Look what the UPS man just dropped off:

Yummy caramel apples from Sherm Edwards Candies. It’s probably too late to order some apples for yourself but they’ve got a ton of other tasty treats for you. We love everything they have to offer!

Thanks Dave!

Everyone’s making something these days, well, everyone but me. I’ll leave these types of activities to the professionals or highly motivated.

Etsy has put up their Halloween Trends gift guide. Please feel free to buy me anything that:

1. Has a skull or skeleton
2. Has a bat
3. Has a gravestone
4. Is scary, not cutesy

More Etsy stuff to buy me (remember the guidelines above).

Now get shopping!

Decided to shop by color today on Etsy. And given it is Halloween season and my affinity for orange, it thought it’d be appropriate. Here are a few finds from my favorite crafty ecommerce store.

Bag by nitelily3: $34

Bliss print (signed) by dazeychic: $20

Ok i dont know if i would buy these, but they are too funny to not post.
CROCHETEd HOTPANTS by IMBUTTERFLY: $65

Pendant by sushipot: $12

Elephant Dress for 3 Month old by kinchi: $29.50

Kitty Magnet by CircaCeramics: $8:00

Candy Corns by CarolEsther: $4.00

My new favorite time wasting, treating myself, inspirational activity is cruising some of the artisans, crafters etc on ETSY. Here are a few of my latest favorites.

MatteArt

LaurenAlane’s shop

Rainy Prints Shop

MadeByMax

(this one will soon be hanging in my kitchen!)

I happened upon a shop in the east village this weekend called Tiny Living. What a great idea! While I love traditional furniture – a standard round coffee table just isn’t going to fit in my 8ft wide living room – unless it is the only thing in there. Tiny Living has all sorts of nifty space saving do-dads, furniture and what-nots. In fact, I think I’m going to get the coffee table shown on their website. I have been searching for a narrow, bench like, coffee table for a long, long, long time. They don’t have a much of a site just yet, but when it does launch (summer 2006) we’ll let you know.

http://www.tiny-living.com/
125 East 7th Street, NYC
t. 212.228.2748

We recently launched a nice little site for a Long Island based company Peconic Bay Originals. They’ve collected a wonderful group of artists together and offer fine art giclée prints and cards of their work. I’m particularly fond of the Botanical and Floral Cards. They also have a nice selection of landscapes, seascapes, still lifes and more.

Check out this manhole cover doormat at flaxart:

lonely dollop and stinky clove

Ok, so clearly a frenzy of Christmas shopping links are headed your way.
Like www.shawnimals.com where you can get some stinky (and rather cute) little plushies. Many moons ago I got one of his originals “a wee lump” for our studio. Each of their characters hails from a different regions of shawnimaland and are divided into various species. The character write-ups are great.

The shawnimal’s site (FAQs) has been kind enough to explain the origin of the color orange for us:

Why orange?
Well, it all happened a long time ago when red and yellow spent a lot of time together and eventually fell in love. When two colors fall in love, sometimes they hold each other in a very special way. And sometimes when they hold each other long enough, a new color is born. This particular time, orange came along. And they all lived happily ever after.

We just love these beautiful hand silk screened holiday cards – available at www.reneperry.com