November, where did you go??

Hello!! Hope your weekends are going well :-)

These weeks are being hectic here, rushing and rushing with so much to do in the studio. Now it´s really becoming a mess, and this time is the true truth hehe! With so much work as I have now, I´m realising that I can do so much more than what I normally do, and making real plans to go on with this new way of organising my time. So, in the middle of the "almost" chaos, I´m thinking about the new year (it´s so close) and how I would like to organise the time, house and work to be more effective, creative, organised... well, the never ending list of "things I can do better" hehe. Are you already thinking about the year we are ending and the goals for the next one too? I really love December, because invites to look back and forward at the same time, and also makes you be with both feet in the present time, as you always have so many things to do "right now". Let´s see how the review / new goals combo goes. In the meanwhile, work, work, and being thankful for the chance to work in something I like so much. 

Have a great new week! Here you have some shots from these days in the studio. 

xx

 

 

Hello, dear all! 
I´ve been kind of "absent" here lately :-) These are days of hard work in the studio, and I´m so thankful for that and learning so much every minute. It seems that de holiday season is beggining to make my studio a messy place again. I´ve made some changes here to help "prevent" the mess and have more space and better organization. Now it seems so much bigger than before, and I also have better lighting in the sewing machine. I know that seing the picture above you may think I don´t know what mess means, but, please keep in mind that I´ve made the pic when it was just decluttered and with everything in the new position hehe! Now I´m living in a more real world, with pieces of thread, fabric and leather all around, even in my clothes AND hair :-) It does not sound nice, but this is a happy busy mess. 
I´ve been working in this place for a year already, so I´m remembering so much these same days in the past holiday season. Things have changed! The new sewing machine makes a huge difference, I´ve learned so much, and my products have improved. Happy to see that, and thankful to all my customers from all times. 
I´m also dreaming on some new lines for my shop. I want to do SO many things and my notebook is getting fat with ideas I´m writting to remember. Right now before Christmas is not the moment to do that, but I will love to grow a line of products inspired on the Andinean cultures taking advantage of my location in Chile. I´ll share a bit more about this when the moment comes. 
Thanks for reading, and hope you have a nice day!
:-)

Andinean inspiration. Knits and tools from my weaving life long ago. I need to to that again!

New Two Tone Crossbody Bag in the shop, inspired in the colors of landscapes I love from the south of Argentina and Chile.

From our last vacation in Bariloche, Patagonia Argentina. Just for you to know what I mean saying that these colors are inspiring the bag above :-) So living that place and how Nature combines colors there!

happy birthday to my shop, two years!

Today my shop makes two years since the first opening, and I´m not sure about the way I feel about this!  I have many different feelings, all of them based on the fact that I´m happy with my work. For one side, it seems to me that I´ve always been making bags and selling on Etsy, and for the other side I can´t hardly believe my shop has two years YET!! 
More opposite feelings are for one side seeing how my shop has grown during these two years, and on the other side seeing more ways to grow and things I need to lern, understand and most of all "do" to help my little business grow. Those will be never ending tasks, I guess. 

Two years ago while my shop was opened, we were living in Madrid, one year after that, (on the first anniversary) we were just arrived to Chile, and now we are making a year here already. I´ve also had to close "on vacation" several months for different reasons like moving from Spain to Chile, travels to visit family and weddings, etc etc. But I´m happy seing how my shop have grown, and so thankful because I had the chance to start it. I´m also really thankful to all my customers from the begginings, because they supported my work then, and allow me to develop my products which are so much better now compared with the first ones. I would like to write a letter to each of them saying "thank you so much again", but I don´t want to seem spammy... So, if you are one of them or you know someone, please say thanks for me :-) And of course I´m thankful to all my customers from now too because they are still supporting my work, and all of you who are reading my posts, even if I become a little philosophical sometimes (like this one!). 
Hope you are having a nice week :-) 
xo! 
PS: Oh, my....I´ve just realised that this blog has also made a year yet and I didn´t even notice. No doubt, time flies!

I´ve been in action in the studio again this month, after a long vacation. 

These are some of the "so many" new bags in my shop. I´ve added the zip totes (finallyyyy!)

vacation in Spain

Hello, dear all! 
These past month have been real vacation for us, and we went to Spain to visit family and friends. We really enjoyed being there! We´ve been in Andalusie, specially Seville, Jerez de la Frontera, and some little towns in Cadiz, wanting to stay since te first minute we arrived. But the same happens to me everytime I go to Argentina, and now we are back in Chile and we feel at home too :-) 
Here I share with you some pics I´ve taken during a couple of days we spent in the beach in Andalusie, one in Zahora, and the other one in Chipiona. Hope you enjoy, those are wonderful places... and we used to go there SO often while living in Seville. 
Hope to be able to share more pics soon, meanwhile, hope you are well!
xo

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".