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It's my first day back working at home and boy a lot has happened since the last entry. I have been in Berlin taking part in the European trade show Bread and Butter. We arrived a week before the show and were happy with our lovely apartment Mini Loft. On Sunday we ferreted around 3 flea markets to source furniture and knick-knacks for our stand. Thinking we were going to have walls around our booth we planned to paint the area and hire more furniture. On Wednesday we trekked over to Gartenfelderstrasse and to our horror the booth was closed in with calico screens. We hotfooted it to Ikea, picked up heaps of black and pink fabric, borrowed a sewing machine (thanks Britta) and after 7 hours we had a rock'n'roll hazards booth!
We then hired furniture from a hip little shop called Cache Coeur on Schonhauser Allee. Gemma worked her magic creating Happy Clouds, a rainbow and mini lightning bolts as wall decorations. Finally we peppered the stand with fun trinkets from the flea market - including a pair of dancing 1980s coke cans wearing sunglasses. Ha ha.
Lots of stressful things filled our days including rails not turning up, some one stole the FUN brooch from my table and Babyshambles not turning up to the Vice party (we were all stood in an abandoned cigarette factory in East Berlin til 3am waiting for them). Besides all that sunshine filled the whole booth when my first order was Colette in Paris. Yippee! I then took orders from stores in Barcelona, Switzerland, Dublin, Amsterdam, Italy and Germany.
On the last day of the show we sold a few of our samples to gals and guys from other booths. Don't they look just lovely!
We had 2 days left in Berlin after the show and decided to take our brochures around independants in Mitte. The two most exciting places were Shibuya who are ordering jewellery and tees and Gal Institue who want us to do an exhibition of our work in November.
In ten little days I have learnt sooo much, it's been super hard work - there have been tears. But Lady Luck Rules OK has reached lots of new people and maybe next season I'll do Bread and Butter in Barcelona. We'll have to see.
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sounds like an amazing time, really worth all the blood, sweat and tears.
typical Babyshambles, they certainly live up to their name!
and i can say that as a fan!
it's all good for ladyluckrulesok! though, which is great. your area is stellar...i want those chairs. us down in dorset are loving the new jewels leona!
I´m loving it!
Also check out:
GROUPS.MYSPACE.COM/LADYLUCKRULESOK
Hey i am on that myspace group! This is imogen by the way Isabel :-D
Hey im glad ya had a super time, bit of a bummer bout babyshambles esp if you are like me and in love with pete doherty hehe
lots of super rainbow love
x x x x
Hey! Sounds like you had an amazing time. I bet tha tears were worth it!
Keep up tha good work =0)
Love Lorna xXx
p.s. that sounds ever so rude of Babyshambles. To be honest Pete is grating on me sooo much at tha minute, get it together goddamnit man!
This has nothing to do with your trip (though i hope you had a good time), but I got my Pistols and Stones earrings today, and they are AMAZING!
Thanks so much Leona for being so talented and making such rocking jewellery.
XoXoX
wow, LadyLuck goes international! congratulations :) how could anyone not LOVE your stuff?? (they really couldn't!)
Laura xxx
Nice!
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I adore your jewellery. So far I only own the Rebell Yell earrings which I love and wear most days but I shall definately be buying some more of your stuff in the future! It's amazing! All my friends want to know where I got my cool earrings from!
I was wondering, do you know a website where I can get charms and beads from? I'm looking for some cool ones, like skulls, hello kitty, betty boop...but I want plastic ones and I can only find pewter ones. I've looked all over the internet. Thought you would be in the know about these things! would really appreciate your help!
Hmm, I don't really buy charms over the internet, maybe US Ebay sometimes. Like I always say you gotta haul your ass out of bed early and get down to your local carboots and fleas or find out when your local junk shops and charity shops get new stock. I remember going into Junk and Disorderly in Stoke Newington when she had just returned from the closing down sale of the Pink Soda factory. She had boxes full of 80s plastic and diamante charms. Happy days. It's a mixture of luck and pounding the pavements - get out from in front of your screen - you'd be amazed what you can find on your local high street!
Thanks leona, I'll be going to a few cities in the coming weeks so will have a look round. Ta for the help anyways, and keep up your amazing jewellery!!
