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Art for the New Year With Picdit
My name is Adam Fuhrer and I’m an art student living in the wonderful city of Toronto. I take great interest in the Internet and I run an art + photography blog called PICDIT. I try to shine the light on many new artists creating extraordinary work. I post a whole slew of art-related content…
Show Us Your Crazy Christmas Tree
PollyPainting‘s blue Christmas tree literally made me squeal with delight. It really does look like something out of Dr. Seuss! How’s that for holiday cheer! What’s your interpretation of holiday decor — whether you celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah or another holiday? Are you a classic traditionalist or do you go in for zany vintage kitsch?…
Guest Curator: The Long Thread
Ellen Luckett Baker lives with her husband and two daughters in Atlanta. A self-taught sewer, Ellen found creative inspiration and began to sew when her older daughter was born seven years ago. She is the author of The Long Thread, where she can be found sewing, crafting, and making things with her children. Her sewing…
There’s No Place Like Here: Forestbound & The Snail and The Cyclops
Friend Etsy on Youtube or Blip.tv | Subscribe to Etsy’s iTunes Podcast | MP4 (music by Luc, animation by JuliaPott) Three years ago, Alice Saunders, a.k.a. Forestbound, and Francesca Zmetra, a.k.a. Thirteen Eighty-Five, (who’s also responsible for the delightful blog, The Snail and The Cyclops) became roommates in an old house in Jamaica Plain, MA….
There’s No Place Like Here: Dustin Yellin
Friend Etsy on Youtube or Blip.tv | Subscribe to Etsy’s iTunes Podcast | MP4 (music by Butthole Surfers, Barry London, Enemy Heroes, The Give, animation by JuliaPott) Artist, filmmaker, surfer, and world traveler Dustin Yellin is a maker as well as a hunter. Yellin creates intricate volumetric tomographic paintings and hunts for salvaged treasures…
There’s No Place Like Here: Made with Love by Hannah
Friend Etsy on Youtube or Blip.tv | Subscribe to Etsy’s iTunes Podcast | MP4 (Music by Lineland, Barry London, animation by JuliaPott) What’s it like to live in a fantastical German chalet in the heart of downtown Los Angeles? Hannah Kopacz of Made With Love By Hannah has customized her colorful abode with twenty…
The Art of the Egg: Ukrainian Pysanky
I’ve started a small collection of Ukrainian Easter eggs. I’m moving soon and these little beauties will be the hardest things to pack! They’re so beautiful and intricate, with geometric patterns made through a complicated series of wax designs and dye dippings.The eggs — called Pysanky in Ukrainian — have deep, bold colors often seen…
Vote! Which Item Makes Spring Arrive a Little Sooner?
Shoppers throughout the North are dying for spring to come a little early this year. Which of these items inspires your spring state of mind? VOTE HERE! We collected these 60 items and asked sellers to suggest their picks too. Now it’s your turn to vote! The top choices will be featured in the Gift…