“My aim is to make beautiful products with simple packaging, not the other way around. To me, this means that long after the jars are opened, the labels are peeled off, and the boxes thrown away, my products should still smell beautiful, feel beautiful and work beautifully.” - Mei

Read more: Featured Shop: Vice & Velvet | The Etsy Blog.

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“Have you ever looked at a super old barn or dilapidated house and thought to yourself, “If that thing could talk…”? When we get our lumber, I think about how someone once put all those square head nails in the beams with their hands and a hammer – no power tools, no fancy nails, no big box store to source from – just blood, sweat, and tears. I have to incorporate the old nails, the swatch of paint that’s barely hanging on, and the measurements that someone wrote inside the beam. I want our customers to have these stories with their pieces. This is the reason we make tables. That’s what drives us to create.” -  Jessie LeLievre Read more: Featured Shop: Triple 7 Recycled | The Etsy Blog)

“Have you ever looked at a super old barn or dilapidated house and thought to yourself, “If that thing could talk…”? When we get our lumber, I think about how someone once put all those square head nails in the beams with their hands and a hammer – no power tools, no fancy nails, no big box store to source from – just blood, sweat, and tears. I have to incorporate the old nails, the swatch of paint that’s barely hanging on, and the measurements that someone wrote inside the beam. I want our customers to have these stories with their pieces. This is the reason we make tables. That’s what drives us to create.” -  Jessie LeLievre

Read more: Featured Shop: Triple 7 Recycled | The Etsy Blog)

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wnycradiolab: griseus: This is a closeup of the tentacles of Portuguese Man O’War (Physalia physalis), or Bluebottle, is a jellyfish-like marine cnidarian of the family Physaliidae!!!!  its venomous tentacles can deliver a powerful sting by the way, is really beautyfull! also P. physalis isn´t a whole animal, is a colony!! Photo by Simon de Glanville  Gorgeous.

wnycradiolab:

griseus:

This is a closeup of the tentacles of Portuguese Man O’War (Physalia physalis), or Bluebottle, is a jellyfish-like marine cnidarian of the family Physaliidae!!!! 

its venomous tentacles can deliver a powerful sting by the way, is really beautyfull! also P. physalis isn´t a whole animal, is a colony!!

Photo by Simon de Glanville 

Gorgeous.

Reblogged from Radiolab  Source

Photographs of the interiors of miniature paper houses by Cathy Cullis. From the item listing:

“A few years ago I built my first paper house - just a small side-project for my own pleasure. Since then my paper houses have become several and my interest in interiors has developed into a photography project….

More than creating illusion, I have an interest in the simplicity of shadow and light, texture and quiet. I wish for the interiors to look at once plausible and yet to remain primitive.” - Cathy Cullis

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Headed to a multi-day music extravaganza? Bold patterns and bright color (plus a quirky mix of essential items) will have you rocking out in style. Check it out: Frolic-Worthy Festival Style | The Etsy Blog Pictured: 1. Waxed canvas messenger by WoolyBison2. Handmade chair by gallantandjones3. Toothpaste by TheHolisticScienceCo4. Tent by Lotusbelletents5. Socks by extase6. Embroidered patch by fionabearclaw7. Handmade mocs by needleheadcrafts8. Vintage Ray Bans by Raybanicos9. Wooden canteen by thetreecyclist10. Handmade fan by Olele

Headed to a multi-day music extravaganza? Bold patterns and bright color (plus a quirky mix of essential items) will have you rocking out in style.

Check it out: Frolic-Worthy Festival Style | The Etsy Blog

Pictured:

1. Waxed canvas messenger by WoolyBison
2. Handmade chair by gallantandjones
3. Toothpaste by TheHolisticScienceCo
4. Tent by Lotusbelletents
5. Socks by extase
6. Embroidered patch by fionabearclaw
7. Handmade mocs by needleheadcrafts
8. Vintage Ray Bans by Raybanicos
9. Wooden canteen by thetreecyclist
10. Handmade fan by Olele

 Source etsy.com