News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere: January 22, 2009
In the hope of inspiring readers, I'm going to continue posting thought provoking quotes. (As so many say it so much better than I.) Today's comes from the never-ending font of wit and intellect, Oscar Wilde: "The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." With that in mind, this week's edition of …
Etsy Finds: Gone Fishin'
You know what my dad likes? Fishing. You know what I like? Fishing. Some of my fondest childhood memories involved myself, my father and my grandpa climbing into a (somewhat rickety and definitely stinky) rowboat, going out into the middle of a lake, and vainly attempting to reel in some of the local fauna. The …
Etsy Finds: Make More Men's Clothing, Please
When I first discovered Etsy, I thought to myself "how brilliant, I can shop online for cool handmade clothes and I'll never have to set foot into another department store or mall ever again." Unfortunately, this isn't the case at all. Etsy is saturated with women’s clothing and jewelry, but when it comes time for …
Fix Up Your Ripped Jeans
Last weekend as I was making the roof of my apartment into a squirrel-proof fortress, I ripped the knees of my jeans. After wearing the shredded dungarees around for the rest of the day, I decided I wasn't the type of guy who can rock the ripped denim. The jeans fit me perfect and it seemed such a waste to let them …
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 …
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