Facebookfanpage and a little giveaway

Dear Readers,

As you have noticed, I don't have the time to update this blog regularly. But recently I started a facebookfanpage. I will keep that one updated with the latest news and I'll post promotions exclusive to my facebookaudience.

In fact, I'm having a little give-away over there right now. So I would like to invite you to ‘like’ me over there and as a little thank you 5 people will be chosen at random from the ‘likes’ of Karlita/Lettershop on december 1st. Each winner can choose one item of their choice from my collection and i will send it to them. Here is the link to the facebookpage: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Karlita-Lettershop/255239421195548. I will post the winners there on December first.

So hop on over and take action ...

ps feel free to invite all your friends who might be interested to become a fan as well - you would be doing me a great favour :)

Stocksales fall 2011: A.F. Vandevorst

Stocksales fall 2011: ANN DE MEULEMEESTER and HAIDER ACKERMANN

Stocksales fall 2011: DRIES VAN NOTEN

I just got word of the dates for the stocksale of DRIES VAN NOTEN - for fabric I have found this one to be the best!

What?
Sales of fabric (lots of it) and clothes for men and women

When?
wednesday 19 october from 1 pm until 6 pm (usually very busy on the first day)
thursday 20 october from 1 pm until 6 pm
friday 21 october from 1 pm until 6 pm
saturday 22 october from 10 am until 5 pm
sunday 23 october from 10 am until 5 pm

Where?
Godefriduskaai 36
2000 Antwerpen
(very close to the MAS)

CASH ONLY!

As soon as i receive the other dates from the other designers, i'll post them here!

A little preview for the upcoming new jewelry line for sewing fans!

I have a little obession with wooden spools, especially the vintage ones. They are displayed in the little atelier with my collection of ribbons on them. So it was a treat to find little wooden spools that could be used for jewelry - nothing more fun than wearing wooden spools with happy colours, right? These are not vintage but i love them anyway and they can be decorated with any colour (that I have in stock).

There are two ring designs: standing up tall or laying flat - see picture on top of this post and the one here below.

And one necklace design: the little wooden spool is put on a sterling silver necklace but i treaded the silver necklace with the same colour (or a contrasting one) for an extra detail.

Soon to be in my karlita shop.

And back to Copenhagen, the picture below was the first thing you saw when entering our hotel - hotel 27 in Copenhagen.

It was a fun hotel - good breakfast + a complimentary little buffet at night (and since we are not very big eaters that was just perfect).

And to end this post - the view in Copenhagen looking down :)

A scarf from Copenhagen or from Karlita?

We are back home from Copenhagen and we had fun! But, as they say in Dutch 'beautiful songs never last long' so here we are again, ready go back to work. Maybe i'll tell some more about Copenhagen later but for now i just wanted to share my new personal project :)

On sunday we walked all the way to the Zoo (it was all the way since it was over an hours walk). My hubby loves the zoo - so most holidays we try to visit the local one. Anyway, i noticed this beautiful simple blue and white striped scarf but shops are closed on sunday. So i took a picture to remember to come back and than later decided i could just as well make it myself!

Found a beautiful yarnshop very close to the hotel and got started! It's looking good so far in my humble opinion:) Didn't go for regular stripes but instead decided on some more seemingly random ones (but in fact, calculated ones).

Oh and i love city-art at unexpected places - here it was to cover ugly rebuilding going on in the city:

Fun with Lo-Mob on my iphone

I'm still having fun discovering things on my iphone (that i have had for the past two or three years!). A before picture of my friend Lies at lunch in Cinecitta yesterday:

And after i played with Lo-Mob:

I also just discovered that the people that were behind my friend on the left in the original picture have dissapeared automatically in the edited picture. What an amazing app that is!