Agujas Mágicas.

Hello curios@s. Hope you have a great weekend! I've been lurking around for some info about hand embroidery and appliqué. I found this awesome page, Sublime Stitching, that I bet everyone who knows about embroidery had discovered it many years ago; well I

just found it and I love every pattern design in it! At some point I wanted to buy the Ultimate Embroidery Kit but I know so little that I decided to wait. Also tried to look for a book at Amazon but couldn’t determine which one I should get.

So, today I decided to ask my grandmother, because she has everything that could possibly exist when it comes to crafts & sewing. Rest assured, she knew exactly what I was talking about, had materials and even handed me a book. So I’m currently reading Agujas Mágicas which means Magic Needles and it explains pretty much what I was looking for. I’m crossing my fingers so I could at least do one project by the end of the week.

If you would like to share tips or show some of your work feel free to do it!

Anything you’re trying to learn?

Things I need to do.

In no particular order.

1. Sew more.
2. Be more consistent with my blog.
3. Organize my materials (fabrics, buttons, patterns, etc.)
4. Organize my photos (Polaroids, fisheye pics, and instax mini)
5. Get rid of stuff I don't need.
6. Learn something new.
7. Get the bike train pass.
8. Clean my car more often.
9. Finally do the picnic I've been talking about for months.
10. Take more pictures.

I need to do all these things and more.

Anything you need to accomplished?

TGIMF!

Oh! It's Friday already and I haven't written since last week! How irresponsible of me! But I got to tell you I've been cooking or sewing….new stuff that I'm planning on photographing today. And as usual the site that I'm use for uploading the playlist is having some trouble with the widgets…for now I'll just give you the songs and when they're right back on track I'll post the widget. (Sorry guys! I hate when this happens)

1. Madness "Tarzan's Nuts"
2. The Velvet Underground "Run Run Run"
3. The Adicts "Tango"
4. Thee Oh Sees "You will see this dog before you die"
5. King Khan & The BBQ Show "Get Down"
6. New Young Pony Club "Jerk me"
7. Pixies "Where is my mind?"
8. The Plugz "La bamba"
9. Plastilina Mosh "Pervert pop song"
10. Talking Heads "Who is it?"
11. Chuck Berry "Little queenie"
12. The Pipettes "Your kisses are wasted on me"
13. Greenskeepers "15 minutes"
14. Vampire Weekend "White Sky"
15. X "Your phone's off the hook, but you're not"

ps. download the playlist here.

Friday?! Hooray!

This week has being stressful for me. I have my mind set-up on the no money status and I absolutely have no inspiration because of that...but something that really makes me feel better it's music. Imagine a world without music? It sounds so boring. How lucky we are for having some nice tunes…let's relax and have some fun!

• Hunx & his Punx Gimme Gimme back your love
• The Smiths These things take time
• Dávila 666 Mala
• Best Coast When you wake up
• Metric Dead disco
• Arthur Brown Fire
• Anti-Sociales Blanca Luna
• The Strokes Two kinds of happiness
• Black Lips Veni VIdi Vici
• Bob Dylan I want you
• Brazilian Girls Good Time
• Sea Wolf You're a wolf
• Esqueletos Intrusos en mi jardín
• Groovie Ghoulies Bye bye brain
• Las Chinas El hombre salvaje

It's me….Mario!

Hello curiousers! One of my favorite games is Super Mario Bros! I'm so obsessed with the series that I even have it on my phone, computer, wii, and the Nintendo DSi. Okay, on everything I own! I remember as a kid I played and owned all Nintendo consoles. I started with the Nes, and then had a Super Nintendo, Gameboy, N64, Gamecube and right now I have the Nintendo DSi and the red Wii, Super Mario Bros 25th year anniversary edtion. My favorite Mario game will forever be Super Mario Bros 3. I still love to play it; I love the pixelated graphics, the music, the simplicity of it and how easily you can die. To this day I still enjoy it. But why am I babbling about this? Well I found this great wallpaper that caused instant nostalgia. I'm so excited it about it that I would like to share it with you! Go check it out over here.

And if that doesn't calm your Mario addiction and after all this is a crafty blog try this Super Mario Bros magnetic board done by Laboratory 424. I know I'll be doing that one soon.

What retro games you worship?

TGIMF!

Another musical Friday brought to you by Curioux Disorder! Ahem! I've being going cuckoo these days, my current job is setting up on a new location and I haven't worked a lot. Yes haven't. Too bad for me! This Friday I'm doing things a little bit different. Since the page that I used for doing the playlist has a limit (yeah what a shitty page) and I've looked everywhere for other sites who could do the same as that one but none of them are successful. So I'll put the names of it as I always do and you have the option to download the zip file; where all the songs and the playlist is included. Piece of cake, right? So let the good times roll!

1. Blondie Sunday Girl
2. Peter, Bjorn & John I just wanna see through
3. Julian CasaBlancas Out of the Blue
4. Passion Pit Sleepyhead
5. Los Nikis Yo soy tu sombra
6. Adam & the Ants Cleopatra
7. The Queers Love, love, love
8. The Go-Betweens Palm Sunday
9. The Skatalites Music storeroom
10. Phoenix Sometimes in the Fall
11. Vampire Weekend Diplomat's son
12. Best Coast Crazy for you
13. MGMT Electric feel
14. Misfits Some kinda hate

Oh yes! Here's the link!

Pictures!

Hello curiosos! Today is a really beautiful sunny day with a nice breeze! I'm so relieved it's not that hot like some of the past days. I've been having a lot of free time. I sewed some tiny pouches, got to finish a fun and easy to do purse, did a paper record calendar, did flowers using fabric and took some pictures. So here's the finished product:

Fantastic melon purse. I love it.

A closer look. I did the fabric flower as a pin so you can take it off or leave it there. It also has outside pockets.

One of the tiny camo pouches I did. Sorry for the low quality pic I took it with my cellphone.

I'm in love with this record player calendar. I found it over here. Curiosity is a marketing company and they offer monthly calendars using different ideas for you to paper craft. April is my birthday month and I love record players so I couldn't pass this!

Another one of my obsessions; gnomes.

A flower fabric I made using polka dot fabric.

That's it for today! I'm going bike riding at the Linear Park near my house. Stay tuned for tomorrow Friday and I'll get you a new playlist!

Cute things!

If you don't know already, I'm obsessed with looking for things on the internet. I'm always checking out stuff that I'll never get to have or maybe one day I will, who knows? Here's some of my cute findings! Hope you like them too, I think most of them are from www.modcloth.com. Enjoy!

Cassette tape measure, well isn't that handy?

Matryoshka ice tray, yes I'm practically obsessed with these dolls, you'll see more ahead.

Matryoshka clips.

Bunny book holder. Great and adorable idea!

The Good, The Bad & The Barbie; I just love the title of this book. Wonder what is it about?

Alice Adventure's In Wonderland Book.

What a bath curtain!

This Matryoshka's doll stand is perfect for cards, tags, ect.

I need this! A camera tape holder!

Best lunch bag!

And for the last one, this purrfect measuring cups!

TGIMF

Bayamón, PR, it's extremly hot in here. Melting sensations make me wish for pools and oceans. Dear God, it is truly horrible I can't think. Here, have a playlist and go for a dip!

• Beach Boys Help me Rhonda!
• The Buzzcocks What ever happened?
• The Bird and the Bee fucking boyfriend
• The B-52's 6060-842
• Almodovar y Mcnamará voy a ser mamá
• Black Lips Fairy Stories
• Big L No Endz No Skinz
• Brian Eno Cindy tells me
• The Specials A message to you rudie
• Siniestro Total No me mates con tomate
• CSS Beautiful Song
• Nico Vega Gravity
• Aerolineas Federales soy una punk

More curiosities!

Hello!! How you doing? Well I'm doing good myself, hope you guys are doing great too. In the past couple of weeks I've been taking some pictures of items I've bought and some I had on stock. So let's quit babbling and start with the pictures.

I received this beautiful fabric on the mail a week ago. And I just had to make something handy out of it.

I made this fantastic zipper pouch.

I also went to Walmart although I sometimes hate it, but I find really cool stuff; like these studs.

I also went to my favorite megastore, of course Marshalls and found this car air freshener. I love the vintage vibe and the phrase "Make your damn dinner", but something went terribly wrong with the smell. It says tomato soup I don't know why I fell for it but it smells horrible.

A nice old lady at work tought me how to make this very cute flower.

And another nice lady (my grandma), gave me this fruity fabric.

If you don't already know I'm a sucker for skeletons & skulls and everything weird like that, here's another item found at Walmart. I don't like to use foam but it was made of human remains so I had to get it.

And for the last one some of my findings (buttons, measuring tape, buttons, patches,….did I say buttons?)

It's Friday!

Hooray! for another fun day with nice tunes. Quick recap: I've being working the whole week but I made good use of my free day (tuesday) and try to make something out of the new fabric that I got on the mail last week. So it turned into a useful pouch.

the new fabric is the scissors fabrics

I have more stuff that I want to share with you guys but right now my brain is dead! so let's relax with some music! By the way I couldn't find a new widget. :( so this ugly one will be here for a while.

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• Los Doltons rey del tablista
• Architecture in Helsinki lazy lazy
• Dick Dale & the Del-tones surf beat
• Hombres G la cagaste burt lancaster
• Kortatu mierda de ciudad
• Sahara Hotnights alright alright
• La Lupe Fever
• Santogold lights out
• The Rolling Stones street fighting man
• Vivan Girls Moped Girls
• Sister Nancy bam bam
• The Revillos Scuba Scuba
• The Raveonettes Dead Sound
• Of Montreal My darling

p.s. while writing this post I just acknowledge I haven't wrote anything since last week! I'm so sorry! I'm so busy working that my mind shuts down during the night. I need to organize myself.

The Creator!

I just wanted to say Hi and share with you my lovely sewing machine! (or just parts of it)

Headbands!

Today was a productive day. I went to work and then came home straight to my sewing machine. It's been weeks since I sew something completely new and with all my new magazines I couldn't wait to start a new project. Remember the headband I posted from the Quilts & More Magazine? Finally did it! And it turned out really pretty. It was very easy to make, at first I had some trouble with the instructions but thanks to my wonderful brain I figured it out and finished them right away. They look fantastic and it's a great accessory to go to the beach. I'll be wearing mine for the next few days since I'll be going to Culebra.

Rose my super model

What do you think? Are you ready to try a new project that you saw on a magazine?