A little simple pouch for back to school

Today I was thinking that maybe I should make something for the older girls.  When most moms call me they usually tell me that they wished I had something for their older daughters because of the beautiful fabrics.  Well, today I got the idea of this pouch.  It is easy to make, beautiful and most of all, very useful.  Girls can use it as a pencil case, as a pouch for their personal care stuff, makeup bag, etc.  Even moms can use it too.  The cool thing is that I make them with a nylon lining so that the exterior does not get dirty in case of an ink stain or lipstick.  I think that maybe this will be the beginning of some new ideas to develop.

CARING INSTRUCTIONS

Many of my customers ask me how to care for the pieces I hand make for them.  I am proud to say that I only use 100% Premium quality cottons and terry cloth.  Caring for these materials is easy but here are a few tips I use to care for my own.

1. Cotton can be easily laundered. It can withstand high temperatures (boiling water does not hurt the fiber).
2. Any good detergent can be used to wash cotton.
3. Chlorine bleach can be used safely on cotton whites. Use color safe bleach on dyed cottons. I prefer to spot treat the pieces with OXY clean.
4. Since cotton fibers are fairly inelastic cotton fabrics may wrinkle easily. And, fabric may need frequent pressing.
5. For longer life of the piece, please line dry.
6. I like to iron burp cloths and bibs to make them look line new.  With cotton a higher temperature setting is needed.

Or visit Tide to crack the code on your pieces.

For any question, please feel free to comment at the bottom or contact me at aleizan@gmail.com

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you need to contact me to place an order, here is my 411:

Annette Leizan  -  1 787 308 2112

or you can email me at:

giugiudesigns@rocketmail.com

Please visit the links above (Available fabric #1 & #2) to view the fabrics I have available in stock.  I receive fabrics every week so please check it often, or call me, and I can email you pics that are not shown to help you choose something that suits you better.

I ship internationally and accept payments via Paypal.

Hope to talk to you soon!!!!

Setting up a Linkbar on my blogspot

Memorial day is here and I had to spend the whole day inside because of the rain.  It has been raining the whole week and the kids can't go outside and play...bummer.  I have so much to dooooooooooo and the kids wont let me work.  But today I settled... I let them swim in the pool because I had to work.  I was so excited by the quite time that I embraced it by giving a new look to my blog,  do you like it?

Unfortunately, I have no html experience but I did it!!!!  I just searched the web for the stuff I wanted to do and voila...I did it.  But one thing struck me as odd, I didn't see a linkbar gadget on my blogger.  I was growing dissapointed when I found that one of my favorite bloggers (haptree and me) had a tutorial for this. 

In just a couple of minutes I had my linkbar up and running, so I thought that sharing it with you guys would be only fair.  My kids were happy too because I could hang out with them for a little while.

I hope you enjoy setting it up!

But remember to save your templates before editing, that way you won't lose any information in case you make a mistake.

I am BACK!!!!!!!

Wow! I haven't blogged for 10 months!!!!

The truth is that I haven't been able to because I have so much on my plate, but that doesn't mean that I am out forever. I'm going to make a habit of it, I promise!

Right now we (me + husband + kids) are homeless… we sold our apartment and we're living in my mother's pool house (not as bad as it sounds). The truth is that this place is to small for all of us. Also, we bought a fixer upper house, but we are waiting for construction permits (and if you are puertorican you know this might take forever).

So we more or less live in a space of 450 square feet were we have:

a room for me + husband +kids - we have a hippie commune

we have space for small living room I mean really small

my sewign studio which is the biggest space of them all

two walking closests

one small bathroom

how did we fit all that into such a small space....beats me? But we are HAPPY!

And now that we are in summer I have the kids in the house, or as I like to call it, the shoe box, all day long. I cant wait for camp to start!