These past couple of days, I've been keeping myself busy fixing things around the house. Note: NOT buying new stuff or even vintage (one of my favourite things to do) but rather altering the things we already have. I've been really sick of our pillow cases - I sewed them in panic like 10 minutes before Andrea's parents visited us in our new home for the first time. Needless to say, the result was absolute crap. Yesterday I decided that enough is enough and made new ones. I love the fabric used for the first and second one and I'm thinking of using the rest of it to make a dress or maybe a full skirt. I bought it together with the royal blue fabric at one of my all-time favourite places; the Turkish market at Maybach Ufer in Berlin. This market is open on Tuesdays and Fridays and you'll find the most amazing things: great vegetables and fruits, fabric and sewing stuff, handmade things, flowers, fresh fish, cheese, locally produced products such as honey or lemonade, nuts and beans and everything else you could possibly wish for. The fabric is ridiculously cheap, a few euros/meter is standard price and there is a lot to choose from. I can highly recommend a visit to the market if you're in Berlin, it's a really great place to spend a few hours and have a fresh orange juice by the canal.
As for these babies above, I just couldn't stop myself. Of course I had to thread them on a string! These are the left-over scraps from the origami light string I made, and they're now hanging on our bedroom wall. And, surprise surprise, Andrea actually liked them. He called them "colourful". Instant success.
I got these MT washi tapes at Modulor a while ago, thinking that they're pretty and all but not really knowing what to do with them. Now, what in our flat is white and boring and could use some pink and turquoise? The possibilities are endless.
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