My little stash

This time I wanna show you my stash. It's a little small but I think is decent for make some cute things =p

You see something repetitive?

Yeah! I must confess! I LOVE flowers fabrics ¡_¡ they are just beautiful. But desings of animals and nature are my favorite too (ah, and dots jujuju ^^)

My stash grew this month with some "donations" from my mother and boyfriend. I bought some too.

This is my favorite fabric for now.

I like it so much because the print is very clear =D

Speaking of wich, I like cottons and natural fibers. In my country there's some decent stores where you can buy a great variety of fabrics.I realized that imported cottons are pretty good but we have a few with the same quality but the desings are childish.
One meter of good mexican cotton cost usd$3.5 approx.
Cheap cotton usd$1.5, and
American cotton usd$6.5
This is an example of how much it cost the fabric in my city. I would like to know how much it cost the fabric in your city ^^

ps.Sorry if my english is wrong

Welcome New Year!!

I'm the girl with the umbrella ^^u (the sun hurts my skin)

Here I am again,my trip was very relaxing and educational. I saw many interesting things about people and traditions.I was in Oaxaca, a beautiful state where my Dad born.
I ate a lot of things, I saw a beautiful scenes of nature and realized about the importance of the simple things in life ^_^.
I'm eager to learn new things and know more interesting people. I hope this year brings good things for you too!

Little pouch and little presents

I made this little pouch for my sister, who loves rabbits.




And finish the fabric bags I mentioned in a previous post. I filled them with some candies.



these bags are for an orphanage's children. My aunt told me about them and she's organizing a toy's donation with her friends. But what kind of Christmas would be without candies? When I was a child, the candies were one of the best gifts I had received. Hope they like this little present ^^.

In other news, I'm going to travel for vacations with my family and I'll be back in january 6th, so this is a little good bye!

I can only wish you a MERRY Christmas and hope you have a nice time with your family and beloved persons! n_n

See you!

A little walk in the city

a few days ago I went to walk in the middle of the city, to a avenue called Reforma.In the mexican folklore, it's a tradition to put a "nacimiento" (literally Birth), made of different materials wich represent the Jesus birth .There were many of them, but this was my favorite.

Very detailed ^^

Few steps over, there was a lots of piñatas wich is a clay container filled with candies and fruits. Is decorated with cardboard and paper of many colors. The tradition says the piñata must be a seven-pointed star wich represent the seven capital sins and the stick for break it is the "power of God". Well...now the piñatas have different forms like bugs, famous tv characters, cars,etc.

I liked this colorful piñata

And this one

later the nigh falls and the "most bigger christmas tree in the world" was switching-on (or so they said)

Sure it was huge *_*

there was a lot of people!

Was a really nice walk!

Busy days

Last friday, my boyfriend bought me these beautiful fabrics *_*. Now I'm thinking what can I do?

I was so happy because lately I had no money ¡_¡ . He has been a great support to me since I quit my job and always supported my "creative stages" jujuju. First was jewelry, then bookbinding, painting and sewing now ! (god, how much money have I spent?!).

But before I digress , I must finish some things, like this colorful scarf (the yarn is another gift from him ^^)

And the most important thing, these little fabric bags for some gifts that I'm planning to do

Gosh, my back is killing me! (mental note: get up every half hour to rest >_<)

My first patchwork

I just finished this patchwork furoshiki following this mairuru's tutorial. I've never did nothing with patchwork but I wanted do something and here is it.

But what is a furoshiki?

Is a square of fabric about 50-60 cms and can be used in many ways.I use it as a lunchbox and when I go to the grocery store for few things. Here an example:

Put the things you want to wrap on the furoshiki's center

Then do this


and the other side

and finally tie up the ends with double knot

Here a page with other examples.This is a great idea for use fabric instead of plastic! PLEASE try it!

Thanks Mairuru for this tutorial ^_^

Sorry if my english wasn't correct.

Giveaway time

Yesterday begun the great giveaway day of sew mama sew. I Would have liked to enter but righ now I'm broke T_T. I wanna enter next time!

This is a perfect opportunity to discover new things in the blog world. Personally I visited many links with cool blogs and shops but these are my favorites:

Rosa e chocolate: I love her patchwork!! such a cute bookcovers *_*

A bit of this and bit of that: Beautiful dolls designs!! and here's her giveaway

La vida compartida: She has gorgeous quilts, and besides is mexican like me! ^.^

Chubby Hubby: She have some useful tutorials

and so many others that I'm following now! Please visit their blogs =D

edit:I add other GREAT giveaway

Ana Michelle Quilts: Gorgeous Quilts, I must say it!


I'm gonna cross my fingers!!! XD