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:

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.

I was feeling a bit in need to make a new one!! And this is different from previous ones, since it goes to full width!! Hope everyone likes it!!!

And since some people has been having issues due to the problem Blogger has with caps no caps in the template tags, I am including 2 files for download. Try both, and if none works, let me know what problem are you having here, I can assure you it works, so maybe i can give you a hand. Now an edited version is available for download, let me know if it works!!!

BTW, this template is specially dedicated to Erin Berky, from http://theclassylife.blogspot.com/ : Hope you like it, and maybe decide to use this one!!!

April 21st. For those that couldn’t add page elements, give a try with the file available now .

May 13th. if your title wasn’t showing centered on IE try now.

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Download the template here .

How to install:

1. Unzip the file you downloaded.
2. Log in to Blogger dashboard.
3. Go to your blog’s Control Panel –> Edit HTML
4. Click the button “template”.
5. Browse the XML file you have saved and upload it.
6. You are done!

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!!!!

As promised earlier today, a quick Christmas theme. I know is not as pretty as it could be but honestly I barely have free time lately!!

I hope everyone likes it!!!! Love to all and thanks for reading

Click on the image to see a bigger preview

Download the template here.

How to install:

1. Unzip the file you downloaded.
2. Log in to Blogger dashboard.
3. Go to your blog’s Control Panel –> Edit HTML
4. Click the button “template”.
5. Browse the XML file you have saved and upload it.
6. You are done!

Any doubts about this template POST THEM HERE!! I promess I’ll get back at you as soon as possible!!
Gis

Yes, finally I have some time for a new template (like 30 min haha)… Anyway, as requested, a sweets template, I hope you find it useful!!

It has a right column, and in the bottom a sidebar (I recomend using only 2 widgets there, that’s 2 columns only of stuff, so it looks good!!)

Click on the image to see a bigger preview

Download the template here.

How to install:

1. Unzip the file you downloaded.
2. Log in to Blogger dashboard.
3. Go to your blog’s Control Panel –> Edit HTML
4. Click the button “template”.
5. Browse the XML file you have saved and upload it.
6. You are done!

Any doubts about this template POST THEM HERE!! I promess I’ll get back at you as soon as possible!!
Gis