Enter the Roostery Home Décor Shop Giveaway! – (Closed)…


The 4th Blogiversary Celebration and Textile Giveaway continues… The Roostery Giveaway is Ending Soon…. I’m offering your choice of colors and designs from my textile designs from my Roostery Home Décor Shop to one lucky follower! You select the fabric design and color for the pillows, tea towels, cocktail or dinner napkins from my Roostery shop and I will have it shipped to you.  More options available!…

Textile Giveaway Winner!


I like to Thank everyone that participated in the Blogiversary Textile Giveaway! My celebration will continue all month so there are more chances to win exciting things! Now it’s time to announce the Spoonflower Textile Giveaway! Drum Roll……… The True Random Number Generator selection: Congratulations to Green Eye Crafts! Please help me congratulate Green Eye Crafts and enter this weeks…

Blogiversary – Roostery Home Décor Shop Giveaway! (Closed)


The 4th Blogiversary Celebration and Textile Giveaway continues… Last week’s giveaway was from my Spoonflower shop and this week I’m offering a selection of my textile designs from my Roostery Home Décor Shop to one lucky follower! You select the fabric design for the pillows, tea towels, cocktail or dinner napkins from my Roostery shop and I will have it shipped to you. International and U.S. participants…

Happy New Year – Another Blogiversary!


Are you ready for the New Year? Can you believe that some of us have been connecting here for four years? You’ve seen me grow, change my look, excepted my silence from time to time, celebrated, and inspired some of my creations with your comments, and likes whenever you dropped by to see what’s happening at LaCartera!  We’ve supported…

Top 16 Crafty Design-O-Rama Roundup


We started this years Design-O-Rama in October and I hope you enjoyed seeing all of the crafts! We had 87 projects uploaded from October -December 18th. I rounded up the 16 crafts that received the most views to share with you and added the Inlinkz at the bottom of this post so that you can see the other…

Crafty Design-O-Rama Link Party #26


It’s Design-O-Rama Craft Link Party Time! As we countdown to Christmas this is your last chance to link up your projects.  We’ll share the favorites next week, with a series-end wrap up to follow near the end of the month. I hope you have enjoyed our link party as much as we have!! The crafty link-up is…

Crafty Design-O-Rama Link Party #25


It’s Design-O-Rama Craft Link Party Time! Are you finishing up all of those Christmas crafts? Well It’s time to share all of  your fabulous items you’ve been working on! We have some fabulous featured crafts this week and if you click on the blue Inlinkz button below you can see them all!   So let’s start the party! Share your projects here, meet new friends, and discover new…

The Latest Thread – Sewing, Textile Designs & Crafts


Sewing, designing textiles and ordering fabric swatches have been at the top of my list during the last couple of weeks!  I had time to enjoy Thanksgiving with the family and I hope you had a happy time too! So far everything is on track to finish some of the projects that I have to get done before…

Hobo Handbag- Is it a Hit or Miss? Fab or Drab?


Hello Handbag Junkies’ It’s Hit or Miss time! I’ve been working on my new handbag collection and was able to finish this Hobo Handbag in this zebra print before the holidays. You  know I love to mix it up a bit and decided to add a pop of red to the mix.  It’s soft, roomy and…

Crafty Design-O-Rama Link Party #23


It’s Design-O-Rama Craft Link Party Time! Only Two days before Thanksgiving and It’s time to give thanks and spend quality time with the family! So here’s wishing you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving! Some of us are already planning Christmas events and crafts so you may want to save and pin these projects for later! We have some…

Woodstock Handbag- Is it a Hit or Miss? Fab or Drab?


Hello Handbag Junkies’ It’s Hit or Miss time! As you know I’ve spent most of the year designing textiles to use for my handbags among other things, but I finally completed a prototype for one of new purse designs that I will release soon.  I have a custom order that forced me to learn some new leather…

Sewing Tips – My Favorite Video Clips of the Week


If you want to learn how to sew and clip curves Wendi Gratz from Shine Happy Sewing will give you a quick tutorial and practice tips in this video. It’s the season for wearing ponchos and Charlotte shares her knowledge of making ponchos in this “Poncho Power” video. I enjoyed chatting with Charlotte and she made…