Category Archives: Etsy

December 4, 2011 · 9:18 pm

Etsy Lusts

CLOCKWISE starting top left:

| Cute calligraphy navy blue “Let it snow” stationery |

| Vintage Leather Structured Bag |

| Pink and Gold watercolor print |

|Hand dyed turquoise crystal drop earrings | –amaaaazing Tom Binns lookalikes that aren’t cheap or DIY

| “I do not regret anything” print |

| Shiny brass table lamp |

| Hand-stamped coffee spoons |

| Mid-century modern-looking “merry christmas” stationery| — so old school! I love the font

| Multi-color water color print |

  | Adorable turquoise and silver tin | –it’s actually a flower sifter but I would drop a cup it so I could fill it with water and make it a vase with hot pink flowers

| Kilim runner for our navy blue entry hallway |

|Hand dyed pink/orange/yellow crystal drop earrings | –obsessed with these

| Rattan chair |– the most PERFECT bohemian piece, I want this so bad

  | Purple Ikat purple | –the perfect amount of faded- would look amazing in the rattan chair with a fuzzy white blanket

| Ice blue glasses|

|Swan dish | –how darling is this for jewelry or to drop match boxes into?

Some days (like today), I spend HOURS on Etsy, checking out the various vintage homewares and clothing stores, and clicking on people’s “circles” and “favorited” items which leads me to a million exciting places. It’s the closest experience to shopping a flea market and much easier/more visual/prettier than ebay. These are 16 items I am coveting hard right now and would snatch up if I had an extra thou sitting around. It’s the little details that count and things like gorgeous blue drink glasses, brass figurines that also have utility (I mean it’s a tiny storage dish cmon!), throw pillows, hand-stamped coffee spoons, pretty watercolor prints,  hallway rugs, and unique stationery, make me giddy.  The Tom Binns-looking earrings are just so gorgeous and fun, very my style, and that leather bag is AMAZING.

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October 3, 2011 · 11:24 pm

Jessica Durrant Watercolors

I will never not love blogging for this reason: today, someone new commented on my blog. I clicked on her name, which lead me to her blog, “One Fine Day.” I read her blog, and on page 2-ish, she recommended another blog, called “Sequins and Stripes.” I clicked over to Sequins and Stripes, and a few pages deep, she had a collage that included this world-map watercolor print which jumped out at me. I clicked on the info for it, which lead me to my final destination: Jessica Durant’s watercolor shop on Etsy. A GIRL AFTER MY OWN HEART. The prints are gorgeous, funky, colorful, typography-inspired, and NEON-ish. My favorite color palette in the world is the pink/fuscia/purple/magenta/blue/turquoise spectrum. I love all of those colors together, playing off of each other, which her paintings have. But most of all I love the Banksy-esque, graffiti looking quality of dripping paint like this. I am so obsessed!

All of the listings on Etsy were for small prints, like the size of a piece of paper. And soon as I saw the Ciao Bella, I pictured it blown up huge, in a glossy frame, against a dark wall {like black or dark navy}, above a crisp white bed. The drippping, splattered aspect of the paint adds just the perfect crude, sort of…creepy aspect to a romantic saying like “Ciao Belllllaaaaa” and would be such a visually pleasing contrast to white, pin-tuck bedding. Do you see it? I do. You will too when this is in our room and I take pictures of it for ya.

So, I emailed the seller and asked her if there was a way to customize larger prints. She wrote back RIGHT away and what she had to say was not only what I’d been hoping for {she does!}, it was just super helfpul! I am pasting it here for you, in case you TOO would be interested in one of these custom prints, or just seeing how stuff like this works in general. I REALLY do love Etsy for the community aspect. Like it’s so nice that you can email a seller and tell them what you’re looking for and just..have a conversation. Etsy is the shit.

Hi Alina,

Thanks so much for all your compliments!!

I offer enlarged prints of all my artwork! :) It is possible, I use a high quality scan to blow up my artwork. It’s a top notch method all artists use! I can print up to 36 x 48″. I can either print on a high quality paper or canvas roll, or print on a ready to hang canvas. Below are prices for the prints on paper, that I sell all the time.

16 x 20″ Print price $75
18 x 24″ Print price $90
24 x 36″ Print price $175
36 x 48″ Print price $225

Prints on canvas roll are the same price, ready to hang canvas are a bit more. Let me know if you have have a custom size you want or if you want a quote for a print on ready to hang canvas.

You are also welcome to commission a reproduction of any of my pieces, such as Ciao Bella, and I can make you it on whatever media and size you like. Paper will always be easier to ship, rolled in a tube. I use a thick, artist watercolor specialty paper for commissions. I can do a reproduction sized 16 x 20″ for $150, 18 x 24″ for $175, and if you want a bit larger size than that let me know and I can see about how large of a sheet of paper I can get my hands on at my local art store.

Let me know what you’d like to do, and thanks so much! :)

Jess

What a doll. My boyfriend and I move in to our new place on October 29th {eeeeee so soooonnnn!!!!!} and this bad boy is fer sher going above our bed. I LOVE it. She also does really cute fashion-inspired prints, like these Chanel bags.

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August 26, 2011 · 6:07 am

Etsy Finds

These are twelve things that I recently favorited on Etsy.{Using the ‘favorite’ button on Etsy, which is a cute little red heart that you click, is my new favorite thing.}

For some reason, I’ve been really drawn to rustic things lately. I think I’ve come to realize that my taste, in decor/interior design is cozy-rustic with PLENTY of modern accents, such as typography, photography, neon, sparkle, and lights. I like rustic things like burlap, muted fabrics, steel wire baskets, wooden benches, etc., but complemented by posters, letters, photos and art pieces that are colorful, graphic, and modern. I’ve also decided that I am really really really into Mid-Century Modern. I would love some awesome mid-century modern chairs with wooden arms and printed yellow upholstery.

Needless to say, the things I favorited on Etsy are:

1. “You’re My Favorite Work of Art.’” Love the type, love the red, love the heart, and love the SAYING of course!

2. An awesome reupholstered desk chair. This would look so ecclectic-sophisticated at a big rustic wooden architect-style desk. In an office with white walls, a shaggy flokati rug, some lucite and gold accessories, and inspiration board photos posted everywhere, as is my style.

3. Vintage gold scallop shell containers for jewelry, bobbi pins, etc.

4. A mason jar painted over with a milky white, for flowers.

5. This neon arrow light is just too cool. I’ve always wanted one of these, but this version takes it up to a whole new artistic level. Normally, these lights are super modern, which I love, but this Etsy seller crafted the frame out of distressed wood, so it’s a RUSTIC neon sign. My two favorite things in one.

6. A cute French bistro-style vintage cafe table, for a sitting area in a small apartment.

7. A coat-hanger made of YARDSTICKS!!! Hello, DIY project.

8. Vintage ‘thank-you’ tags. The font is so awesome.

9. I’ve been coveting this horse print for months. The black-and-white color contrast is so crisp and appealing, and I think it would look awesome blown up huge in a glossy black frame, as the focal point of a living room.

10. Je’taime poster speaks for itself. The font is great and the APOSTROPHE is a fucking heart. I mean. Just stop.

11. Turkish bath towel. I want like 20 of these to put in a cute basket in a guest bathroom. The guest bathroom I don’t have since I’m 25 and poor. Who the fuck has a guest bathroom?

12. This is in my top two of the whole list if I had to narrow down– a mid century modern wire magazine rack. It would look sooo great with giant “W” magazine covers filling its slots.

For now, I’m not including any seller info because I’m being a selfish bitch and don’t want any of you to buy any of these things because there is only one of them since it’s Etsy! I just wanted to share the visuals : )

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April 5, 2011 · 3:31 am

I heart my Minimalist Modern Calendar






I am obsessed with this calendar, that sits on mirrored console table. I wanted to post about it tonight, because a new month just started [April, in case you didn't know], and it makes me happy every time a new month starts because it means I get to change the display up and I always look forward to seeing the new colors and type and graphic. But, then I realized that there is really no point in me writing a new post about this calendar, because I wrote one back in December after I first bought it. And what I wrote back then still perfectly describes how I feel about it. I edited it to make the tenses make sense, but this is what I said in my original post, before I switched things up to WordPress. {PS- I donnnn’t think it’s a coincidence that the month of my birthday, March, is lime! But January is def my favorite. It’s so perfect.}

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Whoever designed this calendar is an artist after my own heart. I have never loved something so much. I LOVE the colors. I LOVE the subdued neons, the orange and lime and blue. I LOVE the typography of each and every month. I LOVE the images, especially the moose, and the canoes, and the snow shoe in December, because they remind me of Dartmouth and New Hampshire and New England winters and The Canoe Club (my favorite restaurant on Main Street). {Sometimes it’s hard for me to believe that I went to college where there was a Main Street. And it really was…. the only street. The only street with stores or any attractions whatsoever.}

I love the fan in August too. Ohh and I love the Maroon of that May too, with the cute lawn chair. Seriously this calendar is….me. My taste, my style, my colors, my preferences. I am obsessed with it. I could kiss it. It was eleven dollars on Etsy and I obbbbbviously ordered it immediately. What! Omgggggggggggggggggggggggggggg. It reminds me of everything I love. It reminds me of the Royal Tenenbaums and Wes Anderson, and Dartmouth College, Animal House, boarding schools, Vampire Weekend, a.k.a retro prep. It just has that feel. When I moved into my new place, I focused so much on furniture, lighting, side tables and storage, that I needed some accents and color. THESE COLORS ARE TO DIE FOR. PS- the individual months are POSTCARDS. So when you are done with them, you can send them off to a special friend. Like circle the date of their birthday and write a sweet note on the back and send it. There is so much you could do with these. You could grid them and frame them as one big rectangle. Or frame them individually and put it in a mismatched pastiche on the wall. Or an ordered pastiche for that matter. Or put them on different walls. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I want to keep it FOREVER. Even though after December 31, 2011 it will no longer be applicable. I….don’t even know what to do with how much I love this. The chandelier in February; The whimsical little scarf in November! THE FONTS! OH MY GOD THE FONTS. lsakjfdlsjflksjf. I love each and every one. LOVE THEM. I love December’s. And October’s. and July’s. And August’s. And January’s. And April’s! God I love fonts. Especially modern, wide, clean fonts, like the one used for April/January/May (pretty much the whole calendar), and like the packaging of NARS make-up, which stole my heart at age 13. I gravitated towards the NARS display at Saks solely because of that damn better-than-amazing white font against the clean black background, and never looked back. I love looking at a make-up display or inside of a medicine cabinet and seeing nothing but NARS products. It’s orgasmic to me. I am so happy that this fucking gem of a calendar which I STUMBLED upon by aimlessly browsing through Etsy, is mine. Bliss.

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*The Shop name is “Sure As Blue” and the her etsy shop is SureAsBlue.Etsy.Com. Click here to visit it! She’s got some great stuff. She is a graphic designer who focuses on single images– clean and simple, and enjoys playing colors off one another {in her words.} Couldn’ta said it better myself. The single images like the moose antlers, the canoe, and the chandelier, are the visual focus of each calendar-card and I LOVE them.

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March 10, 2011 · 1:27 am

Adorable

I love these cute prints from Etsy store “LilyGene.” They are only $20.00 and you can customize them. Mine would say I <3 Alex.” hehe : ) I also think they would be cute for a nursery, above a baby’s crib, to say “I <3 Mom.” Great little baby shower gift. Or you could not use a human name and say “I <3 shoes” or something like that. Or the name of whatever city you live in, assuming you do love it. Endless possibilities obviously.

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February 22, 2011 · 12:07 am

Etsy finds

I kind of want this horse print. I don’t own horses or ride them or have any particular affinity for them, but I do like photography/art that involves horses. This profile shot is really beautiful, and I love the contrast and colors. It reminded me instantly of the horse print I blogged about before, albeit much smaller. I like how the bigger one is fractured into three pieces. The Etsy one is 25.00 and there is only one…I think I might pull the plug. It’s awfully beautiful no? I want to frame it and put it against a colorful wall….like lime green or lavendar.

And I like this wire-back chair.

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February 21, 2011 · 11:27 pm

Ooooo

This pillow is very Missoni-esque. Wouldn’t quite vibe with the various prints I got goin’ on in my house but very cute & bohemian-like. Urban Outfitters, $32.00

Another cool printed, ethnic, vintagey, Sante Fe New Mexico-esque pillow, from a seller on Etsy:

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