Happy 6 Months!

Hi everyone!
Last week little César completed 6 months and we celebrated with a small party at home, only the four of us.
I made some cupcakes using Sinhana´s pretty cupcake set that decorated our dinner table so wonderfully!

Some fingerfood...


Then I cooked some codfish and Camila made a little gift for her brother: a colorful mobile made with small bottle caps to hang on his crib.


And something from the nature to decorate our dinner table


And when Dad got back home we started our celebration and of course, baby had his delicious milk, on the table!



Vanessa sent me this beautiful candle holder made by her husband with recycled bin , isn´t it pretty?
Happy 6 months, baby César, we love you so so so so so much!!!
Thank you for celebrating with us and have a wonderful week, filled with lots of joy and inspiration.

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Crafty, messy!

This week I could finally finish some commission and I just have to send them , they are all
packed and ready to go!
And after this work at my studio, all I can see around me is a huge mess, I am so messy that I can´t believe my eyes!!
My little Miffy looks at all this horrible scene!


I just can´t show you the floor,haha!

But I ´ve got something to show you that it´s so great and useful when you don´t want to use buttons . Because I love buttons and I love keeping them in a cute storage bins =))

So here it is, directly from Japan, I brought some last year and it´s a velcro with a tape on the back and you just have to iron it ( no sewing needed!), isn´t it great?

I used and tested it for this bib I made for my little baby, it´s so fast and easy to attach that I am in love with it!!! And after washing, it´s still very clean and "glued", 100% approved!

Today we´re going out to send my commission and then we have all the weekend to spend doing whatever we want to, isnt´that exciting?

What are your plans for this weekend?

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{ this moment }

A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

If you're inspired to do the same, leave a link to your 'moment' in the comments for all to find and see.

Inspired by Soule Mama

I love Wednesdays because...

this is the day I can leave my baby at my Mom´s for about an hour and I can go to this great fruits and vegetables market where we call here "Sacolão" and it´s close to my mom´s house.
There are delightful colored fruits, delicious fresh vegetables and these are some of them I buy every week .

Asparagus ... don´t you just love them? Yumm... If you have some great recipe please let me know!

Cooking some Carrot Soup for supper , ideal for this winter season , maybe I´ll serve with some bread, how about that?

And this is the book I am in love with right now, I am not sure how it´s called in English but I think it´s Monet´s Table, actually I wanted another one but since I found this translated to Portuguese, I thought to myself, why not?

So, I just can tell that there are amazing photographs, stories and recipes...

As we were having a dinner with Monet...


I hope you enjoy cooking as much as I do, with or without Monet´s help! Have a great week filled with joy and happiness.

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Weekending

It´s raining again after a long time of sunny days and although I don´t like it , it feels we needed this fresh , clean air .
Walking around our home, Camila and her dad found out these wild blackberries, hidden in the woods, what a treasure! We don´t have to go far away to enjoy the simple things in life and it´s a fabulous thing to see the beauty in the baby´s eyes, too...

And we stayed home all the Saturday afternoon playing games, listening to the music , talking silly things , drinking some tea ...

Camila played with her wooden blocks drawing on the paper her own town and then constructing with the blocks on it and she really loves playing with them! And of course, everytime she is observed by her little brother.



I do love our afternoons at home...
And you, what have you done in your weekend afternoon?

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How about pink and blue?

This cute tiny little bag came out of my sewing studio after my daughter brought some shells and seeds from the beach last weekend and she asked me if I could make something that could keep them safe from baby hands and dust.
I´ve made these for her some years ago and I didn´t realize how fun and easy it was! So in a few minutes I made this one , I wouldn´t have enough time ( baby´s nap, you never know when he will wake up!) so I wrote down on a piece of fabric the name of the beach and date when she picked up the shells with a permanent pen and stitched its fabric on the bag .
She will be surprised today when she comes back from school!

I guess I chose this fabric for the many things pink and blue that I am surrounded of..

Flowers and...

oh, and these cute little baby toes!!!

Thanks for stopping by!I am so glad that people take the time to read my blog and also more touched when you take your precious time to leave a comment, full of kindness and I just want to say THANK YOU for that!!

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Sometimes, away from my laundry pile...

Birds are everywhere around my house, these were blue but I couldn´t get closer...


New colors decorate my garden and sometimes it feels like we´re entering Spring

Nature : : so beautiful

And now inside our house: :

A small sculpture my girl made at her aunt´s pottery studio , the little canvas was painted some weeks ago and she brought from the beach where some native indians were making these tiny wooden animals, so cute!

This Dragonfly is sooo beautiful , I love it! ( actually it´s Camila´s) .


Last Sunday Camila picked some shells and stones and seeds at the beach, more nature inside our home!

Wishing you all lots of joy and love for this coming weekend!

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For you, with love

Delicious fruits: bananas and avocados on the kitchen table

oranges and lemon, too ...


and some flower to brighten my mornings..

And outside some flowers that welcome our visitors...

playing outside makes this little girl happy observed by her little baby brother



meanwhile... he thinks about this amazing life...



and we wish you a lovely day, too!!

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Me and my Dad

My Dad lives in Japan and I always think how amazing it is to have all the technology to keep us connected so close using Skype or e-mails. I remember 20 years ago, it was so expensive to talk to someone living so far and when we spoke on the telephone we could listen our own voice and that was so boring... Nowadays I can talk to my Dad as he was on the same town, it´s so loud and clear !Amazing!!

We talk sometimes and he sends me images , photographs from there and I´d like to share one of them with you.

The one above is at my house and sometimes this cute little squirrel appears right in front of me when he gets down from the tree and the next photo is from my Dad and I love this one because of the Mt.Fuji which I think it ´s so beautiful . The clear water from the river and the blue sky is something I miss from his hometown. And I miss him too but it´s always so great to hear his voice on the phone.
Tomorrow my daily routine will change, my daughter´s going back to school , her piano lessons begins and I am pretty excited to pick her up at school again after a long time staying home.

Sending you lots of love and welcoming August!

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Holiday

It´s winter but we are so lucky that the sun is warm and we can spend these holidays under the blue sky and some lovely moments just the three of us.


Some cookies to warm up our afternoon...

In the morning, inside home:
Baby C is discovering new things to play with: his own hands!

It´s been such a wonderful experience and lots of learning to spend the day with a baby and a 7 year old girl. They can´t play together so, sometimes there are some difficulties that I must deal with but anyway my days have been very exciting!

Wishing you a lovely weekend and lots of joy to all of you!!

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He & She

It´s been a long time that I don´t come here to share with you my days but I can tell you , it´s been quite a busy time down here!

Our little girl has become a big sister and she has been very patient with her little brother who doesn´t know how to communicate but crying . We are learning this new language and so is she! For two months she acted as an adult but suddenly she couldn´t stand it anymore and she cried a lot and she expressed her true feelings about this new boy who is taking a lot of her Mom´s time. And I really miss my moments with her and only with her... And I wonder how will I manage this from now on...


But most of the time she is like this, very happy, full of joy and always playing and running and doing something around our home and I love looking at her with my little one in my arms.


I wish one day she will understand how much I love them both... I really do!!

Thank you for your visit , I wish you all a very joyful day!!!

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