Tag: Etsy
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8 Enchanting Sea Creatures You Can Crochet
Save the sea creatures! Handcraft your own natural specimens using these these simple patterns, yarn and a crochet hook.
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How ETSY Is Changing the Way We All Do Business
The online craft market place becomes a certified B Corp, and announces $40m in new funding. This could be a great thing for all of us.
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10 Online Stores for All Your Green Product Shopping
From gardening supplies and baby toys to pet products and eco-furniture, check these sustainable online shops before you hit the streets.
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Upcycled Canning Jars Make Nifty Reusable Cups
Handmade by a canning expert, these down-home chic reusable cups are built to take the daily stresses that glasses are routinely subjected to.
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Wearable Planters Turn Live Plants into Jewelry
Portable tiny gardens set in gem-like planters give new life to the concept of jewelry.
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iPhone Docks Built from Vintage Upcycled Cameras
A photography fanatic creates beautiful iPhone docks as a homage to old cameras.
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Use Etsy to Find Local and Handcrafted Holiday Yoga Treats
My flame for the small-business and artisan supporting marketplace was re-kindled surfing the 263 items -- from mat bags, to hand-knit yoga socks, calming wall art and more -- made locally in Brooklyn alone.
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How to Find the Best Local, Handmade Gifts
The holiday season is in full swing, and that means one thing: the spirit of
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Handmade Online Marketplace Etsy Raises $20 Million Financing
Handmade is becoming big business -- reeeally big. Etsy -- the online marketplace for handmade items -- announced earlier this week that it has raised $20 million in venture capital financing and has now tripled its valuation at $300 million (not
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NYC Event: Local Fashion at Spring Handmade Calvacade
Local designers from The NewNew, a group of independent handmade Etsy artists, designers, and crafters in the New York area, have come together for this years spring Handmade Calvacade. The shopping event will feature fine,
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Take a Hambone Along for the Ride
(Image: NY Times As the world becomes a more perfect place, where elephant landmine victims walk again, streetsigns are best used as jewelry, and coal plants get the royal STFU, we're gonna need more handy little things like the VeloPocket. Along with
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Jewelry with an Old School Twist
Vinyl records are still admired by many music lovers, but when they break or get scratched, they're pretty much junk—unless you get creative. Designers have come up with lots of
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Must "Craftivism" (Craft + Activism) Have A Politically Liberal Bent?
Photo: Gideon Tsang on Flickr We know that the concept of the "buy and sell handmade" blog Etsy has revolutionary implications for consumer culture and what it means to be part of a creative community. But does politics have a place in crafting
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Etsy Handmade Challenge Award Winners
Etsy, the website that features all things handmade to buy and sell by artists and artisans, held a contest to pick web readers' favourite choices of handmade children's items in seven different categories. These were: toys, eco-friendly, furniture,
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Etsy Handmade Kids Challenge
Etsy is holding a contest to pick web readers' favourite choices of handmade children's items in seven different categories: furniture, toys, eco-friendly, art, home decor, clothes and accessories. All are made for children by independent designers.
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Etsy Debuts Handmade Kids Series, Treehugger Reviews
Etsy invited TreeHugger to write about their favorite green baby items in the Handmade Kids series; clothes and accessories made for children by independent designers. Etsy is that wonderful website that features all things handmade to buy and sell by
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Etsy Founder Robert Kalin Interview on Wallstrip
As we move into full consumer season it can be difficult to equate your green intentions with the holiday spirit of giving. Perhaps it is time to consider the true value of a gift and how it is made. The Treehugger gift guide will certainly inspire
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Etsy's Handmade Halloween Costume Contest: Pass the Envelope, Please
We laughed, we cried, but more important, we picked the recycling-loving winners of Etsy's Handmade Halloween Costume Contest.
