Etsy galore!

although i had been a member at etsy since january of this year, it took some time to get my shop up and going. first trouble was to get a credit card. i had sworn to never get another due to my happy spendings habit with the almighty plastic. but then etsy wanted one so i called my trusty bank and low and behold they gave me one. the next problem was my living accommodations which were up in the air for about three months. i was looking in the highs and lows of germany, first in cologne, then in hamburg and finally settled down in braunschweig, or brunswick for you english people. i understand the german language can be quite a tongue breaker (not simply twister!) so you had to accommodate to save your lovely tongues. brunswick, however, is also quite wonderful, but for the connaisseurs. you have to have the libra eye to avoid the ugly parts which are many and only see the beautiful which are few but dramatically in your face when you see it. i found a little flat in the perfect location, great to set up shop for a little soon to be famous artist (haha, i am being facetious of course, but my friend louise told me as a rooster i am bound to enter the glam world. in fact, i am long overdue! ;).

if you have been reading my blog here, you will notice that i am not too fond of telling it like it is, but rather the way i see it. this at times has often a quite dreamy filter and one can never tell, is this true, is this real, what is she trying to say? but bear with me, dear reader, through all the haze there is some truth to be found. it is for those of you who love to dream as well and love to experience the world rather than simply see it.


Parapluie - by marinkel

available at etsy

i first found etsy through artandghosts whom i still refer to as estrella or louise or tequillasnow. i love all of her names. and her art of course. we did a book together called "tapestries" and yes, KATHLEEN, you may order it now. i fixed the problem. it was odd, a paragraph was missing on page 22. if you have already purchased the book i am very sorry. the pdf transfer simply had swallowed up the bold part :

THus mother and daughter lose each other in the crowd, a bond forever severed, a wound never mended. She runs home and pulls out a pair of scissors from her chest of drawers. Spitting at her mirrored self, she cuts off her long flowing tresses, cutting gashes into her skull. On the chair sits a doll, naked without hair, a baby doll really.

-Here, dolly, you can have my hair. But don't you be wicked and wink at anyone, you will be in big trouble. But I don't care if you do. You are a wicked doll. I shall call you by an ugly name, Chione, the liar!

Then she cries and lays her head on the dresser, weeping until dusk releases the day. When her father returns the next day, she calls him uncle.
-I don't know him, I don't know anyone.
That night, she begins to sleep walk on top of the roof, barefoot beneath an angry moon. She submerges in the deep pools of its craters.

-from "tapestries" p. 21-22

if you care to own a copy you may order it here:
tapestries at lulu.com

so far i haven't had too much time to peruse etsy as much as i would like. but i have found a few treasures already. here they are:

bat by my lovely friend michelle aka silentcheesecake
flower cluster wool felt pin by pinksparrow (cause i have a definite weakness for all things felt!
and the absolute dreamy premiere by artandghosts

have a lovely weekend, dearies.

see you soon, here and everywhere in between

xoxo