Enna's Blog

tumblr fun

2012-01-18T03:21:00.004+01:00

I recently changed the layout of my tumblr blog, that I've been using for inspiration purposes. I love putting together little groups of color coordinated images. Today for example I was in the mood for red...

...and last week I had a blue day...

...and a black day!

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Even The Girls!

2011-10-27T01:03:00.002+02:00

Female Bike Messengers in NYC.

hello handmade 2011

2011-10-22T11:17:00.004+02:00

If you're anywhere close to Hamburg tomorrow, you should come to Kampnagel for the second hello handmade design fair!

I was there as a seller last year and it was amazing, so I signed up for a booth this time again.

The selection of designers is really nice, a good mix of fashion, accessories, jewellery, and even handmade chocolate and honey.

I hope to see you there!

calendar 2012 - round two

2011-10-19T10:08:00.006+02:00

...and another one! This one has the same format as the last three enna poster calenders of 2009-2011. I hope you like the design. I'm really happy with it!

Available here and here.

calendar 2012 – round one

2011-09-28T10:23:00.005+02:00

The first calendar for 2012 is finished and ready to be printed. You can order it here or here.

I love bears

2011-09-23T19:54:00.012+02:00

Today's sketches. Don't know what they will eventually be used for.

My Etsy Shop

2011-09-23T02:50:00.004+02:00

Did you know I have an Etsy Shop? Lately, I have been adding some enna products after some months of not updating it much. There will be some brand new items coming up next week!

fall outfits

2011-09-16T21:01:00.010+02:00

Hello September! This has been the rainiest summer ever and I'm glad that at least this month has been quite warm and sunny so far.
I must say that I'm not quite ready for fall yet. Come on, we've had storms and rain and low temperatures all throughout June, July and August! But one thing that makes the beginning of the cold season more acceptable are cozy fall outfits, right?
Kerstin mentioned this great Zalando competition on her blog. You can win a fashion subscription for a whole year!
To enter the competition, you have to put together an outfit with things from their website and blog about it. I found so many pretty things and could not decide which ones to pick out, so I chose four different outfits. Can I please have them all, dear Zalando people? Thank you!

Party Bear

2011-07-09T13:11:00.004+02:00

I have a new product for sale in my shop!

coworking fun

2011-07-09T11:20:00.004+02:00

:-)

home studio

2011-07-08T12:53:00.006+02:00

Finally! It took me quite long to completely organize my new work space at home, so I can really be productive there. Now, everything has a place to put it.
This week, I started a little experiment with a friend who is also a designer - coworking! As I have two desks, we both work on our projects side by side. I believe that this raises my motivation and I am more conentrated. If this turns out to be a good plan, I'll invite my creative friends over to share my office regularly. So far, I love the idea of having company.

building a city

2011-05-06T09:45:00.006+02:00

I'm so happy about this project I just finished! My friend Karin hooked me up with two very nice ladies directing this theatre workshop at the Schauspielhaus Hannover. I built twelve cardboard houses for the stage set. So much fun! I hope to be able to do more projects for the theatre in the future. What about some bear heads? Haha!

Almost thirty.

2011-05-06T00:29:00.002+02:00

As a little girl, I hated when my mom was wearing lipstick and refused her kisses whenever she did.
I never liked putting colour on my lips either... until now. Pretty late for a girl, huh? :-)

Loooong time no see!

2011-04-05T02:26:00.015+02:00

My last blog entry was in... September??!! Gosh, I must have been super busy! Haha. No, really. It's been pretty crazy. Let me try to give you a summary of what I've been up to since then:

1. I took a break! ...and went on a family vacation in Denmark in October. We spent a week together in a nice wooden house by the sea. The whole gang. We collected mushrooms in the forest, rode our bikes through the salty breeze, relaxed by the fireplace or in the sauna and built sand castles under blue autumn skies. Very refreshing!

2. I made a bear head! A project just for fun! My friend Claudia took some amazing pictures of me and my furry friend. Now, I can't wait to make more animal heads – a wolf, a fox, a rabbit...

3. Then there was the usual Christmas madness! Orders, orders, orders... starting from late October, I didn't do anything else but producing, packing and shipping stuff across the globe. Including some hardcore nightshifts in December.

4. I joined a band! What used to be a punk band called Images is now me and three guys as Riding Tigers. We wrote and recorded three songs already and we're currently working on more stuff so we have enough material to play some gigs later this year. This is my first band ever and it's super exciting!

5. Then, in January, I closed down my brick & mortar enna shop in Hannover. A decision I had been pondering about for quite a long time and now it was time to pull it off. I had the shop for almost four years – it was a really great experience and mostly a lot of fun. But I wanted more freedom and I believe I can move on with the label "enna" much better without having to run my own shop.

I've always wanted to have a big party inside the shop, so after everything had been moved out, we celebrated a proper good-bye-party.

(Photos by Claudia)

6. First thing to do with this newly gained freedom? Travelling! In March, I flew to New York City for a couple of days. My first vacation all by myself! I signed up for couchsurfing and ended up staying in Bushwick, Brooklyn with Rob, a really nice couchsurfing host. I had my own room with a bed, my own keys and even a nice old Schwinn bike that I could use. The weather was fantastic! A lovely experience and a new way to get to explore the unknown parts of NYC, far off the standard tourist attractions and without much of a plan. And I will definitely surf some more couches on this planet. You should try it, it's great!

Lovin's For Fools

2010-09-24T02:36:00.002+02:00

Here's another song that I recorded today, right after I woke up, even before having breakfast. I've become pretty obsessed with making music lately and I really would like to write my own songs. But I find it so hard to come up with some good lyrics. I need a ghostwriter, haha!Don't worry, this will not become a music blog. I will post some new enna design goodies soon! Lovin's For Fools-3stimmig by enna

Fleamarket finds

2010-06-08T00:15:00.006+02:00

I went to the fleamarket for the first time this year and came home with a sun tan on my nose and shoulders plus these little goodies. And none of these cost more than 50¢. I especially like the old russian notepads. They're screenprinted...and unused!

My rediscovered hobby

2010-06-01T04:13:00.004+02:00

How come, I haven't touched my good old guitar for so long?
I had the day off today so decided to teach myself a new song – and then I recorded myself for the first time ever. I love this song, so I'd like to share this with you. Please ignore the wrong guitar notes, though. I need to practice more!

Flume (Bon Iver Cover)

Time passes by...

2010-03-16T17:59:00.008+01:00

...especially when life changes into unexpected directions. I wonder where the last couple of weeks went. There have been some bad and also some good news, things I had to take care of and time that needed to be spent all alone, thinking. Now I can feel the first little hints of spring in the air and can't wait!

Here is one of the good news I mentioned: the print&pattern book has finally been released and I feel so honoured to be part of it! Four pages of enna in between hundereds of pages of awesome design! YAY!

Konnichiwa!

2010-01-12T18:21:00.003+01:00

Oooh my, I should really write on my blog more frequentliy!
Sorry, everyone! November and December 2009 were extremely busy thanks to all the nice people who ordered their chritmas gifts from my shop. I decided to take a little break until early January to recharge my creative batteries. I will be back with some brandnew enna products very soon and I will of course write about them on here.

It's fun to see these brooches with all the Japanese writing around them. They are now available in Japan via this cute little shop: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/shop/somethingspecial

enna on Design*Sponge!

2009-11-15T09:51:00.005+01:00

I went on a little trip to Hamburg last Thursday, seeing the Phoenix concert and visiting my brother. When I returned, I was surprised to find a whole bunch of new orders in my inbox, that all included the ABC poster . How come? After a little investigation, I found out that it had been featured in the ABC poster roundup on Design*Sponge. Wow! Big thanks to guest blogger Brooke Reynolds. I love Design*Sponge and I'm excited about seeing my work on their blog.

It's been a while...

2009-10-28T00:27:00.005+01:00

Sorry about being away for so long! I was on vacation for two weeks, then I got sick and after that I was really busy catching up with all the orders and e-mails.
But hey - I have something new to show you:

CUT blog interview

2009-09-15T23:19:00.005+02:00

Yay! Germany has gotten an awesome new DIY magazine this year: CUT - Leute machen Kleider.
It's so thick, it is more a book than a magazine actually, all very well designed and fun to read. It includes free patterns and features the work of indie designers. I LOVE it!
Recently, CUT magazine has started a blog! Readers can learn more about craft supply stores, indie designers and there's an overview of DIY workshops across Germany!
They interviewed be about my label and my little shop the other day - you can read the interview here

ABC Poster!

2009-09-02T10:42:00.006+02:00

It's finished! This is what I've been working on for the last 2 weeks or so. The poster is currently being printed but you can already order it here.

sneak peek

2009-08-18T12:28:00.006+02:00

A tiny little hint of what's coming up next in my product range. I'm really excited about this, because I've had this idea for so long and finally took some time to work on it. I hope to have it finished by tomorrow.

my collections - part 2: small bags

2009-08-18T10:04:00.006+02:00

Here's the next collection I would like to share with you. Honestly, I don't think I need that many little coin purses, pouches and wallets but I can hardly resist buying (and making) more and more of them.

New products in my shop

2009-08-04T13:54:00.003+02:00

- Notebooks, deco tape and balloon cards by o-check from Korea
- T-Shirts for men, women and kids by FluffyCo
- Retro canisters, tape dispensers and rubber stamps by decole
- handmade potholders
- apple dish by enna

...and more to come!

my collections - part 1: vintage cups

2009-07-30T13:17:00.009+02:00

I collect a lot of things, so I decided to start a little blog series about my collections. This is part 1: vintage cups. The collection is still growing. I found most of these at fleamarkets or on ebay.

Do you collect anything?

Happy ENNAversary!

2009-07-09T23:07:00.009+02:00

It's been almost two weeks now since I've celebrated my 2nd shop anniversary. Unfortunately I didn't bring my camera that day, so I had to wait until I got the pictures from my Mom's camera. I still haven't gotten all of them, yet.

Dad and I managed to get some major changes done before the big day. We built a great packing table where I can pack all my etsy and DaWanda orders. And I got a big EXPEDIT shelf that now holds all my fabrics, my gocco printer, paint, ribbons,... - the shop hasn't looked this organized for a long time! And it's much more fun to work in the studio now.

enna in Antler magazine

2009-06-30T01:01:00.014+02:00

I just found out today that my dog illustration is featured in the past issue of Antler , an amazing online magazine! You can buy the current issue for only $1.99 here. The first three issues are free, so take a look. I think it's beautiful and very inspiring.

I ♥ Sia

2009-06-25T13:25:00.005+02:00

It all started with the first "Zero7" Album in 2001. I've never heard anyone sing like Sia before and I've been a fan ever since. In May 2009, I finally got to see her perform live in Hamburg, which was great. And then, last Sunday I spotted her funny little tourbus at the "fète le da musique" in Hannover! Only with a picture of Sia taped to the Window, but hey - I couldn't resist having my picture taken with the bus called "Blanche".

The garden

2009-06-24T13:06:00.005+02:00

I'm taking care of my parent's garden while they're on vacation this summer. I enjoyed mowing the lawn on Monday because I like the smell of freshly cut grass so much and the way it feels on my bare feet. And then I got out that old wooden ladder and picked two buckets full of sweet cherries to take home. Delicious!

Coming soon: pincone+chickadee

2009-06-19T13:04:00.007+02:00

I can't wait for these wonderful handcrafted goods to arrive! I ordered a bunch of cards, t-shirts and notebooks from pinecone+chickadee for the shop this week.

Owl Bags

2009-06-15T17:56:00.012+02:00

I have to admit, I think I'm obsessed with owls :-D

There are a lot of new enna products on my to-do list and it seems they all include owls.

I just finished these bags today. The larger one will be added to my etsy and DaWanda shop later this week.

How do I begin?

2009-06-13T21:37:00.006+02:00

In fact, I feel like I have nothing to blog about today. But I really have to get this going, so here I am!

I've been working on some now product ideas lately and I hope to be able to show you some w.i.p. pictures soon.

I found these little boxes of chocolates in the back of my kitchen cabinet today. Aren't they sweet? I wish the chocolate would taste better, though. It's more of an eye candy than a treat for your taste buds.

I'm working on it!

2009-04-10T15:03:00.001+02:00

This is still under construction but I'm seriously planning to get into blogging. Soon.