Special offer

Loddelina is offering a free gift, small purse of your choice, to the next four customers who will purchase €50 or more worth of items (shipping not included) in my shop.

How to get your free purse?

At the checkout, please specify which purse you would like in "message to seller". All four are described here and since they are one-of-a-kind, first customer gets the most choice :)

(If any of these purses get sold on their own, I will replace them with another, just as pretty, from my shop).

Enjoy the rest of your week!

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...

A lovely package for Sam (part 1)

A while ago I've signed up for a lovely package exchange organised by Danni at Oh, Hello Friend. I've just posted some of the pictures of my package on Flickr, keeping the contents a secret since it hasn't arrived at it's destination yet...

My assigned partner was Sam, a young girl from Oxfordshire, UK, who is training to be a florist and loves country garden themes, soft colours and floral prints. I've found a couple of pretty things I hope she will like and "wrapped" them the way I know best - as a purse. I sewed a pocket just big enough to fit the present, using beige linen-viscose blend for the outside and black cotton for the inside of the pocket. I then carefully sewed fabric rose petals all over the pocket - I have bought a box of them as home decoration a long time ago, I knew they would come handy one day... To hide the stitches on the rose petals in top row, I sewed a piece of golden lace along the rim and added an elastic loop that goes around the button.

It was a race against time to finish the package before the evening got too dark for outside photography - in all the rush I forgot to take a picture of the protective wrapping the purse was put in... Maybe Sam will take one for me when she gets her present. She loves photography and has an amazing Flickr album.

There's another lovely package exchange in December - I will be sure to participate again!

The colour of July

I've been busy these days trying to take nice pictures of my handbags to post on Etsy when I finally open my shop (time has been in short suply lately, not much sleep...). 

Here is one of my bags, Malina Hotpink, paired up with a picture of a beautiful rosebush I took the other day on my way through the city - Augsburg is full of lovely flowerbeds and they are exspecially vibrant in July...