NYC Souvenir by Etsy’s BROOKLYNrehab. Definitely a cute stocking stuffer.
I love when you can find such amazing couture on Etsy, especially when it’s made to order… Behold!
The Denevue Cape
Available at Etsy’s AlexandraGrecco’s shop.
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Truly, you’ll find more unique gift ideas browsing an indie merchant’s brick & mortar shop or website than you would at Target or Amazon. Let’s press restart this holiday season, and start doing things a little different.
Reproduction of a Vintage Blouse; custom made. Custom. MADE. Etsy seller NudeeNudee is offering fit-to-order garments made with original vintage patterns, and the results are totally cute. This is really good news for anyone (ahem, me) who ever totally strikes out at vintage stores because there’s nothing that fits.
Friday Spotlight on…….
….Etsy’s Baymut. About a week ago I happened upon her Ukraine-based Etsy shop— I forget whether it was in a Treasury or if I was just “connecting the dots” so to speak, looking at the favorite items of my favorite shops, or what. But, either way, I fell in love with a few items.
I had never heard of wet or needle felting until recently, and I’m so intrigued by the process. I’m not able to give you a good description or explanation, but it’s essentially this: using your fingers, water, and soap, you take some wool, and you manipulate it until you end up with a shape:
That’s the simplest way I can explain. The technique does not involve a machine or some kind of handheld device; you’re just manipulating the fibers using soap and water.
I’m pretty terrible with my hands. I can glue together a wicked collage and once I made an ashtray out of clay, but I really am not crafty or handy, and instead live vicariously through a lot of the artists I find on Etsy or elsewhere online. I’m pretty impressed with anyone who can do this sort of stuff out of a ball of wool without the aid of a machine. And really, if I saw this hanging in a store, I would take it for granted, not really even considering the time and craft it took a person to make it with their hands. I’d assume it was a machine.
Lovely! Check out her shop!
