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Red, White, and Crafty
In honor of our country's birthday we figure we'd give us all a gift by skipping the flag motif, and instead highlighting just a few of the beautiful red, white and blue items made by American crafters and artisans.
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Doing more with less
I tend to prefer big honking statement jewelry - huge pendants, chunky bangles, cocktail rings that make it impossible to shake hands. But there's something indescribably lovely about teeny and subtle when it's dancing at your tanned collarbone.
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Like a craft fair without the parking hassles
I just discovered the wonderful Poppytalk Handmade, and I am wondering where it's been all my life.
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Tiny little circles of awesome
I'm the sort of person who is into the idea of personalized jewelry a lot more than the reality--the reality usually being a little more twee and a lot more expensive than I like.
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Good karma's in the bag
Say that sometimes you need a giant-sized tote bag for the beach--or if you're a family of geeks like mine, your library books--and you're just not the preppy major-label canvas tote type.
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Corsage 2.0
The sentiment of a flower on your wrist is really quite lovely, but there's little I dislike more than an actual wrist corsage. That's why I love this sterling interpretation.
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East meets west meets collarbone
We've been eagerly following artist Amy Tavern's jewelry of the month project and we like the June piece so much, we wanted to share it even as June is coming to a close.
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Keepsake jewelry in unexpected places
I'm a complete sucker for keepsake jewelry, but not enough to sacrifice my style.
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The Cool Mom Picks bag of the year turns diaper bag
Both Liz and I espoused the greatness of Crystalyn Kae's Soiree bag - so much so that it was our pick for Cool Mom Picks Bag of the Year in 2008
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Go from diaper bag to diaper bag without another diaper bag
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The urban daddy diaper bag. Really, just let him have this one.
Whenever I buy a diaper bag I try to make it as gender-neutral as possible so my husband feels comfortable using it as well. It never occurred to me to just get him his own so that I could have my cute and girlie diaper bag all to myself.
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