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Why is Etsy like crack for me?

memSomervillememSomerville
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I swear, I cannot tear myself away from the #$@! place. At least 5 times a week I find myself looking through the wedding category. Today it was veils.

I HAVE a veil (a plain little birdcage I got for $17 there).
I HAVE a sorta fascinator thing I love (an vintage pearl shoe clip I got for £5 at a church basement sale years ago).

I keep looking at real brides in tea-length dresses who have birdcages and I think they are perfect. I keep looking at big flowers and feathers and I know they aren't my style--but they look so cute on those women....

Today's obsession was finding any evidence of women wearing glasses with veils. There are few at Etsy.

I don't know what I'm looking for. I just keep looking.

What's your crack?
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    tarheelbabstarheelbabs member
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    Table numbers were my crack.  I was obsessed with finding something cool, preferably metal.  Found them on etsy, of course.  Along with a number of other things we used in the wedding. 
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    Lisa50Lisa50 member
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    In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_40-plus-brides_etsy-like-crack?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special Topic Wedding BoardsForum:69dea60c-2319-4015-8380-4a5cc0f18476Discussion:84dd46fd-a447-4fb2-b36a-4460ce2afdc7Post:5abb63c9-310d-4758-b9ff-073e56d7d08e">Re: Why is Etsy like crack for me?</a>:
    [QUOTE]mem, if Etsy is your crack, I'm your new drug dealer.  PM me your e-mail address and I'll send you an invitation to Heartsy.  It's like Groupon and Etsy had a love child.
    Posted by LucyHC[/QUOTE]

    Okay ... that is truly frightening.  Bless you, both. 
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    memSomervillememSomerville
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    @Lucy: done....thanks, I think.....Laughing
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    memSomervillememSomerville
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    Other Etsy fun--have you seen this? Sad Etsy boyfriends.

    http://www.urlesque.com/2011/03/10/sad-etsy-boyfriends/

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    coralee715coralee715 member
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    I pmd you Lucy.

    I heart etsy!
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    WEEZIE918WEEZIE918
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    I think I need to check etsy out more.  I've only been over there a few times and it was because I clicked on a specific link of some sort!!!
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    Magdala9Magdala9 member
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    This.  My wedding was September 2010.
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    tarheelbabstarheelbabs member
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    I don't have any photos of the table numbers to post,yet, but here's a link to the guy's site:
    http://www.etsy.com/listing/49981954/metal-table-numbers-for-wedding-and

    I ordered mine with a Times New Roman font, since I was looking for something more contemporary.  They turned out well and I thought the price was very reasonable--less than a lot of paper product table numbers.
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    tarheelbabstarheelbabs member
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    No, the table numbers just sat separately on the tables.  All my florals were in water, so that wouldn't have worked, but I see that he will put the numbers on posts, so you can use that option. 

    I tried to find a wedding on SMP that I had seen where the bride hand cut her table numbers from copper with a plasma cutter.  Unfortunately, I was so far along in planning I apparently didn't save it to my favorite weddings.  Seems like it was in CA, but I can't be sure.  I do think it was this year.  Her numbers had fairly substantial bases and used the Times New Roman Font, which is where I got that idea.

    Hah!!  Found it. SMP tracks your comments and I commented on that wedding to ask about the font.  Here it is:
    http://www.stylemepretty.com/2011/02/28/san-francisco-wedding-by-flory-photo/

    Hope that helps.
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