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10Aug | 2011

My laptop bag tutorial on Sew Mama Sew!

Posted by Joy | under Crafting . Design . Sewing . Tutorials | 11 Comments

I was so excited when Beth from Sew Mama Sew! invited me to contribute to their Back to School month of projects. I thought it would be the perfect time to actually make the laptop bag I wanted for quite some time. Right after I received the colorful-and-oh-so-awesome fabrics from designer Jessica Jones, I knew I had to use them for this project, her fabrics [...]

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8Aug | 2011

The Upcycled dress preview

Posted by Joy | under Personal . Sewing | 7 Comments

First I wanted to start this week THANKING all of you for the emails, comments and tweets after the lost of Conner last week. This past weekend we got to talk a lot about what happened, Ken and I are so thankful for all the love and prayers, you guys rock! We do want to have another puppy in the future and hopefully this time [...]

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13Jul | 2011

One and a half dress

Posted by Joy | under Crafting . Sewing . Upcycle | 14 Comments

Since I am always in the hunt for t-shirts, pants, dresses and pretty much anything I can use to upcycle, I could not be happier that Ken actually set apart a big tub full of t-shirts for me =] and the very first project I started with them are top of dresses. I am still not finish with the second one, there the name of [...]

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7Jul | 2011

It’s all about Inspiring

Posted by Joy | under Inspiration . Personal . Sewing | 10 Comments

There is a lot of people that know me or are my friends that don’t know much about my blog and whenever the subject comes up, I like to share what this space it’s all about, but only if they ask =] and when that happens the question I get the most is “why would you want to have a blog anyways?” and to me [...]

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5Jul | 2011

Joyful braided bracelet tutorial

Posted by Joy | under Sewing . Tutorials . Upcycle | 48 Comments

So I wrote this post 2 weeks ago but I’ve been trying to think of a way to make tutorials easier for me and for you, that’s why I had it on hold. And this weekend the idea came to me! I made a techniques and parts-of-tutorials-I-use-often page, so that way I can refer to them instead of making that part of the tutorial each [...]

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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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