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I have a friend named Gina

I have a friend named Gina. We were working in the same company, three years back. I sometimes hang out with her group of friends during lunch and merienda, but we were never really close as we are now. Maybe because the time when I was new in the company, she was on a maternity leave. When she got back, there were never enough time to be really close, but according to her, I was able to influence her into crocheting. Hence, the story of friendship begun.

Me and Gina Three years back

Me and gina now

This is one of the few good stories that crafting really brings people together. Most of the similarities, besides the passion for the craft comes from having “bigger than life” son, and a recently married life, which becomes our everyday topic as we share frustrations over missed stitch and lost hooks and delight over recently finished projects.

Gina loves crocheting. I think, more than crocheting itself, she likes the joy it brings to his son, who she adores so much that almost all her works are attributed to him. My most favorite one, a crocheted vest made from silk-cashmere blend.

Crochet Pullover for Thor

Look at the facce of her kid!

I also love the bag she made. It’s an owl! And yes, it is for this sweet little kiddo again!

Crochet owl bag

She also made a pair of socks, some toys and hats and scarves and so many more for this lucky child. I do wish I could make something for my baby too. But as selfish as I am, almost all my works are for me, and me and me. Besides, my son hates socks, hats, scarves and jackets. He only likes to wear very thin shirts.

Hehe, now back to Gina. I am telling this because we recently shared eagerness to earn something from crochet. As she was really very prudent in pricing her creations, I am encouraging her to take more value in what she can do, hence you might see some of her creations in my facebook page as well. Hopefully, our venture would be profitable Goodluck to us!!!

A promising new year

This year is very promising. I launched my new facebook page, in lieu of a message sent by my friend, Ms. Meikah, who bought earrings from me last year.

Happy Customer! Happy Seller!

A friend of hers saw my earrings and are interested to sell these items abroad. Yipee!!!! Just good enough reason for me to launch my facebook page, which I did plan last year. I just told myself, I have to finish the bags I am crocheting before launching it, but due to this news, I have to! So that I could share the excitement and thrill and yes, so that I can showcase some products.

Hence another good news, a friend of my husband from Saudi Arabia placed an advanced order for this white little blouse,

White Crocheted Blouse

This is very good news as I have a reason to write down the pattern as well.

Another big deal is that I am crocheting a new bag design I created myself:

Bag Handle

The bag handle is my favorite part of the bag. It’s textured and very tightly crocheted that it hurts. My nanay(mother-in-law) liked it too. She likes a lot of expensive bags and she said that it looks “tutyal” or very high-end. I really like being praised (for my works) because it makes me want to finish the items I am doing despite the pain and numbness of my fingers and joints.

I hope you are having a very good new year too!

Yarn Source “outsourced”!

This week, I got contacted by the owner of “Yarn Source Manila“, an online seller of yarns of different kinds. Remember that before 2012 ends, she launched a photo contest worth a bagful of yarns? Well I did not win, but I was informed that she really liked my photo entry. Anyway, so she contacted me to ask if she can use my photo as a “sold out” photo. She uses this to indicate that an album containing items being sold are already “sold out”. Hence, a bad news breaker for a buyer like me. But! This is the good news, she asked me to revise it in exchange for a bagful of yarns!!!!!!!!! OH WOW! I’ll do it right away!!! 😀 hehe.. so i edited my earlier entry and came up with something like this:

sold out logo for yarn source manila

I got a reply from her telling me she really liked the image I made. This actually brightened my day (and the days ahead).

Yipee for Yarn Source Manila!

Btw, I did buy a few balls of yarns from the site and lo and behold! when I received my basic crochet cotton yarns (Just two big balls of same color)

White Cotton Yarn from Baguio being sold by Yarn Source Manila

I was really, really happy! This is the kind of yarn I have been looking and wanting. This is the same yarn I used for this crocheted blouse:

Coined from Rachel’s Daisy Square

Soft to touch and thin, just the way I like it.

It’s so lacy!

Handmade lace

I just hope the next time the items i want to buy won’t be sold out. Happy crocheting everyone!

Ginantsilyo launches its Facebook Page

I decided that I will start selling crocheted items. To help me promote my products immediately and reach out to people, I created the facebook page: http://facebook.com/ginantsilyo.

Hopefully through this, I would be able to reach to a larger audience and gain more followers as well as prospective clients.

Please support ginantsilyo by liking us on facebook:

YarnSourceManila is giving away bagful of yarns for new year!

Whoa! I heard that our local yarn (online) store – YarnSourceManila, set up a contest on her facebook page.

Here is the details of the contest:

Now, let’s welcome 2013 with a photo contest! I will give a bagful of assorted yarns to the winner. just post your entry on the timeline or wall of this fanpage – facebook.com/onlineyarnstore. Remember – the theme is the NEW YEAR. Just make sure that YARN SOURCE MANILA will be placed somewhere in the photo. The winning photo will be used as a cover photo for this facebook fanpage.

Deadline of entries is January 1st, winner will be announced on January second Happy new year everyone!

Let us all join guys!

I actually joined the contest and I want to share my entry:

YarnSourceManila New Year Cover Photo Contest – Ginantsilyo’s entry

I do hope I will win the contest. Hooray for Filipinos for sharing their love and passion!

Who won the give yarns this christmas part two contest?

You might have not heard from me who won the “Give Yarns this Christmas, Part II” Contest, so I will update you guys. Let’s hear first what our dudettes made for christmas.

One entry came from a dear friend, Gina – who crocheted purses, bags and headbands for her friends. Lucky them!

She said that:

This year since I’m busy too much I decided to crochet gift items but sadly I cannot crochet as much as I want so my gift is limited to those who are near my area and to those who I see everyday.

Whoa… to the people who will receive these gifts, you are very lucky for having the opportunity to be in her Christmas list. Devoting your time to crafting and giving is not easy especially for a full-time employee/mother like Gina!

Here’s a peak to what she created:

Gina’s Crocheted Christmas Gifts

My most favorite from the treats is the green mesh bag on the right side. My favorite color is green so I am actually biased. I requested her to take a closer pic of the bag though before she gave it away. Hopefully she would update me for a nicer photo.

The other entry came from Ms. Girlie, who won the contest and received loads of yarns from me, crocheted big stuffs, like boleros (long sleeved ones, mind you) , scarves and shawls. She said that:

I just crochet these from October to this day and here it is, I had to share. I know it’s cold where they are specially now as its winter season so I made some wearable long sleeves, shawl , scarf and hat to keep them warm, pouches and bag for their accessories.

Girlie’s Crocheted Christmas Gifts

I like the white version she made :

Girlie’s White Bolero as crocheted christmas gift

To these gals, thank you for joining and sharing your gifts! I salute you for actually taking the effort to handcraft your gifts.

Watch out for new contests next year! Have a happy and fantastic new year everyone!

Share the love and blessings

Love for yarns!

Few years back, I have known a lot of people through my craft that had graciously encouraged me to continue crocheting by sending me yarns even they are from overseas. Almost all my friends who have been outside the country would come home or would send a parcel for me with yarns of different colors and fiber content. Even though yarn stores were really out of their way, they were willing to be lost just so they could buy me a ball or two. And even some of my friends here in the Philippines, would go to Baguio for my sake.

I also met some few through my blog that unhesitatingly befriended me and sent me yarns as token of friendship though I have never met them in person.

These are the reasons why I, myself, am not hesitant to send a lot of yarns too, so that the feeling of excitement and gratitude would proliferate and would cause a continuous chain reaction, that they too would find in their hearts that it is really heartwarming to reach out and share.

With this, I would like to thank Gina, Cherry and Girlie, for giving me an opportunity to share what I have experienced and extend my gratitude to those people who have shown me kindness in the same way. May the yarns I have sent on your doorsteps have made your Christmas, a little bit happier than it already is.

To all of you, Merry Christmas!!!!

Big and Fat and Silver Crocheted Earrings

Background: I decided I am going to sell so that I can earn the money I need to purchase new yarns. This way, I can buy what I want without harming our budget.

Big and Fat and Silver – retails at P200 per pair

They are crocheted using a 100% Metallic Polyester yarn from Ice Yarns. I used kidney earring wires so that it will have a lock, hence it will lessen the probability that you will lose the crocheted earring

crocheted leaves – inspired from Irish Crochet’s Fern leaves

crocheted owl – original design by Ginantsilyo.com

Long, Tear Drop Earrings – Original Design & Concept by Ginantsilyo.com

Crocheted Peacock – Original Design & Concept by Ginantsilyo.com

Crocheted Pouty Fish – Original Design & Concept by Ginantsilyo.com

Crocheted Wheel Rollovers – inspired from Irish Crocheted Flowers

meow – crocheted cat – original design and concept by ginantsilyo.com

various flowers – inspired by 100 Flowers to Knit & Crochet, angel is original design and concept

I am so happy with the earrings that I want them to be boxed on special boxes, so I have to take out my cricut machine to create fabulous boxes:

elegantly boxed up!

I am also happy to say that I was able to sell everything. It is also nice that the buyer appreciates my craft Thank you Ms. Meikah! And I hope your recipients would be very happy to receive handcrafted gifts from Ginantsilyo!

Happy Customer! Happy Seller!

A company that dress up together, stays happier

Last Friday night was a fun experience for me and my colleagues. We found a chance to misbehave and just have fun. People went missing to finish costumes and the people left in the office did almost nothing but anticipate the coming party. Who would not be excited if it was a costume party? Everyone wanted to start the event as soon as possible to finally see everyone else costumes. The theme was United Nations Goes Bizarre. Everyone should represent a country and wear not-so-ordinary clothings.

I, for example, spent a number of nights crocheting. I would represent Ireland and I immediately thought of Irish crochet. I did spent nights learning Irish crochet, in vain, since I was not successful in creating an Irish Crochet clothing, but hey, crochet is still crochet so I am quite happy I was able to finish something in time for the Christmas Party.

Dandararan… Here’s the representative of United Nations:

Our HR generalist comes in with a scottish costume for Ireland:

Mr. Ireland

Our Branch Sys Admin comes with a funky jamaican get-up:

Mr. Jamaica

Ms. J. Gi – as the last viking princess of Scandinavia

Ms. Scandinavia

A very happy arab, he is!

Mr. Saudi Arabia

Queen Amidala pays a visit!

Ms. Mongolia

Whoa! The Irish Pirate Queen

Ms. Ireland

Ms. Palestine!

Ms. Palestine

The very artistic Roch – as Ms. Greece

Ms. Greece

Mr. Malaysia

Ms. Egypt

Three beauties from Ireland, India and Greece!

Ms. Ireland, Ms. India, Ms. Greece

Here comes alluring Ms. Africa!

Ms. Africa

Ms. Africa & Irish Crocheter

(note to self.. still finishing uploading)

Crocheted Bag Hack From Miu-Miu

I want to crochet a bag and I have been eyeing this bag (randomly found on google):

Miu Miu Crochet Bag – image courtesy of http://eudelpng.org/miu-miu-crochet-bag.html

Then last night, I found out that today is a holiday. It means I am not required to work (Though I work even though I am not required) This led me into crocheting to my heart’s content.
Come morning, I promised Id render some work on the afternoon (tentatively, after lunch). It was my husband who bath my kiddo because I was still hooking up:

Front Design

I am excited on how this will turn up so after lunch i still crocheted some more:

Back and Front

I am slave to my crochet hook. I cannot stop.

Close up Detail

I have some leather yarn (or cord) that I have been keeping for the longest time now, and finally I have some good use for it.

Almost done!

Look! It’s almost done now. the only reason why i stopped is because my hands are literally shaking. I just have to stop.z But I want to finish this. I will attach a plastic canvas into a cloth as lining to make a sturdy frame. I am planning to include this bag into a lot of stuffs I am planning to sell. I hope it will click.

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