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!!!

Baby Rattle

For a few months I've been making amigurumi dolls. I said I wanted to come up with 15 patterns of my own. I've made the Jellygurumi, the Lady Frog and this Baby Rattle. I'm actually working on the 4th pattern which is a Dog. I can't wait to show you. This one is very very simple, I took several pictures while I was working on it ... Let's see...

These are the colors I picked.

I sewed the two together... I wanted the smaller circle to be off-centered.

Here's a sneak pick of the back or the inside of the rattle.

So, I needed a "device" to make the rattling sound. One of my migraine pills bottle was almost empty, and I remember that little annoying thing they put inside of it. (I say annoying because it gets in the way every time you're trying to take the pills out while your head is pounding) Horrible!!!. Anyway, I took the little plastic thing out, then the Silica beads and I had this perfect mini container for my beads.

Here it is!!! I'm gonna have to think of a better way to put the beads inside the rattle. :/

Then I started closing the circle while stuffing it, little by little...

Then I finished the stem and the leaves... yay!!! After I saw it finished I realized I could've used brighter colors, right?

Oh! by the way, this is a really quick project too... I'll be showing you my 4th project soon... I'm trying to come up with the pattern for the ears :) I want those to be long and big doggie ears. Stay tuned!!!

Chao!

Flower Pincushion

Those of you who've been reading my blog know that I love easy-quick projects. I always have big WIP's but I get bored easily with them. So, I'm always looking for fun projects to distract myself from tedious projects, well, not tedious just projects that take longer to finish... you know what I mean. Anyway, surfing through Ravelry I found this BEAUTIFUL pincushion. It took me probably 2-3 hours to complete, while watching a movie :) so, trust me it's a really quick project!!! I love it! so colorful and cute! Of course you can use any color and anything you want, to decorate the top... just fun!!!

What do you think???!!! You should try to make one... ;) You'll love it.

Enjoy!!!

6 Petal Flower Tutorial

Hello readers!!! I'm so sorry I've been gone for so long. I've been soooooo busy you have no idea. I wanted to let you know that I'll be going on a little vacations to Venezuela (Yay!!!). I'll be gone for about a month, but don't worry!!! I'll be posting from there of course. I've prepared several posts, I just have to press "Publish Post" and you'll be able to see what I've got to show you. Stay tuned for fun tutorials and crocheting ideas. I'll also post some pictures to show you a little bit of my beautiful country.

Now, I've been wanting to post this tutorial for days!!!. It's a really cute flower, and the best thing is, that it's super easy. Let's get started then...

We'll be using the following stitches.

Slip Knot. You can watch my video here if you're not sure how to make one.

Sl St (Slip Stitch). Insert hook, yarn over, pull the loop back through the stitch, then through the loop on your hook.

Dc (Double Crochet). Learn how to make dc here.

Tr (Treble or Triple Stitch). It's the same as dc but this time you yarn over twice on your hook before going through the stitch and then pull through two, 3 times. I'll show some pictures.

First, make a Slip Knot.

Then, ch. 3

Now, make 1 dc on the first chain, or the 3rd chain from your hook. It counts as the 1st stitch.

Dc 12 around on the same chain. It would get a little tight (but that's the idea) ;)

When you're done you should have 13 stitches. Make a Sl st on the 3rd chain of the 1st chain.

Join the second color, and ch.3 (counts as the 1st st.)

Make a knot in the back to secure both yarns.

Make 2 tr on the next stitch.

Now, make 1 tr on the next stitch. Then ch 3.

Make a sc on the base of the last tr. Ch 3 to start the next petal.

Repeat these steps 5 more times.

Sl st at the base of the 1st ch. and make a knot.

Now, hide the yarn on the back of the flower. Pull it through the back stitches several times and then bind off.

Make any color combination!!! It's super easy.

Ok, I'll repeat the petal steps just in case you get a little confused, here it is:

After you've changed colors, **ch3

then 2 tr on the next stitch.

1 tr on the next stitch, ch3

sc on the next stitch, ch3**

Repeat from ** to ** 5 times.

I hope it is clear enough. I mean, it makes sense to me because I wrote it, but PLEASE don't hesitate to make questions, I'll be glad to help you.

Enjoy these pretty flowers!!!

Ciao, Ciao

Learning how to knit

A few weeks ago I wanted to practice a little knitting, I found my knitting needles, a bit of yarn and started casting on. I completely forgot how to begin!!!! so I had to go to YouTube *of course* (how did we live without it) for a little help. After a few tries I finally got it! it has been ages since the last time I used some of these kind-of-hard-to-use-at-the-beginning needles. Well, I realized I'm definitely at the beginner level of knitting. How fun right? I already started practicing the knit stitch and the purl stitch. I'm working on some ribbing now (which I love how it looks by the way) it was kind of tricky differentiate the knit and the purl stitch. I think I got it now but it looks like I'm knitting in slow motion :) It takes practice I know, that's what I thought when I was learning crochet (Oh! this is so hard!!! I could never make anything blah blah blah) So, I'll be sharing with you my "learning how to knit" journey.

This is called the Stockinette Stitch, trust me you don't wanna see the edge of this swatch... but you can see the row where I kind of mixed the stitches so a funky line popped up...

You don't know how proud I am of this Ribbing!!! I had to try several times before I could knit a few rows without any mistakes. It doesn't look very neat yet but trust me this swatch is perfect! compared to the ones I made before hehe.