Happy Holidays!

God Jul, Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad!

Best holiday wishes from the sunshine coast in Spain,

Carolina 

St. Lucia

Tomorrow is one of the shortest days of the year. The sun rises at 8.30 am in the morning and sets at 2.45 pm. This never ending darkness can be depressing sometimes... Tomorrow is however St.Lucia day here in Sweden! A lovely old tradition of light "festivities" with Lucia in the center with candles in her hair. 

Below, originally made for a short commissioned video.

/Carolina

Stockholm Etsy Christmas market 2012

So the Christmas market was this last tuesday as you may know from earlier posts.

 I had so much fun organizing the event with the 2 other girls to begin with and the outcome was everything we had hoped for. It was great meeting other Etsy sellers, and it went really good sale wise as well. 

Here's some pics of the event:

My table set up! 

The standing rack for the clothing accessories in the back is actually an old wooden frame for holding up an oil canvas. I put some legs to hold it up and painted it with coral red paint and voila!

An old hat box for my screen printed shirts and bags.

Jewelry display was made of an old Ikea frame and was painted with the same coral red. 

I made lots of new brooches and necklaces that will be up in shop soon. And new card sets as well! 

They sold quite well during the day. 

The place itself was great for us but I do think next time we're probably going to need a bigger place as there were more sellers interested that wouldn't fit within that space.

Raquel from Deco Tape Paradise was my lovely table neighbor. She sells as the name reveals tape in all sorts, very kawaii and I bought some of course. Can't get enough of washi tape! 

We got a visit from Mark of Etsy Inc New York who brought us some cool stuff from the headquarters.

My favorite Etsy sticker!

And here I am in action with ghost hands and a smirky face at my table.

New necklaces to be added to the shops, I hope you like them as much as I enjoyed making them. 

Wishing you a great Christmas holiday! 

/Carolina

Christmas Fair - Etsy STHLM

Yup, the Stockholm ETSY team is having their first christmas fair! 

It's all very exciting and we also have a great venue downtown at Mariatorget. 

I got the chance to do the official poster for the event:

 Facebook-eventet med mer information mm. finns HÄR.

Vår hemsida med utställare och blogg hittar du på Designmarknadstockholm.com

Starting from today till monday 23-26 november I'm having a weekend sale over at my ETSY shop:

Wishing you a great weekend

/Carolina

Mama Hedgehog

For mama Hedgehog there's no better way to get in true Christmas spirit than to bake gingerbread men. 

( Will be available in shop tonight )

/Carolina