Hilari Ford

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This was in a treasury today on Etsy! (That link will only work until Sunday morning, 6/22.) It's all turquoise stuff from Hilari Ford's "vast archive of favorite sellers".

I've told this story before but Hilari is the one that turned me on to Etsy when it was starting up a few years ago. I thought harumph, it will be filled with all sellers and no buyers. Boy, is my face red. I certainly didn't foresee it turning into the well trafficked high class joint it is today.

And the reason I knew Hilari at all is because she wrote a column for the now-defunct Expressions magazine. Her column was my favorite part of that magazine. One column particularly hit a note with me so I emailed the magazine a note that I asked them to forward to Hilari. Never happened but sometime later a friend of hers Googled her name and my blog popped up, where I had written about this article. So she emailed me and now we're online friends. I Googled Hilari Ford just now and lots of hits showed up. Makes me wonder how hard I tried to find her that first time. Of course that was then and this is now. She has a day job but she teaches her craftiness at stamp stores, she's been on DIY's Craft Lab, stuff like that. And she's funny as hell.

I love the Internet.

(And look how many times I used her name in this post! Wait until her friend Googles her again!!)
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