My too much jewelry on etsy? Treasury list has been selected to be today’s Etsy home page list of featured work! Yay!!

I love that people are going to see that there really is some wonderful jewellery on Etsy which is definitely above the run-of-the-mill stuff and also isn’t limited to precious materials or metalsmithing techniques.

In case you didn’t read my earlier post, Etsy Treasury lists only last for 48 hours so you may find the link above no longer works, but there will be plenty of other engaging lists for you to enjoy nonetheless.

Now … back to work for me.

I’ve managed to get a list onto the shiny new Etsy Treasury which features some of my favourite pieces of jewellery for sale on Etsy. My list is entitled too much jewelry on etsy?.

Note that this list will expire in just under 48 hours of posting this entry so the link above will no longer be valid after that time.

As I have commented on my list, too much jewellery is never enough! Except when it’s rubbish of course … and there is a fair bit of that on Etsy, I admit. Although that’s just my very biased opinion, of course!

But amongst it all there really is a healthy amount of very beautiful, well made and clever jewellery – of both the precious and non-precious variety. Some of it is by makers who are already well known there for their engaging work, but there are also some very good and relatively undiscovered finds too.

One such find is howlindoggie, a fellow Sydney-based jewellery maker and someone who studied at the same place I did – Sydney College of the Arts, which is part of the University of Sydney.

Have a look at howlingoddie’s Etsy shop as there are some beautiful and beautifully made pieces to enjoy.

This is my delicious new Flicka laptop bag, handmade by the lovely Alice – you can find Alice’s shop at flickaalice.etsy.com.

It arrived yesterday and of course it looks even more gorgeous in the flesh than in photos. It’s very well made, certainly stands out from the usual laptop bags and my Mac Powerbook fits perfectly.

Given the love affair I confess to having with my Mac (even though it is getting on a bit now) I felt it was apt to get a really nice protective bag to carry it about in when I take it elsewhere to work – and now I’ve got one!

Flicka bags come in various sizes, with a myriad of fabric designs available and they are made for both Macs and PCs – although why you’d want to put a nasty PC in such a lovely bag is beyond me ;P.

(Note to self: must be less mean to PC users in public).

So that’s a hearty recommendation from me. If you’ve got a laptop or know someone who does, you should go shopping!