Monday Morning Mosaic

With September now here, the urge to redecorate and rearrange one's life is upon us.

The handmade market place offers a wide variety of artisans willing to help you out in making your autumn decor and soon-to-be holiday preparations unique!


True Connection - Wedding Signs and Recycled Wood Furniture

Brandy Wine from Haughton, Louisiana

Whether looking for a console table or other new piece of rustic furniture to decorate your home, or even for a couple bookshelves, this is a stop you won't want to pass up! With beautiful pieces hand made by Brandy, this shop is filled with beautiful, rustic charm and also includes a variety of wedding decor and wedding signs painted and/or stenciled by hand!

BootsNGus - A place where Handmade and Vintage come together.

Jeff and Mark from Ann Arbor, Michigan

Lighting is an important part of any home decor endeavor and in this shop you won't be disappointed in the original designs you'll find. ButsnGus specializes in originally designed, up-cycled lighting fixtures with a flair for original design and innovative ideas. In their shop you will find a large variety of lighting options for your home as well as a collection of stylish and affordable vintage housewares.

The Country Marketplace - Handmade Furniture and Decore Accessories

AJ Dysart from Covington, Georgia

Filled with primitive country charm, this shop carries a variety of small furniture pieces and accessories designed from solid wood and crafted by hand for you. Each piece is made on-demand and built for you alone. With wall shelves and breadboxes, bird houses and more, this is a shop you'll enjoy taking a peek at and perhaps be inspired by as well!

Lamp Goods - Lights for Life's Path

Lamp Goods from Maine

The artisan that runs this shop believes that the lighting in one's home becomes the ‘jewelry’ of the home and can really make a statement. And, with the designs in this shop, there's no doubt that you'll be able to do just that! LampGoods on Etsy is filled with beautiful lamp designs to adorn your home with that are created from vintage components and an eye for elegance.

I hope you enjoyed today's collection of shops as much as I enjoyed finding them! Etsy is a great place for handmade and that includes hand crafted home decor and innovative ideas for decorating your home.

Felt Appliqued Pillows by Ketche on Etsy

Today's shop is a small one, but you'll love it all the same. I know I did the minute I stepped in and took a look around. I'm not usually a fan of felt applique outside of children's clothes, but Ketche on Etsy has changed my mind.

When I saw this cat pillow (pictured here in this post) it immediately made me laugh and I had to check out the shop it had come from. What I found when I opened up the shop kept that smile the cat had spurred going.

Ketche on Etsy has a handful of adorable pillows and pillow covers with lots of personality and color. There's lots of personality and creativity in this shop that you definitely won't want to miss, especially if you're looking for that perfect quirky accent to any room in your home.

Levent, the shop owner of Ketche, designs his pillows covers with 100% cotton fabric and are then decorated with felt made 100% from post-consumer plastic water bottles. The pillows are then filled with non-allergenic poly-fill.

And, if you don't see exactly what you're looking for in his shop, he also does custom orders! (I love shops that are open to custom requests.)

YOU CAN CLICK ON THE PICTURES ABOVE TO VISIT THE KETCHE ON ETSY AND TAKE A LOOK AROUND OR, IF YOU PREFER, CLICK RIGHT HERE.

You can also visit with Levent from Ketche on Twitter!

:: elemento :: home + body accents

Did you know that you can buy handcrafted furniture on Etsy?

I didn't. And then I came across today's feature shop!

I'm really impressed too. I mean, I know that there's tons of handcrafted and handmade items on Etsy to browse through, but I never really considered I'd find anything as substantial as actual furniture for sale there!

My view of Etsy is always ever-evolving and changing. Elemento on Etsy has redefined Etsy for me once again!

The designer of these wonderful pieces is Daniella Peña, who has a bachelor's degree in Furniture Design and is well traveled, having lived in Paraguay, Brazil and now in the USA as well!

Her work has been shortlisted in design competitions as well as published in books and she now expresses herself through her designs while working as a freelance designer, creating one-of-a-kind home furnishings, jewelry and etched glass pieces.

Her designs, both in furniture and in jewelry are both unique and fully functional and although the collection to browse through is small, I'm positive you'll enjoy it!

TO VISIT ELEMENTO BY DANIELLA PENA ON ETSY YOU CAN CLICK THE PICTURES ABOVE OR, IF YOU'D RATHER, CLICK RIGHT HERE!