paper, oh, paper...

the sun is playing wicked games with me today - I was supposed to take some photos of new purses that t.’s working on right now, but it is no use even trying – everything’s just sooooo gray i gloomy. wind whistles some scary melodies on the roof and tries to push the pre-spring laziness into the room. we’re fighting it back with a lot of coffee and work.
work’s good! coffee’s even better!

what always helps me stay alieve during vulnerable, grayish times and what kept me going during this passing winter was playing with paper. I’ve collected some old calendars, took good old scissors, a bucket of glue and made a sea of envelopes… this little game is windproof and grayproof. no matter what colours you decide to use:)

(there's a soothing sound of a sewing machine in the background and it is just perfect.)

have a good evening - we're going for a walk!
-oh

lucky lucky garbage discoveries

do we like garbage? oh, yes, yes, we do!

no wonder than that when a few days ago I went out and saw an old couple leaving something next to a conteiner on our street the radar started working;) I found a shoe box full of old postcards from all over europe sent in the 60s and early 70s. adressed to a grandmother. absolutely gorgeous and well kept! many black and white pictures, some colour filtered – like the one on the pic beneath.

I love postcards and it’s so sad that so few people these days actually send them - and if you don’t send your postcards because you can never find your way to the post office to get some stamps, there’s the tip: when you send a card from a big europen city just write what you want to write and put it into a post box. it will find its way even without a stamp! my lousy-budget journeys made me check on it and I can tell there is 100% effectiveness until now. this is how the post guys exchange reliable people for faster machines…
but pssst, it’s ain’t legal to say it loud…

a little confession: I was always into second hand things, but the first time I got really fascinated with garbage was a few years ago when we hitch-hiked to spain. the old red leather suitcase next to a dustbin in barcelona was really beautiful and easy to resotore. unfortunatelly, also too big and uncomfortable to drag it through the whole europe for another couple of weeks. happily I managed to collect some of the lego stuff – a lego cook, lego tree, a lego street and a lego car. I dreamt about it when I was a child, but it was too expensive at that time. then I got it for free;)

and now some good news - the bombona sewer is coming back from his exams-exile! congratulations, congratulations! today we've celebrated it with an exquisite choco-banana cake;) shall put a recipe here soon - it's really worth it!

and some announcement for the gdansk -today (saturday) our bags are HERE.

cheers!
-savez

the last thing. before christmas I used some of the postcards we found on a flea market to make season cards – I really enjoyed the idea of changing a postcard sent from holidays about 40 years ago into a christmas card that I could use now. objects travelling in time and space - isn't this great:)

back to paperland!

oh erased habits and abandoned pleasures! we sometimes promise ourselves we shall come back to them one day. the legendary „one day” of course never happens, as there are too many new challenges, habits, enterteinments to even try to make it happen.

some stopped doing sports, some reading books, others don’t send/collect holiday postcards or learn new languages any more. or write letters…

packing for any lonely journey I took used to finish with copleting some envelopes and sheets of paper in order to be able to let my obsessive passion flourish: writing letters while sipping coffees in local cafes, sitting on park benches, waiting long hours on train stations and airports. stealling pens from shops and post offices, secretly tearing pages from hostel guest books when left short of paper.

the grey pack-paper envelopes is what I liked most until I found an old-style triangle-back envelope, opened it and made it my template of beloved shape. bought large sheets of cards in EKIERKA paper shop nearby and started a little manufacture. my life-long habit of collecting parts of newspapers, magazines, leaflets, colourful papers was of use and the colourful garbage hit the envelopes’ front!

and when I moved far from the spring of cheap ekierka-cards I started using old callendars, posters, folders as a base – anything that was large and tough enough to make it work well.

some people watch tv, some exercise, some eat, some sleep and I used to visit paperland when I felt bit brainwashed. my nonsense collection of hundreds of stars cut from newspapers is a living proof of how brainwashed I could sometimes get… :)

another step after coming back to making envelops should be writing letters. hopefully!

-oh

ps. neverending winter is most probably the best time to make the legendary "one day" happen!