Handmade Love Wednesdays

Today's feature are these vintage-inspired cards from Paper Relics. I love how Hope Wallace Karney mixes modern & other bygone eras to create these unique cards. She also teaches online journaling classes too. You can visit Hope at her shop and blog.

Happy Wednesday!
*All photo credits - Paper Relics

Handmade Love Wednesdays

Hi friends. Today's feature are these incredible hand-drawn rings from Dillon Designs (via Handmade Success). If you're like me & can't decide on which ones are your favorites, they also offer a party-pack of 10 rings for a very reasonable/affordable price. See my favs below, but I encourage you to check out the shop for a ton more designs.

Credit for all photos: Dillon Designs

So which ring is your favorite? You can catch previous Handmade Love Wednesdays posts here & here. 

Handmade Love Wednesdays

Hi all. Hope you're enjoying The August Break series I'm participating in. It's been a lot of fun for me & I'm definitely appreciating the time off from blogging actual words.

Now on to this week's Handmade Love Wednesday feature from Cheap Tart Bakery (via Handmade Success) Dinah Grossman, the owner/founder opened Cheap Tart in response to the cupcake fervor with the belief that "quality pies and classy tarts" were the antidote to frosting. All her baked goods are made with wholesome (and when possible, organic) ingredients.

My favorite is their pie pops below, which come in seasonal flavors like maple-pecan, rhubarb & lemon-ginger Shaker. Yummy!

Pie Pops (photo credit: Cheap Tart Bakery)

You can catch other Handmade Love Wednesdays posts here & here. Also, did you know that it's National S'mores Day?! Thanks for stopping by.

Handmade Love Wednesdays

Today's feature is from Sapling Press. Lisa Krowinski offers hilarious letterpress prints, cards, & more. You can find my favorites below.

Dear Fork Letterpress Card - all photo credits Sapling Press

Dear Boyfriend Letterpress Card

Dear Twilight Fans Letterpress Card

Hope you're having a great week!

Handmade Love Wednesdays

Today's feature is Sycamore Street Press. Their prints are hand printed on a vintage letterpress using sustainable inks & papers. You can visit Eva & Kirk at their blog or on facebook & twitter. My favorites are below.

Letterpress Bonjour Art Print - French Bulldog
All Photo Credits - Sycamore Press

Letterpress Fortune Teller - Cootie Catcher. Chatterbox

Subliminal Baby Letterpress Art Print Series

Thanks for stopping by & hope you enjoyed today's feature.

Handmade Love Wednesdays

Before I get to the Handmade Love Feature, I wanted to wish M a Happy Anniversary (9 years). I'm so fortunate that I get to spend my life with you & I look forward to the next 9+. Love you always.

Today's post is going to be a little different. Instead of spotlighting two handmade features, I am going to give you a list of different places where you can shop & do some creative tithing.

Let's start with Etsy - the most popular & most known of the handmade marketplaces. Etsy is an online site focused on handmade or vintage items, along with art & craft supplies. The items are wide-ranging & include photography, jewelry, bath & body products, edibles, toys, stationary & other paper products, clothing & toys. It has been described as "a crafty cross between Amazon & e-bay." In June of this year alone, 390,547 new members joined. Find more statistics here. Some of the perks to buying items from here are that you can shop locally, shop by color or by most recently listed products. 

Meylah is an Artisan Marketplace much smaller in scope & size than Etsy. Their mission is focused on "building an online creative community for individuals to learn, share and support each other’s business growth online." They are unique in that their site offers a seller both a storefront & a blog together. Like Etsy, they offer a ton of free educational resources on not only on how to sell, market, & use social media, but also tutorials on various subjects like digital scrapbooking or how to make chocolate covered pretzels. 

Big Cartel sells everything from music to handmade to vintage products & more.  

Art Fire bills themselves as the Premiere Artisan Marketplace & offers craft supplies, handmade items, vintage, media & even services (.ie. tarot card reading, software programming, multi-media development). If you're looking strictly for handmade items then you will need to stick to their handmade marketplace only. 

Made It Myself let's you browse by categories, sub-categories, recently listed & artists.  

Folksy is based in the UK, and if you don't mind the conversion rate, there is a lot of great stuff to choose from. Also, it appears that some sellers have a flat international shipping rate too. Their site features Makes, which are tutorials from the sellers on how they made specific products. 


You can see some of the other handmade love posts in the "you might also like" feature I added below my posts.  In addition, I added some social media buttons too. So if you're reading this in google reader, hop on out & check out those new things. Happy shopping/creative tithing! 


*All logos taken from their respective websites.

Handmade Love Wednesdays

Happy Wednesday! Today's feature are these lovely prints from Little Things Studio. Kate's prints are a gorgeous combination of quotes & patterns. You can visit her at her Etsy shop, her blog, or check her out on Facebook.

In order to be irreplacable

If everyone is thinking

Sometimes, said Pooh

All photo credits - Little Things Studio

Just a reminder that my 1st giveaway ends tomorrow night at midnight. I've had quite an upsurge in twitter followers but am not sure if it's due to the giveaway or other reasons. If you are a person who followed me on twitter for the contest, then please leave a comment letting me know so I can add you to the drawing. Thanks & have a good night!

Handmade Love Wednesdays

The first feature is of these charming printed pillowcases from Kin Ship Press. The duo Hilary & Dan hand print these using soy-based inks. My favorite is the Good Night Moon Pillow. You can visit them at their Etsy shop & blog.

Counting Sheep Pillow
(Photo credit-Kinship Press via Design Sponge)

Good Night Moon Pillow

Good Night Sheep Pillow

The second feature is this gorgeous jewelry line from Fail. Visit Christine's Etsy shop to see more of her elegant pieces and her blog.

Small Crescent Earrings 
Photo Credits-Fail via Creature Comforts

Simple Tourmaline Slice Necklace

Large 14k GoldFill Infinity Earrings

Tomorrow will be my 1 year blogiversary. I will be back on Friday with a celebratory giveaway post, since tomorrow right after work, we will be going on our first ghost hunting trip. You can visit our other blog if you're interested, for live updates, pictures and videos of our experience.

Have a great rest of your week & see back here on Friday. 

Handmade Love Wednesdays/Creative Tithing

Today's features are from the Etsy store Shop Dirtsa. Becky worked as a Display Coordinator for Anthropologie (lucky girl) & you can tell from her shop items that she has a unique & fun sense of style/design. First up is her chalkboard state map. Isn’t it perfectly styled? Absolutely loving that vintage scientific equipment.

Photo Credit: shop dirtsa

I recently purchased an Ohio map as part of my resolve to make a creative tithing purchase once a month. You can read my original post on this concept here & see my some of my purchases here & here. The pic below is the map in our joint office. We will be using it to record our visits for this project.

Becky also handcrafts these fun science & classroom pillows.
 

Photo Credits: shop dirtsa

 
Hope you enjoyed today's pick. On a couple side notes: we have posted a new Examiner article here & on our blog here. Pretty eerie stuff. Also, REALLY looking forward to a 4 day weekend & my 35th birthday (eek!) coming up this Fri.  Lastly, just a reminder to check out my brand new facebook fan page & "like" it if you haven't already. I really appreciated everyone who visited me there - you guys are the best!

Handmade Love Wednesdays & a Blogcation

Happy Wednesday! I hope that you're all having a wonderful week. Today's handmade features are geared towards my huge sweet tooth & love of desserts. Bon appetite!

The first is a chocolate chip buttercream cookie-wich by Tookies. They specialize in delectable, gourmet, handmade cookie-wiches, jar cakes, roundies & other yummies.

Photo credit: Tookies

Don't these look so delicious? You can visit their shop here. WARNING: everything is drool-worthy.

The next is Whimsy & Spice, founded by husband & wife team, Mark & Jenna. I've personally had their chocolate butterscotch bars & brown sugar gingerspice cookies. Both were so so so incredible. Mark uses his love of savory spices in his concoctions & they really compliment the sweet ingredients. Visit their site here.


Chocolate Butterscotch Bars
Photo credits: Whimsy & Spice

Brown Sugar Gingerspice Cookies

 We have a fun-filled weekend ahead of us. We're taking Dad out for an early Father's Day breakfast on Saturday. Then on Sunday, we're going to see this.  I'm also pretty positive that brunch will be involved too. Last weekend, we had brunch both days & saw these 2 movies. I think that he could be the next James Bond.

As you may have noticed, my posting has decreased these past couple of weeks. My blogging enthusiasm has definitely taken a hit & I need some time to re-charge & get my priorities in order. I have some exciting things on the horizon & will share soon. So, with all that said, I have decided to take a blogcation for a week or so. When I return, refreshed & re-energized, I plan on sharing my goals, intentions & creative projects with all of you.

Wishing you a great weekend & I'll see you soon.

Handmade Love Wednesdays

Paper Love Wednesdays are temporarily on hold & in its place is Handmade Love Wednesdays. I believe in creative tithing (read this post if you're not sure what I'm referring to) & want to feature some favorite handmade items, not specifically geared towards paper.

So without further ado, here's today's double feature - straight from Columbus, Ohio - yeah!:

Who doesn't need or like soap? So why not have a sense of humor about it? Stinkybomb Soaps fills both of these qualities. Started by husband & wife team, Rob & Megan, these soaps push "the bounds of irony and cleanliness through fun, uniquely designed soap." And the best part? 1% of the proceeds of the grenade soap goes to the Wounded Warrior Project. Read their very unique and cool story here & shop here.

Credit for photos: Stinkybomb Soaps

The second feature is Alison Rose & is another husband & wife team that specializes in apparel, handbags & accessories. My favorites are these t-shirts (one of these is for you & your mother Andrea F.) Below are my favorites but they have a whole bunch of other stuff here.

Credit for photos: Alison Rose

 I had the pleasure of hearing Megan from Stinkybomb Soaps & both Alison & Nicholas speak at the Midwest Craft Caucus.  I hope that you enjoyed this new series & these two selections. Have a great rest of your week!