Bamboo fun

My darling Husband gave me an awesome Christmas present. The reason why I am blogging about it today is because we finally received it last night. It is the Bamboo Fun from Wacom. It is a electronic pad where you can draw and write on the computer, and it comes with this great software called Artrage. That is how I created my new Banner. Any thoughts? How does it look?

So I just wanted to share my newest toy with all of you. It is a great tool to create embroidery patterns and layouts, and softie patterns. This is a good thing for you because now I can upload my patterns quicker and easier Yay!!

A non-sewing post :Vansurian time battle

I have had this idea for a story for a while now, and because I no longer have the luxury to sit back play some music and write, it has been on hold (as my other story ideas) for almost a year now. However, The characters are revolting and demanding their release. They have invaded my dreams, and day time thoughts. They have few demands, actually only one, for me to write it all down.

The story is about a boy who has no motivation or desire to do anything but day dream, and as the summer approaches his day dreams seem to become more life like. At the end of the school year he is sent by his parents to visit his grandparents in a very quiet, very small town where the only exciting thing there is his grandparents antique shop. To earn some money he repairs some of the broken things in the shop, and one day he finds a very strange looking clock. He confesses to his grandfather how he has realized he enjoys to invent and create things and consequently his grandfather gives him an antique journal to write down all his creations and dreams. However, the journal is not empty. When the sun hits the pages the boy can see it is full of writings and images. One of the pages he realizes is a detailed description of how to fix the clock.

With the clock fixed he once again starts to have vivid dreams of him swimming in the ocean and being pulled down by an invisible force, only for them to turn into reality. He is transported to another dimension that was frozen in time when the strange clock stopped working and wants possession of the clock in order to continue to exist. The boy now has to fight to save his world and time itself.

I would love to hear what you think of the story, and thank you for reading this whole post

Giveaway, new projects, fresh tutorials, more patterns, and my future etsy shop!

With the new year almost here I have been busy preparing and creating for the GRAND OPENING OF MY etsy shop! The big day will be on Feb 27th, 2010. I will be giving away a nice little bundle of things to my loyal reads. the giveaways will start 12 days before the grand opening. Some things that I will be giving away are: A beautiful handmade baby book, handmade journal, embroidery patterns, patterns to make one of my Alphamales, and more!!!!!!! i am very excited, and I hope you all come on back and leave a comment or email!! I would love to hear what you think about my blog, my creations, and my future giveaways.

Later this week I will be posting a tutorial on how to make your own baby book. and I will upload the remaining Novena patterns. They will only be available for free until January 14, 2010. So if you like 'em take 'em while they are fresh!

Christmas Break

Because of the current events in my life (new niece, -18*C, Christmas, a whole three story house to clean, father in-law arriving soon) I have to take a short break from blogging. Theren't enough hours in the day to do all the things I have to do. I still haven't finished the baby quilt. It is very difficult to sew the three layers together since my beautiful Bernina is the smaller one. So I have to ask my darling huzzband to help me. In addition because I am procrastinator I am still hoping to finish Basti's Christmas stocking.

So therefore I will be returning to blogging in the new year. There will be new Alfamales, the remaining novena patterns, and even more free tutorials, patterns, and giveaways and I get closer to opening my etsy store. So I wish to you all Happy holidays and a wonderful new year!
Thank you for stopping by!

Something different

I apologize for not having the third novena pattern, but I had some very exciting news and the whole day, and thoughts were centered around it. My niece was born today! And I am so overjoyed with happiness, enthusiasm, drive, and the desire to create. So I wanted to share with you another way that I have expressed my desire to create, through pencil and paper. Here are a few drawings that I have done.

The first one was the first drawing that I had done after almost a year without drawing. I wanted to release my pent up desire that for some reason I could not transmit onto paper. I call it innards, since that is how I felt. I felt as if my soul were on fire and the only way to stop it from burning and turning into ash was by expelling the heat.
This drawing is of a woman waiting. She is "en espera" on hold. She is waiting for whatever needs to happen to happen.
And this final one is a photograph I took while studying photography. It was such a creatively rich time in my life. I had the idea of creating short stories of 1000 words for each photograph in my portfolio. This one is about a Argentine mistress. She is seductive, secretive, longed by all the sailors that greet her at the port, but only loved by one who in return she loves as well. The man she loves is a singer. The story is intertwined with a tango by Gardel. I have always loved the play of light and shadow on this photo.

I would love to hear what you have to think about my drawings and photograph. And I leave you with a question. What has inspired you today? To what extent would you release your crave to create and express yourself?

The new Alphamale!

He is a busy bandit bee who wears beautiful bandannas and burglarize baby bottles. I don't know why, but he just enjoys drinking honey flavored milk out of a baby bottle. Maybe the queen bee didn't cuddle him enough. Either way, there he is hidding out in our Christmas tree. I had a hard time with the stripes. They just wouldn't mesh properly. Any suggestions are welcome and needed!
Any ways I was thinking about the level of vocabulary I want to use in the alphabet book, and it is geared to 3-5 year olds. I am of the opinion that you should not lower your vocabulary for children. They should hear big words and ask their meaning. What do you think?

El Burrito Sabanero!

Yesterday was the first Novena, and as every year I sat near the Manger and recited the prayers. However, this year my husband helped me by reading a few. I love to hear a German speak spanish, especially if there are several rolling r's. They look at it the same way I look at one of their long nouns that contain umlauts, scht's, st's, ts's all in one. Oh my! My tongue feels heavy after I say Merry Christmas!

But Anyway as promised the second Novena Pattern is now available to download. You will find it on the right column under downloads. I hope you like elves and gingerbread houses! Or if you are in Germany Lebkuchen Haeuser!

Thanks for stopping by!