3 years of joy

A querida Conchinha fez 3 anos - e teve uma festinha pela primeira vez. Ficou doente, por isso  terminámos o nosso dia no médico. Mas ela ficou feliz e isso é o mais importante!

Aqui ficam algumas fotos, de uma festa pequenina para uma menina pequenina, em tons lilás e amarelo, a chamar a Primavera...

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My darling little onen turned 3 - and she had a birthday party for the first time! She got sick that day, so we ended up at the hospital. But she's fine now and was happy all day long!

Here are some photos of our homey little party, in lavender and yellow, calling for Spring...

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Party colours*

Cores de festa. Das minhas cores favoritas... Vamos lá a ver o que é que sai daqui! :)

Party colours. In some of my favourite tones. Let's see what will be the end result... :)

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Easter colours

Este fim-de-semana tenho algumas coisas para vos mostrar e espero que nos próximos tenha ainda mais. Ainda estou em negociações para a loja online e tratar de tudo sozinha complica sempre um pouco - mas, haja vontade! :)

Uma das coisas que espero que encontrem na loja são alguns artigos de decoração que poderão usar em festas, principalmente para as mesas. Por isso, e porque já ando com o aniversário dos 2 anos da Conchinha na cabeça, vou-vos mostrar algumas coisas dentro do género que espero conseguir pôr à venda. Como a Concha faz anos no final de Março, já próximo da Páscoa, ando a treinar cores e padrões para a mesa dela, que será simples e pequenina, tal como a minha bebé. E como uma mesa passa de bonita a maravilhosa com os doces da Francisca da Cupcake, nada como vos mostrar estas maravilhas que lhe pedi para fazer e que embelezam na perfeição uns pratos com linhas muito próximas de alguns que planeio ter na loja.

Espero que gostem! {By the way, adoro cameos!}

This weekend I'm hoping to show you a couple of new things, and I hope to show you even more in the next weeks. I'm still dealing with suppliers for the new shop and having the whole thing done by myself isn't very easy - but I'm happy with it, so I'll manage to do it somehow! :)

One of the things that I'm planning to have on the webshop are decoration objects that you can use in your parties too, especially on the tables. Because of that, and also because I'm already brainstorming with Conchinha's upcoming 2nd anniversary, I'm showing you some things on the lines of what I'm planning to sell. As Concha's birthday is close to Easter, I've practising with colours and patterns, thinking of a small and simple sweet table, just like my baby is. And you know that a table turns from pretty into amazing with Francisca's beautiful sweets (Cupcake), so I asked her to make me these beautiful Easter eggs cookies, that enhance the plates prettiness just the way I imagined they would!

I hope you like it! :)

{By the way, I love cameos!}

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Mixed prints

Já ando a pensar nisto há bastante tempo, mas não tenho conseguido fazê-lo. Os meus fins-de-semana são maioritariamente passados sozinha com as miúdas e, entre trabalhos-de-casa e birras, mal consigo ter tempo para tirar fotografias e terminar algumas das coisas que planeio fazer. Esta é uma delas: pendurar mais algumas imagens na parede do quarto das meninas.

Gosto destas impressões botânicas, algumas delas são páginas de livros antigos. E acho que coordenam lindamente com os papeis-de-parede dos anos 60 e 70, precisamente porque, à primeira vista, não faria sentido... Depois de ver esta ideia no Fjeldborg, vou colar as imagens por cima de um rectângulo de papel-de-parede e pendurá-las depois na parede, que é branca. Parece-vos bem? :)

I've been thinking about this for quite some time now. But I spend the majority of the weekends alone with the two kids, so among homework and tantrums, I can hardly manage to take some photos and finish a couple of projects that I keep in mind. This was one of those little projects: hang a few more images in the girls' bedroom.

I like these botanical prints, some of them are pages of old books. And I think they match the vintage wallpaper perfectly, so after I saw this idea at Fjeldborg, I decided to glue them on top of a rectangular piece of old wallpaper and hang them on the white wall. I like the fact that the images and the wallpaper are from different ages, because it makes no sense at first... that's precisely what I like about this. Wouldn't you agree? :)

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Peta Wrap

It had been a long and tiring day, plus i was unwell, sniffling away to glory. Towards evening, i could hear my tummy rumble as i was heading back home.. Took a small detour towards Anna nagar, knowing i would find something interesting to bite into and voila, saw the vibrant yellow coloured PetaWrap booth.stall[call it whatever you wish] and instantly pulled over and grabbed a channa wrap.. its my favourite wrap and it was
divine!!

The guy at the counter took less than 5mins to whip me up the wrap, and it was neatly wrapped in a tissue...
They had quite a few options, and i noticed the wrap came in Methi thepla kinda chappati, which added to the flavour.

Only a few days earlier, i savoured a Channa wrap outside AVM Sound Zone after a brief stopover to check out the DVD/CD sale... 


 Hot, yummy, filled with flavour and quite filling as well... Perfect!! This is the 2nd or 3rd or 4th time that Peta wrap has come to my rescue!! :)

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