Etsy Finds : Jewlery & Prints

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I love Etsy, I can spend hours surfing in vintage shops, handmade jewelery or amazing photos, Etsy is a real treasure chest where everyday you can find something new to fall in love with!!
Today I'd love to share with you 2 lovely shops that I've found while surfing on blogs :
By MaryJaneFrances and My Fine Garden by SLG designs .

I'm in love with MaryJane jewelery, every piece in unique and has the real hippie style that I love so much, I can almost see my self dancing in the Woodstock field while wearing her amazing creations!! For my readers MaryJane will offer free shipping, just send her a convo so she can adjust the invoice.

Bohemian style and a life long passion for vintage are the common threads running through all of the one of a kind and limited edition items created by Mary Jane Hunter, designer. A jeweler by trade, Mary Jane was able to translate her formal design training from The Fashion Institute of Technology NYC, and jewelry industry experience, into her love of all things hippie, ethnic, and natural; creating things that she herself wanted but was unable to find in the marketplace. Mary Jane uses mainly vintage trinkets / fabrics and natural materials; leather, suede, feathers, flowers, crystals, wood etc. to create her bags, accessories, headbands, and jewelry. The use of vintage material also creates less impact on the environment, which is of great importance to Mary Jane. Mary Jane currently resides in Greenport, NY with her husband, Robert, and their daughter Arbor . website http://bymaryjane.com/

I highly reccomend you to visit her store, site and blog ,she has an unique style that I'm sure you'll love!! Here some pics of her creations, it's very hard to pick only few , all the pieces are very beautiful just check out her Etsy shop and you'll see!!

(pics from MaryJaneFrances)

I was surfing on some blog while something bright and beautiful catch my eye, it was this photo:

I've clicked on the photo and I've found an amazing world full of vibrant colors and gorgeous images..and of course I'm in love!! My dream house is full of prints like these from My Fine garden , those pics make me happy and peaceful. Shanon is very talented , check her blog is full of beautiful pics and great finds !!

"I'm drawn to cotton candy colors. I love light and a good diptych. I can talk about flowers all day and I'm sad when I can't garden. I believe life is what you make it, you can write your own story. And I know there is magic in my little cottage between the lake and the falls"

To celebrate her first blog anniversary she offer 25% off in her shop until midnight central time on May 20th, so guys hurry up and check her dreamy prints!! This selection of pics that I'm posting is very small on her blog and in Shanon shop there're more amazing prints, here some of my fav:

(pics from My Fine Garden)

Etsy finds: prints & postcards!!

As announced before I'm very glad to introduce you 2 Etsy finds, Dolce Chic and Mynameissmith's.
Dolce Chic is owned by Candi, she has a lovely blog too Candace Rose , you must check it, there're so many fabulous photos of flowers and nature. Candi got into photography about a year ago, and recently she opened her Etsy shop at the end of December 2008 .
"Most of the photos are of flowers from my mum's garden. I find most of my inspiration from around the house" Candi
Candi loved the idea to give to all of my reader the opportunity to get 10% off to 8.5 x 11 sized prints, all you need to do is to type "10carlotta" when ordering her beautiful works..so what are you waiting for?!

I find her prints very romantic, colors are vivid and bright that you can almost feel the smell of the flowers!! It's hard for me to pick few photos, here's a sample of her work some of my favourites:

(All the images are from Dolce Chic dolcechic.etsy.com Thanx to Candi)

My other find is mynameissmith , a postcard shop owned by Sara, yes postcards!! I love sending postcards when I'm travelling or just for fun to my friends, and with the internet it's really hard to see someone sending real postcards!! Sara has a blog too Blondie-Lox lots of photos and beautiful finds!!
Her postcards are very beautiful inspired and funny and perfect for many different occasion or just to say Hello to a friend in an old fashioned way. I've asked Sara to introduce us in to her works:

"when's the last time you wrote someone a letter? with e-mail, facebook, texting, phone calls, who ever receives anything fun through snail mail anymore?? it's just bills, and "vote ___ for mayor" flyers, advertisements, sunday circulars.... whenever i go to the mail & i see a letter or postcard with a friends handwriting on it - you better believe it's been read before i even get back inside; it's just so exciting!
when i think back to all of the apartments i've lived in, almost all of them were partially decorated with postcards on the walls. i would go to the bookstore & every time i would leave with a postcard. i'd buy that blue tacky stuff - and make gallery walls ;).
when you send a postcard, they're kept, hopefully. they're stuck on a fridge, in a cubicle, by a nightstand, sometimes they're used as bookmarks, they're hung above sweet little doggy's bowls... they add inspiration in everyday life through affordable, tangible, sensibly sized art; with a friends handwriting & sweet personal note on the back.
I obviously think postcards are the bomb! & that's why i started doing this. it was a way to take my photography & postcard passion > & spread around the love in an affordable, fun, casual way. i hope you enjoy!

*postcard power*

{for anyone that is sent my way through carlotta's lovely blog gets an additional $2 off. please convo me - and i'll re-price the postcard pack of your choice & reserved it for you to purchase! this includes customized packs! just let me know the ones you like & i'll bunch 'em together - if you want one of each > hey, go for it... i'm down!}
thank so much carlotta - this girls got taste!! ;) *thanks* :) " Sara

here a little selection of my favourite Mynameissmith's postcards:

(all the images are from mynameissmith thanx to Sara)

I really hope that you'll love as much as I do those amazing shops, I love handmade, my mum is a pottery artisan so I know very well how important is the support for them and how important they are for us!!
As I said in my previous post, if you have an Etsy shop or if you know a nice shop that deserve a little spotlight let me know..and buy handmade!!