Etsy Take Five Tuesdays

Hello friends and welcome to this week's edition of Etsy Take Five Tuesdays. Here are some shops on my radar this week that you may like to add to your list of faves. I'm always so inspired by what is being made in this creative community by so many who are living their dream and others who are living their dream and making a living from it. The more we shop indie before the big department stores, the more we are helping a small business to grow and for them to feel that unbeatable joy of selling their goods to others.

Isabelle Abramson Ceramics is based locally in Boston's Jamaica Plain and has mad skills with clay and glaze. I can't take my eyes off of the lattice bowl. {website} {blog}

Ebba Handmade, St Louis. These block printed images are from her original drawings cut from linoleum and printed using heat-cured textile color on earth-friendly materials. Very organic, sweet, and simple. Now I want to run through fields of flowers or chase chickens or something.

Up Up Creative in Rochester, NY is a small business built around the idea of purchasing printable paper goods, the latest Etsy trend taking off like wildfire -- a trend that I hope sticks around as it's really so very practical don't you think? {blog}

Sooooound is Shuxin, a graphic artist living and working in Melbourne, Australia. Her work is inspired by, "the conflicting and harmonious relationships the urban environment has with the natural world".

My Wire Empire is Melissa Bryant in Indianapolis, IN. Don't miss out on her sale, buy 2 get 1 free print sale! (Free print equal or lesser value; excludes collages/originals.) Just type in the name of the 3rd print that you'd like in the comments at checkout.

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