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!
This is seriously a great wall sconce/toothbrush holder/vase/doo-dad holder. It’d be a great DIY project, but seriously, if you’re as lazy as I am, maybe it’s just better to order it from BlackForestCottage on Etsy. I mean, it’s already done….
I find these needle-felted soaps by Etsy’s Charings to be quite pleasing to the eye. My sister bought some recently and has been raving about the novelty of it— the wool actually helps preserve the soap inside, so it’s not melting away like it would if you were running it directly under warm water. The wool, as you squish it and rub it on your hands, actually acts as an exfoliator. I imagine you also could use one in your closet or sock drawer as a scented sachet. Something to think about, gift-wise, as the holidays loom. It’s a bit more fun than your standard candle or scented soap, in my opinion.
“If you’re lost without a manly man by your side, here’s your solution.
This pocket manfriend is called Dominic. If you like spicy foods, he’s your man. He makes a killer picante. He has hair black as the night and owns two cats called Henry and Santiago. Keeps his home clean and his motorcycle shiny.”
This is spectacular. Such a ludicrous idea, but so brilliant and cute at the same time. I know one girl in particular who is forever complaining about not having “a man”; this will make a perfect stocking stuffer for her.
Georgous Needle Felted Epherma
It’s darling, isn’t it? I never would have thought at a mere glance that this was wool! They’re needle felted, which is essentially a very intricate “sculpting” of the wool with a sharp barbed needle.
I particularly like this little scene:
The shop is Foxtail Creek on Etsy; it’s worth a look if you’re in the market for something truly eclectic and collectible.
(Source: etsy.com)
Sometimes you see something that looks so cool and it’s so simple and obvious to make you feel like a schmuck for not coming up with it first.
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