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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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8Sep | 2011

Camera carrier insert – the preview

Posted by Joy | under Crafting . Design . Sewing | 22 Comments

Some time a go I shared camera bags inspiration because I wanted to make a bag to protect my recently upgraded camera. Well, I kind of changed my mind in the process and instead of making one camera bag, I decided to make a camera bag insert. So I can switch it with different purses, you know I kind of like to match my bag [...]

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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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30Aug | 2011

Desk chair transformation

Posted by Joy | under Crafting . Sewing . Tutorials . Upcycle | 71 Comments

Last Christmas my in Laws gave Ken and I matching Desk chairs. We only had one and it was pretty broken. Ever since I’ve had a love-hate relationship with it. I love it because it’s so comfortable, actually one of the best I’ve ever had. My back does so much better with this chair, BUT it’s all dark and leather, in hot days I feel like I [...]

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18Aug | 2011

The Upcycled ruffles dress tutorial

Posted by Joy | under Sewing . Tutorials . Upcycle | 57 Comments

So this past week was pretty bad blog-wise, my blog and website got attacked with malware. My feed was having issues and subscribers seemed to banish. Happily most of it is fixed now and I am happy to be able to blog again (I didn’t wanted to post anything until I was 100% sure the malware was completely cleaned) And if you saw my site [...]

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