This is how you eat a cupcake

Bullseye! by Kate from Little Doodles

I'm all about that little bird's technique!

Happy Thanksgiving Canada!

Lightning Bolt Stud Earrings

Here's the new addition to the family! I present you the Lightning Bolt stud earrings, available on my shop now.

I honestly think this photos don't really show how cool, neat and pretty they are. I just love them, they're so cute!

I wanted to make lightning bolts since a long time ago but i was making sketches and sketches and i couldn't get to draw a decent (let alone pretty) lightning bolt. But one day last week i just started to doodle and suddenly there it was: a lightning bolt, all pretty and perfect! that's when i decided it was time to make my design into a pair of tiny stud earrings :)

I hope you like them!

For more details visit The Angry Weather

Trendspotting

Jewelry with small beads. Lately i like so much this kind of jewelry and i have unconsciously include it on my curations every time the opportunity allows, like here, or here. Also here...to name a few.

So i decided i was going to just make a little post on the matter. I hope you like my picks!

1.-Noble Town Vintage 2.-Sarah Robin L 3.-Gather Jewelry 4.-SandFibers 5.-Balanced

There's a tribe in the north of Mexico called the Huicholes who made jewelry like this: intricate beading, colorful designs with very small beads. So i think that this trend may be related to the wonderful work of this indigenous tribes in the north of Mexico and south USA. You can visit this link to learn more about the Huicholes' jewelry and how you can help keep their traditions alive! I think it's great that many young/trendy jewelers are bringing this jewelry style to the main stream!

Puces Pop

Hi there! I hope you had a great weekend. Ours was really nice, we had such a great time at Puces Pop on Saturday (and then at the zoo on Sunday, first zoo visit for the little one! photos soon). We got to know so many talented, local artist and see their cool handmade goods. Here are some of my faves!

One of my favourites of Puces Pop, Pollen.

Pollen. Mustache.Brooch by Pollen.

Mynta Jewelry. She is such a talented jeweler. I loved all her stuff and what a cute little baby she has :)

Meduse Necklace by Mynta

Sweet Marie of MarKhed Design, 

Tourmaline Quartz Pendant by MarKhed

The Butter Flying (LePtitPapillon) and her wonderful rainclouds!

Stormy Sky cloud mobile by The Butter Flying

Lovely Shannon of Coucou Salut, one of my favourite booths of Puces Pop

Lucy, stuffed plush by Coucou Salut

Jennifer Lupien, her family and her wonderful work. Her embroidered illustrations were some of my favourite things of the fair.

She also makes this adorable and cool baby slings, awww. Visit her blog for more details.

Other artists i loved were Aurelie Grand who is an illustrator and i wrote about her work before. There's also Jack Dylan, an illustrator too. We bought a couple of his posters but i can't show them to you because there are gifts for some friends ;) but be sure to visit his website because his work is really awesome.

I also loved Bespoke Upraising, super cool screen printed textiles with original illustrations by the artist, who also happens to have a lovely blog here.

It's so cool to get to know and personally see the work of all this amazing Canadian artists. I completely recommend them all!

Hopefully i'll get to sell on Puces Pop next year! that'll be awesome.

A new favourite: Inga Birgisdóttir

I'm stunned by the work of illustrator Inga Birgisdottir. I found her work on Flickr and i can't stop visiting her photostream over and over again just for the pleasure of see her wonderful illustrations.

I really like the feeling of her work: mysterious, sometimes dark, full of sadness, melancholy and beautiful to the extreme.

I also love the fact that looks like her drawings are made on a very old sheet of paper, that adds up a lot of character and a special atmosphere to her work. There's also a lot of wild life on her work, specially foxes and birds, and the fascinating thing is that you feel like all of them have a mind of their own and a very interesting story to tell.

All images from iiiinga

La Nube Necklace

Here it is! and it is called La Nube which is spanish for The Cloud.

I'm a bit afraid you will think like, i made yet another cloud, but i feel this is different from the others plus i love clouds!. To begin with, this came from a series of new sketches, it is less "fluffy" and then i make the pendant hang from the chain differently than my other necklaces. Oh, and it is the first cloud necklace i've ever done, so it is very special! I completely love it, i hope you do, too!

For more details go to The Angry Weather

Today I Love: Simple things

I just wanted to share with you some images that make my heart happy:

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Red And Blue

Hi there! i've been very busy the last couple of days so my apologies if you came to my blog and found nothing new!

I want to tell you last Monday was my first jewelry class of the season and i starting to work on two new projects, one is almost finished so maybe i'll have it ready to show it to you at the beginning of the next week.

Here are some very cute and cool etsy finds for you to enjoy:

1.- The Merriweather Council

2.- Sleepy King

3.-Olive Handmade

4.-Little Odd Forest

1.-Sarah Robin L

2.-Rafya

3.-Metal, Cloth and Wood

4.-Moloco

Bunting Fever

Via Flickr

Via Flickr

Union Jacks Bunting kit by Loopsies

Wall art by Philli Philli Handmade

Via Flickr

Via Flickr

Decorative triangle bunting banner by TwoStringJane

Via Flickr

Via Flickr

I love bunting. And i think this post made it even more evident.

Jamie Bert

A little while ago i made this treasury and included the "what is this thing?" card by Jamie Bert. He wrote me back, it was his first treasury feature and wanted to send me one of his cards to say thanks. I truly wanted to tell him like, 'you are welcome but you don't have to' but there was this part of me that craved his stationery and wanted badly to have some for free so i gave him my address hoping he would just forget about it.

But of course he did not forget and here i am, with freshly arrived mail from Jamie with two gorgeous cards of his collection, i feel extremely grateful for his thoughtfulness and his generosity that the least i can do is to introduce you to his incredible neat, smart, funny, cool and good looking work:

Sad You Went Away

Be Informed Zombie Attack

What Is This Thing?

You got to love sellers like him! please visit his Etsy shop to see more of his stationery collection and giggle a little with his funny descriptions! Having some of his work here i vastly recommend it: it's so neat, cool, of an awesome quality and so original!
Thanks Jamie!

Today's Words

The Thread That Bind Us

Don't you love this illustration and the sweet, lovely phrase on it? oh, and the colours! so gorgeous...I'm trying to control myself not to run and buy this right now (i decided i will buy it when my own sales pick up a little, so i have to wait a bit!).

This is the work of illustrator Alissa Nassner. I found her work on Flickr and was love at first sight. You can see more of her illustrations here or you can go to her Etsy shop Small Talk Studio to buy her beautiful illustrations.

It's Friday, yay!!! i wish you a great weekened!!

An announcement and a thank you note

Check out this super sweet-helpful post by my friend Mayi from Heartmade. She wrote about me!!

I'm very touched by her lovely words and it reminds me of the importance of making connections on this wonderful handmade world i decided to live in! On this post she tells the story on how we meet and her helpful advise on the power of connecting. Don't miss it i'ts very inspiring.

Image via Heratmade blog by TheLightFantastic

A n n o u n c e m e n t :

I'm very happy to announce that, since last Thursday i have a little space to express myself on the blog HeartMade!

Mayi Carles was so kind to invite me to collaborate with her on her beautiful blog by writing/curating a guest post each Thursday. The post it's called Mademoiselle's treasures and well, you know how much i love making treasuries! i'll be curating one Etsy treasury each week specially for Mayi's readers and i will talk a little about my choices. There is going to be so much cool handmade/vintage stuff so don't miss it, starting today!!

This week's Etsy treasury is called Vanilla Dreams and you can check it HERE and my guest post on Hertmade HERE.

Mayi: Thank you, it's been great to get to know you, not just because all the things we share but because you are a wonderful, inspiring person and a great friend!

Today I Love: Apple Season!

Apple season is almost here and i love to think on all that fresh-picked-from-the-tree apples! so looking forward for apple pie!

By Amanda Gilligan

By Jasmine Fitzwilliam

I gathered some juicy apples (and a lovely basket to take them home) for you:

1.- Sterling silver ring with embroidered apple by Metal, Cloth & Wood
2.-Green apple necklace in silver and concrete by Lulu Bug Jewelry

2.-Classy tote by Whimsical Originals

4.-Silver apple hoops by Idealist Jewellery

Check out more of my fresh apple picks in here!