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Etsy Finds Decor: Show Your True Colors

This weekend's Get the Look: Decor is inspired by the vibrant home of Italian Etsy seller, Paola Panelli. Her home features brightly colored walls, sleek modern furniture and colorful handmade and vintage accents. Each room in her apartment is filled with plants and natural light and the spectacular …

Facts and Fancies: Blown Glass with ProvidenceArtGlass

In this Facts and Fancies series, I'll take you on a tour through Etsy's Categories. As we visit these "planets" one by one, we'll talk to sellers and experts and find some extraordinary items on Etsy. (We'll also get some great insider tips along the way.) In this installment, glass artist Becca Zhukov, pictured at …

Handmade Weddings: Silvia Bargagni of Magnolia Weddings e le nostre Cerimonie Nuziali Europee

Silvia Bargagni — owner of the Magnolia Wedding Consultant & Planner Agency in Florence, Italy — is an avid Etsy buyer, for her couples and for herself. She lives in Florence with her loving husband, enjoying a life of organizing weddings and events. She has a blog where she gives tips and advice, showing the …

The Art of Slow: A Celebration of the Handmade

Today Lou Sagar, Etsy's resident merchandising consultant and Slow Movement devotee, will tell us a bit of the history behind this growing shift. Slow Food creates a thoughtful intersection between planting, harvesting and preparing an artisanal meal and the craftsmanship behind a thrown ceramic …

Shop Local: Italy with Alibli

Ah, la dolce vita! I'm personally in love with Italy and I was thrilled to accept alibli's pitch for this edition of our Shop Local series. She touches on another topic near and dear to Etsy's heart: sustainability. The Slow Movement was first established in Italy and we all have a lot to learn from our European …

Celebrate Carnival around the World with Pearlswirl

For hundreds of years, Catholics around the world have celebrated the days before Ash Wednesday with bright, colorful outfits, delicious, sweet treats, music and festivals. These joyous celebrations were intended to mentally prepare Catholics for the forty days of fasting and solemn behavior known …

The Corno Project: Unlocking the Jeweler's Block

The internet is many things to many people. One of the common threads running through its infinite uses is communication, and it's from this global communication that the "Corno Project" evolved.Take three jewelers in different parts of the world — the U.S., Italy and Scotland — who don't know each other. Throw in …

Fresh Shops: Aula46

What can I say, I'm a sucker for electronic geekery. I'm also a sucker for Pounce, which is how I discovered today's Fresh Shop. First of all, the moment I see resistors in a listing image, the seller becomes a contender. Perhaps it's a weakness of mine, but I like to think of the ability to spot dorktacular oddities as …

Etsy Finds from lilarubyking

I asked Anna aka lilarubyking to choose today's Etsy Finds because I'd noticed a Treasury or two she'd put together, and I just knew she'd make a great curator. Visit her Etsy shop to see her amazing jewelry and accessories (this brooch is a favorite of mine) or just check out her beautiful Finds below! —Anda When …

Etsy Find: Traveling Without Traveling

Artificialvacations — what a name! That's precisely what I need.  It's summer, and as a child with a European parent who didn't want his son to be completely American, we used to travel to the Olde Worlde. I was spoiled with these great voyages and took them for granted. I want to travel, but can't at the moment. This …

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