Reverie Fair Magazine

A lovely magazine feature to share today at Reverie Fair, a small magazine created to share women with their art.

You can see the issue online here. All jewelry featured is from our StaroftheEast shop, and you see also some pictures of our work space.

Art278 Magazine

I just discovered that some of my driftwood pieces are featured in the Art278 magazine while surfing the web :) You can see it yourself in the online version or buy a copy :) You can find the driftwood pieces in our home decor shop, StarHomeStudio.

A Different Perspective

We have been very busy lately and thoroughly neglected our blog! In a month our course is ending and we'll be able to relax a bit and give all our online places some much needed attention. Until then I still won't be able to update the blog often but I will do my best :)

In the mean time I wanted to share two lovely Instagram shares with two of our creations :) The first here on the top was shared by Tenderblue who has a lovely Etsy shop with knitted baby clothing. The necklace has traveled from Turkey to Portugal and will now go for a visit to Ghana, Africa! Our jewelry travel more than we do :) Below you can see the necklace a little closer up.

The picture below was shared by TheBlueRabbitHouse accompanied with a illustration of a whale drawn by her. Her shop is full with beautiful embroidered accessories and illustration.

And below a close up from our shop :)

Thank you girls for sharing these pictures :)
It is so much fun to see our jewelry from a different perspective!

Christmas Gift Guide

We are featured in this amazing Gift Guide, entirely made by Ruby from PaperWhispers, have a peek there is plenty of gorgeous gift ideas in it!
All items have clickable links for an easy shopping experience :)

Etsy Success Newsletter

Yaaay my mini interview to Etsy is launched today through Etsy's Success Newsletter, I was contacted by them due to the fact that quiet some team members named me as an inspiring member, thank you guys :)
I sent them my own picture and a mosaic as I did not want to send just an item picture, they used my picture, I guess I should be flattered lol, this was the other picture I had prepared for them:

You can still enter the giveaway to win a beautiful bag!

Saturday Super Woman

There are some amazing women on this planet. You know the kind that seem to be able to do anything and everything? I've decided to feature those kind of women and wanted to start with Lisa from Lil Fish Studios.

When you go to her blog you'll find out what I mean, she lives in the middle of nature and takes all advantages that comes with it, felted embroidered pebbles, felted miniature acorns, wooden furniture for her kids, kids clothing, even painted shoes, wooden toys and so much more. Everything she does she does with natural materials she collects and she has an amazing artistic eye, a true pleasure to go through her blog, her shop is always sold out and you have to be really fast to catch something.

She also does wonderful art projects with her children.

Lisa says: 'Living the rural life in the woods of Minnesota, I find myself creating art that reflects the variety of textures and colors around me. The tiny worlds of fungi, moss, and lichens are particularly intriguing to me. I use primarily recycled and natural materials in my work, especially wool and wood.'
Which sums up perfectly what you'll discover at her blog.

We are the lucky owners of these two pebbles and an acorn adornment :)

All images are from Lil Fish Studios.

Stay tuned for more Super Women!

Haute Handbags

We are thrilled to show you our first magazine feature for our bagshop!

We were contacted by the editor of Haute Handbags last year and she asked us to sent some bags for a photoshot.

We also made a tutorial to make your own Cutest Bag, or be inspired by it.

Yaaaaay :)

Dawanda Lovebook

A few weeks ago we have been contacted by Dawanda for a feature. The Lovebook is a press release of hand picked items from Dawanda, and we are thrilled to be included. The Lovebook will be sent to journalists and press contacts across Europe and in the US,  who use it to select products to publish in magazines and newspapers, so exciting!

Our Pearl and Shell Rose ring looks pretty in this pink outfit, and we will get a printed version of the book as well, so cool!

You can find the ring on Dawanda and Etsy, and if you want to take a closer look at the Lovebook you can find that here.

Flickr Favorites

Some of you already figured out the surprise, but just wanted to share it here anyway. This week we are at the article Quit Your Day Job on Etsy, you can see the article here. The comments and reactions have been wonderful from the first day, so smiles and urchins for this week's Flickr Favorites :) Thank you so much all for your support!

1. Sea Urchin on a Stem, 2. Smiling like the SpaghettiSun, 3. asap07(&cbut - urchin), 4. Sea urchins

See more beautiful mosaics at ArtMind's Blog!

Flickr Favorites- Scissors

1. Vintage Scissors, 2. Game, 3. For gr8 mate, 4. Some people say I am obsessed with my lawn

I think many crafters love scissors, what ever you make scissors are needed. It seems that photographers love them too, I found a huge amount of scissors on Flickr. Alot of them where pretty scary and there where even quite some scissors tattoo's (?!). I love the atmosphere of these four, I found after seeing a few hundred scissors, and the fourth is hilarious.

See more beautiful mosaics at ArtMind's blog, you can join the fun too!

On a totally different topic: we have been featured in the last issue of the online magazine VivaLaModa (page 51), in the article The Artisans of Belly Dance!

Thank you Carina and Ainhoa for making this beautiful article and magazine!

Little Thing Magazine

You might remember our blogpost about our Little Thing magazine feature. The editor has sent us a copy as we won't be able to buy it ourselves in Turkey. We are pleasantly suprised that it really looks great, better then we thought it would be!


You can find us in the index, which is at the back instead of the front, as they are reading from back to front in China.


Here is our interview, they changed the layout, it is different then the PDF we recieved before, as you can see in our other blogpost. But it looks gorgeous!


Our names between all those Mystic letters.

They asked in all interviews our favorite 'Little Thing', here you can see them all together. Ours is: ''Our favorite thing in life is waking up with a big cup of coffee, the day can not start without coffee.' '


All through the magazine are Sea themed finds, drawings and fashion shoots, very good company. Here there is a tutorial about how to make a shell into a plant pot.

We are also in the great company of Helle Jorgensen, a crochet artist we both admire.

Monday Blues

Only Etsy addicts will understand today's post. This morning I woke up with Etsy down for maintance as if monday blues are not enough! The plus side was that I actually could clean up some mess during the Etsyless time. And when finally Etsy was back I discovered that my Blue Treasury is on FP, yaay! After all a good start for a monday...


Talking about Etsy, we have reached 3000 conversations, just wondering are we very chatty or is this a normal number? Let me know how many convo's you have, love to find that out!

And to make our monday even brighter, we are featured in the online magazine VivalaModa, page 59!

Little Thing Magazine

Our third magazine feature! We are so happy with this as it is a full interview in the Chinese fashion magazine Little Thing! It will be in the July issue which will be launched soon, the editor has sent us the file and will also send us the real copy on paper.

I always love the Eastern writting characters, this is so cool!