News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere: February 4, 2010
"I am a nobody. Treat me as a solar myth, or an echo, or an irrational quantity, or ignore me altogether." — James Murray, lexicographer and editor of the Oxford English Dictionary This week's edition of News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere has revelations and surreal visions usually found after a three-day …
You be the Judge: What's an iPad?
First, the iPod, next the iPhone, and then, on Wednesday, January 27, 2010, the world stood still as Steve Jobs announced Apple’s latest soon-to-be-must-have-product, the iPad. What’s an iPad? According to Apple, the iPad is "our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable …
News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere: January 28, 2010
"Get out of my dreams, get into my car." — Billy Ocean This week's edition of News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere has rustic communal homes, fantastical organic jewelry, chocolate to stop you dead in your tracks (the visual punnage will stun you!) and enough smoke and mirrors to set off the sprinklers. Carry on! I …
News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere: January 21, 2010
"But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us." — Miranda July This week's edition of News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere has nature under wraps, hyperbolic animal sculpture, transcendent wardrobes, ethereal dust clouds and more. Why not? Adornment isn't just for bling-loving homo sapiens. All animals …
You be the Judge: Who Owns the Hulk?
Most “You be the Judge” articles examine issues of intellectual property infringement. The Etsy community reviews arguments from both sides, slams down an invisible (yet handmade) gavel, and makes a decision. In this case, let’s look at the issue of who owns a copyright. When is a piece of work owned by a creator …
News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere: January 14, 2010
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." — Serge Gainsbourg This week's edition of News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere has undulating stereoviews of geishas and sumos, sword swallowers and La Strada-inspired sad clowns, driftwood sculptures fit for Poseidon's palace and an imperfect …
News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere: January 7, 2010
"What is elegance? Soap and water!" — Cecil Beaton This week's edition of News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere has interspecies snorgling and solemn portraiture, architectural porn for bibliophiles, a young Don Knotts as ventriloquist, and the pristine stillness inspired by snowfall. Read on! What an …
News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere: December 10, 2009
"Nothing risqué, nothing gained." — Alexander Woollcott This week's edition of News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere has costumed spiritual messengers, animations to make your eyeballs dilate (with fashion!), minerals as art and an inspirational stone house that makes being a Flintstone an appealing …
News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere: December 3, 2009
"All my hummingbirds have alibis and a 100 profound virtures cover my body." — Max Ernst This week's edition of News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere has sophisticated anoraks, jodphurs and suspenders (with horses, to boot), pleasantly bizarre illustration, gently decaying wax beauties and white on white …
News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere: November 19, 2009
"One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, 'Is it half full or half empty?' So I drank the water. No more problem." — Alexander Jodorowsky This week's edition of News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere has human forms breaking from within their porcelain constructs, rustic and moody …
News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere: November 12, 2009
“My look is either very baroque or very Zen — everything in between makes me itch.” — Legendary tastemaker Iris Apfel This week's edition of News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere has mellow Swedish interiors, fashionable menfolk, an organic alphabet, bright and cheerful botanical prints and style …
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! …
Blogs We Love: CoolMomPicks
We got CoolMomPicks in the twin-maker at Etsy Labs! A visit from these bloggers was a special treat, considering that they come from near and far. Liz Gumbinner is in our neighborhood here in Brooklyn, while Kristen Chase lives in Atlanta, GA. The two met online while posting to their individual parenting …
News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere: October 29, 2009
"But you see in dealing with me, the relatives didn't know that they were dealing with a staunch character and I tell you if there's anything worse than dealing with a staunch woman... S-T-A-U-N-C-H. There's nothing worse, I'm telling you. They don't weaken, no matter what." — Edith "Little Edie" Beale This week's edition …
News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere: October 22, 2009
"I can see beauty where others see ugliness. That either makes me an artist, or a person of very poor taste." — Anonymous This week's edition of News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere has an invisible man, mirrors to provoke the mind and challenge the eye, modern interpretations of Renaissance fashion, and youth …
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