Little Love Blue

I have to admit that as much as I love so many of the things for sale on Etsy.com, I am not the best customer. I have been trying to make most of the gifts I have given in the past year or so, and therefore have not had the chance to buy much since my great Etsy shopping spree of holiday 2007.

But recently I decided to buy myself a little, um, we’ll say it was an anniversary present? I found Cary and her shop Little Love Blue when one of her darling pumpkins was featured on the front page of Etsy a while back. One night I decided that I couldn’t live without owning one, and naturally that pumpkin needed a companion hand-sewn mushroom. Well, maybe you didn’t know, but my darling John is really into mushrooms. Of any kind. For eating, for looking at an looking up in books and general adoration. So, I made the purchase from Cary and just a few days ago received this lovely little package, including a sweet note, a moo card of one of her darling birdies, and a cute-as-a-button hand-stamped tag.

Aren’t they adorable?

Here the mushroom completes our little shrine to mushrooms. That red one is a clip (from now-defunct Fuchsia Home. tear.) and the fat gray one is cement, from the Pine Cone Hill store in Lenox. That print is by my exceedingly talented brother Thom, who isn’t currently selling them, but I’m working on him. That one is called “Bedtime, Bitches.” Of course it is.

…and here’s the little pumpkin on the other side of the shelf, jazzing up a Snow & Graham calendar, perched atop a stack of Alyssa Ettinger coasters, which I also nabbed from the lovely late Fuchsia Home. She sells them in her Etsy shop tho, so you too can have some of your own!