I’ve had a lot of emails and comments asking to show how I made the name sign for the nursery, so today I’ll share how I did it and maybe others will want to experiment with their own baby’s names or just words, I think I’m going to make one for the kitchen next

This project took me a long time because I made it the first month after Peanut was born, at that point I could only try to do something while he was sleeping, but crafting was not a priority when you are sleep deprived and with a messy house =] The good part, I got to REALLY enjoy having a few minutes here and there to relax and play with cardboard!
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I can’t believe 2013 it’s already here! it seems to me only a couple of year a go it was the year 2000 =]
I am kind of behind on my Christmas photos, so I wanted to share our photos along with my 2013 resolution.

My resolution for this year was to get back into drawing and using pen and paper again. I’ve done handwriting and graphics for my blog designs before, but my resolution is to create a line of prints to sell on my Studio’s etsy shop. My idea is to create a line of sewing/crafting prints and some other nursery and office focus ones. I’m excited to explore that creative outlet again! Here a few preview of what I’ve been working on.

Santa also surprised me with this beautiful serger, so I also want to learn about it and do some tutorials =] Another project I want to tackle is the one I started two years a go, my 101 in 1001 I need to update the things I’ve done but I still have a way to go, my plan is to try and finish all of it before October. I also have cool collaboration plans for a new series of post that I know a lot of you would really like, so yeah! lots of exciting things going on right now.

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I think there is only a few project that had made me as excited as this one, probably because I hand-sewed “Mom” and “Dad” (in spanish) on our stockings so in my head that made us “official” parents ha!

I am not going to lie usually I could have done a project like this in a very productive afternoon, but it actually took me a few weeks to finally finish, for a few days I though that they were not going to be done before Christmas, but if you follow me on instagram you already know that actually I came about a week early =]

Sewing with baby Peanut with me was a challenge, some days I was lucky to have about and hour of uninterrupted work, but it was very worth it! My initial idea was to have very modern typography stockings for all of us, but one day while feeding baby Peanut I started to doodle characters that I though would look very cute as stockings, I was immediately sold on the idea and made templates for each one of “us” the same day, planned the colors and happily the only thing I had to buy were a few thread colors I didn’t have.

I decided to make Ken a snowman with a green hat in honor to his Irish heritage, I made baby Peanut a Polar Bear because to me he looks like a little bear now =] Curly got to be a reindeer and I decided to be a very feminine penguin with pink ear muffs.

The process was super easy with the patterns, I just draw the shapes into a real size paper stocking template. Then cut all the pieces, pin them to my felt cut and assemble.

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I can’t believe the holidays are already here! I feel like only last month was March =] (I guess that’s what happens when you have morning sickness for 28 weeks hehe) This year was a specially blessed one for our family, we became home owners in March and now I finally have my own space for sewing, crafting and an office for my Design Business. Then a couple of months a go we received the greatest blessing ever, our darling little boy! I don’t have words to describe how much we love this little man, he melts our heart with every smile (and every single face he makes)

We could not be happier, we feel extremely blessed and thankful. I know that there is a lot of people that can’t wait for 2012 to be over so they can start a new year fresh from everything. So I want to wish to everyone many blessings for this holiday season and upcoming year, may all your wishes come true and I hope 2013 brings lots of JOY to your life =]

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We are so happy about Peanut’s nursery feedback and I am super excited about all the comments and emails, so Thank you!! And just like I promise on that post, here is one of the few projects I had in my drafts, now is the time for one of my favorites: The circus K marquee.

I wanted to make a marquee K because of our last name “Kelley” since Peanut’s sex was a surprise and we had decided on two names with different initials. I’ve seen foam-board tutorials for these cuties, but I wanted something more resistant and lasting, so unlike most of my up-cycled projects this time I wanted wood instead of cardboard or foam-board.

For this project the only thing I bough were the lights ($15.00 with a coupon), everything else was recycled. We had just received our floors and the pallet was laying around our front yard, so I used pieces from the feet of the pallet for the sides and after getting all the nails out I used that board for the K shape.

The very first thing I did was to draw a small version of how I wanted the K, it would have been a lot faster to just select a font that had the look I wanted but at that point the computer screen still made me dizzy so I just went the old way. After I finish the K, I used the same principle I used to escalate the logo in my office wall and enlarge it to the real size I wanted (about 35″ tall)

Se the rest of the post after the jump.

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