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Favorite Shops: Lu Loves Colors.

November 3, 2013

Hello, hello and happy Sunday! ;) Here’s a new article for my regular feature in which I present my favorite shops or favorite restaurants and cafés. Today it’s all about Colors, my very favorite place to shop vintage and normal second hand clothes.

Colors is in Berlin-Kreuzberg and you find it in the huge loft of an old industrial building. The place is really huge, filled with tons of second hand clothes, many of them vintage. My very favorite section is the ‘fashion by weight’ section where I have already found some of my most precious vintage summer dresses for about 5€.

When you go there, you’re gonna need plenty of time and patience, because their range of clothes is super huge and it takes some time to see if there’s anything of the things you are looking for.

There aren’t only clothes, but also many shoes, boots, bags, purses & scarves.

“Colors” is the perfect name for this place, because everything is super colorful and you usually don’t know where to look first and which clothes to try on first, so overwhelming. But if you’re in the mood for spending some time on finding a precious treasure, this will be the perfect place for your next day in Berlin! :)

Here you can find Colors:
Colors
Bergmannstraße 102
10961 Berlin / Kreuzberg
Call: 030 / 694 33 48

E-Mail: info@kleidermarkt.de

Click to visit their website

Happy shopping!
Lu

DIY

DIY: Illustration Process – Turn a Sketch into a Postcard

November 1, 2013

Hey everyone, happy Friday! ;) Today I’ve got a special DIY for you, I’m sharing my way of turning a simple sketch into a postcard, this is my personal illustration process.

First of all, I think about a theme or a concept and make sketches which thematically somehow match the idea in my mind, it’s like a visual brainstorming. Afterwards, I choose a final motif and make a first detailed sketch with a pencil.

Usually it needs some corrections until I decide on a final version.

Next, I choose a black pen and make a few doodles to find out which pen with which tip is perfect for what I want to to.

Then it’s time for the next version, the one with a black felt-tipped pen. This step usually takes most of the time and effort, because everything is drawn by hand and one can’t use the eraser anymore.

After my black and white illustration is finished (yayyy!), I then scan it, save the original version as a backup and then open it in photoshop. There I adjust the contrast and finally add color, so exciting. I love this step, because then the original sketch turns into a colorful illustration and my idea I once had in my mind becomes real.

Afterwards, my friend Anja (who is a media designer) converts the file into a file which is ready for printing and then I go to my favorite copy shop where they print out my designs and finally turn the virtual project into posters and postcards, eeeeks! :)

Each time this process is super exciting, it feels like taking an anlogous photo, not knowing how the end result will look like! :)

Hopefully this blog post inspires you to make your own designs, can’t wait to see them! :)
Enjoy your weekend!
Lu

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Recipes

Recipe: Easy Cheesecake

October 31, 2013

Hello everyone! Here’s a cheesecake I made for my “Bye bye summer!” sweet table a few weeks ago and it’s a recipe I got from my grandmade and her country women club. :)

This is what you need:
– 250g butter, 250g sugar
– 1kg cottage cheese
– 5 eggs
– 1 package of vanilla pudding powder
– 1 package of vanilla sugar
– 1 tea spoon baking poweder

Take a cake pan and spread butter and tiny breadcrumbs all over it and preheat the oven on 175°. Next, take all your ingredients and mix them. Pour them into your cake pan and bake everything for 50 minutes. Then open the oven just a little bit and let the cake cool down slowly before taking it out. :) Serves great with hot raspberries.

Have fun baking!
Lu

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DIY

DIY: Fabric Bow Necklace

October 30, 2013

Hello my dear readers! Do you remember my last blog posts featuring the craft supplies of my cooperation partner idee. Creativmarkt? I posted a tutorial for how to make a geometrical wooden ornament necklace, an easy wire statement necklace, a project for how to make a toy animal necklace and another DIY for making a faux leather bunting necklace. This time, I’m going to show you how to make a pretty fabric bow necklace, also using craft supplies I have chosen and idee. Creativmarkt sponsored for this cooperation. Have fun making your own version of this necklace!

Here’s what you need (most items available at idee.):
– Fabric & thick interfacing
– A necklace clasp, jewellery glue, tiny jewellery rings and a (cotton) string or cord for the necklace
– A jewellery plier
– A sewing machine and sewing supplies

First of all, cut your fabric into three pieces: front of the bow, back of the bow and the stripe for the middle. Moreover, cut out one piece of interfacing of the same size as your bow pieces which will then give your bow some more volume.

Put both fabric pieces for the bow onto each other, right sides facing. Put the interfacing on top. Then top stitch the three layers onto each other, leaving a small seam allowance on each edge and leave a small opening on one of the longer sides through which you can turn the piece of fabric inside out. Moreover, cut off the four tips of your piece, but don’t touch the seam. Then turn the piece of fabric inside out and close the opening with a blind stitch.

Next, take the long stripe, fold it like seen on the photo above and top stitch both edges. Then fold your other piece of fabric to a bow.

Use a thin thread to fix the bow and fold your fabric strap around. Use your sewing machine to sew both layers of the strap onto each other and use a zig zag stitch to neaten the edge. Turn the strap inside out so that you don’t see the zig zag edge anymore. Afterwards, take needle and thread and sew your tiny jewellery rings to the bow’s top edges.

Take your cord or string and bind it to the jewellery rings.

Then you need the jewellery glue and the necklace clasp.

Glue the cord into the clasp and let it dry.

Now you are done. Have fun with your new necklace! :)
Lu
P.S.: As always, although some of the supplies for this blog post have
been sponsored, this doesn’t touch my opinion about the sponsor or my
decisions concerning this blog post’s content!

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Everything Else

Favorite Restaurants and Cafes: Lu Loves Fräulein Burger

October 29, 2013

Hello everyone! I read about it in Couch magazine, I heard colleagues talking about it, I heard friends talking about it – and then I defintely HAD TO go there!
Since my first visit this past summer (and since when those photos have been waiting on my laptop), Fräulein Burger has become my very very favorite place for eating good burgers and that for two reasons: their burgers are awesome and I absolutely adore the look and overall concept of this restaurant!

When you go there, you’ll be overwhelmed of eye candy: Fräulein Burger is lovingly decorated in 60s retro charme, everything is bright, red and white and even the people in the kitchen (into which you can look while you are waiting and eating) and behind the counter wear 60s inspired accessories matching the restaurants interior (oh, how much I love such details).

Not only the restaurant itself is pretty, but also their corporate design including leaflets, menu and burger atwork on the wall. Everything fits so well together, looks super appealing and makes just happy. I’m a total sucker for great concepts like this!

They have a variety of tasty burgers, but you can even put together your own favorite one. You can choose between normal meat buns, vegetarian burgers or even a vegan version. What is more, their homemade fries and vegetable sticks are sooo delicious!

This is one of the meat burgers which Flo has tried, mmmhh!

If you go there, their homemade sauces are a must and they even make ketchup and mayo themselves.

My favorite is the vegetarian burger with salad and goat cheese, oh my god, so incredibly delicious!
And not to forget that all their ingredients are organic and mostly regional, this makes it even better.

While writing this blog post, looking at those photos made my mouth water and I feel the urgent desire to go there again very soon. :)

In case you’re gonna go there, you will enjoy the best (veggie) burger you’re ever gonna eat! :)
Happy day!
Lu

Here’s how you can find Fräulein Burger:
Fräulein Burger
Koppenplatz 1
10115 Berlin
Call: 030 / 46720908
E-mail: mail@fraeuleinburger.de
Click to visit their website

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