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While Etsy engineer Jorge Lopez coded Alchemy, he was daydreaming of the his ultimate Alchemy request. As soon as we released the new site feature on Etsy, he was the first one to post a request! He ended up choosing artist Emily Balivet's bid and getting the most amazing painting. Watch the video to learn ...
Bike culture in Portland is maybe the awesomest in the country! (Care to debate? Let it be known in the comments below!)We found this video on Youtube about a custom bike exhibit at the Portland airport and we were really excited to learn about Sweetpea Bikes, one of the only two female-run custom bike shops ...
In this Open Studio Tour series, we'll be snooping around artists' creative spaces, how they set them up, when, why…even how often they clean them! We really want to know all about our artists, and maybe get a bit of inspiration!Today I knocked on the studio door of painter Denise aka Deelind. She has just recently ...
To me, Passover is a time for family, traditions, and of course, food. Oh, the food. My personal favorite Passover delicacy is Matzah Ball Soup. My mom's recipe for Matzah Ball Soup calls to add some club soda to the sticky matzah mixture before forming the balls and dropping them into the boiling broth to cook ...
This installment of our eco-friendly indie series Earth Tones brings us Mandy, aka moxiedoll. An example to all of us, she has undertaken an impressive exercise in restraint! She shows us how to live one's life with intention. I have never been a very self-disciplined person. This personal flaw often leads ...
Thimble Scratch makes clothing from old clothes, vintage fabrics and industrial remnants that would otherwise end up in a landfill. Each unique clothing item is created through experimentation and creativity (from my own drafted patterns and designs) - not mass-produced in a sweatshop. Made from eco ...
Reiter8 takes sailboat sails that would otherwise go to the dump and has created a line of bags and pillows that she makes out of the canvas. Watch the video to see her process. Check out her "Marketing Department!" MP4 | Youtube | Blip.tv | Subscribe in iTunes Have you seen all the handmade portraits so far? Check ...
One last real wedding to sneak into the Handmade Wedding Series! We were married last September in Virginia but procrastinated almost everything until maybe a month beforehand. Together we were working about 10,000 hours a week at Etsy and I was wearily navigating my way through the first trimester of ...
Here's the latest real wedding story in our Handmade Wedding Series, shoofly and scenicartisans. I'm shoofly on Etsy, the groom is scenicartisans, and we're both artists. We met in the lobby of the Shakespeare Theatre admin offices on my first day at work in 2000. He was the props painter/sculptor and I was the ...
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