Pronta by Maru Stephens

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Archive for September, 2010

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Pronta Coffee is featured on this beautiful Etsy Treasury today. This treasury have a lovely selection of chocolate & ivory colors matching so well together. That’s why I create Pronta Coffee with this combination of colors, it feels so light and warm. They are a great couple. I love it! Thank you BlackCreekEclectible! MOCHA & CREAM BY BLACKCREEKECLECTIBLE ON ETSY Rococo Petite – Handmade Cot… TickledPinkKni… $89.00 cafe con leche mendlbarr $98.00 dark wood and sterling silve… SilverMadeStud… $59.00 Coffee[...]

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Ohhh! How I love to make the flowers for each Pronta. Thats the part that I really enjoy! I remember when I started Pronta, didn’t come with the flower yet. And for me was like: ehhhww Okay! This need a partner! What can be? A Flower! How I make one? An then I started to give a shot making a flower, but I was getting frustrated because, since was my first time actually doing a fabric flower, wasn’t filling my[...]

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I got a new request from a shop in Luxembourg: Chez Lucy. This shop have selected and lovely accessories, from a beautiful jewelry to cute headbands. This shop also sells Pronta. I’m honor to be part of this wonderful collection of great picks. I met Lucia, the owner, right when I started Pronta in March. She request Pronta for Summer/Spring 2010 Collection. Make me feel so happy that somebody from another continent appreciate my work and also make an order[...]

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Been thinking about changing the style of my pictures. Even with a good camera, good light, good set up… that can’t be enough sometimes. Since I’m a graphic and web designer too (thanks god!) I know some Photoshop retouching techniques. I started figuring out a new (and more stunning) shots for my work. BUT still in the same scenario. I use the balcony of my house with the mannequin, and have trees and sky in the background. Its pretty cool,[...]

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Ive been doing some work on the Collection for this Fall 2010. And part of the collection is done. Again, I love the color palette for this fall, so I tried to apply that at the time to choose my colors. I use a lot of Mustard, Coral, Violet, Fuchsia, Pink and Plum. All theses colors mixed with the original fall colors like Chocolate Brown, Khaki, Beige, Orange , Moss Green and Gray. And this is the result! Voila! –[...]

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