Your word of the day, dear readers, is mei.  Mei translates from Chinese to “beautiful,” a word that is often replaced with “cute,” “pretty” or “hot,” but is much more classy and should be used more often (in English or Chinese). Mei Vintage, a woman-owned handbag company, has the perfect descriptive name: they create beautiful [...]

It’s Friday, and I am going to give you not one, but four gifts from Etsy. Made of wood. Because I can. It’s Monday, and somehow, this never got posted on Friday. I’m tilting my head the way the dog does, because it’s too early in the week, I haven’t had coffee, and why didn’t [...]

The title of this bag kind of says it all: “Diaper bag – Messenger bag – Cross body bag – Travel bag.”  It’s versatility makes this bag the easiest gift of all: give it to a new mom, a student, a downtown office babe (because we all need something to carry our heels in on [...]

Some of my favorite artists are the ones that surprise me by thinking small. These handmade earrings, made of oxidized sterling silver and 22 karat gold leaf detail, are reminiscent not of a butterfly wing, but of a single butterfly wing scale. They’d be a great gift for anyone with short hair, a love of [...]

I love getting gloves for Christmas. It sounds like a cop-out (gloves? they’re so obviously wintery!) but if you take the time to find something special, gloves can be just as great as any other personalized gift. Sara Lagace calls them “White Paws“. They’re made of double-thick Peruvian Highland wool yarn and the softest recycled [...]

I had this thought, just now, that it might be fun to do an “Etsy Gift of the Day” from now ’til Christmas. Of course, that means some of those gifts won’t actually make it to their recipient until after Christmas, but I know at least a few late gifters, and I’m sure at least [...]

…but that one is super pretty. The Laurel Earrings are perfect for the girly-girl on anyone’s list…and that includes the girls that are hard on their jewelry. These are made from laser-cut acrylic, and can handle themselves when thrown into a drawer full of baubles. This scarf is meticulously hand-woven using hand-woven cotton and traditional [...]

It’s raining all the time and none of my jackets have hoods. I’m a bad Seattlite. I do have a couple of hats, but they’re “interesting” hats. You know, those really cute kitschy ones you buy, and then realize that they fit your daily mindset and style about sixteen percent of the time because yeah, [...]

I cut off my hair again – you know, as I am wont to do every few months. I love juxtaposing boy stuff, like the shaved back of my head, with girl stuff, like precision-cut bangs and really high heels. So imagine how excited I was when I stumbled across a lovely new collection from [...]

After cutting my Etsy and Wishpot lists down to their bare bones (“out of stock…out of stock…when did I add that to my favorites?”), I went on a mammoth wish-list hunt this weekend. I visited ModCloth, which I don’t often peruse because there’s just so much stuff, and was pleasantly surprised to find two independent [...]