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25Jul | 2012

Nursery: Felt hot air ballon mobile – tutorial and pattern

Posted by Joy | under Crafting . Nursery . Sewing . Tutorials | 60 Comments

Today I want to share one of my favorite pieces of the nursery we’re putting together for our baby Peanut =] A very colorful hot air ballon mobile made out of felt. I wanted to make the ballons as real as possible, and researched for ideas that were not so complicated to sew, because some designs are gorgeous but at a small scale can be [...]

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12Jun | 2012

Belly Sewing: $1 Maternity Jean skirt from men’s shorts

Posted by Joy | under Baby / Maternity . Sewing . Tutorials | 13 Comments

As you can read by the title I am starting a new section! Belly Sewing: Maternity sewing projects. And most of them will be upcycling projects =] I’m excited to share all of the fixing-sewing I’ll be doing now that my clothes don’t fit anymore, but don’t worry! I will still be posting other projects that have nothing to do with maternity or babies. I [...]

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6Jun | 2012

My Studio: painting shapes in textured walls

Posted by Joy | under My studio . Our House . Tutorials | 11 Comments

For today I wanted to share a tip that really helped all of the painting we are doing in our house right now, we have textured walls and even tho I love them their are a pain when you want to do anything else but a plain wall. I wanted shapes in one of my sewing room walls and after a run-test with frog tape [...]

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4Jun | 2012

Camera carrier insert tutorial

Posted by Joy | under Sewing . Tutorials | 44 Comments

A few months a go I showed you a preview of the camera carrier insert I sewed. I didn’t hold on the tutorial by accident, I actually wanted to give my honest review (and changes I would make to improve) along with a tutorial. I’ve been using the carrier for months now and it works great with the exception of some details I will describe [...]

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14May | 2012

My Studio: A little fan revamp

Posted by Joy | under My studio . Our House . Tutorials . Upcycle | 15 Comments

Happy Monday everyone! Before I share the post I have for today I wanted to thank everyone for the response on Facebook, Twitter and the post where we shared the news of our little one on the way! We are so excited and it feels so awesome to feel the love from all of you, you guys are amazing and I feel so lucky that [...]

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