News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere: September 10, 2009
"Everything in this room is eatable. In fact, even I am eatable, but that is called cannibalism, my dear children, and is frowned upon in most civilizations." — Willy Wonka This week's edition of News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere is chock full of cones, rods and pyramids, industrial knick knacks in every nook …
Alice Waters' Edible Schoolyard
There's one thing that makes me happier than walking by urban gardens, and that's walking by urban gardens tended by youths. The Edible Schoolyard has become a legendary success story. Founded over a decade ago by chef Alice Waters, this one-acre garden and kitchen classroom at Martin Luther King, Jr …
Etsy Finds Decor: A Green Pioneer Buys the Farm
This weekend's Get the Look: Decor is inspired by one woman's experience restoring a nineteenth century barn in Upstate New York and transforming it into a beautiful place to call home. Etsy seller Maya of designsmayamade documented her mother's barn-to-home restoration process on her blog maya*made …
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 …
Guest Curator: Sabrina Gschwandtner of KnitKnit
This week's Guest Curator is artist, writer and curator Sabrina Gschwandtner. Sabrina's work bridges the fields of conceptual art, handcraft, activism and social history. Her book KnitKnit: Profiles and Project’s from Knitting’s New Wave was published by Stewart, Tabori and Chang in 2007; the audio version …
Quit Your Day Job: FarmsteadOrganics
Jennifer of FarmsteadOrganics recently contacted me with her story of selling on Etsy full time. Jennifer and her husband decided to make the most of some bad news when they found out her husband's company would be making some cut backs and he would be losing his job. After some consideration and …
Handmade Portraits: MV Knits featured on YouTube!
Today, August 3rd, 2008 YouTube has featured one of our Handmade Video Portraits on their front page! Please watch our portrait of shepherd Susan Gibbs and then subscribe to the Etsy channel on YouTube and Itunes to keep up-to-date on the latest Etsy videos. Check out the Martha's Vineyard Fiber Farm's …
Northstaralapacas: Alpaca Granny
When Maple of northstaralpacas sends out her Etsy packages, there's a little treat included in addition to the luscious handspun yarn and cozy handknit hats. The unexpected surprise that awaits each customer? A photograph of the specific alpaca from which the item originated. The handmade movement …
Handmade Portraits: MV Knits
MP4 | Youtube | Blip.tv | Subscribe in iTunes (music by Barry London, Charlie Parr) After quitting her day job in Los Angeles and moving to Martha's Vineyard, a quiet island off the Massachusetts coast, Susan Gibbs aka MVKnits had a great idea. She started Martha's Vineyard Fiber Farm and figured out how to make a …
The Sustainable Sounds of Cheese
Every summer, for over fifty years, Himalayan goji berries and truffled ham have come to the Javits Center in New York for a sympoisum of self-proclaimed "Fancy Food." In response to this elitist celebration of onion confit and Caribbean Reef sea salt, Sasha Davies of Cheese by Hand and Tom Mylan of Marlow …
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