Old Pictures

I've been terribly neglecting my blog and even though I've been keeping myself busy, I don't want to give any explanations of my procrastinating since they will only sound as coward excuses.
I wanted to show you what my husband and I made for his paw paw GB and his (our) mom Sherry.
We went to NY city on our honeymoon and we visited the MOMA. Of all the exhibitions from famous artists, paintings, sculptures, etc, that you can find in a Museum like this. We found this exhibition sharing one room with other photographers, but it gathered the attention of most visitors. It consisted of black frames with white background and randomly placed black and white old pictures of regular people from the 50's to the 80's some of them were color photos too. 
It was funny to see how everyone was so interested on looking at the pictures of random people doing regular everyday activities trying to find out who they were, what were they doing at that very moment, what they were wearing, why did they take that picture, and somehow relating it to us. To the pictures we take, occasions in our life that we think must be photographed.
So we went to paw paw GB's house to gather some pictures from his life and we came up with these:

So this was our result, we gave them to Sherry and Mr. GB and I think they loved them! Now we want to make some for our walls.


Estas fotos nos las dio el abuelito de Eric, Mr. GB, y nos inspiramos en una exposición que vimos en el MOMA. Desde que las vimos pensamos que queriamos hacer esto en nuestras paredes... pero hasta ahora solo hicimos 2 y fueron de regalo.

making Mr. Octopus - Haciendo al Sr. Pulpo

Hola a todos,
Ya llevo un rato haciendo al Sr. Pulpo, y la verdad es que así hago con muchos proyectos. Empiezo, trabajo un rato en ellos, divago, y luego los retomo. El Sr. Pulpo nació de un pantalon de pijama que se me rompió, y en ese momento lo transformé en algo nuevo. Empeze a cortar las piezas y a unir con hilos de diferntes colores, la verdad buscaba algo rústico, y me parece que ahí va.


Hi everyone, I started to work on Mr. Octopus probably two months ago, and really it isn't that much of a job, but that is usually how I work on my projects I start, then stop for a while and then retake the project. Mr. Octopus was a PJ's pants before, unfortunately this cozy pants teared apart and now they're are something else, something even more special. I am going for a rustic looking stuffed octopus.

Para este proyecto solo fui cortando las piezas sin medir o trazar nada con anticipación, me gusta mucho improvisar lo único malo es que nunca podre hacer uno igual de nuevo porque no tengo moldes o medidas, pero por otro lado eso también es bueno porque será un pulpo único.

For this project I did not take any kind of measurements,  I don't think I even used a pencil for tracing it out. I love improvising, the only bad thing is that I will never make one exactly the same, which is sort of a good thing also because it will be a unique Mr. Octopus.

It is all hand made and a recycled product, so far it looks like this:

Todo está hecho a mano y es un protucto reciclado, hasta ahora se ve así:

En cuanto esté termnado se los presentare :) Estoy pensando en abrir mi tienda en Etsy y este sera uno de los primeros productos que pondré ahí. Nos vemos pronto!!!
I will upload a picture of it as soon as I finish it. I am thinking on opening my Etsy store, this will be one of the first products to sell. Well I'll keep working on it, and I wish y'all have a great and creative day!