Etsy.com is one of my favourite sites to find clothing, accessories, home items, and crafts from truly independent designers. Etsy is about one-of-a-kind, handcrafted pieces (a few thousand of them) as well as building a community for the designers’ themselves. I know that at my local market, there’s a weekly ‘Etsy’ table staffed by volunteer [...]
Made Boutique, a super cute and ultra-adorable store in Vermont that also, thankfully, happens to have an online shop, is having a big anniversary sale July 25-29th. Let’s hope that sale extends to the web.
Made sells products created mostly by local, independent designers from the Northeast United States. The bulk of their goods are one [...]
July 06 marked Frida Khalo’s centennial birthday. It also saw the opening of a massive exhibition of recently discovered sketches and keepsakes at Khalo’s former-family-home-turned-museum - The Blue House, in Coyoacan. According to NYT writer Elisabeth Malking,
“She became a Chicana heroine and an unintended purveyor of Mexican kitsch. She is an emblem of confessional [...]