back from holidays!

Hi, friends! Here we are back from our summer vacation since last Monday. I´ve mentioned here that we were going to the South of Argentina with part of my family for a week. Well, it has been great! Almost everyone in my family loves fishing except me, ha, ha. But I love the places where they fish, so we went fishing almost everyday and I´ve walked on the woods, simply looking, hearing, smelling, breathing that fresh air and enjoying the fact of "existing". 

Now back to work, with no holiday interruptions for a while. I have so many new ideas for my shop, that I´m beggining to develop in these days. I´ve already had the classes to know well my new sewing machine, and it has been really worthy. 

Here you have some pics from our trip. And remember: If you want to go to a really beautiful place, the surrounding area of Bariloche will be really a great choice!

Hope you enjoy your weekend, and have a happy new week! 

xo!

1-9 Spots from a fishing day in Nahuel Huapi Lake. 

10-12 Walk in the woods

13-16 So high looking at the Traful Lake. 

17-19 Rural landscapes. 

20- "Guanacos" near the road. They were waiting for us to take the picture :-)

21-28 Spots from the rural living. 

29, 30 Local crafts store

31 Such a great sensation arriving Argentina, where I´ve born and almost all my family lives. I think that is the best advantage of living here in Chile: we are able to go there in our own car (and that was obviously imposible when we were living in Spain!). 

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/)

back to work!

1. My Cinnamon Waxed Canvas Bag have had really intensive use in these days during the trip, and it behaved really well.

2, 3, 4. Back in summer .... back at home ... back at work. 

Hi, Friends! We are finally back at home and ready to work after our holiday season. We´ve had great time in Spain! It has been hard coming back because we really love Spain and our friends and family there, but once we arrived home everything is OK! 

I´m happier than I expected being back here! And I just know that with a bit more of time I´ll really love Chile too, as I love Spain after living there for a while, and as I love Argentina where I lived till I got married. The hard thing is missing the people you know and love in other places, but is great having friends and family around the world too. 

Now we are back at work, with so many projects for this new year, and so much work to do, that is good! My first goal is to buy a new sewing machine. The one I have is good, but just so "domestic". I need an industrial one for being able to sew the designs I have in mind. It will help me to manage my time better and create things I can´t create now due to my tools limitations. 

Do you have many new years projects? I do, as every year! In these days I´ll be thinking about them and their priorities. 

I´ve said we are "finally back"... need to be said that is a way of saying ... because we are going on holidays (again!) during the last week of this month. We´ll go to Bariloche (Patagonia, Argentina) with part of my family, woo hoo! I LOVE that place! We were there in September, but it was late winter, and now it will be mid summer and it all will look so different. Is such a wonderful place. If you want to take a look, you can see the pictures I´ve posted here in this blog in September by clicking here. 

Hope you have a great week!! 

xoxo

ps: I´m finding harder to write in English after two weeks of vacation, thinking and speaking Spanish all the time... hope you´ll understand if I´m a bit "creative", and also hope I´ll get used again soon :-)

happy new year!

Hi, Dear Friends! Wishing you a Happy New Year! 
Here you have some spots from here around, we are still in Spain! 
We´ll go back to work the next week. 
My best wishes for you and those who you love in this year we are beggining.
Xo!

 

1, 2 Puerto de Santa María, Cadiz. 

3-10 Seville

11, 12, 13 Jerez de la Frontera and  surroundings. 

merry Christmas!

Hi, dearest Friends! Hope you all have had a Merry Christmas! In addition to saying "Merry Christmas", I wanted to thank you for being there supporting my work. I can work today in what I like the most, because you are there, so ... big thanks to you all! 
Here you have some spots of these days, when we are in Spain visiting part of our family. 
Happy holidays! 

2. Over The Andes, between Chile and Argentina

3-6. Winter morning in Madrid. 

warm gifts

Hi, Folks! I wanted to share with you this selection of warm gifts I´ve found on Etsy and I would like to have and also to give. Don´t you want to make a warm gift for somebody you love?  You can find here some for woman, and some for kids. If you are a knitter, you can find also some knitting patterns and a tote for you to carry your knits. Enjoy! 
Hope you have a great weekend :-)
XO!

From top to bottom and left to right, you can see these items better by clicking on the name of the shop. 
1. Green cowl, by SofiaSobeide
2. Grey infinity Scarf, by BeautiefullThings
3. Infinity Scarf, by Mosgos
4. Chunky Hat and Cowl, by Accessodium
5. Blue hat, by FallCode
6. Knitting pattern, by hilaryfrazier
7. Chunky Cowl, by MayBeTheWhiteDog
8. Knitting Tote, by Ozetta
9. Beige Pom Pom hat, by ShopLaLune
10. Hooded scarf, by Muza
11. knitting Pattern, by TortillaGirl
12. Chunky knit hay, by YarnPlusYarn

1. Crochet pattern, by TheVelvetAcorn
2. Kids cowl, by VeraJayne
3. Knitting pattern hat and cowl, by KatyTricot
4. Kids hat, by Ingugu
5. Toddler crochet cowl, by TheHouseofHemp
6. Child scarf, by kindredoak
7. Knit baby hat, by MarumaKids
8. Toddler´s spring hat, by MondoRotondo.

this Holiday season

Hi Friends!
I can finally say the Christmas season is over in my shop. I have the last three packages ready to be shipped tomorrow, wew! The lady in the Post Office will become my best friend soon, we are seeing each other so often lately :) 
These last two weeks have been crazy here, and has been great for the shop. So much better than the last year and than what I expected, so, thank you so much for your support! 
We are leaving soon to spend holidays with part of our family, so I can´t sew again until I came back. Everything is in it´s place in the studio, and after the two craziest weeks since I opened my shop, I can´t recognize it being so quiet and tidy. 
Hope you can have a moment to stop craziness of the working days to enjoy these days with your family, or the ones you love. Christmas always makes me think about peace and hope, and I really want to enjoy it once again! So thankful for another Christmas approaching :-)
Well, Friends, hope you have a nice day!! 
XO!

1, 2. The only washi-tape remaining after the Holiday Season, and I had to make those two packages yet! You better don´t think I´m a genious to calculate the amount of materials I need ... it has been almost a miracle having enough!
3. Some new bags in the shop. 

these days

Hi, Friends! Hope you´ve had (or may be are still having) a nice weekend and you have a great new week! There are just 9 days for Christmas! 

Xo!

1. My favorites that I use everyday. Some of them are available now in the shop, some will be available really soon. I just wanted to test them in the "real life" to check if they needed some improvements before offering them in the shop. 

2. Morning light.

3. On my ride for materials. 

4. Contrasts.