I know what you are thinking! When was she pregnant again? Baby #3 was exactly a day short of a year difference from #2, so this past year was pretty much a blur! This whole having a newborn while super sick pregnant, chasing a 3 y/old while trying to run a business is a LOT harder than I thought it was going to be!
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It’s crazy to think that I actually wrote this post 2 years ago! (December 2013, Conner was a little over a year and now he’s 3 years old!) well, better late than never! so here it goes:
Life has been crazy lately and there’s no much time to make anything, well other than food for Peanut and our beds. So I was craving some time in front of my sewing machine, it’s pretty cold outside and some days (specially snow days) we end up jumping on pajamas out of our pajamas (I know right!! nothing wrong with that on my book) So I decided that I could just make some patching, comfy and super warm parts for Conner and I.
I was super excited when last week I found the perfect wood sign at Joann at 50% discount, it comes with most of the materials to make a wood marquee light box sign. Of course I had to add my own spin to it, and change the letters! I love how it turned out and it was super easy! so here is how I did it
We are so excited to share with you our new baby boy Collin Matias =] He is 3 weeks old now, so we are still adjusting to the constant sleep deprivation hehe. We so over the moon in love with him and Conner is the best big brother, he is so gentle! We are surprised and so proud of how he’s taking the transition from an only child.
I am very fortunate to have my Mom here to help me all the way from Chile, and since I had not seen her in about a year, the Mom/Grandma snuggles were overdue!
It’s not a surprise to many of you that this blog has been VERY silent for what it seemed like forever!! (Maybe because it was!) Right before our Chile vacations in 2014, I decided to take a little break from blogging, it wasn’t really something I planned but it kind of just happened, taking care of a baby, a growing business, a house and try to have some free time to relax was getting more and more challenging, so something had to be compromised.
I used to get supper excited about sharing content here and I used to spend many hours preparing, taking photos and editing, but when I found out so many of my tutorials (and all the content I was putting here) was being shared on other websites where they were claiming them as their own and erasing my watermarks, all of the sudden, my energy to dedicate extra hours to this space started to drop drastically.
On a normal week I would have not cared about all of this, but since they were so many reposts of different websites on a span of 2 weeks (The time right before we left for vacations) I decided to drop the towel for a while and just stay away from it all, cool off and focus on other social media outlets and enjoy other things that made me happy.
Well, it has been almost 2 years since that and even though I’ve attempted to get back to blogging, life seemed to always get on the way.
If you follow me on Instagram this might be old news, but I wanted to share some of my new prints. A few months a ago I started playing with chalk and absolutely loved the medium, it’s so forgiving and the fact that you can erase and keep erasing it’s just awesome. So I wanted to share some of the pieces I made for the holidays!
I’ve been having way too much fun experimenting with my new Silhouette Cameo, making all kinds of paper flowers. So today I am going to share the cutting files and the instructions on how to make one of my favorite ones, a poppy flower =]
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I'm Joy Kelley, Mom of 3 little boys, Chilean Hand-lettering artist, sewing fanatic and a maker a heart.
