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" Rubyslounge.etsy.com Name: Jennifer Khoshbin What inspires your creations? I&amp;#039;m inspired by a low-tech life filled with books, tandem bicycles, and friends. Who is your favorite designer of all time? I am a big fan of Paul McCobb, but my most recent acquisition is from the designer Harry Allen. It&amp;#039;s a full-size white ceramic roller skate! What is your favorite accessory in your apartment? The white porcelain bird&amp;#039;s wing bowl my mother made for me. She&amp;#039;s a potter.  Urbanaccenthome.etsy.com Name: Shannon Jernigan What are some of your favorite materials to work with? Twisted paper, canvas, fabric, and organic wood. What are some of your favorite Etsy shops? I love Fabulousmess, Jalexstudios, Ljindustries, Woodstocklamps, Designhutusa, and too many more to mention... What is your favorite piece of furniture in your apartment? I love my coffee table made from an old Indonesian window.  Jillrosenwald.etsy.com Name: Jill Rosenwald What inspires your creations? My two beautiful children...only kidding! Inspiration is such a mysterious creature pour moi. I never know what or when inspiration will strike...it&amp;#039;s hard to bring it &amp;quot;on demand&amp;quot;...but I am always delighted when those happy accidents occur. Our new Alto lamp was &amp;quot;inspired&amp;quot; by a mistake. When attempting to carve a straight line, a curve accidentally was cut into the cylinder...and presto...the curving &amp;quot;road map&amp;quot; design of the Alto was born. What blogs do you love? I am sure that I am not original when I say Designsponge is my go-to blog. What&amp;#039;s your favorite store to shop at? I adore Calypso in Boston...the way they organize clothing by color is always a delicious treat.  Whitneysmith.etsy.com Name: Whitney Smith What inspires your creations? Flowers, leaves, seedpods, birds, and trees. What blogs do you love? Mine! Whitneys-pottery.blogspot.com.  If you had only $10 in your pocket, what would you do with it? Buy an extremely stiff vodka cocktail \u2014 at happy hour \u2014 so I could save money and buy one for a friend too.  Sethrolland.etsy.com Name: Seth Rolland What inspires your creations? Nature, machinery, and sculpture. What&amp;#039;s your favorite store to shop at? Food coop and REI. Who is your favorite designer of all time? Isamu Noguchi.  Jetsetpaper.etsy.com Name: Noelle Griskey What are some of your favorite materials to work with? Vintage letterpress letters, Staedtler carving blocks, maps, Moleskine journals, Palette hybrid ink pads, and my wonderful 80% post-consumer card stock. What are some of your favorite Etsy shops? Daisycakesoap.etsy.com \u2014 She makes the best soaps! Birdnerd.etsy.com \u2014 I&amp;#039;m in love with her bird collages and the proud owner of an original! Orangepeelenamel.etsy.com \u2014 Beautiful pendants. Pinkbathtub.etsy.com \u2014 The best handmade paper goods! (Disclaimer: Shameless self-promotion. This is my other Etsy shop.) What TV show do you have HAVE to watch every week? Big Love.  Jennyleefowler.etsy.com Name: Jenny Lee Fowler What is your favorite accessory or piece of furniture in your apartment? ? Our cabinet phonograph, Stokke chairs for our littles, and giant glass vases \u2014 for peach blossoms, birds&amp;#039; nests, and meadow stalks. I also keep my working scissors and a few sewing odds and ends in a maplewood bowl with a rustic edge from Etsy&amp;#039;s moonrakerturning. If you had only $10 in your pocket, what would you do with it? I collect antique dishes and for less than ten I can usually thrift a tidy little trio.  Andfurthermore .etsy.com Name: Brenda Rose What is your favorite creation? I&amp;#039;ve returned to making boxes from old books (something I did in high school), and though the process is tedious, I love them! Otherwise, I love my meticulous pencil drawings/collages. What TV show do you have HAVE to watch every week? Our TV is tucked away in our basement, but we love to watch DVDs of cable TV shows on the laptop. Right now I don&amp;#039;t know \u2014 Flight of the Conchords! What is your favorite accessory or piece of furniture in your apartment? I have a beautiful red sideboard that was my grandmother&amp;#039;s. My uncle painted the finished oak with a thick coat of red glossy paint, giving it a Chinese flair so that Grandma could display her Chinese art and knickknacks. It&amp;#039;s huge and bright red, and I LOVE it!  Betsywalton.etsy.com Name: Betsy Walton What inspires your creations? Curiosity, surprise, color, and nature. What is your favorite accessory or piece of furniture in your apartment? The kilim rug my parents gave us. If you had only $10 in your pocket, what would you do with it? I would buy a cappuccino from Extracto and put the rest in the bank.  Jdavisstudio.etsy.com Name: Jill Davis What inspires your creations? My inspiration comes from my obsession with miniaturization. I just love tiny things. The idea of &amp;quot;home&amp;quot; is also inspiring. I grew up in a house in Ohio and have since moved around a few places. Now, I&amp;#039;m in New York City, where there are no &amp;quot;houses,&amp;quot; and I really like the idea of carrying around a little house with me. What are some of your favorite Etsy shops? MeganAuman.etsy.com, Metalicious.etsy.com, Lampreia.etsy.com, and MattiasA.etsy.com. What is your favorite accessory or piece of furniture in your apartment? Unfortunately, I really love the TV. But I also really love my altered art photograph by Jose Lampreia. It&amp;#039;s of an orange house (my favorite color and my favorite theme), and it&amp;#039;s the first thing I bought on Etsy.  Dustfurniture.etsy.com Name: Vincent Thomas Leman What is your favorite creation? I enjoy each piece very much the first time I make it.... I mostly enjoy the problem-solving part of things. Who is your favorite designer of all time? Tough choice between Frank Gehry and Antoni Gaud\u00ED. What is your favorite accessory or piece of furniture in your apartment? The kitchen table \u2014 it&amp;#039;s my favorite place to draw and hang out.  Littlefishfurniture.etsy.com Name: Ezra Waltermaurer What inspires your creations? Finding things that otherwise had nowhere to go and nothing to do and giving them purpose. What are some of your favorite materials to work with? Found objects. Wood and metal for their strength and malleability. I think springs and magnets are really cool too... What&amp;#039;s your favorite store to shop at? P&amp;amp;amp;T Surplus, Kingston, NY \u2014 there&amp;#039;s enough material and inspiration to launch a thousand Etsy careers!  Avrilloreti.etsy.com Name: Avril Loreti What are some of your favorite materials to work with? Color! I easily get lost in the thrill of flipping through color swatches and fabric samples. Whenever I can start talking about a color or pattern like it&amp;#039;s something to indulge in like food, then I know it&amp;#039;s a keeper! What blogs do you love? Betterlivingthroughdesign.com, Poppytalk.blogspot.com, and 101cookbooks.com. What TV show do you have HAVE to watch every week? My guilty pleasure over this past winter has been to curl up on the couch with my boyfriend and cat and watch old episodes of Who&amp;#039;s The Boss? Tony and Angela have just been warming my heart during this cold Canadian winter.  Prettyrandomobjects.etsy.com Name: Joanna Mendicino What blogs do you love? Apartmenttherapy.com, Cuteoverload.com, and Designspongeonline.com. What&amp;#039;s your favorite store to shop at? Ichiban Kan (a local Japanese dollar store). What TV show do you have HAVE to watch every week? The Office, 30 Rock, Lost, and Battlestar Galactica on Hulu.com (since we don&amp;#039;t have cable).  Acrossthegrain. etsy.com Name: Patrick E. Arseneau What inspires your creations? Inspiration comes from salvaging discarded, downed, and dead trees for home heating and woodworking projects for 30+ years. What are some of your favorite materials to work with? Favorite woods to work with are the unusual grain patterns, burls, and the spalted pieces; all native to my area of Michigan. Who is your favorite designer of all time? The Shakers: Design is simple, functional, but beautiful.  Bridgetdavies.etsy.com Name: Bridget Davies What are some of your favorite materials to work with? My favourite fabrics at present are the linens and herringbone. The wools make such lovely parquet wood floors on my cushions (depicting rooms). And I would never stop using the silks, as they have such a beautiful sheen. What inspires your creations? I can find inspiration in anything! I sometimes play with ideas of decadence and extravagance. Beautifully crafted crystal-adorned evening shoes, sparkling chandeliers, a stroll in the park in winter, and a glimpse through a gate of an elegant fountain, with water twinkling in the sunlight. What is your favorite accessory or piece of furniture in your apartment? My antique Chinese cabinet. Like my cushions, it has stories painted on it.  Annaspots.etsy.com Name: Anna Vezina What inspires your creations? I see my little bottle sets as two individuals in a relationship. The soft organic forms of my pieces reflect the softness and beauty of the human form. We are surrounded by all sorts of relationships that work (or not) for so many different reasons. I thrive on the challenge of mirroring the subtleties of human relationships in my bottle sets. Each set is unique just as each relationship is unique. What&amp;#039;s your favorite store to shop at? Honestly, it&amp;#039;s Etsy! I&amp;#039;ve found so many fun and original items there: calendars, stationery, purses and bags, fun jewelry and accessories, art for my walls, cool T-shirts.... I always shop Etsy first for gift-giving occasions too. It is so much fun to give a truly unique gift that really matches the occasion or personality of the recipient. If you haven&amp;#039;t taken some time to explore the site, I strongly suggest that you do. You will be amazed at what you can find! What TV show do you have HAVE to watch every week? I really love The Office and Project Runway. (The clothes are so gorgeous and and I find the process of making them so inspiring!)  Identitytank.etsy.com Name: Warren Beishir What inspires your creations? Urban and industrial landscapes and the people who exist within these areas. What is your favorite piece? My favorite is usually the one I&amp;#039;m working on at the moment! If I had to choose a finished piece, it would be one of my Coney Island lampshades. It really is a shame that place is gone, especially with no redevelopment plan in place. If you had only $10 in your pocket, what would you do with it? I would probably buy a bottle of wine and/or ice cream, go to my studio, and make something.  Palomasnest.etsy.com Name: Caroline Colom Vasquez What is your favorite creation? Currently, the Ring Bearer Bowl\u2122. This piece, designed to take the place of a ring pillow in a wedding or commitment ceremony, has quickly created a new tradition in modern weddings all over the globe. By offering custom-stamped texts, clients can add names or dates, even lines from their wedding vows, creating a truly personal keepsake and family heirloom. I love thinking of how many children and grandchildren will someday use their parents&amp;#039; ring bowl in their own wedding ceremonies many years from now. What are some of your favorite Etsy shops? Thisisalliknow.etsy.com \u2014 The work of painter Amanda Blake. Her pieces are favorites in my home. Goodliving.etsy.com \u2014 I just discovered these porcelain sculptures by German artist Val\u00E9rie Buess; her work really touches my heart.... I will be sure to add some to my collection soon! Sprucehome.etsy.com \u2014 Rescued and redesigned vintage furniture, given a new face and a new life. Who is your favorite designer of all time? Architect and artist Antoni Gaud\u00ED... his work was so innovative at the time, and he had such a strong ability to think outside of the normal limitations of a material. His aesthetic is very different from mine, yet he inspires me to reach for something further in my techniques and designs.  Thesmallobject. etsy.com Name: Sarah Neuburger What inspires your creations? Old wooden toys, simple graphic or geometric forms and shapes, line drawings, fabric collections, a paint stroke, a color combination, a wooden cutout \u2014 anything can be the spark for the next product. What is your favorite accessory or piece of furniture in your apartment? An old library card catalogue. It has a ton of drawers that are the perfect size for all my small objects! If you had only $10 in your pocket, what would you do with it? If it&amp;#039;s in my pocket, I would probably spend it on food. If it was in my PayPal account, I&amp;#039;d buy something on Etsy, no doubt.  Twindreamcreations. etsy.com Name: Caroline Benitez and Catherine Kay What inspires your creations? Our inspiration comes from everywhere! Nature, talking with family and friends, or listening to the radio. A lot of our ideas just pop out at us \u2014 we call them lightning-bolt ideas because it&amp;#039;s like they appear out of nowhere. What blogs do you love?  We belong to a great team called Etsy Green and Clean Guild, EGCG for short. It showcases a lot of awesome soapers that belong to this team, as well as recipes, tips, and wonderful Etsy finds.  Ricochetstudio.etsy.com Name: Jeremy Hatch What inspires your creations? I&amp;#039;ve made a lot of different things. With this teapot I wanted to create an object that implied motion, taking some cues from &amp;#039;30s and &amp;#039;40s streamlined design. What is your favorite of your creations? My life-size cast-porcelain tree house. What are some of your favorite materials to work with? Clay, plaster, rubber, wood, metal. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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