Featured Buyer: Joy Behar of The View
Today's Featured Buyer is Joy Behar of popular daytime tv show The View, where her sassy wit shines along with those of her co-hosts. Lucky for us, Joy has a talented daughter too: Eve Behar, ceramicist and Etsy seller. Eve kindly connected us to her mom and below, you'll find a little interview with did with Joy …
Fresh Shops: jillrosenwald
Ceramicist JillRosenwald's beautiful works have been all the rage on the blogosphere as of late. Her gorgeous lamps, bowls and vases are the picture of muted palettes and graphic beauty. This Fresh Shop may be brand new to Etsy, but she's an accomplished artist who has already sold her art around the world …
The Generations of Men on Etsy
During our Virtual Labs office hours, Etsian abitabite tipped the Storque that a post about humbleglory, Rith, and donaldrith would make an interesting story about three generations of men on Etsy — ripe for our Dude's Perspective series. Turns out this family has even more relatives on Etsy than we'd …
Etsy World Tour: Hungary, Where Traditional and Contemporary Crafts Meet
In this edition of Etsy World Tour, vadjutka highlights a few of Hungary's diverse crafting traditions, both traditional and contemporary. Enjoy! Gömör Pottery Once upon a time, a few hundred years ago, peasants of a county called Gömör (which is now part of Slovakia) started to make a special kind of ceramic that …
My Top 10 Ceramic Figurines
All this talk about Mother's Day has me reflecting on the tchotchke-collecting gene. I got it from my mom and she from her parents (both her mother and father had vastly different tastes). While pining away for my grandparents' house and all the long-gone the curios therein, I studied up on the art and science …
Etsy Finds: Moms Love Plants!
One of the traits I hope to inherit from my mother, since I missed out on the "cooking" gene, is her green thumb. I've tried my hand at growing vegetables, in which I mostly utilized a plant-and-pray technique; somehow I had some luck with the tomatoes. But my mom, Flo, sure does know how to keep the foliage happy. Some …
Etsy Finds: An Etsy Table
Today's Find was suggested by Fernfiddlehead in this Etsy forum thread. Let's set an all-Etsy table, with plates and silverware and tablecloths — even the table itself. The Housewares category is one of my favorites. So, here we go: English rose floral fabric covered chair Before we serve any food, we're going …
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 Finds: Romantic Ceramics
Ok, I try not to get overly mushy in public, but I did find this engagement box set to be particularly heart warming and sweet. If I were a girl, and to receive this, I don't see how I could possibly refuse. In case you aren't planning on popping any questions in the near future, palomasnest has tons of other …
