Happy Valentine's Day!

New heart for my shop

I have been so engrossed in working on some new bag designs that I've completely forgotten about listing my hearts...

There are only two left, this one is called The Tree of Love and features a beaded wire tree on raw silk in deep red and plum purple. I thought it might be used as a christmas ornament so I've written the tags accordingly - it gave me an idea for some other christmas designs, but that is all I can say for now...

Sunday treasury feature

This morning one of my hearts, the Winter romance, got featured in this lovely In the Mint'ime Treasury West by JemmDeeCreations. Mirna, who owns a jewelry shop on Esy, made this stunning minty fresh collection of items in lovely frosty shades of pale blue. Thank you!

And this evening my Cool, Calm and Collected treasury made the Front Page! I noticed it by accident when I checked my sellection and saw some FP related comments underneath - waiting in my Etsy conversations box were some encouraging convos as well so thank you everyone for liking it so much!

A feature on Artsypreneur blog

My It's a girl heart has been featured today on the Artsypreneur blog by the lovely Madge, who also runs a shop pixiedustprinkles on Etsy. Her blog is full of inspirational finds and I'm honoured she picked a Loddelina item to feature. Thank you!

New Treasury feature

I just got a message from Kristin at loveartworks - she has included my Chocolate love heart in her lovely mocca inspired Treasury. I love the way she put together so many beautiful shades of brown and interesting textures. Kristin makes very colourful painted pottery with unique illustrations. Thanks again!

Two new features!

What an exciting day!

I was just finishing my afternoon latte macchiato when I got a convo from Maykela, letting me know she included my orange Nana purse in her Treasury!

Just as I was cropping the screen print picture to post the great news on my blog, another message dropped in my conversation box, this time from Fallon, the creative soul behind Olive, letting me know that my It's a girl heart made it to the Front Page - my very first!

The Treasury called My secret garden is a stunning composition of burning hot orange and cool silver, selected by Maykela, who makes beautiful jewelry with precious and semi precious stones. Front page, entitled Laced with LOVE and selected by a very romantic shop RockPaper Silver, is a delicate sellection of soft gray, pale pink and cream colours, many of the items featuring a heart shape. So much LOVE!

Thank you, Maykela and RockPaperSilver, this new Etsy adrenaline should replace my caffeine for a few days...

New hearts

It's a girl!

It's a boy!

My son has entered Kindergarten last week and this difficult acclimatization period doesn't leave me much time to sew.

I'm also a bit behind on listing my hearts - I have decided to list a couple a day to stretch the surfacing period on Etsy as long as possible, so here are two new ones at last: they were made for welcoming the arrival of a baby girl or a boy.

Gaston was born in Cape Town, South Africa, where Arno and I stayed for 6-months due to his work. It might look cheesy but I loved the little It's a boy baloon one of our friends brought to us at the hospital - we took it home with us, along with the flowers from my husband, of course...