Bicycle stories: Lula

Simple is beautiful. What I love most about this Bicycle story is the fact that my friend Lula here was fully in charge of this bike's renovation. Bought at a flea market, she took it all apart, scrubbed and cleaned the little parts, bought some new ones (like tires and breaks), found a workshop in a little village where they painted it with her chosen red colour and a shop where they put this beauty back together. The wooden box on the bikes is a heritage from her grandfather....
This alone sounds extremely exhausting to me, but to her it was like therapy. Lula is extremely good at hand crafts (we did some interior design projects together, a therapy for both of us :-) and recently started to sew and design the cutest stuffed animals for kids under her label Haraburdart (you could see them at the recent Winter Urban Market in Bratislava). Moral of this story: when looking for something to do in your life, look back at what you loved when you were 12. Not a bad starting point. Haraburdart started from there. Have a great week, dears!

V jednoduchosti je krása. A tak čo ma berie najviac na príbehu tohto bicykla je fakt, že moja kamarátka Lula si ho určitým spôsobom dala dokopy sama. Kúpila ho na blšáku, celý rozobrala, súčiastky vyčistila a vyleštila, pár nových kúpila (ako plášte a brzdy), na jednom hospodárskom družstve našla dieľňu, kde jej ho nastriekali autolakom na vybranú červenú, a servis, kde jej zreparovaného fešáka dali celého dokopy. Bednička je zdedená po dedovi. 
A kým mne celý tento proces príde skôr ako vyčerpávajúci kolotoč, pre ňu to bola terapia. Lula je totiž exrémne zručná (spolu sme robili pár interiérových projektov, čo bola terapia pre nás obe :-) a nedávno začala pod značkou Haraburdart šiť a vymýšľať detské hračky (mohli ste ich vidieť napríklad na nedávnom Winter Urban Markete). Ponaučenie z tohto príbehu: ak hľadáte v živote to, čo by vás bavilo, vráťte sa k tomu, čo vás bavilo, keď ste mali 12. Viac na stránke Haraburdart, tu aha. Prajem krásny týždeň, drahí!