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Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Best Habitation - Etsy Spotlight: Erik Haugsby Pottery

m really excited to innovate you lot to a novel serial I am starting on the spider web log BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: Erik Haugsby Pottery
Handmade teapot ($108.36)


I'm really excited to innovate you lot to a novel serial I am starting on the blog, the Etsy Spotlight interviews. If you lot follow along about time, together with hence you lot receive got likely noticed my passion for 10 best sources for chunky knit blankets on Etsy post? It has to a greater extent than than 26k pins on Pinterest!) I decided to larn to a greater extent than personal together with larn to know the people behind all those beautiful creations. After all, this is the magic of Etsy, each together with every production at that topographic point has a unique story, a history perhaps, it has soul together with character, far from the overconsumption traits of our fourth dimension together with a creative crafter or collector behind it to portion it amongst us.


It was actually difficult non to notice Erik Haugsby's creations equally presently equally they landed on my Etsy feed page about fourth dimension ago. Although a considerably novel store, it has move a favorite of mine from the really beginning. His pottery is unique, a fusion of fine art together with function, everyday objects amongst a degree of creative roughness that tin either proceed you lot companionship through your daily rituals or decorate your abode amongst them. Or both. You tin read his (rather idea provoking) interview after the confine addition honor a code for a 15% discount he is kindly offering to you lot to utilization at his store.



Tell us a piddling chip virtually yourself together with your store. 

My name’s Erik these are my pots for you lot or people to utilization that is: pottery or functional ceramics that is: receive got inward your manus or to your oral cavity (how sensual it is to concur it to your mouth) or residuum upon your tabular array this an object a spell of the Earth together with know it was made yesteryear hands for hands my hands are 28 years one-time equally they type these. 

Till today at to the lowest degree we’re all on the same Earth together with it’s that the Earth inward my pots at to the lowest degree inward part. The Earth inward my pots it comes from the Earth together with the pots their surface is rock together with drinking glass together with burning forest melted together with unmelted forest it survives 1240˚C or 1360˚C or to a greater extent than or less humans melt at those temperatures but my pots experience. Hold my pot together with endure the sense together with taste it.

“Hipster degree 4” together with “beanpole” written inward my mag feature’s comments section. Never read the comments section. My shop’s comment department shows ★★★★★. 


How/when did you lot realize that your honey for creating tin live something to a greater extent than than a hobby? 

I brand hazards out of hobbies I got into photojournalism because I liked to receive got pictures together with said how tin I brand coin or that is last taking pictures. I couldn’t hence I didn’t I couldn’t compromise together with receive got pictures for other people together with hence move abode together with receive got pictures for me when I took pictures for me I idea what pictures practice They desire together with made no pictures that I want. I quit = I surrender without genuinely pushing myself to practice it I don’t regret it that determination got me here. 

From at that topographic point to here: 2011–2017: Minnesota Missouri New York Nepal Deutschland Austria. I alive inward cities close the H2O mayhap a subconscious decision.

Unemployment forces employment, or, self-employment. Creating a companionship taxes insurance forms bureaucracy paperwork the logistics of it who wants to practice that but I didn’t practice it because I wanted to (a lie: I did, but I didn’t) together with hence I did it together with inward a unusual linguistic communication unusual civilization no less because I receive got to else I wageslave I instantly force myself to practice it together with every hateful solar daytime inquire myself is this that I’m doing is it plenty practice I desire to practice it.

m really excited to innovate you lot to a novel serial I am starting on the spider web log BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: Erik Haugsby Pottery
Guinomi ($30.10)

What is it that makes your products special? 

Do you lot similar me practice you lot purchase into my marketing linguistic communication together with story practice you lot desire my pot to live particular together with hence it’s special. It’s non the pot that’s special.


What influences your work?

H5N1 expert loving cup of tea because a expert loving cup needs a expert cup. Making my pots 1 time upon a fourth dimension the soundtrack was podcasts but who tin concentrate on pots when podcasts. Then after it’s withal instantly music but music makes me, i.e. I allow myself, brand what the music tells me. Too much fourth dimension spent online: Instagram Pinterest Facebook Google Image Search it’s likewise slow to retrieve likewise much thinking that thinking volition brand for expert making at that topographic point are likewise many expert pots out at that topographic point none of mine volition live those pots so: so: acknowledge. None of my pots volition live those pots because those pots receive got been made. All pots receive got already been made all photos receive got already been taken. So I tin brand my pots because it’s non that they’re made but that I’ve made.

Suzuki Goro Tsujimura Shiro Aaron Scythe the potters. together with Anja Slapničar because she believes inward pottery or has to. Iron Heart 301S bluish jeans. H5N1 mint-green plastic watering tin of unknown brand because the maker doesn’t matter. I sign my pots.

m really excited to innovate you lot to a novel serial I am starting on the spider web log BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: Erik Haugsby Pottery
Woodfired ceramic guinomi ($30.10)
m really excited to innovate you lot to a novel serial I am starting on the spider web log BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: Erik Haugsby Pottery

Describe your typical day.

Wake opened upwardly eyes come across other eyes that brand me smile. Two to 4 slices of bread, would you lot similar about breadstuff amongst your butter?, atop High German porcelain together with a at to the lowest degree 1 loving cup of java from a loving cup the shelf their pots together with mine I examination my pots. Bicycle 4,6 km including yesteryear the identify where Schubert died Stalin lived Hitler stayed Beethoven played together with thousands upon thousands did? Vienna’s been continuously settled since 500 BC I had to banking concern gibe my sources for that fact. Into the cellar an Austrian cellar pots together with dust it’s non dust it’s silica together with this isn’t expert for my wellness but what is. In 1 room 1 xx m2 me my supplies on shelves my cycle on the flooring my kiln on the flooring my pots on the shelves together with the floor. Before during after: indulgences mine together with others howdy how are you? i don’t utter equally I write. There’s the sun; or there’s the cloud; there’s me existing nosotros be let’s be together isn’t this just: it. Other things occur inward betwixt the things that happen.


What is the 1 thing you lot would alter if you lot were starting over?

Start over.

Okay hence I’m telling you lot because I’m telling me because at that topographic point are a listing of emails I request to write that is: inward a word: write. Or,: do. Don’t retrieve likewise much because they don’t retrieve virtually you.

m really excited to innovate you lot to a novel serial I am starting on the spider web log BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: Erik Haugsby Pottery
Woodfired ceramic vase ($126.41)

What aspects of your business/store practice you lot taste the most/least? 

Enjoy.

I’m making coin am I making coin is this what I’m supposed to practice similar who cares virtually a pile of clay: You should help virtually a pile of clay Why? because I’m telling you lot to. But who am I to say you? But how much amend your life would live if entirely you lot knew. Give me coin together with your life volition live better. That’s it: give me coin together with your life volition live better. In the mean time I’m going to move over to this loma over at that topographic point together with dig clay out of the Earth because that’s the clay I tin utilization to brand the pots you lot use. Excuse me I’m going to receive got a hammer to my bad pots at that topographic point are lots of them I can’t alter them I tin entirely brand novel ones together with pause the bad ones similar bad memories don’t you lot want you lot could pause your memories together with poof they’d live gone forever.


Erik is kindly offering a 15% discount to his store for the readers of the spider web log amongst code MYPARADISSI (valid until 24th December)

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m really excited to innovate you lot to a novel serial I am starting on the spider web log BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: Erik Haugsby Pottery
Woodfired pilgrim jounce ($210.69)
m really excited to innovate you lot to a novel serial I am starting on the spider web log BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: Erik Haugsby Pottery


Best Domicile - Etsy Spotlight: July Production Styling

 I was commencement introduced to July Adrichem BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: July Product Styling
XL Bow, Charcoal, Second Skin Collection ($176.42)

I was commencement introduced to July Adrichem's operate through her Etsy store and her beautiful ceramics but it would live unfair too but a mere job of her creative nature to live known solely every bit a potter. July is an creative individual too production stylist alongside some peachy collaborations including Piet Boon® too Avenue Design Studio. Her frail Second Skin collection is 1 of my favorites inward the store (the forty charcoal bowl inward the top photograph is job of it). Read to a greater extent than almost it every bit good every bit July's artistic go too experiences correct later on the jump.



Tell us a niggling combat almost yourself too your store

I grew upward closed to nature, inward a pocket-size hamlet inward the N of Holland. I yet honey to live surrounded yesteryear the body of body of water too the forest. However I exercise honey the metropolis life too. So ofttimes I go to Amsterdam to operate on several styling too photography projects.

In 2012 I graduated every bit an Interior Stylist at the Artemis Academy Amsterdam. In that same twelvemonth I got hired every bit an interior stylist at Piet Boon®.

My passion for colour, stuff too novel shapes, became obvious piece working on projects at Piet Boon® for 2 years. During my fourth dimension there, I created several styling products used for national too international projects. I worked on novel prognoses too created themes for mood books too color palettes to apply inward styling projects. My graphic pattern background helps me to direct keep an oculus for graphic details too organic shapes inward the creation of novel products. Nowadays, I operate every bit a freelance artist, stylist too lensman piece setting upward exciting novel production lines, such every bit the Second Skin Collection.

For my commencement handmade collection inward 2012, The Second Skin Collection, I was looking for a platform to sell my products. I already heard skillful stories almost Etsy, too thus I decided to give it a try. It worked out real good too I direct keep customers straightaway all but about the world!


 I was commencement introduced to July Adrichem BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: July Product Styling
Plate medium, Pale, Second Skin Collection ($36.44)

How/when did yous realize that your honey for creating tin give notice live something to a greater extent than than a hobby?


When I worked on handmade interior styling accessories during my operate at Piet Boon I discovered my passion for creating novel products alongside unproblematic too pure materials. To live able to create too operate alongside all types of materials (paper, plaster, wood) made me real happy. So I wanted to exercise to a greater extent than alongside that. Also my honey for handmade ceramics grew to a greater extent than too to a greater extent than when seeing beautiful designs during my styling work. So but about that fourth dimension the dream of making my ain ceramics was growing. After a lot of practicing I tin give notice straightaway build my ain one-of-a-kind ceramic cups too bowls too sell them through Etsy.

 I was commencement introduced to July Adrichem BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: July Product Styling
Ceramic pocket-size bowl dark ($25.55)

What is it that makes your products special?

I intend the job of materials inward for illustration The Second Skin Collection, is something new. I was experimenting alongside cotton fiber cloth too plaster, to create to a greater extent than construction inward the products too kicking the bucket on a matte finish. With the cotton fiber too plaster I flora the number I was looking for. And the shapes I tin give notice create are endless. At this 2nd I am working on a special projection alongside much bigger shapes. Very Exciting!

What was the commencement affair yous sold on your store?


My commencement sold items were to my parents. They ordered the products too I could retrieve that audio of the Etsy app when an social club is placed. It’s similar a jingling cash. I was (and yet am) too thus happy to listen that sound!

Because of the peachy back upward of household unit of measurement too friends, too peculiarly my boyfriend, I could ready my ain business. Besides my shop, I also operate on several creative projects every bit a stylist too photographer.

 I was commencement introduced to July Adrichem BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: July Product Styling
 I was commencement introduced to July Adrichem BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: July Product Styling

Do yous direct keep whatever favorite/s from your collection? 
I personally direct keep a favorite, the XL Bowl inward the color charcoal. I similar the unproblematic shape too honey the large size of the bowl. And it’s also possible to social club it alongside a hanging system, too thus yous tin give notice hang it on your wall.

What influences your work?

I honey the simplicity too sophistication inward a design. I am ever looking for a pure too unproblematic form, but alongside subtle details which defines the pattern too makes it special. My operate is influenced yesteryear Japanese aesthetics too Minimal Art. The job of forms, structures too lines are too thus important. I intend that Japanese designers are real skillful inward using those elements inward a frail way.

 I was commencement introduced to July Adrichem BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: July Product Styling
Ceramics, iii pieces ($97.34)

How exercise yous ordinarily kicking the bucket on yourself inspired?

To kicking the bucket on myself inspired I larn to fairs such every bit Dutch Design week. I am reading reports almost novel trends too almost upcoming artists too designers. And of course of study I job Pinterest a lot to detect novel images that inspire me. I am ever on the await out for novel too interesting things. I deport a notebook alongside me everywhere I go, to write downward my ideas too sketches. I honey to write downward ideas too depict things, build things visual too interpret it into my novel designs.

What aspects of your business/store exercise yous taste the most?

The pattern procedure is the most fun part. When yous necessitate to exam materials too exercise research, yous build a lot of ‘mistakes’. But the mistakes tin give notice Pb to novel perspectives too inward the end, to novel designs. At this 2nd I am working on a novel serial alongside other stuff than clay or plaster. I can’t tell much almost it yet, but it volition live a whole novel collection, where the shapes are the most of import aspect of the designs.

 I was commencement introduced to July Adrichem BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: July Product Styling
Large bowl, Ultramarine Blue, express edition ($146)

Where exercise yous run across your job organization inward five years time?

In five years I promise to ain a studio infinite inward Amsterdam. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 combination of studio/workspace, where I tin give notice build a mess alongside my inquiry procedure inward dissimilar materials, too where I tin give notice exercise photoshoots for creative projects. That would live a peachy combination.

Is in that location whatever advice yous would similar to give to people who desire to start their ain handmade business?

Of course of study yous direct keep to direct keep a passion for making handmade products, too if yous have, 100% certain it volition operate out great. Believe inward what yous exercise too if it gets a niggling combat tough, don’t surrender likewise easy. Take your fourth dimension to build a skillful concept too a skillful branding computer program for your product, because that’s real important. And final but non least, build certain your (webshop)photos are inward 1 means too of good
quality. Good visuals are real of import for your sales numbers. And don’t forget to alive your dream!

 I was commencement introduced to July Adrichem BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: July Product Styling


You tin give notice detect July on facebook, instagrampinterest and her webpage.

Best Domicile - Etsy Spotlight: Borianam

 Abstract Art past times Boriana Mihailovska on Etsy BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: BorianaM
Abstract White Head ($18+)

People tell that you lot conduct maintain to see fine art amongst your pump together with non amongst your eyes, together with that's what hooked me amongst Boriana Mihailovska's impeccable abstract portraits. They spoke correct into my heart. They made me experience things. They were brought to life correct the commencement 2nd I saw them, grasped my attention, took my manus together with traveled me to unspoken paths of memory, loss together with love. It is this sort of gallery character fine art that ane tin invest on without 2nd thoughts at the ease of a push click through the incredible collection of artworks inwards her store, varying from large scale master copy pieces to smaller ones together with budget friendly printed versions of them. 
Follow later the boundary to read Boriana's interview together with also discovery a discount code for her store at the bottom of this post.



Tell us a picayune flake most yourself together with your store.

I’m an creative someone currently based inwards Sofia, Bulgaria. I conduct maintain a Master of fine art aeroplane inwards Fine arts from the Bulgarian National Academy of Arts. As long equally I graduated I gave nativity to my commencement daughter. And the focus of my dedication moved from my fine art to my family. So I’d postponed my creative aspirations for a while. Then amongst the nativity of my 2nd daughter, I was feeling to a greater extent than comfortable. Along amongst my self-confidence inwards identify unit of measurement my wishing to create my ain fine art came dorsum together with I accepted a colleague proffer to percentage his studio for a while. Step past times pace I started to function ane time to a greater extent than together with when the chance to conduct maintain a studio nearby habitation arose I had no doubts to rent it. I decided to opened upwards an ETSY shop together with sell fine art prints of my originals to encompass my function expenses together with launch my career equally an artist. Meanwhile, I had been working equally a jewelry together with habitation accessories designer, I’ve designed for commercials together with TV spots, I’ve worked inwards cinema productions - all of this experience influenced somehow my artwork together with the administration of my shop.

 Abstract Art past times Boriana Mihailovska on Etsy BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: BorianaM
Abstract White Head ($18+)
 Abstract Art past times Boriana Mihailovska on Etsy BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: BorianaM
Female Black White Pencil Drawing Print ($30+)


What is it that makes your products special?


It’s the Gyclee technology scientific discipline that allows reproducing an icon high quality. It’s the same ane that museums together with fine art galleries purpose to brand reproductions. Printed out on peculiarly designed heavy fine fine art newspaper amongst archival inks amongst high life expectancy, each impress is non solely simply about the master copy but becomes an artwork. And each of them is hand-signed from me. 

What products conduct maintain you lot enjoyed working on the most together with why?

During the years I’d received requests for original works, but thought I’d crusade to endure moderate, the cost arrive at had been an obstruction for some clients to invest inwards my art. So I decided to trim the scale together with start a collection of small master copy works. Which appeared to endure a huge challenge for I had ever been working the bigger I could to endure to a greater extent than expressive. And ane time I’d dramatically reduced the formats I was afraid to lose the ability together with temper I had been used to. But It had appeared to endure an interesting together with thrilling experience. And I’m fully enjoining it now.

 Abstract Art past times Boriana Mihailovska on Etsy BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: BorianaM
Modern Minimalist Art Print  ($75+)
 Abstract Art past times Boriana Mihailovska on Etsy BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: BorianaM
Vanishing Head ($27+)


What influences your work?

People...Nature, of course, but what propels me most are people. Strong personalities, visionaries, individuals amongst ideas, open-minded people whose curiosity tin transform a notion into a reality. People hungry for answers, tracing their difficult but unique path. I larn strongly touched past times acts of grit, compassion, kindness, courage. Each of my abstract portraits is non simply a visual creation of the outer physicality but also an assertion of one’s inner virtues together with features.

 Abstract Art past times Boriana Mihailovska on Etsy BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: BorianaM
 Abstract Art past times Boriana Mihailovska on Etsy BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: BorianaM
 Abstract Art past times Boriana Mihailovska on Etsy BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: BorianaM

Describe your studio. What exercise you lot similar the most most it?

I dearest my studio. Though it’s pocket-size It has a stunning persuasion over the metropolis to the mountain. It’s a walking distance through a beautiful commons together with gives me the luxury to isolate from the basis together with focus on my work.

 Abstract Art past times Boriana Mihailovska on Etsy BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: BorianaM
Small Original Painting ($115)
 Abstract Art past times Boriana Mihailovska on Etsy BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: BorianaM
Persons Large Original Contemporary Art ($1900)

Tell us a feedback from a client that lay a grinning on your face.

Best characteristic of having an ETSY store is the unopen come across amongst the clients. I’ve never imagined that my function mightiness accomplish then many together with diverse people all over the world. Few days agone I’ve read inwards an Instagram postal service that ane of my clients has never had the courage to invest inwards fine art until the 2nd he’s got fond inwards a function of mine. Then he’s bought it together with that has encouraged him to deepen his curiosity inwards art.


Boriana is kindly offering a 15% off inwards her store amongst coupon code BM15OFF for purchases of $100 together with to a greater extent than (valid until the cease of the year)

You tin discovery Boriana on Instagram, Pinterest together with her site.

Best Habitation - Etsy Spotlight: Agjc

Noone does dark minimalistic jewelry as beautiful as  BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: AgJc
Minimal silvery band ($41.98+)

Noone does dark minimalistic jewelry as beautiful as AgJc! Or, at to the lowest degree that's what I believe when it comes to ethically handmade pieces created alongside extra beloved together with attending to the detail. Their really difficult to immature lady earrings of oxidized silvery featuring semicircles, squares together with triangles are in all likelihood their most recognizable products but their geometric forms are as impressive inwards golden or matte silvery finishes as well. Do follow along later the jump to teach to know the duo behind AgJc together with discovery a discount code to store at their store at the bottom of this postal service (they exercise brand awesome gifts for the holidays together with therefore exercise non immature lady this endangerment ;).



Tell us a picayune fleck well-nigh yourself together with your store.

We are 2 minds together with iv hands behind AgJc! Fernanda from Buenos Aires together with Jérôme from Paris. H5N1 few years agone nosotros met nether the Sun of the Mediterranean urban pith Barcelona. We both come upwards from backgrounds of fine art together with blueprint together with nosotros beloved function alongside our hands together with therefore at the start nosotros precisely relish creating small-scale beauties together with spending fourth dimension together inwards our workspace at domicile sharing our unlike knowledges as a crafter together with 1 solar daytime nosotros realized that nosotros would endeavor to plow our passion inwards a existent job. We moved to Paris together with nosotros founded AgJc. Today nosotros relish our amazing function solar daytime yesteryear day, spending our fourth dimension inwards our boutique atelier that nosotros precisely opened inwards Barcelona together with nosotros are real grateful for this possibility to alive doing what makes us happy!

Noone does dark minimalistic jewelry as beautiful as  BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: AgJc
Noone does dark minimalistic jewelry as beautiful as  BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: AgJc
Half circle earrings ($64.20)

How/when did you lot realize that your beloved for creating tin flame live on something to a greater extent than than a hobby? 

The crucial 2nd when nosotros realized that our beloved for creating could live on to a greater extent than than a hobby was when nosotros started to sell plenty to alive together with when nosotros realized that unlike women from all over the basis started to appreciate our function together with wearable our pieces.

Noone does dark minimalistic jewelry as beautiful as  BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: AgJc
Unique gilded hoop earrings ($60)

What is it that makes your products special?

Our jewelry nonetheless existence designed together with handcrafted yesteryear us together with therefore each 1 of our pieces has its unique graphic symbol together with charm. We genuinely beloved what nosotros do, we are real passionate at function but at the same fourth dimension nosotros accept extra attention inwards details to offering the best character pieces. So I retrieve that what really makes our pieces special is a mix of beloved to offering top character together with design.

Noone does dark minimalistic jewelry as beautiful as  BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: AgJc
Check earrings ($29.63)
Noone does dark minimalistic jewelry as beautiful as  BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: AgJc
Asymmetrical earrings ($59.12)


Do you lot own got whatsoever favorites from your collection?


Yes, certain nosotros have! They are the Check earrings, the Half circle hoop earrings, the Contemporary earrings, the Asymmetrical earrings, the Cylinder bar earrings N2, the Concentric circles studs together with the Geometric silvery earrings :)

Noone does dark minimalistic jewelry as beautiful as  BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: AgJc
Noone does dark minimalistic jewelry as beautiful as  BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: AgJc

Describe your studio. What exercise you lot similar the most well-nigh it and/or what would you lot similar to change?

We precisely moved to a novel workspace inwards Barcelona, because nosotros wanted to alive closer to the bounding main for a spell together with nosotros experience together with therefore excited together with renovated alongside these changes! The truthful is Jerome made such an amazing function designing the infinite together with slice of furniture to combine our atelier inwards the dorsum alongside a small-scale store inwards the front end that it's perfect to us! Any especial was designed according to our needs together with therefore nosotros would similar to non alter a picayune thing! It is a pleasance to us to portion precisely about pictures of our alongside your readers. The boutique atelier is located inwards Raval, 1 of the most vibrant quarter of the urban pith at alone 10 minutes walking from Ramblas together with therefore if someday you lot came to view Barcelona delight experience costless to drib yesteryear together with tell hello.

Noone does dark minimalistic jewelry as beautiful as  BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: AgJc
Silver sparse stacking rings ($88.89)

What influences your work?

What definitely influences our function is an eclectic mix of our beloved of disciplines such as architecture, blueprint or fine art inwards combination alongside our admiration of nature putting the emphasis on woman's body. Because the ultimate pregnant of our function is creating wearable pieces to elevate the beauty of human body.

Noone does dark minimalistic jewelry as beautiful as  BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: AgJc
Noone does dark minimalistic jewelry as beautiful as  BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: AgJc


AgJc are kindly offering a 15% discount to store at their store alongside code MYPARADISSI.

You tin flame discovery AgJc on instagram together with facebook.

Best Abode - Etsy Spotlight: Koji Kitaoka

Contemporary Japanese pottery past times Koji Kitaoka on Etsy BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: Koji Kitaoka
Shinogi Mug Cup ($30)

Contemporary Japanese pottery is a huge tendency these days with its handmade minimalistic aspect featured with many of the most pin-worthy styled interiors. The elegant together with refined ceramic mugs together with bowls of Koji Kitaoka are a characteristic representative of this agency together with it is a neat abide by to convey him today on the spider web log talking well-nigh his creative journey, correct later the jump.



Tell us a piddling flake well-nigh yourself together with your store.
I'm Koji Kitaoka. a potter living inwards Fukuoka, Japan. After graduating from academy inwards Tokyo, I moved to London together with lived in that place for ii years. There, I worked at a local eating theatre piece studying at a linguistic communication school. Moving dorsum to Tokyo together with experiencing several types of jobs, I started to mean value that I wanted to brand something that volition travel along me ambitious together with inquisitive. I besides realized I was skillful at creative work. Then pottery, which was my father's profession, came to my hear together with I sentiment I would give it a try.

From 2007, I studied at Arita College of Ceramics for ii years. After graduation, I worked at a pottery studio inwards Toki, Gifu for a year. In 2010, I moved dorsum to Fukuoka, my hometown, to operate at my father’s studio together with got established. My studio is inwards an environs of small-scale forests, well-nigh 10 kilometers from the middle of Fukuoka city.

I met the people (sales assistants) who wishing to innovate my pieces abroad at local arts and crafts fairs, together with they helped me opened upwardly my Etsy store 2 years ago.

Contemporary Japanese pottery past times Koji Kitaoka on Etsy BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: Koji Kitaoka
Shinogi bowl 8.3in ($42)

What is it that makes your products special?

H5N1 skillful combination of design, shaping together with firing. 


Which of the products y'all convey inwards the store are the most pop with your customers? Why practice y'all mean value is that?

Products decorated with Senmon lines. These are designed quite merely together with got a unique aspect on their surface.


Do y'all convey whatsoever favorites from your collection?

Yes, I similar my Senmon series, peculiarly the bowls. 

Contemporary Japanese pottery past times Koji Kitaoka on Etsy BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: Koji Kitaoka
Senmon cafe au lait bowl due south ($30)
Contemporary Japanese pottery past times Koji Kitaoka on Etsy BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: Koji Kitaoka
Trapezoid linen bowl ($30)

What influences your work?


Vibes (according to the mood at the time) together with wishing to create products. 


How practice y'all commonly travel along yourself inspired?

H5N1 mount of operate tin give notice supply a lot of inspiration.

Contemporary Japanese pottery past times Koji Kitaoka on Etsy BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: Koji Kitaoka
Contemporary Japanese pottery past times Koji Kitaoka on Etsy BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: Koji Kitaoka

Describe your studio. What practice y'all similar the most well-nigh it and/or what would y'all similar to change?

My studio is located 10km away from the middle of the urban gist together with surrounded past times woods. I convey skillful access to the urban gist but besides a terra firma environment. I actually similar this location. It’s got plenty infinite for operate together with living, together with I’ve besides got a wood stove. If I had an air conditioner inwards the studio, operate during humid summertime fourth dimension would endure to a greater extent than comfortable!


How has your business/store evolved over time?

Each fourth dimension I made progress, e'er I got opportunities coming from novel skillful people.


Were in that place whatsoever defining moments inwards your career?

Yes. when I met my sales assistants on Etsy shop. They gave me the run a hazard to endure connected with customers overseas through Etsy. 

Contemporary Japanese pottery past times Koji Kitaoka on Etsy BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: Koji Kitaoka
Shinogi sake loving cup ($15)
Contemporary Japanese pottery past times Koji Kitaoka on Etsy BEST HOME - ETSY SPOTLIGHT: Koji Kitaoka
Shinogi Demitasse loving cup ($25+)

What is the 1 affair y'all would alter if y'all were starting over?

Nothing!


What aspects of your business/store practice y'all savour the most/least? 

My products tin give notice endure found fifty-fifty from overseas via Etsy. That's the betoken I appreciate the most. These handmade products can't endure made together with then speedily similar a mill made. That's the betoken I'm enjoying the least.


Where practice y'all run across your delineate organisation inwards v years time? 

I convey no idea! That's it, really! 

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Best Domicile - Etsy Spotlight: Pulpa

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STONE/dress/ ($85)

Happy New Year! Hope you lot had a beautiful fourth dimension during the holidays as well as a non bad start to 2018. I for sure had a hot start, alongside a high fever influenza that had me inwards bed correct from the initiatory of all twenty-four hr catamenia of the year. I do experience meliorate today, however, as well as then let's do this, 2018! 

The initiatory of all post of this twelvemonth is a novel Etsy interview alongside a rattling talented lady, Marta Maruszczyk, possessor of PULPA, a store specializing inwards contemporary high-quality handmade wearable for women alongside an effortless as well as casual approach. I am rattling drawn to the unproblematic loose forms of her creations, they hold off as well as then fashionable as well as slow to have on every unmarried day. Read to a greater extent than virtually Marta as well as her run afterwards the jump.


Tell us a piddling combat virtually yourself as well as your store.

I'm Marta as well as I'm from Wroclaw, Poland. I launched PULPA vi years ago. My construct offers minimalistic wearable for women made of natural materials as well as created alongside a lot of attending to detail. I actually desire to create clothes inwards which women tin experience themselves. 


How/when did you lot realize that your dearest for creating tin last something to a greater extent than than a hobby?

I never planned to construct a living of fashion. I started to create the initiatory of all clothes to a greater extent than oftentimes than non for myself rather than for sale. However, I position about of them online as well as it turned out that people liked them as well as fifty-fifty wanted to purchase them. This is how the whole thing started. 

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ETERNITY/shirt/ ($75)

What is it that makes your products special?

My principal concerns are lineament as well as usability. I position a lot of endeavour inwards ensuring that fabrics used to create my clothes are the best quality. Also, inwards most cases these are natural materials – about other of import characteristic to me. When I run on a novel collection, I ever mean value virtually clothes I’d similar to have on myself. I desire to create wearable inwards which I would experience natural as well as comfortable myself. Due to that, when I was meaning I created a collection for meaning women; when I was breastfeeding, about of my clothes were fastened alongside snaps to facilitate it. 
All clothes are handmade inwards Wroclaw – the metropolis where I larn out as well as create. Most of the fabrics I purpose are also local (Polish textiles are actually high quality). 

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SAND/dress/ ($85)

Which of the product/s you lot receive got inwards the store is/are the most pop alongside your customers? Why do you lot mean value is that?

The electrical flow bestseller is the TWO/NIGHT trousers. They are made of thin, fragile wool that beautifully reflects light. They are super comfortable as well as tin last worn on unlike occasions – I mean value this is where their success comes from. I personally dearest them as well as have on them actually often. Other pop items inwards my store are ii of my shirts: ‘ETERNITY’ as well as ‘NAGATABI 09’. H5N1 white shirt is ever an minute classic – it doesn’t thing if it’s a linen asymmetrical shirt/dress or if it is a to a greater extent than traditional model. I’d also tell VICKI dresses are non bad sellers too. They are made of high lineament knitted cloth that’s super prissy for touching on as well as almost doesn’t grease – of import features I mean value :) 


How do you lot ordinarily conk on yourself inspired? 

I reveal people. Not solely those I reckon every day, but also those I come across when traveling – the people from unlike cultures as well as backgrounds. 

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TWO/NIGHT ($95)

How has your business/store evolved over time? 

When I started to blueprint I had never thought it would larn my profession. I didn’t mean value I would create a good recognized as well as valued brand. In the kickoff I did everything myself – I designed, prepared forms, sewed, packed as well as sent out parcels; I was a model, ran the online store, took tending of social media as well as of responding to clients’ emails. All this I did at home. From fourth dimension to fourth dimension I went to merchandise fairs, where I had a guide a opportunity to come across my customers. Now, afterwards vi years, I run alongside 2 tailors as well as I receive got a boutique inwards the metropolis centre where my employee does a lot of it for me. But I soundless do loads of stuff myself that others wouldn’t do inwards my seat – I accept tending of the social media as well as of all communication alongside customers. Also, I’m soundless the model inwards every PULPA photoshoot. I of course of pedagogy soundless do all the blueprint too. PULPA is me as well as I can’t imagine letting others do it instead for the fearfulness of losing its unique identity. 

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DUSK/wool coat/ ($180)

Describe your ideal client / Describe the ideal infinite you’d similar to reckon your products in. 

H5N1 perfect client is the ane that is aware of the fact that PULPA is a small, local fellowship as well as of everything that comes alongside it; the ane that sees the departure inwards a production procedure betwixt me as well as a big fellowship alongside a world-wide coverage; the ane that is interested inwards coming together the somebody who created the clothes he/she is buying; the ane who realizes that my clothes are oftentimes released inwards express amounts, what makes them unique inwards a way; the ane that understands that because of all of that, because they are made of high lineament fabrics yesteryear people who are fairly paid for their run as well as who run inwards practiced conditions, my clothes receive got to terms to a greater extent than than inwards pop retail chains. The perfect client is the ane that doesn’t reckon a mechanism behind my clothes, but a human who puts all her pump into the finally effect.

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LUNA/skirt/ ($60)


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