this week

Hi, everyone! This past week has been plenty of work because I made and shipped all orders placed during our trip to Spain for Christmas. It seems to me that Christmas has been six month ago instead of less than a month, don´t you feel the same? We´ll be on hollidays again next week, we are going to the south of Argentina, to spend a few days with part of my family. We just came back from Spain, but as we are in summer here in the South hemisphere, we will be away for a week :) So all orders placed during next week will be shipped when I come back. 

I ´ve had an order from a good friend, that has been the starting point to improve the bags for a better closing. This new edition of the bags will be added to the shop soon. During holidays, I´ll be thinking a bit about work taking advantage of the calm without having to sew... I need to organise my mind for the next collection I have in mind, which I have no time to create when I´m working on orders. 

About the new sewing machine, I´ll have the classes when I return. I asked in the store about that noise it makes all the time, and they told it is normal. Well, "normal" because the machine is new, luckily it will be silent with using! 

Well, Friends, hope you are having a great start for this year, see you soon! 

xoxo

Some pics from the studio this week. I´ve received the best belated Christmas greeting card ever, from one of my little nieces, Cata :-) Those kind of gifts you treasure for ever...

new sewing machine!

Hi, Friends!! 
I´m glad to introduce you my new sewing machine, arrived last Friday! It weighs 80 kgs, the poor men (2 of them) almost died bringing it upstairs.... then they drank two glasses of water each! I have to go to the store to have some classes, because this will be like knowing how to ride a bike and suddenly having to drive a truck. The machine is really really fast, and I can´t even imagine how will I do to make straight seams. I feel like a 5 year old girl with a new world around! I also need to check out in the store if everything is ok...because when I turn it "on" it begans making noises like a plane about to take off. It can´t be normal ... and if it IS normal, I´ll have to move to an industrial neiborhood, ha ha. No, it won´t be neccesary, the machine was silent when I tried it in the store. 

This week is gonna be full of work here, hope you have a nice week around there! 

Xo!

PS: ops! forgot to tell you that I have a new blog in Spanish linked to this one! I wanted to be readable for my Spanish speaking customers and friends, so I decided to create a new blog to avoid making translations in each post here... personally I do not like much blogs with two languages, so I´ve created another one to separate Spanish and English writing. The contents will be the same for both blogs... because I have just one life for living (I know, I´m not original with that) and I need to save some creativity for my bags :) 

xo!

1. new sewing machine

2, 3, 4. cutting and cutting hangover

5. testing

6. the Christmas gift I´ve liked the most ... so useful for me!

7. arugula, leek, celery and apple... delicious! love that table cloth made by my sister, and love that plate from "La Cartuja de Sevilla" (www.lacartujadesevilla.es/)

a little up date

Hi Friends!! Happy Monday and new week! Hope you´ve had a great weekend. Last week has been pretty busy here, sewing and more sewing! I´m making new items for the shop that hope I´ll be listing soon, and also sewing some orders to be shipped. I have many new ideas for new bags... I would like to add some backpacks to the shop and also some smaller bags. 
My sewing machine is behaving well, but is making some strange noises :( I think I´m forcing it a bit...too much work for a tiny machine...may be after Christmas I can invest in another one bigger and sturdier. 
Here you can see a few snaps from work last week and a bit more just around here.  
Have a nice week! xo! 

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1. some weekend knitting, trying new cotton yarn

2. my favorite corner in the house is not a corner...love this chair that belonged to my husband grandma. there is where I knit when I knit.

3. the studio in order, it happens just during the weekends

4-7 work

8. ready to go!  

whew!!

Hi, Friends! 
Hard day of work here, but...all packaged and ready to ship, whew!!
Have a happy week :)
Xo!

gifts for your workspace

Hi, Folks! I would love to show you a few of my favorite things on Etsy, that I would love to have in my studio! My work space is just great, but could be more organised, functional and beautiful at the same time with this stuff, don´t you think? They can also be that perfect gift you are looking for in this season :)

Below the picture you can find a link to each shop...enjoy and take a look!

Hope you have a great weekend!

XO!

Industrial parts cabinet in green, from TheWhitePepper 

Vintage wooden storage box, from whiteDogVintage
Hand typed quote, from farmflea
Small paper tags, from PerrodinSupplyCo
Apron, from meyertextileco
Wall clock, from DesignAtelierArticle
Paper Twine, from PaperPhine
Pincushion, from SeaPinks
Desk organizer, from lessandmore
Planter, from NystromGoods
Hanging light, from lucentlampworks
Twing pencils, from Inkkit

home sweet home

Hi Friends! Hope you are ok! I´ve been away this week, visiting my family in Argentina. We´ve had great family time, with spring days, blue skies and flowers everywhere. Feeling home there, and also here now that I´m back in Chile.  
Here I give you some "home feeling" pictures, and one I´ve made while we were flying over The Andes. It was such an amazing view that it´s almost a crime showing that pic here, it doesn´t illustrate almost anything, nature can be just amazing! 
I´ve used my cinnamon brown waxed canvas tote for the trip, and it worked great:  so comfortable to use, really roomy and sturdy! 
Hope you have a great weekend! 
XO! 

Etsy Front Page!

Hi, all!! Just a few words to tell you that I´ve been FP (front page) on Etsy three times in the last 10 days, I´m amazed!! I´m in four teams on Etsy, and I couldn´t been totally happy because of being FP until today with Delightful Team, so woo-hoo!! I´ve been FP with all my dear teams in these last 10 days! 

Here you can see pics of the FPs and a link to each of them (below the picture), so if you want to take a look you can go from the Treasury to the specific item you have liked :) Hope you enjoy all those beautiful items and shops!! xoxo

1. Winter greens, FP with Delightful Team and Just Good Treasuries Team. 

2. Christmas in blue, FP with Team Harmony and Just Good Treasuries

3. Stocking for Christmas, FP with ImTeam

these days around here

Hi Folks! Here you have some spots from this week, that went away so fast! 
Hope you enjoy the weekend, filling your tanks for the next week :-)

1.Spring is all around 

2, 3 Visit to an Artisan Fair here in Santiago. 

4. Cutting labels 

5. The new fabrics I have found for lining my bags. I really like the texture and the colours!

6. New waxed canvas bag in my shop.

come in, we´re open!

Hi, Friends! My shop is opened again! After being three months and a half closed because of our moving, now is reopened here from Santiago. 
The shop celebrated one year yesterday, so I´m launching a "Free shipping party" because of this first anniversary. The products that joined the party are the pouches, the pillow cases and the fabric baskets. All other products still have their normal shipping price. 
There are some products missing in the shop by the moment, because I´m still updating them for the materials I can get here in my new city. 
Thank you so much for your support during the past year, I couldn´t be working on this and trying to make it grow if you weren't here, so thanks a lot! 
XO!

1. the studio, a year ago in Madrid

2. my new studio here in Santiago

3. thank you so much for this first year! :-)

at the studio

Hi, Friends! During these days spring definitely arrived here to stay! We´re having such a nice weather, with chilly mornings and evenings, but the sun is really warm and you can be pretty hot at midday. 

This past week we had visit from family until Thursday, and it has been great. Since then I´m in a real rush trying to reopen my Etsy shop....so many things to check and organise! I´m in some trouble for finding 100% cotton here, which I need for lining my bags. I know I´ll find it, just need to found the right place to go. I´ll also have to update the shipping prices because of my new location. But I want to reopen right now and start working again....my hands and mind are needing a big splash of sewing! 

Here you can see a few spots from these past days....most of time working on the studio before the reopening, and our Sunday afternoon. Photos will be made with my iPad for a while... we´ve been stolen a few days ago and I´ve lost my camera!  

Hope you have a great week! XO

1. the small satchel I have used everyday this past summer. It holds iPad mini and some other stuff, and soon will be able in my shop with different fabrics 

2. some packaging materials. love that old ruler that belonged to my grandma

3. iPad and e-reader cases

4. antiques market, every Sunday in our neighborhood

5,6. tea time