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Oktoberfest Memories With BurdaStyle

Open source sewing company BurdaStyle is a longtime friend of Etsy's (and a German one at that!), and when we saw their über-cute dirndl pattern on BurdaStyle, we had to let you know about it. "Based on the historical dress of Alpine peasants, the dirndl is the traditional dress of southern Germany and Austria. In …

Etsy Finds Vintage: Let's Go Trippin'

Sometimes I ache for the life of a jet setter: constantly taking off to exotic locales at the drop of a hat, picking up precursory foreign language tidbits (Spaseebo balshoye!), and meandering through cobblestone streets with nowhere in particular to go. Now is the season to venture out in the world and bask …

Trends: Gnomes and Fairy Tales

If you've seen a resurgence of gnomes, toadstools, and miniature cottages where fairy tales of the tiny variety might occur, you're not imagining things. Today's trend is inspired by the world as illustrated in Grimm's Fairy Tales, full of Bavarian-inspired imagery and little men that live inside red and …

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