Showing posts with label etsy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label etsy. Show all posts

Sunday, August 05, 2012

Review: So Said Kristen on Etsy

So one of my guilty pleasures has always been window shopping, I loved walking around the mall and seeing what I wanted but would never buy, either because it was too expensive or impractical. With two kids, window shopping in the traditional sense is a thing of the past. But now thanks to sites like Etsy and Pinterest, you can window shop to your hearts content, well or at least until one of your kids starts yelling at you.
I have to say that I love window shopping on Etsy. I love homemade things. If I can't make something myself I almost always go to Etsy to see if someone else can. I would much rather give our hard earned money to a small Etsy seller that makes their stuff themselves than a big store. I have a lot of time at night while nursing Eva to window shop on Etsy. I was recently introduced to a very charming shop called So Said Kristen. Kristen sells some absolutely amazing art in her shop and her prizes are great. Kristen is a self taught artist who makes a variety of different pieces. She started crafting on her own, but when friends and family started making requests for specific pieces, she thought she should start a store. Let me show you some of my favorite things from her shop. 
This multi-colored vase is beautiful. She seals the inside of the vase so the paint won't run, and can make a custom of any of her items in her shop if you message her. She has some other amazing glass work as well. Some beautiful stopper jars and round vases too. 
How great are these chalkboard wine glasses? Perfect for a party right? I know a lot of my friends who would love these. So much better then those charms around the stem of your glass. They are so small and easy to lose, but this is great, you just write your name on it, and then it washes off. It reminds me of when we used to write our names on cups at school when we were little. =)

And who doesn't like candles right? These glass candle holders are covered in tie dye purple fabric and only $5!


These wheel bracelets are adorable and very affordable at $5 each!
This Octobubble Painting is Tabitha's favorite item! She keeps asking if she can have the Octopus! 

She has some amazing photographs that she sells too. I love this one of windmills in NY. 

One thing I love about this shop is that I could actually buy her items without that "Ouch I spent too much money feeling" that I know we all get sometimes. I could actually shop instead of just window shopping at So Said Kristen

This is a really beautiful shop with lots of interesting and unique items, I recommend you take some time to check Kristen's stuff out. Its beautiful and totally worth it. 

Kristen has generously offered Crafting in My Closet readers a discount code for free shipping! Use the code 1goodluck for free shipping from So Said Kristen on Etsy. Then go check out her facebook fan page and follow her on Twitter


This is a sponsored post. I was paid for my opinion of this shop, but I would never recommend anything I would not myself buy or use. 






Friday, June 10, 2011

MIA

Sorry I've been MIA the last week, I've been sick, and I've been trying to get things ready to go for my shop. As long as the weather cooperates tomorrow, I'll be adding a bunch of stuff to my Etsy shop tomorrow. I'll be adding a few hair bows, some shirts for boys and for girls, a 24 Month Wonderland Dress, The 12 month Good Morning GoodNight Dress and a few other goodies. If anyone is looking for something in particular or in a different size please let me know.

Friday, January 08, 2010

can't sleep

i can't sleep. Morgen is snoreing, and I'm wide awake. I've been thinking about projects I want to start. But I need like 2 hours all to myself so that I can clean up my sewing area. Its a big ol mess after christmas. I really want to re organize my fabric and organize my thread and ribbon. Plus I need to put together my new dress form that my mom got me for christmas. (So freaking excited about that one!)
I used my Jo-ann's gift card to buy some fabric and a patern to actually make me a dress. I have like nothing to wear for church because i'm nursing and none of my dresses acomidate that. So I found a pattern that is a dress with a little jacket, the dress has thin straps so i'm going to edit the pattern and put snaps on the straps (wow say that 10 times fast) so that i can unhook when I need to nurse! I bought this really pretty dark purple fabric, Its just plain but I like it. I'm not a busy person. I'm looking for some nice understated trim i might put on the skirt. I also got the pattern ($2.99!), some maroon velvet for a dress for Tabitha (in the remnant bin for $2.99), and some cute I <3 mommy, I <3 daddy fabric on the clearance rack, it was $2 a yard plus I got a discount because it was the end of the bolt and I took the extra 6 inches. Not sure what I'll do with it, I'm thinking of binki clips and onesie apliques for the store. I also have this dress that I made a bunch of for Tabitha, and I made one for Susan and Seans soon to be little girl too, I think I might use some of this material on one of those dresses for my etsy store. I've been super slaking on that, and my goal is to get it up and functional by the end of the month. I have so many ideas of stuff I want to put in the store but I just never have the time to do it. So i'm going to try to make the time. We'll see how that goes.
I have tons of projects that I need to do for my store, I have the materials for at least 15 tutus that I haven't even started, plus I have been planing to make about 20 different hairbows that I have the ideas floating around my head but havent done them yet. I also have 20 binky clips that I need to finish, and I have 4 dresses I want to do. I also have 2 marble dyed shirts, and 3 marble dyed onesies all finished I just need to put them on the store. I think my goal for this week will be to get pictures taken of everything thats ready for the store and get them online by Sunday.
Ok, well I'm going to try to go to bed now since its almost 2 am and I have to be up at 8. yuck I hate this new schedual, I loved being able to sleep in till whenever Tabitha wanted to wake up (usually around 9:30 am) uggg

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