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|  | Breast Cancer Awareness and Supporting Artists
| 10/02/2009, 01:49 AM
| | .jpg) | This month is dedicated to creating awareness about Breast Cancer. It has touched many of our lives: ourselves, our moms, sisters, friends.... Artists are thinking pink as well. Many are contributing all or a portion of the sales of particular pieces to the American Cancer Society. These donations go towards research, education and support. These artists have shops on Etsy and can be fou...
Read More | | Tags: body, Healh, Etsy, TeamEPE, Breast Cancer, American Cancer Society |  |  | Temari
| 11/11/2008, 11:48 PM
| | .jpg) | Have you ever seen a Tamari? Do you know what it is?Tamri is an ancient Japanese and Chinese folk art of the upper class and aristocrats. The balls were created from deconstructed kimonos by wrapping the threads around and around a core. Then geometric designs were embroidered onto the ball. Bells or other items were sometimes added to the center so that they would make little chiming n...
Read More | | Tags: house, Decor, temari,julieandco,japanese,chinese,folkart,textile,thread |  |  | He Brought Me Roses
| 09/13/2008, 07:09 PM
| | .jpg) | He Brought Me Roses is a beautiful, original acrylic painting by Eleanor Gilpatrick. I fell in love with this painting as soon as I came across it on Etsy earlier this year. If you look in this artist's shop you will be drawn to many of her works of art. I also love the pieces where she juxtaposes real world life with beautiful images as in her, In the World Four, Baghdad and Montauk.Vis...
Read More | | Tags: house, Decor, egilpater,etsy,roses,baghdad,montauk |  |  | Tatting Is Not A lost Art! Challenge
| 07/27/2008, 02:29 PM
| | .jpg) | Tatting is such a beautiful and delicate art and TotusMel has brought it into this decade. Not only does she sell amazing pieces in her Etsy shop, but she also created a challenge for all of us wannabe tatters to create a design using one of her tatted rosettes. You can see the designers submissions at the flickr site listed below. The contest was limited only by imagination and the resu...
Read More | | Tags: fashion, Jewelry, Tatting, Fiber Art, Challenge, TotusMel,Waterrose,Flickr |  |  | Stop! Don't Throw Away That Magazine!
| 06/22/2008, 05:33 PM
| | .jpg) | Let me pre-warn you --I'm a quilter. Now, get that picture out of your head of someone from the 1940s. I'm an experimental quilter. When I look at something I always think, how can I use that in a quilt?For several years I've been saving a few select magazines subscriptions because I didn't have the heart to throw them away. These magazines in all of their glory have magnificent color, m...
Read More | | Tags: house, Decor, GREEN TREND, Quilt, Paper |  |
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