etsy - Welcome to Berlin/ etsy - Willkommen in Berlin

etsy - the US online handmade platform opened a branch in Berlin. Here is a link to the German etsy-blog. I am excited and will try to go visit their new German home in Berlin, Kreuzberg soon. At the moment I am still on Easter vacation but my head and my sketch book are filling up with ideas for etsy. I really want to take up my work and introduce it to the German market.

Spring is always such an inspiring time - don't you think?

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Etsy - der amerikanische Online Shop für Handgemachtes und Antikes (vergleichbar mit dawanda) hat ein Büro in Berlin eröffnet. Hier ist ein link zu dem deutschen etsy-blog. Ich bin begeistert und werde mir demnächst mal etsy's neues Zuhause in Kreuzberg anschauen.  Im Moment bin ich zwar noch im Osterurlaub, aber mein Kopf und mein Skizzenbuch sind voller Ideen für meinen etsy shop. Ich möchte unbedingt wieder Dinge für etsy produzieren und meine Produkte auch in Deutschland anbieten.

Frühling ist immer so eine inspirierende Zeit. Findet Ihr nicht auch?

mariasimoneidejhs

All about hearts

You probably can't help but see hearts everywhere this week. And I will show you some more today.

hangs along the doorway from our kitchen to the dining room

for sale at etsy

seen in one of the very cute boutiques in the Karolinenviertel in Hamburg, Germany

seen at die Wohngeschwister in Hamburg, Germany

spied in Sonoma, California

found on our bed the night of our wedding in 2001

Have a happy week and plan something nice for Valentine's. If you don't have a Valentine on hand what about a movie night with your best friends? I am still trying to find a babysitter so that my "hubby" and I can go out on Saturday. 

Keep your fingers crossed for me.

mariasimoneidejhs

Fortune cookies and more

During the last couple of days I have been very busy - sewing like a mad woman. Here you see some of the things I made.

This is a fabric fortune cookie. I saw this very cute idea on the German blog Frau Liebe  and shamelessly copied it. In her blog Frau Liebe explains step by step in pictures how to make these beauties - in case you want to copy this idea as well. I think they make a perfect little (Valentine's) gift. You can write a gift certificate, a lovely message or a nice quote on a piece of paper and pop it in the cooky. Done!

Here is my whole collection.

Then - tada - I made this bag. I will sell it on etsy (although my daughter Luzie wants me to keep it). I love this fabric. I bought it a while ago  at Hancock Fabrics. It's called "Pacesetter" and was designed by Laurie Smith, a designer at TLC's "Trading Spaces". Originally it was meant to go on the seat cushion of our kitchen bench. Then we moved before I got to make it and now there is no kitchen bench anymore. 

And since I bought a lot of fabric I also made this little dress. It's a size 12 ms. It would make a perfect spring dress for a baby girl taking her first steps on the front lawn.

Oh and I won!!! I am one of three lucky winners to win a set of postcards that Jill Bent gave away for her 1 year blog "36 Shea" anniversary. 

Thanks Jill, I love the postcards! 

Check out her blog and her etsy store. Her taste and style is right up my alley.  

Have a nice rest of the week.

mariasimoneidejhs