{"id":490,"date":"2010-04-29T21:16:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T05:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?p=490"},"modified":"2010-04-29T21:23:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T05:23:27","slug":"etsy-my-love-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"Etsy&#8230;my love affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-498\" href=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?attachment_id=498\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-498\" title=\"big_etsy_logo2\" src=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/big_etsy_logo2-300x154.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/big_etsy_logo2-300x154.jpg 300w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/big_etsy_logo2-600x308.jpg 600w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/big_etsy_logo2.jpg 1092w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I found a new etsy store today.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/liliswan?ga_search_query=oak+leaf&amp;ga_search_type=category&amp;category=jewelry.necklace&amp;ga_page=&amp;includes[0]=tags&amp;includes[1]=title\">LiliSwan<\/a>.\u00a0 This could be bad for the budget&#8230;For those of you who don&#8217;t know, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\">etsy<\/a> is a website of wonderful, handmade, vintage, quirky and beautiful things.\u00a0 Real things made by <em>real people<\/em>.\u00a0 I found the site when we were planning our wedding last year. I wanted some details with a personal touch.\u00a0 I ended up choosing earrings for the bridesmaids there (modeled below by beautiful matron of honor, Laura), and two gifts for my mom:\u00a0 beautiful, hand painted wine glasses and a personalized embroidered handkerchief with our wedding date. I also found our ring bearer bowl there, which we were able to have personalized with our names and wedding date.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-495\" href=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?attachment_id=495\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-495\" title=\"(1 of 1)-3\" src=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/1-of-1-3-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/1-of-1-3-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/1-of-1-3-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/1-of-1-3.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/> <\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-494\" href=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?attachment_id=494\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-494\" title=\"(1 of 1)-2\" src=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/1-of-1-2-600x399.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/1-of-1-2-600x399.jpg 600w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/1-of-1-2-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/1-of-1-2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-493\" href=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?attachment_id=493\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-493\" title=\"(1 of 1)\" src=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/1-of-1-600x399.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"572\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/1-of-1-600x399.jpg 600w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/1-of-1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wow.\u00a0 All were a huge hit.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve found many gifts on etsy, and it&#8217;s a wonderful place to get lost.\u00a0 I love finding new vendors like the one I found today. This shop has some amazing jewelry;\u00a0 I would like one of each please. Stop on by, you&#8217;ll be glad you did!<\/p>\n<p>Oh&#8230;links and such:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/mollyandmom\">handkerchief <\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/20182583\/white-pearl-post-earrings\">earrings<\/a> , <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/43002689\/live-love-laugh-wedding-wine-glass\">wineglasses <\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/palomasnest?ga_search_query=ring+bowl&amp;ga_search_type=handmade&amp;ga_page=&amp;includes[0]=tags&amp;includes[1]=title\">ring bowl<\/a> If you check out nothing else, look at the ring bowl page, from a seller called Paloma&#8217;s Nest.\u00a0 Gorgeous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a new etsy store today.\u00a0 LiliSwan.\u00a0 This could be bad for the budget&#8230;For those of you who don&#8217;t know, etsy is a website&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?p=490\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Etsy&#8230;my love affair<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whimsy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}