[I'M OBSESSED] Etsy Emails

Ok, so while I love the shit out of Etsy, I don't really love the normal search process on the site. And its not really their fault! Cause they've gone out of their way to give us about a billion diff ways to search from keyword, to location, to color to everything in between. But I *still* find that shit hard and frustrating, particularly when you're not exactly sure what you're looking for and you can only type in a general search term.

So, that's why I subscribe to a few of Etsy's fab daily emails and I really love them SO HARD.I almost always come across something fab, and I even save them in an "etsy" folder in my gmail inbox, in case I want to go back and browse later on. Even if I'm not ready to buy something at that very moment, I try to always take the opp to "favorite" items and stores so that I can go back at some other time when I'm not poor.

And believe it or not, ppl: Etsy is not even payin my ass to say this. I just heart them.

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[COOL OR NOT COOL?] Girls Who Buy Stuff Meant For Guys

My mother will cry approximately 1,000 tears if she ever reads this, but let me say it: I am drawn to things that are designed for men. 

This happens whenever I'm shopping for clothes.  I will spend exactly 5 seconds breezing through the silky, flowery bullshit in the women's department before sailing right on over to the men's section.  I never actually buy any men's clothing, but I appreciate the designs.  This is probably why I live in preppy polos and button-down shirts, because they're essentially unisex. 

I think the issue here is that I like clean lines.  Things that are simple.  This goes from my clothes to my home decor.  Like, honestly, the shoes I'm wearing right now are men's because all of the female variations of them are topped with a seashell or gold chain or glitter or some other bullshit that screams "I AM A LADY!  DONT YOU EVER FORGET IT!"

It's like the parents that have girl babies and force them to wear those big, brain-crushing headbands because GOD FORBID some idiot at the grocery store or airport mistakes her for a boy.  Hey, guys, the reason why no one can tell what sex your baby is is because it is a BABY and it doesn't matter yet. 

So is it totally Boys Don't Cry-sexual confusion-weird to have masculine tastes when it comes to design? 

I'm not talking about hanging up a huge, framed version of that stupid Girls Kissing poster, I'm saying no patterns, and definitely, definitely nothing floral.  What do you think?   

[#NATEGATE] Wherin Nate Berkus Screws Up Royally

I already knew that Nate Berkus was gorgeous, and charming and incredibly talented, but based on what happened today for the design blogger show, I'm sad to have to add "totally friggin clueless" to the list. I mean, this shit was BAD, ppl. Like so bad, I didn't even think it was *possible* for someone to screw things up as badly as he and his staff did today.

To catch everyone's asses up: based on an impromptu Twitter campaign that ended up going quasi-viral (started by my 2 fave beyotches, The Moggit Girls), hundreds of design bloggers all blogged about Nate Berkus one day this summer in a collective, worldwide social media lovefest. They called it #nateday. And after such an amazing response, it was suggested that Nate should follow Martha Stewart's lead and do a "blogger show" one day where he filled up his entire audience with design bloggers. Brillz, right??

T-O-T-A-L-L-Y.

So we waited and waited and waited and waited, and finally, last week many of us got word that the day had finally come. The blogger show was scheduled for 9/21! We were only given one week's notice (which was kind of annoying), but many bloggers still managed to take time off, make travel arrangements and take time out of their very busy lives to be there.

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[COLOR CODED] Seeing Red

The very idea of color coding may be as lame as Sandra Lee's tablescapes (Vicodin much?), but I DON'T CARE.

I have always been very matchy matchy in my fashion choices (you'll see me in a hot pink polo shirt and a lime green hat with hot pink writing on it—I look like a goddamned five-year-old who was dressed by her blind grandmother), and that attention to color has translated over to my home decor.

My current living room is all dark wood with red accents, and I'm always on the look-out for anything red that I can incorporate into the situation (isn't it sad that Jersey Shore has SO permeated our culture that as I typed "the situation" I literally pictured that douchebag juicehead in my mind?  AWFUL).

I can't be the only one who does this, right?  So, viola! A new series where we pick out cool design stuff based on color.  Awww yeah, Rosa Parks—it feels like 1960's Birmingham up in here. LET'S GO!

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It's #NateDay921

Ok, so if:

*you don't like Nate Berkus
*don't like design bloggers who like Nate Berkus
*don't like when people go on and on and on about something

Today and tomorrow are probs VERY good days to stay the fuck off Twitter and stay the fuck off the interwebz. Cause Nate Berkus is shooting a show today with an audience full of design bloggers! Cause the Moggit Girls told him he should! And he listened! (and that's a lesson to us that everyone should just always do whatever the hell the Moggit Girls tell us to!). And yes: everyone will be talking about it and tweeting about it like its their J-O-B.

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