More blog love...

My girl Ciaa of Ciaafrique... one of the blog/sites I visit regularly for my daily dose of inspiration did a feature on yours truly a few days ago. What can I say?... I feel honored. Thank you Ciaa for believing in my talents and for giving me the time of day.

Read interview here.

Have a wondeful weekend y'all.

Adugo series

Adugo in Brown 

This is my most versatile design yet.

It is named after my friend Adugo and rightly so too cos it’s a bag I can see her carrying, though Adugo will most likely carry it across body at all times and will occasionally use the shoulder handle and might never use the shortest handle. Truth is I haven’t seen Adugo in ages and though I have dropped the occasional “what’s up?” on her face book wall, looked through her pictures when I think she’s not watching, once in a while flash back to those university and Law school days and missing the friendship that could have been, and even though I realize that her taste in bags might have changed… to me she will always be the person that comes to mind where cross body bags are concerned... amongst other things of course.

This bag features; 2 easily detachable handles, easy access pouch in front of bag, phone pouches and zipped compartment in the interior. Bag measures approx 14"l 12"w and 4"d. Like all Gidan Nodza bags this bag is made with hand dyed canvas, locally sourced leather and hand dyed lining.

If interested contact me for price and shipping cost if outside Lagos.

Adugo in blue

This bag features; 2 easily detachable handles, easy access pouch in front of bag, phone pouches and zipped compartment in the interior. Bag measures approx 14"l 12"w and 4"d. Like all Gidan Nodza bags this bag is made with hand dyed canvas, locally sourced leather and hand dyed lining.

If interested contact me for price and shipping cost if outside Lagos.

Adugo in Black

This bag features; 2 easily detachable handles, easy access pouch in front of bag, phone pouches and zipped compartment in the interior. Bag measures approx 14"l 12"w and 4"d. Like all Gidan Nodza bags this bag is made with hand dyed canvas, locally sourced leather and hand dyed lining.

If interested contact me for price and shipping cost if outside Lagos.

Featured on Elan...

I know it's months over due but I was actually featured in a weekly fashion journal early this year with other very talented designers as...get this "Designers to look out for in 2009" hmm lil ol me, I was actually made up, had a photo shoot...pampered, the whole works. Truth is it's just occuring to me to share this news with y'all and not just keep the journal framed up in my workshop where it has been all these months giving me encouragement for those days where you start to question your ability to actually pull things off, for days when people expect and feel justified to give you much less than you know you actually deserve, for those days when you work till very late to wake up very early to run to a day job you wish you could just quit, you know... for just those days. I know that after the publication people that didnt, started to take me seriously, I got some orders and even offers for some sort of partnership hehehe, no but seriously it's a good feeling to be appreciated...especially if it is from out of the blue. Thank you Kemi (Style Editor at NEXT) for picking me out of the blue.

More wrap around straps and cuffs

Completed these long ago. The cuffs can be worn by either male or female.Hope to finish and post the pictures of the bags I am currently working on soon... sooo look out for those.

Here is wishing you all a wonderful weekend.

Amina.