Wearing Handmade Wednesday: EyeScream Industries, Warning Label Creations & Alliebeans!!!

Hello everyone! Wednesday is here once again, and since I didn't do the Wearing Handmade Wednesday entry, I'm doing a cluster of Wearing Handmade Wednesday goodies!


And all in one photo from one day!



Here you can see the kind of bad influence I am... Gaurav all ready to leave for work in the morning, wearing his EyeScream Industries scarf, his strap cover for his bag by Warning Label Creations and his custom made pouch for his Zune by Alliebeans!


And to share a bit more about the items: the EyeScream scarf is fantastic, and not only it looks super sleek on, but it's super functional, and I've already stolen if from him and worn it myself a pair of times, which reminds me I need one for myself. The Warning Label strap cover is something G asked to get made for himself after seeing the one Jamie custom made me for my Rocky Van Gory camera bag, and let me tell you, Jamie did a brilliant job on matching the strap cover fabric to the bag colour! And last but not least, the Alliebeans pouch, once again, G saw my custom iPod pouch and wanted one pouch for his Zune, we chose a fabric he liked and Allie was so nice to even make sure both Spain & India where used for the construction of the pouch (it's a world map fabric), how cool is that?


This is proof of two things: a) I love giving handmade to others & b) The quality of the handmade items speak for themselves, so if you give handmade you can convert others to the handmade way! Now Mr G thinks he wants a new custom tripod bag for his tripod after seeing the super cool one I got for myself!

Alliebeans Smellies!

Happy Monday everyone!


How's the beginning of the week going? I'm now having a pair of days off, after working night shift during the weekend.


Last week I had a wonderful mail week, with loads of nice parcels arriving, and of those parcels was from the lovely Allie from Allibeans!




She's just added a ton of new and super cute goodies to her shop, after it had been a bit bare during the summer, cause she had been busy with craft shows, and as soon as I saw her lovely lavender bags, "Smellies", with my favourite fabric, Yoga Cats, I knew I had to get me some, so I got me two!




They have the Yoga Cats fabric on one side, and another lovely fabric as the back, I got me a lovely green leaves and a raspberry flowers ones! They smell wonderfully of lavender, so soothing and not the overpowering headache inducing lavender scent, but the natural one, since they're filled with dried lavender seeds!








These sachets are the perfect size to have them anywhere, under your pillow, in the car, inside your linens drawers or as I did, inside the drawers where you keep your underwear! Now all my undies smell amazingly of lavender!


Along with my "Smellies", I also got myself a super cute Sneezy pouch, with a super cute "Alice in Wonderland" that I can't help but show off too! ;)





What can I say, Allie's shop is totally filled with cuteness!!

Shopping Handmade: Náyade's Birthday!

Hi there!


As I said on yesterday's blog, during my lunch with friends I gave to two of them their b-day presents, Esther's presents were a lil belated, and Náyade's are a lil early, but since she lives in Italy and her b-day is in February, I don't know when will I be able to give them to her, and I don't trust the Italian post!


So, there she was opening her b-day presents almost like they were her Christmas ones! ;)





I got her a super cute Moo Cow iPhone pouch from the amazing Allie from alliebeans that she loves to bits! She loves everything cow-related, cow-print (much like the amazing Sheika from OMGcow!) and since her iPhone is at the doc (being repaired) she decided to start using it for her camera!









Her second present is a set of sample sized, anti-aging, facial care from SkinJourney. Since she's the first one of us to turn 30 next year (February being her month) I decided to get her this set. I'm already using a pair of SkinJourney's serums that I love, and will be reviewing on the Two Girls blog some time next year (hey, it's just tomorrow now!).




She liked the idea a lot, and was reading the recommendations for use of each of the different products. I just need to hear from her how she likes everything! ;)





Happy New Year everyone!! I hope you'll have a great time celebrating today!!
I'll have a quiet New Year's Eve, dinner with the family and maybe movie night after eating the grapes at midnight! (Spanish tradition).

I'll see you in 2010 with a new blog entry! =D

Alliebeans!!

Happy Cyber Monday everyone!


One of the best things of being a nurse is not getting the Monday blues, since we work night shift, weekends and all, Monday can be our day off, and sometimes we can't wait for it to arrive!


Today I've been sort of productive, I'm guessing I could have been more so if I hadn't gone to sleep at 5 am, but I really wanted to finish 501st by Karen Traviss, and now I just can't wait till the next book! But anyways, I managed to take quite a good portion of the photos for this blog entry, and edit all the ones that I'll end up using, and I'm writing this blog entry, so I guess that counts as productive?


I stumbled onto Allie's shop via twitter I believe, saw a link, checked her shop, and knew I had to get something at some point!


I decided to get myself one of her signature pouches, the Porta-Pouch, in denim with a super cute hedgie appliqué! Not only is super cute & well made, but I've also discovered it's the best companion for an amateur photographer gal like me! You just get your ID, cards and some cash in it, and you can slip it inside your photo bag, taking very little space, and having all essentials with you! And even in my tiny bowler bag (that can fit my E-620, one lens attached to the body, two more lenses, my porta-pouch, my lenspen and my card-reader) it fits perfectly!








During my last trip in the US, Gaurav's sister & her hubby got me an iPod nano as b-day present (I've always wanted one, but kept postponing buying one cause of this and that...) so I was very excited about it and also knew it needed a lil cozy to protect it from scratches and bumps. Since Allie has some very cool phone cozies for iPhones in her shop, I thought of asking her if she could make me one iPod nano sized one! She was very glad to help me, and came up with a super cute pouch, in my favourite fabric from her shop, the Yoga Cats!










Also while staying in Wisconsin she had her Halloween Sale, and also listed a few more goodies in the Yoga Cats fabric, and since I can't resist it, I went and bought a whole bunch of things: Porta-Pouch, Cosmetics medium bag and Sneezy pouch, aside from one of Batty sneezy pouch that was on sale. I asked her to ship it directly to Spain since I was leaving WI soon. She shipped it the day before Halloween, and I have no idea what adventures the naughty cats got themselves into, but they arrived only last week! Allie had included a Yoga Cats fabric covered mirror as a lil extra, and that's super cute too!














Once I arrived home, aside from waiting for my Yoga cats to arrive, I also indulged myself in some more pouch buying, I got a super cute Moo Cow iPhone pouch for my friend Nayade that loves all things cow! and a lil baby box pouch (also part of the Halloween sale) that is small but sturdy enough to use as my tampon pouch! Both pouches managed to somehow arrive before the Yoga Cats, and I can't wait to give my friend her Moo Cow pouch that I've kept in Allie's original packaging; it was too cute not to use it!






If you've fallen in love with Allie's super cute pouches, she's having a 15% off SALE for Black Friday & Cyber Monday!