Tag Archives: design

Vote for your favorite fabric on Spoonflower

 I love Spoonflower. I bought several fabric projects to give as gifts to my nieces and nephews last year. You can design your own fabric, or purchase fabric created by other desgners. One of my favorite activities on Spoonflower though, is the fabric contest where I get to vote for the best designs. I enjoy [...]

Kickstarter

Kickstarter first entered my vocabulary about two years ago when an acquaintance at a birthday party was telling me about her latest project and how she intended to fund it. Kickstarter is a website where entrepreneurs and artists list details about a project plan and investors have the opportunity to fund it. Everyone can pledge [...]

Doing Good: Free Wheelchair Mission

  I was perusing my favorite guilty pleasure today, http://www.fark.com/, when I stumbled upon this heart-warming story about a man who, upon seeing suffering, immediate set the intention to help releive it, and in the process developed a low-cost solution and then dedicated his life to creating the Free Wheelchair Mission. As someone who participates competitively [...]

Etsy Shop Feature: Sweet and Dirty’s Emporium of Good Stuff

This next shop feature is special because we are both members of the same Team on Etsy: The Etsy Recycler’s Guild Team. However, I noticed and marked a few of their items as favorites before I even realized that they we were teamies. So, without further ado, it has been my pleasure to interview Sweet [...]

What I’ve been up to on Etsy

Hey, here’s a peek at both my personal shop (Serendipit) and my team’s shop (Fashion:Remix). Please keep us in mind for your personal wardrobe updates and gift giving. We all make and sell eco-friendly refashioned or recycled clothing and accessories. // //

The Centre for Sustainable Fashion at the London College of Fashion

I so want to go back to school right now. Yes, I know that I just graduated and I already have an expensive enough hobby, having collected several unrelated degrees that are of no use in the real world. However, should I ever have my chance to fulfill my dream of learning fashion design, I [...]

Enter the Inhabitat Spring Greening Competition

Inhabitat, a blog devoted to sustainable design, wants you to make something awesome out of old junk and share it! They are hosting the Spring Greening Competition, where you can compete for praise, recognition and $250 gift certificate to be used in the Inhabitat Shop. The Inhabitat shop has everything from worm composters to fashionable [...]

 
RT @TreeHugger: Less men are willing to go #vegetarian and a new study says it's because they think it's less macho. http://t.co/bRcPxh5J4 hours ago