Today I spend all day without power, its crazy to realize how dependent we are from it, at least that’s what I realize today, our house’s water heater, stove and pretty much everything is electric – great!

So finally I got to work and blog! =)  I am very excited because this will be my first 4th of July in California, sadly I will not be with my husband, because he’s fighting fire close to Vegas, but I am still looking forward to the festivities, hoping all fire fighters out there are safe and hopefully they will put all those fires out soon, and come back home!

For this weeks tutorial love friday Im sharing my favorite recipes and 4th of July crafts, so enjoy!

1 – Vanilla-Raspberry Sundaes with Spoon-Shaped Cookies by Martha Stewart
2 – Matchbook and Straw Tags by Twig and Thistle
3 – Berry Cupcakes by Martha Stewart
4 – Stars and Stripes Clip-Art Paper Cones by Martha Stewart

Happy USA Independence weekend everyone!

I love dressing Curly up, and the best part is that he goes crazy when he hears Velcro because he thinks its something for him to wear, he’s so cute!  In the past I’ve made Curly a lot of clothes, being my favorite a little hoodie jacket that matches a pair of shorts I made for Ken. Both of them loved it!

Last week I made him A little formal vest with a tie shape! and I wanted to share how I made his last little jacket in case someone else wants to try it. This is how it looks:

THE PROCESS:

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I am slowly trying to put together my craft room/office, I started with some frames and board, now I’m working on my sewing table (I will post the process as soon as I’m done), organizing my fabrics and tools.

I have a lot of markers that I wanted to have them close to me,  I didn’t like the organizer I had, so I grab some duct tape, pieces of cardboard and a basket to create my own duct tape pen organizer! I already had all of the material so the cost was $0, and it only took me about 45 minutes to pull it together.

I cut stripes of cardboard and place them the way I wanted to divide my basket, I hot glue the pieces together, and finally duct tape the structure. I loved the color of my duct tape so I will me making more duct tape projects soon

If you know me, you already know that I am a sucker for flowers, specially non-usual material flowers, so obviously when I though about a way to make my basket pretty,  a flower was the answer! Duct tape flower, with a small yellow button =)

I cut the shape of the pedals, then folded on the middle and place tiny drop of hot glue, grab a paper clip and tape it to a circle. I started by gluing the button to the circle, then I glue all the pedals around the button.

Here is the basket in action, I have tons of room for all my markers now!

I love the fact that if the flower gets dusty, I can just wash it with water and a brush.

Now I need to make and organizer for all my sewing tools! I think I will make more duct tape flowers to make them pretty too.
Would you like me to share how I made the duck tape flower?

This week Im sharing 2 tutorial that inspired me to make something for myself, want to guess witch ones?

 

1 – Ruffle Shirt by Tea Rose Home
2 – (e) Book cover by Handmade Mommy
3 – Wall Flowers by Dana at Made
4 – Tote Bag by Between the Lines

Happy weekend everyone!

Last weekend was Ken’s Graduation and his sister came for the celebration, I asked her if she could give me the hair cut we had talk about ever since Easter. I was super excited! plus she is a teacher now at her Cosmetology school, so I really trusted her to do this job, she knows what she’s doing

I haven’t cut my hair as short as I decided to go for more than 4 years, so it was a very extreme decision for me, but I really wanted to donate my hair to Locks of Love, I read about it the first time I cut my hair, but since I was in Chile I just gave it to the salon I had my cut, after it was done and read carefully I realized I could have save it and donate it later, so donation was my goal when I started to grow my hair again

So here it is, just like Curly! my before and after:

I am still not used to have my hair so short, and after my morning shower I am still in shock when I look at the mirror with almost no hair, because I think I look like a boy, but I don’t regret cutting it at all, I love the fact that someone out there is going to be really happy with it!

So what do you think?