Made in the West

Kickstarter We Love: Self-Watering Patch Planters

June 13, 2013 | By | Comments (0)

Two years ago we loved watching the modular and customizable Urbio vertical planter system raise five times their fundraising goal on Kickstarter, the awesome crowd-funding source for creative projects. Now, I’m rooting for a new green-your-home product campaign, the self-watering “Patch” planters made by a Vancouver entrepreneur.

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San Francisco’s First* Online Pop-up Shop

November 28, 2012 | By | Comments (2)

We’ve seen plenty of pop-up restaurants, pop-up retail stores, even pop-up art galleries out here. But an online pop-up shop?

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Rethinking Black Friday

November 21, 2012 | By | Comments (3)

I have a lot of stuff. My closets, the basement, and even a storage unit across town contain the escalating accumulation of middle-class life. And yet, somehow, I’m always shopping for more stuff: garden supplies, sports equipment, holiday gifts. So when I was invited to join Yerdle, a sharing site that, fittingly, launches today (you know, Black Friday), I accepted.

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New Online Shop From a Western Nomad

November 1, 2012 | By | Comments (4)

World, meet Half Hitch Goods, the new online marketplace selling vintage and modern home décor and accessories. The best part? San-Francisco based owner Carrie Caillouette travels around the country in her Vanagon Doka Transporter (think Volkswagen van in the front, pickup in the back) to meet vendors and source their goods.

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