Summer time in Tallinn

 Summer time in Tallinn means fresh forest berries with cream and weaving clover wreaths for my girls. And A LOT of eating at my mom`s place :)
Summer time in my town always reminds me of my childhood and simple happiness and laughter with my girlfriends, ah, the silly jokes of my girls.
And then eating again :)
I love summer!

Vacation ... or not!

Ok so it is great to be with a family and what not, but... I can´t just sit and do nothing!
And the trip to the nearest (they`ve opened a fabric store very VERY close to where we live) fabric store confirmed this! So I just had to purchase a lot some of oh so lovely jacquard ribbons. Every Summer needs a bracelet :) That´s what I said to my sister anyway.
So now we have ribbons and beads and mouline and rubber strings laying everywhere and everybody are involved in making bracelets. Mine are for sale, my sister`s are for our two lovely girls. Even my dad was forced to model some bracelets for photo shoot. :)
And how are your summer days?

xo
Lena

Vacation at last!

So we are officially on vacation! You still can reach me by email or going in the shop and leaving me a message! I will be checking more often than I planed anyway :) you know how that goes!
Meanwhile I will be creating new things and rearranging my shop and the rest of tiny details that need to be done, plus the website and the style of the banner and new cards and flyers... but first!!! Vacation time! Sending love to everybody, love, sunshine and peace to you and to all you family!
xoxo
Lena

Vacation time

Pretty soon I will be closing my shop on the vacation timeout!
To research and work now from Estonia for a few months. Barcelona heat is killing me, as an annoying   allergies on polen that seams to be everywhere. I sleep and dream about my town cool nights and just a breathe of fresh air. Sadly my sewing machine has to stay home, here in BCN, I´ll miss it deeply. Everything is tucked away and carefully folded till September. (snif snif).

Present for Paula

Es un regalo para una nena preciosa de casi un año!

Monsters & Owls

These two departed earlier this week to their new owners!

Thank you!

Esta tarde estamos con España!

Juggling Elephants

For me working from home sometimes = juggling elephants. Especially if I have orders and my child of 4 years is on a summer break. And this summer break is just started!

She wants to know and to participate in everything in what I do :) She is trying to squeeze herself between me and everything that I do, when I am cutting the wrapping paper with scissors, taking photos of the orders (she does provide a great shade I must admit :)), or when I am sewing eyes of the monsters and she is helping to hold the eye :) . So big, and so small at the same time :) Little explorer!

But HOW do people juggle motherhood and work???? Some say that planning ahead really helps, or precutting material or waking up at 4 in the morning and having few hours for actually achieving something.... Still trying to figure this one out.

Owls vs Sheeps

So by showing an Owl to a client I sold a Sheep :D

This is the Sleepy Sheep that was ordered:

And these are the Owls that I´ve showed:

Nombres bordados

I gave up! Owls, they were following me everywhere, so I had to try it also :)

I was preparing for them to fly freely where they want but apparently one of the local shops want them in their window! That`s right! They will be two local owls from now on :) Which one you like best??

And Nombres Bordados is just another sample of my embroidery.

Septiembre viene con la temporada de las batas de cole. 

Vamos a bordar muchos nombres! Espero!  

My Ocean Mist Girl

when the sun is rising...

My Happy Sun appeared in one of the Etsy treasuries! Love it!

Party party and more fiesta!

We`ve officially entered in the party/ birthday zone here is Castelldefels!

This was the best Mickey that I´ve seen before :)

And a lot of candy and balloons!

Names on baby blankets! Arullo bordado!

So the customer specifically ordered the embroidered names to be light grey as the rest  of the embroidery on the blankets. And also this font. 

 

Sewing Suns and Monsters

What a few weeks that were!
Sewing Ocean Mist, Suns, Monsters and then there was some name embroidery on baby blankets for local shop for babies! And of course attending lot´s and lot´s of birthdays!!

 Ocean Mist appeared from one of the kids birthday`s on the beach that we attended! It was q perfect evening with friends and early summer breeze, so the girl (Ocean Mist) just came out naturally with her flowing on a wind waves-like-hair and green as water eyes.

 The Happy Sun was an order for a girl, who`s friend just had a baby and they named her Elena (like me!!) so it was only naturally that she asked me to come up with something for a baby girl. I think that the phrase : "Elena mi Sol" was everything that I´ve needed for the inspiration! What more can be so symbolic for a mom than her daughter being a sun for her? I know mine is for me!

And of course the Lil`monster! That's just came out from this particular weekend spent with my daughter and her terrible-4s. :)
And then trying to convinse my child to be a model for me also involves a lot of pleading mixed with chocolates!!!

My baby girl is 4 today!

She is so big and so smart and she knows how to push my buttons :)

I love you more than I could ever express! 

Happy Birthday my beautiful princess!!!

Feliz Cumpleaños mi hermosa princesa!!!

Happy Mother's Day!

"When love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justice is gone, there's always force.
And when force is gone, there's always Mom.
Hi, Mom!"

- Laurie Anderson

Twinkle twinkle sleepy star!

Twinkle twinkle sleepy star,

Oh how soft you really are! :)

This is my new star that can be personalized with a name, great as a gift for baby showers! 

What do you think??

It is very huggable! :)

Featured in a few new treasuries!

Yey! I love to see how people choose a category for my items!

Big Etsy Contest

Come in guys and vote for my SLEEPY FOXES that were featured here:

 http://etsycontest.com/?votefor=sinikettu

There are a lot of other great Etsy finds!!! Every day different price tags!