Handmade Weddings: Red Flags When Hiring A Wedding Band
One of the ultimate goals of a wedding? Creating an atmosphere in which your friends and relatives will dance like maniacs. Who else should coach us on this fine art, dear Handmade Wedding Series readers, but our resident admin Matt, rockstar and wedding band freelancer. Being at the age where many of my …
Handmade Weddings: Mosey Makes a Custom Gown
Here is just one story of a handmade dress for our Handmade Wedding Series. Mosey, who also makes fuzzy and wooly warm things, has made a truly personal and summer dress for her friend Aline.Making a custom wedding dress can be a great collaboration. I love to involve the bride-to-be. I start with a sketch …
Handmade Weddings: Stitch Lounge
The Handmade Wedding Series is proud to introduce the co-founders of Stitch Lounge (www.stitchlounge.com) in San Francisco, the country’s first urban sewing lounge (on Etsy they are at stitchlounge.etsy.com), and authors of Subversive Seamster: Transform Thrift Store Threads into Street Couture (Taunton …
Your Handmade Stories: ArgyleWhale
As part of our on-going call for Your Handmade Stories, Elise from argylewhale.etsy.com talks about how she got started on Etsy. For other ruminations and inspirations from Argyle Whale check out Elise's Etsy shop ArgyleWhale.Etsy.com and blog argylewhale.blogspot.com You too can get involved! To find …
Handmade Weddings: Wild Gown Chase
For a bride-to-be, what’s more exciting, really, than figuring out what your dress is going to look like? Well, yeah, there's that little thing of pledging your undying love, of course. But you really want to be wearing something totally unique that expresses yourself whilst promising to be another person's …
Etsy Community Projects: Saturday Night Specials
The Etsy Community is constantly dreaming up new ideas. Some of these ideas are for improvements on the site, some are inspiration for getting out of a creative slump and some are just plain fun ideas for projects to work on with or get to know other members of the Etsy Community. This is a series …
Handmade Weddings: 1965 Blast from the Past with PetereneDesign
The Handmade Wedding Series put out a call for bridal blasts from the past, and for vintage and retro fans, you are in luck. This week we have the clean-cut 1960s with PetereneDesign, a Pawtucket, RI native, who was married in 1965. In looking at these fresh-faced photos, I feel like they could almost be taken …
Handmade Weddings: Hobocampcrafts' DIY Wedding
The Handmade Wedding Series has been delighted to bring you some real weddings. And hobocampcrafts' self-described "hobo" wedding kept it so real with a budget of only $5000!Many little girls dream about their weddings, but the idea of getting married never even dawned on me. So when my boyfriend got down on …
Etsy World Tour: Fes, Where Craft is a Way of Life
This piece from ciaralovesyou is the first in a series of articles we're going to publish about handmade traditions around the world: The Etsy World Tour. It will be our featured series after next month's upcycling series. When I pledged to Buy Handmade, I assumed that I'd be making my purchases at Etsy and …
Etsy Community Projects: Collage-A-Day
The Etsy Community is constantly dreaming up new ideas. Some of these ideas are for improvements on the site, some are inspiration for getting out of a creative slump and some are just plain fun ideas for projects to work on with or get to know other members of the Etsy Community. This is a series …
Handmade Weddings: liskidder's Custom Ring
Soon-to-be-newlywed liskidder is not just an Etsy seller, she's also a buyer! She had that super-important little thing — her engagement ring — made by fellow Etsian esdesigns. This all transpired before Alchemy was up and running, but if you have a hankering, esdesigns now takes custom Alchemy requests …
Handmade Weddings: 1970s Blast from the Past
The Handmade Wedding Series gazed at the 1980s in full glory with Confections' post. Without further ado, here are the amazing 1970s stylings of vintagethisretrothat's parents. Vintage inspiration!My mothers gown was $110.00.The wedding gown was bought way before she even had any intentions of getting …
Handmade Weddings: I Do's without the Debt with RaeGun
Another real wedding that really kept it real: RaeGun gives Handmade Wedding Series readers a peek at her DIY nuptials!Marrying a pastor's son meant we would be inviting the whole church to the wedding. Being the type of girl who thinks it's pretty wasteful to spend thousands upon thousands on one day's …
Open Studio Tours: Fruccidesign Snoops on mcaplan
In this Open Studio Tour series, we'll be snooping around artists' creative spaces, how they set them up, when, why…even how often they clean them! We really want to know all about our artists, and maybe get a bit of inspiration!Today I knocked at Michelle Caplan aka mcaplan's door. She is a Los Angeles based mixed …
Etsy Community Projects: PhotoLab Project
The Etsy Community is constantly dreaming up new ideas. Some of these ideas are for improvements on the site, some are inspiration for getting out of a creative slump and some are just plain fun ideas for projects to work on with or get to know other members of the Etsy Community. This is a series …
