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Adventbastelmarkt

Today was this Adventbastelmarkt I wrote about in my last posts. M and I sold lots of the bathing oils we prepared and I sold two of my bigger bags, three of the small bags and 2 brooches. I believe I have to think about it a bit… People were often shocked when they saw the prices and that shocked me.
I mean – my prices were fair and if you buy your stuff at H&M or other big chains it's not much cheaper and not at all unique. E.g. a handmade unique dress for 35€ (first I labelled it for 40€).
I really have to reflect on that.
But except the prices people liked my things that makes me a bit proud.

I feel a bit bad because I had no time to shoot pictures of my things. There are no photos of the brooches and of some bags I sold nor of the bathing oils (bathing pesto). I can tell you, they looked really lovely. Memo to myself: Next time shoot some photos or force somebody else to do it..

Étagère

I don't like secrets. So I share mine now with the whole www.
Today I went to Caritas Lager (where you can buy cheap things others had thrown away) to buy some dishes. I planned to try something I read in CUT about.
An étagère made of dishes.
And it worked. I think they look nice. Allthough I shot the pictures before I glued them…

I will use them at Adventbastelmarkt and you can buy them there for 15–20€. I don't know yet how much I will charge.

You can do this at home: Just take some plates, glasses, cups (whatever you find) and glue them together with superglue. But everything should be central.

LINK

Wow, I just came across my first real link!!!
I must link back because they even mention me. What an honour:
LINK

In fact I have no time to post now because I'm working on something VERY top secret and important.
Will post pictures soon!

3D Typography

Today wasn't a very productive and creative day. Since my sewing machine is f***** and my productivity is bound to non-sewing stuff… That's not very easy.
BUT I made a letter (N) out of cardboard. That was at least a bit funny and very challenging.

The glue still has to dry so I post only a quickly made picture… better ones will follow!

You can do this very easily. Just print a letter in a sans-serif typeface and then cut it out of cardboard. I chose N because it's the first letter of my name and it's easy because it has no round parts like B,C,D,G,J,O,P,Q,R,S,U.
But I think I'll try the rest of the alphabet too and maybe also minuscules… they are all round, aren't they?

Did you notice my new header? Like it?

Trouble

I'm in reeeeal trouble. Yesterday my sewing machine broke down. It's really old (from my gran) and I already expected it to happen but not now that I need it. I was sewing for the Adventbastelmarkt and suddenly - dead - kaputt - nothing happend anymore.
One of my friends has a sewing machine and I can borrow his, but I can't transport it because where he lives i need about 40 minutes by public transport and 15 minutes walking from tram to the house (up a hill!!!). So how should I carry a damn sewing machine… can't afford taxi either.

So that was the bad news. I have also some nicer news to share:
I made another smallish bag. You may recognise the fabric/pattern.

 

and a few days ago I received another fabric…

It's a bit like an Advent calender. Every few days I receive new fabrics or new stuff. I like that. And it wasn't even very expensive.

Uniform or 'how to pimp your t-shirt'

Today/this evening I worked on the "uniform" M and I are going to wear at the Adventbastelmarkt.
It's very simple but kind of funny: I just bought a shirt (for men) and cut the front side along the middle.
Then I sewed it together again but a few cm transferred to one side. So it's not symmetrical anymore.
You can see the stitching. Then I wanted to add some buttons but I had no fitting ones so I kind of stitched fake buttons.
If anyone is interested in details, just write a comment and I'll draw an illustration to document it step by step.

I don't know why the second picture is so crappy but I'm too tired to fix it now. Sorry.

First achievements

Today I worked on my Adventbastelmarkt-Project. I sewed two small bags and M helped me cut out the flower-forms for the brooches (she drew and I cut). I made two templates for more bags and planned our outfits.
And in between I received another fabric with a beautiful ornamental pattern.

And by the way – there's now a blog for the Adventbastelmarkt LINK 

You can also find it in my "Look at this"-list.

Happy arrival

Finally the first fabrics I ordered arrived yesterday. And because of that I couldn't stop myself and bought another needle (WOW!!! A needle… it's a double needle ;) for my sewing machine and some special needles to make brooches. Oh and a fastener (??) for a small bag arrived too.

Long lives consumerism.

Bookbinding

When I first learned how to bind books this video helped me a lot. It's a demo of how to do a coptic stitch.
With the coptic stitch you can open a book in an 180° ankle.
So here's the video Part1 and Part2:

D.I.Y-Market

In one of my last posts I wrote about this market. Now I decided to join in and rent a stall. So I'll sell my products/goods/stuff on 20th of December in the Atelierhaus der Akademie der Bildenden Künste which is around the corner of Café Sperl in Gumpendorferstraße.
I do it with my friend M and we already prepared some things for selfmade-vegan-bathing-oils (and mostly organic!!).
I'll sew a few things and I'll bind a few books with various bookcovers.
Please come and visit me. If you spend more than 10€ on my products you get a small treat.


My ordered fabrics haven't arrived yet but I ordered some more. At the Dawanda store… LINK
And I started sewing another skirt. It's blueish and pinkish and is not finished yet.
So I'll soon post lots of pictures of all the stuff I've made :) Yippie.

EDIT: OH I forgot: Please tell all your friends and enemies and sisters and brothers and neighbors and parents and family and collegues and mates and pals and homies and stepsisters and stepbrothers and churchmembers and everyone else you know…