter. I'm fascinated by the way photographers are able to beautifully curate their world, whether it's portrait, still life or landscape. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Etsy is bursting with &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/category_sub.php?tags=art.photography"&gt;photographic genius&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: ; font-weight: ;"&gt;, so it was nearly impossible to pick only ten! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: ; font-weight: ;"&gt;1.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19037933"&gt;5x7 Print Set - Two Stories of a Ghost &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19037933"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/4/45f/946/il_200x200.50606534.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://madelaine.etsy.com"&gt;madelaine&lt;/a&gt;, $25.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19037933"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://madelaine.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: ; font-weight: ;"&gt;2.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19441527"&gt; Lake. - 14''x14'' limited edition. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19441527"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/6/66d/3d5/il_200x200.51939893.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://jdmphotographs.etsy.com"&gt;jdmphotographs&lt;/a&gt;, $200.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19441527"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://jdmphotographs.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: ; font-weight: ;"&gt;3.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11991201"&gt;5  x 7 - Sequoia National Park, California &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11991201"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/9/9bd/013/il_200x200.37814535.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://silentmountain.etsy.com"&gt;silentmountain&lt;/a&gt;, $10.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11991201"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://silentmountain.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: ; font-weight: ;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: ; font-weight: ;"&gt;4.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: ; font-weight: ;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20411455"&gt;Eudora Welty's Library, Jackson, Mississippi fine art print &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20411455"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/d/d77/24e/il_200x200.55176095.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://susanagraph.etsy.com"&gt;susanagraph&lt;/a&gt;, $35.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20411455"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://susanagraph.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=15968552"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: ; font-weight: ;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=15968552"&gt;Ferntebrae 2 - Original Polaroid Image Transfer in 8x10 Archival Mat &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=15968552"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/a/a4a/546/il_200x200.40456945.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://TiffanyTeske.etsy.com"&gt;TiffanyTeske&lt;/a&gt;, $35.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=15968552"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://TiffanyTeske.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: ; font-weight: ;"&gt;6.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: ; font-weight: ;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19345981"&gt;Droplets, 5x5 fine art print &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19345981"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/3/377/b74/il_200x200.51624313.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://NatureMandalas.etsy.com"&gt;NatureMandalas&lt;/a&gt;, $12.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19345981"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://NatureMandalas.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: ; font-weight: ;"&gt;7.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20491630"&gt;Rencontre &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20491630"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/e/ef2/651/il_200x200.55445818.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://aufilde.etsy.com"&gt;aufilde&lt;/a&gt;, $33.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20491630"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://aufilde.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: ; font-weight: ;"&gt;8.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: ; font-weight: ;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=7906692"&gt;POSTER PRINT - 20x8 INCHES &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=7906692"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/f/f1b/eed/il_200x200.15893923.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://Rachelrayns.etsy.com"&gt;Rachelrayns&lt;/a&gt;, $49.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=7906692"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://Rachelrayns.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=13970492"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: ; font-weight: ;"&gt;9.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=13970492"&gt;Make a jazz noise here - 10x10 print - Limited edition - Signed and numbered - Copy 04 on 30 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=13970492"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/5/5f9/625/il_200x200.33912751.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://vincentteuliere.etsy.com"&gt;vincentteuliere&lt;/a&gt;, $35.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=13970492"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://vincentteuliere.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: ; font-weight: ;"&gt;10.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0192b5; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: ; font-weight: ;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14512866"&gt;Portrait of an old shack - 8x12 fine art photography print &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14512866"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/6/678/f20/il_200x200.45769338.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://garyhellerphotograph.etsy.com"&gt;garyhellerphotograph&lt;/a&gt;, $29.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14512866"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://garyhellerphotograph.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/title/artistic-endeavors/"&gt;Artistic Endeavors&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/category_sub.php?tags=art.photography"&gt;Search the Photography Sub-Category in the Art&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/title/top-ten/"&gt;Top Ten Posts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


</summary></entry><entry><title>Community Topics: Some Thoughts on Recently Listed Items</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/community-topics-some-thoughts-on-recently-listed-items-3332/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-01-29T16:53:00-05:00</updated><author><name>Community, matt</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/community-topics-some-thoughts-on-recently-listed-items-3332/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;p&gt;Dear Friends,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Etsy has grown a great deal over the last two years, and in order to maintain site stability and speed we, like other large sites, are always tweaking the way things work. The engineering team at Etsy is constantly turning knobs and pulling levers to maximize site speed and availability, while also managing the growth in visitors, listings, images and many other variables.&amp;nbsp; In the weeks ahead, Chad Dickerson, our CTO, will be telling you more about these efforts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One lever that we recently adjusted was the way that listings, new or renewed, are delivered to the site (&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-update-more-info-on-search-categories-2623/"&gt;see this post&lt;/a&gt;). This adjustment involved delivering items in very frequent batches rather than continuously in real time.&amp;nbsp; As an outcomes of this change, there is less of chance that an individual item will appear in certain ways of discovering items on Etsy, including the &lt;em&gt;Recently Listed Items&lt;/em&gt; section of the &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/"&gt;Homepage&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;em&gt;Fresh Items&lt;/em&gt; list on the&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/buy.php"&gt; Buy Page&lt;/a&gt;, as part of &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/pounce.php?ref=fp_nav_pounce"&gt;Pounce&lt;/a&gt;, or in &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/time_machine.php"&gt;Time Machine 1&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/time_machine2.php?ref=fp_nav_timemachine2"&gt;Time Machine 2&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Each of these product discovery functions works differently and the chances of sellers actually seeing their items appear in all of these places depend on many variables including listing volumes at specific times, site speed, and each user&amp;rsquo;s speed of navigation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As many of you are aware, there have been several forum threads discussing this very issue.&amp;nbsp; If you&amp;rsquo;ll bear with me, I would like to address some of the main concerns that have been coming up. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Etsy needs to communicate site changes more effectively. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;Correct, and I take full responsibility here. I would like to apologize to the community at large. We did a poor job of addressing this issue in a timely or effective way. Several lengthy forum posts, a few days after the issue first arose is not acceptable. I didn't fully appreciate the need to communicate more comprehensively about this issue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many of you made suggestions about how Etsy can better communicate with sellers.&amp;nbsp; One of the first steps we are exploring includes an &amp;ldquo;admin&amp;rdquo; (e.g. Etsy staff) announcement section of the Forums. Though the Forums get millions of unique page views per month, I realize that they are not read by all in the Etsy community.&amp;nbsp; Nevertheless a dedicated Etsy admin forum might be helpful in making it easier to find our announcements about important changes.&amp;nbsp; I will keep you posted on this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the mean time, I&amp;rsquo;ve learned a valuable lesson here, and will be working much more closely with engineering to make sure that important site changes and updates are communicated more effectively and in a timely manner.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Doesn&amp;rsquo;t my 20 cent listing guarantee me a spot on these features? &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 20-cent listing fee is the cost to list an item on Etsy. This fee provides a page displaying an item in your shop for four months, with up to five photos. Etsy does not guarantee that your listing will include exposure in other places on the site, like the &lt;em&gt;Recently Listed Items&lt;/em&gt; section on the Homepage or other product discovery features. We will be making changes to relevant FAQs to make sure that this is very clear.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;Having said that, Etsy does have a track record of creating innovative product discovery features that showcase the new and undiscovered on Etsy. We value those features and are always exploring new ways to engage buyers on the site by showcasing sellers and their items.&amp;nbsp; We expect to continue that tradition as we grow, and are looking at ways we can improve the current features we have.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. But Etsy has always told me to renew?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In various live workshops, the community moderated Etsy wiki, and in seller interviews such as "&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/Quit%20Your%20Day%20Job"&gt;Quit Your Day Job&lt;/a&gt;", admin and community members alike have advocated relisting or renewing an item as a way to get it to the top of the heap, as it were.&amp;nbsp; It is true, that Search and Category pages default to the most recently listed items in the search index.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Renewing may or may not get your item at the very top, but it will place it closer to the front in features that display listings in reverse chronological order. Nothing has changed there. That said, we think something &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; change. Renewing was never intended to be an advertising tool, but the way it was built &amp;ndash; along with the emphasis on reverse chronological ranking throughout the site &amp;ndash; allowed renewing to function as a promotional strategy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In her &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/talking-shop-with-etsy-ceo-maria-thomas-2853/"&gt;Storque post&lt;/a&gt; in November, Maria Thomas, our CEO, touched on how we are beginning to think about changing Search. You can read it &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/talking-shop-with-etsy-ceo-maria-thomas-2853/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; This work is still at a conceptual stage and nothing is changing in the short-term. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next month Maria and Chad will be reaching out to the community again, to follow up on our thinking around Search and other matters. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;I hope this clears things up. I know this is an important issue to many in the selling community and again, I apologize for how we communicated it initially. As always, you can reach me at &lt;a href="mailto:matt@etsy.com"&gt;matt@etsy.com&lt;/a&gt;. We're closing the comments here so we can follow your comments in one place in &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6020294"&gt;this forum thread&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks, Matt&lt;/p&gt;


</summary></entry><entry><title>My Top 10 Lovely Primitives</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/my-top-10-lovely-primitives-3304/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-01-27T19:00:00-05:00</updated><author><name>Vanessa</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/my-top-10-lovely-primitives-3304/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;p&gt;True love can be quite a "primitive" urge! Here is my personal &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/Top%2010%20Lists"&gt;Top 10 List&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/Season%20of%20Love"&gt;Season of Love&lt;/a&gt; prims. Share your faves in the comments below!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20033081"&gt;Arrow 'Eros'  with Star Wall Art &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20033081"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/5/543/630/il_200x200.53914106.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://gilhooly.etsy.com"&gt;gilhooly&lt;/a&gt;, $69.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20033081"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://gilhooly.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20046594"&gt; Miss Angel &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20046594"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/2/2ed/054/il_200x200.53959895.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://raggedraven.etsy.com"&gt;raggedraven&lt;/a&gt;, $24.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20046594"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://raggedraven.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20287097"&gt;Wordz from the Heart &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vt_related_2&amp;amp;listing_id=20113457"&gt; &lt;img style="border: 0;" src="http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_200x200.54762504.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By  &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5970122"&gt;wordzoflife&lt;/a&gt;, $5.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20287097"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://wordzoflife.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19854719"&gt;Felted Bird Head &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19854719"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/3/359/239/il_200x200.53315824.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://seeleyst.etsy.com"&gt;seeleyst&lt;/a&gt;, $26.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19854719"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://seeleyst.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19634046"&gt;Love Seeds Feedsack Pillow &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19634046"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/8/891/c32/il_200x200.52580805.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://TomorrowsTreasures.etsy.com"&gt;TomorrowsTreasures&lt;/a&gt;, $12.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19634046"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://TomorrowsTreasures.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=18137400"&gt;Primitive Wreath &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=18137400"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/0/08a/ed6/il_200x200.47629504.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://PrimitiveFolk.etsy.com"&gt;PrimitiveFolk&lt;/a&gt;, $15.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=18137400"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://PrimitiveFolk.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19819304"&gt;Primitive Crow Love - Door Greeter For Valentines Day Doll &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19819304"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/4/402/f35/il_200x200.53196211.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://artsycraftsyfolks.etsy.com"&gt;artsycraftsyfolks&lt;/a&gt;, $25.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19819304"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://artsycraftsyfolks.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20025503"&gt;Primitive Make-Do Pincushion Heart/Valentine Lady Brown Eyes &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20025503"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/f/f60/3d5/il_200x200.53892091.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://digiliodesigns.etsy.com"&gt;digiliodesigns&lt;/a&gt;, $34.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20025503"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://digiliodesigns.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19693216"&gt;Primitive Shabby Valentine Heart Pantry Boxes in red, white, and pink &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19693216"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/0/06c/788/il_200x200.52777394.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://thebrokenhouse.etsy.com"&gt;thebrokenhouse&lt;/a&gt;, $24.98.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19693216"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://thebrokenhouse.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19689118"&gt;Miniature Pink Bear with Rabbit a needle felted Ornament by maria pahls &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19689118"&gt; &lt;img src="http://images.etsy.com/all_images/2/283/1f6/il_200x200.52763659.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a style="color:#0192b5" href="http://MRCROWSGARDEN.etsy.com"&gt;MRCROWSGARDEN&lt;/a&gt;, $39.99.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19689118"&gt;View Item&lt;/a&gt; |   &lt;a style="color:#0192b5;font-weight:bold" href="http://MRCROWSGARDEN.etsy.com"&gt;View Shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/primitive/"&gt;See More Posts with Primitive Items&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/search_results.php?search_type=tag_title&amp;amp;search_query=primitive+valentine"&gt;Search for "Primitive Valentine"&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/showcase.php?showcase_id=valentines_day&amp;amp;ref=fp_sc_valentines_012609"&gt;Valentine's Day Showcase&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:center;font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/etc/vote-how-do-you-say-love-3292/"&gt;Vote on Sellers' Season of Love Items!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


</summary></entry><entry><title>Shop Makeover Series: Are Your Photos Frontpage Worthy?</title><link href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/shop-makeover-series-are-your-photos-frontpage-worthy-3178/" rel="alternate"></link><updated>2009-01-12T14:30:00-05:00</updated><author><name>StudioCherie</name></author><id>http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/shop-makeover-series-are-your-photos-frontpage-worthy-3178/</id><summary type="html">

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;After hearing the many Etsy sellers discussing what it takes to be chosen for the Etsy home page, &lt;a href="http://studiocherie.etsy.com"&gt;StudioCherie&lt;/a&gt; decided to share some helpful tips on her&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://studiocherie.blogspot.com/2009/01/am-i-worthy.html" target="_blank"&gt; blog, Studio Cherie&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;(A great resource for Etsy sellers!) She also shared the tip in the &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/etsyshopmakeovers/discuss/72157612212558050/" target="_blank"&gt;Shop Makeover flickr group&lt;/a&gt;. We love to see sellers sharing their knowledge, so we're reposting her wisdom below. Check out the original post &lt;a href="http://studiocherie.blogspot.com/2009/01/am-i-worthy.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We see versions of this question posted daily on the Etsy forums: "Are my photos Treasury worthy?" "Why am I never picked for the Etsy front page?" Answers abound in the form of &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/title/photography-how-to"&gt;photography tips and tricks&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/title/networking"&gt;networking advice&lt;/a&gt;. In my opinion, what most of us are missing in our own photography is the vital element of perspective. How do your photos look side by side with those that &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; appearing on the front page? Using Etsy's &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/poster_sketch.php"&gt;Poster Sketch&lt;/a&gt; you can easily check for yourself and, in some cases, make adjustments to your existing photos to make them work.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;First, go to &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/poster_sketch.php"&gt;Poster Sketch&lt;/a&gt;. (I bookmarked it, so I can click on it anytime and get to work.) Load the Poster Sketch with the item(s) of yours that you want to test, along with items you have seen on the front page. I started with the photo above because I thought it was so great and I could not understand how so many front pages featuring these colors could get posted and not one of them feature &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14580418"&gt;my bag&lt;/a&gt;. What I discovered was that while my bag was photogenic, showing it in its entirety was keeping it out of Treasuries. There was too much white space and the photo lost all of its punch. After cropping the photo closer, it becomes Treasury worthy. Here is a screen shot of the finished sketch. My bag is in the lower left corner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287873701275852898" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; height: 394px; text-align: center;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_stRD3UZ7uhU/SWJNHW2tYGI/AAAAAAAAALY/OuGmA93xrtE/s400/improvedscreenshotgreen.gif" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 78%;"&gt;[List of sellers in this sketch in order of appearance: &lt;a href="http://outoftheflames.etsy.com/"&gt;outoftheflames&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://randomscraps.etsy.com/"&gt;randomscraps&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://humbledaisyhandmade.etsy.com/"&gt;humbledaisyhandmade&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://ragnazidnar.etsy.com/"&gt;ragnazidnar&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://livepoultry.etsy.com/"&gt;livepoultry&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://petalandpink.etsy.com/"&gt;petalandpink&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://thepaintedlily.etsy.com/"&gt;thepaintedlily&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://rachel323.etsy.com/"&gt;rachel323&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://khphillips.etsy.com/"&gt;khphillips&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://debbyaremdesigns.etsy.com/"&gt;debbyaremdesigns&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://patapri.etsy.com/"&gt;patapri,&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://studiocherie.etsy.com/"&gt;studiocherie&lt;/a&gt;, studiocherie, &lt;a href="http://sagegold.etsy.com/"&gt;sagegold&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://rachel323.etsy.com/"&gt;rachel323&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://elephannie.etsy.com/"&gt;elephannie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://elephannie.etsy.com/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 78%;"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_stRD3UZ7uhU/SWJVZAh2_5I/AAAAAAAAALo/XgN2OauUmdc/s1600-h/bag2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287882800613490578" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_stRD3UZ7uhU/SWJVZAh2_5I/AAAAAAAAALo/XgN2OauUmdc/s200/bag2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Using this method, I have discovered that some of my bags need a fresh photo shoot. The last photo in the third row of the poster above is a detail shot of a &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=15408306"&gt;cute bag&lt;/a&gt;, but I am afraid that the fabric is a lot better in person than it is in the photos. This shot might work a little better, but I am afraid it is still too washed out and small for the front page. The door and the brick wall is more interesting than the bag. Can you be brutally honest with yourself? I have to accept that this bag is not front page material and never will be.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Here is another Poster Sketch I put together with one of my bags in each row. Each row could be the start of a complete treasury. I think they hold up to scrutiny along side the most popular sellers. With this method, now I don't have to guess if my photos are Treasury worthy, I can check them myself!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287873198026137538" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; height: 400px; text-align: center;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_stRD3UZ7uhU/SWJMqEGoH8I/AAAAAAAAALQ/p8LoLYFWkcE/s400/4rows.gif" border="0" alt="" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 78%;"&gt;Sellers appearing in this sketch in order of appearance: &lt;a href="http://rachel323.etsy.com/"&gt;rachel323&lt;/a&gt;, studiocherie, &lt;a href="http://larimeloom.etsy.com/"&gt;larimeloom&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://littlesparrownest.etsy.com/"&gt;LittleSparrowNest&lt;/a&gt;, studiocherie, &lt;a href="http://makool.etsy.com/"&gt;makool&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://sherrytruitt.etsy.com/"&gt;sherrytruitt&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://redrubyrose.etsy.com/"&gt;redrubyrose&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://totusmel.etsy.com/"&gt;totusmel&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://dillondesigns.etsy.com/"&gt;dillondesigns&lt;/a&gt;, studiocherie, &lt;a href="http://maryandangelika.etsy.com/"&gt;maryandangelika&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://paintedmetal.etsy.com/"&gt;paintedmetal&lt;/a&gt;, studiocherie, &lt;a href="http://livepoultry.etsy.com/"&gt;livepoultry&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://imagesofbeauty.etsy.com/"&gt;imagesofbeauty&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Are your photos Treasury worthy? What makes your photographs stand out? Leave your tips and tricks in the comments! And if you're participating in the &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/title/shop-makeover-series/"&gt;Shop Makeover Series&lt;/a&gt;, post a link to your before and after shots!&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;Check out the &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/etsyshopmakeovers/pool/"&gt;Etsy Shop Makeover Flickr pool here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/the-etsy-seller-handbook-all-our-how-tos-about-selling-2383"&gt;Seller Handbook&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/tags/shop-makeover-series-how-to"&gt;Shop Makeover Series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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