About 3 months a go I decided to give PassionFruit ads a try, they were super new and sounded like it was too good to be true. Up until then I had sidebar advertisement for small business and blogs, but I had to manually update ads, contact sponsors and invoice them. It does not sound like such a hassle, but when I hardly had any time to blog the task started to get worse and worse. But like any good story, my happily ever after came with the guys at PassionFruit, the system was super easy to set up and they have been handling my sidebar ads for the past 3 months and I could not be happier! now I just have to worry about blogging!

With this new system it’s easier for me and for YOU too! and to celebrate the new beginning of the ads for shops and small businesses in my blog I have a special 10% dicount with the code: JOYFUL10 until baby Peanut makes his/her appearance, so 7 or less weeks of 10% discount in ALL ads and if you book for more than 3 months you get an even bigger discount – Just contact me for the details! and visit my Sponsor page for prices and to book your ad, now you can also advertise my post and pages, even more exposure for you!!

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I have to start by sharing that the graphic positioning and phrase are not my original idea, when I started to search for ideas for the nursery I saw a similar sign, but it was a calligraphy wood sign and it was hanging with a chain on the door knob. I wish I would have saved the image so I could source the original inspiration, but I only sketched what I wanted to do and never saved the image (I know! bad blogger!!) I can only blame my early pregnancy brain =] So if any of you know the source I’m talking about I’d love to know where that image was from.

Now to the project, for the graphics I used the free font Flamenco created by fellow Chilean Designers of Latinotype for the Google Font Directory and the font Peoni Pro by Emily Conners, just in case you want to get creative yourself!

For the banner I used my Silhouette machine to cut out the shapes on a white flocked heat transfer sheet. After I cut the shape I iron it on a piece of green fabric. I cut a back for my flag and sewed around them, added a top to to pass a dowel through, then I added rope on both ends to hang =]

Since I know not a lot of people have a cutting machine I wanted to share my graphic for those who have one and the ones that don’t. So for the ones that don’t have the tools to make a banner I am sharing a print in 5 different colors! so you can just print, frame and hang! or you can print it on card-stock, cut it on a banner shape, add a dowel on the back and you have your own version our of paper =]

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Hello everyone! here I am popping live to share a mini-session of self portrait I did yesterday. I wanted to update you all and let you know that baby Peanut and I are doing great, I still can’t do much and I am still taking everything super slow – still not finish with the office or the nursery, but I am slowly getting there.

The mountains are pretty hot right now and my ancles are really feeling it, this baby moves so hard that sometimes it hurts me and it always wakes me up at night – but I’m not complaining! I love to feel him/her =] We are down to single digits and only have 8 more weeks to go, so the excitement is building like crazy!!

Anyways, I though about taking a few pictures before this baby shows up, I am planning on a maternity session with a friend but for now the self portraits should do the trick!

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I think by now everyone already guessed the theme we are going for our baby Peanut’s nursery =] CIRCUS! and one of the elements I really wanted to integrate are the entry tickets (the vintage ones) – even tho the nursery will be very modern I just really wanted to have a ticket, and what better way than making a pillow!

Since the size I decided to make is very custom, I made the pillow and the pillow cover. For the letters I used the font Corben by Vernon Adams from the Google Webfont directory. A free font that had just the look I was going for.

Because I wanted the numbers on the side to really mean something and not to be just random ticket numbers, I decided to use my due date, even tho the probability of having our baby that day is very small, it still means so much to us, after all we’ve been really looking forward to THAT day, so at least I will be able to remember when it was, if peanut’s birth day is some other day =] and just in case you are wondering – I made the pillow in the Spanish date order (day, month, year) because that’s still the way I write dates down.

And as usual I wanted to share how I made my pillow and the template so you can also make your own, the file is set with the size I used but you can always make it bigger or smaller

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By now most of you already know that I love to use cardboard for pretty much everything I can think of =] so using it to organize my sewing room is not a surprice, but I still wanted to share because I know this can help someone else with problems similar to mine.

This will not be a step-by-step tutorial just because my build-in is custom, so I am not sure if my measurements will work for anyone else, but I am sharing the idea and how I made mine, so you can also organize with cardboard =]

I customize the spaces to fit my craft and sewing supplies in each of my 4 drawers with cardboard inserts and the cost for all of that plus the cardboard drawers for the awkward space below the drawer was $0 I used the left over boxes from our move, a hot glue gun, gummed craft paper tape, ruler and an Xacto knife.

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