If you can’t bring your own piano- try a tambourine!

If you can’t bring your own piano- try a tambourine! I’ve spent many years trying to learn an instrument. I am musical but my hands apparently are not-the right and the left don’t communicate with each other.  So all those piano lessons in my early childhood(torture), all those do-it-yourself ukulele lessons, all my attempts at […]

FANtastic

I’m a fan of fans- especially Fancy Fans, a business created by Sharon Jerusalmy, purveyor of artistic, hand crafted fans for every occasion. Did you know that there is a secret language of fans? Let’s take a short two hundred year trip back to the Victorian age, and we will find that just as men […]

What is in a Name?

Highlighting some of our ETSY vendors “What’s in a name?” asks Shakespeare. Was he thinking of ETSY- the world wide platform for arts, crafts and unique gifts? When one of the founders, Rob Kalin was asked how he and his partners thought of the name, he answered-“These are nonsense syllables, which actually don’t stand for […]

JewelRina- Rina Lutzki-Levy: A Personal Interview

Personal interview with Etsy merchant Rina Lutzki-Levy The first purchase I made on the ACHI Market Place was a beautiful woven necklace with seed pearls from Etsy merchant JewelRina. I loved my necklace so much, that I contacted Rina via her site on ACHI: http:// achi613.org/achi-market/vendors/jewelrina-handmade-jewelry and asked if she could make me a bracelet to […]