shop local: chicago etsy wedding glory

 
{each photo links to its shop}

well damn. am in chicago for work this week and checked in to see how the giveaway was going... um, what giveaway, jen? i sense you thinking -- you see, i logged out last weekend so i could use my new google docs wedding templates (they are great, thanks for the recommendations!) through my personal gmail... and then traveled -- and just logged back in as etsywedding...

and holy mama, i thought i'd scheduled it for friday and it is not up. doh. must not have pressed the big obvious orange "publish" button. bad blogger.

let's try this again. first, here's my shop local chicago post -- feel free to add yourselves in the comments, chicago etsy brides and artists -- and i am hereby scheduling the giveaway to post FOR REAL this friday, with my apologies for the delay!

brooklyn recap: renegade, pop-up chapel, more

{ new york love gocco print by artsharkdesigns }

finally, a moment of peace. since i was vacating, never got to my full posts about brooklyn on the 6th -- an epic renegade craft fail -- delayed in town, missed meeting etsy blogger-in-chief vanessa, and then my phone battery died mid-tweet. so much for live coverage.

(twitter heresy: it was more fun without. thanks to beth + sam for coming to keep me company!)

plus wanted to feature the brooklyn pop-up wedding series with brooklynbride, theweddinglibrary, and martha stewart weddings' brooklyn pop-up chapel. was especially sorry to miss l.a. dj the flashdance... check out the pop-up shop, brooklynchapel.com.

finally, here are some of my favorites from renegade:

heatherjeany (see also this post, from 2007) -- custom gocco wedding invitations and prints

nervous system -- seriously some of the coolest jewelry ever. this necklace, for example. see how it's made....

up in the air somewhere -- unusual ceramics, but check out the paper bowls, they're amazing in person.

max steiner design -- especially these cufflinks -- the pattern is an "unfolded" origami crane, perfect for a wedding.

non-wedding-related but friends, beth and seth of familydinnerforone (t-shirts) and dc-based jon wye (t-shirts and screenprinted leather).

here's a full list of brooklyn artists. renegade san francisco is july 18+19 and chicago is sept. 12+13.








{each photo links to its shop}

shop local: boston weddings

{each photo links to its shop}

was in boston last weekend, just to have dinner with my dear friend, who flew in from SF for her birthday. ah-ren't we jet-settahs!

actually, she had a proper vacation, and i took the overnight train twice in 24 hours. do not try this at home, kids.

stomping around my old digs, i wondered where the etsy folks were, and if it would be easy to find them -- so for my locavore readers, here are (mostly!) shop ideas right around the connah.