Sharing the Love: An Etsy Sale for Valentine’s Day

Crafting your own love notes this Valentine’s Day? Want to sign them with “love” and seal them with a custom return address stamp? Well you’re in luck because Plurabelle’s Etsy shop is having a sale! In honor of Valentine’s Day, all items in our store are 10% off from now through February 14th. Just enter the coupon code VDAY13 at check-out.

Please note the following order deadlines for stamp arrival by February 14th (within the U.S. only):

Custom stamps (like the return address stamp): Place your order by January 28th.
Non-custom stamps (like the “love” and “i love you” stamps): Place your order by February 4th.

my quest for a fashionable camera bag

You really don’t hear “stylish” and “camera bag” in the same sentence too often and I can’t understand why. There are infinite options for beautiful laptop bags and iphone covers, so why not camera bags? After all, cameras have been around far longer and millions of people have them. I’ve recently been on a quest to find a good bag for my own Canon DSLR and all its accessories and have had more trouble than I thought I would. Some companies do make nice ones, but it’s taken a lot of research for me to find them. So far I’ve narrowed my search to the three bags above.

Have any of you come across nice camera bags? I’d love to hear your thoughts and recommendations!

1. “The Brooklyn” by ONA, $309
2. “The Cameron Hobo” by Dre Hartmann, $200
3. “Kelly Boy Bag” in brown by Kelly Moore, $199

etsy: my top picks for october 2011

This month’s Etsy picks are all vintage office supplies, quite possibly my very favorite things to shop for. The beginning of fall always brings out my nesting side, and while some people reupholster their chairs or shop for new bedding, I prefer to furbish my desk with new vintage finds. My already-overflowing stash of shipping labels and hang tags is getting bigger still, and if I’m not careful I’ll wake up in December and realize I suddenly own four staplers and eight pairs of scissors!

I already own a brilliant script typewriter (a seafoam and mint green Hermes 3000) but all the Hermes color combinations are so fabulous, like the gold and mint one above. It’s a good thing typewriters are expensive or else I’d be swimming in them. My most recent weakness is for vintage rotary phones — especially vibrantly-colored ones like the canary yellow above — which are arguably useless to me since I don’t even have a land line. (But oh how they make me wish I did!)

1. Vintage 1950s fiberglass desk lamp, $76.00  |  2. Hermes 3000 gold and mint green script typewriter, $365.00  |  3. Vintage shipping tags, $8.95  |  4. Vintage arrow model 210 stapler, $10.00  |  5. Vintage scissor collection, $28.00  |  6. alphabet + number rubber stamp set, $25.00  |  7. Refurbished canary yellow rotary phone, $115.00

Don’t Miss Out!

Don’t miss out! My pop-up shop will close on Monday at 6:00 p.m. Pacific time.

The Plurabelle Calligraphy Pop-Up Shop is live!

Visit the pop-up shop here.

Plurabelle Calligraphy 100 Layer Cake Pop-Up Shop Countdown — Monday!

Mark your calendars! My 100 Layer Cake Pop-Up Shop opens for business tomorrow! I’ll be offering some awesome deals on a variety of custom calligraphy items for one week only, so be sure to stop by. Quantities will be limited.

Plurabelle Calligraphy 100 Layer Cake Pop-Up Shop Countdown — 10 days!

I am so excited to announce that I am going to have a 100 Layer Cake Pop-Up Shop from September 19 – 26. 100 Layer Cake’s pop-up shops are week-long sales by various wedding vendors selling their products for nearly half off. Curious what I’ll be selling? Check out the Pop-Up Shop on September 19th and find out!

etsy: my top picks for september 2011

1. peaked teacup with banded wood saucer, $60; 2. recycled paper pencils in cream, $6.50; 3. vintage “a is for abeille” belgian rubber stamp, $8.95; 4. message in a bottle vase on reclaimed wood base, $35; 5. midcentury lamp, $18; 6. japanese washi tape dispenser, $14.50; 7. embroidery hoop art, $65; 8. retro pencil sharpener, $26

peg & awl

i am absolutely in love with these handmade chalkboards by peg & awl! i suddenly think my office space is in dire need of one….

etsy: my top picks for august 2011

in honor of summer and the fact that this season always fires up my sweet tooth, this month’s etsy picks are all sweets.

1. dark chocolate peppermint patties from sweet mcbirdie, $15.75; 2. lemongrass marshmallows from whimsey & spice, $6; 3. rosemary pine nut shortbread from butter blossoms, $13.50; 4. bourbon pecan caramel bar from have it sweet, $12; 5. watermelon & pink peppercorn lollipops from lollipops by mihow, $10; 6. monogram hard candy lollipops from vintage confections, $9; 7. peanut, cashew almond brittle from fusion sweets, $17.88; 8. white chocolate truffles from sweet mcbirdie, $16.75; 9. rose vanilla marshmallows from whimsy & spice, $6; 10. dark chocolate-covered, marzipan-stuffed apricots from sweet mcbirdie, $19.75