Gift Tags

Yes, Christmas is less than two months away, and it’s time to start thinking about gifts, right? (more…)

October 2011 Calendar

I had to skip September, but made this October Calendar with extra love.

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Printed fabrics!

I just uploaded some pictures of three printed fabrics on my Spoonflower account, I’d love it if you could check them out and tell me what you think.

Spring Leaves

Spring Leaves Pattern

Cute Cupcakes

Cute Cupcakes Pattern

Spirals

Spirals Pattern

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Tangled Butterflies Collection

I’m so excited! I just finished my first collection and uploaded it to Spoonflower! I’m going to make two more color schemes for this collection, but I wanted to show you guys the first one today!

I drew every butterfly by hand, then scanned them, and traced them on the computer. I then positioned them in the repeat I wanted, and with the help of my tablet, started erasing bits and pieces of each butterfly, so that they would create the illusion of being intertwined. It took quite a long time, specially the main pattern, but I think it was worth it! I’m happy with the end result of the tangled effect.

I wanted to make sure every pattern worked alone and with each other (that is, after all, what a collection is all about), and hope to have done a good job, considering it’s the first collection I make. As soon as I update the other color schemes to Spoonflower I’ll order swatches and put them up for sale.

Tangled Butterflies Collection

I hope you all have a great weekend. Mine promises to be great, with family coming to visit, irish dance rehearsals and a vegan pizza that’s waiting for me right now! =D

Potato Salad

I made this for lunch last week and want to share this recipe. It’s a very simple vegan potato salad, I adapted my mother’s recipe to make it vegan, and it turned out great. What I like about this salad is that it’s very easy and quick to make, and everyone, vegan or omni, loves it!

Chives, parsley, fennel, tomatoes and avocados.

I usually keep it simple and use only potatoes, fennel, tomatoes and chives, but I wanted to use what I had in the fridge, so I added some parsley and avocados. I’m not a parsley fan but it worked out fine in the recipe, and the avocados were also a good addition. I think the fun thing about potato salads is that mostly anything works, so you can just be creative.

I made vegan mayo from Mark Reinfeld and Jennifer Murray’s 30 Minute Vegan, I love that recipe! It’s our only option here in Santiago, we can’t find vegan mayo at the supermarket. I once found a soy spread that was very expensive and tasted nothing like mayo, but it’s not on the market anymore (and even if it was, I wouldn’t buy it again).

Instead of using regular salt in the mayo, I used this garlic and seaweed sea salt we bought a while back, I must buy more of that stuff, it’s delicious and gives food a mild garlicky taste without being all over the place. I must have used about two or three generous tablespoons of mayo for the salad.

Potato Salad

Potato Salad

I steamed 5 potatoes, that were already peeled and cut into medium pieces, and let them cool for about half an hour before mixing them up with the other vegetables and the mayo. Once everything was mixed together, I checked the salt and that’s all, it was ready. Isn’t this a great recipe for a picnic or potluck?