The wonderful Sooah from Rice&Pasta sent me this wonderful gifts via mail!! I am so happy!! I love love notepads, memopads, letter sets, and have a big collection of stationery sets here at home!! So she got me on a soft spot!! hihihi I made for her as a thank you a little custom header that you can see on her site

In other news, I am working on a couple new blog designs now One for a wonderful Donut Store, one for a new Cooking site (seems to be my main are hihihi) and a third one for a Travel blog I love designing themes for blogs, even when the poor owners have to stand my timing that lately is terrible, coz between my job at the university and my teaching I rarely have free time!!!

I really promess I’ll be uploading a new blogger template soon, maybe even a Wordpress theme, since lately I only design for wordpress… So I have a question for those that like to use my templates: Which one is your favorite? Because I want to convert at least one of them this weekend to Wordpress, so more people can use them (in my favorite blog platform)

Finally (coz I have to go back to work) let me say that my tea and coffee mugs are becoming really popular, and I am so happy about it!! Take a look at the top 2:

Oh yes, a new creation! I hope you all like it!!!

Available at my deviantArt shop and also at BirdieSays / cafepress

Please let me know what you think!!

*hugs to everyone* and Happy Easter!!!

Side-NOTE: My feeds haven’tworked always good, so just in case, I updated my RSS feed to fireburner’s: http://feeds.feedburner.com/GiseleJaquenod … So try updating if you want and tell me please if it works!

I have to say I admire artists that work it all handmade, so used I have gotten to the computer being like an extension of mine. Also often I spend hooourrsss at Etsy browsing for the perfect handmade gift for a friend, so well… I felt today like sharing with you some really cool tutorials I have been gathering in my bookmarks!! please if someone tries any of them out, let me know!!!!

And thanks to all the beautiful bloggers that are always creating tutorials!

Build with paper!

- Paperm | Dollhouses

Amazing site full of paper patterns to build mini rooms and buildings, of any kind!.

Fun, easy, and a perfect activity to do with kids!!

Link via How about Orange.

- Make your own handbound journal

I love journals, i love buying and collecting anything that has chances to write in it heh! And here is a great tutorial to a super fancy handbounded journal.

- Get a paper camera!!  Oh yeah, you can do so here.

Softies, my weakness

I love kittens! And i love this pointy kitty pattern!!

Squids are also ridiculously cool, and well, thanks to Kristi, now you can learn to make one!!

I love the Animal Planet show “Meerkat Manor”. Anyone that hasn’t seen it has lost one of the greatest soap operas of ours day. Anyway, what better than having your own meerkat, specially if you are a fan? Visit Roman Sock to get a helpful tutorial!

Prepare for Easter!

- Make chocolate golden eggs! by the kitchn

- Make a bunny pocket pillow! Perfect for the season, thanks Missy.

- Make a chasmere bunny. Thank you betz!

- Cute bunnie softie, via Yoonie.

- Make your own Easter cards!!

Random!

- Make your own photo-covered-pencils. Thanks to Photojojo.

- Make a patchwork skirt!! Andgive it to meeee!! Thanks Louisa.

Two lovely ladies have given me in the last times a little beautiful award: “You make my day”. They are my dearest Anne-Julie and the talented Sully. So I think it’s time for me to give it back to my favorite blogs! And I have to say, my picks have mostly been picked before, so you my dearest bloggers won’t have to worry about doing it again I suposse *g*

Here is how this award rules go:
1. Write a post with links to 5 blogs that make me think and/or make my day.
2. Acknowledge the post of the award giver.
3. Display the “You Make my Day Award” logo with a link to the post that I wrote. (Optional)
4. Tell the award winners that they have won by commenting on their blogs with the news.

Sooooo, this are the blogs I want to pass this award on to:

 Anne-Julie’s Ma Petite Théière: Annie you are awesome! Cutest art, cutest goodies at etsy, cutest everything!

Flora’s Happy Doodle Land: Florissss I love your works and you really make me laugh with your crazy ideas!!

Jannie Ho, Miss Chickengirl designs: I think since I am with birdie and she’s with the chickens we are somehow related *giggle*, no really a beautiful artist, with a really interesting blog to read!

Jennie’s Blog: Because even when I don’t comment much I do sneak into your blog almost daily, and I am so happy to have fund you again dear!! So many years so many letters *giggle*

Miss May Ann Licudine: Not just a great artist for me and many other people, but also a recognized blogger! Guess what she was just nominated for the Best Asian Weblog in Eighth Annual Weblog Awards. Go vote for her!!

Well I do hope everyone sneaks a pick on these blogs if you haven’t before, because it’s really worth it!!

There is many things i check out daily when i turn on my computer and go online. There’s deviantart, cafepress, my blog, some argentinian newspapers, but also there’s a bunch of feeds in my Google Reader, as well as many sites in my Firefox bookmark bar… So that’s what I plan now to list, share and recomend to you!!!!

For Designers:

Smashing Magazine: No need to elaborate, an incredible source of articles, resources and recomendations for the web developer. If you don’t have it already in your RSS reads, add it NOW.

CSS Beauty: A great site, with community elements, where one can find resources and share information and documents, as well as read some really interesting article feed.

Deziner Folio: Resources blog for designers.

Web Designer Wall: Resources blog for designers.

Veerles’ Blog: Veerle, you rock!

Web Developer’s Handbook: As the name says it, a great great handbook, a must have.

Abduzeedo: Tips and reviews, great to inform and inspire any designer!

To inspirate yourself: Some personal favorites.

Anne-Julie Aubry: A great friend, an awesome illustrator. You can also check out her blog & her shop.

Cozy Little Whimsy Nook: A truly craft genius! Admire, get inspired, shop, everything!

Dibupoly: He’s one of my favorites when it comes to shop gifts to my goddaughter. Admire.

Happy Doodle Land: Flora, you genius, I love your work!

ISO50: Some designer oriented inspiration.

Shop like crazy:

Etsy: Well, this is number one place ever to shop for handcraft goodies. Take a look and do your own favorite listing by simply registering. Nevertheless, let me recomend you some incredible shops!!

+ baublesnbows: Hair goodies.
+ watanwatan:Bags and pouches.
+ boygirlparty: Paper heaven.
+ mpatrizio: Cutest things.
+ rosybird: Bird heaven.
+ violetpi: Cutest plushies and other softies.
+ annejulie: Well, of course, I’ll link again!

Rare Bird Finds: Great shopping listing. They always have the links to the best goodies available online!

Birdie Says: Why not, my own shop, soon moving to www.birdiesays.com.

From my own resources bookmark list:

Design Disease: Some awesome stuff, including some of the coolest free WordPress themes.

COLOURlovers: Not just really cool collection of palettes, but also tonz of cool patterns to download!!

Vecteezy: Free Vector Stuff.

Icon Resources List: An awesome list by BlogMundi.

WidgetBox: Widgets for almost anything!

CSS Galleries: Some of my favorites!!

CSS Princess

Design Shack

CSS Remix

Design Snack

Well everyone, I hope you enjoyed this listing and find it useful, I promess to come back with more links for you really soon!!! *hugs* to all, and thanks for reading!!!!

Christmas is just around the corner, and I still haven’t had the time to make my Christmas shopping, amazing…Anyways,online there is so many pretty things,that I wish it was again the end of November so I could order anything and get it on time! hihihi…By no means that’s possible now hihihi no timeeee and I really don’t like to go around my city’s downtown finding presents because it’s always so crowded!!!

Anyways, that doesn’t stop me from dreaming, so I have gathered here a bunch of pretty cool things that I loveeee!!! Hope you love them toooo!!!

Before we go, I want to thanks Anne-Julie for the beautiful brooch I got from heeeer A awesome present directly from the shop of the talented Munieca !!! Thanks Annieeeeeeeee, I love youuuu! you are an awesome friend

The Flower Rains, Print by MarmeeCraft

Le The suspendu - pocket mirror by AnneJulie

Check Please - Cherry Blossoms by keykalou

Boyfriend Bifold Wallet - Big bad wolf on tan by blissful

Branches, Sticks, Twigs Coin Purse

As you can see I love purses, bags, wallets, all those things, *g* there’s so many more things i love, but I’d like to make a stop to add here some news about my templates:

1) I’ll try to add TODAY a Christmas template, not sure tho I am busy as a bee lately!

2) All the requests you guys have made for templates, I am trying my best Thanks so much for reading and always leaving some kinds words of support

3) I have seen only a few that removes the credits, please don’t, I do lots of work to share the themes with  you guys for free, just in exchange of that link! If you remove it, then it’s simply breaking the rules! Please don’t, It’s not fair

Now, to other things I love

Old Wisebark by yaamas 

 NATALIE AND SOLOMON by *krecha

 ISO50 - ‘Paths 2′ Tshirt girls

Well, hope you liked it!! And thanks for reading!!!!