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Whisper in my ear...

Olá! Hoje está um daqueles dias que só apetece mesmo ficar em casa! Mesmo com esta mudança súbita de temperatura, não tenho vontade nenhuma de sair... Por isso, decidi organizar as minhas caixas de brincos e pulseiras (nem vos digo quantas são!...) e tirei algumas fotos, com 3 das cores de que mais gosto: cor-de-rosa, verde e dourado.

Ultimamente tenho tido alguma preguiça em usar brincos ou adereços, até porque sou alérgica e, por vezes, é mesmo difícil usar estas peças. Mas adoro e sempre que passo por lojas de bijuteria, não resisto a parar e olhar para aquelas montras...

E vocês? Costumam usar brincos e outros adereços? Preferem o ouro e a prata ou gostam de usar fantasia?



Hi everyone! Today is pouring rain around here and although the temperature is higher, I don't feel like going out at all! So I decided to organize my earrings and bracelets - I won't even tell you how many boxes I have!... I took some pictures, to show you some of them in 3 of my favourite colours: pink, green and gold.

Lately I've been kind of lazy so I haven't been using acessories, but also because I'm allergic, so sometimes it's really hard to wear them. But I love earrings, necklaces, rings and all that so I can't resist standing at the windows of jewelery stores...

And what about you? Do you usually wear earrings and stuff? Do you prefer real gold and silver ones or imitations are fine as well?


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Wooden cake plates

Estava eu aqui muito bem no meu fim-de-semana, no meio das berrarias e birras próprias das duas meninas que me acompanham, e quando tentei repousar os 5 minutos a que todas as mães têm direito lembrei-me de vos mostrar estes pratos de bolo que encontrei há pouco tempo e aos quais achei imensa piada! Muito trendy, já que uma das tendências que tenho visto em alguns casamentos é a utilização de troncos para fins decorativos, mas também apropriados a esta época natalícia, pois Natal que se preze tem um pinheiro - e os cake stands em madeira fazem-nos lembrar isso mesmo! Por isso, para uma decoração mais rústica e, certamente, diferente, deixo-vos hoje esta ideia. Espero que gostem!!

Vemo-nos aqui amanhã!



Credits: SundayHatch


Here I am enjoying my weekend, alone with my 2 kids as usual, and among all the screaming and crying, I got to take 5 minutes off - so well deserved! Today I'd like to share with you another kind of cake stands, so in vogue nowadays and also suitable for Christmas times. I love these wooden plates, they are so cute and refreshing! I think they would look lovely in a country type of decoration and they're totally Christmasy - they remind me of the Christmas tree! (well, the real one, in a vase, not the white plastic one that I have!).

Hope you like them and we'll see each ohter tomorrow!

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Little Biscuit House for Christmas

My daughter made this adorable little biscuit house at school and I thought it was such a lovely idea for a kids' Christmas activity or home-made gift that I'd share it here.

You can see that she has used Iced VoVos,  Hundreds and Thousands biscuits, various cream wafers and sponge fingers for the walls, roof and floor.  I'm sure that you could substitute any square or rectangular biscuits/cookies, either commercial or home-made.  

The chimney is made out of a licorice allsort cut on the diagonal and the bushes out front are spearmint leaves.

The 'glue' that binds the house together is a simple icing made out of icing (confectioner's) sugar and water.  The girls piped the icing on using piping bags made out of cones of baking paper with the corner snipped off.  An extra dusting of icing sugar made snow for the roof.

I had never seen a biscuit house like this before.  I love it when my kids teach me something new!

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Sweet Santa!!

Olá!! Fim-de-semana, mini-férias, que alegria!!

Espero que amanhã estes Pais Natal de açúcar fiquem lindamente nuns cupcakes de chocolate!... :-) Gostam destes naperons de papel antigos?


Hi everyone! Today is the beginning of the weekend and of a short vacation as well! I'm soooo happy!!

I hope these sugar Santa stand beautifully on some chocolate cupcakes that I'm trying tomorrow! Don't you just love these vintage doilies?

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Gifts That Make a Difference

Whoever thought up the idea of encouraging people to buy a goat or chicken or seeds on someone else's behalf as a Christmas gift had a stroke of genius.   People are helped, less unnecessary junk is purchased, and both giver and receiver get lots of warm, fuzzy feelings.

We'll be doing this for my sister-in-law's family this year and they'll be doing the same for us - although we've agreed to buy clutter-free presents such as movie tickets for the younger kids.

If you too would like to give to a charity this Christmas here are some to consider (some of these are Australian links):


If there are others you know of please leave a comment and I'll add them to the list.




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Sometimes

Às vezes, quando estou cansada - não só fisicamente, mas cansada, cansada de pensar e de gastar energias com o que não é importante - distraio-me a ver coisas bonitas. Gosto de ver coisas bonitas. Quaisquer que elas sejam: pessoas, flores, imagens, casas, tudo. Gosto de pormenores bonitos. E fotos bonitas. Relaxa-me. E faz-me esquecer de tanta coisa feia que anda por aí.

Hoje entretive-me a ver esta loja, pelo prazer que me dão as cores, pela apresentação, pela forma em que se tornam bonitas coisas tão simples como fitas, alfinetes e tecidos. Apetece-me aproveitar isto tudo para os embrulhos de Natal.




Sometimes I feel so tired - not just physically tired, but mentally tired as well, tired of thinking and spending my energies in useless things - that I distract myself by watching beautiful things. I love all things pretty: people, flowers, images, houses, everything. I like beautiful details. And photos. It relaxes me. Makes me forget about the ugly things in this world.

Today I enjoyed watching this store, the colors, the simple beauty of ribbon, trims and pearl pins. I want to have all of this for my Christmas gift wraps.

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Red ruby...

... tal como uma jóia. Adoro estes pratos para bolos. São da cor do Natal!

Não vejo a hora de ter a minha mesa de doces pronta!



... just like a jewel. My new cake-stands. In the colour of Christmas! 

Cant' wait to have my Christmas dessert table ready! 

 
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