Erika Works is a one woman company aiming for more personal and unique world since 2011. Art doesn't have to exist only on walls, with hand painted unique items everyone can bring out their...

Never ending work

This jacket took ages to get ready. When I bought it, it was too wide at waist and shoulders so I slimmed it down and also repaired some details. And then I painted it, and it took me...

Now you can buy Ew- earrings from Indian Summer Vintage store located at Vuorikatu 22, Helsinki. You can also buy any Vintage leather bag and get a discount from a custom painting. Go and have a...

My grandma

I wanted to challenge myself and practise painting portraits. I chose to paint a picture of my grandma in her early 30's as I found an old passport picture of her that I liked a lot. The...

Orchidaceae

This is a bag that I got to paint as it was too simple for its owner, and she wanted something to make it special again. Orchid is her favorite flower, so it was an easy and a good choise for the...

After the buck, comes the bug

Bug bag that I painted just for fun to a vintage bag. Btw. The Bug bag is on sale, with few other pieces, in my Etsy Shop

Buck skirt

A new painting that I got ready today. This has been a longer work than I first thought. The fact that it wasn't really planned has something to do with it. I begun to do this at December and only...

Back to business

I have been having some kind of a break with my works from last summer until now. I have been doing so much other works, that I have had too little time for the one that I love (that would be my...

Leather painting works shop

Erika Worksin nahkamaalaus-workshop Helsinki 10ssä 9.12.2012 Tuo mukaan oma nahkainen laukku, hattu, kengät, kalenteri tai lompakko ja maalaa se uudeksi itsellesi tai uniikiksi joululahjaksi....

Hairproblems solved

This is out of place, but the story begins with my hair problems... I do not know what would be my style considering my hair. But I do know what is my style with leather accessories. So I made...

New territories

We have a new, wonderful studio that we moved in at summer. Now it has started to feel like home. I took some pictures today to show you a little bit of it. This is my window. I think if I will...

Bad photos of cool shoes

First and all, I have to say sorry for being silent for so long. There has been lot's of other works to do and sadly, I haven't had a much time for painting. Yesterday I however, had a chance to...

Red heels

In this picture there's a pair of red matte high heels. Can you see them?I wanted to paint these red shoes but didn't really get them anywhere. I usually find it hard to paint shoes or bags, or...

Vaatelainaamo, like a library but for clothes

Pcture from divaaniblogit.fi blog:sisustuskarpanen/2012/03/25/vaatelainaamo/ Today I visited firm called Vaatelainaamo located in Helsinki Finland.It's a firm that works like a library but without...

MDM 2012

Next week I'm heading up to Kuopio to attend on Mylly Design MarketI have also made some new jewellery to show in the market. Nutini necklace isn't really new, but I made it first time...

Exhibition photos

I took some photos when we finished putting up the exhibition but forgot to show them to you. So here you go. The opening party was yesterday and I thank all of you who visited! I can now tick this...

Picture opportunity

Its always a bit hard to show these jackets of mine with their full potentials. Usually Im in such a hurry to show my latest painting in public that I dont spend too much time on taking photos of...

Wall painting

It seems Im starting to paint bigger and bigger areas all the time. I started with shoes, then moved into bags, luggages, then jackets and now I have painted a wall. For the becoming exhibition the...

Lot's of paint jacket

I came up with an idea of painting a jacket full of paint one evening... Typical to me I had to start right away. I had this one vintage leather jacket hanging on my garderobe waiting to get...

New accesory

I made some rings out of stone that I found from a place I love by the sea: I have found a new love in natural stones and I would like to do more works on them. I like the roughness in them, the...

This is important now

Something fabulous is going to happen. Im having my own exhibition this year. Hold at one of my favorite cafeterias Factory St. Gallery. A place that also casey wrote about in her blog: (in...

Live painting at Nudge

This thursday Im going to paint earrings live at the lovely Nudge Helsinki. I will make some earringbases ready from recycled leather, pack my brushed and paints and set them at the shop located at...

I like birds

When I first got this jacket I wanted to paint it full of purple flowers. Then I started painting white flowers on it, and then some golden details. But it looked like it lacked something. I have...

Need a massage?

They had these 4 euros days at UFF and I didnt buy leather. But I did found this night blue silk T-shirt. Size 36 but a bit bulky in style. I cut off the sleeves as they were in bad condition......

Custom wallet

I was asked to make a nautical wallet with an old sailor. (Click the pictures to see them bigger.) I also made the purse which lookes a bit slobby in the picture because of the coinpurse beneath. I...

Leather skirt

i found a nice deep blue leather skirt from a fleemarket and bought it to paint something on it. Then I found this picture and thought that it has just the right colour that I should use while...

Jalmaris old jean jacket

This is an old kids jean jacket that I bought from a flee market few weeks ago. It used to belong to some small kid called Jalmari (I guess as theres Jalmari written on the label and it is kids...

More scrarlette Kara bags

I painted more bags for Scarlette Kara brand. These bags are all their own and they gave me the ideas for the paintings, except for the dark roses that we chose to do together.

Nutini necklace available from madeby

I added the Nutini necklaces that I told about you earlier, into the madeby.fi webshop. Theres now two colours that you can order directly, but other colours are also availabe on request.

Coloured necklaces

I made new colours from the necklace model that I created a bit earlier. I want to make all my favorite ice cream colours as it is now spring at its best in finland and ice cream-weathers are...