Llama, llama, llama, llama!
Saturday, January 17th, 2009 Posted in knitting | 2 Comments »If you follow me on Flickr, last week you found out about a dark (or colorful, depending on how you look at it) secret I've been hiding: My yarn stash. I love to buy yarn as much as fabric. I love ...
The geekiest scarf ever.
Sunday, January 11th, 2009 Posted in crafts, geeky, knitting | 7 Comments »While I never make New Year's resolutions -I believe ideas/learning/projects/resolutions should be a year round thing-, this year I have a resolution to make. I would like to finish my DNA double helix scarf. I started the DNA Scarf about 2 ...
Eternal Spring: The Monarchs
Monday, January 5th, 2009 Posted in crafts, embroidery, general crafts, sewing | 3 Comments »I love Flickr, I get a lot of ideas by looking at pictures....but it can be dangerous for me to visit it while working on a project. As I mentioned, after seeing this picture, i just had to add a ...
Eternal Spring – the sweet smell of vainilla*!
Sunday, January 4th, 2009 Posted in architecture, crafts, embroidery, Flowers, general crafts, general home, sewing, The Internet and The Web | 3 Comments »I bet everyone thought this had become a photography blog huh? Wrong! I've just been lazy (well, lazy to blog; trust me, I've been quite a busy bee!). Not much progress has been made on the runner as I keep on ...
Eternal spring 2
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 Posted in crafts, embroidery, general crafts, general home, sewing | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_266" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="First Dahlia finished"][/caption] So the first bunch of bougainvilleas was finished...i moved onto the dahlias. First Dahlia was done with satin stitch only. As you can see, the edges were done in a darker pink than the middle...at ...
The place of Eternal Spring
Saturday, September 20th, 2008 Posted in crafts, embroidery, Flowers, sewing | 3 Comments »[caption id="attachment_260" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Bougainvillea in parents backyard"][/caption] Early in May of this year, we took a small vacation to México. Boombadeus got to meet some of my first cousins in Guadalajara, we went to one of the youngest volcanoes in ...
Scrappy pincushion
Sunday, August 24th, 2008 Posted in embroidery, general crafts, sewing | No Comments »What does a craftster do when she's bored or stressed? She grabs fabric scraps and makes craftsy things with them! Check it out: The yellowish fabric scraps are from a Purl Soho order placed a few months back. It is ...
Learning simplicity
Saturday, August 16th, 2008 Posted in embroidery, general crafts, sewing, Wedding | No Comments »Remember the photo album I made for Windi? Well, my aunt's birthday was coming up and I was about to send her copies of our wedding pictures when I though, why not make something special? maybe something like the album that ...
A May to remember
Thursday, August 14th, 2008 Posted in crafts, embroidery, Flowers, sewing | No Comments »I learned how to embroider, in school, when I was 8*. I was in a private elementary in México, and it was tradition in the school that for Mother's Day you had to make a gift. Yes, I said make; none ...
Summer vacation?
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 Posted in food, gardening, hobbies | 2 Comments »As much as it seems as if I was away on vacation (as Thad is the only one blogging lately), life has been quite far from that. While we did go briefly to Mexico, where Boombadeus got to finally see where ...