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 Flowers, The Internet and The Web, architecture, crafts, embroidery, general crafts, general home, sewing | 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 Flowers, crafts, embroidery, 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 Wedding, embroidery, general crafts, sewing | 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 Flowers, crafts, embroidery, 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 ...
LOVE: A thank you (long post!)
Sunday, May 18th, 2008 Posted in Wedding, crafts, embroidery, friends, sewing | 1 Comment »Windi and I go way back; all the way to the time when I didn't talk much. Nope, not when we were babies...college. I had been in the country for a little less than 3 years when I met her ...
Ciclos*
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in gardening, hobbies, languages | 2 Comments »Ciclos: Cycles in Spanish. That's what having a garden is like. Cycles of beautiful lush gardens, flowers and outdoors; cycles of harvesting the produce you've raised from seed and cycles of cold that are enjoyed indoors, baking cookies and getting ready ...