tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77104246620782401402024-02-06T21:01:15.358-08:00Lyptis Bloglyptishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12426035447552977566noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710424662078240140.post-4640806868717972072014-07-25T00:50:00.001-07:002014-07-25T00:52:32.029-07:00NEW PRODUCTS AND NEW FABRICSHere are the new products that have been freshly listed this week.<br />
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First of all the <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/197244522/striped-tote-bag-shades-of-red-denim?ref=shop_home_feat_2">Shades Of Red tote bag</a>, a super sturdy shopping bag made from upcycled denim in lots of different shades of red. Burgundy, peach, greyish reds.. lined with a really tough, water resistant material from old army sleeping bags. I've fitted this bag with two extra long straps, so you can wear it over your shoulder.<br />
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I also finally listed another fabric I'm really excited about: naturally coloured cotton!<br />
This is a fabric made from cotton plants that are grown in different shades of predominantly greens and browns. All organic and with no use of GMO's! I love this fabric so much, because it's unbleached and undyed, smells very natural and has a subtle, almost earthy texture to it.<br />
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This fabric is available as a <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/197113942/brown-cream-striped-t-shirt-shirt-top?ref=shop_home_feat_1">women's t-shirt</a> and a <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/197425003/striped-mens-t-shirt-in-xssmlxl-organic?ref=listing-shop-header-0">men's t-shirt</a> now. I have the light fabric with green stripes too, but the darker fabric in green is not available at the moment, due to harvest issues.<br />
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And I listed two more t-shirts. One with a very low scoop and gathered sleeves in a <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/197009086/t-shirt-low-scoop-neck-cap-sleeves-in?ref=shop_home_active_10">grassy green</a> colour. It's also available in dark pink, grassy green, navy and black.<br />
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And finally a squirrel t-shirt!<br />
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Now the family of squirrel items is complete. I've got a <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/192757406/squirrel-dress-in-xssmlxl-t-shirt?ref=shop_home_active_7">squirrel dress</a> and a <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/187351754/squirrel-mini-skirt-women-jersey-xssmlxl?ref=shop_home_active_22">squirrel skirt</a> and now the t-shirt. Everything is of course made from certified organic cotton and handmade by me in my studio in Berlin.<br />
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What do you think about the new items? Have you got any favourite colours you want to see? Leave me a note. You can also <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lyptis">get in touch</a> through my Facebook page.lyptishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12426035447552977566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710424662078240140.post-8308356166850978342014-07-10T02:17:00.001-07:002014-07-10T02:17:30.962-07:00ARTS FESTIVAL & OPEN STUDIOThe annual Schöneweide Arts Festival or in German, Kunst am Spreeknie Festival, is happening this weekend again. It's been a great event last year, so I am quite looking forward to it again.<br />
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The festival kicks off tonight at 7pm with the Vernissage of the main exhibition at Zentralstation.<br />
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Over the weekend of the 12th and the 13th of July there will be <a href="http://kunst-am-spreeknie.de/cat/ausstellungen/">30 different exhibitions</a> and more than 100 artists are opening their studios <a href="http://kunst-am-spreeknie.de/cat/offeneateliers/">to the public</a>.<br />
There will be guided walks through exhibitions and the <a href="http://kunst-am-spreeknie.de/cat/fuehrungenworkshops/">Schöneweide industrial area</a> and other stuff going on.<br />
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I was supposed to participate in a Pop Up Store during the festival, which got cancelled due to the location not happening. Nevermind, right?! More time to party for me!<br />
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So, I will be hanging out at one of my favourite places, the Funkhaus at Nalepastrasse, where my studio is located and the studios of a lot of other people of varying degrees of crazy.<br />
There will be a lot of art, especially paintings, some sculptures and some crafts. We have a music and performance program. And I will tell you right now, Saturday will be better then Sunday.<br />
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Here is the program for the rather posh sounding "Kultursaal".<br />
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It's all happening directly next the the river Spree in a nice East German 60's ambience.<br />
If you want to visit me, I'm at the Funkhaus on the 4th floor, my room number is 431.<br />
Maybe I see you around!<br />
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And here is a video of the festival from last year.<br />
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<br />lyptishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12426035447552977566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710424662078240140.post-59355226633528994142014-07-09T23:25:00.000-07:002014-07-09T23:32:34.071-07:00MORE GREEN FASHION IN BERLINYesterday I wrote a <a href="http://lyptis.blogspot.de/2014/07/green-fashion-in-berlin.html">post about the Green Showroom</a> in Berlin. I had to split it up, there was just too much cool stuff to see. So today I wanna show you some more sustainable fashion labels.<br />
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One interesting project is Algeamy by <a href="http://blondandbieber.com/">Blond & Bieber</a>. Together with the <a href="http://www.fraunhofer.de/en.html">Fraunhofer Institute</a> they are developing different coloured algae dyes to use for textile printing.<br />
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The interesting part is the dye, depending on the binding agent, developes different textures. From what feels like regular dye, to what feels like a quite tough, rubbery surface.<br />
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And the even more interesting thing is that the colours change after time due to UV exposure. So green turns into a light and then a medium blue. Orange turns into yellow or red or the other way around, I don't quite remember.<br />
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Love their printing machine too. It looks like a posh toy market stall for kids.<br />
So elegant and simple, but so sophisticated. Very cool.<br />
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I think it's really interesting to see these innovations at the Fashion Week. Some people are really into their research and working together with science institutions.<br />
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<a href="http://green-showroom.net/en/exhibitors/envido/">Envido</a> is a label from Brazil working closely together with different local craftspeople, recycling bronze, leather, rubber, and even gem stones. Because apparently Brazil has so many gemstones and the small ones ain't good for exporting, so they are just getting thrown away! Like emeralds and amethysts and stuff. Crazy! The girls are super nice and I think it's great that they work with so many community projects and are doing so much upcycling.<br />
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Here is a picture of the recycled bronze, I really love the bracelet, even though I'm not a fan of the leather in the background. Still wanted to post the picture.<br />
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We briefly spoke about football too, the match between Germany and Brazil being that night. Well, that must have been a hard night for them! I hope they didn't take it too bad and have recovered by now.<br />
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<a href="http://www.farrahfloyd.com/">Farrah Floyd</a> is another fashion label based in Berlin, which integrates a zero waste system into their business. Like for example, developing cuts with no cutoffs, where you use a rectangle piece of fabric and just use seams to change the shape of the garment. Tricky stuff!<br />
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I like the cross between streetwear and a more eccentric, elegant silhouette.<br />
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And here is the show piece of the green showroom in my opinion, a gown by <a href="http://www.lionelmorin.net/#!home/mainPage">Lionel Morin</a>. Not my style, but I thought it was interesting. It's more conceptual art than wearable fashion.<br />
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I'll probably write another post later, but first I got to go back to take some more pictures..lyptishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12426035447552977566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710424662078240140.post-27449096881978591712014-07-09T04:32:00.002-07:002014-07-09T06:06:17.571-07:00GREEN FASHION IN BERLINYesterday I helped out a friend at the <a href="http://green-showroom.net/en/">Green Showroom in Berlin</a>. The Green Showroom is one of two connected sustainable fashion shows in Berlin, the other one being the <a href="http://ethicalfashionshowberlin.com/en/">Ethical Fashion Show</a>. Basically the Ethical is for Streetwear and the Green Showroom for the more posh, luxury sector in the industry.<br />
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Both have a sustainable agenda, if you want to participate your label has to cover at least one environmental and one social aspect, which could be using organic fabrics, upcycling, local production, waste reduction, paying fair wages and so on.<br />
I always like those fashion shows, because I feel more at home there and I know people are kind of on the same page with me when it comes to sustainability, eco conscious production and their work being socially viable.<br />
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The Green Showroom is held at the Adlon Hotel right next to the Brandenburger Tor/Brandenburg Gate in the middle of Berlin. It's one of the poshest hotels in town and crawling with rich people. Basically people, that I never get to fucking see during the rest of the year.<br />
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Which makes it really entertaining in itself. It's like a social study or something for me going there.<br />
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Here is a bad picture of the restaurant area.<br />
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And here is an example of the terribly cheesy artwork they have crowding the place. This one costs 5000€ btw. It looks like something bad from a 90's Berlin gift shop.<br />
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The ladies at the fashion show reception are super nice!<br />
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Here is a quick look into the cozy fashion expo setup, including carpets, heavy drapes and wood panelling.<br />
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The location makes for a quite intimate atmosphere.<br />
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And now let me show you some of the labels I liked.<br />
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There is of course my friends label, <a href="http://www.mariaseifert.com/collections.html">Maria Seifert Collections</a>, pretty women's wear made from organic cotton or other organic fabrics. This time parts of the collection were featuring an interesting peacock print and yellow pants.<br />
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Her stall neighbour <a href="http://skrabak.de/">Skrabak</a> had some cool dresses on offer which are printed and produced in Germany featuring interesting patterns inspired by Moroccan mosaic tiles.<br />
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Then there was <a href="http://livingbluebd.com/#">Living Blue</a>, who make indigo tie dyed scarfs made in Bangladesh. I'm always amazed by what's possible do make with tie dye, straight lines and everything, very impressive.<br />
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And here is <a href="http://www.katrienvanhecke.com/">Katrien van Hecke</a>'s collection, she's using plant dye exclusively for her lovely dresses and scarves. Unfortunately they are not vegan, as she uses silk fabcris only. But I wanted to show you anyways, because it's really amazing what you can do with natural dyes!<br />
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So expressive!<br />
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Ok, I just decided I will make 2 or even 3 posts out of this. There is just too much cool shit I wanna show you! Tomorrow we'll continue. Stay tuned and I hope you enjoyed it. If you have any questions regarding the shows just ask me. :)<br />
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<br />lyptishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12426035447552977566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710424662078240140.post-84151294004502631862014-03-10T05:20:00.002-07:002014-03-10T05:22:57.811-07:00NATURAL COLOURS AND DYEINGAs you can see in my <a href="http://lyptis.blogspot.de/2013/09/dye-gardens-and-witch-kitchens.html">last blog post</a> I have been experimenting with natural dyes. The dyes are all plant based and different parts of plants can be used as dyestuffs, like barks, roots, leaves and flowers.. To set the colours and make them more lightfast I treat the fabrics with mordants, which can be certain kinds of salts for example.<br />
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It's quite a labour intensive process. Especially considering that I don't have a water supply in my studio.<br />
But I love doing it, it's quite meditative and I love seeing the results.<br />
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I will start offering a few items, such as dresses and women's and men's t-shirts in my <a href="http://www.lyptis.com/">Webshop</a>, in the beginning in a few different colours. Right now I have yellow, sand, brown and grey available and I'm also experimenting with different shades of purple.<br />
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I'll post some experiments and results on my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lyptis">facebook page</a> too, so, if you haven't already "liked" it, you can do that <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lyptis">now</a>.<br />
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The first item I listed in my webshop is this <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/182139212/mens-t-shirt-shirt-sweatshirt-hand-dyed?ref=shop_home_active_14">beautiful men's t-shirt</a> I made from an organic sweatshirt fabric and dyed in this absolutely lovely yellow colour. There is also a slight tie dye optic to most hand dyed items. Colours and patterns vary in each item and make them truly unique.<br />
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Will be posting more soon, keep updated here on my blog or on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lyptis">facebook</a> or my <a href="http://www.lyptis.com/">webshop</a>.lyptishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12426035447552977566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710424662078240140.post-53203633871565687282013-09-16T00:08:00.000-07:002013-09-16T00:12:54.324-07:00DYE GARDENS AND WITCH KITCHENSIf you are following me on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lyptis">Facebook</a>, you might know I've recently gotten quite interesting in natural dyeing. I went to a workshop a while ago and then dedicated a corner in my studio to playing around with natural dyes as well. With shelf, cookers and big pots and everything.<br />
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It's a lot of fun and I feel like a witch, stirring these big pots with twigs that I've found outside. In German we would say it's like a "Hexenküche" - a "witch kitchen". It's also really meditative.<br />
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I've tried a couple of things, but don't have the time right now to commit myself to it more. Eventually I want to sell a couple of things - clothes that I've found or made, dyed with natural plants.<br />
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At the weekend I vistited one of my friends in her dye garden. She started it together with a couple of other women at the <a href="http://www.tempelhoferfreiheit.de/?id=377">Allmende Gardens</a> at the <a href="http://www.tempelhoferfreiheit.de/en/">Tempelhof Airport</a> which closed down only a few years ago.<br />
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It was the most beautiful late summer day (you get a lot of sun at the airport field when it's sunny, coz no trees!) and the beautiful, natural coloured textiles looked so vibrant flowing in the wind. I don't even think the pictures do them justice. They looked amazing!!<br />
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lyptishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12426035447552977566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710424662078240140.post-79164726802406651672013-09-09T07:03:00.000-07:002013-09-16T02:24:58.056-07:00JUST A FERRY RIDE AWAYMost of the time I take the bike to my studio. Sometimes the tram. But on special occasions, I get a little treat. You see, the building where my studio is, is directly at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spree">Spree</a>, the main river in Berlin.<br />
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And a couple of minutes from there we have a little ferry boat crossing the river. Just a 2 minute ride, but still pretty special, especially in great weather.<br />
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Isn't that cool?!lyptishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12426035447552977566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710424662078240140.post-8799199890064762832013-07-06T12:13:00.000-07:002014-03-10T03:54:15.501-07:00ETHICAL FASHION SHOW BERLINThis week was Fashion Week in Berlin and I went to the <a href="http://ethicalfashionshowberlin.com/en/#&panel1-8">Ethical Fashion Show</a>. Some of my friends were showing their stuff there and it was pretty interesting to see what everyone is doing and to meet some new people.<br />
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Naturally I showed up 5 minutes before closing time asking about fabrics, availability and delivery times, as you do. Great fun!</div>
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Then I went to see my friend Maria Seifert who was there presenting her label <a href="http://www.mariaseifert.com/collections.html">Maria Seifert Collections</a>. She is very talented and isn't she sweet?!<br />
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Then I went to see the lovely people from <a href="http://aluc.eu/">Aluc</a>, who had a booth together with Brainshirt. Arianna(on the right) is also part of the awesome Upcycling Fashion Store in Berlin.<br />
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<br />lyptishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12426035447552977566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710424662078240140.post-56141879865741519572013-04-18T11:55:00.003-07:002013-04-19T03:30:43.375-07:00SUSTAINABILITY AND ECONOMICS<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Just wanted to give you an update of what I’m doing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I have been in Germany exactly for one year and two days now. I LOVE IT!! I’m so glad I’m back!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I’ve met up with old friends, met lots of great new people, went to places in Berlin I hadn’t been before, some of them didn’t even exist when I left, went to workshops, moved a couple of times, got a studio, then got a new studio, made things, did a business course, wrote a business plan, changed it, then changed it again and am just enjoying life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I started to think about my business in a more holistic, professional way. About, how I could integrate it into my life better and be more satisfied with it. Not exploiting myself, nature, other people or animals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Wow, that’s quite a task! I got pretty high standards on how it should be and sometimes have some doubts if I can pull it off with the business skills I’ve got ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I’m feeling bad, coz a few times I’ve said I’m getting there, but then it took much longer then I thought.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So I’ll give you a few things I’m working on,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> ♥</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> I wanna change production to exclusively organic and recycled fabrics</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Strangely, I just figured out the other day, that Lyptis was quite a sustainable brand already. You know, handmade in Australia, but also cuz, I almost exclusively used deadstock fabrics. I knew what deadstock was, I just didn’t know I was using it. Strange, right?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">About the economics, I haven’t studied business or something like that. I’m just making things up as I go, picking something up from other self-employees, from classes and the net. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But then, I think about all the cool things I could make, and how making things in a more environmentally conscious way would be a great thing to do. And most importantly, I think of all the sweet customers I had, some of which are still writing to me, after I had my Etsy shop closed for over a year, asking when I’d open again, so they can buy more dresses. Wow, really, I gotta say that’s so nice! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And the once that always left such sweet feedback on my page(<a href="http://www.etsy.com/people/lyptis/feedback?ref=owner_feedback_leftnav">I think I need to show it off</a>), it always made my day, even after so many feedbacks. Thank you so much!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And I’m very grateful that you’re still with me! Thanks!</span></div>
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lyptishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12426035447552977566noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710424662078240140.post-35154849254051136302013-03-19T08:38:00.000-07:002014-03-10T03:55:11.527-07:00MAKING PRETTY THINGS YOURSELF: HULA HOOP WEAVINGYesterday, my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/etsyberlinstreetteam">Etsy Berlin Street Team</a>, organized an awesome workshop at the Etsy Labs in Berlin.<br />
Hula Hoop Weaving!!<br />
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Super easy and really fun! If you or your friends have a lot of fabric scraps lying around, this is an awesome project to do. Here is a <a href="http://www.flaxandtwine.com/2012/02/woven-finger-knitting-hula-hoop-rug-diy.html">perfect tutorial</a>. I will spare you my own tutorial attempt, as I didn't take pictures with the single steps along the way.<br />
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It turned out much nicer then I thought. And you can do so many variations, in colour and texture and whatnot.<br />
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I feel like doing some more now! Try it out, it's pretty easy and a satisfying project to do.lyptishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12426035447552977566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710424662078240140.post-9715578113060972482013-01-22T11:58:00.002-08:002013-01-22T11:58:58.489-08:00IT'S EASY TO KEEP YOUR STUDIO TIDY, ISN'T IT?!It’s been a while since I closed down my shop. I’d never thought it would take me that long to open it again!! On the one hand, I must have forgotten how intense German bureaucracy can get, on the other hand, underestimated how many business things there are still for me to learn.<br />
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At the moment I still haven’t got anything listed in my shop and I’m doing courses and training, which is nice, it makes me feel more secure plunging myself into my business full-time again for a second round.<br />
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So, before I get the bureaucratic .. uhm.. challenges moved out of the way, I was wondering what I could do in the meanwhile. And I decided, one of the things that would make work easier for myself once I start it, would be a very well organized workspace.<br />
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So, I decided to focus on that.
I tend to be quite tidy, but also quite unorganized. When I posted pics of my studios in the past, people have told me it looks quite tidy and how they never get theirs to look that clean.
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And here is a link where you can have a look at pics from <a href="http://lyptis.blogspot.de/2009/05/my-studio-and-i.html">my very FIRST studio</a>.<br />
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I don’t actually need to tidy up that much before taking pics, but of curz there are days where it doesn’t look quite like that either.
And I remember a time when I JUST started my label.. holy shit, I don’t really wanna talk about that, there were a lot of tears, a lot of crawling around the floor and lots of swearing while looking for things.<br />
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I used to think I don’t have time to tidy, but then spent 10 times longer looking for things and it seemed, things took me 20 times longer to make.<br />
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•<b>make your studio a cozy place</b>, put up nice lighting, get a comfy chair, put up pictures, keep it nice and warm or cool, make it so you love coming in there and you can start working straight away, coz you got everything at your disposal and you are excited to be there.<br />
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I had an open studio event 2 months back, which I used as a deadline to make my space more inviting and comfy. I gotta say, I like using it much more now.
My studio is outside my home and it’s almost like a little home away from home!<br />
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Thanks for reading!xlyptishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12426035447552977566noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710424662078240140.post-83231319371561087222012-06-03T05:11:00.001-07:002012-06-03T05:11:25.788-07:00MINI LYPTIS<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I put some pictures of my kids clothing up on my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lyptis">facebook page</a> just before I left. It was a really, really stressful time and I still haven’t gotten around to blog about it. Actually just thinking about the time before I left makes me feel like stomach ulcers and anxiety attacks all over again.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I thought kids clothing would be kind of a cool thing to do. And I’ve made some men's stuff before too, which I haven’t blogged about yet, but there are some <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150594450001909.388840.48034646908&type=3">pics on my facebook page</a> too. It’s cool to make some other clothing sometimes, something in a different shape, for different people. It gives you a more complete understanding of the human form and of what people need in their clothing. And it’s fun!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">I think this time I wont be working from home, because our room is very, very small. We are only renting one room right now, which fits perfectly into my minimalist lifestyle, just not into the concept of working from home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">It’s kind of exciting, but also a lot of effort setting everything up again. I hope I can make some new clothes and put up some new pictures soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">But it wont be too soon, that’s why I don’t wanna set a concrete date for my store opening yet. But I’ll definitely let you know soon enough.</span><br />
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Here are the lucky ones!:)</div>
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CONGRATS to the winners!!! <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">♥</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">♥</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">♥ </span>Yay!!</div>
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And if you haven't won anything this time, don't be sad, I'll be doing a Giveaway again in the future.:)</div>
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I've got a couple of sweet new items ready, I just need to get some pictures taken of them. They won't be for sale (yet), but I just want to show them to you anyways. So I'll post some pics here and on my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lyptis?bookmark_t=page">facebook page</a> this coming week.</div>
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So yeah, no news otherwise, I'm catching up on orders. If you are waiting for your order I will send them all out on Monday! And on Friday we will be moving out of our house. Eeeep!! It will take me a while to set up my studio and label in Germany, so please be patient, shipping my sewing machine will probably already take 6-8 weeks. Wtf??!</div>
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Have a lovely weekend.x</div>lyptishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12426035447552977566noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710424662078240140.post-52986245268766126802012-02-28T14:33:00.001-08:002012-02-28T14:33:40.673-08:00GiveawayI said in <a href="http://lyptis.blogspot.com.au/2011/06/lyptis-update.html">this post</a> I might do a Giveaway once I hit 400 Etsy sales. I hit it a while ago, but never gotten around to setting it up.<br />
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So yeah, I will randomly draw 5, from this and next months customers, to receive some dresses of their choice(depending on availability). Might even throw in something extra for some of my repeat customers too. Coz I Love, Love, Love my customers, especially the repeat ones!:)<br />
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Deadline is the 28th of March and I'll announce the winners on my blog. <br />
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Other then that, Everything is 50%off in <a href="http://www.lyptis.com/">my shop</a> at the moment. Have a look, I can still make certain custom orders, but not for much longer. All the Best. Love.xlyptishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12426035447552977566noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710424662078240140.post-32630807690695337262012-02-27T15:13:00.000-08:002012-02-27T15:13:00.080-08:00A New BeginningI'm moving back to Germany! In less then two months.<br />
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It's kind of scary and kind of exciting to do something new. I haven't lived in Germany for 8 years!! So, it's gonna be a bit of a shock!!<br />
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I wanted to Thank all my customers and all the friends I made on my crafty journey for their support.<br />
It means a lot to me people supporting my little label. Thank You So much, you are the Best!:)<br />
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I'm pretty sure if I will continue my label once I set myself up in Germany. But obviously there are going to be changes. I want to get more into natural dyes and I am looking into organic fabrics. Here is a blog post I wrote about <a href="http://theforagingsquirrel.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/natural-dyes-an-introduction/">natural dyes</a>, I just found it so inspiring. But we will see what happens, can't be too sure yet.<br />
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So, of course I am having a Massive Clearance Sale in <a href="http://www.lyptis.com/">my shop</a>! <br />
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Just use code 'Changes' at checkout and you will receive 50%off all orders! Check it out!<br />
And I will keep you update with how I go.<br />
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<br />lyptishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12426035447552977566noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710424662078240140.post-10951536689782545372011-09-21T00:55:00.000-07:002011-09-21T00:55:13.794-07:00OK, FIRE HYDRANTSAlright, i love New York fire hydrants. They are awesome. Not as boring red as the German ones. And i don't even know how the Australian version looks like. Grey?!<br />
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Anyways, i took a couple of pics.<br />
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Some people say "The streets are made of gold in New York." I don't think so, but some of the fire hydrants certainly are. This one's even got a little fucking crown.<br />
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Pink! Awesome! And silver. I thook this near where the US Open are held. And there was this cop van on the other side of the street. And the cop set off his siren. And there is like a lot of police in New York, they are fucking everywhere, so i was already paranoid. So i was like "What do you want?!" And he is like "...snakes.." And me "What? Snakes?" And he is like "....snakes.. ..!" And me "What do you mean snakes? I can't see any snakes!" And he is like, finally leaning out of the window "That was a mistake!" And me, well it fucking better. Ha ha. The guy gave me a fucking fright!<br />
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This one is awesome. Nice and compact AND yellow. So cute!<br />
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And this one is for my blog readers. because you are so awesome! This was taken on a rainy day in Prospect Park before the storm.<br />
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If you go the New York or have any cool hydrants where you live, keep an eye out for them.<br />
And send me your best picture!lyptishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12426035447552977566noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710424662078240140.post-63005387311643108962011-09-19T18:40:00.000-07:002011-09-20T19:22:31.326-07:00STUFF YOU FIND...In New York you find all kinds of things.<br />
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It's not the clubs and rooftop bars and the shopping that i love about New York. I just love to walk around and take pictures of all the crazy people and the crazy shit you see in the streets.(ah yeah and the food, i love the food)<br />
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Go to some flea markets(this one is at the Brooklyn Flea market). I thought it was funny, "Bush Family Values" next to a skull+crossbones. Nice!!<br />
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"Hail Piggy!" or sumthing! I just found it funny what some people put in front of their restaurants. People seem to be obsessed with animals in uniform or clothes or whatever. Lucky this one isn't holding a bunch of sausages as they sometimes do..<br />
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And my favourite flea market find this year.. What are these?! Little fuck dolls or what? My opinion is still swaying between hilariously cute and kinda creepy! Btw, their pants were already pulled down. Great selling point, i get it!lyptishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12426035447552977566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710424662078240140.post-6212891685298082242011-09-18T03:04:00.000-07:002011-09-18T14:04:25.243-07:00I ♥ QUEENS<span style="background-color: red;"><span style="background-color: black;"></span></span>Last year when i went to Queens i totally didn't like it. Just got off at a random stop and it obviously wasn't the right one.<br />
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So, this year we tried again..<br />
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And we ended up at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flushing_Meadows%E2%80%93Corona_Park">Flushing Meadows Corona Park</a>.<br />
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It was fucking awesome!! I totally loved it!<br />
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You get to see all these remnants and ruins from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_New_York_World%27s_Fair">1939-40</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_New_York_World%27s_Fair">1964-65</a> New York World's Fairs. It's just totally amazing and space age.<br />
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Some space age observation towers.<br />
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This is pretty awesome! Time capsules!<br />
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"Buried alongside the 1938 capsule, this container holds an additional 50,000 microfilm pages, tranquilizers, one checkered bikini, credit cards, a fifty-star American flag, tektite, Beatles record "A Hard Day's Night" birth control pills, plastic wrap material from Echo II satellite, Kent filter cigarettes, detergent, freeze dried foods, irradiated seeds, a plastic heart valve, an electric toothbrush, and desalted Pacific Ocean water."<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Hall_of_Science">The New York Hall of Science</a>.<br />
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Yeah, so overall i would really recommend this as a destination if you want to see something a bit different on your next trip to New York. I'll be back!lyptishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12426035447552977566noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710424662078240140.post-16194906133473635042011-07-12T23:02:00.000-07:002011-07-12T23:02:11.325-07:00Melbourne Beach- For Fucks Sake Keep It Clean<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>It's not difficult to make a beach beautiful, all you gotta do is just keep it clean.<br />
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Melbourne has such pretty beaches, but some of them are seriously spoiled! It's disgusting!<br />
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Melbourne might be on a bay, but that's no excuse.<br />
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People throw their rubbish around, the city pumps sewage or whatever it is in the sea(definitely smells like sewage sometimes).<br />
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Sure they drain storm water in the bay, but is this disgusting shit really necessary? I mean this water seriously looks like moulding jelly!<br />
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This thing is funny. I have no idea what it is. It reminds me of a clothes rack. It would be funny if someone would go up there and dry their clothes on it. It's pretty big too.<br />
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So, Keep it clean Melbourne. Your beaches are like one of the best things about this city. It's not that difficult.lyptishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12426035447552977566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710424662078240140.post-22800843833374119202011-07-01T02:51:00.000-07:002011-07-01T18:43:19.201-07:00A SALE AND NEW DESIGNSMade a couple of leggings lately. What you reckon?<br />
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This is the first pair i ever made, pretty awesome right?! I wear leggings every day in winter. Every. Day. Strict No Pant Rule. So yeah, dunno why it took me so long..<br />
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One of my favourites, kind of subtle, but kind of not. Cute print too.<br />
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And those ones, not so subtle, but still one of my favourites(you notice a theme here?)<br />
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They and everything else in <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/lyptis">my shop</a> are on Sale at the moment, just put in coupon code: 'IWANTSUMMER' at checkout and receive 20%off(until Sunday).<br />
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Have a super awesome and lovely and sunny weekend.:)lyptishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12426035447552977566noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710424662078240140.post-46005127756709996972011-06-22T01:35:00.000-07:002011-07-01T02:57:11.545-07:00WINTER SOLSTICEWinter Solstice, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_solstice">shortest day of the year</a>.<br />
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They had a week of celebrations in Fed Square in Melbourne. We went one night, it was nice.<br />
Lots of dances by different nationalities, pretty cool music and interesting performances.<br />
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The music was mostly trancy, which combined with the costumes nearly put me in some sort of hypnosis.<br />
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They built this pyramid thing a couple of weeks ago. Kids could decorate lanterns and then they put them up on the structure. For some reason they turned them off most of the time, which kind of defeats the purpose.<br />
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Of course it takes two supervisors to watch over a fire.<br />
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Nice fire pit. They could have thrown a couple of more logs on it.<br />
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Fiiire.. oops, just put me into a trance again..<br />
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Loved this woman from the Japanese performance. They did a dance to remember the people who died in the Japan earthquake. Sad.<br />
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Good Night! And lets hope summer comes sooon!!lyptishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12426035447552977566noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710424662078240140.post-54079683456112962752011-06-12T03:32:00.000-07:002011-06-17T05:59:17.849-07:00LYPTIS UPDATEHave you seen the <a href="http://maddabling.blogspot.com/2011/06/friday-friends-dusty-divas-lyptis.html">feature on Lyptis</a> on Maddablings blog? It was pretty fun to answer some questions and take some pictures of my studio.<br />
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</div>I'm planning on doing a Giveaway once i hit 300 likers on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/lyptis">my facebook page</a>. At the moment i got 100, give or take a few, but i just wanted to give you a heads up. The Giveaway has to run trough my blog though, because of Facebook's policies, which is kind of annoying, but that's how they roll.<br />
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Thinking about giving away one of these.<br />
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I might even do one when i hit 400 Etsy Sales. Watch this space and i'll also keep you updated on my Facebook page of course.<br />
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Other then that here are some new items.<br />
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</span></div>lyptishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12426035447552977566noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710424662078240140.post-91053822041344762262011-05-27T00:48:00.000-07:002011-06-02T01:51:36.327-07:00What Ya Doing At The Weekend?So, it's the weekend what are you up to?<br />
I will tell you what i am doing.<br />
That's where i am going <a href="http://wheelercentre.com/calendar/presenter/gail-dines/">tonight</a>, a talk by Gail Dines and i'm so excited.<br />
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I just think this woman is amazing. You can check out one of her websites <a href="http://stoppornculture.org/">here</a>. I watched a couple of her youtube videos and she's pretty awesome. If you are interested in this this is another great website <a href="http://www.antipornography.org/">www.antipornography.org</a>, its got heaps of resources on it.<br />
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Last weekend i checked out the <a href="http://thehandmadeshow.blogspot.com/">Handmade Show</a> in Oakleigh, Melbourne, to see what my friends were up to there. Pretty cozy venue with a little stage and velvet curtains. I also got to take a picture of this ..rabbit. First i thought it had little boobs but we got corrected pretty quickly by the little artist herself. Those are paws of courz! Didn't you hate that when you were a kid and people didn't know what they were talking about? I sure did.<br />
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</div><div style="color: #134f5c; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Ok, a picture of my friend Kerri of <a href="http://vintagesewandso.blogspot.com/">Vintage Sew And So</a>. I'm afraid she is gonna bite my head off when she sees it, coz she looks a bit angry in it. But she is really a nice lady. She brought her teenage daughter along too. Lucky for her her daughter is really sweet, at that age some girls are lying in a drug induced coma in the </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">street </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">gutter. I won't name any names..</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">So what you doing? Are there any things you'd like to see or try? </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span> </span></div></div>lyptishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12426035447552977566noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7710424662078240140.post-54442850257291197462011-05-08T02:17:00.000-07:002011-06-02T00:11:25.578-07:00I Miss The FreaksSometimes i miss NYC. I wish i could just pack up my bags and go there now.<br />
I like the freaks. And i miss them.<br />
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Sometimes i see people running around the streets there, shouting or wearing the craziest things or just doing really random shit. I love it. It's so entertaining. <br />
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Even the window displays in the shops are so fun! Old shops, weird shops, random shit. Whatever. I like to just walk around and check out the people and the buildings and all the shops.<br />
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Ah yeah, and one of the best times we had in NYC was at the Upper East Side at this deli and there were all these cookie old people and i just had such a great time(no photos though, i try to be polite). Man, if i was living there, this would be my local hangout.<br />
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Now i have to just scratch all the money together i can so i can go back there soon enough.<br />
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What are your favourite places? And why?lyptishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12426035447552977566noreply@blogger.com5