News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere: September 17, 2009
"Let us leave this place where the smoke blows blackAnd the dark street winds and bends.Past the pits where the asphalt flowers growWe shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,And watch where the chalk-white arrows goTo the place where the sidewalk ends." — Shel Silverstein This week's edition of …
Etsy Finds: Au Naturale
As a child, I remember my brother and I being mesmerized by the giant dinosaur bones and fossils at the Natural History Museum. To encourage our interests in the scientific world, we were given a microscope for Christmas and would make anything we could find into slides. We'd sneak out of bed at 2 a.m. after our …
Etsy Finds: Natural History
Going to the natural history museum was always my favorite pastime as a kid. Nothing, and I mean nothing, made me more excited than dinosaur skeletons, the mummy of an Egyptian queen, or sitting inside a gigantic model of the human ear canal. My interest in nature and its zany hows and whys has not faded with …
World Malaria Day: Don't Get Bit!
Yesterday, April 25th, was World Malaria Day. The World Health Organization (WHO) first instituted this day at their 60th annual World Health Assembly in 2007. While malaria has a particularly large reach in sub-Saharan Africa, it is also a major health crisis for people in Asia, Latin America and the …
Etsy Finds: Entomological Picks
I was hosting a dinner party in my backyard the other evening, when my friends and I were driven inside, not by rain or nosy neighbors, but instead, by slugs. From ants at a picnic to mosquitoes by the lake, insects have long been the cliche of summer annoyance. What I love most about the bugs on Etsy is their …
Etsy Finds: Hay Fevers
Ever since last Sunday when we hit up two parks in one day and then I took a two-hour bike ride around central Brooklyn, I've been a snotty, sneezy, wheezing hot mess. My sources tell me that 98% of everyone we know is suffering right along with me, but as I am now afraid to leave the house I can't fully confirm this. I'm …
Etsian Videos: Vanishing of the Bees
Etsy seller OSSMedicineJewelry is making a documentary about honey bees and the environmental effects that may be damaging their habitats and physiology. See her website www.vanishingbees.com for more info. For now, here's a clip from the movie: Please subscribe to Etsy's Youtube channel. Let us know if …
Etsy Finds: Bug Bracelets
Hi, my name is Amber, aka adubois, and I am happy to say that I am a new member of the Support Team at Etsy! The new members of Support were each asked to pick an item on Etsy that we think is pretty darn cool. Since I'm a bit of a jewelry enthusiast, I've decided to feature this beautiful lucite bangle by KolosStudio …
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