After the Vacation....

...it is always so hard for me to "face" the "normal" life and every day's situations, to realize that the Holidays and soon, summer is over and that I will be able to enjoy some more sea and friends only the next year:(





We really had a blast in Lukovo, Croatia. It is my absolutely favorite Vacation place, so peaceful and beautiful, almost antique in a way(there is no shop or anything else in the village, except one restaurant). The place that I have been so many times and spent so many summer Vacations, made some of the best life time friendships.





It was almost unreal to see the same happening now to my kids, playing at the same spots with other kids, enjoying the crystal sea and beautiful nature and also making some of the best long lasting friendships. Lukovo is sure to be one of those places that you immediately can feel like second home:)



There are more than 350 pics that I have uploaded to my flickr account, so you may see them by going HERE



Hope you had a wonderful Vacation as well
xo, Katarina

When it feels like Christmas...

We have received one of the best New Year's presents a couple of days ago (late delivery) from my friend Sasa, that lives in USA. Full of lovely goodies for kids and me:) I was finally able to see in person my ornament featured in the Country Living magazine and to have some of the most wanted books- Blythe style and This is Blythe, with fantastic photos by Gina Garan.



Kids are thrilled with theirs books too, and this is the great chance to learn some English too:) Thank you Sasa!!!!



Also, I have just received the catalogue from the Adogi 29e international mini-print exhibition, where 2 of my prints were accepted:)





I'm very busy working on my Alice set, so giving you a tiny preview here....coming later this week:)))

xoxo, Katarina

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!!!!

Wish all the very best in the upcoming year!!!!!!!!!
Hope you all had a wonderful, peaceful and safe Xmas eve!!!
Lots of love,
Katarina

Mermaids

I finally managed to list something on eBay. Not the dress that could be seen in progress in the previous post, but some very interesting and unique pieces I made in collaboration with Rachel of MydeepblueC. Her work is just impecable and I'm so happy that I had the chance to work with her and purchase one pair of her beautifuly hand embellished jeans for Marta:).



They fit perfectly and are so unique.
The fabric line we used is the Mendocino line by
Heather Ross featuring mermaids, seahorses, squids, octopi large and small, and we choosed the gorgeous send and aqua palette in colors of earth, redwood forests, sand beaches, sky and sea. And for those reading my blog, it is well known how much I love that colour combo:)









Of course, my granny gave hers contribution to the versatibility of this small collection, by knitting the warmy/cozy necktie and hand warmers and I embellished them with the fabric buttons.
So cute!!!! I especially love this brooch pin



I started creating this set, inspired with gorgeous trims I found and of course the quilting squares;)






And must say that all that loveliness I ruined again with making the mistake on selecting the ISO on my camera...ughhhh!!!! I have placed my ISO to 1600 instead of auto, which is usually 200-400 at that type of light....So I got all that grainy pics...when I realized that, we went back to the garden to redo, but it was already 4.30 pm and getting already dark(2 weeks ago we had that changing of time in one hour forward).So many pics are dark and noisy:(





Also, I've relisted 2 Christmas listings, but you have all the links at the side bar.....

Enjoy the week,
xo, Katarina

Dinosaur BD party

Pablo turned 4 on 25 October.
We had a great BD party held in one very near to our house children's play cafe.



Kids were enjoying the under play area for 3 hours and than singing and eating, being absolutely enthusiastic about the Volcano Dinosaur cake and the Noddy cake I made for his party. He is obsessed with Dinosaurs, after being a big fun of Noddy for 2 years,LOL.





Of course, I got the idea from my friend Sharon that made one for her grandkid too. She explained to me how to make the great lava volcano cake with dry ice, but unfortunately we weren't able to find the dry ice here at the moment, so will try it next time;)So, I put some firework sticks in the volcano hole and I think it left a great impact on kids too.










We had great time and he was so happy with the party and presents, as well;)I'm sure we are ready to open the Dinosaur toy museum now;)

xo, Katarina

The things that makes me happy

Of course, beside or after my family, that always comes first;)

I recently had the request from one of my customers to make the wedding dress in black/white for her 5 years old daughter.
I must say that I was firstly confused with black wedding fact, but than I thought that it is original and different.....


So after I finally found some beautiful sumptuous black silk fabrics with silver embroidery(which wasn't such an easy task and it was good that silver could work instead of white), coordinating trims, beads and other details, I started creating the set.....my starting point was the GOLD antique dress I made a few moths ago and selling here.
Somehow, those days there was the film on the TV about Coco Channel's life and must say that I was inspired, with her evolution of hat as the detail and inevitable piece of women's look those days.....and all those minimal black and white dresses she made, and those beads, being great companion to her creations....

Well, here is what I made










and here are some pics I edited a bit in the photoshop, playing with background and layers, obtaining that vintage like look;)







oh, and the matching necklace



My sweet customer, received the dress/set only after 7 days(WOW!!!)and here is her letter I've just received

HELLO...GUESS WHAT...SOMEONE TODAY RECEIVED THE MOST LOVELY BLACK DRESS EARLY...YES...MY DAUGHTER LOVED IT...WE WERE SOO EXCITED THAT I HAD MY MOM AND THE MOTHER OF THE BRIDE COME OVER...SHE NEVER EVEN NOTICE IT WAS SILVER AND BLACK INSTEAD OF WHITE AND BLACK...THEY THOUGHT IT WAS THE CUTEST THING EVER...AND YES THE LAYERS WAS WHAT SHE WANTED AND IT WAS FORMAL...I JUST HAVE TO THANK YOU FOR THE LOVELY NECKLACE...IT IS JUST AS AWESOME...MY DAUGHTER LOOKS TOO CUTE IN THE HAT...EVEN WITH HER HAIR NOT FIXED...SHE LOOKED LIKE A PRINCESS...I WANT TO THANK YOU...IT WAS EVEN BETTER THAN THE PICTURES...WOW!!!! A++++ THANKS...LOVED DOING BUSINESS WITH YOU...I WILL BE BACK...THANKS AGAIN...I REALLY CAN NOT THANK YOU ENOUGH...THANK YOU!!!!!!!

:)
Katarina

Etsy treasury

I was so lucky this week, being featured 4 times on Etsy treasury.








Sorry if the pics of the web pages I took are terrible, but I 've tried to save it as a web page, unsuccessfully, so this is the best I could do as far. This one on the left is still unexpired and you can see it here if you are looking before October 13, 10:52 pm.....
It was created by Brooke.
The other previous list were made by my friends, living very close to me, Katarina and Nena .

There are also some other great people from my country, (but living outside) I met thanks to Etsy like Zorica and Sandra.

And if you want to make your treasury list, I suggest reading this.

Happy Sunday,
xo, Katarina