Celebrating One Year at Vendula London - And a GIVEAWAY!

Okay, okay.

I know I go on about Vendula London all the time. I know you've seen so many of their products on my blog posts and Instagram. But hey, last week I celebrated one whole year with the company, so I wanted to take a little moment to talk about the brand, show you where I work - and oh yeah, there's a GIVEAWAY!

Now I'm sure you already know Vendula London is a handbag and accessory brand. Started in 2003, it's animal-friendly and only uses faux leathers - but are also some of the most interesting, and importantly, intricate items you'll probably ever see. Each bag and purse are printed, embossed and appliquéd to be completely original and incredibly detailed, so much so that even the backs are printed!

My main job (other than running around China and Japan ;) ) is actually running our only retail store - settled in an adorable little place off London's Southbank called Gabriel's Wharf. The little shopping square is just up from the iconic OXO tower and features sole traders and designer/makers, creating a unique boutique experience which is just wonderful to be a part of.

Our most popular designs are our Shop Front styles - handbags and purses in a range of sizes and prices with shop-front-themed detailing. You've seen a few of these styles on the blog before as they're my personal favourite styles we do, the ones featured in this photo are new for SS17 - The Biscuit Shop, The Diner (!) and the Sewing Shop (!!)

But we're not limited to just the Shop Fronts! We also have our pastel dream of a Charm range all nicely organised at the back of the shop, where you can customise your plain bag with box sets of Charms - Or as I do, mix and match as jewellery too!

We've got other unique styles in store, too - this season we've got the Caravan, Butterfly Explorer and Parrot Paradise (and some good sale stuff, juuuuust saying!) in stock, and really, I'd love for you all to come and experience Vendula London in this little shop!

Now - the exciting part! You can now have a chance to win your own Vendula London bag!

We're giving away either a Sewing Shop or Diner Box Bag to one lucky winner - Entry is simple, go on Vendula London's website and tell me what your favourite item is in a comment and follow me and Vendula London on Instagram!

And for a whopping 6 extra entries, follow me on Bloglovin' and both of us on Facebook!

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Good luck, guys!

And in the mean time, if you fancy popping down and saying hi, here's our address;

Vendula London Shop

Gabriel's Wharf

Unit 15, 56 Upper Ground

London

SE1 9PP

Snapshots of Tokyo

Happy New Year, loves!

I wanted to start 2017 on a good note and show off a few photos from the biggest highlight of my 2016 - I went to motherflippin' TOKYO.

Shibuya Crossing - The busiest crossing in the world!

Depending on how long you've known me, you may or may not know that in my very early teens I became obsessed with Japanese music and fashion, and it had been a dream for the longest time that I would go there.

So I was pretty excited when I got to go to Tokyo for a week with work to be on the Japan Shop Channel - Yeah. Not only did I go to Japan, I just happened to be on live Japanese TV too.

This is an actual screen grab of me being cheesy on actual TV.

My life is bloody brilliant!

I was there for a week and spent most of time around Takeshita Street/Harajuku/Shibuya, but I wanted to show you a few photos of my new favourite place in the world

This was just a cute place in Kayabacho, where I stayed.

Adorable Tokyo Station exclusive Hello Kitty - She's a train driver!

Sake barrels outside the Meiji Shrine in Harajuku 

Takeshita Street in Harajuku - where all the amazing Japanese Street Fashion brands are!

Ginormous Train Driver Pikachu in the Tokyo Station Pokémon Store!

Votives with thanks and wishes at Meiji Jingu

I'm not even sure what these were but it made a cute photo

A traditional wedding at Meiji Jingu - the kimonos were just too beautiful!!

The gigantic 1:1 scale Gundam at Odaiba. Odaiba is a man-made island off Tokyo that is mostly named after Pokémon towns. Yeah.

Ah damn, this post has made me miss it so much - I can't wait to go back again next month!

Have you ever been? Tell me your favourite places!

#China - Vendula London at Pure Shanghai!

Well, hello darlings!

As usual, I'm crap at blogging.
I've actually done such little sewing the last few months (boo!), but I've been a busy bee doing some travelling with work and being a social butterfly, so there's always that.

TODAY, my darlings, I'm going to talk to you about something I'm really excited about - at the beginning of October you might have seen on my Instagram that I got the opportunity to go to China to work at Pure Shanghai at Chic 2016.

My main role for this was to basically stand around looking pretty holding bags and getting my photo taken (unless you don't know me - this is literally my dream job haha) and eating char siu bao for breakfast. I love China.

If you don't know already, I work for an amazing handbag company called Vendula London. Our speciality is animal-friendly handbags that are not only amazingly decorative, but incredibly practical as well. We're incredibly well-known for our Shop Front bag styles, which have featured on this blog a few times.

This season we're introducing a new line to our varied product list, which is the Charm by Vendula London range. The gist of this line is a range of gorgeous two-tone, classically-styled handbags with a Vendula London twist - a completely detachable charm-bracelet-style chain and charms!

At the moment we have the Alice Charm and London Charm bags for sale, but there's a whole load more to come, with different charm sets to buy and necklace bases to create entire looks!
I wanted to share with you a few of my outfits, because frankly I'm vain.

Hair Flowers: Lady Lucks Boutique

Top: Collectif

Skirt: Handmade (Not Blogged)

Brooch: Luxulite

Bangles: Splendette

Shoes: Melissa

Day One! Wearing an Alice in Wonderland theme using the Alice Charms and flamingos from the Safari pack, and a petrol blue cross body bag that will be available SS17. I know, I can't wait either.

Hair Flowers: Lady Lucks Boutique and handmade

Top: Boohoo (2015)

Belt: Primark (2014)

Skirt: Handmade 

Brooch: Luxulite 

Bangles: Splendette and Vintage

Shoes: Melissa 

Day Two! Getting my patriotism down wearing the London Charm set - I actually love it as a necklace. Cross body bag is available now!

Hair Flower: Lady Lucks Boutique

Brooch: Luxulite

Dress: Handmade

Bangles: Splendette

Belt: Primark (2014)

Shoes: Melissa 

Day Three! Clearly jet lag had hit me by the absolutely delighted look on my face, haha! Wearing the Frida Kahlo charm with some leaves from the Safari set on my necklace, and the burgundy Alice Charm cross body - available now!

I am so excited about these charm bags, unless you can't tell. What sort of charms would you love seeing on a mix-and-match necklace/handbag set?

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