happy May!!

Hello, Friends!! It´s been a while since my last post! 
April has gone and I can´t believe it. It´s been a busy month, and so good for my shop, I´m so thankful for that. I was really busy at the begining of April with some new products I wanted to add to the shop, but I´ve had to park all that on corner because of many orders that I had to make first. I hope I´ll can finish the new stuff during this month and they will be available in the shop soon.  I´m saying good bye little by little to the fabrics I have from when I lived in Spain, they are going to be sold out in some more time. So, I´m thinking and searching for new materials here in Chile, and I have a messy mix of ideas in my mind right now. 
Hope you´ve had a good April and you will have a great May! See you soon, have a nice weekend! 
xo

 1- me and my "new" sewing machine, I´m loving it!
 2 - Fall outside my window. 
 3 - The World Map Totes are sold out, they have gone around the world looking for a new life. 
 4 - New labels in my products. Hand cutted, hand printed, well, all hand made by me :)

some new stuff

Hi Friends! 

Thank you so much for being there, reading my blog :) Let me intoduce you to some new tools in my studio: a starp cutter, stamps for leather, and stamps for making my business cards. Oh, yes... I know you may be wondering how did I do without this before. To be honest.... I´m wondering the same, ha! As an excuse, I can say that the leather strap cutter was really expensive in Spain, and that I wanted my business cards to be handmade, so I´ve found my self writing tons of cards before I could realise. Now the cards are still being handmade, but not hand written. And I´m also cutting the straps without measuring each milimetre, so I can save so much time. 

I´ve already used the leather stamps in a little gift for a dear friend. Shhh.... she doesn´t receive it yet! :)

And finally, there are tons of new bags in the shop this week. Many of them are "one of a kind" or "limited edition". I´m making those ones with just a few units, because I have some fabric from when I lived in Spain that I really like and want to use! It´s a pity I can´t make more of those, but the good side is that my customers will have a really really really special bag. 

Well, I better say good bye... hope you have a great weekend! Happy spring for all of you up there in the North, and happy autumn for all of us down here in the South :-)

Xo!

news from my shop

Hi, everyone! Hope you are all well :) 
Here it has been a "different" couple of weeks! Last week the new sewing machine stopped working, and it took a while to have it repaired! Is working well again now, but I´ve hardly had time to tested it much.  And this week, I´ve noticed that I´ll have to change the kind of leather I ´ve been using until now, because is not available here in Chile. And as I´m almost out of stock from the leather I have from when I lived in Spain, I need to find a new one here, and is not being easy for the moment. I know I´ll find it, but I will have to re-do, re-photograph and re-list almost all the bags in the shop. At the end it will be a good thing, because I can take the chance to add all the improvements I have in mind for the bags, regarding to a better closure, reinforced structure, and the indside pockets. But in the meanwhile, is strange seeing the shop with only ready to ship items and just a few bags. 
There are also new items in the shop: a minimal woman wallet, and a canvas apron for man or woman, wich will be available on more colors too.
Well, friends, happy Friday and have a great weekend!
xo! 
PS: ops! almost forgot to say, there´s a new page in this blog, as you can see in the bar in the top of the page... it´s about my favorite shops on Etsy. There are two shops by the moment, from my good friends Becca and Vera. Take a look if you have the chance! 
xo!

1. We have gone to "Zapallar" this past weekend, an amazing little town near Santiago, on the Pacific coast. 
2, 3. New items in my shop. You can see them here. 

Hi, there!!

Hi, Folks! 
There´s been a while since my last post, we´d been pretty busy here! 
I´ve made and listed some new bags in the shop, and there are some still waiting to be listed! 
We´ve had four days of holiday last week here in Chile, so the week was really short with so much rush. I´ve also gone to a zone in the city where there are so many shops selling sewing supplies. They have everything you can imagine for sewing, and I´ve bought some new thread to try how it goes with the bags. It went so incredibly well! I´m wondering now how could I use something different before :-) 
Here you have some pics from the studio last week, and also some from our weekend ride. 
See you soon!!
XO

To my Spanish speaking friends: the blog and shop will be translated into Spanish soon, a little more of patience, please!! :-)
Para mis amigos hispano-parlantes: pronto traduciré el blog y la tienda al español! Un poquito mas de paciencia por favor! :) Gracias!

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1. linings with new fabric, just cutted and ready to be sewn. 

2. bags and their linings ready to be attached in my messy studio.

3. new thread for the shop. is really strong and will give more strength to my bags.

4. those orange flowers were everywhere (meant everywhere) in our weekend ride. orange has never been my favourite color, but there it looked really nice...

5. people having fun in a little town.

6. that cart you can see there, was there selling some food... and the name "el carrito comilón" means "the glutton cart" in Spanish, so fun!

7. nice landscape so close to the city.

8. new limited edition bag in the shop.

9. new waxed canvas tote in the shop. yes, the sweater has been also knitted by me! :)