2 Summer Colors Week: Wednesday's Pink!

Seriously another banner day of beautiful summer colors -thanks to you all for joining in! The winner of Tuesdays print by Clare Elsaesser is @corikindred ! Congrats Cori! Now onto Wed! Wednesdays color is pink! And we have another beautiful print by Clare Elsaesser @clareelsaesser to giveaway! An extra large giclee art print poster of her painting, Flower Child. To enter the giveaway - same details as the last two days. 1) Follow us on Instagram @poppytalk 2) upload the color pink using hashtag #summercolors13 3) comment at the post on instagram here tagging one friend I will announce the winner tomorrow eve when i post thursday's color! Good luck and huge shout out to @clareelsaesser for donating another one of her beautiful prints!  Follow Clare online at tastesorangey.blogspot.com, etsy.com/shop/tastesorangey,   instagram and at Poppytalk Market  Click here to visit the giveaway post on instagram to enter!

3 Etsy/West Elm Vancouver Pop-Up Video!

West Elm sent over the video they just completed of the recent Etsy Pop-Up Shop Poppytalk curated at West Elm Vancouver earlier this month. For those of you who missed it, there were 18 favorite local artisans invited to share their homemade wares! Thank you to West Elm, it was an honour!

See the full list of Etsy sellers:
http://bit.ly/etsyvcn

Read about Etsy + west elm:
http://bit.ly/weheartetsy

Video by Jenner Brown:
http://lumineuxfilms.com/

4 Blue Day

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It was a beautiful dreamy blue summer colors day. I loved all the different shades from turquoise to indigo filled with happy faces, blue skies, deep hued waters and places nice to be.  Thank you folks for taking us away, away into the wild blue yonder.  Congrats to Cori Kindrid who won the beautiful Clare Elsaesser print. And big thank you to Clare for donating, so generous of you! Follow Clare online at tastesorangey.blogspot.com, etsy.com/shop/tastesorangey,   instagram and at Poppytalk Market ! 

Here is just a sampling of what was:

rollandtumblepress

hulsaseventy

cblmixedmedia

jenniferhohner

cstarevents

thistletea

mofunkdesigns

lucky14handmade

xantheb

See more of blue day by clicking here.

16 Business Matters: Where Are You Moving Your RSS Feeds?

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With Google Reader soon closing (July 1st/13) there are just a couple of weeks left to save your Google Reader subscribers.  Do you know where you'll be taking yours? Maybe with the end of Google Reader, it's the end of RSS feeds as we see it? For now though, or until that happens, I've been trying out a few for size these past couple of months and wanted to give you a bit of my feedback.

Feedly
I jumped on the Feedly boat initially when I first heard of this all happening, transferring all of my feeds and at first I really loved the look and organizational tools.  Then I slowly realized it was really dragging my browser down, to a slow annoying level, so I subsequently removed the widget looking for higher ground.

iGoogle
I have since been using iGoogle for the blogs/sites that I read on a daily basis (approx. 40).  I've made it into my home page which basically reminds me of the frontpage of a daily newspaper.  I love this for my first glance happenings.

Pulse
I use the Pulse app for my mobile/iPad but there is a maximum of how many you can have in your sections, which makes for a similar situation like iGoogle. Not all my feeds that I have collected can be included. Just my currents.

Which leaves me to a one-size fits all?

Bloglovin'
Recently bloglovin' whom I joined a few years back offered up a super easy solution to import all of your RSS feeds. It's a simple 2-click RSS import (if you're already logged into google), Just first click here: 

http://www.bloglovin.com/import/reader

Then you'll see a pop up box that looks like this:

And then click on the "Import from Google Reader". The site then basically does the rest!  All of my 300+ feeds are uploaded there and I have been using this for my daily and/or weekly reads (usually when I have a bit more time to catch up) as well as it has a nice app when I'm going mobile.  The upload even kept all my categories intact so I didn't have to redo all of that hard work that I had already created in Google Reader.

So that's it.  What are you using? Where do you think the future of the RSS feeds are going? Maybe ending? With Google Currents or wherever Google can make more money.  Here's a good read about the future of RSS feeds.

Maybe you have something to suggest? Feel free to share!  But in the meantime, that's where I'm parking my RSS feeds.  Also - please leave me your Bloglovin' link in the comments below, so I can add you!  You can follow our feed here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/ISuVv (wherever the wind blows you) we'd be stoked and honoured to be included in your reader! 

And if you're on Bloglovin, you can: Follow Poppytalk on Bloglovin' HERE!

3 Adorable Understated Jewelry | Bloesem Wear

Have you seen this adorable new line of jewelry by design blogger, Irene of Bloesem? Her new collection, Bloesem Wear, of handmade necklaces features real pearls, amazonite, jasper, citrine and other gem stones mixed with silver, silk and gold. I love that she's also made a few things for little girls, having my own gold baby ring (with my initial on it) which I truly treasure, I love the idea of a little heirloom like this for a little girl. Irene's new line is fresh, modern and understated, perfect for both Mother and daughter. Click here to see more.