Buenos Aires and the river

Hello, all! I'm popping in just to say hi :-) and hope you are having a good ending of your summer / winter! Well, and, to share with you some pictures I've made during these 12 days I've been in Buenos Aires visiting my family. We have had great time before, during and after my youngest sister´s wedding, and many good family moments that will last on our memories. The one who got married is the youngest as I said. We are eight siblings and I'm the oldest, so I have been feeling kind of "I'm getting old" :-) Those thoughts like "I can perfectly remember her on her diapers and now she is getting married" have been SO really present, he he. 

Something I can say I miss from Buenos Aires (not talking about family and Friends) is the river. We have there the widest river in the world, the "Río de la Plata" that we share with Uruguay on the other shore. I really love that river and despite the cities where I have lived after had rivers, they were so small and I always felt they had not river at all. I think that´s just because on the other side there is just more city, and in Buenos Aires you can´t see the other shore unless you are on a high building by the riverside. So you can feel that on the other side of the river there is "nothing", or stand by the shore thinking that on the other side is the whole world far away waiting to be discovered, and that you are literally in your corner of the world. I remember how funny it was when my husband and some Spanish friends came the first time to BA, they could not avoid talking about "the sea" instead of the river as is really really huge.
Here you have some pics I've made during some walks by the riverside. Obviously the smell of the grass and the water, the silence just hearing the breeze and the soft waves, the soft wind in your face... are things that won't show in the pics, but hope you can imagine :-)
Good bye until the next post! 

Pictures until here were taken in different moments and days in the north sorroundings of the city, where my family lives. The pics below where made in the city, in Puerto Madero. That is a district in Buenos Aires close to downtown that has been recycled some years ago. There it was the old port, that had been abandoned so many years. The new proyect recycled some buildings (mostly the ones with red bricks) and included so many new ones. Something curious about this place is that every street is named after a women. My nephew and niece were really amazed with two old ships we visited, the "Corbeta Uruguay" and "Fragata Sarmiento". 

on vacation

Hello!! 
I don´t know if you saw that my shop is on vacation until late September. We will be going and comming visiting family and receiving visits here so I won´t be able to manage my shop during this time. If I find some free time, maybe I can take the chance to think and plan everything I want to do for my little business in the upcomming time, as I have so many different ideas and need to think about them before deciding in which direction I should go. Of course I will continue making bags, the "new" ideas are related mostly to the materials and process. 
And these past days have been pretty crazy in the studio, finishing some new bags for the fall season, the new zip totes I will (finally!!) add to my shop when I reopen, and also rushing with orders and so much stuff. I realise that I really love what I do, despite I´m so really tired sometimes, I really really like it and I´m so thankful because I have the chance to work in something I love that much. 
Well, I better say good bye until the next post! Here you can see some pics of these past busy days in the studio. 
xo! 

Saturday escape

Hi, everyone! Hope your week is going well :-) 
Life is being so normal here so we don´t have anything really new to tell you, but I wanted to share with you some pics from our escape to Zapallar last Saturday. I´ve realised that we are almost always going to the same place for our "just one day" escapes, so it´s time to try other places as we are close to make a year living here :-) The only matter is that Zapallar is really a nice place and quite close, like two hours driving or a little less. 
In the pictures you can see some of the amazing nature there, and there is also one of the advice of "risk of Tsunami" uuuhhh, scary! As Chile is a land with frequent earthquakes, you can see those announcements almost all along the coast. In other of the pictures you will see that      I´ve taken with me the first 100% leather bag I made, wich I´m testing with my own use before making more and offering them in the shop (by the way, I´m really loving it!). 
Well, friends, hope you have a great start of August! 
See you soon, hopefully with some pics of the so many new bags I´m working in. 
Xo!

another month is gone!

Hi, there! I can´t believe how the months fly away, and that we are almost at the end of July, wow! This past month has been plenty of stuff, so many different things have happened. I´ve been working normally until the last week of June, when I´ve gone to Buenos Aires to be there with my family by my birthday, and for the Baptism of my nephew (and godson!). It´s been so good, because since we went to live to Spain we have never been there for my birthday. And...the candles were 40 this year, ops! But, don´t worry, nothing happened, ha ha! Despite my siblings say I´m "in the oven" (an argentinean way for saying that you are almost over, ha ha) no crisis has arrived yet and I´m feeling just great. And, my birthday has been on winter time again instead of in the Spanish summer. I´ve really enjoyed those days in Buenos Aires so much...Ah! and it was our anniversary too, and I´ve been sick for ten days, wow, so many things this month!
Now back to normal rithm of work, and I´m ready to reopen my shop again on Monday. 
In the pics below you can see a bit from work here in the studio before my trip, then some shots of daily living at Buenos Aires, and a few spots from a walk around there. Above you can see a zip tote I´ve made as a gift for my mom´s birthday and I really like!
Hope you have a great weekend! 
xo!

some studio shots

 Hello, dear all! Weather has been kind of crazy during the past week, as we had rainy really dark days and also some sunny bright ones when we almost believe we were in the middle of the spring intead of beggining the winter. My studio doesn´t seem the same place and changes so much depending on the light outside...in the pictures above you have some spots from my workspace, and what I see if I take a look outside de window. 
Well, friends, hope you have a good start for this new week! See you soon :-)
xo

after the rain

 

Hello, dear all! 

We can finally say that the winter is here, and that we´ve had a real rain! We were hoping the rain would clean the air some, and yesterday, it really did so. Today the mountains have shown us all their beauty, so full of snow and clearly seen from the city. 

This past month I´ve been working on many new items, and some custom orders, and also searching for new materials and tools. I´ve found a new kind of leather that I´m loving and can´t wait to try, lets see if I have the chance soon! 

In the pictures above you can see some views I´ve taken today on a short  trip just enjoying the views, some of the new items in the shop, and a bit of home life. I finally added more aprons in the shop, and still have some waiting to be photographed and published.

Well, Friends, hope you are enjoying the change of the season to summer in the North, or winter here in the South. See you soon! 

xo