Etsy Loves: Anthropologie

Anthropologie

 

I love Anthropologie & the laid back, cozy, kitschy feel their stores give.  Clearly there are plenty of Etsians out there loving the style too!  These are just a few items I found that are Anthro-inspired that tickle my fancy.  If woman and art could mate, I would totally be getting a tattoo of that wood stack wall art on my booty right now.

Click the pics to be taken to the shops!

Shiny & New

 I recently worked with a designer to create a new look for my shop.  I have made my previous banners & reserved listing markers and just used a photo for my avatar.  I wanted everything to look put together though and am so glad I finally took a leap and hired someone to help!

Some previous banners, made a'la me & the help of picnik or some other photo editing website:

This may have been my first banner.  It's fine and dandy & I kept it for a good long while.

I felt like my banner needed a holiday spiff, and that's where picnik stickers came in.  Gotta love them.  I kind of adore the ginger bread man as the A in my name :)

Itching for a change, I went super simple.  I dug it, but knew it was definitely temporary until I was brave enough to hire someone.

 Here is my brand new, shiny, lovely banner!  I just love all of the little embroidery hoops & frames!  Do you see the MR+LW one?  L♥VE!  I think my shop finally "feels" like me & it makes me happy every time I click in and see it all!  I have to tell you, I am not the best at working with other creative types.  It is hard to let go of control, you know?  Some people like being told "This is exactly what I want" and some, nahsomuch.  The poor designer sent me a few prototypes to choose from and I'm all, "Scratch everything I told you before... here's what I REALLY want."  She did a great job with it(& me!) though & I couldn't have been happier to have hired her!  She was so sweet & patient with me!  If you like what you see, go visit Kayleigh at Locketmoon Designs!  She does blog designs too!

More newness:

 Cutest little avatar I ever did see!

Reserved listing photo!

Let's talk about my fab new look, shall we?

No, I didn't go blonde.
I didn't lose an extreme amount of weight(dammit).
Nope, I didn't chop my hair into a trendy bob.
I didn't get a glamorous new dress.(I should though, right? Good, I think so too!)
I got a lovely new header from the amazing shop Jacq and Mal on my very favorite website of all time... ETSY! :)

Here was my before:

(which I really do love, but it's pre-fab & plenty of people have it!)

and here's the New & Improved(as seen above):

The owner, Brianna, was so easy to work with! She listens to what you're looking for & then prepares a first draft for you. My first draft looked nothing like my final(which happened to be my 2nd draft)! I didn't have a clue what I wanted when I first contacted her, and when I saw what she created, it's like it popped into my head EXACTLY what I wanted. She did an amazing job & was super quick!

(That's the first draft! I liked it, but knew I needed a little more funk. A little more cutesie!)

Here are some of Jacq & Mal's other creations

Eek! Perfectly cute with the font turning into string :)
Rawr. I love this one! It reminds me of my etsy banner with the skyline! I actually think I may get her to create me a new Etsy banner soon!
The simplicity of this one is perfection. Look at the little pup poking his head up at the bottom! :)



Oh & you know what else is fabulous about this shop? The prices!
I paid less for my new header than I did for my smoothie yesterday morning!

Go visit Jacq and Mal and get yourself somethin' fancy and new!
I promise, it'll make you feel as pretty as a new dress!