sampler

so the april sampler is in the shop, and a peruse of the featured merchants found me in turn browsing the wares of allie's adornments ($18), who makes lovely earrings, bookmarks, and other things from vintage ephemera. i was particularly drawn to her because the lovely packaging that comes with her pieces as well, like the above earrings made from 1800s antique buttons. the pieces sent to the sampler are bookmarks ($8) made from antique buttons as well:

i heart the sampler

so thirteenth story is another small crafter who makes amazing prints (8.5" x 11" paper with a 5" x 5" image; $30) like the one above that i heard about through the sampler. now the sampler is a genius project that just moved to the boston area from the west coast and puts out a monthly assortment of artisan goods from independent/individual artists/crafters to the tune of $30. they also some non-monthly offerings of different sizes and prices ($10-$80). if you haven't tried them, right now they're offering a 20% discount with use of the code valentine at checkout. highly recommended.