(bracelet or necklace?) I made this to ware as a necklace
(bracelet or necklace?)

I made this to wear as a necklace but it works fine as a bracelet too.

(work in progress)

O D. perguntou-me se estava a ficar parecido com o sonho. Sim, está muito parecido.

(o tão desejado grés de Silves para o jardim)

(hoje fui à feira) Fui. Há tempo tempo que não ia.

(hoje fui à feira)

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Fui. Há tanto tempo que não ia. Não é frequente ter disponibilidade à segunda-feira e ainda por cima na quarta segunda-feira de cada mês. Enquanto passeava pela feira este poema bailava na minha cabeça:

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Saúdo todos os que me lerem,
Tirando-lhes o chapeu largo
Quando me vêem à minha porta
Mal a diligencia levanta no cimo do outeiro.
Saúdo-os e desejo-lhes sol,
E chuva, quando a chuva é precisa,
E que as suas casas tenham
Ao pé dúma janella aberta
Uma cadeira predilecta
Onde se sentem, lendo os meus versos.
E ao lerem os meus versos pensem
Que sou cousa natural -
Por exemplo, a arvore antiga
À sombra da qual creanças
Se sentavam com um baque, cansados de brincar,
E limpavam o suor da testa quente
Com a manga do bibe riscado.

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Creio no mundo como num malmequer,
Porque o vejo. Mas não penso nele
Porque pensar é não compreender...
O mundo não se fez para pensarmos nele
(Pensar é estar doente dos olhos)
Mas para olharmos para ele e estarmos de acordo...

(...)

(excerto d'O Guardador de Rebanhos de Alberto Caeiro)

É que este poema baila sempre na minha cabeça nestas situações, quando estou a olhar as pessoas, pessoas genuínas, sem máscaras ou pelo menos sem aquelas a que estou a habituada...

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As minhas compras na feira:

(alcofa de esparto, tradicional algarvia, originalmente usada na apanha de alfarrobas)

(labels and other little things)

Today I made new tags to match my new blog look. Spent part of the afternoon cutting these. Of all the labels I've already made, these are my favourite. I know this feeling won't last much... soon I'll be thinking of some details I would like to change...

Little things I found this week in the crafty world:
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:: this amazing doll house from sweet Vicki
:: completely new to me: beautiful crochet art made by Teresa
:: beautiful softies from Tania Ho; check out her new labels too
:: lovely soaps made by Lori
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Speaking of soaps, I'm a fan of Papa-Figo soaps. This are handmade soaps and are the result of a small family business. I use to buy Papa-Figo soaps in Alte (a beautiful small village in the Algarve) where this family has the sweetest little store. Last week I was surprised to find them also in Silves, in the a store by the Arade river. I brought these with me:

(blues, brooches and necklaces)

In case you haven't noticed I changed my template look. I'm in the mood for blues lately, I want to make blue jewelry, I want blue walls, blue clothes... so I made my blog blue. I've been wanting to make some changes for long, but I just couldn't figure how to make them. To tell you the true, I think a little html fairy guide through this, because I don't understand a thing about html, it's was pure luck. Lucky day I guess. About this new look I specially like the little bee on the sidebar and I'm pretty satisfied with the the new logo (on the right top) too.

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Here's a new brooch wich reminds me of a star fish:

And a new necklace:

(Notice that the necklace is made of pink, white and green materials, the background is still BLUE)

Last saturday was a fantastic day. We went to Ikea to buy the kitchen cabinets, a closet and lamps for our new house amog other little things. The fantastic thing about it was that Portugal was playing (football) with Iran that day and Ikea was making a discount to everyone who shopped during the game. We managed to pay all the stuff during the game and with the discount ticket we still got two of these and one of these.

(red friday)

I'm in love with Stephanie's pictures of her little birds.

(blue thursday)

It's more like grey thursday really. It's raining a lot. It's June! It's the Algarve!

(the box of delicious chocolates P. brought me from Switzerland, almost empty now)

(gray/black wednesday)

I missed White monday and Brown tuesday, but today I'm joining the Color Week (by Stephanie and Mav). I took this photograph very early in the morning , just before I left the house.

(i used Memorial do Convento - Baltasar and Blimunda in the english version - by José Saramago, as a background)

In case you are wondering what these grey things in the photo are, they are little pieces of carved rock from Odeceixe beach (my favourite beach, by the way). We went there two weeks ago and P. spent almost the whole afternoon carving them (lots of fun!).

It has been cloudy around here (it even rained last night), but a few rays of light were entering the kitchen through the window and created these shadows wich are perfect for grey/black theme.

When I finished shooting this I had fifteen minutes left, so I spent them photographing these new items:

(the brooch in the right with the white and red trim is made with a piece of tile from my under construction house, see more photos at Flickr)

And, finally, the finished book case, another item to include in my Finish What You Have list.

(more photos at Flickr)

(this and that)

P. took the camera with him to the trip so I

P. took the camera with him to the trip so I couldn't photograph the book case that I finished while he was gone (you can see it in progress in the last post). I also made a new green bag to help me go through my lonely weekend. P. arrived last night; I was missing him so much, so yesterday, there was no time to take photographs. Yes, last night it was all about chatting about Switerzland, seing the pictures he took, unpacking and receiving gifts. My dear hubby gave me a beautiful Swatch watch (can't find a link for it anywhere) and delicious swiss chocolates in the most lovely box, yummi! I'll show photos later.

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Because there's no post without photos, here are some of two brooches and a ring I made a while ago.

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I love this brown and white button that I used in this brooch and I think I works just fine with the bigger one. I also used another of these buttons to make this other brooch:

(this little ring was sent to Didine along with some others goodies)

to take this challenge and I'm having

(finish what you have)

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I decided to take this challenge and I'm having lots of fun! Great idea, Vicki! I had lots of embroideries with sea motifs I made many years ago (I can't tell how many, actually). These were meant to make placemats but now I was just not in to that anymore, so I thought I could end up with several items, all coordinating. These are the results so far: a bag, a pincushion and a pouch.

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I can't believe I made this bag; that would seem impossible some months ago. I'm really happy with the result.

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(inner pocket in the bag)

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(more photos here)

I'm now working on a book case. It's almost finished; just some details missing... Last night I made one for P. too (using more manly fabrics, of course). He's going on a business trip to Switzerland, so I thought it would be nice to make a book case to protect the books he's taking to read in the plain. I finished it very late last night so I don't have pictures yet.
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This Finish What You Have challenge is an excellent idea to get you to finish those forgotten projects. This is just the tip of the iceberg for me really; I have lots of unfinished projects. Will I be able to finish all of them? We will see... There's also a Flickr group to post post pictures of the finished items over here.