Guest Curators: Super Cute Kawaii
Super Cute Kawaii is a blog of daily cute picks, featuring the most kawaii products in Japan, as well as the cute handmade things they inspire. Marceline (aka askingfortrouble the bunny) and Claire (aka misofunky the panda) dreamed up the idea when they worked together at a boring internet company in …
Etsy Finds: Autumnal Leaf Prints
I'm longing for Virginia and autumn's changing foliage throughout the countryside. Until I can pile my little family into the car for a trip upstate, I'll be subsisting on wonderful hand-printed leaf motifs around Etsy. Check out the wood blocked, goccoed, lino cut loveliness we've searched out for you this …
Gocco Printing: A How-To Video
This article was originally published on February 12, 2008. We are reviving it as part of the Best of the Storque series. Enjoy! It's an Etsy How-To Video with the wonderful julieincharge! This week we'll be talking about Gocco printing, which is a way of printing that uses a kit from Japan. If you've ever wanted …
News from the Etsy Labs: Cupcake Craft Night
UPDATE: We have an exciting addition to this Monday's Cupcake Craft Night. Jill and Katherine of tinycupcakes will be leading a very special project: how to make a cupcake ornament! We look forward to seeing everyone at Craft Night this Monday for a sweet evening of cupcakes and crafting. This article was …
How-To Month: Week 1
We have a short but exciting week to start our How-To Month in the Virtual Labs. We hope you can stop by and pick up some new techniques this week to add to your crafting portfolio! These How-To's will be broadcast live from our new Craft Station in the Virtual Labs. If you haven't visited the Virtual Labs, check …
News from the Etsy Labs: 6/16 Craft Night
Have plans on Monday night? Well, you do now! Dust off your crafty pants and come join us for our weekly Craft Night at the Etsy Labs in Brooklyn. Each craft night is also broadcast live in the Treehouse room of the Virtual Labs. All demos will be shown both in the Labs in Brooklyn and in the Treehouse online …
Etsy Finds: Print Plush
Let's all together say that today, we've had enough of 2D drawings and would all like to see our art with some z-axis dimensionality for once. Just for today. In this spirit of things, I've found you a whole buncha soft screenprinted, gocco'ed and otherwise printed-upon objects for your perusal. And so here they …
Etsy Finds: You're Invited
I must be living in synch with Etsy seller, twoguitars, because it seems like every time I type in a search term one of his beautiful cards pops up! As a fan of eating, dinner parties, and Gocco printing, I am definitely a fan of these lovely invitations. These cards make we want to get out my finest linens, dust of …
Handmade Weddings: Invitation Options with Moontreepress
We invited Rebecca from Moontreepress to contribute a piece to this Handmade Wedding Series. Last year Rebecca guest-blogged for the design*sponge wedding series (see Grace from design*sponge's post on the Storque) and we were very impressed. Rebecca runs a custom letterpress shop in DUMBO, Brooklyn …
Etsy Finds: Cuckoo for cuckoo clock!
There's nothing I like better than a good idea, and this clock takes the cuckoo cake! I don't think either me or my kitty could stand the nusance of a REAL cuckoo clock, but this lil guy has that clean designy feel I love...turned into a practical, yet humorous wall clock. The folks over at the decoylab have Gocco on …
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