Mafe Maria: A Creative Playground by Maria Q. Stultz
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While some people work hard to rip their jeans many wears ahead of schedule, my favorite pair got ripped at both knees the natural way. Forget the razors and pumice stones! Just get an active infant and start spending your days on the floor, constantly standing and crawling on your knees chasing his butt, and [...]
While my poor fingers have started recovering from the recent rampage of my “piquitin” habit, the photo shoot of my latest wallet for the shop left something very clear: I need a manicure. AND. There’s no way in hell that I could ever list a product for online selling with such horrible fingers as models. [...]
Joaquin’s newborn sleep gowns. How I loved them, how I loved them. Incredibly, although they’re made for babies up to three months old, they still fit him. The only reason why I stopped using them is that my baby is very mobile now and really needs his legs. So a few days ago, I was [...]
Finally ending the story of my experience painting stripes in our baby’s nursery, here I’ll talk about the method I followed to tape the masks for the stripes. As I said earlier, I do have relatively flat walls, so this post is not about how to effectively mask stripes on heavily textured walls. This is [...]
Continuing the story of my experience painting stripes in our baby’s nursery, here I’ll discuss a few more of the decisions that went into making the finished product beautiful, subtle, and exactly what I was looking for. Previously, I talked about color. How I went far beyond my usual way of selecting paint colors only [...]
The process of painting stripes was a lot easier than I expected. It involved a few decisions, a healthy dose of planning, a little algebra, and a bit of color tweaking, but the actual masking and painting of stripes in our baby’s room went a lot faster than all other steps in my very ambitious [...]
Tutorial posts may sound a little pretentious, like I’m some professor of life kind of “expert”, but they serve two purposes: One, I get to brag about something I just made. And two, it’s my way to give back to the Internet for all the times that I’ve searched for “how to” do this or [...]
Apologies to my regular readers for the recent obsessiveness with pregnancy topics, and the narrow subject matter of this post. This one is for all pregnant women in desperate search for maternity jeans, who even before getting pregnant have the hardest time finding pants that fit well. Anyone?… I swear I tried. Last week was [...]
I really, really,… really thought that I would have many words of patronizing wisdom to share with all of you after going through this long and daring process. I really, really thought that after screwing up one of the seat’s arms, the second arm would turn out perfect. And painless. Well, I may not have [...]
Writing tutorials may be a little pretentious, but they let me share the things I make, and also it’s my way to give back to the Internet for all the times that it has taught me how to do something.
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