Happy Dia de los Muertos!
Happy Dia de los Muertos! (aka Day of the Dead) The Day of the Dead is the traditional Mexican holiday to pray for and remember friends and relatives who have died. It also has amazing iconography and handmade traditions, like sugar skulls and paper cut-out banners. This collection of Day of the Dead …
Etsy World Tour: Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) in Oaxaca, Mexico
Last year I checked another experience off of my immense to-do list: I rallied three girlfriends to accompany me to Mexico to observe one of my long term obsessions, the Día de los Muertos holiday. After a few days in Mexico City meeting friends, swooning over Frida Kahlo's blue house and Diego Rivera's …
Halloween Across the Globe
Spooky shout-out to all the internationals on Etsy who celebrate Halloween around the globe! I collected this bunch on Halloween items from Etsy sellers in England, Australia, Canada and Mexico (we'll be doing some more Dia de los Muertos posts too). The great thing about some of these items? You can wear …
Etsy World Tour: Germany Celebrates National Day of Reunification
National Day of Reunification is a holiday in Germany celebrated on October 3rd which commemorates the anniversary of German reunification in 1990.For 41 years our country was divided into to Federal Republic of Germany in the West and the German Democratic Republic in the East, separating friends …
Etsy World Tour: Paper Dolls in Japan
I met Chisako Higashiya, aka Japanesepaperdoll, at a Thanksgiving dinner she hosted during my first year living in Japan. As far as I know, she was the only person in the area with an oven big enough to cook a turkey—and a heart big enough to invite thirty foreign teachers into her home to celebrate a North …
Etsy World Tour: Berlin with leolucaescobar
This is not an expat story, although I am one. Secretly, I despise expats. They remind me of defectors who've run into the depths of a jungle, never to return or to be seen again. I am more akin to a sailor dropping her anchor down whenever the coast seems fruitful and the water clear. And so I find myself in Berlin, a …
Gotta Travel On: A Dog's Life in Greece
In the coming weeks, the Storque will be posting content about pets and animals. aegeansea offered the story of her Greek pooch DeeDee as a transition from the Gotta Travel On series to the Etsy Pets series. She included some of her surrealist pet collages too. Enjoy!Born in a Greek village in the south of …
Etsy World Tour: Macrame Gringa
I was walking up the stairs when it came to me: "If you want to improve your macrame skills, learn from the artists who inspired you." It seemed obvious, except for one minor detail: I live in Northern Minnesota, and the artists who inspired me live in Mexico. "Well, why not?" I asked myself. Six months later, sitting …
Etsy World Tour: Canada with the Trans-Canada Team (Part Two)
In the first part of this tour of Canada, we started in the East and visited Nova Scotia, Ontario, Toronto and Saskatchewan. On July 1, Canadians celebrate the day their country came together to become a nation. In this post, the Trans-Canada Etsy team is excited to celebrate and introduce you to some of its …
