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News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere: November 5, 2009

“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.” — Dorothy Parker This week's edition of News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere has cozy homes, experimental embroidery, skulls composed of yarn and Red Vines, and a fashionable Etsy seller you should know about. Read on!    …

Keep it Weird: Bone Thugs

  With Halloween a week away and Dia de los Muertos swiftly following, there's no better time to celebrate the internal structure of our bodies. When I come back from the dead, I hope I'll be pop and locking my fleshless limbs 'til they grind to a nice soft powder. The skulls and skeletons on Etsy must have drunk …

Vote! Which Dia de los Muertos Item Wakes the Dead?

We asked our readers to nominate their favorite Dia de los Muertos items. Now it's your turn to vote! Next Monday we'll announce the winner, which, along with some of the top picks, will be featured in the Members' Choice Gift Guide and here on the Etsy blog. Show your favorite sellers some love and get out the vote …

News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere: October 8, 2009

"Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese." — Luis Buñuel This week's edition of News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere has an exciting new online magazine that could fill the gaping hole left by Domino's demise, new heights and shapes in footwear, simple and modern styled interiors (with a …

Etsy Finds: Sticks and Stones May...

A shiver runs up my spine (and through my many other bones) when shopping this time of year. Skeletons and skull motifs are a crucial spooky element in Halloween and Day of the Dead celebrations. Leave it to the creative genius of Etsy artisans to imagine sinister, cute, realistic and humorous takes on the …

Etsy Finds: Arrr! Talk Like a Pirate!

  Ahoy, m'mateys! We har at Etsy love celebratin' the international holiday o' Talk Like a Pirate Day, and ye olde finds will have you toastin' with grog in no time, gar! Gather yer crew of bilge rats o'er for a party that will transform even the lily-livered into gentlemen o' fortune. Aye, me parrot concurs. How will you …

Etsy Finds: Cobwebs Welcome

I'm at the edge of my seat in anticipation for autumn. Everything about this time of year makes me feel so warm and happy inside. Apple picking, wool sweaters, leather boots, hot cider, carving pumpkins, pies cooling on the windowsill, trick or treating, and hiking through piles of crunchy leaves with a blanket …

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 …

Camera Obscura: Lightning Bolt's 13 Monsters

"PAPER RAD is a Pittsburgh, PA/Northampton, MA collective that has bubbled under the elastic waistline of the world’s slacks for over a decade, tickling its privates and filling its diapers." — Load Records The collective behind the music video 13 Monsters, Paper Rad, utilizes a low-fi style that crosses many …

News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere: June 18, 2009

“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.” — Oscar Wilde This week's edition of News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere has frills and lace for any season, forgotten illustrators and long lost art, a modern rustic apartment with beautiful plants aplenty, Peggy Moffitt as 1960s music video …

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