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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Sitting on this chair...

This afternoon, I sat on this chair ( with a suitcase full of fabrics to be organized, yes, I´m lazy!) covered by this cute vintage design fabric that I love , love, love, from Goodness and I started looking around my new studio and found these four ramekins that I had bought some time ago, waiting for some transformation and tada! I´ve just remembered and old Handmade Zakka book my father had brought to me from Japan and made these pretty little ramekin pincushions.
It was fun to make them, so quick and easy and also I loved taking pictures of them, the sunlight that visited us into the studio through the window was so amazing!

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Easter Celebration Time

Hi everyone! How is it going, are you celebrating Easter? Well, I guess not in Japan right? Well, it´s okay, you have all those Spring flowers popping up in your cities, parks , streets...
I´ve just made this tiny rabbitt to my daughter and you can make this , too, it´s very easy and quick to make!! Look at this tutorial sent by Wee Wonderfuls and take a look at another fantastic tutorials she ´s made.
Have a nice day and a happy weekend!!!

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After school

Children love ART!!! And she had lots of fun making these masks, painting them and making Easter chocolate eggs at the English School. It began on Tuesday, they all prepared and made the chocolate decoration and today they wrapped and finished the carrot to hold the eggs.

Tomorrow we will eat codfish, I love the one my mom cooks, since I was a kid, the same taste, very salty but lots of potatoes and carrots in a soup!

Wishing you all a fantastic Easter celebration! And lots of chocolates to eat, oh My! what will it happen to my jeans????

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Don´t you just love this?

The morning sunlight is soft and I love watching the clothes been bathing by the sun... The breeze is so comforting , oh, I love Autumn...


Jaboticaba tree in front of Camila´s window, outside. Don´t they just look like snowflakes ? And suddenly they pop up becoming these little green sweet jaboticaba fruits! Pretty little moments that I admire in my life.

Erica is the name of this tiny beautiful flower. I love the name, I have a childhood friend named Erica who is delicate and beautiful , too!


Mother nature, always so perfect even in the simple things in the garden. It´s like heaven!


Old things remain everywhere around my house, they are filled by history, they have seen the rainy days and bright colored days since a long time ago...


Red, always red, I like metal objects painted in RED!


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A new beginning!

I´m sorry guys for all these days out of here, from writing, from taking photographs and so on and so forth... I´ve been very very busy moving my furniture, my sewing stuff and everything else to my new space. I mean, our new space because now we have three new spaces beside our home. One is Edu´s studying room, the other is Elephant´s Club named by Camila for her new art corner ( that´s in the kitchen) and my new sewing studio,yay!!! Almost ready!!!
So these are the pictures , before and after but the after will be changed a lot, I have to work to get the things on the right place, very handy and with good light for the nights I intend to work sewing.
I guess I need more drawers and shelves... for all my treasured fabrics!
But today I feel so lazy, after so many weeks of working , organizing, moving, I´m really tired...
But happy I am for all these new happenings in my life! So let´s start this week with pleasure , happiness and hope in our hearts and lives, ok? And I´ll slow down for my sanity...

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Don´t leave home without it!

This is my latest helping box I made to carry in the car, wherever we go, she has this handy things like toys, an Altoids box reused and inside I put some candies , some tissue paper box and under it, a toilet paper ( in case the tissue paper is over) , sunglasses and an empty juice box recycled and turned into a trash can.
All of them were put inside a cardboard box and it can be fastened by the seat belt. What do you think? This is an easy way to entertain kids and less dangerous for mom driving and giving thousand of things for them, give me this, give me that... She loved her own trash can!

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Weekend is over!

I´ve been so busy all these days, I´m sorry Blog readers ...
Many things are changing and one of them? My new Sewing Studio is almost ready!!! Yay!! It´s been painted, remodeled and I just have to organize myself to put all those sewing stuff into boxes and bring to the new space and some guys will have to carry all the furniture, storages, equipments and so on and so forth!
Well, and I had a little cold but I´m fine now, many vitamins and lots of tissue boxes !
Do you remember that my former neighbor had this Jaboticaba tree and she used to give Camila the fruits? She left the house ( the one I rented) and she gave THE TREE to Camila on her birthday as a present she should take care of and Camila was so happy with this treasure. Everyday she goes there and waters it, takes a look if there is any jaboticaba to pick and counts the ones that still are not good. Now there are lots of flowers, tiny little ones, so beautiful!
Today she ate this one that you see on the photo and it sounded delicious, big and sweet she said!
So , I hope you have a sweet week so sweet as this jaboticaba!

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Kids crafting afternoon

Thanks to the idea sent by Rosa from Tessitura Kids , we had a wonderful and funny Sunday afternoon!
We took many things from our Recycling Box, full of interesting material and these were the easiest ones to find out! Toilet paper rolls are the best!
Fabric stashes are all over our house so it was a good idea for I could clean up some of them!!
You won´t believe how kids get entertained by drawing the face, painting and creating these boys and girls and animals, it´s so much fun , for kids and adults too, why not? Creativity is in everyone´s mind...

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