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17Oct | 2011

Chile pictures

Posted by Joy | under Personal . Travel | 7 Comments

Hello my lovelies! long time no read huh? I’ve spent a week in Chile already (the first week of my trip was in Argentina) and it feels like I’ve been gone for months. Getting to spend time with my Mom and Sister it’s been amazing. I’ve got to see a lot of friends and family and snap pictures along the way =] My sister got [...]

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15Sep | 2011

My very first Top from scratch

Posted by Joy | under Inspiration . Personal . Sewing | 7 Comments

Even tho I’ve been hand-sewing ever since my Mom let me grab a needle, my experience with sewing machines was not as early, mainly because my Mom would not let me play with her sewing machine. And even when she allowed me to use it, she didn’t have time to teach me, so I learn by myself just trying to sew simple things. I started [...]

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13Sep | 2011

Looking forward to some Chilean food

Posted by Joy | under Personal . Travel | 9 Comments

I have to say that besides seeing my family and friends, the next thing I get most excited about going back to my home country is the FOOD! It’s not that I don’t cook Chilean food at our house, but even when you make them with the closest to “the same ingredients” – the originals are just SO GOOD! I only have a week and [...]

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6Sep | 2011

Be creative and stay Sane – Free Printable

Posted by Joy | under Design . Personal . Printables | 25 Comments

Many times while crafting, designing, sewing or just any creative process, we tend to do things that discourage us, or we simply don’t do enough of the ones that DO encourage our creative process. Today I wanted to share some pointers of the things that had helped me stay sane =] And as a reminder I made a little print for my office using a [...]

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2Sep | 2011

My Purple dress

Posted by Joy | under Design . Personal . Sewing | 17 Comments

Purple is my favorite color, that’s why it was one of the main colors of our wedding (along with green, Ken’s favorite color). But after the wedding and for longer than a year I could not even look at purple, I was so sick of it! Happily I am finally detoxing from purple =] So my first step to officially show my re-born love for [...]

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Hola there! I'm Joy Kelley, Chilean Designer, sewing fanatic, obsessive crafter, upcycle passionate. Welcome to my blog!
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