When you travel to Peru, be sure that you will return to your country with a textile piece made with alpaca fiber. Its natural fiber is soft, hypoallergenic, and is also a durable material, unlike other fibers. Perfect for keeping you warm during the coldest seasons of the year and as fabrics to decorate your home because of the texture of…
We are so close to Halloween, and you still don’t have the wreath for the door of your house? Terrific wreaths, perfect for that night of October 31, are handcrafted by creatives on the Etsy platform. Terrifying or cute, but very ingenious, choose your favorite.
Being born in Lima (Peru) didn’t allow me to appreciate every season of the year in all its splendor. Now that I live in Denmark, I enjoy and can see the beauty of each one of them. Fall is a special season for all its range of colors that slowly invite you to winter. Here are my favorites for this…
This post is very special since it is dedicated to the shop that my mom has reopened on the Etsy platform (La casa de Freja). As I told you before, in September I traveled to Peru for a few days and together with my mother we traveled to Cusco to visit artisan communities. So along with them and appreciating how…
In this blog, we love every handmade product even more if it has a tradition. In today’s world, with new technologies, we have so much within our reach with just one click from a web page. In this way, traveling to have world handicrafts at home is unnecessary. Here is a list of subscription boxes for handmade lovers and global…
I wanted to show you how our dining room was decorated with the new table runner I brought from Peru. This beautiful table runner is handmade with 100% alpaca wool dyed naturally by artisans in Chinchero, a district of Cusco. I love the colors, but overall the design and iconography of Chinchero (Cusco) are represented on it. Now we are ready…
It’s been ten years since I last visited Cusco, and for me, it is the best city to recharge energy. With its beautiful blue sky (if it is not rainy season, of course) and the kindness of its people, my mom, Thiago, and I enjoyed those four days. It was the 7th time I had visited this beautiful city, and…
In most of the decorations of global or bohemian style, a gallery wall is usually highlighted. This wall can be decorated with paintings of different formats and designs, mirrors, ceramics, or as the title of this post, wicker baskets. There is a variety of handmade wicker baskets. But today, I want to show you these baskets woven by the Ba Tonga people…
After a few years, I traveled to my dear country Peru with my little Thiago to visit the family and Cusco with my mother. During those four days in Cusco, we learned more about our culture and its traditional fabrics at the Apu Antasaqa Artisanal Association. This association is located in the district of Chinchero in the province of Urubamba, which is…
If you are an art lover, surely you have paintings or pictures decorating one of the walls of your house. Here I want to give you tips to highlight them through proper lighting. Illuminating paintings, photography, and illustrations First of all, it is very different to illuminate a painting than an illustration or photograph within a glass photo frame. Paintings.…