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Favorite Shops: Lu Loves Texstile

Hello my dear readers! Today I want to present you another shop which I really like, it's part of the series with all my favorite shopping places.
Although Texstile has already been featured in my detailed Potsdam Guide I published a few weeks ago, it deserves a blog post on its own, because to me it's important to support this business and the people behind it, I'm gonna tell you why:
Those of you who have already been reading my blog for quite a while, might remember that I have been working in a pretty fabric store in Potsdam for 1 1/2 years. It was about one year ago that I quit my job there to start my social media internship for DaWanda, but I left with a heavy heart, leaving a super pretty working environment and the very best, absolutely kind, attentive and sympathetic colleagues behind me! About four months after I had left, the owner closed the fabric store where I had been working, but the good thing about this was that my former colleague Antje - who is a textile designer and had already been running her own store and a textile workshop in the past - then started working on opening her very own fabric store and Texstile was born. Now Potsdam has a super pretty new fabric store with everything one desires and she even employs my other former colleague, yay!!

So Potsdam finally has an extremely pretty new place for shopping fabric, sewing supplies and for visiting sewing classes for beginners and advanced, hooorrayyy!

Antje, the owner and founder of Texstile, offers a wide range of colorful ribbons, zippers and all kinds of fabrics for sewing clothes or for decorative purposes.

The fabric store is located in a historical building directly in Potsdam's city center and filled with all kinds of colorful and pretty things that one could need for a sewing project.

I'm really really happy for Antje that she could fulfill her dream of running an own fabric store and sewing school (and she's so talented, she has already been giving sewing classes for some years) and that she and my other former colleague are now working together. :)

So if you are in Potsdam and are into sewing, you should definitely go there, you'll find all kinds of pretty supplies and textiles and shopping there is the perfect way to support a new business that is totally worth it and which is run with lots of love and passion!

Lu

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Favorite Shops: Lu Loves Colors.

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

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Favorite Shops: Lu Loves Wohnzimmer

Hello, hello! :) Here's the first post of a new blog category called "Favorite Shops: Lu loves (...)." Because my blog is about all the handmade and pretty other things I love and because there are always so many great things, people, places or shops that I admire and would like to show you, this is definitely worth starting a blog series! :) Moreover, I often receive mails in which people ask me to share sightseeing and shopping advice for Potsdam and Berlin and from now on, I only have to point out my blog series. :) So here we go:
In Berlin next to the Maybachufer, there's a super cute shop called Wohnzimmer (in English: living room). In this shop you can find all kinds of pretty home decor items, kitchenware, pretty interior and everything you need to make your home look more pretty and colorful! :) I came by there about two years ago and since then, I've been visiting this shop several times and always found something useful, but still pretty. I love things you need anyways, but which aren't only useful, but also so pretty that you can enjoy looking at them. Wohnzimmer is definitely the right place for such things! :)
See yourself: