At the TNLP all the designers were asked to offer a small postcard size information brochure about the designer and his/her brand...so with the vintage flair in mind meet me and my brand :)
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Friday, January 20, 2012
The New Label Project shop and ME
Have you heard of the New Label Project shop in Amsterdam ?
NO,well you'll hear from it a lot starting from now,as I'm joining in as one of the emerging designers to display in the shop.
The shop has a very neat "in the box" style ,where all the items for sell are placed in neutral white boxes and the spotlight is going to the displayed in the box items only and not to the interior decor fuss you may see in other concept shops
Starting from February ,I'll have one of these white beauties for my items too-Yey!!!
I decided to showcase my nautical rope accessories along with some other vintage flair designs I now call the "Nostalgia" line
Building the collection from scratch wasn't an easy task as I use to make things to order and now I had a box to fell with my goodies all at ones
But,I did it!!!
Here is the first ever preview of a full NOSTALGIA collection
Belts
SAILOR KNOT
Navy w/Cream twisted rope,silver oxidized D ring, navy 4cm snap on elastic
Antique Gold w/Reef Gold twisted rope,brass D ring, Mustard /Gold Lurex 5cm snap on elastic
Cream w/Vanilla twisted rope,brass D ring , White or /Vanilla 5cm snap on elastic
Cream w/Navy twisted rope, brushed silver D ring Vanilla/White 5cm snap on elastic
TRUE LOVERS KNOT Belts
Antique Gold twisted rope,brass O ring, Mustard /Gold Lurex 5cm elastic on a large swivel clasp
Ecru twisted rope,brass O ring, Vanilla/White 5cm elastic on a large swivel clasp
HEADBANDS
SAILOR KNOT
Ivory 5mm twisted rope on a round elastic
Mist 5mm twisted rope on a round elastic
TRUE LOVERS KNOT
Mist 5mm twisted rope on a round elastic
Ivory 5mm twisted rope on a round elastic
TRIVET KNOT
Mist 5mm twisted rope on a round elastic
Ivory 5mm twisted rope on a round elastic
NAUTICAL NECKLACE
TNLP offers boxes in various sizes,for now I've decided to take the smallest one,which is 50x50cm.
The challenging part was to squeeze all I wanted to showcase in so small of a box. Of course I understood that in order for me to put more in a small space,I must go vertical...After brain storming with myself I found a solution and the materials to build my vertical belt stand-my small scale vintage light pole (how to in the next post)
Now I swear,I'll NEVER through any of my junk away even if pressured by others -my AWESOME I may say stand was constructed from a piece of wood -leftover from the pergola my hubby had build ,a piece of metal stick I don't know the origin of (I do think it was a stick that used to hold our IKEA dish drier ...But I'm not sure :D . It came with the boxes after we've moved,but we never did find where it belongs.
Hubs wanted to throw it,but I didn't let him-THANKS GOD for that!!! It turned out to be the perfect belts holder) and a decorative corner which was on it's way to the trash and was rescued by me
And look how handsome it turned out
I decided to age the wood a bit and also added a Shabby sign with my brand name on it
and...on reverse I screen printed my face as a little girl-NOSTALGIA or not
I arranged all my items together and this is how I'm hoping for my box to look like in the shop
Now wish me a GOOD LUCK with my new adventure and Bon Voyage :)
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Thursday, November 24, 2011
New Headband line for little ones our life
New hair accessories line for baby girls is cooking on a slow burner for a couple of moth now and here is a preview of some of thedesigns already available in PettiBearKIDS shop
Vintage Nights Hair Clip (soon in the shop)
My Cob Oven
I'm really into green building and have ALWAYS wanted to make by myself an earth oven...And since I have a garden in my new place,I finally decided to make one-YEY
So I began with a soil testing and found out that I have the perfect dirt in my own garden and since it's a new neighborhood and people still working on building their homes,I found a bag with lots of construction send ...all left to find was straw-which was a really easy job here in the kibuz where I have cowshed just 5 minute walk from my crib ...so I had gather my supplies and got crack'n
Here is how all went-
ME mixing the cob with my bare feet (long time no play with mud :D )
getting my feet all dirty
this is how my soil+sand+straw looks like after hour of mixing
building the insulating base for my oven+reusing some beer bottles ;)
filing in with sand
fire brick goes on top
FUN #2 begins-building a sand castle
It was a long time since I played with sand-I actually HATE getting my hands dirty :p
Even years back in art school the sculpting class was my least favorite class ,and here I am 14 years later,am building a sand castle
my sand castle has an Italian roots (not that straight I would say )
damp newspapers on top so I can find later where the cob ends and sand begins
covered the whole thing with first layer of clay /sand mix
and now the wait begins :(
I need to wait till my mix is a bit dry so I can curve to door out...
I will update you on how it goes as I'll do it and the second layer hopefully tomorrow if the weather will allow me
STAY TUNED!
Thursday, November 10, 2011
My NEW Crib
So at the last post I showed you where I live...and now I'll enter you into my lill home :)
It's really small-about 60 square meter in which I have a living space ,my work studio and kids bedroom YES...a little something is missing -our bedroom :D We sleep in a living room in an altered wall bed...Maybe that is why my absolutely favorite place in my crib is the living room!
I gathered there almost all the artworks by my favorite etsy artists and friends and really proud of how it looks
The main problem when living in a small space is to squeeze all our belongings in (we lived in a bigger apartment then this current one in Haifa ,which was too small for us even then,and now me are in an even smaller place -our biggest luck is my gift to know how to stuff a lot of things in a not that much big of a space
So here is how it all looks like
see if you can figure whose beautiful illustrations are these framed artworks sitting on my dresser and wall
Indonesian furniture my hubs bought me as a present
This dresser ^^ actually has a top part now separated and standing on my dining table
[used to look like this in my old place ]-
The other side is the IKEA couch and some more of my favorite framed arts
Hubby calls it ^^ my art gallery :D
The Dining space-
or as hubs calls it -the useless spot (he prefers eating on the coffee table instead ) but I like it :D
P.S Here is the upper part of the dresser - the armoire sitting on my dining table I mentioned above
And check out my FAB vintage like subway art-it's a hand screen printed reproduction of LA bus trolley (available to purchase in my TiamatDesign etsy shoppe )
My Work Room-
a mess like always ,thus no pictures taken lol
KIDS's room-
It actually looks exactly like the old room,with tiny changes ...so I'll just let you scroll back a few post and see how it used to look to get an idea of how it looks right now
Uh..and my garden...well it's under construction -hubs build a gazebo for me and I started a little veggie/herb pallet planters going on (I'll show you how to make one later on in a separate post ) -sprouting seeds from everything -cheery tomatoes,peppers,water melon ,celery,onions ..I'm like a little kid in a candy shop-excited about every new leaf :D
Raised Bed Pallet with parsley,green onions ,cherry tomatoes [I sprouted from seeds and watch them grow to a little plant],basil ,thyme etc
green onions^^ from cut ends regrowing beautifully
THE JOY of living in a country side
and to wrap it all nicely,I also started making an outdoor cob/earth oven to make some great pizzas !!!!
(I'll try to capture the making of for you too)
As I said...THE JOY of living in a country side
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