2012: 12 months, 12 photos.

January _ Winter beach     February _ Colours at dusk

March _ Sagrada Família     April _ GR-92

May _ King's Cup Final     June _ Final University Project

July _ Trip to Prague     August _ Enjoying summer evenings

September _ Trekking     October _ My 25th birthday party

November _ Trip to Belgium     December _ Enjoying Xmas time

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I (L) Roxy.

I've always loved Roxy. Since I was 10 or 11 years old I've had clothes of this brand (and many other brands like them) and my friends and family relate me with these brands (as so, I always get presents I love!).

I really like the philosphy about these people and I love the good vibrations they give you. So, to cheer up my laptop I've always put their wallpapers.

This was one of the first ones I put, a few years ago, and I still love it! I really like this wide stripe in magenta.

This past year I put this one below, and everytime I see it (every day!) I think of my final project, as I had it during the whole "process". It conveys tranquility to me, and gets me a really good mood.

And today I've changed it to this one, as winter is coming and I wanted a renovated background.

I really like some of the ones they haver right now online to download, they're always so cheerful :)

They're all available here and here.

All images by Roxy.

DIY: Advent calendar and Xmas tree (2 in 1).

For this year's advent calendar I wanted a "2 in 1" sort of thing, as J. didn't have any Christmas decoration (and he wasn't going to buy anything). So, I thought that I had to make a calendar that could be displayed during the holidays as well, and I wanted it as minimal as possible, in order to fit in with the whole living space.

I knew I wanted something inexpensive, maybe cardboard or paper, nothing fancy; and the most important thing, it had to be foldable as I had to carry it. I wanted to make something like in 2D that could, maybe, be hung up.

I started my research and found the perfect inspiration in this amazing blog called Weekday Carnival. I, obviously, adapted the idea to what I already had in mind but it almost had everything I was looking for: a flat surface and ornamentation.

I chose a colour scheme: black&white texture images and different red plaids. I printed them on white cardboard, put the numbers on the other side and then I cut them with my circle cutter.

To make the tree I used a large sheet of tracing paper cut it as a triangle and attached it to the wall with the transparent washi tape with black dots, and finally I put the circles on the tree with the same washi tape. I love that it seems there is no tree surface apart from the lines, and  I can have the advantage of not having to attach each circle directly to the wall.

Now, they only need to be turned around to show the texture and become a beautiful Xmas tree!

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Sneak peek: my studio.

Today, in one of the classes of the postgraduate course in interior design that I'm taking, we were talking about changing furniture and objects in our house, just to make it feel different and renovated. This made me think about my home studio, where I work and pass most of the day and that I recently changed.

When I finished my degree, this July, I completely redesigned my studio. For years, this room has been the place where my sister and I played and did our homework. This past course it's been almost my "home", as I was there like 16 hours a day working non-stop to finish my final project on time. It got super messy and I got plans, papers and 3d models all over the place.

So, when I finished cleaning it up, I thought I had to change it entirely because this was going to be my studio for the next few (maybe more) months. Of course, I only had a little budget so I sticked to what I already had: my beloved yellow sofa (perfect for reading), my precious wooden table and blue Fritz Hansen chair, the Metro shelving systems (the narrow and wide ones, and a little one with wheels) and the rug.

I changed the position of the table and sofa, to get a cozy little space to relax by the gorgeous and enormous window; I put the table next to one of the shelves, and I used the rug to establish the "virtual space" of the area.

I brought back home all my architecture and design books and I displayed them on the shelf. I love how they look all together. I put the plotter on the lower shelf so when the paper comes out it doesn't fall over.

It was time to visit Ikea. I bought things I wanted to get to decorate and to make it feel all united. I bought this white Malm table to put it between the window and the sofa, because I wanted a place for plants, candles, frames... that it was not to noticeable and could easily stick to the room.

I also got two work lamps, one for reading, the other one for my studio table; and some accessories as the magnetic board, round magnets, stainless steel containers, the wastepaper basket, two pen cups and a letter tray. On the wide shelf, I organised all my notes and papers from college in these white magazine files and all my craft tools and other stuff in the black boxes at the top.

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Customized.

Wrapping my sister's birthday presents.

25 red balloons.

On Saturday I celebrated my 25th birthday with my friends. I had been preparing the party as I wanted to make that day special. It's been a pretty intense year for me and I wanted to make something different from every year. I wanted to focus on the idea of wishes becoming true, as this year I've achieved one: being an architect.

As I'm not working right now, I had plenty of time to think of a party, and I started by choosing a theme: red balloons. So, with that being said, I bought an hellium gas cylinder and 30 red balloons.

I designed the invitation myself (in red, of course) and a logo to help people identify the whole thing. A friend of mine kindly let me her house to throw the party, and I also designed the map to help people get there.

Everything in the party was red or white (dishes, cups, cutlery, napkins...) and everyone brought something to eat. It was so perfect, I loved it! I really enjoyed staying there with all of them :)

After eating lunch I told my friends I wanted them to think of a wish and write it down on a paper that I had also designed for the occasion. They were red too, and they had a little hole to attach it to the ribbon holding the balloon.

We went outdoors, we counted to three and we let our wishes go away directly up to the sky. It was a magical moment for me, I really loved seeing all those red spots getting far and far away with our dreams to be accomplished.

It truly was a perfect birthday party thanks to them!

I got some presents and also two cute booklets: one with pictures of different situations we've lived together and the other one with 25 things I have to do in my life! (They do know I really like magenta!).

BEST. BIRTHDAY. EVER!

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Baking my 25!

Tomorrow I'll be 25 years old! And, as I'm having a birthday party with my friends, I've baked these shortbreads.

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Last week through Instagram.

Tuesday was my first day to the beach this year! We went to Rostella beach, a little jewel :)

Wednesday off, celebrating that I'm already an architect, with my family.

Thursday beach day in Palamós, at the Castell beach, a sandy gorgeous beach. In the afternoon we went to Sant Hilari Sacalm, as we got to sleep in a treehouse! It was an awesome experience, and I highly recommend it. There was neither running water nor electricity! We had dinner up there on the cabin, and they served our food through a basket attached to a pulley! A brilliant dinner beneath the starry sky and some candles.

On Saturday, a little bit more of beach, and then I went to Platja d'Aro because two of my friends were celebrating their 25th birthday! It was a funny and loooong night with my girl friends :)

Right now I'm packing! We're off to Prague tomorrow morning! I love holidays!

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Back again!

Finally, I'm back!

Yesterday it was a long day, full of nerves, stress and anxiety, but I received very good news for me! My life as a student has come to an end and I'm able to say that I'm an architect!

I'm so happy to reach the end of this long path and start new projects.

Thanks to everyone who has supported and helped me in this very long and hard way, thank you so much!

I'm not turning the computer on for some days!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND HAPPY SUMMER!

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I won't be here for the next 2 months due to a lot of work that has to be done in a short time. I'll be having lots of stressful days, sleepless nights... and hopefully I'll come back as an architect. 

See you in summer!

P.S. I've also left the 365 project for a while. But I'll finish it as soon as I'm able to do it again!

Happy sweet birthday! (I)

Today is the first birthday of this little blog of mine!

One year ago I started Muffins in my backpack as a little "page" for me to write about the stuff I really love. I've known nice people with great blogs and I've found so many awesome things that I've really liked to share.

I hope this is the first of many good years full of great experiences.
Thanks for everything :)


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Third of the dozen!

It's been an incredibly tough month to stick with this project. I've been tempted to give up with that several times, but luckily didn't.

I haven't been so creative, I only thought of trying to finish the month with the 31 pictures, because I had missed lots of days in between that had to be shot.

So far, I've completed the first quarter of the whole project!

Here you have the pictures of March. Hope to be better in April!

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Brilliant Gaudí.

Yesterday we visited la Sagrada Familia, by Gaudí. So many years living in Barcelona and hadn't visited yet! It was so beautiful, we also went up to the towers and had great views of the city.

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