As you can imagine I went around quite a lot of museums in New York - eight in all - I’m not going to talk about all of them (do you want to be tortured?), but I had to tell you guys about the exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum (it’s like two blocks away from [...]

While over in New York I though it would be a good opportunity to go over to the Etsy headquarters  (in Brooklyn, you could see the Manhatten bridge out of the window) and take part in a craft night. Craft nights are held every Monday from 4 - 8pm.  I went on August 9th, the [...]

This week I joined a team on Etsy, the french handmade team. The teams are for Etsy members who have common interests or share a crafting medium, for example, to get together and share support, knowledge…and whatever else they want really! So,this one is for people who speak french (from France, Canada…). It’s nice to know I’m not alone! [...]

I’m really happy to see that Etsy have launched two new blogs this week - one german and one french! I  think it’s a great idea. Obviously, most Etsy users are from the USA but it’s great that they’re not forgetting their foreign users (especially us europeans). Etsy is practically unknown here in France, so maybe the blog will help it [...]

I’m currently putting up items in my Etsy shop (Chalkie’s Bazaar) for a clearance sale! I really want to sell some of my older items before putting up news ones, I need space to work! I’ll be adding more throughout this week, so please do come have a look and fill up your basket!
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I love looking through the second hand ‘vintage’ section on Etsy. There’s always lots of cool stuff  just waiting to be bought! I can spend hours browsing for clothes and I have recently found a really great Etsy shop, She Hearts Vintage. I just received today the two dresses you can see above, they are [...]

Happy New Year! Now it’s back to work and blogging! I’ve been working on my Etsy shop, Chalkie’s Bazaar. I’ve made a new banner and have just put up a couple of new items (fascinators), which you can see below. I should make a new year’s resolution to work more on my Etsy shop, but [...]

There was a ray of sun light during the other day during my lunch break so I quickly took some picutres of my little top hats! I haven’t quite finished them but they’ll  be up for sale in my shop (Chalkie’s Bazaar) soon! I really need to figure out packaging and postage and that’ll take [...]

 
I just picked up the latest December issue of ‘Glamour’ (french edition) and there’s an article about  DIY fashion in it. And there at the end, I saw a little two and half lines about Etsy! This is the first time I have seen Etsy mentionned in a french magazine, what a nice surprise! [...]

 
I just got some really cool mirror tiles from a really kind seller of Etsy who specialzes in quality stained glass and supplies. Here’s her shop, http://carriezsupply.etsy.com . I’m going to use the tiles to make a sort of mirrorball helmet (that’s the prototype of the helmet base there at the top), I’m really looking forward to [...]