wedding pieces

don't know what's wrong, but i haven't yet been invited to a wedding this year...

in my books, above pictured earrings are called the wedding pieces ever since i sold them to a bride-to-be last summer. aren't they just lovely? always two and two toghether.

145.- the pair.

diy

isabel carefully selected 4 different gift wrapping papers and cleverly used it to decorate the drawers of an ikea chest drawer she was no longer happy with. and used some masking tape for the rectangles. 

wow, precision work, one can tell!  

men's

mmmmmm..... need we say more?

kilim

three more kilims are now in stock. if you want to know sizes please let me know and i will mail them to you.

expected

last autumn i bought sunglasses for the store for the first time and well, as a repeat offender, have (as already mentioned) ordered from the new collection of this young london brand.

nothing more effective to put some dash to your look as a cool (or for that matter hot) pair of sunglasses, don't you think?

and the chf 54.- price tag is gratifyingly affordable too. (i mean, who wants to lose another pair of 250 quid sunglasses?)

stay tuned to see what designs will be available... i can already let on that there is even a beautiful, nay two! beautiful designs for brave males too ;-)

all the pretty colours

where to start, where to stop? one of each please...

so this time it's official: springtime is here! have a lovely weekend everyone :-)

new in

today another parcel arrived from danemark, this time i unpacked these wooden frames, consisting only of top and bottom. the print, drawing, wallpaper etc can be slid in a slot and thightened with invisible screws. the weight of the bottom piece also helps to make lighter paper hang straight. the mapple wood sticks are 51cm long, top piece with a leather string, hexagonal key included.

i tried it with a handprint from the store, see below.

new in

today i received delivery from denmark, among other things this new vase of mouthblown grey glass with a wooden base (laquered in grey to match the glass) that comes seperatelay. so you can use it with or without the base. very muuto if you ask me.

spring is in the air

as we have all noticed in the past few days, it's time to take the sunglasses out of the drawer again! so done in the store. 

you will find pieces as the one shown in the picture plus i have ordered sunglasses from the new spring/summer 14 collection, that should be in beginning of april.

no...

we just can't stay away from beautiful ceramics!

yesterday four large cartons arrived filled to the brim with ceramics of all shapes and hues.  

i'm loving the lightness of above colour combination. but it's only one of many! more pictures to follow.

in the meantime: have a nice weekend (filling in the tax declaration??).

same but not identical

i'm expecting news from sweden. i have ordered trays made of birch wood. lovely in an old fashioned way.

in the making

these enamel bracelets are now in production, i hope to receive them before the end of the month along with more new jewellery.

i have tried them on and think they look lovely when worn, be it on their own or combined with other bracelets.

all in all i have quite a lot of new jewellery on the way (6 collections to be precise), gradually trickling in from end of march to july, so put some money on the side till then!

all the shapes

...waiting for the small flowers by the roadside.

friday pieces

it's been a while since we last indulged in friday pieces! very unjustly so (maybe because it's such fiddly job taking the pictures).

seeing these fresh colours: is it spring yet?

heels or flats?

i'm not buying shoes, but to look will not hurt me, right?  

i've taken these pictures with my i-phone a bit haphazardly and under cover at the trade show since you're not allowed to take photographs (after all i could be an agent for chinese contrefaçon, couldn't i?). so i only took shaky pictures i'm afraid... yeah, it's a tough job, but someone's got to do it.

back from paris

i'm back and i can say that i have hugely enjoyed myself this time! even though i was off to a bad start... i was supposed to sleep in a friends little flat at quai de bourbon but that night ended up in a seedy hotel rue des mauvais garçons (literally), because the key wouldn't open the bloody door! yes, it was the right door and the right key, but the door was blocked.

bah, as i said, the rest of paris was very good. there will be news from the hawaïian jewellery, from éloise, the new collection of the wonderful handknitted alpaca scarves (in autumn) and, and this is my highlight: from july i will get a selection of the berlin label sabrina dehoff. quite prunk, i know! i have squinted at this label for a long time now and always told myself off (for being too expensive for the universitätstrasse) but this time have caved in. i hope you will prove me right. otherwise i will have to keep the stuff all to myself (snif).

above 2 pics via sabrina dehoff.

and yes, i have to come clean and say that i was also rather successful to buy clothes for myself :-) it's spring in the shops!

greetings from NY

 

































ah, quickly before i leave:

mary just sent me an sms with those pics showing her new persian blue bag... in New York! guess who's jealous now??

en route

it's saturday and this evening after shop closure i will be on my way to see 2 shows in paris. some will be saying i'm never working, but this is work! (in fact i'm even working on weekends...).

alexandra will be here on tuesday to open shop doors and wednesday i'm back.

have a lovely weekend!