etsy front page

ETSY FRONT PAGE

these springtime earrings made it to the front page of etsy!

thank you etsy team!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/mygoddess 

SEQUINS

Since I love to sew and do anything related to crafts, I was asked to sew the sequins on this gymnastics costume. Do not doubt that it was very time consuming as each sequin is attached one by one with a tiny bead. This took 11 and a half hours total JUST FOR THE SEQUINS! My friend Mariquilla is the one who made the pattern, cut the fabric and sewed the whole costume, also a very labor-intensive job. She made over 100 of them just during January and February 2012 (many different designs, not just this fuchsia & black one) and many more over the past few years. BTW, if anyone needs a great costume for gymnastic competitions or ice skating, just let me know in the comment box below.Our prices are extrememly competitive, I guarantee it! When I get photos of the girls in the competition, I will be sure to post them as the girls are sure to look stunning! These photos of the outfit just on the floor do not do it justice.

TREE OF LIFE

I drew the T shirt last week. Only this morning I decided to look up TREE OF LIFE in Wikipedia and came across this painting by Gustav Klimt, one of my favorite artists.;-)

etsy shop

Even though I opened up the shop back in 2009, only now am I starting to really work on this. 

surfing

Have been surfing almost all day and found some amazing places about arts and crafts.pininterest is one which caught my attention with its adorable little items to inspire/admire.
As for other surfing, even though i live by the sea, I hadn't had the chance to go much in the water this past summer so the closest i got to surfing was this:

STRAW SURFING!

In the teeny tiny mountainous town of Mecina Bombarón, in the Alpujarras, a mountain range,  in southern Spain, the locals have started to revive an ancient tradition. Even I got a go at threshing the wheat. It was definitely fun, unfortunately the macho men thought this crazy tourist (me) would fall and break her neck so they had the horses go quite slowly for me.

I copied this from Wikipedia:

The threshing board has been traditionally pulled by mules or by oxen over the grains spread on the threshing floor. As it was moved in circles over the harvest that was spread, the stone chips or blades cut the straw and the ear of wheat (which remained between the threshing board and the pebbles on the ground), thus separating the seed without damaging it. The threshed grain was then gathered and set to be cleaned by some means of winnowing.

Go see an old drawing to see more in detail what exactly  I was doing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Threshing-sledge.png