One Jeweler's New Year's Resolution Revolution
Ever have that feeling like your New Year's resolution (oh, bathing the cat once a year, swearing off cupcakes, not pressing the snooze button for an hour) pales in comparison to others' loftier goals? Chuck from DownToTheWireDesigns has an inspiring one to share with all of us. Think big, people! The biggest …
American Consumerism
Consumerism: A passion for acquisition of personal property; the concept that a healthy economy requires a strong consumer market; advocacy to protect consumers from false advertising, shoddy merchandise. Have you noticed how the definition of consumerism is being interpreted by those of us in …
Handmade in the U.S.A.
Tomorrow, July 4th, the United States celebrates its 232nd birthday.For me, patriotism has always been about pride in one's contribution to the community. We are a nation founded, developed, and changed, by individuals. From independence to civil rights, America depends not on conformity or mob mentality …
Hip Handmade with Modish: Scarves
Awesome style blog Modish has started a new series that really piques our interest: Hip Handmade. This series utilizes the idea of comparison shopping between the "big box" version of hip clothing and accessories and the handmade, Etsy-style version of said products. As Jena from Modish explains, "Those …
Crafting, Consumerism & Cooptation: Materializing a Utopian Idea
If you don't make it yourself, are you just a consumer — consumer in the dirty sense of the word? I recently read Jean Railla's guest post “What Would Jesus Sell?” about Rev. Billy's Church of Stop Shopping, Morgan Spurlock, the Handmade Pledge and Etsy. Rob Walker — the author of a New York Times Magazine piece …
Your Handmade Stories: momerath on Buying Handmade
momerath submitted a really interesting video in response to our call for Your Handmade Stories. She uses her "collection of Stick Figure Man photos" to illustrate her point about consumerism. She "photograph[s] informational/warning signs around the world." It has a kind of spooky effect. Well done …
Love the colors - great collections!
by MysticLily
on Etsy Finds: Shades o...
very lovely creations, made me smile:)!
by littlemoandfriends
on Etsy Finds: Shades o...
Uh, oh.... it looked like it didn't take my comment ...
by That70sShoppe
on Keep it Weird: The C...
Those origami shoes are really neat!
by That70sShoppe
on Keep it Weird: The C...
Those origami shoes are very neat!
by That70sShoppe
on Keep it Weird: The C...
Those origami shoes are the neatest!
by That70sShoppe
on Keep it Weird: The C...
Those origami shoes are great!
by That70sShoppe
on Keep it Weird: The C...