Trashion Treasuries Abound!

There are seriously THREE awesome TRASHION treasuries on etsy right now! Kudos to Sweetyprize, PureKatherine and Miggipyn for putting these beauties together. I especially dig the Red themed treasury.





















The Trashion street team is keeping busy gearing up for a trunk show at etsylabs in Brooklyn on July 27 and has also opened up a collaborative team shop. So much trashion, so little time! It's all happening!

jackpot!

These National Geographic magazines are from the late 1930s through late 1940s. Can you believe they were going to be trashed? Boo! I have barely started paging through them but have already found some great images, wacky stories and bizarre war propaganda. Love it!

EtsyGreetings Blog Feature

Applepanda, which is a shop I started with my best friend Jessi (see our manifesto here) is featured on the EtsyGreetings blog today! Check us out and please let us know what you think!

geekery? check.

Star Trek? Got it. LOTR? Check! I love giving new life to damaged comics, thrift store sci-fi novels, any bit of awesome geekery I can get my hands on. I've recently added some fun STAR TREK pinback buttons to my etsy shop along with a Lord of the Rings inspired card and matchbox magnet - both made with text from Fellowship of the Ring. Check it out and look for lots of other superheroes and legends hanging out in my store (right HERE!)

matchboxes.

I love them. I am convinced that anything can be invitingly displayed in an itty bitty matchbox. Every new matchbox magnet I make has me feeling like I'm looking at the marquee at a movie theatre. Here are some of my latest creations - there will be many more to come!

disenchanted.

I am feeling really off lately. My good friend Jessi pointed out that it is probably because I barely sleep and eat nothing but bagels and frozen mochas from Panera. This is most likely the case, but I feel like I don't know what else to do! All I want to do is CREATE all of the time, and the way I roll that doesn't leave time to take care of much else besides the essentials: work, kids, sleep (if I have time.) It's 1:45am and I am going to have to will myself to go to bed soon since my 2 year old will most certainly be awake in four hours.

How do you you busy crafty people do it? Especially those of you with kids? I am convinced that I am going to be in this delusional sleep deprived zombie-craft-mode forEVER.

xo
andrea

applepanda!

My friend Jessi and I have been collaborating to make fun greeting cards with removable gifts. Jessi makes the felt dudes and I work them into fun cards that coordinate so that you can take care of your card & gift giving in one. We also have cards with felt embellishments, individual felt pins and magnets, and cards that include a removable pinback button.














It's a pretty wacky deal logistically since I am in Wisconsin and Jessi is in New Mexico, but we make it work, largely by lots of obscenely long phone calls in the middle of the night, the decisiveness of our husbands when we are totally indecisve about if something works or not, and the good ol' USPS (ugh) to get one element of Applepanda to physically be with the other.



As you can see...it is a labour of love. You can visit our etsy shop HERE to see what's new. I hope you dig our stuff. We think it's pretty awesome.

xo
andrea