dando tel aviv

I had a Tel Aviv day today. This is what I found in the middle of my regular fabric route. Dando Tel Aviv! Their facebook page is here. What a delightful fabric shop, filled with items that all shout: "take me" and: "no, no, take me". The fabrics have interesting prints, I especially fell in love with all the ikat patterns and the owner is such a nice lady. I couldn't stop photographing and I am sure I will be coming back.

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Danes sem imela svoj dan v Tel Avivu. Po običajni poti med trgovinami z blagom sem takoj opazila tole novo. Dando Tel Aviv! Tule je še njihova facebook stran. Krasna trgovina, ki močno izstopa po zanimivo potiskanem blagu, ikat vzorcih in z njihovo super prodajalko/solastnico sva se takoj ujeli. Nisem se ustavila pri fotografiranju in zagotovo se spet vrnem.

omanoot

I had a busy day in Tel Aviv. The meeting with Omanoot went well and soon some of my items should appear on their site. After endless traffic jams, the heat of the big city, regular hunting for new fabric and supplies, chatting with the guy from the falafel place, trying on some new sandals, arguing about prices, checking out new straps for bags, looking for parking, looking for parking, looking for parking....I finally stopped at Jul's. She made me the best coffee ever,  and as always talking to her gave me lots of new ideas plus we're starting to cook something cool together again. Wait till you see.
I snapped a single shot of her above the new sewing machine pin board, which is loaded with  oh so beautiful   items.
Sequins are again on my desk, scattered around after making a new evening purse. Also, soon in my shop.

collage

Made a small view into the things that are currently in my surroundings.

1. Last week I visited my good old fabric supplier in Tel Aviv (wrote about him already). He got some AMAZING upholstery fabric pieces and I grabbed them all without thinking twice. There is about a meter and a half of each piece so whatever I will make out of it will be very unique. Any ideas? Btw, already made this large bag and came out very nice.

2.  This clutch made out of orange silk with embroidered flower used to be a hit in my store. Only one left.

3. A metal zipper. Finally I found it and collected enough courage to start making some kind of a bag with it. For the ladies that like things simple, strong and useful :) Soon, photos.

4. This is a must book for everyone that loves handmade and beautiful. There are over 70 artisans inside and some of them are breathtaking.

5. Jonatan wanted this yesterday and we started to think about summer and the sea, travelling and vacations.  Amazing how he chose this great VW caravan of all the modern cars that were on the shop's stand, well...he is the son of his parents.

6. The new "attachment" to the bags and purses that are shipped to PikulaBags customers. There's more to this...

Marmelada market and PikulaBags.

rubber stamp

Long time ago I bought a very beautiful book. Lena Corwin is amazing! You should take a look at her blog as well.
When I prepare a finished purse for sending I usually add a thank you note, but the note was always missing something; so, I made a Pikula stamp. It was fun and I got back to childhood and primary school and times when we were making ex libris prints out of linoleum.
If you want to do something similar; I bought the rubber sheets here and you can find the carving tools in every craft shop.
Hmm, maybe it's time to make a purse with a cool print of my own?! What do you think?

Here is the book cover and some highlights from it:

I still offer free shipping in my Etsy shop! Hurry up...

Fabric and Florentin

Lotta Jansdotter, a Swedish designer, every time captures my look. Her work is so clean and organic. The new Echo fabric collection is out for preordering; maybe it's time for Pikula to get a bit more Scandinavian ;) Lotta has also some great books, I bought this one and keep on opening it.

I'm after a very nice 2 day sale in Tel Aviv. I met a lot of great people and got some Florentin air back into my soul. These are some of the pics I took with my iPhone; forgot to bring my camera :(

Take a look:
Jul fashion clothing 
Ingrid goods for babies and children
Netta Kasher photography
Nova Bianca fashion clothing
lilla my jewelry 
rozmarin jewelry 
knobbly jewelry

frame

According to Wikipedia:

A frame is a structural system that supports other components of a physical construction.

My collection of metal purse frames:

new fabrics still to be used (aaahhhhh) :

To summon up; Pikula does useful, portable framed fabrics that are also nice to look at.

Very much want this wacom drawing tablet.