After years of education and hard work in English Literature, having jobs from teaching, translation, creative writing, and voicelessly living through sad lyrics that I may yet one day put to use, I realized that my inner world is one of light, color and joy, even if my real life world is rather lackluster and cloudy.
With the realization, I took my meager savings and went back to school. This time in pursuit of a more creative and joyous career in fashion and costume design.
While I ended up being a teacher in my new career in order to make a living, I still cherish my now constantly burnt, cut, and tired hands as I work on the side, on a very small scale, designing and creating garments.
I have quite recently started renewing my wardrobe, this time with inspiration and in order to match the new pieces of art in form of gemstones and metal that I have acquired from Etsy.
Finally, my inner and real world are clashing in the sun, with all the colors of the rainbow, and I feel warm....
Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions.
Always on
Personalized Advertising
These are third party technologies used for things like interest based Etsy ads.
We do this with marketing and advertising partners (who may have their own information they’ve collected). Saying no will not stop you from seeing Etsy ads or impact Etsy's own personalization technologies, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. Find out more in our Cookies & Similar Technologies Policy.