Etsy Team Game Day–Glamasaurus!

It’s Game Day! Etsy Team Game Day, that is. The day each week that I will devote to sharing the fabulous artists on my Etsy Teams: Queer Etsy Street Team and the Etsy Crafting in Color Team.

I said it before, and I’ll say it again: I love my teams. They are unbelievably supportive and enthusiastic and generous and motivational. I am so grateful for the different angles on creativity they’ve opened my eyes to, whether it’s a love of glorious, vibrant color, or a fierce and fabulous belief in expressing yourself no matter what. They’ve inspired me, and they’ve made giant, impersonal Etsy feel a little bit more like home.

I’ll be alternating teams: last week it was Queer Etsy Street Team. This week it’s Crafting in Color Team. So suit up, Crafting in Color Team, and let’s go!

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There are different kinds of shops on Etsy. There are those that are totally focused, have a single item or type of item, create that one thing perfectly, and sell it steadily.

And then there are shops that are a little crazier, that reveal the presence of a curious and restless creative spirit, someone who’s willing to experiment with new materials and different ideas.

You probably can guess that I am partial to the latter. If you didn’t know that, you haven’t visited my PaperDemon Jewelry shop yet.

And that’s why I love Glamasaurus–

This is a shop that I appreciate on a human as well as an artistic level. The artist, Andreanna Kostantas, is an American expat living in Switzerland, and she’s clearly someone with a sense of humor. From her motto– “so sweet it will give you cavities” –to her unpretentious list of preferred materials –“polymer clay, plastic, glue, pixie dust” — she’s a person who just doesn’t take herself and her art too seriously. And on Etsy, which definitely has a lot of the “artiste” attitude going on, that is refreshing indeed.

Whether it’s her Lego earrings, her polymer clay donut, cookie, and cupcake jewelry, or her mysterious and charming shrubbery, Andreanna makes things that make you smile.

Surely you need a set of yarn shrubs that have been, in Andreanna’s words, “carefully shaped using my keen shrubber’s sense.”

And for those of you looking for Hello Kitty gauged studs, her shop is certainly the place to go.

I appreciate artists who are willing to be goofy and willing to admit mistakes. I like seeing that she still listed the goofy Domokun Cupcake necklace above, even though she “iced it kind of lopsided” (so it’s on sale!).

And it goes without saying that I like her Japanese-inspired aesthetic! As her shop description reads, “Kawaii Harajuku Sweets Deco Kitsch Jewelry Accessories” From Domokun, to her Hello Kitty studs, to her recent “kamikaze guitar pick bracelet,” she definitely has a thing for Japan.

And, I also appreciate artists who help other artists out. Andreanna does major work on behalf of the Crafting in Color Team. She’s one of the main CIC Team Leaders, and definitely keeps the trains running on time.

For someone as utterly disorganized and random as me, this kind of contribution is astounding. How does she do it? I don’t know. But I am so grateful.

Check out Glamasaurus over the web:

http://blog.glamasaurus.com