See you at ARTish?

This Saturday, September 29th ARTish will be held for the last time.

Just joking! This Saturday is the last time it will be held ouside in the center of Ljubljana. From October until April it will be held indoors in Kina Šiška. It's the last time this year I will be exhibiting and selling my bags. I have been a part of ARTish from June and I need a break. This Saturday will be the last time you can see and buy my bags directly from me. But no worries my Etsy shop will be open 24/7 and you can contact me whenever you like via email
blackbird.bags@gmail.com

I have a few new things to show you. First are short key chains. At first I only made long ones. Long enough to be worn around the neck, but then I was asked if I could make short ones too, so I did. Here they are:

A friend of mine had great idea and it turned out everyone wants one too. What is it? Key chain and a little bag for service card one uses at work. I don't use service card at my day job, but it's practical for Urbana as well.

Christmas will be here before you know it and I made drawstring bags that are wery practical for small gifts. They are very easy to make and if my photographic skills were any good I would make a tutorial for you.

A few members at Etsy Success team mentioned I should also sell pencil cases and a few days lates one of my friends also told me he wants a pencil case. So I made them :)) Those can be used as a cosmetic pouch too.

I have a lot of coin purses. Both zipper coin purses 

and very popular metal frame coin purses.

and metal frame clutches, cosmetic pouches, handbags, shoulder bags, cotton shoping bags. A lot more than I can show you in this post. If that didn't give you enough motivation to come and say hi at ARTish, well what if I tell you I will be having a few things as a giveaway? I'm not telling what, come and see ;-)

See you at ARTish?

Nicholas Fair

You are most welcome to the Nicholas Fair which will be held tomorrow from 2 PM until 7 PM in Logatec. There will be a lot of lovely handmade things, my unique bags included.

This is what it looked like last year - heavy snow storm. This years weather forecast is supposed to be sunny.

photo credit here

Fair in Piran

For the second time. Last month I didn't go due to bad weather, but this Saturday I'll be there. It will me my first market this year. Can't wait. I hope all goes well. I know it's going to be hot (35 deegres Celsius) and no shadow (must bring big umbrella), but the sea is near and I just love the smell of the sea.

This is where it's going to be held. In roud square surronded by old buildings and of course the sea.

photo credit here

Corrie from Retromummy is going to a market this Saturdas as well, but on the other side of the planet - Australia. She wrote her tips for those of us starting fresh
My top market stall tips

Thank you Corrie, this is just what I needed.

Fair in Piran

I'm acting like a farm girl, looking at the weather reports every half an hour. Will it rain on Saturday or not? I have good reason to be concerned. I'm not going to put away hay or anything like that, although when I was a child I did help every year at my grandma's farm, but that's another story.
There's an Fair this Saturday in small costal town called Piran and I'd very much like to go. The Fair is held at Tartini square (named after Giuseppe Tartini, born in Piran in 1692).

photo credit here

Although I love this city and would like to visit it, I'd love to meed new people, chat a bit, maybe sell a few things, I wouldn't like to get wet as well as getting my bags all wet. The weather report doesn't look at all promising - cold and rainy, maybe even storms.

So come on people, send some good vibrations to this part of the world, I need some sun or at least not the rain! In a meanwhile I'll show something I made in one afternoon. I could be a lunch bag, but

instead I use it as a shoes bag. 

I'm not really into high heels I can't wear them all day long, so at my work I usually change into something more comfortable. 

The opening...

.... of my Exhibit in Hostel Celica went smoothly, perfectly. Thank you all for coming and all of you who couldn't make, here is a peek of what you've missed.

The fantastic trio by Bojan Cvetrežnik, Klemen Bračko and Matija Krečič opened the ExhibitBojan Cvetrežnik 

Following the nice speech by Janko Rožič

A few words from me

And the main thing of the Exhibit- the bags

all photos by Bojan Stepančič (thank you sooooo much)

We had a lovely time. Thanx again for coming. 

The Exhibit will be held until January 7th 2011.

Don't miss the Exhibition in Hostel Celica

Mark your calendar for Tuesday, December 21th!

I am very pleased to annouce my first Exhibition. It will be opened by Janko Rožič in Hostel Celica in Ljubljana on Tuesday the 21th of December at 8 pm. If you can't make it, don't worry the Exhibition will be held until 7th of January 2011. What can you expect? I made so many bags in the past years it would be imposibe to show them all, so I'll exhibit a little bit of everything. And before I forget: it's a sales Exhibition, so go check it out.

I sure hope we will meet a have a chat or two and a drink or two.

If you like music of the world, you are most welcome in the Hostel at 9 pm, because there will be a Jam session. Free entry! More about events HERE

Nicholas Fair

On Friday 26th of November betwen 1PM and 6PM you are very welcome to Logatec to a localy fair called Miklavžev sejem (Nicholas Fair). I'll be there as well as many others with all the lovely handmade things.

Welcome! Hope to see you.

Onina manifestacija v pravo smer

In Slovenia there are about 40.000 children who are in risk of poverty. That is a lot if you think there is only 2 million inhabitants in Slovenia. Therefore Slovenian daily newpaper Delo launced a charity action called Create for children.

In May 2010 I saw an application for making a shopping bag kind towards enviroment. It was a charity thing, because all bag would be sold and money given to children and their familes who lost their jobs in Koroška region.

"I can make a shopping bag". So I thought long and hard and evenually made a bag and sent it.

In June the 22nd I found that among 194 bags the jury introduced 20 finalist and my was among them! Boy, was I happy. It is made out of cotton and it can be used on both sides. On one side there are trees and on the other there are stripes. I choose trees because Slovenia has a lot of trees, trees are very important for the Word and we should tresaure them. I choose stripes because I like them and they are fashionable this year.

The first photo is borrowed from HERE the other two are mine.

On 8th on September the winners were annouced and no, I did not win, but I am happy anyway. My bag was sold almost instantly. I hope it will serve the new owner well.

Since it was a charity thing I bought my self a bag as well. Here it is:

To bad I do not know the creator of this bag.

More info:
You can look at this LINK to se the final 20 bags and HERE to see the rest of the bags. And on this LINK you can find photos of event (on the 6th photo a mistery girl is buying my bag :)) and a video where my bag can be seen (between 3:34 and 3:40) in a hand of a model.


Thank you all who voted for me and my friends for all your support. It means a lot to me.