Etsy Journal

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Creativity | Inspiration

Get Organized With a DIY Leather Cord Keeper Keychain

This easy DIY is the perfect last-minute Father’s Day gift for dad.

Featured Shop: Jessica Hogarth Designs

For this illustrator, a return to her coastal hometown in Yorkshire provided the spark for her line of stationery and homewares.

Creativity | Inspiration

Make a DIY Lavender Eye Pillow

Take your next at-home spa day up a notch with this soothing, lavender-filled DIY eye pillow.

Home and Living | Inspiration

Studio Visit: Kara Leigh Ford

The beauty of nature provides endless inspiration for this maker of functional ceramics.

Featured Shops | Style

Featured Shop: Sivani Designs

Inspired by high quality materials, this jeweler-turned-accessories-designer creates timeless totes and toiletry kits.

Creativity | Inspiration

Make a Fun Beanbag Toss Game

Take family game night to the next level with this easy-to-make beanbag toss game.

Featured Shops | Home and Living

Featured Shop: The Urban Hedgehog

After finding themselves unemployed, this mother and daughter-in-law teamed up to design a delightfully modern children’s line.

Shopping Guides | Style

5 Trips to Take in 2017 (and What to Wear When You’re There)

This year, plan—and pack—for the trip of a lifetime with insider advice and outfit inspo from travel expert and Cartogramme founder Ashlea Halpern.

Featured Shops | Style

Featured Shop: One Happy Leaf

This Australian designer draws on her background in environmental science to create eco-friendly, laser-cut jewelry inspired by nature.

Inspiration

Inspiring Workspaces: PataPri

In a seaside sunroom overlooking Mount Fuji, this Japanese screenprinter makes baby blankets and bags for her 10-year-old Etsy shop.

Featured Shops | Home and Living

Featured Shop: Goozeberry Hill

Designer Elise Williams turned a fascination with vintage cutlery into a thoroughly modern personalized homewares business.

Featured Shops | Home and Living

Featured Shop: Bluegrass Fairway

When Matt Reynolds couldn’t find golf accessories to suit his needs (or his style), he decided to design his own. Discover Bluegrass Fairway.

Creativity | Inspiration

5 Fun Ways to Decorate Balloons

Extra-special balloons you can make with everyday materials.

Shopping Guides | Style

Fresh Shops: Colorful Summer Accessories

Five up-and-coming jewelry and accessory designers share their stories—and their predictions for the year’s top color trends.

Featured Shops | Home and Living

Featured Shop: BespOak Interiors

For this UK-based woodworker, a side project to pay for a wedding snowballed into a full-time creative business with four employees.

Shopping Guides | Style

All Fired Up for Porcelain Jewelry

The trend you’ll be seeing everywhere this summer.

Creativity | Inspiration

Make a Quick and Easy Bouquet With Farmgirl Flowers

Farmgirl Flowers founder Christina Stembel shares a simple DIY bouquet guaranteed to make you smile.

Featured Shops | Style

Featured Shop: Collective Hearts Swimwear

This Indiana-based designer dreams up vintage-inspired swimwear to make women of all shapes and sizes look and feel beautiful.

Shopping Guides | Style

The Freshest Summer Styles for 2017

Etsy’s in-house trend expert shares the year’s top looks for a stylish summer season.

Inspiration

Quit Your Day Job: MOSTLIKELY

A donkey mask made—and rejected—for a theater production led to a lightbulb moment that changed everything for this Austrian architect.

Creativity | Inspiration

A Beginner’s Guide to Finding Art You (Actually, Genuinely) Like

In her brand-new book, art aficionado Bridget Watson Payne shares just how easy it is to make art a source of joy in our lives.