damestarbaby.
I’m not sure which I like better the cute little beatle on the shirt or the awesome photographs. Either way, this two mom team has done a good job. check them out!
Archive for August, 2007
armato design.
Here is an excerpt from an interview with Etsy’s current featured seller, Armato Design.
Why should people buy handmade?
Buying handmade is a hopeful and purposeful act. When you buy a handmade item you are investing in a person, their dreams, their talent and their future. The reward for the buyer goes far beyond having a cute new purse or necklace or card. Buying a handmade item really tells the world that the person behind that product is important. It fosters human relationships and the human spirit. I started my business because I wanted a life that was about more than making money. I wanted a life centered on family and creativity and thought I could still make money despite having these goals. I spent way too much time in a job that I didn’t like and didn’t feel good about. So I left that job and created Armato Design. This too was a hopeful act. Etsy is full of hopeful people creating things that fulfill not only their artistic desires, but also their hopes for a life and a world that they can be proud of. People who buy handmade products are doing so because they want these things too.
Well said.
enchanted enfant.
from trunkt:
children’s clothing based on ideas of romantic history, far away places, beauty, and childhood innocence. the 2008 collection is inspired by the beauty of Sothern France.
very nice.
Home.
Sometimes I pull things from random places. Okay, not sometimes, but most times. Here is one I came across the other day:
Home:
“it’s the place where we feel free to be ourselves, make our own judgements, and create a world formed entirely by our own views.”
Maybe its the timeliness of this, but it struck me. What struck me the most? That, to me at least, home is not one place (it can be created anywhere), but more so there are places it is not. Those places you cannot bend to your ideals, you cannot find confirmation in what you beleive, nor is there the knowledge that someone has the same values as you. Home is the understanding that if you say something it will mean a certain thing and when you look at an object you are open to appreciate the same features. Home is created with people with the same senitments as you. And once you find those people (or are lucky enough to be related to them), home can be anywhere you are. Our home is then on our backs and that makes me happy!
fancy tiger.
for those of you in the denver area… there is now a new place to check out the wares! stop by fancy tiger on south broadway. they have Vital wallets and tshirts.
monster squash.
Here’s what happens when you leave squash to its own devices for a week:
The small one in the front is close to normal size.
trunkt.
check out trunkt! It is a online juried design gallery and buyers guide for independent designers and small retailers. Designers and artists create lookbooks for buyers to browse. Buyers can then create wishlists of their favorite items. The (small) staff at Trunkt see themselves as filters for their target buyers. And, I for one, think they are doing a great job and love what they are trying create. It is a place where people that care about design can go to find new products made by a variety of talented artists.
Oh! and Vital has a lookbook! check us out… and we like comments!
