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Sunday Bouquet: White Magnolia Sketch

Magnolia and Flower Illustration No. 6688
Kari Herer Photography
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Site Spotlight: Etsy Boston

Not long ago, Cambridge-based interior designer and CreateGirl blogger Julieann Covino wrote to me about some fabulous Etsy finds – all by Boston area artisans. I was able to write up her ideas in Stuff Magazine. Here are a few of her picks as well as my own discoveries of Boston Etsy-ites (Etsy-ers? Etstonians?). Eat local, shop local, design local.

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ARTmonday: Caroline Moore

I happened upon these photos on Etsy by Caroline Moore (aka “sixhours”) last week when I was browsing for child-appropriate pieces I could buy as baby gifts. Obviously, these don’t fall into that category. However, they caught my eye because they remind me of a short story by A.M. Homes in The Safety of Objects. In the story, if I remember correctly, a teenage boy dismembers his sister’s Barbies and does bizarre (sexual) things with them.

I read it over 10 years ago, after reading The End of Alice for a book club and becoming obsessed. (I loved it…. especially because the pearl-wearing girls who comprised the club were appalled by it. It’s narrated by a pedophile in jail, and also involves a young girl experimenting with the boy she babysits.) If you are not familiar with her work, she is an excellent writer, never dull, and often compellingly offensive.

I wonder if the photographer is familiar with the story?

ARTmonday: Lindsay Brackeen

Lindsay Brackeen is another girly artist I found on Etsy. She too seems to have gotten lots of attention from other design blogs, but I bought a couple of her original works last year, so I thought it’d be ok if I featured her too. Some of these are original works, but most are prints. Hope you love.

“Don’t Mind Me”