My Creative Space

This week I've been working on my polymer clay buttons and charms, I LOVE IT!!!. I've made lots and lots of charms and buttons. I also made some beads for flowers I crochet before. I think I mentioned that I've been making "jewelry" since I was little and now I make my own beads! isn't it cool?! I miss my hooks and yarns though :\. I promised I'd show you more of what I've made so far, so here it goes...

This is what's on my desk right now, well, I'm actually on my computer but, before I started writing hehe... These are some of the buttons, Christmas buttons, I just have to make the little wholes, and bake them :)

Tiny tiny hot dog! Yummy

A little cupcake!

Some more Christmas buttons!!!

These are charms, for either bracelets, earrings, jewelry, etc.

So, here's what I've made this week. I hope you like them! I'll be showing you more soon!

Thanks for stopping by ^_^

My new hobby?

Good Morning!!! I'm excited to show you a bit of what I've been making. Everything started while walking around in Joann Fabric (Craft Store). I've always wanted to work with clay, I even took 2 ceramic classes in high school, the only thing was that I didn't have a kiln or anything like it, and you know that regular clay can be a bit messy. So, I decided to experiment with polymer clay!!!, easy to use, no mess, and you bake it in your regular oven, plus! there are BEAUTIFUL colors available. And so it began...... let me show you what I've made....

I love love love! to make this tiny things. Some of them are charms and some are just a fun-handmade buttons. I think I want to experiment more with this... I'll show you more pics nect time... Thanks for stopping by

Chao^_^

Officially Back

Wow!!! I don't even know where to start. It's been so long since the last post. I once read on a blog that once you stop writing for a while, it's hard to get back on the habit of writing "frequently". It is TOTALLY TRUE! I was worried because sometimes, I can be the person who starts something and doesn't finish it. I had to tell myself: Victoria! you can NOT! quit this. Now, I have to start writing as much as I did when I started the blog. I have several things and projects that I want to show you :). Thanks to those who visited me and waited for me to get back ^_^.

So, where were we? on my last post I told you I was on Orlando right? visiting my family?. I stayed there for a couple of weeks and came back to Venezuela 3 days ago. I moved back here, remember I used to live in Panama? Well, now I'm here! I promised you pictures right? I'm gonna have lots of time to show you Venezuela :). I bet that most of you know about Venezuela because of Chavez ("the president") well, there's a lot more here than bad-corrupted-abusive politicians. Yes, I don't like him! but this is not a blog about politics, so I'm going to stop here.

Let me show you some pics of my trip...

So, let me tell you! My mom lives about 3 blocks from the beach. This was the first time I visited her house. I left Orlando before she moved there, so I didn't really know what I was missing hehe... It's a beautiful place!. Oh! and the water was really cold, in case you didn't noticed my expression.

I took this picture on Lake Windermere. Beautiful lake! and the houses there were Amazing!

Sunset at my dad's. There's a little lake behind his house...

Hidden Garden. Behind some shoppes in Winter Park. Beautiful right?

And of course! the Happiest Place on Earth!!! It really is :) We had an amazing time at Disney. It's always fun.

Disney's Hollywood Studios!!!

Here it is guys! my first post in more than a month, wow!!! Thanks for visiting again :)

Ciao, Ciao!!!

I'm back back back!!!

Hello Hello!!! I'm sooooo happy to be back! I really missed you guys, my blog, my readers, and of course, CRAFTING. On my last post I mentioned that was in Venezuela, eating good stuff hehe. After 2 weeks of eating and just hanging around, the last day finally came :( It was hard to say goodbye and to leave my country and family, but at the same time I was excited because I was gonna see my mom!!! It has been almost 3 years since the last time I saw her :( yes, It was really hard. I can't describe what I felt when I saw her, I waited for that day for several years, and oh! my goodness! It was a very good feeling.

Right now, I'm in Orlando, Florida, where my family lives. I'm visiting for a few weeks and after a while I have to go back to real life. I love it here because they have A LOT of stores and crafting stores, it's really hard to contain myself from buying everything I see. Everything from books, yarns, beads, needles, I feel like I can make anything! well, literally you can with all of the good stuff they have here. :). I'll be making all kinds of new projects. After so many weeks away from the blogging world I feel the urge to make something, on the next post I'll show you what I made on planes and the surprise my mom gave me after I got here :)

So, the last post I said I would post some pictures of Venezuela... Here I have some for you to see ;)

These are -Tequeños- which are very similar to the Cheese Sticks you find on the restaurants. The difference is that Tequeños are made with fresh cheese, kind of like a milky cheese and is wrapped with a dough made with all-purpose flour.

Most of the time they are served with a sauce made with Mayo and garlic (DELICIOUS!!!) and regular ketchup. I know, not a very good thing to eat if you're on a diet :\, but VERY VERY tasty.

Oh my! this was in a seafood restaurant. I ordered a grilled seafood dinner. The dish had, shrimp, octopus, calamari, scallops, salmon, and a few mussels. It was exquisite!!!. This is not a "venezuelan" dish but I assure you they cooked it very well ^_^

I'll be back soon to show you some more pictures. I'm excited to be back! Thanks you so much for stopping back and for visiting me while I was away :)

Ciao, Ciao!!!

Hola Hola, from Venezuela!!!

I wanted to stop by and say hello to you all!!!... We arrived Wednesday night, after long long hours of traveling. It's funny how close we were (Panama) and it took us soooo long to get here... But, in Venezuela many things don't work how they should :\. I must tell you a secret though, I was very brave when I took this picture for you guys!. I'm not a big fan of planes, and I keep the window shut must of the time, so I had to open it!!! can you believe it!? plus, I didn't take just one picture, I took several just in case some were out of focus. That's what I do for you my lovely readers ;). It's silly I know, some might think that I'm a little old to be scared of planes, but I don't really like knowing that there's NOTHING under us.

In this picture I wanted to show you a bit of what I'm working on. I thought I could work on it on the plane, and that it could help me think on something other than "I'm I-don't-know-how-many-thousand-feet off the ground" but my hands were shaking horribly and I couldn't concentrate really. How embarrassing!

One of the things I'm enjoying the most is (of course) the food, oh my! is provably what I've missed the most, and the beaches :). I've taken pictures of our food for you to see later. Don't expect elegant dishes or exotic ingredients, some may seem boring but I assure you'll love it if you tried it sometime... I'll post some more pictures soon.

I'm going to bed now, we have a long day tomorrow. I hope you have a great weekend!!!

See you soon.

Chao, Chao

^_^

A little question for you...

I found a little break from my busy-crazy days to post a question for you guys. I told you on my last post that I've prepared new things for my blog... One of the "things" is a weekly "special day" (I can't tell you much about it, it wouldn't be fun anymore, right?). I would like to know, what day of the week do you guys have more time to work on your crafty projects?. Let me explain a little. I know many of you have kids, many of you work, many are busy during the week, or on weekends, or you may go to church on sunday, I don't know. Maybe you have more time than others, and you craft everyday?.....or, maybe it's part of your job. I actually like to work on my projects, on the late afternoon, or even better, at night, any day of the week. But what about you? are you busy at work and you wait until saturday or sunday for some crafty time? :). Or while your kids are at school in the morning you tried to sew or crochet something?. I could give you many many examples. Well, you don't really have to have a specific day to work on some project, it could also be "any time".

I'm going to post a "poll" where you can tell me what day of the week you like to work on your crafts or if you don't have preference between one day or the other, like me :) I'll post it at the bottom of the page.

I know you'll like what I've planned... Vote, and you'll see in a couple of week what I'm talking about. ;)

It's almost time for me to go to Venezuela! We leave on Wednesday and come back at the end of this month. I'll be posting from there...

Thanks for visiting!!! Don't forget to vote.

Hola Readers

I know I haven't been posting lately, I'm still busy busy :\. I wanted to say Hi! to you all. We're still planning our trip to Venezuela, we finally leave next week... YAY!!! I'll definitely show you some pictures of my country :) and also of a few exciting projects that I'm working on ;) So, you just have to keep visiting me ^_^

Talking about visitors, I forgot to tell you something!!! I already have 500+ visits to my blog. I know it doesn't sound like too much but I've been blogging for almost 3 months now and I'm just sooo excited. Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to look at the things I LOVE to make. Oh! and also, I have (1) follower hehe... How exciting!!! She's Becca-Lou and she makes beautiful things. She's been following me for a few weeks now, and I just "discovered" how to put the little Follow button on my blog (duh!). So now you can follow me too :). I love that Follow button myself, when I started reading blogs, I didn't know much about it so I kept my favorite ones bookmarked before I actually started Following :). Much more comfortable, don't you think? everyday you read the list of new posts instead of going from blog to blog to find out if something was posted that day. Anyway, Follow me, so you don't miss any of the new stuff I'm preparing for my lovely readers :) from Free Patterns, to New Tutorials and a new Etsy store... :) Yes, you don't wanna miss it! :)

Now I have to go back to my suitcase... I'll be back soon... ;)

Enjoy!!!