Recent work...

Well...it had been a while since my last post! Oops! I have been spending time settling in to our new house and just really enjoying being married..rather than spending all my time in my sewing room and on the computer! I have still been doing a fair amount of sewing though...it's hard to stop me! I have had lots of custom orders recently...which I LOVE! Here's a sample of some I have recently made...

We have art baby!!

Another stunning wedding gift I just have to share...

My gorgeous (and incredibly generous) family gave us this amazing paining by Betty Club Mbitjana as a wedding gift! It is called "Body Paint for Women's Ceremony" and it is just beautiful! Betty is from the Utopia region in the Northern Territory and she is continuing the tradition of painting the bush melon and body painting motifs used for traditional women's ceremonies.

The small circles in Betty's paintings represent the Bush Melon. The elongated u-shaped patterns with horizontal lines represent the designs painted on the breast and upper body used by women to decorate each other’s bodies for traditional ceremonies. The large concentric circles represent the place where the sacred women’s ceremonies would take place.

My family found this paining from The Artery (www.theartery.com.au), a contemporary aboriginal art gallery in Darlinghurst, Sydney.

It is the most stunning piece and we just love it!!

Wow...what a wedding gift!

I just have to share with you a photo of one of our divine wedding gifts...
One of our lovely bridesmaids had this incredible custom papercut made for us by the amazing Andrea Smith (www.andreasmith.com.au). We love it so much and I can't stop looking at it!! Do you blame me??? Sooooo beautiful...

More Berlinski Wedding Photos...

Here are just a few more pics from our wedding...that feature Berlinski Bags...plus one of my GORGEOUS bridesmaids!!

I LOVE doing custom clutch bags for weddings...please contact me for more details...

Our wedding day...

Welll…this is one of the reasons I have not been blogging! I have been very busy moving house, organising our wedding and getting married! Chris and I got married on 13 March 2010 at Pearl Beach, NSW. It was the most magical day of my life! Here are a few photos. My third gorgeous bridesmaid is missing from these photos…because she took them! They are just divine! She has such a talent and I think should consider a career change!

I made berlinski clutch bags for me and my sisters for the day…see picture. I will post more detailed photos soon. My clutch was a silver base with an antique, hand woven, silver doilie as the feature. For my sisters I used the softest, most beautiful beige leather with a beige doilie as the feature. One of the doilies was my grandmother’s. My lovely nan was not well enough to be with us on the day…but she was with us in our thoughts.

Peppermint Mag Feature

I am very pleased to announce that Berlinski has been featured in Issue 4 of Peppermint Magazine!! (http://www.peppermintmag.com/). Yay!! Berlinski is in the Limelight section…right above a write up on Nudie Jeans (and a photo of a few men in undies…perfect!!)

Peppermint mag is such a fun, inspiring, green mag…definitely worth a read! What a thrill!

I have been so slack with up-dating my blog recently…but I have some pretty good excuses! I have never been so busy with Berlinski! A couple of weeks ago I got a HUGE wholesale order which was very exciting! The problem was that it completely diminished my stock and so I have been madly sewing to get ready for Magnolia Square (http://www.magnoliasquare.com.au/). Here is a photo of some new leather clutch bags that I am making for Magnolia Square…

Some other Berlinski news…my sister is doing an amazing road trip around Australia at the moment and she recently found herself in Port Elliot in South Australia. She took a look at Little Bird in Port Elliot…a stockist of Berlinski pieces! She took lots of great photos. Here are just a few…

Thanks for the great photos Lauren and Eve!! We miss you xx

My gorgeous sister

My gorgeous sister went to a wedding last weekend and she looked so divine! She took her custom made Berlinski clutch that matched her outfit perfectly! How stunning does she look...

Magnolia Square Blog

I’m very excited about being featured in the Magnolia Square blog today!

Check it out! http://www.magnoliasquare.blogspot.com/

I can’t wait for Magnolia Square in November but the nerves have definitely kicked in after seeing the blog today! I am slowly realising exactly how much work I have to do before then and the weeks have just been whizzing by! It is just sewing…sewing…sewing for me at the moment! Exactly how I like it! I have recently started using leather in my work and am going to launch this new range at Magnolia Square. Here is a sneak peek of some new leather Berlinski clutches…

Pretty Paper Things...

Today I found my new favourite shop! Paper 2 on Crown Street, Surry Hills, Sydney (http://paper2.com.au/). Apparently it has been open for a couple of years but I haven’t had a lazy day strolling Crown Street in so long…I have missed it! Paper 2 has the most beautiful range of paper products I think I have ever seen in one place! They have gift wrapping, cards, invitations, stationery and many more goodies! I bought 3 beautiful posters by Kareena Zerefos (http://www.kareenazerefos.com/art/) and a box of divine little stickers of birds, eggs and nests! Gorgeous! Take a look…

Kareena Posters

Bird Stickers...

I made some little gift tags with the sickers...