Beautiful Reclycling!

I had to show you these pictures!!! I took them while walking in a beautiful street in Orlando. Is one of those pictures you take specifically for your blog you know?... One of those moments when you see something so "postable". This is a store that sales art, but everything is made with reclycled materials. They make amazing things. Such a good inspiration!!! Look....

This was made with regular plastic water or soda bottles. The cut them in strips and painted stripes on each piece...

Look at these flowers!!! Can you believe these are plastic bottles!!! at first I thought it was glass, you know like the ones made by this glass artist, Chihuli? If you don't know who he is, you should look it up... He's just AMAZING!

What about these??? I love them... So simple and so beautiful right?

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

Christmas is finally here, the most wonderful time of the year!!!. I made dessert for you my lovely readers!. So, I have officially given you the first present...

It's Arroz con Leche or Rice Pudding.

It's a Latin dessert. I bet some of you have tried it before. The recipe varies in every country, I know that in Colombia they add some raisins and some other spices. Here in Venezuela is common to make it with cinnamon mmm... Delicious!

I'll share my recipe with you, but don't tell anyone, it's a secret ;)

Ingredients:

- 1 cup of rice

- 2 1/2 cups of water

- 4 cups of milk

- 1 cup of sugar (If you want it sweeter you can add some more, I like it with just one)

Cinnamon sticks

Powdered Cinnamon

Pinch of salt

Process:

In a saucepan over medium heat, cook the water, rice and salt. When the rice is soft and the grain begin to slit open add the 4 cups of milk, cinnamon sticks and sugar. Cook on medium-low heat until creamy. I would say about 30 mins. Mix constantly so the milk won't burn. Remove from heat and let it chill. Garnish with powdered cinnamon and ENJOY!.

Thanks for visiting and Feliz Navidad to you all!!!

I just wanted to show you this...

I made this Russian Dolls (Matryoshka) about a year ago. I just bumped into these pictures and wanted to share them with you all.

I hope you like them ;)........... xoxo

More Crochet!!!

I'm making another pillow!!! I found the pattern here. I used different colors, but it still looks beautiful!!!...

Flower, flowers, flowers...

These is the size of my pillow...

It's almost done, I just have to make the back... but I'm not sure if I want to crochet it, or sew it... I haven't decided yet... For now, I'm going to finish my new stripe bag... See you soon!!!

Stripe Bags

Before I started blogging I read many many blogs. After reading blogs for months I decided to open my own. (I bet the same thing happened to some of you out there ^_^). One of the first blogs I read was Attic24. She crochets colorful and beautiful things!!!. If you visit, you'll see pictures of teacups, fireplaces, blankets, it's just very very cozy. Lucy, (that's her name) made a beautiful bag for her yarn, and so I made one for me from her pattern. This was some months ago... wanna take a look?

I added some flower to it. She also has the patterns for these little flowers.

Scalloped edge... It makes everything prettier (to me). :)

I'm working on my second bag. I'm using the three colors I can't get enough of... brown, blues, and greens... These time I'm using my own pattern, it's very similar. The only thing is that I'm not following hers, step by step... you know what I mean?... Here's what I have so far...

What do you think???!!!

I'll be showing you very soon the finish product ;)... Oh!!! and I'm planning to put many many flowers on this one...

Thanks for stopping by!!! ;)

Monday!

Hello again!!!... I hope you had a great weekend! Today I wanted to show you something we saw friday afternoon out on the porch. There are two tall palm trees on the neighbor's front yard, and guess what we saw?

Little parrot!!! It doesn't know how to fly. I wish I had a better camera, or a better zoom. hehe

Here It is looking for mommy...

And here's mommy, on the next palm tree... (top left corner) :)

No crafts today :) Just everyday stuff... mmm let's call it -Craft-less Mondays??? I'll think about it... What do you think?...

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 ^_^