GIVEAWAY! lottalosten.com turns 6!
2014-06-24 11:40
Hey!
it's lottalosten.coms 6th birthday today! Hurrah!

Every year on this date since the very beginning in 2008 we've celebrated together with a giveaway and who am I to stop this glorious tradition?!
Model: Ida-Lisa.
Lime Leaf Pendant.
This year I'm taking the opportunity to give you a combined sneak peek and a chance to be one of the very first people to own a piece from my brand new, not yet released, collection!

So let's start with letting you in on the secret that is This Growing Collection!
Oak Leaf Pendant.
A late summer/autumn collection of Leaf Necklace Pendants all inspired by natures own jewelry pieces: Leaves!

Every single one of these leaf pendants are completely one of a kind and made by my hands.
This Growing Collection will be officially released in my etsy shop on monday august 11th.
Lime Leaf Pendant.
And so to the giveaway!

Up for grabs is: A Leaf Necklace Pendant (chain included) from This Growing Collection.
The pendant will be custom made for the winner!
The possible style choices are Lime, Oak, or Avocado leaf (seen in pictures) and can be made in almost any color.


The winner will be randomly picked from a hat/teacup/shoe/other container of some kind on tuesday july 1.
Avocado Leaf Pendant.
HOW TO ENTER:

Write a comment to this post letting me now what kind of leaf you would like to win and why.

For extra entries you can:

• Like my facebook page.

• Favourite my shop on etsy.

• Tweet about this giveaway. "Win a Leaf necklace pendant by @lottalosten on http://bit.ly/1l5YX8M"

• Follow me on instagram (@lottalosten)

Please write each additional entry in separate comments.
And don't forget to leave your email adress so I can contact you if you should be the lucky winner!

This giveaway is open until tuesday july 1st at noon (CET) and the winner will be randomly picked and announced at around 2 pm the same day.


GOOD LUCK EVERYBODY!

/Lotta
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Lately.
2014-06-18 13:13
Hi!
These past few weeks have been running away from me so quickly, so yesterday I was looking through my phone photos to kind of remind myself of what I have been up to that I thought worth documenting.
Not very much, it seems. But that's not true; I've been keeping busy with stuff I'll show you soon (next week is the birthday of lottalosten.com for an example!) but let's take a little peek at my life lately, shall we? All seen through the lens of my iPhone.
Wildflowers from a patch of grass no bigger than 2 square metres. A sure sign of summer. From the looks of it you might think I walked through a field in the picturesque countryside, but to tell the thruth it was right next to a highly trafficked road in an area where they are building new and ugly houses quite close to where we live.
Isn't it nice that even though humans stubbornly put up these horrible buildings all over the place, nature keeps spreading its flowers in between the construction sites?
Being all matchy matchy on a walk into town. Probably on my way to eat sushi.
Our scary hallway from Lights Out looks absolutely magical in the evening sun, don't you think?
After work one evening when I missed the bus home I walked to see if the ferry was coming soon. I had missed that one too, of course, but took the opportunity to snap some photos when Gothenburg clearly wanted to show itself from its best side.
And every evening the view from our balcony is something extra. This one was a misty, sunny story.
Lunch at our neighbourhood indian restaurant. Spot the husband in my shades.
Theatre rehearsals with Teater Esther. Here is our director Frida directing away.
Lena, Lisa and Hanna working on a scene from our freshly written play.
I've been riding the Coolevator.

(Yes yes, I know. Calling it "Coolevator" takes all the Cool out of it, but I just couldn't resist.)
Some days Gothenburg is covered by milky white fog and I find it impossible to resist raising my phone camera to snap a photo on my way to work.
I had a stupid cold and spent a week like this.
When the evening sun hits our apartment shadow dancing is an absolute must.
Proof that I am part troll, part human being.
A mirrored self portrait.
Nothing is as quiet and calm as a Gothenburg tram at 8.54 on a sunday morning. Five minutes later it was packed with people.
When I see a rose like this I don't think, I just stick my hand in and grab it, thorns and all, just to angle it to get a nice photo.
Freckled hand of yours truly in lower left corner.
And you now the Rhododendron I can't shut up about? They are confetti on the ground now.
It's the week of midsummer already and I just can't get my head around it.
I have been working the past three midsummer eve's but this year I'm delightfully off work and I've felt totally unprepared for it. Yesterday David and I made some plans though, and now I can't wait for the weekend to arrive!

See you soon again, dear readers of this site. I hope you have at least two things to look forward to this week (something big, something simple, doesn't matter).
Until next time:

Tjingeling!
/Lotta
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Photoshoot: RUBY
2014-06-11 15:23
Hi!
I am so excited! I have been dying to show you these pictures and it's only been two days since I took them.
My friend Ruby came over on monday to model some of my large necklaces. I've been thinking for quite some time that my necklaces from the Tangled Triangle- and Irregular Pieces series would look so great in a rougher and edgier styling and since I love to use my friends as models I started to think who would fit the profile. Ruby, of course!
She lives, and studies, in Uppsala, a town quite far from Gothenburg, so I had to wait for Ruby to come here. And finally it happened!
And Oboy, this was a match made in heaven!
My necklaces looked so good on Ruby and she managed to get my idea perfectly and - I mean just look at her!

Most of these necklaces you'll find in the
necklace section of my etsy shop and the ones that aren't there yet will pop up there soon, I promise.

I am so happy with these photos, and I hope you like them too! Doesn't she look awesome?!

I have been keeping myself busy this week even though my cold has kicked in for a second round (Oh yay!). Yesterday I had a completely different, but equally great, photoshoot with my friend Ida and I hope to be ready to show you those photos soon too.
They will be a part of the release of my new collection so I'm really excited to show you all!


Tjingeling!
/Lotta
Tags: Photoshoots by Lotta Ruby Tangled Triangle My Jewelry Smycken Photography
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Self portraits at the Cemetery.
2014-06-08 15:08
Hi!
Well, this turned into another unwanted blog pause because of a stupid cold. David gave me his (thanks, babe!) and together we've been partners in snot and coughing as well as matrimony.
Yesterday evening I was so frustrated with not doing anything but sleeping, watching movies and reading that I decided it was time to venture outside for the first time since forever (or wednesday, but same same...).
When I arrived at the cemetery (where else would I go?) I got the idea to take self portraits with my iPhone all over the park and use the surroundings as best as I could, so that's what I did.
I always get this extreme surge of creativity when I'm sick and I get crazy if I don't do something about it. So however small this might seem, it felt absolutely wonderful to walk around in the evening sun, look at statues, grave stones and flowers and try to come up with a nice picture with me in every single one of them.
I won't talk anymore, it's better to just show you, right?
I made some new friends, got some air in my lungs, smelled the flowers and when I got home, no more than an hour later, I was asbolutely knackered. I was back in the sofa again but feeling quite satisfied with having used my creativity for the first time in days.

And if you're curious about the technical aspects of this post I used the self timer app TimerCam to take the photos with my iPhone and then I edited them with the VSCOcam app.

I hope you enjoyed this little collection of self portraits sprung from the complete boredom of having a stupid cold.

Tjingeling!
/Lotta
Tags: Self Portraits Out and About Cellular Mobilt Lotta Losten Älska Olskroken Göteborg Photography
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