Happy Sunday

Chocolate semi-sweet cake



Crab Cakes


Octopus in olive oil



Chili with meat & Coleslaw

I´ve just had a fabulous lunchtime with my brother and sister in law at their apartment where they prepared themselves a delicious, yummy looking American style lunch.

Assembled Chili, Coleslaw and Rice

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Celebration weekend

Surprise party!

These few days I´ve been busy just celebrating my birthday which was on Friday, 15th. Yep, one more birthday filled with joy, happiness , health , love and ... lots of food!

It started in the morning after getting a bunch of kisses from husband and daughter, I went to my English class and they made me a surprise party!!!! Oh, it was amazing how happy I was and they brought English tea set with a delicious strawberry cake! Thank you girls!!!!

And then back home, mom called me to have lunch at her house so , I headed right to my Mom´s and Dad was there too to celebrate my 39th birthday!!!! And for dessert: strawberry cake!!

Then in the afternoon Clara called me to a coffee break and we went to Mystere du Chocolat near our house, an elegant chocolat shop with a few tables and good coffee.

Time to pick Camila up at school, back home and Edu arrived early ( why was that? =o)) And we wanted to each Japanese traditional food at Musashi, a very small and cozy restaurant at Pinheiros. It was so good , we ate like pigs! And Camila ate lots of sashimi ( tuna fish).

And I went to sleep so happy and feeling everything good but old!!!

Oh, and THANK YOU for everyone that called me, e-mailed me , left messages on my cell phone while I was having class or driving, sent me cards by traditional mail... thank you , I love you !!

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My sacred corner

I have this tiny little corner at my house, it´s at the entrance of my room, a table with my dear violets ( the last one I got was from my daughter, from pre school, Mom´s Day gift) and on the table you see this beautiful wooden table lamp that was handmade by my grandfather and he gave it to me when I visited him in Japan a long time ago. He made bigger ones to his children ( my Dad and his sisters) and he did smaller ones like mine to his grandsons.
I go to this corner to feel his presence, to relax, to meditate looking at the flowers, it´s my sacred corner I wanted you to see.

Wishing you a day full of happiness!

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Sewing flowers

So our Autumn is not exactly what I expected, I confess... It´s been so hot but evenings are great, the chilly breeze is what I do enjoy! And then I HAVE to wear one of these that I´ve been making.
Actually I made 10 and they are already all sold out but, I have one for myself that I adore and it warms my neck!
I´m pretty inspired by Amy Karol , Soule Mama and some Japanese magazines with those fabulous photographs, thank God I don´t have to read anything!

How was Mother´s Day celebration? Mine was great, my little girl is so in love about writing that she wrote a cute card and made some art work to me, oh, I don´t know how much I love her, it´s such happiness that I can´t express. Being a Mom is the greatest gift I´ve ever had!

Hoping that the Autumn sunlight covers you with joy , have a peaceful week!

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Making books

Last night after dinner we had some great time together, Dad didn´t go to jeep meeting for he had to work at home and we stayed near him ( as company and noise makers!!!) and I played the teacher and Camila my little student.

We decided to make books! So great , lots of fun! Believe me, kids love making their own books.

We listened to The Very Hungry Caterpillar with Eric Carle reading the book, it´s a special edition I bought that has a CD. Then we went straight to the art room, Elephant Club, and I cut some papers, put 2 holes in each one to bind at the end of the book making ( inspired by Susan G. K, thank you Susan , your free projects and templates are the best!)

Book 1 - She wrote her name,each page has a letter of her name and some other words that she tried to write on with the initial.

Book 2 - A story about us and Manu, her friend.The title is PARQUE ( Park)

Book 3 - A book about her favorite things: colors, place, teacher, numbers...

And she went to sleep so happy and full of new ideas!

Have a wonderful Friday and weekend. We have to plan our Mother´s Day from now on...

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I´ve been working

I´ve been making some things for my house, for my little one but this is the last creation of mine.
It´s made to keep my birthday cards, a pen and envelopes and stickers, that´s all I need to write a sweet card to go with a gift for friends of mine, Camila´s friends, oh, how I love giving gifts!
So this is perfect sized and I loved this bird fabric, isn´t it lovely?

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Healthy food

I´ve bought these Eda Mame ( soy beans) at the farmer´s market in Registro city .I must tell you, we love eating these so much! Camila helped me to pick them off and I cut and today I´ll cook them. It´s so quick and easy and sooo delicious! And it´s green!

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Swap received!

Look what the postman has just brought to me !
They all came from Mary from Puerto Rico , an adorable blogger who made a swap with me! I´m so excited with all these fabulous fabrics she ´s sent and the cahiers with the lovely fabric sewn details and the hair pin to Camila.
Thank you so much , Mary!

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Sunday Scenes

A lonely bird watching the prairie ( and been watched...)


Bananas everywhere!


A wooden bridge, I love this!


Can you imagine the smell of these green leaves? Oh, so refreshing! I can feel that my soul is calm and relaxed!


Autumn scene


This is a good day for taking pictures, so I told my husband and after Camila went with her aunt Ive to her new house ( I guess my little one wants to take a bath in the new fabulous bathtub covered by all those bubbles, good smell and so on and so forth...) we went into our car and I could take these pictures to show you.
If you come by here, it´s surrounded by banana trees, wide rivers, different birds and lots of wonderful nature and today, the weather is so great, not so hot, not so cold, a little windy and sunny. I wish everyday was lile that!
And I wanted so much to see the buffalos I´ve seen another day but ... not today , sorry guys!
This is a very short post, so, enjoy the photographs and have a memorable Sunday!

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Just a few days off

Lica Cruz - Potter



Nilma Anchieta - art teacher and designer



Claudete Guitar - Art teacher and potter


Bia Camargo - Potter, educator , mosaic artist , studio owner.


Thank you for visiting , I am sorry for not posting for a long time but this week was really hard, I caught a cold ( not that pig thing, thank God!) plus I still had all the home chores, my daughter´s school which I am the driver , my English class, choir class, patchwork class, phew!
So I am far from my home, just trying to relax and get back to work for the next week where my friend Bia will open her house to the "Mother´s Day Event" with all these wonderful stuff I´m selling.

These last few days were very busy, I had so much work to do on the internet preparing things to sell on the Elo 7 Shop that´s now all set.
There are all my artist friends with lots of beautiful artwork to sell for the Mother´s Day, we created this title "Mulheres Impossíveis, Artes Possíveis" which means "Impossible Womand and their Possible Artwork" and I am responsible for the online sales and taking photographs which I used in the Shop. Please feel free to take a look, unfortunately the shop will allow us to sell only in our country. But maybe someday... we will sell internationally, wow!!!! What a dream!

So, people, I hope you have a wonderful time this weekend, it´s finally a little chilly down here, take care yourselves and we´ll meet the next time, right here!

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Gone fishing!

Look at these clouds, so beautiful...


Hey, look , my first fish!



THE BIG FISH!
And here it is, doesn´t it look like the clouds? but it´s sweet and it´s ... over!


New feelings of happiness I´ve seen on Camila´s eyes when she finally could catch little fishes at Maeda´s complex yesterday. We took my parents and they also had fun for the very beautiful weather, cool air that Dad needed and to see our little girl fishing and jumping and laughing out loud!
She took almost 16 and me? only 4, little ones... but it´s okay because these memories are the greatest, good food, Camila and her Dad playing together , no cell phones ringing, no computers, no games, just under the blue autumn sky, fresh breeze and photographs...

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Slow Food

We went to Porto Cubatão near Cananéia city and it was an amazing day, the weather was great and the restaurant serving Sea Food , I couldn´t ask for anything else!

The MENU:

. raw oyster with lemon ( don´t ask me to eat this!)
. clams
. grilled fish
. green salad
. seafood rizotto
. japanese rice
. fried shrimps
. pirão ( typical Brazilian fish broth)
. ice cream ( thousand of choices!!)

It felt like I was in heaven, this is my idea of heaven!

Have a nice day!


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With a little time

This lovely tape , it came from Japan, from my dearest friend Sweet bug!


I´ve been using it a lot! Isn´t it the cutest thing, ever?


Supplies, supplies...


Haberdashery, I love this word!


I´ve been trying to sew at least twice a week which has been impossible for the thousands of chores and work I had these days, phew, I wish I had more time for it!!
Today I had this little time , from 3 to 5 PM and I could sit , breath and make some aprons and other stuff. Oh, how I love the sound of the sewing machine, my new rotary cutter all floral and to listening to good music!
I wish you all have a great weekend and please, try to take some time just for you, will ya?

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Since 1929!

That´s right, this very simple restaurant is one of our favorite in town , it´s in the center of São Paulo city but, boy, the neighborhood is a little bit scary, creepy people... but the food is absolutely fantastic!! It used to be called Filet do Moraes but now I see they changed to Rei do Filet and they have this traditional meat with garlic and brocoli but first you should try the codfish appetizer, yummy, so good! This one we asked served two people and it was 260 grs. of delicious meat!

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Sacred mornings

Papaya!


Bread and Butter, melting... yummy!


Minas cheese






I think that breakfast is sacred for you can change your humour by eating something very delicious like papaya that I do eat every day, every morning and when I don´t have it, it sounds that something is missing.

I love cheese, especially these ones called queijo de Minas ( Minas Gerais is a state down in Brazil where I was born) and it´s light, good for diets! I´m always on diet!

When I feel very hungry then I cook some pancakes just to use Maple Syrup , this one was bought in Maine, oh, I love this one! It´s so tasty and it makes the difference in any pancake! Camila loves , too! And the smell of it, it´s de-li-cious!

So today´s post was about food! I´m getting hungry now, it´s tea time so excuse me, I´m heading straight to the kitchen! Oh, I forgot, I´m on diet...

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