Dear Earth

picture by the holiday spot
Happy Earth day!!!! Please pay especial attention to water and energy waste. Be conscious. Spread it!

Sustainable design

My products are going to visit Corrientes in this festival

Thanks

It's been a while since my last post. One of my 2009 promesses will be ending with procastination!
Meanwhile I wanted to thanks a lovely review Paula Alvarado made on my work, please read it:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/12/accessories-sheets-recovered-materials-dominique-besanson.php

This picture was taken by Juan, one of the best fashion photographers from Argentina www.juanvazduarte.com

My pets

Well, as I've seen in several crafts blogs, where writers introduce their family and pets, I present you my dog Blas and my chinchilla Eloisa. They get very well togeteher, even when Eloisa takes her mornings exercices where Blas is sitted in the picture! If you are interested on more stories of them, just ask!

dorita's arrival contest

I introduce you to my new laptop. I hope to catch up my blogging with Dorita, the name I've chosen for her. Can you imagine why this is her name? That will be my spring contest: the person who has the right answer before september 21th (spring's day in Argentina) will win one of my necklaces that I sell on Etsy. In order to make you things easier I will post a clue once a week until someone has the right answer. So get your brains into work girls!

i've been whiped!

I'm so happy! this is like belonging to one of the coolest groups of craft bloggers. thanks a lot whip up, especially to Nicole from craftapalooza.typepad.com

Des grands boutons font de l'art

A very creative and wise friend of mine called Claudio Martinez made me this beautiful pieces that I thought I can be inpired. Don't you just love them?
If you want to make something like this, sew great fancy buttons to a very thick paper(he used some red envelopes), and put them as decorations in your walls. You can use different colors but try to make it stylish, otherwise is going to look kitch!

easy living style

like this? I've prepared a small tutorial if you want to make it. I try to reuse this
beautiful branches of a flower called here in Argentina "palo de durazno", and now (starting spring) is it season. I took punch holer with a butterfly image and some light blue paper and VOILA! I just distribute them randomly.
It gives a very soft ambiance, try it!

bias tape tutorial

ok, this is harder to explain than doing it. This is way of having lot of bias tape of the fabric you love, just start with a 50cm square, or even bigger if you need more (not less than that). I hope you will find it easy, if not feel free to ask me any doubts!
hugs Dominique

watch it

cool tutorial on how to make star bows

How To Make Star-Shape Ribbon - The most amazing home videos are here

The 30 pesos stool

This stool costs me about 10 dollars and I bought it because the high was just perfect for my working table. But I thougt it was très boring so... here it is with something smooth on it, some fabric, and baby broderie!
I need comments !!!

Navy Necklace

I made this necklace in five minutes and two stripes. Like it or not?
If anyone asks I can post a tutorial.

Crochet pink bag

This is the story of a bag as I was told. My granma Berta crochet this sort of grocery bag for my mother fifty years ago. When my granma died a couple of years ago, i tried to collect every knitting, crochet or sewed thing made by her as a souvenir of the great women she was. Some of this stuff are still in boxes and every couple of months I open one of them so as to have a new recycling project. This summer (because remember it's the summer down here) I recycled this crochet bag by changing the handles and arrenging some of the flowers. What do you think?

Pieces of me

In case you were wondering how I look... well, this is me at my flat. My boyfriend (also photographer) took me this picture making the bed. I use my place to shoot a production we made for fashion magazine from Buenos Aires www.revista-luz.com.ar
Please remember that the girl in the first three pictures is a model!

y esto?

A ver... decidí hacer este post en español por que no se me ocurrió una expresion mejor que: " ¿y esto con qué se come?". Bueno es algo que decimos en Argentina cuando no registramos dentro de nuestra cabeza algún antecedente de eso que estamos viendo, o nos resulta muy extraño, o simplemente no sabes que hacer con eso. Exactamente fue lo que me pasó cuando estaba terminando una idea que se me había ocurrido un tanto mágicamente. Es un tejido circular muy grueso con varios puntos que fui haciendo paso a paso. No tenía idea de como iba a quedar. Cuando lo terminé me gustó mucho pero con el inconveniente que no sé bien que es... Se los describo: mide 10 cm de diámetro es bastante espeso (con lo cual no puede servir de apoya vasos). Por el tamaño no puede ser una carpeta para la mesa, asi que se me ocurrió hacer varios, con un lazo para colgar, y armar una composición en una pared. Por ahora se me ocurre eso. Alguna idea?

The missing pillow

Well, as you've probably seen a couple of post ago, I' ve finished my bed quilt, and I thought that something was missing. I found the hole in my design: some pillows! but they needed to be a little bit more loose than the pattern I had made for the quilt, so I came up with the idea of just compose the fabrics without an order. Look at the pictures and let me know what you think!

Pañuelo viejo + Quilting = Almohadon chino

Esto es revamp! Un pañuelo que recordarán fue muy popular en los 80' lo combine con otras telas y devino en algo asi como un almohadón chino, los que se usan para arrodillarse en el piso. Creo que puede servir como adorno en el piso o sobre la cama como una mini quilt (sin ponerle relleno de almohadón). En este solo use guata como en las quilt tradicionales.
¿Qué les parece?

2006 calendar into a post-it board (last part)

More pictures and board in action!

2006 calendar into a post-it board (first part)

Well, this is how I came up with the idea: I didn't want to throw away this gorgeous 2006 calendar because of the thick material and also I thougt that I had to take advantage of the fact it already had a hook to hang it on the wall. So during January I kept thinking what the hell I was going to do with it. Then I found some pieces of the wall paper I had in my childhood home (during the 80's), and since I didn't had much of it, I decided to combined it with some modern paper waists. The function of this recycled? a post- it board mixed whith wall paper memories. I did this for both sides of the board and I can turn it over when ever I get tired of the colors.

What do you think?

I bet you could do the same with a good wall hanging and some wall paper.

easy black denim skirt with button holes

This is the work of the day. Let me know if you want the tutorial, it´s really easy. As told in my last post, I'll take better pictures.

here we go!

Bueno... por fin terminé mi primera quilt. El que quiera que me pida una.