Guess what...

...I am learning to do!

Tomorrow, maybe, I'll tell you everything about it.
Ah, and they are different, believe me...

Nostalgia...

In the Portuguese version I was talking about the Portuguese Music of the Eighties... Far better than that from abroad...
If you have the chance try to find out more about :






Rui Veloso








Jorge Palma








GNR - Grupo Novo Rock









Xutos & Pontapés







Lena D'Água




Tell me what you think about it... And then I'll give you some more names!

Magazine

Another post about magazines...
As I said before I'm not translating what I wrote in the portuguese version because you probably don't even have these magazines in your country...
But if you do happen to want any information about them, be free to ask in the comments or by e-mail. I'll be glad to tell you more about my craft magazines!

I just found out...

...that my kitten loooooves condensed milk!

I keep on...

...doing felt keyrings, but one of these days I felt like using a different material and this was the result!

Farruca

Isn't she gorgeous?

Swap with Rachel

I sent her this set and some things really Portuguese. You can see all at her blog Tigerluxe! And she sent me all this! So many, many stickers... A little toy bear and gummy bears! Down below I describe the other things...

I must confess I was the one who proposed the swap because I love the dolls she does, the kokeshi Girls. After the first time I saw them at Rachel's blog, I did a Google research and I found out that they are from Japan... They look like Plymobil's dolls!

May I introduce you Suki and Gueisha... And I had asked for only one! Gueisha was painted specially for me, with my favourite colours, and it brought a fan with her! Awsome details! They came wrapped in handmade paper and sealed with butterfly stickers (How did she guess that I lobe butterflies?). This came inside a cloth bag with their names and a kind of a Japanese symbol stamped on it. Just beautiful! One of the bags even had a heart charm with Tigerluxe's symbol attached to it!

And the surprise I loved the most because it's tiny but really beautiful! It's a cell phone pendant. She hadn't a name so I called her Catarina. She reminds me of the women in Alentejo (a region in the south of Portugal) who went to work in the fields... And Catarina Eufémia was a Portuguese women from Alentejo who fought for freedom... Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful...And a letter written in a very cute paper. That's it, a very special swapl! Thank you, Rachel!

Swapping Materials

This is a new group at Flickr to which I joined. It's wonderful cause we can swap materials. Here where I live is very difficult to find some and those I can find are sometimes really expensive!

As I had too much rose felt I decided to swap some with:


< Filipa. I swapped some felt and some pencils for all these things you can see in the photo. Filipa was very generous, and I specially liked the very small pouch containing the pearls. It's the smallest thing but it's so cute!

< some more felt swapped for buttons with Rosa Velho, they will be very useful for my keyrings...

< with Anita Katita. Hummm, she looks very nice! She sent me a huge quantity of ribbons and cords and wool which will be wonderful for my keyrings and postcards :). And she also sent me a very cool necklace... So many things!

< with Contas e Cores. She had these magnificent mother-of-pearl beds for trade. I wasn't able to resist them! I also sent her some beads, since she's into jewelry.

< and with Fflloorr I traded one of my keyrings for some amazing serviettes! I guess these are some of the nicest I ever seen... Some of them are even all different! I'm going to do some wonderful boxes... I'm going to have some trouble cutting them though... Here they are.

And she also sent me some gifts, some sequins and tubes! what about the envelope?!...

Finally, some time ago I had arranged a serviette swap with Flower_Power but they never get here. I thought they got lost, but no, they arrived! Here they are along with a postcard and a gift (sticker bugs!):

Thank you all!