Feature Friday: Kait Emerson Designs!!!

Friday, sunny Friday...


After a 3 hour nap in the morning, a yummy lunch and deciding whether I should have tea or coffee to finally wake up (night shifts tend to mess with sleep patterns), here I am looking out the window at the sunny day (although I see a few darker rainy clouds coming), all ready to share with you a wonderful designer I should have featured quite a while ago!


Kait Emerson Designs' Etsy shop has been one of my favourites shops to buy clothes for Gaurav's nieces, and as such both the girls have a few pieces each from that shop. Great versatile designs that fit well and in really gorgeous fabrics! I've always been a bit jealous of the super cute & stylish dresses & tops I was getting the girls, and wished that Feanna, the lady behind Kate Emerson Designs, also made adult sizes.


Well, low & behold, I mustn't have been the only one wishing, cause this winter, she released a spring collection for teens & women! She's currently offering a shirred top in different fabrics, that can also be made into a dress length, and a super cute skirt! As soon as I saw the top in one of my fave fabrics that she has in her shop, I knew I had to get one! Feanna was adamant on getting the top made perfectly for me, and she managed to ship it in time so I could take the top with me on my latest trip to India (and our vacation to Goa & the beach there!).






It reached in time, was packaged into my suitcase, and I loved wearing it around in Goa! The fabric is just gorgeous, it fits great (though I'm thinking I might have wanted the shirred part of the top more empire waist, but that's my own doing when Feanna asked for measurements) and it looks great with jeans!





What can I say, I love my Kait Emerson Design top, and I'm really glad she has finally started offering clothes for women! Do check her Etsy shop, you are sure to find something you'll like, either for yourself or little ones, and if you are in California, check around cause she tends to be part of many craft shows & markets around her area!

Hollyrocks!!

Hello there! Happy Friday!


Happier for me, as since after working the last two weekends on a row, I'm having a long weekend, and enjoying Friday, Saturday & Sunday off!


Today, I'm gonna be celebrating my friend's Pilu b-day with her, having sushi for lunch, and she's getting a good few handmade pressies too! So, to celebrate this rocking Friday, I'm featuring the talented & lovely Holly from Hollyrocks!


I met Holly through her Hollyrocks blog, where she shares her lovely handmade creations, her stories about squirrels, her work and her loves! From there, it was only logical that I'd check her Etsy shop, fell in love with loads of goodies, and eventually ended up buying something!


I decided that my first purchase had to be her Spiral Heart pendant, not only cause it's gorgeous but also cause it belongs to a series of listings from different sellers (Etsy Project Embrace) from which the funds go to the American Cancer Society, and since I work as an Oncology RN, I thought it was a great idea for a very worthy cause.



Holly sent me not only my wonderful pendant, but two gorgeous extras! The original pendant is in pink, so it'd be a great purchase and present this month since pink is the colour of October, to remind us of the fight against breast cancer. And she added a purple and a deep red ones!





She packed everything so lovely, I felt I was getting a proper present! And not only she included the two pendants, but also added a lil handmade magnet with her shop name, so cute!











I'm so in love with all the pendants! I'm trying to decide which one to keep and which ones to give as gifts, but I just can't decide! Maybe I should keep them all? But I really shouldn't be greedy, and share the gifts I get! Oh well...




I do plan on getting some more goodies for Holly's shop, since I'm in love with her Fall Leaf pendants, the red one is my favourite and also her I Caught A Star necklace!

Vivikas Toy Art!

Hello there!


Happy Friday everyone! I'm going to be going for sushi lunch with one of my best friends today to celebrate my b-day, but I didn't want to abandon my blog and I really wanted to introduce you to Koco the Koala!


I adopted Koco the Koala from Vivikas Toy Art shop. Vivian is the artist behind this absolutely amazing shop, where you can find all sort of cute plushies, all handmade with loads of love!


I found Viv's shop through the amazing Deb from On Cupcake Moon, since she shared some of her handmade purchases, and I saw her amazing Half Plush, and I knew I was gonna get me something from her shop!


Koco was a total impulse buy though, cause I saw Viv's tweet about her most recent listing, and I knew I had to get him here! And even though for some strange reason he was returned to Viv on his first trip, on his second trip he made it home safe and sound!








I've always loved Koalas, and Mr Koco is the cutest one in existence! I took him with me to the cottage the weekend before last, and he had a great time! Miss Cinnamon thought he was food, so I had to quickly separate them! Bad Cinnamon, koalas are not doggie food! Not to worry, though, Mr Koco is safe & sound, if a lil shaken from the experience!






If you've fallen in love with Mr Koco, head over to Viv's shop, and get yourself a super cute plushie!

Tokyotombola!!!

Hello there everyone!


Finally I'm sitting here AND updating the blog! Cause, just the old sitting up in front of the laptop I do every day, but having the motivation to update the blog... that's quite another thing!


But today, aha! Today I have found the motivation! I still don't have my tripod (*grumble, grumble*) but today I got awesome goodies in the mail, and one of the parcels was quite awaited! How is it that a package from the UK can take longer to hop over the channel than a package to cross the whole Atlantic from the US? Postal services mysteries...


After my last vacation I gained a lil weight, enough for my jeans to feel a lil more fitted than I'd like, so I've decided that I needed to make sure I do eat healthy, which means cutting on eating out or watching what I eat more when I do, AND cutting down the snacking at work. So, what can I do to NOT eat snacks at work? Well, bring something healthy to eat with me, and what's more healthy than fruit? Not many things, so I decided I'd bring apples and oranges to work, cause they're two of my favourite fruits, but I thought that they might get squished (I do carry a lot of stuff in my handbag) but then I remembered a shop that would be the solution to my woes: Tokyotombola!


All that went through my mind while listening to Iron Maiden on my way home from work one night, so when I arrived home, I went straight to Etsy and Tom's shop where I couldn't choose just one, so I got an orange cozy and a hot pink apple cozy! ;)




Those two finally arrived today, after a long stay in customs during public holidays last week, I'm sure... and I just had to take pics of them and show them off! They're just B-R-I-L-L-I-A-N-T!






Just for giggles, I used the orange cozy for an apple and the pink apple for an orange, aren't they such a cute idea?






If you think size would be a problem, don't, each of them can fit a good sized apple/orange without even a burp!






I bet my co-workers will be envious when I bring it/them/damn, which one to choose? tomorrow!




And in case you love them, and are thinking about how much you'd love a blue apple with spots, just convo Tom, he'd be sure to make something custom and perfect for you & your fruits!


And if you are super duper nice, you may even get the most awesome recipe for Cheesecake cupcakes in existence, as I did! ;)

Pins & Cards by LiPeony!

It's Wednesday, and even if you can't believe it, I'm back to post a new blog entry!


Today I've discovered how much of a good idea switching to shooting RAW and using Lightroom was... I had intended to dedicate the afternoon to pic-taking since I have quite a bunch of things to photograph for blogging, but since my mum reminded me we had the Christmas foods shopping to finish, all the natural light was gone when we came back home.


I decided to switch on the light and start shooting, since I can now tweak the white balance settings and the like, and even with the not too good conditions, I have to say I managed some really nice shots!


I really wanted to show off some super cute stuff I got from LiPeony today and a pair of weeks ago, and if you are regular readers, maybe the name would sound familiar (I got a set of super cute and fun bookmarks from her, Mark the bookmark!).


She has all sort of cute things in her shop, from prints & ACEOS to cards and felt pins!


On my latest orders I've got myself some ACEOS, cards and super cute felt pins, and those are the ones I want to show off!:


Her cards are hand stamped and drawn, with the cutest alien robots! There are lots of different designs, but I fell in love with these two:


Alien Robot Love




Party Chicks



Aren't they super cute?


But, if we are talking cute, her hand-sewn felt pins are on the top of cuteness! She has a lot of animals, and even some Holiday-related ones, like a lil snowman and a gingerbread man!


I got greedy and got myself three:






Red panda




Giant panda




& Mr Penguin!




I thought of maybe sharing them, but I'm not sure if I can part with them, so maybe I'll just get more as gifts! ;)


Tomorrow I plan to take pics with natural light since there are no errands to run, and the cooking of Christmas dinner will be once the daylight is gone, by 6 pm over here. Hopefully, it'll mean another blog entry!