<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361</id><updated>2012-01-18T09:21:45.452-05:00</updated><category term='Saw-Toothed Edging Quilted Pillow; Note Book Cover'/><category term='felt pouch'/><category term='Norton show'/><category term='softies'/><category term='tribute'/><category term='raggedy quilting'/><category term='fabric quilted pouch'/><category term='Washington DC trip'/><category term='estórias'/><category term='Upside Down House'/><category term='hexagons'/><category term='summer'/><category term='job'/><category term='Cod Fish'/><category term='Shrimp Turnovers (aka Rissois de Camarao)'/><category term='candy 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jars'/><category term='hats'/><category term='Reflexions'/><category term='acorda a alentejana'/><category term='snow'/><category term='cards'/><category term='Sweet fried rings'/><category term='yo-yo doll'/><category term='flower hair pins'/><category term='crochet beanie'/><category term='finger puppets'/><title type='text'>Helenismos</title><subtitle type='html'>While sharing 
some of the things 
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also 
some stories, laughs, 
tears 
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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;A cat in a bag...? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_V8ikUF3tbc/Twhu2ckygjI/AAAAAAAAHYg/3b_KBdfVAX0/s1600/DSCN2054.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="112" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_V8ikUF3tbc/Twhu2ckygjI/AAAAAAAAHYg/3b_KBdfVAX0/s200/DSCN2054.JPG" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;No, not really... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;What I'm sharing with you today &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;is a little bit of my (pictorial) story with my cat... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Most of all, it's about my tribute to my little fury friend, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;who (literally) helped mend my broken heart &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and has been my emotional support and best companion since&amp;nbsp;J's death.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Um gato dentro do  saco...?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Não, não  verdadeiramente...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;O que eu gostaria de partilhar hoje convosco &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;é  um pouco da minha história (pictografica) com a minha gata... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;Acima de tudo, é  um tributo à minha amiga peludinha, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;que (literalmente) ajudou a remendar o meu  coração &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;e tem sido o meu suporte emocional e a melhor companheira desde a morte  do J.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Don't get me wrong. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;My family and my friends have been&amp;nbsp;really supportive &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;for all those tremendous years of J's illness and passing, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;not to mention all the really bad situations &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I had to endure here along that path. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Do you know the saying that 's in moments of tragedy you really get to know who's really your friend...?, well, it is absolutely true. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Many years of total physical and emotional solitude, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;with not much sympathy or help around, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I had to struggle to keep my sanity. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Não interpretem  erradamente. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;A minha família e os meus amigos têm-me apoiado muito &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;durante os  anos terríveis da doença do J e da sua morte, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;já para não falar de todas as  horríveis situações que aqui tive de enfrentar &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;completamente sózinha durante  esse percurso. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Conhecem o ditado que diz que é nos momentos de tragédia &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;que se  ficam a conhecer os verdadeiros amigos...?, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;pois é absolutamente verdadeiro.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Foram muitos anos de completa solidão física e emocional, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e sem muito simpatia  ou ajuda por perto tive de me esforçar para manter a sanidade.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;One of this blog purpose has been helping me &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;overcoming&amp;nbsp;all those not so good circumstances of my life. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I think Pooh-Pooh has the same purpose &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6fmIYJOQYQQ/TwhvHlDhqnI/AAAAAAAAHYo/Vfu1jp8_ljo/s1600/DSCN2156.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="112" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6fmIYJOQYQQ/TwhvHlDhqnI/AAAAAAAAHYo/Vfu1jp8_ljo/s200/DSCN2156.JPG" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;nd I'm always amazed with her sense of loyalty, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;dedication and friendship. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Um dos objectivos  deste blog t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;em sido ajudar-me &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;a ultrapassar todas essas menos boas  circunstâncias da minha vida.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;Acho que a Pooh-Pooh tem o mesmo objectivo, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;e  fico pasmada com o seu sentido de lealdade, dedicação e amizade.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Yeah, I'm talking about Pooh-Pooh the cat... I don't think she would be more of a friend even if she was a dog.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;That's why this blog post is dedicated to her. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;To honour my friend pet and to show off the little brat she is, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I made her a scrapbook, which I'm sharing with you all. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Sim, estou a falar  da Pooh-Pooh, a gata... não acho que ela poderia ser mais amiga &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;mesmo que fosse  um cão. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;É por isso que este post lhe é dedicado. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Para honrar a minha amiga gata  e mostar como ela é mimada, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;fiz um álbum, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;que partilho aqui convosco.&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://smilebox.com/play/4d6a6b7a4f4463774e44593d0d0a&amp;amp;blogview=true&amp;amp;campaign=blog_playback_link" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Click to play this Smilebox slideshow" height="303" src="http://smilebox.com/snap/4d6a6b7a4f4463774e44593d0d0a.jpg" style="border: currentColor;" width="386" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.smilebox.com/?partner=msn&amp;amp;campaign=blog_snapshot" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Create your own slideshow - Powered by Smilebox" height="46" src="http://www.smilebox.com/globalImages/blogInstructions/blogLogoSmileboxSmall.gif" style="border: currentColor;" width="386" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I hope you enjoy it as much as I've enjoyed making it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I'll see you all later.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Espero que gostem  de ver o álbum, pelo menos tanto como eu gostei de o fazer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Até  breve!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-8474879904557574273?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/8474879904557574273/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2012/01/cat-in-bag.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/8474879904557574273'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/8474879904557574273'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2012/01/cat-in-bag.html' title='A cat in a bag...?'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_V8ikUF3tbc/Twhu2ckygjI/AAAAAAAAHYg/3b_KBdfVAX0/s72-c/DSCN2054.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-7273464785281016281</id><published>2012-01-06T16:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-06T16:13:55.276-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='terrarium'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New Year'/><title type='text'>The begining of a new year</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I&amp;nbsp;hope everyone had a nice new year begining. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I certainly did. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;And on January the 2nd we had the first&amp;nbsp; snow of this Winter&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;(it's already all gone now, but it was nice).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Espero&amp;nbsp;que todos vós tenham tido um bom  começo de ano. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Eu certamente que tive.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;E no passado&amp;nbsp;dia 2 de Janeiro  tivemos a primeira neve deste Inverno &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(já derreteu toda, mas foi  bonito).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7XPnfcUEBZo/TwdW02MEnhI/AAAAAAAAHGg/APwynEKNiVg/s1600/DSCN6123.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7XPnfcUEBZo/TwdW02MEnhI/AAAAAAAAHGg/APwynEKNiVg/s320/DSCN6123.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YF0G4cGI54A/TwdX9ztsQEI/AAAAAAAAHGo/ih9UsGuXEhw/s1600/DSCN6122.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YF0G4cGI54A/TwdX9ztsQEI/AAAAAAAAHGo/ih9UsGuXEhw/s320/DSCN6122.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;This year New Year was a&amp;nbsp;special one, since I got to spend it on Skype &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;with a dear friend back in Portugal. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I enjoyed it a lot,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and since Portugal is five hours ahead of us, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I can say I was in 2012 much earlier then everyone else here in Tennessee.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I will not get in details &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;(it feels kinda embarassing), &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;but while Skyping with my friend I had a little accident on my laptop, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and the keyboard got kinda wacked... so, I had to buy a wireless keyboard (which, by the way, works perfectly), &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;thus only now I'm able to post again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;That being said, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I also want to show you a terrific Christmas present my son, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;daughter-in-law and grandson sent me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Este ano o Ano  Novo foi especial, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;uma vez que o passei no Skype com uma querida amiga em  Portugal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Gostei muito, e  uma vez que Portugal está cinco horas à nossa frente,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;posso dizer que entrei em 2012 muito mais cedo que  o resto do pessoal aqui no Tennessee.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Não vou entrar em  detalhes &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(porque é de  certa forma embaraçoso),&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;mas enquanto  estava no Skype com a minha amiga &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;tive um pequeno acidente com o laptop, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e o  teclado ficou meio estragado...por isso tive de comprar um teclado sem fios  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(que, já agora, trabalha perfeitamente), &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e é por issso que só agora consigo  voltar a publicar um post.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Tendo dito isto, quero mostrar-vos o bonito  presente de Natal &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;que o meu filho, nora e neto&amp;nbsp;me mandaram.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eU1QpbxSemk/TwdWbEMX_dI/AAAAAAAAHGA/65f-97qyhz0/s1600/DSCN6132.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eU1QpbxSemk/TwdWbEMX_dI/AAAAAAAAHGA/65f-97qyhz0/s320/DSCN6132.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Isn't it gorgeous...? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Não é bonito...?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y1AMeVLF7tU/TwdWUtM5m6I/AAAAAAAAHFw/EaP58I8QWVM/s1600/DSCN6131.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y1AMeVLF7tU/TwdWUtM5m6I/AAAAAAAAHFw/EaP58I8QWVM/s320/DSCN6131.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TCiFhWJJPyY/TwdWX-QefhI/AAAAAAAAHF4/LsaJe-o7CvA/s1600/DSCN6133.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TCiFhWJJPyY/TwdWX-QefhI/AAAAAAAAHF4/LsaJe-o7CvA/s320/DSCN6133.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KyhbnqJxwSs/TwdWfyJrapI/AAAAAAAAHGI/A-7rDmGumjs/s1600/DSCN6136.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KyhbnqJxwSs/TwdWfyJrapI/AAAAAAAAHGI/A-7rDmGumjs/s320/DSCN6136.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;A tear drop hanging glass terrarium! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;It's really precious and I love it!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Oh! Do you rebember the &lt;a href="http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/search/label/Hobbes"&gt;Hobbes&lt;/a&gt; I made for my dear boy...?, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;it finally arrived in Portugal and he loved it!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Um terrarium de vidro em forma de lágrima  para pendurar!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;É muito precioso e gostei  imenso!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Oh! Lembram-se do &lt;a href="http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/search/label/Hobbes"&gt;Hobbes&lt;/a&gt; que fiz para o  meu querido menino...?, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;finalmente chegou a Portugal e ele adorou!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GTKoJAazn8M/TwdYrVR8IZI/AAAAAAAAHGw/Kaz1oeUnek8/s1600/DSCN6022.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GTKoJAazn8M/TwdYrVR8IZI/AAAAAAAAHGw/Kaz1oeUnek8/s320/DSCN6022.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;And with &lt;a href="http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/search/label/Hobbes"&gt;Hobbes pic&lt;/a&gt; I leave you all for now, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;wishing the new year keeps rolling on smooth and with lots of happiness, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and&amp;nbsp;I'll see you all soon!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;E deixo-vos por agora  com a&lt;a href="http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/search/label/Hobbes"&gt; foto do Hobbes&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;desejando que o novo ano continue a correr suavemente e  com montes de alegria, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e até breve!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-7273464785281016281?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/7273464785281016281/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2012/01/begining-of-new-year.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/7273464785281016281'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/7273464785281016281'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2012/01/begining-of-new-year.html' title='The begining of a new year'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7XPnfcUEBZo/TwdW02MEnhI/AAAAAAAAHGg/APwynEKNiVg/s72-c/DSCN6123.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-6070812066561380742</id><published>2011-12-31T11:17:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-31T11:24:47.118-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship'/><title type='text'>The rainbow of friendship</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Yesterday I had a wonderful surprise, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;the mail man brought me an unexpected gift from a dear friend. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Ontem tive uma óptima  surpresa,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;o carteiro trouxe-me um  presente inesperado duma querida amiga.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;It felt really good not because&amp;nbsp;of the gift &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;but because of what&amp;nbsp;the gift meant. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Soube mesmo bem não por causa  do presente, mas pelo seu significado.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I know is difficult for foreign cultures to understand what &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudade"&gt;saudades&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; really mean..., but putting it this way may help: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Eu sei que é difícil culturas  estrangeiras entenderem o significado de &lt;em&gt;saudades&lt;/em&gt;..., &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;mas talvez ajude posto  desta maneira:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;she&amp;nbsp;sent me the basics for a traditional &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_dinner"&gt;Portuguese Christmas meal&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;ela mandou-me o essencial para uma refeição  tradicional de Natal,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2aaN9dD6hzE/Tv8oYZSO1qI/AAAAAAAAHD8/Yxh4v4yz2wM/s1600/DSCN6111.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2aaN9dD6hzE/Tv8oYZSO1qI/AAAAAAAAHD8/Yxh4v4yz2wM/s320/DSCN6111.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;little tokens from&amp;nbsp;my beloved ocean, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;pequenas lembranças do meu  querido oceano,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RDBkdHdQ9-M/Tv8o0hqGDQI/AAAAAAAAHE4/2I6fvSGc52c/s1600/DSCN6112.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RDBkdHdQ9-M/Tv8o0hqGDQI/AAAAAAAAHE4/2I6fvSGc52c/s320/DSCN6112.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;shared sweet memories from some of my friend's personal life moments, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;memórias preciosas como  partilha de alguns momentos da vida&amp;nbsp;pessoal&amp;nbsp;da minha amiga,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BRDDrlET0_A/Tv8o-Fnf7PI/AAAAAAAAHFE/rFqlutjZ-sI/s1600/DSCN6118.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BRDDrlET0_A/Tv8o-Fnf7PI/AAAAAAAAHFE/rFqlutjZ-sI/s320/DSCN6118.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-szCiMWwGA2Q/Tv8pBBhcceI/AAAAAAAAHFM/kK2FJVL6Ohg/s1600/DSCN6116.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-szCiMWwGA2Q/Tv8pBBhcceI/AAAAAAAAHFM/kK2FJVL6Ohg/s320/DSCN6116.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and&amp;nbsp;(handmade by her) a Christmas&amp;nbsp;card and a bookmark!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;e um cartão de Boas  Festas e um marcador de livros (feitos por ela)!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r1DfybfOOb0/Tv8pJ-MeL0I/AAAAAAAAHFY/8HTFPN0WPhI/s1600/DSCN6114.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r1DfybfOOb0/Tv8pJ-MeL0I/AAAAAAAAHFY/8HTFPN0WPhI/s320/DSCN6114.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pPildlXDdFs/Tv8pL9JxUiI/AAAAAAAAHFg/N3BASdZi4nw/s1600/DSCN6117.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pPildlXDdFs/Tv8pL9JxUiI/AAAAAAAAHFg/N3BASdZi4nw/s320/DSCN6117.JPG" width="130" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I wish she would decide already &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;to start a blog to show and tell her amazing creativity! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Espero que ela se decida  finalmente a começar um blog &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;e a&amp;nbsp;partilhar toda a sua fantástica  creatividade!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;She&amp;nbsp;creates&amp;nbsp;mostly by upcycling&amp;nbsp;stuff &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and her project about literacy is simply... amazing &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;(as is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;er passion about children literature)!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Ela cria coisas principalmente pelo  processo de upcycling &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(é-me difícil traduzir para português este conceito de  upcyling... basicamente significa reciclar &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;mas transformando o objecto em algo  diferente sem o destruir, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;enquanto que reciclar significa basicamente destruir  uma coisa&amp;nbsp;para a transformar noutra),&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e o seu projecto de literacia  é simplesmente fantástico &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(assim como a sua paixão por literatura  infantil)!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;So...&amp;nbsp;because&amp;nbsp;today's the last day of the year, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I dedicate the last 2011 post of this blog to my friend, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;knowing that good friends are more precious than anything else&amp;nbsp;in this life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Então... porque hoje é o último dia do  ano,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;dedico o último post deste blog à minha  amiga, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;reconhecendo que bons amigos são a coisa mais preciosa desta vida.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Happy New Year to all!&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Feliz Ano Novo para todos!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-6070812066561380742?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/6070812066561380742/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/12/rainbow-of-friendship.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/6070812066561380742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/6070812066561380742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/12/rainbow-of-friendship.html' title='The rainbow of friendship'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2aaN9dD6hzE/Tv8oYZSO1qI/AAAAAAAAHD8/Yxh4v4yz2wM/s72-c/DSCN6111.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-7143662025236907647</id><published>2011-12-25T06:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-25T06:57:45.483-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><title type='text'>This Christmas Morning</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DpEhUPbY1Vs/TvcPCQrReCI/AAAAAAAAHDk/NZbQ_4xAjIQ/s1600/thumbnailCA62U3BW.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DpEhUPbY1Vs/TvcPCQrReCI/AAAAAAAAHDk/NZbQ_4xAjIQ/s200/thumbnailCA62U3BW.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;This Christmas morning &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I got up at five, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;just like every other morning, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;fixed my coffee pot, fed the cat, checked my email. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Just like every other morning.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;This Christmas morning &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;when I opened up my eyes, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;just like every other morning, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I realized "I'm alive!".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;This Christmas morning, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;like every other morning, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;when I stood up, feet finally firmed up on the carpet,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;a wet velvety small tongue licked my toes and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;like every other morning &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-noXd-2irChM/TvcPOL6OBrI/AAAAAAAAHDw/RiGvAutbIe0/s1600/thumbnailCAHEXDX3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-noXd-2irChM/TvcPOL6OBrI/AAAAAAAAHDw/RiGvAutbIe0/s200/thumbnailCAHEXDX3.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I smiled, because I&amp;nbsp;knew my cat was alive and well.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;This Christmas morning&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I try to stop this feeling crushing my chest &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and the tears from rolling down my face, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;just like every other morning. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;And just like every other morning &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I hear your calling "where you at, crazy woman?', &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;you kiss me good morning and I greet you "I love you", &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;on this Christmas morning.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Merry Christmas my darling!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-7143662025236907647?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/7143662025236907647/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/12/this-christmas-morning.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/7143662025236907647'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/7143662025236907647'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/12/this-christmas-morning.html' title='This Christmas Morning'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DpEhUPbY1Vs/TvcPCQrReCI/AAAAAAAAHDk/NZbQ_4xAjIQ/s72-c/thumbnailCA62U3BW.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-3219454083380663723</id><published>2011-12-18T07:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-18T07:24:12.631-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='felt coasters'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='angry birds'/><title type='text'>Felt Angry Birds</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;As we&amp;nbsp;rapidly approach Christmas Eve &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;so do I try to rush and finish my last handmade gifts. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;À medida que nos aproximamos da noite de Natal, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;também eu  tento despachar-me e acabar os meus &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;últimos&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;presentes feitos à mao.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xF4cT1uK0wM/Tu3Tz8ecXBI/AAAAAAAAHCU/n07luXmQxuA/s1600/DSCN6068.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xF4cT1uK0wM/Tu3Tz8ecXBI/AAAAAAAAHCU/n07luXmQxuA/s320/DSCN6068.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I had found the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://obsessivelystitching.blogspot.com/2009/01/make-it-for-you.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;tutorial &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;for these sweet crazy &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://obsessivelystitching.blogspot.com/2009/01/make-it-for-you.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;angry birds&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt; and immediately filed them under my to do list section of my brain.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;And so, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;because I still had &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;to send a package to my sweet darling (grandson) in Portugal, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I rushed and made these pretties yesterday!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Tinha encontrado este  &lt;a href="http://obsessivelystitching.blogspot.com/2009/01/make-it-for-you.html"&gt;tutorial/passo-a-passo&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;que ensina a&amp;nbsp;fazer estes engraçados e malucos &lt;a href="http://obsessivelystitching.blogspot.com/2009/01/make-it-for-you.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;angry birds&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; e  imediatamente o&amp;nbsp;arquivei no meu cérebro na secção de &lt;em&gt;coisas para  fazer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Por isso, e como ainda tinha de mandar uma  encomenda para o meu fofinho (neto) em Portugal, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;ontem apressei-me a fazer estas  fofuras!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-duqa8bPEeiw/Tu3T5toMqVI/AAAAAAAAHCk/i7OkZFapfGs/s1600/DSCN6065.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-duqa8bPEeiw/Tu3T5toMqVI/AAAAAAAAHCk/i7OkZFapfGs/s320/DSCN6065.JPG" width="263" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5GND0f6aSE8/Tu3T7icrHnI/AAAAAAAAHCs/r_z_Ap2_diY/s1600/DSCN6060.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5GND0f6aSE8/Tu3T7icrHnI/AAAAAAAAHCs/r_z_Ap2_diY/s320/DSCN6060.JPG" width="232" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9962aAQXEzY/Tu3T3AhIaPI/AAAAAAAAHCc/OvEoBgF985o/s1600/DSCN6062.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9962aAQXEzY/Tu3T3AhIaPI/AAAAAAAAHCc/OvEoBgF985o/s320/DSCN6062.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I hope he's going to like them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Maybe I'll go ahead and make them all, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;so&amp;nbsp;sometime next year he'll have a good surprise!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Espero que ele goste!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Talvez ainda faça a colecção toda,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;assim no próximo ano pode ser que ele  tenha uma surpresa!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Espero que ele goste!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-m8-WnUJoxdc/Tu3T9ZBLLmI/AAAAAAAAHC0/jxzF4ATGRgk/s1600/DSCN6069.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-m8-WnUJoxdc/Tu3T9ZBLLmI/AAAAAAAAHC0/jxzF4ATGRgk/s320/DSCN6069.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I'll see you all soon!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Até breve!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-3219454083380663723?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/3219454083380663723/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/12/felt-angry-birds.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/3219454083380663723'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/3219454083380663723'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/12/felt-angry-birds.html' title='Felt Angry Birds'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xF4cT1uK0wM/Tu3Tz8ecXBI/AAAAAAAAHCU/n07luXmQxuA/s72-c/DSCN6068.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-8689576926865759861</id><published>2011-12-17T07:05:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-17T07:09:56.140-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='J'/><title type='text'>For J</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;For J, my husband.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://1.gvt0.com/vi/fyTfbtZeGeU/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fyTfbtZeGeU&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266"  src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fyTfbtZeGeU&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Today would have been his&amp;nbsp;birthday.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Tbkvkb4H5F4/TuyCxIBQROI/AAAAAAAAHCI/tDMBTJY6hZQ/s1600/DSCN6049.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Tbkvkb4H5F4/TuyCxIBQROI/AAAAAAAAHCI/tDMBTJY6hZQ/s320/DSCN6049.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Also today is the 16th month anniversary of his death.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;I love you, and I always will.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-8689576926865759861?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/8689576926865759861/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/12/for-j.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/8689576926865759861'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/8689576926865759861'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/12/for-j.html' title='For J'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Tbkvkb4H5F4/TuyCxIBQROI/AAAAAAAAHCI/tDMBTJY6hZQ/s72-c/DSCN6049.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-914119047458724644</id><published>2011-12-11T06:30:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T06:34:16.735-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cards'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christmas gifts'/><title type='text'>On the 11th day of Christmas...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n4fkWUFlbMY/TuSMoDvPCEI/AAAAAAAAHBg/9TlLl9eo8jY/s1600/DSCN6033.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n4fkWUFlbMY/TuSMoDvPCEI/AAAAAAAAHBg/9TlLl9eo8jY/s320/DSCN6033.JPG" width="228" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;With Christmas less than two weeks away, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I've been rushing to get&amp;nbsp;things ready to go &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;(to the other side of the world). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Com o Natal a menos de duas semanas de distância, tenho  estado a apressar-me para conseguir ter tudo pronto para&amp;nbsp;mandar (para o outro  lado do mundo).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EQ4c4P_uf5A/TuSMZfKEKvI/AAAAAAAAHBI/NHCCElKwbeE/s1600/DSCN6027.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EQ4c4P_uf5A/TuSMZfKEKvI/AAAAAAAAHBI/NHCCElKwbeE/s320/DSCN6027.JPG" width="262" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Supervised by Miss Pooh-Pooh &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I've went trough my cards, selecting the most precious ones &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;for friends and family: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Sob a supervisão da Miss Pooh-Pooh, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;fiz uma escolha dos meus  cartões mais bonitos &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;para mandar aos amigos e à família: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RhZV9uK8FgY/TuSMqi82O9I/AAAAAAAAHBo/RUtClnLVppk/s1600/DSCN6030.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="209" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RhZV9uK8FgY/TuSMqi82O9I/AAAAAAAAHBo/RUtClnLVppk/s320/DSCN6030.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;"What do I think about this one for my friend ..?,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and what about this one for...?",&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I asked her. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;"O que achas deste para  a minha amiga...?,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e deste para...?",&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;perguntei-lhe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YVMIYqsL8Iw/TuSM00nATfI/AAAAAAAAHB4/_FVHdeGEOWs/s1600/DSCN6031.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="218" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YVMIYqsL8Iw/TuSM00nATfI/AAAAAAAAHB4/_FVHdeGEOWs/s320/DSCN6031.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;"Fine! Whatever!...", she meow back to me... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Definitely she has an attitude problem!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;"Tudo bem! Como quiseres!",&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;miou como resposta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Ela tem definitivamente um problema de atitude!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Anyway... after the cards, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I went and finished some small items that needed to be finished &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;to&amp;nbsp;be put&amp;nbsp;into the package to ship.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;De qualquer modo... depois dos cartões,  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;estive a terminar algumas coisitas  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;que tinham de ser acabadas antes de serem  colocadas na caixa para enviar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jSrZ1x19p9g/TuSMbHByoOI/AAAAAAAAHBQ/NFNY42BqjUM/s1600/12-11-11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="180" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jSrZ1x19p9g/TuSMbHByoOI/AAAAAAAAHBQ/NFNY42BqjUM/s320/12-11-11.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Regarding the little snowman with the earmuffs, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;the credit goes for &lt;a href="http://melzamelo.blogspot.com/2011/12/porta-talher-boneco-de-neve.html"&gt;Artmelza&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;whose directions and pattern I've followed, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;though I've &amp;nbsp;given it a different purpose (pencil holder). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-16iM1OPJDDM/TuSU30Azh7I/AAAAAAAAHCA/DhUrQ8A32zM/s1600/DSCN6043.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-16iM1OPJDDM/TuSU30Azh7I/AAAAAAAAHCA/DhUrQ8A32zM/s320/DSCN6043.JPG" width="194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Em relação ao pequeno boneco-de-neve com  os tampões nos ouvidos, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;o crédito é da &lt;a href="http://melzamelo.blogspot.com/2011/12/porta-talher-boneco-de-neve.html"&gt;Artmelza&lt;/a&gt;, cujas instruções e molde eu  segui, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;embora lhe tenha dado um objectivo diferente (uma caixa para  lápis).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Everything else is my own creation &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and&amp;nbsp;absolutely confidential &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and I shall&amp;nbsp;say no more!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Shhhhhhh!....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Tudo o resto foi criado por mim &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e é  absolutamnte confidential &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e mais não direi!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Shhhhhh!....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I wish you all funny busy days and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I'll see you soon!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Desejo-vos dias ocupados e bem dispostos  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e até breve!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-914119047458724644?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/914119047458724644/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/12/on-11th-day-of-christmas.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/914119047458724644'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/914119047458724644'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/12/on-11th-day-of-christmas.html' title='On the 11th day of Christmas...'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n4fkWUFlbMY/TuSMoDvPCEI/AAAAAAAAHBg/9TlLl9eo8jY/s72-c/DSCN6033.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-5095288126993997882</id><published>2011-12-06T07:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-06T07:28:50.761-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hobbes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tunisian crochet'/><title type='text'>Tunisian Crochet Hobbes</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;When I asked my son what would my grandson like for Christmas, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;he told me the little one is an enthusiastic fan&amp;nbsp;of Calvin &amp;amp; Hobbes comics, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and that he would love a big stuffed Hobbes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Quando perguntei ao meu filho o que é que o meu neto  gostaria para o Natal, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;ele respondeu-me que o pequenino é um fã entusiástico da  banda desenhada Calvin &amp;amp; Hobbes, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e que adoraria ter um grande Hobbes de  peluche.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C4rmZEwnLL8/Tt4C5XdiYbI/AAAAAAAAHA0/bGgnuuP0Sig/s1600/DSCN6025.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C4rmZEwnLL8/Tt4C5XdiYbI/AAAAAAAAHA0/bGgnuuP0Sig/s320/DSCN6025.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I do confess the first thing I did was to go&amp;nbsp;online and search for one to buy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Confesso que a primeira coisa que fiz foi ir online e procurar por um para comprar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tOlO6daOHMo/Tt4CqJZXX0I/AAAAAAAAHAM/-FLs5IX8Yak/s1600/DSCN6020.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tOlO6daOHMo/Tt4CqJZXX0I/AAAAAAAAHAM/-FLs5IX8Yak/s320/DSCN6020.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;But after&amp;nbsp;having found a bunch of basically nothing I decided I would go for it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I went with Tunisian crochet stitch &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;because it gives me a much more sturdy type of fabric &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;(my &lt;a href="http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/studio/BearyNiceMade/0/0/105140"&gt;Oh La La Lolita Dolls&lt;/a&gt; are made with the same type of stitch) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and everything went pretty smooth. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Mas depois de ter encontrado basicamente nada decidi que  iria tentar fazer um. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Resolvi-me pelo ponto de crochet Tunisino &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;porque  proporciona um tipo de tecido muito mais resistente &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(as minhas bonecas &lt;a href="http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/studio/BearyNiceMade/0/0/105140"&gt;Oh La La Lolita Doll&lt;/a&gt; são feitas com o mesmo tipo de ponto) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e tudo correu muito  bem.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pZSW_7j8ces/Tt4Cwch3QFI/AAAAAAAAHAc/JNvmxGD-U9I/s1600/DSCN6022.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pZSW_7j8ces/Tt4Cwch3QFI/AAAAAAAAHAc/JNvmxGD-U9I/s320/DSCN6022.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YYCQTjo2Sos/Tt4C8Ph71mI/AAAAAAAAHA8/6nf8osMPayI/s1600/DSCN6026.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YYCQTjo2Sos/Tt4C8Ph71mI/AAAAAAAAHA8/6nf8osMPayI/s320/DSCN6026.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GIKdxipVxcY/Tt4CmRFDzoI/AAAAAAAAHAE/SY4RNYPkJVY/s1600/DSCN6019.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GIKdxipVxcY/Tt4CmRFDzoI/AAAAAAAAHAE/SY4RNYPkJVY/s320/DSCN6019.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;For the face and nuzzle I experimented 2 or 3 different ways, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;till I finally&amp;nbsp;decided I liked the way it looked. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Para a cara e o focinho experimentei 2 ou 3 maneiras  diferentes, até que finalmente me decidi pela que gostava mais.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I'm very happy with it, and I do hope&amp;nbsp;my grandson&amp;nbsp;will too.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Estou muito satisfeita com o modo como resultou, e espero  que o meu neto também goste.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2ILI9yBr62s/Tt4C2hBDpUI/AAAAAAAAHAs/2yZ5ypxjuvg/s1600/DSCN6024.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2ILI9yBr62s/Tt4C2hBDpUI/AAAAAAAAHAs/2yZ5ypxjuvg/s320/DSCN6024.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Meanwhile I'm keeping busy with the making of some more pretties &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;which hopefully will meet their destiny this Christmas!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Entretanto continuo ocupada fazendo mais coisas bonitas &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;que  espero encontrem o seu destino este Natal.&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I'll see you soon!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Até breve!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-5095288126993997882?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/5095288126993997882/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/12/tunisian-crochet-hobbes.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/5095288126993997882'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/5095288126993997882'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/12/tunisian-crochet-hobbes.html' title='Tunisian Crochet Hobbes'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C4rmZEwnLL8/Tt4C5XdiYbI/AAAAAAAAHA0/bGgnuuP0Sig/s72-c/DSCN6025.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-4399168617681439457</id><published>2011-12-03T06:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-03T06:39:38.543-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Craft Fair'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Craft bazaar'/><title type='text'>Anatomy of a Crafters Fair</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;It's already December...&amp;nbsp;I've been quite busy lately, with several things happening at the same time, thus the lack of blog posting. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;Já estamos em Dezembro... tenho estado bastante ocupada e&amp;nbsp;com diferentes  coisas acontecendo ao mesmo tempo, dai não ter publicado no blog.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uhlUha_jhq4/TtoFq1HgfZI/AAAAAAAAG_w/4YSONW76oDk/s1600/DSCN6012.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uhlUha_jhq4/TtoFq1HgfZI/AAAAAAAAG_w/4YSONW76oDk/s320/DSCN6012.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Yesterday I had another Quilter's Craft Fair, at another Senior Center. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;There were much less sellers than last time and, of course,&amp;nbsp;the fair taking place at&amp;nbsp;a Senior Center, the potential buyers were almost all seniors.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;And unfortunately these are difficult times for everyone and specially for those who are on a budget. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Tough initially the&amp;nbsp;chances to have some buyers coming in seemed really slim, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;it turned out that&amp;nbsp;I made quite a few sales! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;Ontem  participei noutra venda de artesanato num outro Centro de Dia. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;Havia muito menos  vendedores desta vez, e claro que sendo um Centro de Dia para Idosos os potenciais  clientes&amp;nbsp;eram quase todos idosos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;Infelizmente estes tempos sãao dificeis para  toda a gente, especialmente para aqueles limitados a uma pensão ou orçamento.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;E  embora inicialmente parecesse que havia poucas hipóteses de termos alguns  clientes, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;a verdade &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;é&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;que&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;fiz bastantes vendas! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qr7_OikaiYg/TtoFmABR7UI/AAAAAAAAG_g/-zgDyXo3j6g/s1600/DSCN6018.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qr7_OikaiYg/TtoFmABR7UI/AAAAAAAAG_g/-zgDyXo3j6g/s320/DSCN6018.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4dFXjA3WfU4/TtoFhk29fjI/AAAAAAAAG_Y/EENboogvWK0/s1600/DSCN6010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4dFXjA3WfU4/TtoFhk29fjI/AAAAAAAAG_Y/EENboogvWK0/s320/DSCN6010.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fWWrGxJfZzw/TtoFoYiVD6I/AAAAAAAAG_o/TXWFYqQNri4/s1600/DSCN6017.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fWWrGxJfZzw/TtoFoYiVD6I/AAAAAAAAG_o/TXWFYqQNri4/s320/DSCN6017.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q2Kp5srqsWw/TtoFeCDURZI/AAAAAAAAG_Q/iCw0hZ9MS34/s1600/DSCN6009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q2Kp5srqsWw/TtoFeCDURZI/AAAAAAAAG_Q/iCw0hZ9MS34/s320/DSCN6009.JPG" width="171" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I think that the different outcome for me personally &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;is due to 2 different things: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;first being that's December, Christmas is a coming, and people are trying to get their Christmas shopping done &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;(I almost sold out my Nordic ear warmers, and I kept&amp;nbsp;hearing people referring grand daughters while buying them). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;he other I think is due to a better display of my items, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;my table seemed more organized &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;plus I've made small cards describing the items &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;or what they're used for: one single client bought six &lt;em&gt;tawashi &lt;/em&gt;at once &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;(this time I had a card explaining that&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;tawashi&lt;/em&gt; is Japanese for "dish scrubby").&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Acho que o resultadoi foi diferente para mim pessoalmente especialmente  devido a dois factores: primeiro porque estamos em Dezembro, o Natal está à  porta &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e as pessoas estão a tentar ultimar as compras de Natal &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(vendi quase todos  os meus “aconchegos de orelhas em estilo Nóordico“, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e&amp;nbsp; as  clientes estavam sempre a referir as netas ou sobrinhas&amp;nbsp;quando os compravam). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;O outro factor relaciona-se, penso eu,&amp;nbsp;com uma melhor apresentação dos meus produtos, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;a minha mesa estava melhor  organizada &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e fiz cartões &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;para descrever cada produto e o seu uso: u&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;ma única cliente comprou-me seis &lt;em&gt;tawashi&lt;/em&gt; duma s&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;ó&lt;/span&gt; vez (desta vez eu tinha um cartão referindo  que &lt;em&gt;tawashi&lt;/em&gt; &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;é&lt;/span&gt; a palavra japonesa para "esfregão para pratos").&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Foi uma venda rentável e uma experiência de aprendizagem que resultou muito  positiva!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I wish you all stay active and keep your producing on! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I'll see you all soon!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt; Mantenham-se activas e produtivas!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Até breve!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-4399168617681439457?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/4399168617681439457/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/12/anatomy-of-crafters-fair.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/4399168617681439457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/4399168617681439457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/12/anatomy-of-crafters-fair.html' title='Anatomy of a Crafters Fair'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uhlUha_jhq4/TtoFq1HgfZI/AAAAAAAAG_w/4YSONW76oDk/s72-c/DSCN6012.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-3459856768072732089</id><published>2011-11-19T10:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-19T10:49:59.006-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Craft Fair'/><title type='text'>Quilter's Craft Fair</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;As I've told you about, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;yesterday was the Quilter's Craft Fair &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;at my local Senior Center.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Como vos tinha dito, ontem foi a Venda de Artesanato &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;dos &lt;em&gt;Quilters&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;do&amp;nbsp;Centro de Idosos da minha comunidade.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PoeGxPCNBh4/TseYr0ouGfI/AAAAAAAAG9A/KG_JehfZ86g/s1600/DSCN5981.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PoeGxPCNBh4/TseYr0ouGfI/AAAAAAAAG9A/KG_JehfZ86g/s320/DSCN5981.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I think it went rather well, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;with different crafters showing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;and selling their crafts, mainly quilters, jewellery makers, sewing, knitting and crochet crafts, even some wood crafts and baskets. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;You can see above as every body's rushing to ultimate everything &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;before the doors&amp;nbsp;open to the public.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;As expected, the fair&amp;nbsp;was mainly visited by senior elements of the community.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;The prices were quite accessible and I did alright, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;not getting the riches I was hopping for (sights...), &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;but still I've sold quite a few items.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Bellow you can see my table and display.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Acho que correu bastante bem, com diferentes tipos de artesãos a mostrar e a vender as&amp;nbsp;peças, principalmente quilters, artesãos de joalharia, peças de costura, de tricot e de&amp;nbsp;crochet, até algumas peças em madeira e&amp;nbsp;cestos de vime (ou de material similar ao vime).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Como podem ver acima, toda a gente estava ocupada com os últimos preparativos antes das portas abrirem ao público.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Como era esperado, os principais clientes eram todos cidadões seniores da comunidade&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;Os preços eram bastante acessíveis e eu não me dei mal, embora não tenha ficado rica (suspiros...), mas mesmo assim vendi bastantes peças.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;Em baixo podem ver os artigos expostos na minha mesa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ny43j1bqhBA/TseYnmZZIWI/AAAAAAAAG8w/QB0DjsR4TEI/s1600/DSCN5978.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ny43j1bqhBA/TseYnmZZIWI/AAAAAAAAG8w/QB0DjsR4TEI/s320/DSCN5978.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ucWjRQyUMQ8/TseYpqPkOHI/AAAAAAAAG84/MNcklEAP5y4/s1600/DSCN5979.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ucWjRQyUMQ8/TseYpqPkOHI/AAAAAAAAG84/MNcklEAP5y4/s320/DSCN5979.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UXYV54Jdsa4/TseYhf2b_TI/AAAAAAAAG8g/eXsu7Soc_d8/s1600/DSCN5974.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UXYV54Jdsa4/TseYhf2b_TI/AAAAAAAAG8g/eXsu7Soc_d8/s320/DSCN5974.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GhMhma0KMEk/TseYknQ1cDI/AAAAAAAAG8o/QpMCjKHR3TQ/s1600/DSCN5975.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GhMhma0KMEk/TseYknQ1cDI/AAAAAAAAG8o/QpMCjKHR3TQ/s320/DSCN5975.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;For my next craft fair, I think I'll try to display differently, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;maybe grouping similar items on a container, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and get&amp;nbsp;identical containers for all the items, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;for a more uniform&amp;nbsp;presentation. What do you think, any suggestions?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;My card board&amp;nbsp;doesn't show on the pictures but I sold a few Xmas cards (I had like a big bulletin board, at the side of the table, that I've made, but forgot to take a picture), and by the comments I heard they were very well considered.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;On the beginning of next month, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I might try another quilter's fair at another senior center.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I'll let you know, and I'll see you all later.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Para a próxima feira de artesanato, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;acho que vou dispôr as minhas peças de modo diferente, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;talvez juntando artigos semelhantes num recipiente, e arranjar recipientes idênticos para todos os artigos, para uma disposição mais uniforme. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;O que acham?, têm sugestões?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;O quadro expositor dos meus cartões nao aparece nas fotos &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;mas também vendi alguns cartões de Natal &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;(forrei um grande placard de madeira para expôr os meus cartões, que estava colocado no chão na lateral da mesa, mas esqueci-me de tirar uma foto), &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;e pelos comentários que ouvi as pessoas gostaram bastante.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;No início do próximo mês talvez participe noutra venda num outro centro de idosos. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;Eu depois digo-vos, e até breve!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-3459856768072732089?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/3459856768072732089/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/11/quilters-craft-fair.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/3459856768072732089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/3459856768072732089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/11/quilters-craft-fair.html' title='Quilter&apos;s Craft Fair'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PoeGxPCNBh4/TseYr0ouGfI/AAAAAAAAG9A/KG_JehfZ86g/s72-c/DSCN5981.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-1982476576735987941</id><published>2011-11-17T18:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-17T18:14:19.197-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Craft Fair'/><title type='text'>Back for business</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;First of all I want to apologize to all for the long absence and silence. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I'm back&amp;nbsp;and hopefully on a more constant pace, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;now that I finally&amp;nbsp;have a new laptop and got it up and running smootly. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Antes de mais quero pedir desculpa pela longa ausência e silêncio. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Estou de volta e espero que com uma frequência mais constante, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;agora que finalmente tenho um novo laptop e que o tenho a&amp;nbsp;trabalhar em condições.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;The truth is I got a virus on my computer earlier this month&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;that totally messed up everything&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and I thought&amp;nbsp;all was lost, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;but&amp;nbsp;it seems like some of my data&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;will be able to be saved.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;But right now I'm starting from ground zero on this new laptop &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;(and yeah!, this time I bought anti-virus protection!).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;A verdade é que tive um vírus no meu computador no início do mês &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;que o arruinou completamente e pensei que tinha perdido tudo, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;mas agora parece que alguns dos meus dados poderão ser salvos. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Mas&amp;nbsp;de momento estou a começar do zero neste novo laptop &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(e claro!, desta vez comprei um anti-vírus!).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Long history made short, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;all the computer problems &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;a little bit of a tiny depression mood &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;plus the fact I've been&amp;nbsp;busy getting ready &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-41wcDLxJWhk/TsWK43IpvQI/AAAAAAAAG8Y/FyoaSGi7tZk/s1600/DSCN5959.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="169" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-41wcDLxJWhk/TsWK43IpvQI/AAAAAAAAG8Y/FyoaSGi7tZk/s320/DSCN5959.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;for tomorrow's Quilter Craft Fair at our local Senior Center, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;those are the reasons for this absence from the blogging world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I promise to post about the fair craft and show you all some pics.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Till then, I'll see soon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Resumindo, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;os problemas com o computador,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;uma disposição um pouquito depressiva &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;mais o facto de ter estado ocupada ultimando as coisas para a venda de artesanato de amanhã &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;no Centro de Dia de Idosos da minha área, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;são as razões essenciais para a minha ausência neste universo dos blogs. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;Prometo escrever um post acerca da venda de artesanato e mostrar-vos algumas fotos. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;Até breve!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-1982476576735987941?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/1982476576735987941/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/11/back-for-business.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/1982476576735987941'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/1982476576735987941'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/11/back-for-business.html' title='Back for business'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-41wcDLxJWhk/TsWK43IpvQI/AAAAAAAAG8Y/FyoaSGi7tZk/s72-c/DSCN5959.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-5312580966644909463</id><published>2011-10-23T10:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-23T10:04:49.593-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Portuguese Green Soup'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='caldo verde'/><title type='text'>Portuguese Green Soup aka Caldo Verde</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;My Portuguese Green Soup was always one of my husband's favourites. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;O meu caldo verde era um dos pratos favoritos do meu marido.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-852ONg-8U3U/TqQFgunl-GI/AAAAAAAAG3Q/GRqJS_DG4lU/s1600/DSCN5859.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="205px" rda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-852ONg-8U3U/TqQFgunl-GI/AAAAAAAAG3Q/GRqJS_DG4lU/s320/DSCN5859.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Even if I cannot make a exact and true reproduction &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;of the Portuguese culinary trade mark Caldo verde, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I dare to say my own version of it comes out pretty close in taste and looks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Ainda que não consiga imitar fielmente o tradicional caldo verde Português, atrevo-me a afirmar que a minha versão é muito parecida, tanto no paladar como no aspecto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;The real thing is made out with Portuguese cabbage, very finely shredded, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;and it takes Portuguese chouriço&amp;nbsp;slices&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;(not to be mistaken with the &lt;em&gt;chorizo&lt;/em&gt;, Mexican style, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;that sometimes I see at the grocery store). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;O original é feito com couve Portuguesa, cortada muito fina, e leva rodelas de chouriço Português &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(não confundir com &lt;em&gt;chourizo&lt;/em&gt;, estilo mexicano, que às vezes encontro à venda no supermercado).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Portuguese chouriço&amp;nbsp;tastes, smells and even looks totally different.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;O chouriço Português sabe e cheira totalmente diferente, até o aspecto é diferente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;But alas, my husband was a meat eater, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;and just to please him &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I would buy some pepperoni or &lt;em&gt;chorizo&lt;/em&gt; that I would add to his soup bowl &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;(not for me, thank you very much).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Mas então, o meu marido comia carne e só para lhe agradar eu comprava &lt;em&gt;chorizo&lt;/em&gt; ou &lt;em&gt;pepperoni&lt;/em&gt; para pôr na sopa dele (mas não para mim, muito obrigada).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Now that I made that point out, let's get to the recipe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Agora que tornei este ponto claro, vamos à receita.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;For the ingredients, you'll need:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Para os ingredientes, vai precisar:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;- 6 to 8 medium potatoes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;- de 6 a 8 batatas médias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;- 1 big onion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;- 1 cebola grande&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;- 2 or 3 cloves of garlic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;- 2 ou 3 dentes de alho&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;- 4 or 5 medium turnip roots&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;- 4 ou 5 cabeças de nabo médias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;- 1 lb can of seasoned turnip greens &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; or finely shredded fresh bunch of kales&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;- 1 lata de 1 libra de nabiças temperadas &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; ou 1 molho de kales frescos cortados muito fino&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;- 3 colheres de sopa de azeite extra vrgem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;- Portuguese chouriço, &lt;em&gt;chorizo&lt;/em&gt; or pepperoni&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;- Chouriço Português, &lt;em&gt;chorizo&lt;/em&gt; ou &lt;em&gt;pepperoni&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;How to do it:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Como fazer:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Peel and dice potatoes, onion, garlic and turnip greens.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Descascar e cortar as batatas, a cebola, o alho e os nabos em quadrados pequenos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Add to boiling mildly salty water in a big sauce pan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Juntar à água a ferver, com um pouco de sal, numa panela grande.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;When vegetables are truly cooked, insert an immersion blender and blend everything into a fine puree (if you don't have an immersion blender, you can use your mashed potatoes tool or a regular blender, in either case it's just a little bit more work).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Quando os vegetais estiverem bem cozidos, mergulhar uma varinha mágica e reduzir a puré &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(se não tiver uma varinha mágica, pode utilizar uma trituradora vulgar ou a vara manual de esmagar as batatas para puré, em qualquer dos casos&amp;nbsp;é só um pouco mais trabalhoso).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Taste and correct the salt if needed, add the greens &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;(either from the can or the fresh kales), &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;add the olive oil, and let it cook in low heat for about 30 minutes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Prove e corrija o sal se for necessário, junte as verduras (quer seja da lata ou os kales frescos), junte o azeite, e deixe cozer em lume brando cerca de 30 minutos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;And that's it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;E pronto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;This is the kind of soup it tastes much better if you let it sit for a couple of hours before serving. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Este é o tipo de sopa que sabe melhor se ficar na panela por um par de horas antes de ser servida.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9gXqyMY65dU/TqQFrHbd6rI/AAAAAAAAG3w/o8XKKfIs0xs/s1600/DSCN5860.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" rda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9gXqyMY65dU/TqQFrHbd6rI/AAAAAAAAG3w/o8XKKfIs0xs/s320/DSCN5860.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;When you serve it, and if you like it, then add a couple slices &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;of Portuguese chouriço&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;(OK, OK, if you can't find it, you may use &lt;em&gt;chorizo&lt;/em&gt; or peperoni, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;but trust me, it won't be exactly the same).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Quando servir a sopa e se gostar, ponha umas rodelas de chouriço Português no topo (está bem, está bem, se não conseguir encontrar, pode utilizar &lt;em&gt;chorizo&lt;/em&gt; ou &lt;em&gt;pepperoni&lt;/em&gt;, mas digo-lhe já&amp;nbsp;que não é a mesma coisa).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I hope you've enjoyed &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;as much as I did sharing it with you and... I'll see you all soon!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Espero que tenha gostado, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;pelo menos tanto como eu gostei de partilhar esta receita consigo e... até breve!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-5312580966644909463?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/5312580966644909463/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/10/portuguese-green-soup-aka-caldo-verde.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/5312580966644909463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/5312580966644909463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/10/portuguese-green-soup-aka-caldo-verde.html' title='Portuguese Green Soup aka Caldo Verde'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-852ONg-8U3U/TqQFgunl-GI/AAAAAAAAG3Q/GRqJS_DG4lU/s72-c/DSCN5859.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-2899942720047010609</id><published>2011-10-22T13:19:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-22T13:22:50.495-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friend&apos;s swap'/><title type='text'>F.R.I.E.N.D.S Swap - the gifts I've sent</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Now that my friend &lt;a href="http://artscraftsandmore-withveena.blogspot.com/"&gt;Veena&lt;/a&gt; got&amp;nbsp;the package I've sent, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I can tell you about my gifts to her &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;for the F.R.I.E.N.D.S Swap. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Agora que a minha amiga &lt;a href="http://artscraftsandmore-withveena.blogspot.com/"&gt;Veena&lt;/a&gt; já recebeu a encomenda que mandei, posso-vos dizer quais foram as prendas que lhe enviei para a troca de prendas F.R.I.E.N.D.S.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y7XXSB4VIcc/TqLlrAsUnpI/AAAAAAAAGzY/dsvQzckDFmo/s1600/FRIENDS+SWAP+2011+SEW+PRIM+KHRIS.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" rda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y7XXSB4VIcc/TqLlrAsUnpI/AAAAAAAAGzY/dsvQzckDFmo/s1600/FRIENDS+SWAP+2011+SEW+PRIM+KHRIS.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;The swap was sponsored by &lt;a href="http://sewprimkhris.blogspot.com/"&gt;Khris&amp;nbsp;from SewPrimKhris&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;it was a wonderful experience.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I'm really happy&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://artscraftsandmore-withveena.blogspot.com/"&gt;Veena&lt;/a&gt; really seemed to like the gifts. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;As for me, I just loved the ones I got, as you can read about in &lt;a href="http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/10/friends-swap-love-my-gifts.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;(Thanks again &lt;a href="http://artscraftsandmore-withveena.blogspot.com/"&gt;Veena&lt;/a&gt;!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Bellow you can see my gifts to her.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;A troca de prendas foi patrocinada pela &lt;a href="http://sewprimkhris.blogspot.com/"&gt;Khris do SewPrimKhris&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;e foi uma experiência muito agradável. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Estou muito contente com o facto da &lt;a href="http://artscraftsandmore-withveena.blogspot.com/"&gt;Veena&lt;/a&gt; parecer ter gostado das prendas. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Quanto a mim, adorei as que ela me enviou, como podem constatar &lt;a href="http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/10/friends-swap-love-my-gifts.html"&gt;aqui&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(Obrigada de novo, &lt;a href="http://artscraftsandmore-withveena.blogspot.com/"&gt;Veena&lt;/a&gt;!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7f3ZF_1jbDc/TqLvZR6sMsI/AAAAAAAAG3I/wQw5gf_BMao/s1600/DSCN5778.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" rda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7f3ZF_1jbDc/TqLvZR6sMsI/AAAAAAAAG3I/wQw5gf_BMao/s320/DSCN5778.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Em baixo podem ver as prendas que lhe enviei.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;For F:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-u-8NfCYKesg/TqLsPOHwmlI/AAAAAAAAG1o/1Ec8KKwKRKI/s1600/DSCN5769.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" rda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-u-8NfCYKesg/TqLsPOHwmlI/AAAAAAAAG1o/1Ec8KKwKRKI/s320/DSCN5769.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;- flower pen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;-"Friends make the world go round" (handmade fabric cupcake)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;- fancy red eyeglass case&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;- flor-caneta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;- bonito estojo para os óculos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;For R:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NOU3GVR9zWs/TqLsZeBn5sI/AAAAAAAAG1w/1guJcV0icVM/s1600/DSCN5770.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" rda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NOU3GVR9zWs/TqLsZeBn5sI/AAAAAAAAG1w/1guJcV0icVM/s320/DSCN5770.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;-red and yellow weekly planner&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;- red penny rug candle mat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;- red raggedy homespun set of coasters&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;- red&amp;nbsp;tulip pocket tissue holder&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;- agenda semanal vermelha e amarela&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;- tapete &lt;em&gt;penny rug&lt;/em&gt; encarnado para colocar vela&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;- conjunto de base para copos em tecido &lt;em&gt;homespun&lt;/em&gt; encarnado&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;- porta lenços de papel em tecido com tulipa vermelha&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;For I:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JTqBifPkDOc/TqLslgerimI/AAAAAAAAG14/3c_J0KtLibU/s1600/DSCN5771.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="278px" rda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JTqBifPkDOc/TqLslgerimI/AAAAAAAAG14/3c_J0KtLibU/s320/DSCN5771.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;- interesting silicone watch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;- item to keep keys (red key chain holder)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;- relógio de sílicone interessante&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;- ítem para pôr as chaves (porta-chaves vermelho)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;For E:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0ppjytR0v9g/TqLsuA22VbI/AAAAAAAAG2A/YeSjnfrrH1w/s1600/DSCN5772.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" rda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0ppjytR0v9g/TqLsuA22VbI/AAAAAAAAG2A/YeSjnfrrH1w/s320/DSCN5772.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;- embroidery floss&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;- embroidery scissors&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;- fios para bordar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;- tesoura para bordados&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;For N:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Z0mnPtTKiHI/TqLs4TAQZtI/AAAAAAAAG2I/po8HyPjK4CE/s1600/DSCN5773.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" rda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Z0mnPtTKiHI/TqLs4TAQZtI/AAAAAAAAG2I/po8HyPjK4CE/s320/DSCN5773.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;-needful Tunisian crochet pouch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;- bolsa necessária&amp;nbsp;de crochet tunisino&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;For D:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UHLSXOFoB9E/TqLtAq1GTxI/AAAAAAAAG2Q/vJG3dfb-LIs/s1600/DSCN5775.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" rda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UHLSXOFoB9E/TqLtAq1GTxI/AAAAAAAAG2Q/vJG3dfb-LIs/s320/DSCN5775.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;- duo of lip balm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;- dishcloth (tawashi)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;- duo de bálsamo para os lábios&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;- esfregão para a loiça (tawashi)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;For S:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ozuRztPREsA/TqLtIiTDN8I/AAAAAAAAG2Y/w9Lbw1YQSnc/s1600/DSCN5777.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" rda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ozuRztPREsA/TqLtIiTDN8I/AAAAAAAAG2Y/w9Lbw1YQSnc/s320/DSCN5777.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;- something orange from Tennessee (bear-vols)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;- something sweet (and orange)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;- specially for you: quilted ball ornament&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;- uma coisa cor-de-laranja do Tennessee (urso-vols)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;- uma coisa doce (e cor-de-laranja)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;- especialmente para ti: uma bola de Natal acolchoada&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Also I made a card and a little scrapbook &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;(downloaded the templates from the HP projects site)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;to explain all the gifts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Também fiz um cartão e um pequeno albúm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(fiz o download dos moldes do &lt;em&gt;site&lt;/em&gt; de projectos da HP)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;para explicar as prendas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eVUNYrQN4fk/TqLvG3fwCXI/AAAAAAAAG3A/E9a4-byRWJM/s1600/DSCN5780.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" rda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eVUNYrQN4fk/TqLvG3fwCXI/AAAAAAAAG3A/E9a4-byRWJM/s320/DSCN5780.JPG" width="227px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kWSsBZ81akk/TqLvCrOHlPI/AAAAAAAAG24/1zUeHjyjiKw/s1600/DSCN5781.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="244px" rda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kWSsBZ81akk/TqLvCrOHlPI/AAAAAAAAG24/1zUeHjyjiKw/s320/DSCN5781.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pMIlwiI9qA4/TqLuzESAtFI/AAAAAAAAG2w/CDHSlOwOA6o/s1600/DSCN5759.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="299px" rda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pMIlwiI9qA4/TqLuzESAtFI/AAAAAAAAG2w/CDHSlOwOA6o/s320/DSCN5759.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;It was really fun &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;and now I can tell I got a new friend from far far away!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Enjoy this beautiful fall day and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I'll see you all soon!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Foi muito engraçado &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e agora posso dizer a toda a gente &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;que tenho uma nova amiga de muito muito longe!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ft9zAf46ZCs/TpxJh5MX_WI/AAAAAAAAGwQ/EcBvGm387R0/s1600/DSCN5958.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" oda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ft9zAf46ZCs/TpxJh5MX_WI/AAAAAAAAGwQ/EcBvGm387R0/s320/DSCN5958.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I've had a most enjoyabe day, last saturday. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Invited by my sister-in-law and familly (J's sister), &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I went to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cadescove.net/auto_tour.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Cades Cove&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt; for a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayride"&gt;hayride&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;For those of you who don't know, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cadescove.net/auto_tour.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Cades Cove&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt; is an area in the wilderness of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/grsm/index.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Smokies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt; (aka the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/grsm/index.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Great Smoky Mountains&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;), &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;once chosen by European settlers to hunt and live. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Slowly and with the passing of the owners the &lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/grsm/index.htm"&gt;Great Smoky Mountains National Park&lt;/a&gt; ended up by buying all the land in &lt;a href="http://www.cadescove.net/auto_tour.html"&gt;Cades Cove&lt;/a&gt; and that now is part of the &lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/grsm/index.htm"&gt;National Park&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;The ride &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;(with us sitting&amp;nbsp;on the hay on a huge trailer pulled by a truck)&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;is guided, and&amp;nbsp;we can see all the old cabins and churchs that once were inhabitated by those Europeans who once chosed &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cadescove.net/auto_tour.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Cades Cove&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt; as home. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Park Rangers are all over the place, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;directing traffic as when wild life crosses the road &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and helping with whatever tourists need help with. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Also, and with a bit of luck, one can also see wildlife. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;And so&amp;nbsp;we did. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Some deer crossing near a cabin &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;to go from one side of the florest to the other&amp;nbsp;(not bucks, only does), &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;squirells, a fox, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;some wild turkeys, and... a black bear! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Alas! The bear was too far away for my camera to be able to get a got shot &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;(I really do need to get me a new better camera!), &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;but still... the park ranger told me the bear had just across the road &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;minutes before and was now just roaming under a huge tree... and there it was! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I was really trilled!, as you can imagine.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Plus,&amp;nbsp;a vast majority of my photos are of the trees and the colors... absolutely amazing! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;In some of them you can see the silhouette of the &lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/grsm/index.htm"&gt;Smokies&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;It was indeed a very pretty&amp;nbsp;and perfect autumn day! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Below you can see some of the photos I took. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I hope you'll enjoy it and that may give you a taste of what I experienced. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;It was indeed a fantastic experience!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I'll see you all soon!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;No sábado passado tive um óptimo dia! Fui com a minha cunhada &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;(a irmã do J) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;e outros familiares a &lt;a href="http://www.cadescove.net/auto_tour.html"&gt;Cades Cove&lt;/a&gt;, e depois fomos num &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayride"&gt;passeio num atrelado em cima do feno&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Para aqueles que não sabem, &lt;a href="http://www.cadescove.net/auto_tour.html"&gt;Cades Cove&lt;/a&gt; é uma área selvagem integrada nas &lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/grsm/index.htm"&gt;Smokies&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;(isto é, nas &lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/grsm/index.htm"&gt;Great Smoky Mountains&lt;/a&gt;), &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;que antigos colonos Europeus tinham escolhido háa muitos anos atrás como local para caçar e viver.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Gradualmente e à medida que os donos das terras iam morrendo, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;o &lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/grsm/index.htm"&gt;Parque Nacional das Great Smoky Mountains&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;comprou as terras de &lt;a href="http://www.cadescove.net/auto_tour.html"&gt;Cades Cove&lt;/a&gt; que agora fazem parte do &lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/grsm/index.htm"&gt;parque&amp;nbsp;nacional&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;O passeio (com as pessoas sentadas em cima do feno num enorme atrelado puxado por uma carrinha) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;é guiado (o condutor é o guia turístico) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;e podem-se ver as cabanas e as igrejas &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;desses antigos colonos europeus que viveram em &lt;a href="http://www.cadescove.net/auto_tour.html"&gt;Cades Cove&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Há guardas florestais por todo o lado,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;dirigindo o tráfico em alturas como quando os animais selvagens atravessam a estrada &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;e ajudando os turistas sempre que alguém tem necessidade de ajuda.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;E com um pouco de sorte também se podem ver animais selvagens. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;E foi o que aconteceu. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Consegui ver alguns veados &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;que atravessavam em frente duma cabana para ir dum lado para o outro da floresta &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;(apenas fêmeas, não vi nenhum macho), &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;esquilos, uma raposa, alguns perús selvagens, e... um urso preto! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Alas! O urso estava bastante longe &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;e a minha camera não tem alcance suficiente para conseguir uma foto nítida &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;(tenho mesmo de comprar uma boa camera!), &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;mas ainda assim... a guarda florestal disse-me &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;que o urso tinha acabado de atravessar a estrada uns minutos antes &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;e que agora estava a comer erva debaixo duma grande árvore... e lá estava ele! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Eu estava tão entusiasmada!, como vocês podem imaginar. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;De qualquer modo, a grande maioria das minhas fotos são de árvores, e as cores... são fantásticas!Nalgumas pode-se ver a silhueta das &lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/grsm/index.htm"&gt;Smokies&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Estava de facto um perfeito e belo dia de Outono!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Em baixo podem ver algumas das fotos que tirei. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Espero que gostem e que tenham ficado com um gostinho daquilo que eu vivenciei. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Foi uma experiência fantástica!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Até breve!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hhUSiXVOy5c/TpxFCfEb69I/AAAAAAAAGrY/MaGvwZ3pvF8/s1600/DSCN5864.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="243px" oda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hhUSiXVOy5c/TpxFCfEb69I/AAAAAAAAGrY/MaGvwZ3pvF8/s320/DSCN5864.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Hayride starting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D7Kgny14XoI/TpxFFKA5psI/AAAAAAAAGrg/2tYVQ9NPvMA/s1600/DSCN5863.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" oda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D7Kgny14XoI/TpxFFKA5psI/AAAAAAAAGrg/2tYVQ9NPvMA/s320/DSCN5863.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Horses at distance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FkUkE40OJ-U/TpxFKLv-3pI/AAAAAAAAGrw/3n6eMR25Kxs/s1600/DSCN5866.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" oda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FkUkE40OJ-U/TpxFKLv-3pI/AAAAAAAAGrw/3n6eMR25Kxs/s320/DSCN5866.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Perfect Fall day!&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-paZb2WgFXj4/TpxFmuiSZvI/AAAAAAAAGso/DZ_9MmMnfd4/s1600/DSCN5873.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" oda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-paZb2WgFXj4/TpxFmuiSZvI/AAAAAAAAGso/DZ_9MmMnfd4/s320/DSCN5873.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;More horses at distance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bI-kfbPbjCY/TpxFp7D4xRI/AAAAAAAAGsw/3jxL_Fth7A0/s1600/DSCN5874.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" oda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bI-kfbPbjCY/TpxFp7D4xRI/AAAAAAAAGsw/3jxL_Fth7A0/s320/DSCN5874.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Still the horses&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-btoys8SSuok/TpxFtm2pP3I/AAAAAAAAGs4/Ahg7-AzDDOM/s1600/DSCN5875.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" oda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-btoys8SSuok/TpxFtm2pP3I/AAAAAAAAGs4/Ahg7-AzDDOM/s320/DSCN5875.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;The people at the back of the trailer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OvgaADD0pYw/TpxRwofXgBI/AAAAAAAAGzQ/nEEl_W-3wng/s1600/DSCN5916.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" oda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OvgaADD0pYw/TpxRwofXgBI/AAAAAAAAGzQ/nEEl_W-3wng/s320/DSCN5916.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Aproaching a cabin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hLc3hoEN4ZQ/TpxFxjQfQDI/AAAAAAAAGtA/ZPQ2vKlfcVE/s1600/DSCN5876.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" oda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hLc3hoEN4ZQ/TpxFxjQfQDI/AAAAAAAAGtA/ZPQ2vKlfcVE/s320/DSCN5876.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Park Rangers vehicles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r_IyRGjrWMk/TpxF1kYQLoI/AAAAAAAAGtI/dARfllq4Z_s/s1600/DSCN5877.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="226px" oda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r_IyRGjrWMk/TpxF1kYQLoI/AAAAAAAAGtI/dARfllq4Z_s/s320/DSCN5877.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Another historic cabin...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YT7rmEEvYFM/TpxGOCqWJ_I/AAAAAAAAGt4/zShrB2uWpOs/s1600/DSCN5882.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" oda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YT7rmEEvYFM/TpxGOCqWJ_I/AAAAAAAAGt4/zShrB2uWpOs/s320/DSCN5882.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;... and, on the right side, the does starting to cross...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Xr5SdCAPeGg/TpxGSYSW8HI/AAAAAAAAGuA/us127EfORLg/s1600/DSCN5883.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" oda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Xr5SdCAPeGg/TpxGSYSW8HI/AAAAAAAAGuA/us127EfORLg/s320/DSCN5883.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;... going...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rT4GtYYOJrA/TpxGWJaRuPI/AAAAAAAAGuI/1CxyB9s8LLo/s1600/DSCN5884.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" oda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rT4GtYYOJrA/TpxGWJaRuPI/AAAAAAAAGuI/1CxyB9s8LLo/s320/DSCN5884.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;... still going...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Qvo-oq52Fk0/TpxGbwF1LbI/AAAAAAAAGuQ/4SdcDIQDzSg/s1600/DSCN5885.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" oda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Qvo-oq52Fk0/TpxGbwF1LbI/AAAAAAAAGuQ/4SdcDIQDzSg/s320/DSCN5885.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;... almost half way ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2aCvYYW59yI/TpxGfXABGDI/AAAAAAAAGuY/xpTCJ42EA-s/s1600/DSCN5886.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" oda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2aCvYYW59yI/TpxGfXABGDI/AAAAAAAAGuY/xpTCJ42EA-s/s320/DSCN5886.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;... and almost reaching the other side.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8FxSqQepgbg/TpxGjSTOARI/AAAAAAAAGug/6m1VmFzmS1s/s1600/DSCN5887.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" oda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8FxSqQepgbg/TpxGjSTOARI/AAAAAAAAGug/6m1VmFzmS1s/s320/DSCN5887.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;The Smokies contour&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XWSisBlw5WE/TpxGnKecgGI/AAAAAAAAGuo/k9SPqVuTlj0/s1600/DSCN5888.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" oda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XWSisBlw5WE/TpxGnKecgGI/AAAAAAAAGuo/k9SPqVuTlj0/s320/DSCN5888.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;The Smokies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L6QC5XJpdG4/TpxGpH48mnI/AAAAAAAAGuw/6SLcMpXLSTc/s1600/DSCN5890.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" oda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L6QC5XJpdG4/TpxGpH48mnI/AAAAAAAAGuw/6SLcMpXLSTc/s320/DSCN5890.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;One of the old churches&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cj3CCOxDFOc/TpxGtUeK5CI/AAAAAAAAGu4/AzWNHjArwEo/s1600/DSCN5891.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" oda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cj3CCOxDFOc/TpxGtUeK5CI/AAAAAAAAGu4/AzWNHjArwEo/s320/DSCN5891.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Close up of the church and... my niece&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SUBEcQ6Kzkg/TpxG4GU3fgI/AAAAAAAAGvI/LoPZBMm6bYU/s1600/DSCN5893.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" oda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SUBEcQ6Kzkg/TpxG4GU3fgI/AAAAAAAAGvI/LoPZBMm6bYU/s320/DSCN5893.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Great Smoky Mountains&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eVK98HzCxWE/TpxHAQJXS9I/AAAAAAAAGvg/6f0JM6yBojY/s1600/DSCN5899.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" oda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eVK98HzCxWE/TpxHAQJXS9I/AAAAAAAAGvg/6f0JM6yBojY/s320/DSCN5899.JPG" width="302px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Another church&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oQo9NEovcbw/TpxHGpCdLSI/AAAAAAAAGvw/0HDrC8dsr_g/s1600/DSCN5900.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" oda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oQo9NEovcbw/TpxHGpCdLSI/AAAAAAAAGvw/0HDrC8dsr_g/s320/DSCN5900.JPG" width="196px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;The church from behind&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MNzRVc8rE6Q/TpxHI-R7eLI/AAAAAAAAGv4/8dXzS0cwOUs/s1600/DSCN5901.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" oda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MNzRVc8rE6Q/TpxHI-R7eLI/AAAAAAAAGv4/8dXzS0cwOUs/s320/DSCN5901.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;The Smokies skyline&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0CSsYlvSIvI/TpxHLdXJyII/AAAAAAAAGwA/87C4CPN59Y0/s1600/DSCN5902.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" oda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0CSsYlvSIvI/TpxHLdXJyII/AAAAAAAAGwA/87C4CPN59Y0/s320/DSCN5902.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Still the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt; Smokies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B5gsXI2k3-I/TpxJmA5YR_I/AAAAAAAAGwY/1m3WyDbKldc/s1600/DSCN5909.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" oda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B5gsXI2k3-I/TpxJmA5YR_I/AAAAAAAAGwY/1m3WyDbKldc/s320/DSCN5909.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Bridge over creek&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-M_ggEte6lR8/TpxJpN6xr7I/AAAAAAAAGwg/1z8-BVWwIRs/s1600/DSCN5910.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" oda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-M_ggEte6lR8/TpxJpN6xr7I/AAAAAAAAGwg/1z8-BVWwIRs/s320/DSCN5910.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Creek&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uAFd1xLO7yA/TpxJs8n4T9I/AAAAAAAAGwo/iFxtZ_ceDf4/s1600/DSCN5917.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" oda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uAFd1xLO7yA/TpxJs8n4T9I/AAAAAAAAGwo/iFxtZ_ceDf4/s320/DSCN5917.JPG" width="177px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Another cabin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cBLKgNfKG7c/TpxJy23wPYI/AAAAAAAAGww/YxOGuzx4q3M/s1600/DSCN5914.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" oda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cBLKgNfKG7c/TpxJy23wPYI/AAAAAAAAGww/YxOGuzx4q3M/s320/DSCN5914.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;The Smokies on the background&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ego30cNa1UY/TpxJ20lDJdI/AAAAAAAAGw4/p31BpzXgUhE/s1600/DSCN5913.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="153px" oda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ego30cNa1UY/TpxJ20lDJdI/AAAAAAAAGw4/p31BpzXgUhE/s320/DSCN5913.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;And another cabin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5mUVFNYd3XY/TpxJ9nttN3I/AAAAAAAAGxA/BYwN0nwrogE/s1600/DSCN5920.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" oda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5mUVFNYd3XY/TpxJ9nttN3I/AAAAAAAAGxA/BYwN0nwrogE/s320/DSCN5920.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Cabin and old mill&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mi8El47UQBM/TpxKBwxuyXI/AAAAAAAAGxI/PdfiKedcJyM/s1600/DSCN5921.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" oda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mi8El47UQBM/TpxKBwxuyXI/AAAAAAAAGxI/PdfiKedcJyM/s320/DSCN5921.JPG" width="265px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Close up of the cabin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-67K26H-9gqU/TpxKIwuOtDI/AAAAAAAAGxY/mp5vEVYYfKw/s1600/DSCN5928.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" oda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-67K26H-9gqU/TpxKIwuOtDI/AAAAAAAAGxY/mp5vEVYYfKw/s320/DSCN5928.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Fall colors&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GG7xV_287So/TpxKL1xOh9I/AAAAAAAAGxg/RmMSnzQhwc4/s1600/DSCN5929.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" oda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GG7xV_287So/TpxKL1xOh9I/AAAAAAAAGxg/RmMSnzQhwc4/s320/DSCN5929.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Fall colors&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oDWvhrBISrk/TpxKPvXRjNI/AAAAAAAAGxo/4pJ4PB4A3OU/s1600/DSCN5931.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" oda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oDWvhrBISrk/TpxKPvXRjNI/AAAAAAAAGxo/4pJ4PB4A3OU/s320/DSCN5931.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Fall colors&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3VYz_kU7Rrw/TpxKTP1ItHI/AAAAAAAAGxw/ocIX6yA-KAE/s1600/DSCN5934.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" oda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3VYz_kU7Rrw/TpxKTP1ItHI/AAAAAAAAGxw/ocIX6yA-KAE/s320/DSCN5934.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Fall colors&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ibitzneqE0w/TpxKXFoGYrI/AAAAAAAAGx4/YG3E6z3mfTY/s1600/DSCN5938.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" oda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ibitzneqE0w/TpxKXFoGYrI/AAAAAAAAGx4/YG3E6z3mfTY/s320/DSCN5938.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Big tree... and black bear under it!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E9R93hTMhz8/TpxKa9GbCsI/AAAAAAAAGyA/brlxbgadwGc/s1600/DSCN5938.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" oda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E9R93hTMhz8/TpxKa9GbCsI/AAAAAAAAGyA/brlxbgadwGc/s320/DSCN5938.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Little black spot=black bear under tree&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EOJOyTCURok/TpxKesE0SOI/AAAAAAAAGyI/xA5-0x2hCCQ/s1600/DSCN5939.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" oda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EOJOyTCURok/TpxKesE0SOI/AAAAAAAAGyI/xA5-0x2hCCQ/s320/DSCN5939.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;There it is... still under the tree&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-USkhD2GLHvA/TpxKjxxkxQI/AAAAAAAAGyQ/70v0CuXQuLI/s1600/DSCN5940.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" oda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-USkhD2GLHvA/TpxKjxxkxQI/AAAAAAAAGyQ/70v0CuXQuLI/s320/DSCN5940.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;A little bigger now&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uRnJQHkU7r4/TpxKoW-RCqI/AAAAAAAAGyY/PjeDCBC4HLs/s1600/DSCN5941.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" oda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uRnJQHkU7r4/TpxKoW-RCqI/AAAAAAAAGyY/PjeDCBC4HLs/s320/DSCN5941.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Still there...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7580unqc67I/TpxKrw8jLfI/AAAAAAAAGyg/bThLP_tCeAQ/s1600/DSCN5942.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" oda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7580unqc67I/TpxKrw8jLfI/AAAAAAAAGyg/bThLP_tCeAQ/s320/DSCN5942.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Bye bye black bear... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-647276983505975385?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/647276983505975385/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/10/hayride-at-cades-cove.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/647276983505975385'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/647276983505975385'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/10/hayride-at-cades-cove.html' title='Hayride at Cades Cove'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ft9zAf46ZCs/TpxJh5MX_WI/AAAAAAAAGwQ/EcBvGm387R0/s72-c/DSCN5958.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-6174330177533124175</id><published>2011-10-06T11:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-06T11:16:50.187-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friend&apos;s swap'/><title type='text'>F.R.I.E.N.D.S SWAP - Love my gifts!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;The gifts from my friend &lt;a href="http://artscraftsandmore-withveena.blogspot.com/"&gt;Veena&lt;/a&gt; arrived yesterday! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Os presentes&amp;nbsp;da minha amiga &lt;a href="http://artscraftsandmore-withveena.blogspot.com/"&gt;Veena&lt;/a&gt; chegaram ontem!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ypUz76tQmS4/To2k5dWkRkI/AAAAAAAAGqI/DjSKCmdHBrE/s1600/DSCN5810.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" kca="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ypUz76tQmS4/To2k5dWkRkI/AAAAAAAAGqI/DjSKCmdHBrE/s320/DSCN5810.JPG" width="208px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;WOW! I loved everything!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;UAU! Gostei imenso!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I have told you about the &lt;a href="http://sewprimkhris.blogspot.com/2011/08/f-r-i-e-n-d-s-swap-2011.html"&gt;F.R.I.E.N.D.S Swap&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;promoted by &lt;a href="http://sewprimkhris.blogspot.com/"&gt;Khris&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://sewprimkhris.blogspot.com/"&gt;SewPrimKhris&lt;/a&gt;... and &lt;a href="http://artscraftsandmore-withveena.blogspot.com/"&gt;Veena&lt;/a&gt; was the friend Khris partnered me with.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Já vos tinha dito acerca da troca de prendas &lt;a href="http://sewprimkhris.blogspot.com/2011/08/f-r-i-e-n-d-s-swap-2011.html"&gt;(F.R.I.E.N.D.S Swap)&lt;/a&gt; promovida pela &lt;a href="http://sewprimkhris.blogspot.com/"&gt;Khris&lt;/a&gt; do blog &lt;a href="http://sewprimkhris.blogspot.com/"&gt;SewPrimKhris&lt;/a&gt;... e a &lt;a href="http://artscraftsandmore-withveena.blogspot.com/"&gt;Veena &lt;/a&gt;foi a amiga com quem a Khris me emparceirou.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;It was a very enjoyable experience and I'll definitely participate again!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I'm going to share with&amp;nbsp;you the wonderful gifts from my friend &lt;a href="http://artscraftsandmore-withveena.blogspot.com/"&gt;Veena&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Foi uma experiência muito agradável e vou definitivamente repetir! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Vou compartilhar convosco as prendas que a minha amiga &lt;a href="http://artscraftsandmore-withveena.blogspot.com/"&gt;Veena&lt;/a&gt; me mandou.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KloDAmQmYeQ/To2k8D0siTI/AAAAAAAAGqM/WL_ctmnx6n0/s1600/DSCN5811.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" kca="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KloDAmQmYeQ/To2k8D0siTI/AAAAAAAAGqM/WL_ctmnx6n0/s320/DSCN5811.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TIxqrecMC1M/To2ldsrALvI/AAAAAAAAGq8/ZfELrPM-iJo/s1600/DSCN5827.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" kca="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TIxqrecMC1M/To2ldsrALvI/AAAAAAAAGq8/ZfELrPM-iJo/s320/DSCN5827.JPG" width="249px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;F&lt;/span&gt; is for (picture) FRAME...&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;(MOLDURA)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-K3SwCJbHSX8/To27Vb2tdlI/AAAAAAAAGrU/DtGluBvSQhY/s1600/DSCN5812.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265px" kca="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-K3SwCJbHSX8/To27Vb2tdlI/AAAAAAAAGrU/DtGluBvSQhY/s320/DSCN5812.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-001zLBtsvj4/To2lY6jj78I/AAAAAAAAGq0/9oGQXR_bMdo/s1600/DSCN5825.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" kca="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-001zLBtsvj4/To2lY6jj78I/AAAAAAAAGq0/9oGQXR_bMdo/s320/DSCN5825.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;R&lt;/span&gt; is for RED pouch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(BOLSA ENCARNADA)&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-K86plBkQwsA/To2k_EjNdeI/AAAAAAAAGqQ/8T2v2X20AmI/s1600/DSCN5813.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" kca="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-K86plBkQwsA/To2k_EjNdeI/AAAAAAAAGqQ/8T2v2X20AmI/s320/DSCN5813.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fmD3sgGbY9Y/To2lVz7OzAI/AAAAAAAAGqw/RSLjrLtNPVg/s1600/DSCN5824.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" kca="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fmD3sgGbY9Y/To2lVz7OzAI/AAAAAAAAGqw/RSLjrLtNPVg/s320/DSCN5824.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt; is for INDIAN (fabric)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(TECIDO INDIANO)&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-I-cxB89OAJc/To2lCH88egI/AAAAAAAAGqU/bkXnyDVoqA4/s1600/DSCN5814.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" kca="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-I-cxB89OAJc/To2lCH88egI/AAAAAAAAGqU/bkXnyDVoqA4/s320/DSCN5814.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5QzN6pvjov8/To2lFuu894I/AAAAAAAAGqY/5Ay-HhtCR4Y/s1600/DSCN5815.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" kca="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5QzN6pvjov8/To2lFuu894I/AAAAAAAAGqY/5Ay-HhtCR4Y/s320/DSCN5815.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;E&lt;/span&gt; is for ENVELOPE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(ENVELOPE)&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ypXnlMOWyOM/To2lIUaqN7I/AAAAAAAAGqc/PBHZHyS3Z34/s1600/DSCN5816.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" kca="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ypXnlMOWyOM/To2lIUaqN7I/AAAAAAAAGqc/PBHZHyS3Z34/s320/DSCN5816.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nx6nfe08KlU/To2lmDCJp4I/AAAAAAAAGrI/GqvhB0nW3gk/s1600/DSCN5830.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" kca="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nx6nfe08KlU/To2lmDCJp4I/AAAAAAAAGrI/GqvhB0nW3gk/s320/DSCN5830.JPG" width="262px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;N&lt;/span&gt; is for NECKLACE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(COLAR)&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C8ORYap9J2U/To2lLb7ldbI/AAAAAAAAGqg/JTO_3xbJUe8/s1600/DSCN5817.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" kca="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C8ORYap9J2U/To2lLb7ldbI/AAAAAAAAGqg/JTO_3xbJUe8/s320/DSCN5817.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BMP8ZJerA70/To2lOait0jI/AAAAAAAAGqk/g3sfjYO4kXQ/s1600/DSCN5818.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" kca="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BMP8ZJerA70/To2lOait0jI/AAAAAAAAGqk/g3sfjYO4kXQ/s320/DSCN5818.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;D&lt;/span&gt; is for (journal) DIARY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(DIARIO)&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mMnKZOtXTSE/To2lQl2MYsI/AAAAAAAAGqo/74CJi6DW3gk/s1600/DSCN5819.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" kca="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mMnKZOtXTSE/To2lQl2MYsI/AAAAAAAAGqo/74CJi6DW3gk/s320/DSCN5819.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GdLpf4hFL00/To2li277ZFI/AAAAAAAAGrE/UmgJuQL3DUM/s1600/DSCN5829.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="218px" kca="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GdLpf4hFL00/To2li277ZFI/AAAAAAAAGrE/UmgJuQL3DUM/s320/DSCN5829.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;S&lt;/span&gt; is for SEQUINS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(CRISTAIS BRILHANTES)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E08Pn-fRYk8/To2lTUuHh-I/AAAAAAAAGqs/qaFSsvtL58g/s1600/DSCN5823.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" kca="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E08Pn-fRYk8/To2lTUuHh-I/AAAAAAAAGqs/qaFSsvtL58g/s320/DSCN5823.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Dear &lt;a href="http://artscraftsandmore-withveena.blogspot.com/"&gt;Veena&lt;/a&gt;, thank you so much for your beautiful gifts!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I hope my gifts to you will arrive soon...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Querida &lt;a href="http://artscraftsandmore-withveena.blogspot.com/"&gt;Veena&lt;/a&gt;, muito obrigada pelas prendas tão bonitas!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;Espero que as minhas prendas para ti cheguem depressa...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;And thank you also, &lt;a href="http://sewprimkhris.blogspot.com/"&gt;Khris&lt;/a&gt;, for having promoted this lovely swap!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Obrigada também &lt;a href="http://sewprimkhris.blogspot.com/"&gt;Khris&lt;/a&gt; por ter promovido esta bonita troca de prendas!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I'll see you all soon!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Até&amp;nbsp;breve!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-6174330177533124175?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/6174330177533124175/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/10/friends-swap-love-my-gifts.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/6174330177533124175'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/6174330177533124175'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/10/friends-swap-love-my-gifts.html' title='F.R.I.E.N.D.S SWAP - Love my gifts!'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ypUz76tQmS4/To2k5dWkRkI/AAAAAAAAGqI/DjSKCmdHBrE/s72-c/DSCN5810.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-8159887094997515888</id><published>2011-10-04T11:05:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-04T11:07:42.500-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='card making'/><title type='text'>Halloween cards</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Lately I get the feeling that time's just flying by... really quickly! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Ultimamente tenho a sensação de que o tempo passa a correr...&amp;nbsp;e extremamente&amp;nbsp;depressa!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Where we are, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-srmdwTrgSqQ/TosBJkONHuI/AAAAAAAAGqE/4oMswwknGZc/s1600/DSCN5755.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="165px" kca="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-srmdwTrgSqQ/TosBJkONHuI/AAAAAAAAGqE/4oMswwknGZc/s200/DSCN5755.JPG" width="200px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;the first week of October, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;the first chilly mornings, the yard lawn&amp;nbsp;that slowly goes into dormant...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;E aqui estamos, na primeira semana de Outubro, com as primeiras manhãs muito frescas, a relva do quintal que devagarinho começa a adormecer...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;As for me and as for the last couple of weeks or so, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I've been quite immersed in my scrapbooking, stamping, and card making. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Quanto a mim tenho estado submersa durante as últimas semanas &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;com os albúns de recortes, a estampagem e a fazer cartões.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I keep learning new &amp;nbsp;techniques, how to's, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;getting more new tools and supplies... and having a real good time!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Continuo a aprender novas técnicas, how to's (modos de fazer), a adquirir mais ferramentas e materiais novos... e a passar momentos agradáveis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Bellow some of the cards for Halloween.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Em baixo estão alguns dos cartões que fiz para o Halloween.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x725_dBu91Q/TosAwz_HZ8I/AAAAAAAAGpg/s-e8-XHrYKA/s1600/DSCN5802.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" kca="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x725_dBu91Q/TosAwz_HZ8I/AAAAAAAAGpg/s-e8-XHrYKA/s320/DSCN5802.JPG" width="212px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mFkw3ZQlcb4/TosAzvdVQHI/AAAAAAAAGpk/I991O6v-TCI/s1600/DSCN5798.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" kca="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mFkw3ZQlcb4/TosAzvdVQHI/AAAAAAAAGpk/I991O6v-TCI/s320/DSCN5798.JPG" width="201px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7QWdF_jHdy8/TosA2p49b2I/AAAAAAAAGpo/pi68FnZAsh8/s1600/DSCN5799.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" kca="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7QWdF_jHdy8/TosA2p49b2I/AAAAAAAAGpo/pi68FnZAsh8/s320/DSCN5799.JPG" width="190px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lBBwC-YvWdc/TosA5NwbpAI/AAAAAAAAGps/WOa_p7_lxzE/s1600/DSCN5800.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" kca="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lBBwC-YvWdc/TosA5NwbpAI/AAAAAAAAGps/WOa_p7_lxzE/s320/DSCN5800.JPG" width="174px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YDA1z2aYC9A/TosA7uetYHI/AAAAAAAAGpw/-AGb3c1Cmfg/s1600/DSCN5801.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" kca="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YDA1z2aYC9A/TosA7uetYHI/AAAAAAAAGpw/-AGb3c1Cmfg/s320/DSCN5801.JPG" width="218px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dhlH16qeWbc/TosAuMJSQ-I/AAAAAAAAGpc/GXXMUnkICbo/s1600/DSCN5794.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" kca="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dhlH16qeWbc/TosAuMJSQ-I/AAAAAAAAGpc/GXXMUnkICbo/s320/DSCN5794.JPG" width="197px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cbrBYfpcRoU/TosAraAQhHI/AAAAAAAAGpY/yFHv4vVT6VM/s1600/DSCN5797.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" kca="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cbrBYfpcRoU/TosAraAQhHI/AAAAAAAAGpY/yFHv4vVT6VM/s320/DSCN5797.JPG" width="276px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t42cBQAHgCw/TosAoAU527I/AAAAAAAAGpU/38uvxgbNoPI/s1600/DSCN5795.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" kca="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t42cBQAHgCw/TosAoAU527I/AAAAAAAAGpU/38uvxgbNoPI/s320/DSCN5795.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;This last one is my first weasel-card, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;really easy to make, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and I specially like the fact it stands on its own. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;O último é o meu primeiro cartão-catavelete,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;muito fácil de fazer,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e gosto especialmente do facto de se manter em pé por si próprio.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;The different shots show you better than words what I mean.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;As diferentes fotos ilustram melhor que&amp;nbsp;palavras o que eu quero dizer.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Also, I've completed another scrapbook &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;about flowers in my garden, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;but that will be for another post.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Tambem terminei outro albúm de recortes, acerca das flores do meu jardim, que irei mostrar noutro post.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Till then, keep enjoying this beautiful Autumn weather, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;and I'll see you all later!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Até lá, continuem a apreciar este belo tempo de Outono, e até breve!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-8159887094997515888?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/8159887094997515888/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/10/halloween-cards.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/8159887094997515888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/8159887094997515888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/10/halloween-cards.html' title='Halloween cards'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-srmdwTrgSqQ/TosBJkONHuI/AAAAAAAAGqE/4oMswwknGZc/s72-c/DSCN5755.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-1322246182939724801</id><published>2011-09-30T16:44:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-30T16:45:57.842-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scrapbooking'/><title type='text'>Paper lunch bag scrapbook</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3kxy49MuMmQ/ToYZIDLDGLI/AAAAAAAAGnw/Y28YLCt2gMA/s1600/DSCN5710.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" kca="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3kxy49MuMmQ/ToYZIDLDGLI/AAAAAAAAGnw/Y28YLCt2gMA/s320/DSCN5710.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;For the last couple weeks &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I've been doing mostly nothing but... re-discovering scrapbooking. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Nas últimas semanas não tenho feito praticamente mais nada a não ser... redescobrir como fazer albúns de recortes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I'd been making photo albums and digital scrapbooking for quite a while,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;but now... my stamp collection is growing very fast,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;as are&amp;nbsp;my scrapbooking tools and papers and inks and ink pads &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and chalk pencils and gel pens and markers and... Wow!!! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I'm totally addicted to it!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Desde há bastante tempo que faço albúns de fotografias e albúns de recortes digitais, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;mas agora... a minha colecção de carimbos está a crescer muito rapidamente,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;bem como os materiais específicos para fazer albúns &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e os papéis especiais e as tintas e as almofadas de carimbos &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e os lápis de giz e as canetas de gel e as canetas de feltro e...Wow!!! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Estou completamente viciada!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I've been learning, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;watching movies on YouTube, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;reading blogs... experimenting techniques... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;... and I've finished my first &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;totally built by me &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;paper lunch bag scrapbook!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Tenho estudado, visto filmes no You Tube, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;lido blogs... experimentado técnicas... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;... e acabei o meu primeiro album de recortes &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;a partir de sacos de papel pardo completamente feito por mim!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;After&amp;nbsp;watched several different tutorials and videos on how to build one, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;here it is!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Depois de ver alguns tutoriais e vídeos acerca de como construir um, aqui está!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9g1gnuvMVuY/ToYZOSBmSqI/AAAAAAAAGn4/NKwEQ_3xHZw/s1600/DSCN5712.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="269px" kca="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9g1gnuvMVuY/ToYZOSBmSqI/AAAAAAAAGn4/NKwEQ_3xHZw/s320/DSCN5712.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;It's really bulky, but it carries a bunch of stuff inside. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Está muito grosso, mas tem uma data de coisas lá dentro.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-corKb6hBxbM/ToYZg1f9jlI/AAAAAAAAGoM/JZYrbaGEW2E/s1600/DSCN5718.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="231px" kca="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-corKb6hBxbM/ToYZg1f9jlI/AAAAAAAAGoM/JZYrbaGEW2E/s320/DSCN5718.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0vbafdRfTjo/ToYaH-nWgmI/AAAAAAAAGo8/p87u4yc3prQ/s1600/DSCN5735.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="269px" kca="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0vbafdRfTjo/ToYaH-nWgmI/AAAAAAAAGo8/p87u4yc3prQ/s320/DSCN5735.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QvTZzY8DmgQ/ToYaRBvvGyI/AAAAAAAAGpI/wYt1CTu3R0o/s1600/DSCN5732.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" kca="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QvTZzY8DmgQ/ToYaRBvvGyI/AAAAAAAAGpI/wYt1CTu3R0o/s320/DSCN5732.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fWZYdetTiSc/ToYaOkmPfbI/AAAAAAAAGpE/BG8mYnLAJ_o/s1600/DSCN5733.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="246px" kca="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fWZYdetTiSc/ToYaOkmPfbI/AAAAAAAAGpE/BG8mYnLAJ_o/s320/DSCN5733.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QbbZ_hJOFaw/ToYaLGR4HkI/AAAAAAAAGpA/Ot24VTs0rcY/s1600/DSCN5734.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" kca="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QbbZ_hJOFaw/ToYaLGR4HkI/AAAAAAAAGpA/Ot24VTs0rcY/s320/DSCN5734.JPG" width="280px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HLYvyuIFMQU/ToYZ1Fa8iFI/AAAAAAAAGok/AdRdK8NBXsw/s1600/DSCN5724.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="264px" kca="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HLYvyuIFMQU/ToYZ1Fa8iFI/AAAAAAAAGok/AdRdK8NBXsw/s320/DSCN5724.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_UAE9VGlnVM/ToYZ30UzauI/AAAAAAAAGoo/lVn1LIFRj04/s1600/DSCN5727.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="227px" kca="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_UAE9VGlnVM/ToYZ30UzauI/AAAAAAAAGoo/lVn1LIFRj04/s320/DSCN5727.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Y3TlD9_W0nY/ToYZYqIU_jI/AAAAAAAAGoE/U8up3Hq6Hcg/s1600/DSCN5716.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="219px" kca="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Y3TlD9_W0nY/ToYZYqIU_jI/AAAAAAAAGoE/U8up3Hq6Hcg/s320/DSCN5716.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;What's the subject...? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Well... it's really like a bit of everything, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;mostly it kinda reflects my state of mind nowadays, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;the missing of my grandson, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;nostalgic memory lane feelings of&amp;nbsp;my son growing up,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;the loneliness and missing of my husband... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;É acerca de quê...?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Bem... é realmente um pouco acerca de tudo,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;principalmente reflecte o meu estado de espírito hoje em dia, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;as saudades que sinto do meu neto, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;as recordações nostálgicas do tempo em que o meu filho era criança, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;da solidão de agora e do sentir tanta falta do meu marido...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0T05RobSQ1o/ToYZRwbR_vI/AAAAAAAAGn8/3jA84bjV5Bg/s1600/DSCN5713.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="224px" kca="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0T05RobSQ1o/ToYZRwbR_vI/AAAAAAAAGn8/3jA84bjV5Bg/s320/DSCN5713.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BOJG3rxT1SE/ToYZooSYDQI/AAAAAAAAGoU/XwD4BvedDZY/s1600/DSCN5720.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="255px" kca="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BOJG3rxT1SE/ToYZooSYDQI/AAAAAAAAGoU/XwD4BvedDZY/s320/DSCN5720.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;But most of all,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;the way I feel while at it... relaxed, absorbed...&amp;nbsp;makes me feel real good.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Mas acima de tudo,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;a maneira como me sinto enquanto estou a fazer um albúm... relaxada, absorvida... faz-me sentir mesmo muito &amp;nbsp;bem.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I leave you all for now&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and wish you a very happy last day of September!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Deixo-vos por agora, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;desejando-vos um último&amp;nbsp;dia de Setembro muito feliz!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-1322246182939724801?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/1322246182939724801/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/09/paper-lunch-bag-scrapbook.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/1322246182939724801'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/1322246182939724801'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/09/paper-lunch-bag-scrapbook.html' title='Paper lunch bag scrapbook'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3kxy49MuMmQ/ToYZIDLDGLI/AAAAAAAAGnw/Y28YLCt2gMA/s72-c/DSCN5710.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-4525255507425021449</id><published>2011-09-27T07:33:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-27T07:39:36.799-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friend&apos;s swap'/><title type='text'>F.R.I.E.N.D.S Swap</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-p-ndg90p-Ys/ToGv5377IDI/AAAAAAAAGnU/wcWyWpt7Nns/s1600/FRIENDS+SWAP+2011+SEW+PRIM+KHRIS.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="161px" kca="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-p-ndg90p-Ys/ToGv5377IDI/AAAAAAAAGnU/wcWyWpt7Nns/s200/FRIENDS+SWAP+2011+SEW+PRIM+KHRIS.png" width="200px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Yesterday I made a trip to the post office &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and sent a package on its way to a far away land...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Ontem fui aos correios e enviei um pacote para uma terra distante...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I hope it reaches my friend &lt;a href="http://artscraftsandmore-withveena.blogspot.com/"&gt;Veena&lt;/a&gt; quickly &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and that she'll like her gifts!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Espero que a minha amiga &lt;a href="http://artscraftsandmore-withveena.blogspot.com/"&gt;Veena&lt;/a&gt; o receba rapidamente e que&amp;nbsp;goste dos presentes!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FbEqqmKpAkU/ToGwKcTtDGI/AAAAAAAAGnc/B-f2h9EoqhI/s1600/DSCN5779.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" kca="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FbEqqmKpAkU/ToGwKcTtDGI/AAAAAAAAGnc/B-f2h9EoqhI/s320/DSCN5779.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Thanks to &lt;a href="http://sewprimkhris.blogspot.com/"&gt;Khris&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://sewprimkhris.blogspot.com/"&gt;SewPrimKhris&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I've been enjoying myself a lot with this friendship swap!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Graças à &lt;a href="http://sewprimkhris.blogspot.com/"&gt;Khris&lt;/a&gt; do &lt;a href="http://sewprimkhris.blogspot.com/"&gt;SewPrimKhris&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;passei momentos agradáveis com esta troca de presentes de amizade!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I can't wait for the next swap!&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Mal posso esperar pela próxima troca!&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I'll see you all next time!&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Até breve!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-4525255507425021449?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/4525255507425021449/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/09/friends-swap.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/4525255507425021449'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/4525255507425021449'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/09/friends-swap.html' title='F.R.I.E.N.D.S Swap'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-p-ndg90p-Ys/ToGv5377IDI/AAAAAAAAGnU/wcWyWpt7Nns/s72-c/FRIENDS+SWAP+2011+SEW+PRIM+KHRIS.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-8608861085264251042</id><published>2011-09-23T09:58:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-23T10:03:34.472-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crocodile stitch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eyeglass case holder'/><title type='text'>Autumn colors for Fall</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Slowly but surely &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yZP47xFUha4/TnyGGK8yrrI/AAAAAAAAGmc/sBV51UR-74o/s1600/DSCN5699.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" hca="true" height="200px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yZP47xFUha4/TnyGGK8yrrI/AAAAAAAAGmc/sBV51UR-74o/s200/DSCN5699.JPG" width="138px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;time's going by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and it starts to feel a lot like Fall!...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Devagarinho mas inevitavelmente &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;o tempo passa &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;e começa a parecer-se imenso com o Outono.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;After all, today is the first day of Autumn..., isn't it...?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I love Autumn nostalgic feelings, and Autumn weather, and Autumn memories from the beach at sunset in September...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Afinal de contas, hoje é o primeiro dia de Outono, não é...?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Eu adoro esta sensação nostálgica que o Outono me traz, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;e&amp;nbsp;o tempo no Outono, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;e das memórias outonais do pôr-do-sol na praia em Setembro...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;In the spirit of the season&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I want to show you some of the things I've been making.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;E dentro do&amp;nbsp;espírito da estação&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OJMFaKzcHek/TnyGVanrXdI/AAAAAAAAGmw/8NJnU81gDt0/s1600/DSCN5704.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" hca="true" height="320px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OJMFaKzcHek/TnyGVanrXdI/AAAAAAAAGmw/8NJnU81gDt0/s320/DSCN5704.2.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;quero mostrar-vos algumas das coisas que tenho estado a fazer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kUymsnWktWU/TnyGRLq59fI/AAAAAAAAGmo/6-qfKW8MkNM/s1600/DSCN5702.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" hca="true" height="259px" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kUymsnWktWU/TnyGRLq59fI/AAAAAAAAGmo/6-qfKW8MkNM/s320/DSCN5702.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c7kBIV0FKwI/TnyF_gx2IOI/AAAAAAAAGmU/DpdX2laLkNU/s1600/DSCN5700.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" hca="true" height="239px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c7kBIV0FKwI/TnyF_gx2IOI/AAAAAAAAGmU/DpdX2laLkNU/s320/DSCN5700.2.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Hmm... do you remember my &lt;a href="http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/search/label/Ear%20warmers"&gt;ear warmers aka headbands&lt;/a&gt;...? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;They look like it, don't they? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Ya... but no, these are not headbands or ear warmers...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Later alligator!... I mean, I'll tell you later!...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Hmm... lembram-se dos meus &lt;a href="http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/search/label/Ear%20warmers"&gt;agasalhos para as orelhas, ou fitas para a cabeça&lt;/a&gt;...? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Parecem-se com isso, não parecem? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Pois... mas não, não são fitas para a cabeça nem agasalhos para as orelhas...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Mais tarde crocodilo... Quero dizer, digo-vos mais tarde!...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3CafqdantwM/TnyGp3qkA7I/AAAAAAAAGnQ/RqY3JqXiR6M/s1600/grannynd+crocodile+stitch.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" hca="true" height="320px" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3CafqdantwM/TnyGp3qkA7I/AAAAAAAAGnQ/RqY3JqXiR6M/s320/grannynd+crocodile+stitch.JPG" width="214px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0fxJUIsbmyk/TnyGkhz2rvI/AAAAAAAAGnE/93lRLbWyaJ0/s1600/DSCN5708.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" hca="true" height="240px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0fxJUIsbmyk/TnyGkhz2rvI/AAAAAAAAGnE/93lRLbWyaJ0/s320/DSCN5708.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;And this...?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Well, this is crocheted crocodile stitch!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Pretty cool, right?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I'll let you know later what it became, I promise!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;E isto...?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Bom, isto é o ponto de crochet conhecido como ponto de crocodilo!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;É muito giro, não acham?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Mais tarde prometo dizer-vos no que é que isto se transformou!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Meanwhile... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;enjoy the beauties of the season &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and I'll see you all later!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Entretanto... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;espero que possam disfrutar da beleza desta estação&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;e até breve!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-8608861085264251042?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/8608861085264251042/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/09/autumn-colors-for-fall.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/8608861085264251042'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/8608861085264251042'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/09/autumn-colors-for-fall.html' title='Autumn colors for Fall'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yZP47xFUha4/TnyGGK8yrrI/AAAAAAAAGmc/sBV51UR-74o/s72-c/DSCN5699.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-3917980678524749384</id><published>2011-09-14T19:26:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-15T06:43:20.181-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='felt key chains'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tiered skirt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='card making'/><title type='text'>Felt key chains, card making and a tiered skirt</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;A extremely sad anniversary &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and a trip to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatlinburg,_Tennessee"&gt;Gatlinburg&lt;/a&gt; fulfilled my past weekend. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;On the road to visit the &lt;a href="http://www.nortonshows.com/pictures_of_norton_shows.html"&gt;Norton Apparel and Jewelry Show in Gatlinburg&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;me and my sister-in-law saw &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;this&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;A comemoração de uma data extremamente triste&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;e uma viagem a Gatlinburg preencheram o meu último fim-de-semana.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;A caminho de irmos ver a exposição de roupa e joalheria no Norton Show em Gatlinburg, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;eu e a minha cunhada vimos isto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CAxpShwYTR8/TnDEoFwHSnI/AAAAAAAAGlQ/xPJCOoiG1Uw/s1600/DSCN5652.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" rba="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CAxpShwYTR8/TnDEoFwHSnI/AAAAAAAAGlQ/xPJCOoiG1Uw/s320/DSCN5652.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Pretty cool, huh?, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;it was just standing there and looking at us, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;but by the time I got my cam out &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;it was already going back into the woods.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Muito giro, não acham? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Estava ali parado a olhar para nós, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;mas quando finalmente eu tinha a câmera preparada, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;já se estava a dirigir de volta para o bosque.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Anyway, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I had a good time at the show and bought a few little things. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I love the&amp;nbsp;new fashion&amp;nbsp;trend &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;(reminds me of the sixties and the hippie style)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;but &lt;em&gt;alas&lt;/em&gt;!, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;these are rough economic times!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;De qualquer modo,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;passei uns momentos agradáveis na exibição e comprei algumas coisitas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Gosto muito do novo estilo e tendências da moda agora&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(faz-me lembrar os anos sessenta e o estilo hippie)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;mas enfim!, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;estamos a atravessar uns maus momentos a nível económico!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;So, in the back of my mind &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I was already&amp;nbsp;making plans&amp;nbsp;about &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;a certain type of material I had bought years ago... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;Por isso comecei logo a pensar &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;e a fazer planos para um tecido &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;que tinha comprado há alguns anos atràs...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;When I came back home, I started sewing... and made a 4 tiered skirt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;And this is how it looked like after finished.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Quando voltei para casa comecei a costurar... e fiz uma saia com 4 folhos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Ficou assim depois de pronta.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3hKazYl7bVM/TnDEwb0bwlI/AAAAAAAAGlY/uQhN1oorJZM/s1600/DSCN5654.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" rba="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3hKazYl7bVM/TnDEwb0bwlI/AAAAAAAAGlY/uQhN1oorJZM/s320/DSCN5654.JPG" width="279px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NsAANjrlkOo/TnDEruwSeHI/AAAAAAAAGlU/npIkeLTX0Vo/s1600/DSCN5658.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" rba="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NsAANjrlkOo/TnDEruwSeHI/AAAAAAAAGlU/npIkeLTX0Vo/s320/DSCN5658.JPG" width="202px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aKiKnnl3UzM/TnDNk82go5I/AAAAAAAAGl4/IIzCYVDRcew/s1600/DSCN5655.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" rba="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aKiKnnl3UzM/TnDNk82go5I/AAAAAAAAGl4/IIzCYVDRcew/s320/DSCN5655.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I love it!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;And I'm already thinking about making another one, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;from a different material.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Gosto muito da saia!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;E já estou a pensar fazer outra noutro tipo de tecido.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Also, I've been playing around with my stamps &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;and finished a few cards.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;(oh! oh!, in Gatlinburg, I went to a &lt;a href="http://store.scrapbook.com/"&gt;scrap booking superstore&lt;/a&gt;! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;OMG! I'm totally rendered to this new stamping hobby).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Também tenho brincado com os meus carimbos e terminei alguns postais (oh!oh! em Gatlinburg fui a uma super loja de materiais &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;para a construção de albúns, postais, carimbos, estampagem...! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;É espectacular! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Estou completamente subjugada por este novo hobbie da estampagem com carimbos).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gKuzuFIJiHQ/TnDEy-d05uI/AAAAAAAAGlc/nu-Zzd3P4kM/s1600/DSCN5678.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="229px" rba="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gKuzuFIJiHQ/TnDEy-d05uI/AAAAAAAAGlc/nu-Zzd3P4kM/s320/DSCN5678.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="221px" rba="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uhQKIikxJpQ/TnEZ0IdVLdI/AAAAAAAAGmI/UlApo4UhiSo/s320/DSCN5671.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1wvs8yY5FfU/TnDE1bJq86I/AAAAAAAAGlg/PElVm3gJ9L8/s1600/DSCN5661.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" rba="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1wvs8yY5FfU/TnDE1bJq86I/AAAAAAAAGlg/PElVm3gJ9L8/s320/DSCN5661.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Changing gears...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;felt is one of the materials I really love to work with,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;so I kinda put together a mix of felt penny rugs circles and key chains, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;and this was the result.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Mudando de assunto...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;feltro e um dos materiais com que mais gosto de trabalhar, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;por isso como que misturei os círculos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;dos penny rugs com porta-chaves,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e o resultado foi este.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uKJo2UYWiuw/TnDFC56Q9mI/AAAAAAAAGlw/gwA69bni_4E/s1600/DSCN5697.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" rba="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uKJo2UYWiuw/TnDFC56Q9mI/AAAAAAAAGlw/gwA69bni_4E/s320/DSCN5697.JPG" width="251px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Dr3UGrSzE7k/TnEZ4GxZo6I/AAAAAAAAGmM/MKwouzBV4Rg/s1600/DSCN5695.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="290px" rba="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Dr3UGrSzE7k/TnEZ4GxZo6I/AAAAAAAAGmM/MKwouzBV4Rg/s320/DSCN5695.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lEiSpbGsXug/TnEZ7RDmIdI/AAAAAAAAGmQ/Sw1WWEUy9PM/s1600/DSCN5696.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" rba="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lEiSpbGsXug/TnEZ7RDmIdI/AAAAAAAAGmQ/Sw1WWEUy9PM/s320/DSCN5696.JPG" width="261px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jM4uuDoCvzU/TnDE4VpudeI/AAAAAAAAGlk/bnyAxSrrHhE/s1600/DSCN5681.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" rba="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jM4uuDoCvzU/TnDE4VpudeI/AAAAAAAAGlk/bnyAxSrrHhE/s320/DSCN5681.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Hopefully I'll post again soon, with some of the other things I've been busy with. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I'll see you all later then!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Em breve espero publicar outro post com as outras coisas com que me tenho ocupado ultimamente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Até breve!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-3917980678524749384?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/3917980678524749384/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/09/felt-key-chains-card-making-and-tiered.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/3917980678524749384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/3917980678524749384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/09/felt-key-chains-card-making-and-tiered.html' title='Felt key chains, card making and a tiered skirt'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CAxpShwYTR8/TnDEoFwHSnI/AAAAAAAAGlQ/xPJCOoiG1Uw/s72-c/DSCN5652.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-542931077844662717</id><published>2011-09-04T11:00:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-04T11:19:46.592-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stamping'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scrap booking'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ATC'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='card making'/><title type='text'>Stamping, stamping and more stamping!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fYG_ix_Nxpk/TmN0ft2YPwI/AAAAAAAAGjo/CQ-DWy18_Zg/s1600/2011-09-04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213px" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fYG_ix_Nxpk/TmN0ft2YPwI/AAAAAAAAGjo/CQ-DWy18_Zg/s320/2011-09-04.jpg" width="320px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;A couple days ago &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;my sister message me: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;"&amp;nbsp;is everything OK?, you haven't been posting in a while..."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Há alguns dias atrás a minha irmã enviou-me uma mensagem:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;"está tudo bem?, não tens publicado nada ultimamente...".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;The truth of the matter is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I've been kinda busy, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;keeping on&amp;nbsp;several projects at the same time, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;and lately&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;almost obsessively pursuant my new addition: stamping!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;A verdade éque tenho andado um pouco ocupada com vários projectos ao mesmo tempo, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;e ultimamente tenho andado um pouco obsecada com um novo vício: estampagem com carimbos!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pCWl4IQg3wE/TmOUzGVPtOI/AAAAAAAAGlE/LBFFg_-dU-I/s1600/DSCN5624.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pCWl4IQg3wE/TmOUzGVPtOI/AAAAAAAAGlE/LBFFg_-dU-I/s320/DSCN5624.JPG" width="250px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;For quite a while &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I've been wanting to learn and know more &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;about stamping, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;altered art, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;ATC (Artist Trading Cards), &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;card making... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Já há algum tempo que tenho querido aprender e saber mais acerca de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;estampagem com carimbos, arte alterada, ATC (cartas para troca entre artistas), fazer cartões...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Between surfing the net and watching videos, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;reading articles, finding sites related to, and experimenting... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;... I've been really busy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Entre surfar a net e ver videos, ler artigos, encontrar sites relacionados e experimentando... &lt;br /&gt;... tenho estado bastante ocupada!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;So,&amp;nbsp;little by little,&amp;nbsp;I've been acquiring some stamps, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;some ink and pads, scrap booking goodies... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;... but I certainly can't afford to buy many at a time. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Aos poucos tenho adquirido alguns carimbos, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;tinta e tinteiros, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;materiais para scrapbooking (fazer albúns)&amp;nbsp;... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;... mas realmente não posso comprar muitos ao mesmo tempo.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;A few days ago I got a very nice break while shopping at Big Lots. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;For a very good price &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I got a bunch of clear stamps, acrylic blocks and dies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Há alguns dias quando fui às compras&amp;nbsp;ao Big Lots &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(cadeia de lojas que vendem produtos mais baratos, resultantes de falência de lojas) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;encontrei óptimos preços &lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;e comprei uma data de carimbos transparentes, blocos acrílicos e tintas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Starting with ATC's (Artist Trading Cards), &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;let me tell you what I learned so far: it's a form of altered art, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;usually made out of card stock, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;measuring 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches (this is a must), &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;you can use any medium you'd like for embellishments, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;and the rest is up to your imagination. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Also, the purpose of ATC making is to be traded amongst artists.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Começando com os ATC (cartas para troca entre artistas), &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;deixem-me dizer-vos o que aprendi até agora: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;é uma forma de arte alterada, geralmente feita a partir de cartolina, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;medindo cerca de 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 polegadas (cerca de 6,5 x 9 cm, e estas medidas são obrigatórias), &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;para os enfeites pode-se utilizar qualquer tipo de medium, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e o resto é deixado à imaginação pessoal. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;O objectivo dos ATC é a sua troca entre artistas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y26AytXU6b8/TmN0pOuY09I/AAAAAAAAGjw/1d69MK4a91o/s1600/DSCN5620.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="148px" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y26AytXU6b8/TmN0pOuY09I/AAAAAAAAGjw/1d69MK4a91o/s320/DSCN5620.JPG" width="320px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f2K7Smv-z88/TmN0t1-LWBI/AAAAAAAAGj0/8a2nZPbdIB8/s1600/DSCN5617.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="216px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f2K7Smv-z88/TmN0t1-LWBI/AAAAAAAAGj0/8a2nZPbdIB8/s320/DSCN5617.JPG" width="320px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E1wTLmn2xNg/TmN0wszdUEI/AAAAAAAAGj4/YG0hmzaT5SY/s1600/DSCN5618.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E1wTLmn2xNg/TmN0wszdUEI/AAAAAAAAGj4/YG0hmzaT5SY/s320/DSCN5618.JPG" width="260px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;So far, I've made three, and I had just the perfect box to store them!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Fiz três cartas até agora, e até tinha a caixa perfeita para as guardar!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UhWfpcdhOdM/TmN01NJlORI/AAAAAAAAGj8/J8IL0YRg6TM/s1600/DSCN5625.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UhWfpcdhOdM/TmN01NJlORI/AAAAAAAAGj8/J8IL0YRg6TM/s320/DSCN5625.JPG" width="263px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k_qS0OeodFk/TmN05vw-lmI/AAAAAAAAGkA/5W4F-9WzwaI/s1600/DSCN5627.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k_qS0OeodFk/TmN05vw-lmI/AAAAAAAAGkA/5W4F-9WzwaI/s320/DSCN5627.JPG" width="266px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VrsRPZAQAXQ/TmN4ncIsLXI/AAAAAAAAGkw/d_FACo0-3t4/s1600/DSCN5629.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="228px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VrsRPZAQAXQ/TmN4ncIsLXI/AAAAAAAAGkw/d_FACo0-3t4/s320/DSCN5629.JPG" width="320px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2Dg3eXTDD-w/TmN1DTj49_I/AAAAAAAAGkM/HDVTmihErwc/s1600/DSCN5631.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2Dg3eXTDD-w/TmN1DTj49_I/AAAAAAAAGkM/HDVTmihErwc/s320/DSCN5631.JPG" width="227px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I also made some posters, intended to become wall art after framed. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I laminated some of them, like I said, I'm still experimenting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Fiz alguns posters, a pensar transformá-los em arte de parede para pendurar, depois de os emoldurar. Laminei alguns, mas como já disse ainda estou na fase de experimentação.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R_NyBNOBfPw/TmN1AfubWBI/AAAAAAAAGkI/67AfJ4ksvDg/s1600/DSCN5642.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="222px" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R_NyBNOBfPw/TmN1AfubWBI/AAAAAAAAGkI/67AfJ4ksvDg/s320/DSCN5642.JPG" width="320px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;After laminating those posters, got another idea &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;and made a bunch of bookmarks. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I've used a stamp with a cute saying.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Depois de laminar os posters, tive a ideia de fazer e laminar marcadores para livros. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Usei um carimbo com um texto engraçado.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2NvDFIOOcY0/TmN1K1oYM3I/AAAAAAAAGkU/n3HnwmB55Lo/s1600/DSCN5634.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="234px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2NvDFIOOcY0/TmN1K1oYM3I/AAAAAAAAGkU/n3HnwmB55Lo/s320/DSCN5634.JPG" width="320px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g-WA4zkTeRs/TmN1HFIcC5I/AAAAAAAAGkQ/U65U1rKJCUU/s1600/DSCN5633.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g-WA4zkTeRs/TmN1HFIcC5I/AAAAAAAAGkQ/U65U1rKJCUU/s320/DSCN5633.JPG" width="254px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Pv3iD25q6p8/TmN1N8T4aiI/AAAAAAAAGkY/Gp_EHwK4LFc/s1600/DSCN5636.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Pv3iD25q6p8/TmN1N8T4aiI/AAAAAAAAGkY/Gp_EHwK4LFc/s320/DSCN5636.JPG" width="175px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UJPHZxWEqrA/TmN1QulfzII/AAAAAAAAGkc/yfJsUxFeekI/s1600/DSCN5637.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="210px" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UJPHZxWEqrA/TmN1QulfzII/AAAAAAAAGkc/yfJsUxFeekI/s320/DSCN5637.JPG" width="320px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IHCZ9JOQjSk/TmN1Txf1E7I/AAAAAAAAGkg/17Eg2LOFtdo/s1600/DSCN5638.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IHCZ9JOQjSk/TmN1Txf1E7I/AAAAAAAAGkg/17Eg2LOFtdo/s320/DSCN5638.JPG" width="268px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EZFIoXGSOx4/TmN1Ww_dN5I/AAAAAAAAGkk/5_Mb3cTCpPA/s1600/DSCN5639.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EZFIoXGSOx4/TmN1Ww_dN5I/AAAAAAAAGkk/5_Mb3cTCpPA/s320/DSCN5639.JPG" width="214px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U6FhERSFByA/TmN1ZzZJPuI/AAAAAAAAGko/e_EhV-4WR5w/s1600/DSCN5640.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U6FhERSFByA/TmN1ZzZJPuI/AAAAAAAAGko/e_EhV-4WR5w/s320/DSCN5640.JPG" width="216px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RJnAyNxqyGg/TmN1dPegiGI/AAAAAAAAGks/H4X5deQR588/s1600/DSCN5641.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="229px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RJnAyNxqyGg/TmN1dPegiGI/AAAAAAAAGks/H4X5deQR588/s320/DSCN5641.JPG" width="320px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Also made another bunch later intended for card making, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I'll show you the final product after they're done.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Fiz mais uma data de ensaios a pensar transformá-los mais tarde em cartões.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Quando os acabar eu mostro-vos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Because I'm still initiating my stamps collection, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;my themes are still kind repetitive... tough I already have my eye on a bunch more acrylic/clear stamps with phrases, sentiments, backgrounds &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;(I find the clear stamps really easy to use and store and also cheaper than the rubber mounted).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Porque ainda estou no início da minha collecção, os meus temas são algo repetitivos... embora já tenha em vista adquirir mais carimbos de acrílico transparentes com frases e expressões, sentimentos e backgrounds (penso que os carimbos transparentes são não só bastante fáceis de usar e guardar como também muito mais baratos que os de borracha).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UqCXYKl2zNk/TmOOrdFJtrI/AAAAAAAAGk0/yTyNGlm-6Cg/s1600/DSCN5643.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="168px" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UqCXYKl2zNk/TmOOrdFJtrI/AAAAAAAAGk0/yTyNGlm-6Cg/s200/DSCN5643.JPG" width="200px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7gxvxIgi-eA/TmOOtThI3YI/AAAAAAAAGk4/TaA_TkW8Pd4/s1600/DSCN5647.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7gxvxIgi-eA/TmOOtThI3YI/AAAAAAAAGk4/TaA_TkW8Pd4/s320/DSCN5647.JPG" width="118px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-y_rhxET9eJY/TmOOxNUgBxI/AAAAAAAAGk8/mkyEo8HY59I/s1600/DSCN5649.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="307px" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-y_rhxET9eJY/TmOOxNUgBxI/AAAAAAAAGk8/mkyEo8HY59I/s320/DSCN5649.JPG" width="320px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Qq-tnv42fNc/TmOOyzW6SDI/AAAAAAAAGlA/LiJPBCpI3O4/s1600/DSCN5651-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Qq-tnv42fNc/TmOOyzW6SDI/AAAAAAAAGlA/LiJPBCpI3O4/s320/DSCN5651-1.JPG" width="127px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I do&amp;nbsp;think it can be a really expensive hobby/craft making &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;but sure is a very pleasant, relaxing and creative one!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I'll see you all later!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Realmente penso que é um hobby/tipo de artesanato que pode ser bastante caro, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;mas é com toda a certeza muito agradável, relaxante e creativo!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Até breve!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-542931077844662717?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/542931077844662717/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/09/stamping-stamping-and-more-stamping.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/542931077844662717'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/542931077844662717'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/09/stamping-stamping-and-more-stamping.html' title='Stamping, stamping and more stamping!'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fYG_ix_Nxpk/TmN0ft2YPwI/AAAAAAAAGjo/CQ-DWy18_Zg/s72-c/2011-09-04.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-8712654303703924371</id><published>2011-08-22T19:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-08-22T19:35:20.125-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='felt rings'/><title type='text'>My Precious!!!....</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-a10qzJ99UBc/Tk-77vjVBjI/AAAAAAAAGiQ/5OoagTz_qqM/s1600/DSCN5447.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="185px" qaa="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-a10qzJ99UBc/Tk-77vjVBjI/AAAAAAAAGiQ/5OoagTz_qqM/s200/DSCN5447.JPG" width="200px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;"The thieves! The thieves! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Where is it? Where is it?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;They stole it from us...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;my Precious!!!" &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Gollum could have said it, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;maybe even Frodo, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;but the truth of the matter is I'm only kidding you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;That is NOT the Precious &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;from the Lord of the Rings... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;(sorry&amp;nbsp;to disappoint you) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;...but one of my rings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Esta frase podia ter sido proferida pelo Gollum, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;talvez até pelo Frodo, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;mas a verdade é que estou&amp;nbsp;na brincadeira. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Este NÃO é o precioso (anel) do Senhor dos Anéis ... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(lamento se vos desapontei) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;...mas sim um dos meus anéis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I couldn't help myself but &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;to start talking about "my Precious Lord of the Rings stuff",&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;because it truly comes to my mind every time &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I choose what rings to put on every morning...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;See... I&amp;nbsp;do have a thing for rings... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;lots of them! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;And as if I didn't had enough, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ntr8W4eZGiE/Tk-7vwRm0II/AAAAAAAAGiE/W7HofAM8b_g/s1600/DSCN5289.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="186px" qaa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ntr8W4eZGiE/Tk-7vwRm0II/AAAAAAAAGiE/W7HofAM8b_g/s200/DSCN5289.JPG" width="200px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I made a bunch more...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Não podia deixar de começar por falar do Senhor dos Anéis e do "my precious" porque quando estou a escolher os anéis que vou usar durante o dia, isto vem-me sempre à lembrança... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;É que eu tenho um fraquinho por anéis... e montes deles! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;E como se não tivesse mais que suficientes, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;ainda fiz mais uma data deles...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3tMRxxNEEYA/Tk-8eeRiJNI/AAAAAAAAGjA/F5CP7hPlCTc/s1600/DSCN5438.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200px" qaa="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3tMRxxNEEYA/Tk-8eeRiJNI/AAAAAAAAGjA/F5CP7hPlCTc/s200/DSCN5438.JPG" width="150px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8_edOk-AUqA/Tk-8jXqcEcI/AAAAAAAAGjE/GVpwuezQNy8/s1600/DSCN5440.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200px" qaa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8_edOk-AUqA/Tk-8jXqcEcI/AAAAAAAAGjE/GVpwuezQNy8/s200/DSCN5440.JPG" width="150px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Soon they'll be available for sale&amp;nbsp;on my &lt;a href="http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/studio/BearyNiceMade"&gt;shop&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Brevemente poderão encontrá-los na minha&lt;a href="http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/studio/BearyNiceMade"&gt; loja&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JX9q-f3bmzY/Tk-7zmF3bCI/AAAAAAAAGiI/-dX_IgNm430/s1600/DSCN5328.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300px" qaa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JX9q-f3bmzY/Tk-7zmF3bCI/AAAAAAAAGiI/-dX_IgNm430/s320/DSCN5328.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8CYAfq5LpeA/Tk-8A7PgsRI/AAAAAAAAGiY/h82WR8ADzP8/s1600/DSCN5265.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640px" qaa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8CYAfq5LpeA/Tk-8A7PgsRI/AAAAAAAAGiY/h82WR8ADzP8/s640/DSCN5265.JPG" width="547px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Aren't they pretty? I love them!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I'll see you all later!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Não acham que são bonitos? Eu gosto muito!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Até breve!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-8712654303703924371?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/8712654303703924371/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/08/my-precious.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/8712654303703924371'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/8712654303703924371'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/08/my-precious.html' title='My Precious!!!....'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-a10qzJ99UBc/Tk-77vjVBjI/AAAAAAAAGiQ/5OoagTz_qqM/s72-c/DSCN5447.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-5744349798978559389</id><published>2011-08-17T09:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-08-17T09:32:18.037-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='requiem'/><title type='text'>Requiem</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;A year ago today,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;tears became rivers and pain&amp;nbsp;became endless.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;For always.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Há exactamente um ano atrás, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;as lágrimas tornaram-se rios e a dor tornou-se infindável. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Para sempre.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x7dW9E_25wU/TkvBv1xzJhI/AAAAAAAAGhw/ff-7N12SORo/s1600/DSCN5609.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" naa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x7dW9E_25wU/TkvBv1xzJhI/AAAAAAAAGhw/ff-7N12SORo/s320/DSCN5609.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dO1rMeYnOmM" width="425"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-5744349798978559389?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/5744349798978559389/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/08/requiem.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/5744349798978559389'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/5744349798978559389'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/08/requiem.html' title='Requiem'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x7dW9E_25wU/TkvBv1xzJhI/AAAAAAAAGhw/ff-7N12SORo/s72-c/DSCN5609.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-8280139760568037529</id><published>2011-08-15T18:19:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2011-08-15T18:26:10.689-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Grape Jelly'/><title type='text'>How to make quick grape jelly</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-patp-EyDw_Y/Tkh3ok_vC3I/AAAAAAAAGhU/0dpmw9-NgIQ/s1600/DSCN5604.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150px" naa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-patp-EyDw_Y/Tkh3ok_vC3I/AAAAAAAAGhU/0dpmw9-NgIQ/s200/DSCN5604.JPG" width="200px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Do&amp;nbsp;you like some jelly on your toast...?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I love toast with butter and jelly!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Gostam de geleia na torrada?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Eu adoro torradas com manteiga e geleia!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;A couple days ago &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;while walking &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;through my yard next to the grape vines &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I found out I still had some left &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;(usually the birds get everything before they are even ripe). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;So I went ahead and harvest what was left of it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Há uns dias atrás estava no quintal e quando passei junto das vinhas descobri que ainda tinha algumas uvas &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;(normalmente os pássaros comem os bagos todos mesmo antes de amadurecerem). Por isso decidi colher os que restavam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SNhxQc1s7jo/Tkh0S8JmFeI/AAAAAAAAGgA/cj8M02ONmgk/s1600/DSCN5551.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" naa="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SNhxQc1s7jo/Tkh0S8JmFeI/AAAAAAAAGgA/cj8M02ONmgk/s320/DSCN5551.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Too sour to eat,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I decided to make some grape jelly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I've sorted them out, washed and weighted. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Como eram muito amargas para comer, decidi fazer geleia de uvas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Tirei as uvas dos cachos, lavei-as e pesei-as.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v3ZQReQbgQc/Tkh295nnhpI/AAAAAAAAGg0/7ssNlp924KQ/s1600/DSCN5589.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" naa="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v3ZQReQbgQc/Tkh295nnhpI/AAAAAAAAGg0/7ssNlp924KQ/s320/DSCN5589.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;On a big sauce pan, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I've mixed the grapes with the same sugar weight &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;(on my case, 5 pounds of each).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Numa panela grande, misturei as uvas com o mesmo peso em &lt;span style="font-family: Times;"&gt;açúcar&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;(no meu caso cerca de 5 libras cada, ou seja, 2,5 quilos).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j5_daj9u6rc/Tkh3Gkof5YI/AAAAAAAAGg8/sVrmaNukwWc/s1600/DSCN5592.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" naa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j5_daj9u6rc/Tkh3Gkof5YI/AAAAAAAAGg8/sVrmaNukwWc/s320/DSCN5592.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Stired well, bringing it&amp;nbsp;to a boil, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;and let it simmer for about 2 hours, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;till it had a good jelly consistency.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Misturei bem até levantar fervura &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fYl-ATXTb48/Tkh5tW-83BI/AAAAAAAAGhY/pcoir8OLRWk/s1600/DSCN5596.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" naa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fYl-ATXTb48/Tkh5tW-83BI/AAAAAAAAGhY/pcoir8OLRWk/s320/DSCN5596.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;e deixei ferver em lume brando por cerca de 2 horas, até ganhar consistência de geleia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Removed from heat and strained it through cheese cloth and a strainer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Retirei do lume e coei através&amp;nbsp;de um coador forrado com gaze.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dCwelg-ROhc/Tkh3MHFw4CI/AAAAAAAAGhA/3qIsMbDX67s/s1600/DSCN5594.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" naa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dCwelg-ROhc/Tkh3MHFw4CI/AAAAAAAAGhA/3qIsMbDX67s/s320/DSCN5594.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Poured into prepared jars, and labeled it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Enchi os frascos, previamente preparados, com a geleia, e colei os rótulos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tQdgDiq9PVc/Tkh3RkAw_jI/AAAAAAAAGhE/JZhiIii7-j8/s1600/DSCN5597.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" naa="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tQdgDiq9PVc/Tkh3RkAw_jI/AAAAAAAAGhE/JZhiIii7-j8/s320/DSCN5597.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Mmmmm... doesn't it look pretty?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Mmmmm... não é tão bonita?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pG2JmRBS5is/Tkh3jRQM4uI/AAAAAAAAGhQ/KfgCRO-4flM/s1600/DSCN5600.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" naa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pG2JmRBS5is/Tkh3jRQM4uI/AAAAAAAAGhQ/KfgCRO-4flM/s320/DSCN5600.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I'll see you all later!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Até&amp;nbsp;breve!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-8280139760568037529?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/8280139760568037529/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-to-make-quick-grape-jelly.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/8280139760568037529'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/8280139760568037529'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-to-make-quick-grape-jelly.html' title='How to make quick grape jelly'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-patp-EyDw_Y/Tkh3ok_vC3I/AAAAAAAAGhU/0dpmw9-NgIQ/s72-c/DSCN5604.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-6775353680334866125</id><published>2011-08-14T23:05:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2011-08-14T23:12:29.608-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='storm'/><title type='text'>East Tennessee weather</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;This afternoon &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;we had a severe thunder storm, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;with torrential rain, hail, thunder and wind, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;but&amp;nbsp;everything lasted for less than 10 minutes... and then the sun came&amp;nbsp; back and everything quieted. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I had enough time to get my camera and shoot this video.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Esta tarde tivemos uma trovoada muito forte, com chuva torrencial, granizo, trovões e vento,&amp;nbsp;mas tudo demorou menos de 10 minutos... e depois o sol voltou e tudo ficou calmo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Tive tempo suficiente para ir buscar a camera e filmar este vídeo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zX3MSn0DyA4" width="425"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;As J use to say... this is East Tennessee weather!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Como o J costumava dizer... este é&amp;nbsp;o clima do Tennessee Oriental!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I'll see you all soon!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Até&amp;nbsp;breve!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-6775353680334866125?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/6775353680334866125/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/08/east-tennessee-weather.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/6775353680334866125'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/6775353680334866125'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/08/east-tennessee-weather.html' title='East Tennessee weather'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/zX3MSn0DyA4/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-2053250566334676595</id><published>2011-08-12T16:32:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2011-08-12T16:38:16.299-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='backpack tutorial'/><title type='text'>Easy Backpack tutorial</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-n931wKLDBXM/TkU95KsjiTI/AAAAAAAAGfE/Lsc_Tvx5K0g/s1600/DSCN5586.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" naa="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-n931wKLDBXM/TkU95KsjiTI/AAAAAAAAGfE/Lsc_Tvx5K0g/s320/DSCN5586.JPG" width="251px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Everybody seems to love &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;this so easy to make backpacks nowadays... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I've made quite a few myself, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and decided to share with you all &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;a very easy tutorial &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;of this lined backpack.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Hoje em dia toda a gente parece gostar destas mochilas &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;que são tão fáceis de fazer...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Tenho feito bastantes e por isso decidi partilhar com vocês &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;um tutorial, ou passso-a-passo, muito fácil para esta mochila, que é&amp;nbsp;forrada.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;This is what you' ll need: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Vao precisar de:&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;17" x 15" rectangle from the main or outside print fabric&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;1 rectângulo de 45cm x 40cm de tecido para a parte de fora&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;1 17" x 15" rectangle from the lining fabric&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;1 &lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;rectângulo de 45cm x 40cm de tecido para o forro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;4&amp;nbsp;yards cotton cord&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;4 metros de cordão de algodão&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;2 eyelets&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;2 ilhoses&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wpvblx8QFKM/TkU87evLDdI/AAAAAAAAGdw/aTmhNFYE1EI/s1600/DSCN5553.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" naa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wpvblx8QFKM/TkU87evLDdI/AAAAAAAAGdw/aTmhNFYE1EI/s320/DSCN5553.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_bqYnMCVKc0/TkU8-lywK0I/AAAAAAAAGd0/asVA6lnb5Mk/s1600/DSCN5554.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" naa="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_bqYnMCVKc0/TkU8-lywK0I/AAAAAAAAGd0/asVA6lnb5Mk/s320/DSCN5554.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Start by pinning together the outside fabric and the lining fabric, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;wrong sides together (right sides to the outside).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Comece por colocar o tecido exterior em cima do forro (o lado do direito para fora) e prenda com alfinetes (os lados do direito ficam virados para fora).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1GTpc4KqBdQ/TkU9A--yApI/AAAAAAAAGd4/w9Rg6vjSGVY/s1600/DSCN5555.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" naa="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1GTpc4KqBdQ/TkU9A--yApI/AAAAAAAAGd4/w9Rg6vjSGVY/s320/DSCN5555.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Serge the long sides first &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;(or just zigzag on the sewing machine), &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;and then the small sides. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;It gives it a nice and clean finish.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Com a serger (máquina de costura &lt;em&gt;overloque&lt;/em&gt;) cosa os lados compridos primeiro &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(ou então faça um ponto de zigzag com a máquina de costura), &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e depois então os lados mais pequenos. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Desta forma&amp;nbsp;ficará com um acabamento limpo e bonito.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RmAtT4QB468/TkU9MhOt2mI/AAAAAAAAGeE/F1r78FWqohc/s1600/DSCN5559.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" naa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RmAtT4QB468/TkU9MhOt2mI/AAAAAAAAGeE/F1r78FWqohc/s320/DSCN5559.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Once all the four sides are serge together, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;mark a 3/4' fold along the long sides.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Depois de&amp;nbsp;unir os quatro lados do tecido exterior ao forro com a serger, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;marque uma dobra de cerca de 2cm ao longo&amp;nbsp;dos lados mais compridos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qU1en8S67d8/TkU9Px85H7I/AAAAAAAAGeI/TlP7msSPHsw/s1600/DSCN5560.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" naa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qU1en8S67d8/TkU9Px85H7I/AAAAAAAAGeI/TlP7msSPHsw/s320/DSCN5560.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EZDREc24csc/TkU9S-sGWLI/AAAAAAAAGeM/92FQzpQl9p0/s1600/DSCN5563.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="216px" naa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EZDREc24csc/TkU9S-sGWLI/AAAAAAAAGeM/92FQzpQl9p0/s320/DSCN5563.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Zigzag it with matching color threat.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Cosa em zigzag&amp;nbsp;com linha da mesma cor ou que coordene com o tecido.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ryUi6NMi9eI/TkU9WNI_SkI/AAAAAAAAGeQ/_y2APk_K_oI/s1600/DSCN5564.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" naa="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ryUi6NMi9eI/TkU9WNI_SkI/AAAAAAAAGeQ/_y2APk_K_oI/s320/DSCN5564.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;When both long sides fold have been zigzagged,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;mark a 2" fold along the small sides.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Quando tiver acabado de coser&amp;nbsp;em zigzag a dobra nos lados mais compridos,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times;"&gt;faça&lt;/span&gt; uma dobra de 5cm ao longo dos lados mais pequenos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y0lqsPbTvAY/TkU9ZAiRAPI/AAAAAAAAGeU/Q0XcrAjRZKM/s1600/DSCN5565.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" naa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y0lqsPbTvAY/TkU9ZAiRAPI/AAAAAAAAGeU/Q0XcrAjRZKM/s320/DSCN5565.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Zigzag in place.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Cosa com ponto de zigzag.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-whcdCwBuj5A/TkU9bJGHcHI/AAAAAAAAGeY/0qT9vlguogE/s1600/DSCN5569.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" naa="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-whcdCwBuj5A/TkU9bJGHcHI/AAAAAAAAGeY/0qT9vlguogE/s320/DSCN5569.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Once done, go back and backstitch (straight stitching) the folds four corners a couple of times,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;at the beginning and ending of the overlap fold &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;(this where the cord will go, so it should be reinforced)&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Quando tiver terminado, cosa com ponto corrido direito os cantos das dobras &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;para trás e para a frente umas poucas de vezes &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;para evitar que o ponto desmanche &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;(é aqui que o cordão irá passar, daí a necessidade de ser reforçado).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nob-CrZtRts/TkU9dQZW3jI/AAAAAAAAGec/wQnMC19R3U0/s1600/DSCN5570.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" naa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nob-CrZtRts/TkU9dQZW3jI/AAAAAAAAGec/wQnMC19R3U0/s320/DSCN5570.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Now fold together the rectangle by the middle, outside fabric out, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Agora dobre o rectângulo ao meio, com o tecido exterior virado para fora,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LV6Z4-0zOtw/TkU9f8CHHSI/AAAAAAAAGeg/lZ43rCWA9c8/s1600/DSCN5571.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" naa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LV6Z4-0zOtw/TkU9f8CHHSI/AAAAAAAAGeg/lZ43rCWA9c8/s320/DSCN5571.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;aligning short sides together, and pin along long sides.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;alinhando os lados mais curtos juntos, e prenda com alfinetes ao longo dos lados compridos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Run a straight stitch trough, stopping at the backing stitch you've done previously, where the openings for the cord are.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Cosa com um ponto corrido a direito, parando&amp;nbsp;de coser &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;antes do&amp;nbsp;ponto de reforço anteriormente feito, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;onde estão as aberturas para passar o cordão.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;After stitching both long sides, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;reinforce with a zigzag stitching over the straight stitching on both long sides &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;(don't forget you'll have to stop before the opening).&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Depois de coser ambos os lados compridos com um ponto corrido, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;reforce com um um ponto de zigzag por cima do ponto corrido &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(não esquecendo que tem de parar antes da abertura para o cordão).&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Now it's time to apply the eyelets, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;at the bottom both corners of the backpack.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Agora é a altura de aplicar as ilhoses, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;nos cantos da parte de baixo da mochila.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eTyiM6C_d4c/TkU9iP3_iJI/AAAAAAAAGek/tMRHYI0tVUw/s1600/DSCN5572.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" naa="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eTyiM6C_d4c/TkU9iP3_iJI/AAAAAAAAGek/tMRHYI0tVUw/s320/DSCN5572.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Follow the instructions of the package for applying the eyelets.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Siga as instruções da embalagem para aplicar as ilhoses.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tKbrKKidWmA/TkU9m2YBrCI/AAAAAAAAGes/0YJRkhJhdZI/s1600/DSCN5575.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" naa="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tKbrKKidWmA/TkU9m2YBrCI/AAAAAAAAGes/0YJRkhJhdZI/s320/DSCN5575.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;So now the last thing left is to run the cotton cord &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;trough the opening fold and the eyelets &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;to form the backpack handles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;A última coisa que falta agora &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;é passar o cordão de algodão &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;pela bainha da abertura e pelas ilhoses &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;para formar as alças da mochila.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Cut in half the 4 yards of cotton cord, 2 yards for each side.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Corte ao meio os 4 metros do cordão, 2 metros para cada um dos lados.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pQlNY0XX1_c/TkU9ktPNOHI/AAAAAAAAGeo/P-v0Jm5E7d8/s1600/DSCN5574.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" naa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pQlNY0XX1_c/TkU9ktPNOHI/AAAAAAAAGeo/P-v0Jm5E7d8/s320/DSCN5574.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Attach a safety pin to one edge of one cord. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Pass it trough the right opening of the fold, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;and continue trough the&amp;nbsp;other opening. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Prenda um alfinete de ama a um dos lados do cordão. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Passe-o pela abertura do lado direito da bainha, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;e continue pela abertura do outro lado.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fV_ITtjhXic/TkU9rnZ213I/AAAAAAAAGe0/hCQJ3HyjPfA/s1600/DSCN5577.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" naa="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fV_ITtjhXic/TkU9rnZ213I/AAAAAAAAGe0/hCQJ3HyjPfA/s320/DSCN5577.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-trvF3PZktl8/TkU9pJEqj1I/AAAAAAAAGew/LVC1d1LDUnQ/s1600/DSCN5576.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" naa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-trvF3PZktl8/TkU9pJEqj1I/AAAAAAAAGew/LVC1d1LDUnQ/s320/DSCN5576.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;You'll have two edges of the cord hanging from the right side of the backpack. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Ficará com duas pontas do cordão penduradas do lado direito da mochila.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Pass one of the ends trough the eyelet and tie a knot with both ends.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Passe uma das pontas pela ilhós e ate as duas pontas com um nó .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9MDvVn4xXu4/TkVFZfo6bdI/AAAAAAAAGfU/LKdAI3Bcd7g/s1600/DSCN5588.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" naa="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9MDvVn4xXu4/TkVFZfo6bdI/AAAAAAAAGfU/LKdAI3Bcd7g/s320/DSCN5588.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B7bHumka8JQ/TkWIzLVA8LI/AAAAAAAAGfo/WzLxHgVkzdI/s1600/DSCN5584.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" naa="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B7bHumka8JQ/TkWIzLVA8LI/AAAAAAAAGfo/WzLxHgVkzdI/s320/DSCN5584.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Follow the same steps for the left side.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;And you're done.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Siga os mesmos passos para o lado esquerdo&amp;nbsp;da mochila.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;E está pronta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BILozrqbxq8/TkU9x-mS73I/AAAAAAAAGe8/SwOpmLIJTho/s1600/DSCN5583.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" naa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BILozrqbxq8/TkU9x-mS73I/AAAAAAAAGe8/SwOpmLIJTho/s320/DSCN5583.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VYMj_kY48-I/TkWIsx6D6cI/AAAAAAAAGfg/ht8pVfZgbZg/s1600/DSCN5582.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="295px" naa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VYMj_kY48-I/TkWIsx6D6cI/AAAAAAAAGfg/ht8pVfZgbZg/s320/DSCN5582.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Pretty easy uh?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Muito fácil, não é ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Of course, you could omit the lining, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;and the finish product would be&amp;nbsp;much lighter then. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I like it with the lining, makes it more sturdy to support everything &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I usually carry around.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Claro, pode optar por não por forro, e o produto final será mais fino e leve. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Eu gosto de pôr o forro, porque proporciona um acabamento mais estruturado para carregar tudo o que eu geralmente ponho na mochila.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Enjoy, and I'll see you all later.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ODnvWtMPy9Q/TkPXmERjJwI/AAAAAAAAGdE/uRX_jJwtaTQ/s1600/DSCN5548.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="193px" naa="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ODnvWtMPy9Q/TkPXmERjJwI/AAAAAAAAGdE/uRX_jJwtaTQ/s200/DSCN5548.JPG" width="200px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;This year I didn't had a (vegetable) garden &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and didn't took care &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;of&amp;nbsp;the grapes or the berries or nothing. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Este ano não fiz horta e nem sequer cuidei das uvas nem das amoras nem nada.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Not really being lazy, just lacking the appetite... (without J &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;sometimes I do struggle a bit &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;to make sense out of things). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Não é realmente uma questão de preguiça...(sem o J por vezes tenho dificuldade em dar um sentido as coisas).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;But what I meant to tell you about today is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I've decided to make jam. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Mas do que pretendo falar-vos hoje é acerca da minha decisão de fazer compota.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I've had made strawberry jam, blackberry jam, tomato jam, cantaloupe jam...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and I wanted something new and different. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Já tinha feito compota antes, compota de morangos, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;compota de amoras, doce de tomate, compota de meloa... e queria fazer algo novo e diferente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;After a quick research on the net &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I found&amp;nbsp;some red pepper jam recipes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Gosh! The pics I saw did look gorgeous! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;So red and bright! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Após uma pesquisa rápida na net &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;encontrei algumas receitas de pimento encarnado, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;com fotografias esplêndidas, tão vermelhas e brilhantes!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;After reading a few, I kinda&amp;nbsp;decided on&amp;nbsp;my own version, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;adapting quantities and ingredients. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;This is what I came about:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Depois de ler algumas das receitas, fiz a minha própria versão, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;adaptando quantidades e ingredientes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Eis como fiz:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gAsIckqC8qA/TkPVXt3iTiI/AAAAAAAAGcc/j3eE-Uy5w6Y/s1600/2011-08-11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213px" naa="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gAsIckqC8qA/TkPVXt3iTiI/AAAAAAAAGcc/j3eE-Uy5w6Y/s320/2011-08-11.jpg" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;4 &lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;red peppers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;4 pimentos encarnados&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;1 cup white wine vinegar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;1 chávena de vinagre de vinho branco&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;3 cups sugar&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;3 chávenas de açúcar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;1 Tbs salt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;1 colher de sopa de sal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;1 Tbs spoon butter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;1 colher de sopa de manteiga&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Z_2f6kG0_gs/TkPVcpRmr7I/AAAAAAAAGcg/OLcTs7IiJEE/s1600/DSCN5533.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="257px" naa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Z_2f6kG0_gs/TkPVcpRmr7I/AAAAAAAAGcg/OLcTs7IiJEE/s320/DSCN5533.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Wash peppers and remove seeds.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Lavar os pimentos e limpar das sementes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f-n2d6QU8tk/TkPVgiLyfeI/AAAAAAAAGck/dRAikklpn-E/s1600/DSCN5538.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="281px" naa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f-n2d6QU8tk/TkPVgiLyfeI/AAAAAAAAGck/dRAikklpn-E/s320/DSCN5538.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Cut it&amp;nbsp;in small pieces or use a food processor (in my case).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;In a large saucepan mix together the peppers, vinegar, salt and sugar. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Add the butter (to prevent the formation of foam).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Cortar os pimentos em pedacinhos pequeninos ou usar um processador (como no meu caso).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Numa panela grande misturar os pimentos com o vinagre, o sal e o açúcar. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Juntar a manteiga (evita a formação de espuma).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fFsW3a2z1cw/TkPVj7hVAhI/AAAAAAAAGco/uXdusL57ry8/s1600/DSCN5540.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266px" naa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fFsW3a2z1cw/TkPVj7hVAhI/AAAAAAAAGco/uXdusL57ry8/s320/DSCN5540.JPG" style="cursor: move;" unselectable="on" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Stirring since in a while, let it simmer for about an hour &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;or till it gets a good jam consistency.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Mexer de vez em quando e deixar ferver por cerca de 1 hora, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;ou até atingir a consistência de compota.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;OK, in my case I did add a few dried hot pepper flakes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Only a little itsy bitsy, maybe 1/8&amp;nbsp; teaspoon (it's enough, believe me!).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;OK, no meu caso eu juntei uns pedacinhos de piri-piri seco. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Apenas um bocadinho pequenino, talvez 1/8 de uma colher de sobremesa (é mais do que suficiente!).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Meanwhile, have your jars prepared for canning, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;in boiling water for at least 10 minutes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Entretanto tenha os frascos prontos para encher, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;fervendo-os pelo menos durante 10 minutos.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Fill the jars, let it cool, stick the labels... et voila! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Hot Spicy Red Pepper Jam!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Let me tell you: it's a bit spicy,&amp;nbsp;but delicious with pork loin!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Encha os frascos, deixe arrefecer, cole os rótulos&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;... e pronto!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Compota Picante de Pimentos Encarnados!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Deixem que vos diga: é&amp;nbsp;um bocadinho picante, mas deliciosa com lombo de porco!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-D3leRYS1x0A/TkPXiNXt1uI/AAAAAAAAGdA/rkMd18ftnHw/s1600/DSCN5546.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" naa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-D3leRYS1x0A/TkPXiNXt1uI/AAAAAAAAGdA/rkMd18ftnHw/s320/DSCN5546.JPG" width="206px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-V1sMvsxs8LU/TkPVoTueo3I/AAAAAAAAGcw/9r28uEMiOEc/s1600/DSCN5550.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="260px" naa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-V1sMvsxs8LU/TkPVoTueo3I/AAAAAAAAGcw/9r28uEMiOEc/s320/DSCN5550.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I got five small jars. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Not bad, uh?, I think I got&amp;nbsp;some stocking stuffers already ready...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Enjoy!, and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I'll see you all later!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Rendeu-me cinco frascos pequenos de compota.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Nada mau, uh?, acho que vou dar alguns como pequenos presentes no Natal...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Apreciem!, e até breve!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-7604090267996528515?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/7604090267996528515/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/08/hot-spicy-red-pepper-jam.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/7604090267996528515'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/7604090267996528515'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/08/hot-spicy-red-pepper-jam.html' title='Hot Spicy Red Pepper Jam'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ODnvWtMPy9Q/TkPXmERjJwI/AAAAAAAAGdE/uRX_jJwtaTQ/s72-c/DSCN5548.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-6560111728109173849</id><published>2011-08-08T13:25:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2011-08-09T19:48:15.179-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Flower hair piece'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sheer scarf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fingerless gloves'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='medieval fair'/><title type='text'>The Middle Ages Inspiration</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;It's not a surprise for those who know me &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XgAcMOR8cBM/TkAHMnNAH5I/AAAAAAAAGaw/SjPEuA37Ebo/s1600/images.1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" naa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XgAcMOR8cBM/TkAHMnNAH5I/AAAAAAAAGaw/SjPEuA37Ebo/s1600/images.1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;my love for all Medieval stuff.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;A couple weeks ago I was &lt;em&gt;skypeing&lt;/em&gt; with one of my friends in Portugal and she told me she had been at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93bidos,_Portugal"&gt;Óbidos, a Portuguese medieval city. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Para aqueles que me conhecem &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;não é surpresa o meu gosto por coisas medievais. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Há uns tempos atrás quando falava com uma amiga no Skype&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(olá Irene!) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;ela disse-me que tinha&amp;nbsp;ido a&amp;nbsp;Óbidos, uma cidade medieval Portuguesa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E7ckwM1mJFg/TkAHQN6wB5I/AAAAAAAAGa4/Ur3Ombw4o9E/s1600/imagesCAWYQQEK.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200px" naa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E7ckwM1mJFg/TkAHQN6wB5I/AAAAAAAAGa4/Ur3Ombw4o9E/s200/imagesCAWYQQEK.jpg" width="155px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;And she also told me that for most of the month of July they have a Medieval Fair there, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;which she was lucky to attend.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Também me disse que durante a maior parte do mês de Julho acontece em Óbidos uma Feira Medieval, a que ela assistiu.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I've been in Óbidos in several different occasions &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;but was never able to see the Medieval Fair.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Estive em Óbidos em diversas ocasiões mas nunca vi a Feira Medieval.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;So I went online to YouTube&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;and found some nice videos of this year event.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Por isso liguei-me online, fui ao YouTube e encontrei vários&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;videos do evento deste ano.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;This one is just one of many I've found, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;and I think illustrates well the spirit of those times.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Este é apenas um dos muitos que encontrei e julgo que ilustra bem o espírito desses tempos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/N9A2MPGGqxM" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;It brings me back many memories and homesickness, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;but hopefully shortly I'll be able to go back and visit with everybody.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Traz-me de volta muitas memórias e saudades&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;mas espero que em breve possa lá voltar e visitar toda a gente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Anyway, if I'm telling you all this is because &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;(maybe inspired for these events in Óbidos) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I made some medieval like items.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;De qualquer modo, se vos estou a contar isto é porque &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(talvez inspirada por estes acontecimentos em Óbidos) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;fiz algumas coisas &lt;em&gt;medievais&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Don't they look like something &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;a princess or a lady of the court would wear...?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Nao parecem&amp;nbsp;algo que uma princesa ou dama da corte pudesse usar...?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Fingerless lilac gloves, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;some ruffled lace &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;and a yo-yo application.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EQMzUaugM1w/TkAE8qkIhNI/AAAAAAAAGaE/omQAJnqmvmY/s1600/DSCN5477.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="252px" naa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EQMzUaugM1w/TkAE8qkIhNI/AAAAAAAAGaE/omQAJnqmvmY/s320/DSCN5477.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Luvas lilazes sem dedos, com renda de folhos e uma aplicação de yo-yo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GGXQAWlMuKE/TkAE20doWgI/AAAAAAAAGaA/EqSoX8LrY44/s1600/DSCN5471.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" naa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GGXQAWlMuKE/TkAE20doWgI/AAAAAAAAGaA/EqSoX8LrY44/s320/DSCN5471.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-U3slHoXlSl8/TkAE_qWOxlI/AAAAAAAAGaI/jp8smM9dmcg/s1600/DSCN5478.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" naa="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-U3slHoXlSl8/TkAE_qWOxlI/AAAAAAAAGaI/jp8smM9dmcg/s320/DSCN5478.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Also a delicate sheer green embroidered scarf, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;lined with a very soft pink knit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Também fiz uma &lt;em&gt;écharpe&lt;/em&gt; verde transparente e com bordados,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;forrada com uma malha cor de rosa muito fofa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0SYpzXPq3MM/TkAFEIBxHPI/AAAAAAAAGaQ/st3-7Gz44f4/s1600/DSCN5486.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" naa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0SYpzXPq3MM/TkAFEIBxHPI/AAAAAAAAGaQ/st3-7Gz44f4/s320/DSCN5486.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-z9STbotrS8Q/TkAFH5ooMlI/AAAAAAAAGaU/KLAsWjFW2c4/s1600/DSCN5475.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" naa="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-z9STbotrS8Q/TkAFH5ooMlI/AAAAAAAAGaU/KLAsWjFW2c4/s320/DSCN5475.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;And last but not least, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;a hair piece &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;which really makes me think of princesses and Middle Ages...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;(I got the inspiration for the ribbons from a Brazilian craft site).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;E por último uma peça para o cabelo que realmente me faz lembrar de princesas e da Idade Média... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(para as fitas inspirei-me num site de artesanato Brasileiro).&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YNZMG6Uvd6I/TkAJ7dJ_tLI/AAAAAAAAGbI/C1-sAfNvEXU/s1600/DSCN5508.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" naa="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YNZMG6Uvd6I/TkAJ7dJ_tLI/AAAAAAAAGbI/C1-sAfNvEXU/s320/DSCN5508.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tfSiFut8zTk/TkAFNhPnngI/AAAAAAAAGac/--JXyZkO2vg/s1600/DSCN5488.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" naa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tfSiFut8zTk/TkAFNhPnngI/AAAAAAAAGac/--JXyZkO2vg/s320/DSCN5488.JPG" width="202px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RAe7NGdAxYQ/TkAFRCrmXqI/AAAAAAAAGag/wU3wAExjKC0/s1600/DSCN5490.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" naa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RAe7NGdAxYQ/TkAFRCrmXqI/AAAAAAAAGag/wU3wAExjKC0/s320/DSCN5490.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;What do you think?, was I able to capture some of the Medieval spirit with these creations...?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I don't know if I did or not, but I did enjoy making them!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I'll see you all later!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;O que é que acham?, acham que eu consegui capturar um pouco do espírito medieval com estas criações...?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Não sei se consegui ou não, mas gostei muito de as fazer!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Até breve!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-6560111728109173849?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/6560111728109173849/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/08/middle-ages-inspiration.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/6560111728109173849'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/6560111728109173849'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/08/middle-ages-inspiration.html' title='The Middle Ages Inspiration'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XgAcMOR8cBM/TkAHMnNAH5I/AAAAAAAAGaw/SjPEuA37Ebo/s72-c/images.1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-2330417161946046476</id><published>2011-08-07T20:15:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-08-11T12:01:10.391-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='thrifty store'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friend&apos;s swap'/><title type='text'>Thrifty store findings and a friend's swap</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Iqxgaa8xVhc/ThO3P7jznsI/AAAAAAAAGR8/SHyyu_qf60k/s1600/DSCN5205.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200px" i$="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Iqxgaa8xVhc/ThO3P7jznsI/AAAAAAAAGR8/SHyyu_qf60k/s200/DSCN5205.JPG" width="150px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;A couple weeks ago&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I went to a thrifty store.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Há&amp;nbsp;algumas semanas&amp;nbsp;atrás fui a uma loja de caridade.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Tough I'm not that big of a fan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I do like to look for odd and pretty items.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Embora&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Times;"&gt;não&lt;/span&gt; seja uma grande &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;fã&lt;/span&gt; gosto de ver e de procurar artigos bonitos e &lt;span style="font-family: Times;"&gt;únicos&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Well, this time I&amp;nbsp;found a vintage like pitcher&amp;nbsp;that caught my eye.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Bom, desta vez encontrei um jarro antigo que &lt;em&gt;me encheu o olho&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EXbRugposUc/ThO3Ma-rz-I/AAAAAAAAGR4/mUuOE6yFhhU/s1600/DSCN5208.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200px" i$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EXbRugposUc/ThO3Ma-rz-I/AAAAAAAAGR4/mUuOE6yFhhU/s200/DSCN5208.JPG" width="150px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CZJfxjdyrII/ThNlWaz9ySI/AAAAAAAAGRw/DrD0vj-hEJw/s1600/DSCN5201.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200px" i$="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CZJfxjdyrII/ThNlWaz9ySI/AAAAAAAAGRw/DrD0vj-hEJw/s200/DSCN5201.JPG" width="150px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;With some&amp;nbsp;flowers from my garden&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;and displayed on top of my hexagon table runner, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;it does make an impression, don't you think?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Com algumas flores colhidas no meu jardim &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e colocado sobre o meu &lt;em&gt;chemin&lt;/em&gt; de hexágonos, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;faz sensação,&amp;nbsp; não acham?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;On another mode,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I've sign up for a very nice FRIEND'S swap @ &lt;a href="http://sewprimkhris.blogspot.com/"&gt;Sew Prim Khris&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Mudando de assunto,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;assinei para uma permuta de presentes entre bloggers @ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://sewprimkhris.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Sew Prim Khris&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IPAgEqdRyXg/Tj74iEEHQDI/AAAAAAAAGWs/kF5nuouz4B0/s1600/FRIENDS+SWAP+2011+SEW+PRIM+KHRIS.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="161px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IPAgEqdRyXg/Tj74iEEHQDI/AAAAAAAAGWs/kF5nuouz4B0/s200/FRIENDS+SWAP+2011+SEW+PRIM+KHRIS.png" t$="true" width="200px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I'm somehow excited because it will be my very first swap!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;Estou um bocadinho excitada porque é a primeira vez que participo numa troca deste género!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;And that will be it for now. I'll see you soon!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;E por agora&amp;nbsp;é tudo.&amp;nbsp;Até breve!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-2330417161946046476?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/2330417161946046476/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/08/thrifty-store-findings-and-friends-swap.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/2330417161946046476'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/2330417161946046476'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/08/thrifty-store-findings-and-friends-swap.html' title='Thrifty store findings and a friend&apos;s swap'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Iqxgaa8xVhc/ThO3P7jznsI/AAAAAAAAGR8/SHyyu_qf60k/s72-c/DSCN5205.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-9013433850663203593</id><published>2011-08-02T10:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-08-02T10:23:16.831-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='penny rugs'/><title type='text'>Penny! Penny! Penny! Rugs!...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MNvnHasQl7s/TjXBRKcs3rI/AAAAAAAAGV8/n_PZdGenytE/s1600/DSCN5401.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="121px" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MNvnHasQl7s/TjXBRKcs3rI/AAAAAAAAGV8/n_PZdGenytE/s320/DSCN5401.JPG" t$="true" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;"Penny!... Penny!... Penny!..."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I' am a huge fan! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Are you?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;"Penny!...Penny!... Penny!..." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Sou uma grande admiradora! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;E voce?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Of course, Sheldon, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;from The Bing Bang Theory!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Claro que estou a falar do Sheldon, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;da &lt;em&gt;Teoria do Big Bang&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;(uma serie comica da TV americana, muito engracada e popular aqui nos Estados Unidos).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Nah... not really blogging about Sheldon, or the TV series... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Nah... nao, nao estou realmente a&amp;nbsp;blogar acerca&amp;nbsp;do Sheldon ou da serie de TV...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;But I am blogging about... &lt;em&gt;penny...rugs&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Again!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Mas estou sim a blogar uma vez mais acerca de &lt;em&gt;penny rugs&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(poderia talvez traduzir&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;penny rugs&lt;/em&gt; como tapetes de tostao)!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lHioxjS6a3s/TjXA6hXMm6I/AAAAAAAAGVw/frrrybRznoE/s1600/2011-07-31.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lHioxjS6a3s/TjXA6hXMm6I/AAAAAAAAGVw/frrrybRznoE/s320/2011-07-31.jpg" t$="true" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I've blogged about it before &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;(&lt;a href="http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/05/penny-rugs-and-candle-mats.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/05/penny-rugs-and-candle-mats.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/06/felt-rainbow-penny-rugs.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Nalguns posts anteriores deste blog ja tinha falado acerca dos &lt;em&gt;penny rugs&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(&lt;a href="http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/05/penny-rugs-and-candle-mats.html"&gt;aqui&lt;/a&gt; e&lt;a href="http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/05/penny-rugs-and-candle-mats.html"&gt; aqui&lt;/a&gt; e &lt;a href="http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/06/felt-rainbow-penny-rugs.html"&gt;aqui&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I love making them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;It just seems it unlocks my&amp;nbsp;creativiyt and then I just let&amp;nbsp;myself go.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Gosto muito de os fazer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Da-me a impressao de que libertam a minha criatividade &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e depois deixo-me apenas ir ao sabor da imaginacao.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Even the back looks to me like a pretty dark sky&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;sparkling with stars &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;or like some&amp;nbsp;weirdo astronomical map&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;(the wrong side, &lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;which it's totally hidden once the rug is done).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Ate a parte de tras me faz lembrar &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;um ceu bonito, escuro &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e estrelado, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;ou um mapa astronomico algo estranho&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(a parte de tras, que fica totalmente escondida assim que o tapete fica pronto).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1oFsBJHgKbM/TjXA-J9qi8I/AAAAAAAAGV0/cSzICFB9YCY/s1600/DSCN5350.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1oFsBJHgKbM/TjXA-J9qi8I/AAAAAAAAGV0/cSzICFB9YCY/s320/DSCN5350.JPG" t$="true" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Penny rugs&amp;nbsp;can be used for whatever you'd like! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;A doily, a cup mat, a candle mat, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;to display a little what-not...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Os &lt;em&gt;penny rugs&lt;/em&gt; podem ser usados como se quiser!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Como um naperon, uma base para copos ou canecas, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;uma base para velas, para por debaixo do que quer que seja...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oNm4mNqj06Y/TjXCDIyNZaI/AAAAAAAAGWU/Az5JUFu-RAA/s1600/DSCN4989.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300px" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oNm4mNqj06Y/TjXCDIyNZaI/AAAAAAAAGWU/Az5JUFu-RAA/s320/DSCN4989.JPG" t$="true" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-julftrHtXtY/TjXBdoGLGPI/AAAAAAAAGWI/6dPbOCUy684/s1600/DSCN4979.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-julftrHtXtY/TjXBdoGLGPI/AAAAAAAAGWI/6dPbOCUy684/s320/DSCN4979.JPG" t$="true" width="300px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NGfKxkDn-FE/TjXBgprxaHI/AAAAAAAAGWM/G63E6rwvYDQ/s1600/DSCN5006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NGfKxkDn-FE/TjXBgprxaHI/AAAAAAAAGWM/G63E6rwvYDQ/s320/DSCN5006.JPG" t$="true" width="284px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k1YYJ8_YwIQ/TjXBjKItVsI/AAAAAAAAGWQ/Dt2Ha3uEbNc/s1600/DSCN5019.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239px" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k1YYJ8_YwIQ/TjXBjKItVsI/AAAAAAAAGWQ/Dt2Ha3uEbNc/s320/DSCN5019.JPG" t$="true" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;These will be soon for sale &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;at my &lt;a href="http://www.artfire.com/users/BearyNiceMade"&gt;BearyNiceMade ArtFire store&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Estes &lt;em&gt;penny rugs&lt;/em&gt; estarao em breve para venda &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;na minha loja no ArtFire, &lt;a href="http://www.artfire.com/users/BearyNiceMade"&gt;BearyNiceMade&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4FI8flh4nqo/TjgHxnieuVI/AAAAAAAAGWY/MlcEsHvxcDU/s1600/DSCN5416.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="312px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4FI8flh4nqo/TjgHxnieuVI/AAAAAAAAGWY/MlcEsHvxcDU/s320/DSCN5416.JPG" t$="true" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WM6xDSNh730/TjgH3YkoELI/AAAAAAAAGWc/b0xlaBrh8EE/s1600/DSCN5417.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="302px" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WM6xDSNh730/TjgH3YkoELI/AAAAAAAAGWc/b0xlaBrh8EE/s320/DSCN5417.JPG" t$="true" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iU5njjrsksM/TjgH9ukNzMI/AAAAAAAAGWg/N6OgycVPIVg/s1600/DSCN5418.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="292px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iU5njjrsksM/TjgH9ukNzMI/AAAAAAAAGWg/N6OgycVPIVg/s320/DSCN5418.JPG" t$="true" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LEp_Kt4-Iz0/TjgIAmWq19I/AAAAAAAAGWk/NicMgn9j6W8/s1600/DSCN5393.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LEp_Kt4-Iz0/TjgIAmWq19I/AAAAAAAAGWk/NicMgn9j6W8/s320/DSCN5393.JPG" t$="true" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I'll see you all soon!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Ate breve!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-9013433850663203593?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/9013433850663203593/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/08/penny-penny-penny-rugs.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/9013433850663203593'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/9013433850663203593'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/08/penny-penny-penny-rugs.html' title='Penny! 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Rugs!...'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MNvnHasQl7s/TjXBRKcs3rI/AAAAAAAAGV8/n_PZdGenytE/s72-c/DSCN5401.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-7954961719791757501</id><published>2011-07-19T16:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-07-19T16:44:10.891-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fairies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='space reorganization'/><title type='text'>More flower fairies (and a little bit of a reorganization)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;As promised earlier, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;here's the heads up on what I've been making lately.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q5h15HXIPnI/TiXgY7Gm7UI/AAAAAAAAGUM/Xw8vZQPq9V0/s1600/DSCN5252.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150px" m$="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q5h15HXIPnI/TiXgY7Gm7UI/AAAAAAAAGUM/Xw8vZQPq9V0/s200/DSCN5252.JPG" width="200px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;About a couple weeks ago &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I reorganized my craft room. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Conforme o prometido, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;aqui esta o relato do que tenho feito ultimamente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Ha duas semanas atras reorganizei a minha sala de trabalho.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R7Kejx_AKvk/TiXgWAqHXEI/AAAAAAAAGUI/yo0-F0wsudU/s1600/DSCN5245.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150px" m$="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R7Kejx_AKvk/TiXgWAqHXEI/AAAAAAAAGUI/yo0-F0wsudU/s200/DSCN5245.JPG" width="200px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1GpuU9Jbk_Y/TiXgmjjorfI/AAAAAAAAGUY/XNelHw-XWn8/s1600/DSCN5262.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200px" m$="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1GpuU9Jbk_Y/TiXgmjjorfI/AAAAAAAAGUY/XNelHw-XWn8/s200/DSCN5262.JPG" width="150px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Set up cabinets, shelves and tables on a different disposition, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;and gained a bunch more space &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;(ahah till it gets all cluttered again).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Mudei os armarios, as prateleiras e as&amp;nbsp;mesas noutra&amp;nbsp;posicao&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e ganhei montes de espaco&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(ahah ate que fique uma bagunca de novo).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Anyway, it does look a lot better now, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;and I can move around much better too.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I love to look at these shelves!&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;De qualquer modo tem muito melhor aspecto agora&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e tambem me posso mexer mais a vontade.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Gosto muito destas prateleiras!&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QybfuzbTi_M/TiXgb3Uk6WI/AAAAAAAAGUQ/1SvCgVIRXWM/s1600/DSCN5253.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" m$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QybfuzbTi_M/TiXgb3Uk6WI/AAAAAAAAGUQ/1SvCgVIRXWM/s320/DSCN5253.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dE5LI7d0PkE/TiXiIUcqfaI/AAAAAAAAGVI/kIhTFck4DbI/s1600/DSCN5257.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" m$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dE5LI7d0PkE/TiXiIUcqfaI/AAAAAAAAGVI/kIhTFck4DbI/s320/DSCN5257.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Do you see the nosy wiggly eyes guys...?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;OK... I'll tell you about them on another post.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Estao a ver aqueles narigudos com olhos que mexem...?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;OK... falarei deles num outro post.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;But I bet you recognized the little flower fairies right next to those guys...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I made a whole new batch, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;in anticipation&amp;nbsp;of the craft bazaars and sales coming&amp;nbsp;up soon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Mas aposto que reconheceram as fadas-flores pequeninas que estao junto dos narigudos...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Fiz uma data delas na antecipacao das feiras de artesanato que estao para acontecer em breve.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Wr36X2aWDf0/TiXkaSFxyyI/AAAAAAAAGVU/GldTGU2QgXA/s1600/DSCN5293.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" m$="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Wr36X2aWDf0/TiXkaSFxyyI/AAAAAAAAGVU/GldTGU2QgXA/s320/DSCN5293.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9KpbFcbl3CE/TiXpBRIHlpI/AAAAAAAAGVY/lXihm1dPW8o/s1600/DSCN5291.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" m$="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9KpbFcbl3CE/TiXpBRIHlpI/AAAAAAAAGVY/lXihm1dPW8o/s320/DSCN5291.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vkWeTgCOWDs/TiXg358wxJI/AAAAAAAAGUw/98yqMt_6P8o/s1600/DSCN5294.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" m$="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vkWeTgCOWDs/TiXg358wxJI/AAAAAAAAGUw/98yqMt_6P8o/s320/DSCN5294.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;The pot where they live for now is a recycled plastic container, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;dressed up with a crochet cover &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and&amp;nbsp;embellished up with yo-yo's, ribbons and crystals. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I have to tell you: the flower fairies just LOOOVE it there!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;O vaso onde as fadas vivem por agora e uma embalagem de plastico reciclada,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;vestida com uma cobertura de crochet e enfeitada com yo-yo's, fitas e cristais.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Tenho de vos dizer: as fadas-flores ADOORAM viver ali!&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JPCIRuVtg9g/TiXhFfdqGiI/AAAAAAAAGVE/rptepEFisio/s1600/DSCN5322.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" m$="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JPCIRuVtg9g/TiXhFfdqGiI/AAAAAAAAGVE/rptepEFisio/s320/DSCN5322.JPG" width="318px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-miEmixS8rZM/TiXg8Vr7TWI/AAAAAAAAGU4/10MTKDSwgo8/s1600/DSCN5325.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" m$="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-miEmixS8rZM/TiXg8Vr7TWI/AAAAAAAAGU4/10MTKDSwgo8/s320/DSCN5325.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--Bl68Kj5-Gw/TiXg_A8-0fI/AAAAAAAAGU8/Gs-oK7BShfw/s1600/DSCN5326.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" m$="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--Bl68Kj5-Gw/TiXg_A8-0fI/AAAAAAAAGU8/Gs-oK7BShfw/s320/DSCN5326.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Some of the fairies&amp;nbsp;also love to&amp;nbsp;fly around &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and hang on in my flower pots, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;as you can witness from these pictures...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Algumas das fadas &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;tambem gostam de esvoacar a volta e de pousar nos meus vasos de flores,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;como podem verificar pelas fotos...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rK-r0CUXPQs/TiXg19xLo5I/AAAAAAAAGUs/NIGthlRvNPk/s1600/DSCN5297.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" m$="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rK-r0CUXPQs/TiXg19xLo5I/AAAAAAAAGUs/NIGthlRvNPk/s320/DSCN5297.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lAH2qZTXQ5Q/TiXg5ka9Q0I/AAAAAAAAGU0/fO2BqHGCuGA/s1600/DSCN5298.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" m$="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lAH2qZTXQ5Q/TiXg5ka9Q0I/AAAAAAAAGU0/fO2BqHGCuGA/s320/DSCN5298.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;And this will do it for it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I'll be seeing you all soon!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;E e tudo por agora.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Ate breve!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-7954961719791757501?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/7954961719791757501/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/07/more-flower-fairies-and-little-bit-of.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/7954961719791757501'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/7954961719791757501'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/07/more-flower-fairies-and-little-bit-of.html' title='More flower fairies (and a little bit of a reorganization)'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q5h15HXIPnI/TiXgY7Gm7UI/AAAAAAAAGUM/Xw8vZQPq9V0/s72-c/DSCN5252.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-9168033332441335074</id><published>2011-07-19T11:40:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-07-19T11:40:35.627-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pooh-Pooh'/><title type='text'>Pooh-Pooh Diaries</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;It has been more than two weeks since my last posting, I know...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Ja&amp;nbsp;passaram mais de duas semanas desde que&amp;nbsp;escrevi neste blog...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VdtT7B3aIKg/TiWgLF4ot0I/AAAAAAAAGTc/kjxdOFnuTp0/s1600/DSCN5248.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" m$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VdtT7B3aIKg/TiWgLF4ot0I/AAAAAAAAGTc/kjxdOFnuTp0/s320/DSCN5248.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;The truth is things have been kinda busy around here, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;but&amp;nbsp;I'm planning to give you all a heads up on another post later today.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;But for this specific post &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I mainly wanted to tell you about Pooh-Pooh, my cat.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;A verdade e que tenho andado um pouco ocupada,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;mas mais logo estou a planear por-vos ao corrente do que tenho feito.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Por agora quero falar-vos um pouco acerca da minha gata Pooh-Pooh.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-teJc3yuC53g/TiWhE0cKIfI/AAAAAAAAGTg/rnpFkV_2MKs/s1600/DSCN5249.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" m$="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-teJc3yuC53g/TiWhE0cKIfI/AAAAAAAAGTg/rnpFkV_2MKs/s320/DSCN5249.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;She&amp;nbsp;was spayed yesterday, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and she also&amp;nbsp;had the rabies shot and&amp;nbsp;a microchip implant. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Ela foi&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;"arranjada"&lt;/em&gt; ontem,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e tambem levou a vacina contra a raiva e o implante do microchip.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8qza3mmdck8/TiWhqsZk4TI/AAAAAAAAGTk/owcnjClTjZ4/s1600/DSCN5278.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" m$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8qza3mmdck8/TiWhqsZk4TI/AAAAAAAAGTk/owcnjClTjZ4/s320/DSCN5278.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Thus&amp;nbsp;she's not&amp;nbsp;feeling very good today. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;She has been&amp;nbsp;laying in that chair for hours now... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;... and does not want to be touched. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;She did eat late last night tough... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I'm still waiting a little bit longer before I call the vet... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;she's not supposed to be horsing around after surgery anyway &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;(or should I say "catting around"?)...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Por isso hoje nao se esta a sentir muito bem.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Esta deitada naquela cadeira faz horas&amp;nbsp;e nao quer que eu lhe mexa ou faca festas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;Mas ontem a noite comeu um bocadito...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Ainda vou esperar um pouco mais antes de telefonar ao veterinario,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;para ver como as coisas correm... de qualquer modo&amp;nbsp;no hospital veterinario&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;disseram que ela devia descansar &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e nao&amp;nbsp;andar a pular e saltar em cima da mobilia e dos sofas como habitualmente faz.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-djdaWosio-0/TiWiQQkMjkI/AAAAAAAAGTo/e0FLTlU4fmM/s1600/DSCN5281.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" m$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-djdaWosio-0/TiWiQQkMjkI/AAAAAAAAGTo/e0FLTlU4fmM/s320/DSCN5281.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I didn't go to work today, so I can keep an eye on her &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;(I've been working at Mother's Day Out &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;at our local church for the summer time).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Hoje nao fui trabalhar, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;para poder vigia-la durante o dia &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(tenho estado a trabalhar durante estes meses de Verao &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;no "Dia de Folga das Maes", &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;um centro de dia infantil que pertence a igreja local).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oZch--V76ZY/TiWkW64fIqI/AAAAAAAAGTw/Mut51xpcxAo/s1600/DSCN2112.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="180px" m$="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oZch--V76ZY/TiWkW64fIqI/AAAAAAAAGTw/Mut51xpcxAo/s320/DSCN2112.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EUBirT9gks8/TiWlJvN8T_I/AAAAAAAAGT0/Vm4cfbsQ5x4/s1600/DSCN2156.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="180px" m$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EUBirT9gks8/TiWlJvN8T_I/AAAAAAAAGT0/Vm4cfbsQ5x4/s320/DSCN2156.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I got (rescued) Pooh-Pooh after J passed away last August &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;and she has been&amp;nbsp;my best&amp;nbsp;friend, my baby, my companion since then.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I'm so grateful I have her! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;She's definitely a family member as I know for sure so many of you understand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Tenho a Pooh-Pooh &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(resgatei-a da rua quando a mae gata&amp;nbsp;a abandonou) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;desde a morte do J em Agosto do ano passado, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e ela tem sido uma grande amiga,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;faz-me muita companhia desde entao, e e&amp;nbsp;como se fosse no meu bebe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Estou muito grata por a ter comigo!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;E definitivamente como um membro da familia, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e tenho a certeza que muitas de voces compreendem o que quero dizer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L79pBVj13Y8/TiWkHniGPGI/AAAAAAAAGTs/kxTt0VwfNyY/s1600/DSCN2054.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="180px" m$="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L79pBVj13Y8/TiWkHniGPGI/AAAAAAAAGTs/kxTt0VwfNyY/s320/DSCN2054.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;And for now, this will be it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I'll be seeing you all a little bit later today.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;E por agora termino.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;Voltarei aqui um pouco mais tarde com mais assuntos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;Ate mais logo!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-9168033332441335074?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/9168033332441335074/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/07/pooh-pooh-diaries.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/9168033332441335074'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/9168033332441335074'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/07/pooh-pooh-diaries.html' title='Pooh-Pooh Diaries'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VdtT7B3aIKg/TiWgLF4ot0I/AAAAAAAAGTc/kjxdOFnuTp0/s72-c/DSCN5248.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-6629017491322123208</id><published>2011-07-05T06:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-07-05T06:59:22.355-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fairies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='felt flowers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='decoupage'/><title type='text'>Fairies, decoupage and felt flowers</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2Zj99QR8wQc/ThBtXimAgMI/AAAAAAAAGPk/VpXLuzvFIyA/s1600/DSCN5216.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" i$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2Zj99QR8wQc/ThBtXimAgMI/AAAAAAAAGPk/VpXLuzvFIyA/s320/DSCN5216.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Once upon a time...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;there was&amp;nbsp;a small clay pot...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;Era uma vez...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;um vaso pequenino feito de argila...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I could&amp;nbsp;start this blog post like this,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;wondering about fairies,&amp;nbsp;flowers and pretty clay pots...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;Eu poderia comecar bloggando desta maneira&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;divagando acerca de fadas, flores e vasinhos bonitos...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;But the truth is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;this is a post about how I made a pretty visual ensemble &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;to add to my fairyland type of environment &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;which I like so much.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;Mas a verdade e que este post &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;e acerca duma composicao &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;que eu criei &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;e que se integra&amp;nbsp;tao bem &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;na minha decoracao/coleccao de contos de fada &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;de que gosto tanto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3g_BUiq1PmE/ThBsDVMxTLI/AAAAAAAAGPE/A-blbzm_c8U/s1600/2011-06-26.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213px" i$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3g_BUiq1PmE/ThBsDVMxTLI/AAAAAAAAGPE/A-blbzm_c8U/s320/2011-06-26.jpg" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;But first to what comes first: how did I made the fairy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;Mas comecando pelo principio: como e que eu fiz a fada.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Quite a while ago &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I had found a tutorial about making these pretty fairies &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;out of a wooden bead,&amp;nbsp;a plastic flower and pipe cleaners.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;Aqui ha algum tempo atras &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;encontrei um tutorial (ou PAP) que ensinava a fazer estas fadas &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;a partir de uma conta de madeira, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;uma flor de plastico e limpa cachimbos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I made then a pretty mobile that I hung up&amp;nbsp;in J's room &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;(aka my craft room now).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;Nessa altura eu construi um mobile muito bonito &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;que pendurei no quarto do J &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;e que e agora a minha sala de trabalho.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5I90AnAgLvg/ThBw_bD03II/AAAAAAAAGQA/L1c4hgaEqn4/s1600/DSCN5223.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" i$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5I90AnAgLvg/ThBw_bD03II/AAAAAAAAGQA/L1c4hgaEqn4/s320/DSCN5223.JPG" width="95px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BhtjFyr3pZ0/ThBxB_PABfI/AAAAAAAAGQE/wDBBvlVmchI/s1600/DSCN5225.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" i$="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BhtjFyr3pZ0/ThBxB_PABfI/AAAAAAAAGQE/wDBBvlVmchI/s320/DSCN5225.JPG" width="164px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gEC42z0JIZM/ThBxFGxzRGI/AAAAAAAAGQI/1oR4PPpgM-o/s1600/DSCN5226.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" i$="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gEC42z0JIZM/ThBxFGxzRGI/AAAAAAAAGQI/1oR4PPpgM-o/s320/DSCN5226.JPG" width="182px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I'm sorry I can't found that tutorial anymore &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;but I did found another&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_5162059_make-pipe-cleaners-flower-petals.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt; eHow article&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;if you'd be interested how to make the fairy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;Tenho pena de ja nao conseguir encontrar esse tutorial, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;mas se estiverem interessadas, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;encontrei um outro &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_5162059_make-pipe-cleaners-flower-petals.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;artigo no eHow&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt; que ensina a fazer a fada.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Hz0PdVoH_4c/ThBxKPVboxI/AAAAAAAAGQQ/jnJ2Mk-_c3E/s1600/DSCN5228.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" i$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Hz0PdVoH_4c/ThBxKPVboxI/AAAAAAAAGQQ/jnJ2Mk-_c3E/s320/DSCN5228.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IPCFcYjMDcU/ThBxIcTnaEI/AAAAAAAAGQM/ShoEH-mAAkg/s1600/DSCN5227.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" i$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IPCFcYjMDcU/ThBxIcTnaEI/AAAAAAAAGQM/ShoEH-mAAkg/s320/DSCN5227.JPG" width="246px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Anyhow... as I was saying... I had a small clay pot...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;which I've decided to paint and&amp;nbsp;to aplly&amp;nbsp;some decoupage.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;This is&amp;nbsp;how it came about after it was done.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;De qualquer modo, como eu estava a dizer... eu tinha um vaso pequenino...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;que decidi pintar e decorar com decoupage.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;Depois de pronto ficou assim.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4mbA4v7krZE/ThBtar_WiLI/AAAAAAAAGPo/7_Xbohum4CI/s1600/DSCN5217.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" i$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4mbA4v7krZE/ThBtar_WiLI/AAAAAAAAGPo/7_Xbohum4CI/s320/DSCN5217.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Rc_gtkAbXgU/ThBtgA_Ja2I/AAAAAAAAGPw/N3FfW9d2pyY/s1600/DSCN5219.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" i$="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Rc_gtkAbXgU/ThBtgA_Ja2I/AAAAAAAAGPw/N3FfW9d2pyY/s320/DSCN5219.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vVAfyomeZLU/ThBtdlOsMoI/AAAAAAAAGPs/By1OWtcr990/s1600/DSCN5218.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" i$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vVAfyomeZLU/ThBtdlOsMoI/AAAAAAAAGPs/By1OWtcr990/s320/DSCN5218.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;First I've spray paint the pot white.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;Primeiro pintei o vaso de branco com tinta em spray.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;After it dried and using the decoupage technique &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I've glued &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;some pretty flowers and stars.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;Depois de seco utilizei a tecnica da decoupage &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;para aplicar flores e estrelas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Cc7va6tZfA0/ThB0jStJo0I/AAAAAAAAGQg/-y0GUP8R0XE/s1600/DSCN5232.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" i$="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Cc7va6tZfA0/ThB0jStJo0I/AAAAAAAAGQg/-y0GUP8R0XE/s320/DSCN5232.JPG" width="115px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vk2PvrHTTdo/ThB0iFqSjuI/AAAAAAAAGQc/84YJrVixdW0/s1600/DSCN5231.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" i$="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vk2PvrHTTdo/ThB0iFqSjuI/AAAAAAAAGQc/84YJrVixdW0/s320/DSCN5231.JPG" width="192px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Applied glossy Mod Podge allover&amp;nbsp;the pot to seal and finish it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;Apliquei Mod Podge brilhante em todo o vaso, que&amp;nbsp;funciona como acabamento final.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;For the felt flowers I followed this &lt;a href="http://www.howjoyful.com/2011/05/felt-camelia-tutorial-pattern/"&gt;very nice tutorial&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;Para fazer as flores em feltro &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;segui as instrucoes &lt;a href="http://www.howjoyful.com/2011/05/felt-camelia-tutorial-pattern/"&gt;neste tutorial&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Lp4ga4bYuAI/ThBtJnoEzEI/AAAAAAAAGPQ/Qom9T945rTw/s1600/DSCN5211.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" i$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Lp4ga4bYuAI/ThBtJnoEzEI/AAAAAAAAGPQ/Qom9T945rTw/s320/DSCN5211.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CPJ0WRTD3Nc/ThBtNFfBlzI/AAAAAAAAGPU/0qKwjL9jeVg/s1600/DSCN5212.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" i$="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CPJ0WRTD3Nc/ThBtNFfBlzI/AAAAAAAAGPU/0qKwjL9jeVg/s320/DSCN5212.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2-k7iyAHZHE/ThBtQiJ2ExI/AAAAAAAAGPY/38EGnAbvpF8/s1600/DSCN5213.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" i$="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2-k7iyAHZHE/ThBtQiJ2ExI/AAAAAAAAGPY/38EGnAbvpF8/s320/DSCN5213.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YfbafDp7dCg/ThBtS9oKU-I/AAAAAAAAGPc/bMvS_e_fMTU/s1600/DSCN5214.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" i$="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YfbafDp7dCg/ThBtS9oKU-I/AAAAAAAAGPc/bMvS_e_fMTU/s320/DSCN5214.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;After inserting the fairy in the composition &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I've fabric glitter sprayed everything.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;And this is how it looks like.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;Depois de fazer a fada e a colocar na composicao,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;utilizei glitter em spray para tecido em todo o lado.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;E ficou assim.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kggdke58X3Q/ThBtB5ZsUdI/AAAAAAAAGPI/ORgPuRCHNtU/s1600/DSCN5210.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" i$="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kggdke58X3Q/ThBtB5ZsUdI/AAAAAAAAGPI/ORgPuRCHNtU/s320/DSCN5210.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xN3utv4Iguk/ThBtVOtdZRI/AAAAAAAAGPg/t3neUWy1Z8s/s1600/DSCN5215.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" i$="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xN3utv4Iguk/ThBtVOtdZRI/AAAAAAAAGPg/t3neUWy1Z8s/s320/DSCN5215.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;And my&amp;nbsp;little fairy&amp;nbsp;sure lets my imagination fly away over her wings!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I'll see you all soon!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;E a&amp;nbsp;minha fadazinha leva-me para longe &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;nas asas da minha imaginacao!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;Ate breve!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-6629017491322123208?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/6629017491322123208/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/07/fairies-decoupage-and-felt-flowers.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/6629017491322123208'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/6629017491322123208'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/07/fairies-decoupage-and-felt-flowers.html' title='Fairies, decoupage and felt flowers'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2Zj99QR8wQc/ThBtXimAgMI/AAAAAAAAGPk/VpXLuzvFIyA/s72-c/DSCN5216.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-5691416750938118837</id><published>2011-07-04T07:17:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2011-07-04T07:26:49.703-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tribute'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fourth of July'/><title type='text'>Tribute</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vmQMkqYNwSA/ThCyg8vIA6I/AAAAAAAAGRQ/4YY-_W0r-Xc/s1600/DSCN5234.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" i$="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vmQMkqYNwSA/ThCyg8vIA6I/AAAAAAAAGRQ/4YY-_W0r-Xc/s320/DSCN5234.JPG" width="223px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Eleven years ago &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and after&amp;nbsp;marrying J &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;we&amp;nbsp;moved &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;from Europe (Portugal) to Tennessee &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;to build a new live together.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;Ha onze anos atras e depois de ter casado com o J&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;mudamo-nos de Portugal para o Tennessee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;para construir una nova vida em conjunto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;My husband was born, raised and died&amp;nbsp;here in Tennessee.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Tough our new life together didn't last for long,&amp;nbsp;was a very happy one.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;O meu marido nasceu, foi criado e morreu aqui no Tennessee.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;A nossa vida em conjunto nao durou muito, mas foi muito feliz.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;And as once more we commemorate the fourth of July, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I can't stop thinking about my husband and&amp;nbsp;about my dad. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;E uma vez mais ao comemorar o quatro de Julho,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;nao consigo deixar de pensar no meu marido e no meu pai.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-O0kWaUur3pg/ThCMEJpNT-I/AAAAAAAAGQs/8lJ57YaBeqs/s1600/DSCN5233.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" i$="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-O0kWaUur3pg/ThCMEJpNT-I/AAAAAAAAGQs/8lJ57YaBeqs/s320/DSCN5233.JPG" width="266px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;My husband was a veteran, and had military funeral honors.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;O meu marido era um veterano e teve honras militares funebres.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QxLQ8qMix1M/ThCMGvs9jlI/AAAAAAAAGQw/XJFbwph5o14/s1600/DSCN5236.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="220px" i$="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QxLQ8qMix1M/ThCMGvs9jlI/AAAAAAAAGQw/XJFbwph5o14/s320/DSCN5236.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y-M8PJ2x5Wg/ThCv0KhPzpI/AAAAAAAAGRE/t74LmsZ0Zi8/s1600/DSCN5237-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="272px" i$="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y-M8PJ2x5Wg/ThCv0KhPzpI/AAAAAAAAGRE/t74LmsZ0Zi8/s320/DSCN5237-1.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mLi0IjyEEQA/ThCMMfnbSRI/AAAAAAAAGQ4/Ac-bMRbjk3Y/s1600/DSCN5239.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" i$="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mLi0IjyEEQA/ThCMMfnbSRI/AAAAAAAAGQ4/Ac-bMRbjk3Y/s320/DSCN5239.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Tough from an European country, my dad was a veteran also.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;He also had military funeral honors.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;And he was born on the fourth of July.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;Embora dum pais europeu, o meu pai tambem era um veterano&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;e tambem teve honras militares funebres.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;E o meu pai nasceu no dia quatro de Julho.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;So today as I pay tribute to the USA, to my husband and to my father, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I also want to pay tribute&amp;nbsp;to all the beloved husbands and fathers &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;allover the world and who no longer are with us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;Por isso hoje o meu tributo aos Estados Unidos da America, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;ao meu marido &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;e ao meu pai.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;Tambem quero prestar tributo a todos os maridos e pais &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;que foram amados e que ja nao estao connosco hoje.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Have a happy fourth of July!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;And I'll see you all soon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;Tenham um feliz quatro de Julho!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;E ate breve.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-5691416750938118837?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/5691416750938118837/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/07/tribute.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/5691416750938118837'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/5691416750938118837'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/07/tribute.html' title='Tribute'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vmQMkqYNwSA/ThCyg8vIA6I/AAAAAAAAGRQ/4YY-_W0r-Xc/s72-c/DSCN5234.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-8498741273667351362</id><published>2011-07-03T08:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-07-03T08:34:30.159-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hexagons'/><title type='text'>Hexagon Pool Tote</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4YrpOc7bjnE/ThBY76x5TsI/AAAAAAAAGOM/x-GagEiLIiE/s1600/DSCN5096.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640px" i$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4YrpOc7bjnE/ThBY76x5TsI/AAAAAAAAGOM/x-GagEiLIiE/s640/DSCN5096.JPG" width="480px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;It's officially summer time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;E oficialente tempo de Verao.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;And it has been so hot lately &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;that I've decided to use my grandson's&amp;nbsp;pool &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;as a cool&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spa"&gt;spa&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and use it myself on these hot afternoons. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;Tem estado tao quente ultimamente&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;ue decidi usar a piscina do meu neto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;como um spa refrescante&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;nestas tardes tao quentes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New;"&gt;(SPA&amp;nbsp;nao tem traducao literal &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New;"&gt;mas tem a ver com terapia hidraulica, hidromassagem... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spa"&gt;pesquisei&lt;/a&gt; e descobri que o termo SPA se aplica &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New;"&gt;a uma cidade belga&amp;nbsp;cujo nome medieval em latim era&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;Aquae Spadanae.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Qyzsu0zm1Os/Tf3pKqDwK6I/AAAAAAAAGMs/LfmpBMmGmfk/s1600/DSCN5102.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;And to make it more serious, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I made me a pool bag,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;E para me tomar a&amp;nbsp;serio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;fiz um saco de piscina,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SBGLcezJP3w/ThBZI_4zVXI/AAAAAAAAGOc/fI8jH27BO4g/s1600/DSCN5104.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" i$="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SBGLcezJP3w/ThBZI_4zVXI/AAAAAAAAGOc/fI8jH27BO4g/s320/DSCN5104.JPG" width="141px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C1GmMhIPnok/ThBZcCicZbI/AAAAAAAAGOk/CZAf_Ay2SVs/s1600/DSCN5101.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" i$="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C1GmMhIPnok/ThBZcCicZbI/AAAAAAAAGOk/CZAf_Ay2SVs/s320/DSCN5101.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p-wy_lGZ7HI/ThBZfAz-9wI/AAAAAAAAGOo/Bdnm4ZRKiYw/s1600/DSCN5102.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" i$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p-wy_lGZ7HI/ThBZfAz-9wI/AAAAAAAAGOo/Bdnm4ZRKiYw/s320/DSCN5102.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;to carry my towels and my sunscreen &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;up to the deck where the pool is.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;para levar as toalhas e o protector solar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;para a varanda onde esta a piscina.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I've machine applique a flower hexagon on a purple square, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and then sewn three squares &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;to form a row of three. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;Apliquei a maquina uma flor feita com&amp;nbsp;hexagonos num quadrado roxo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;e depois cosi um quadrado ao outro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;para formar uma fila de tres quadrados.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;With four rows of purple squares with applique flower hexagons &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I was able to put together &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;a real nice pool tote, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;don't you think?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;Com quatro filas de quadrados roxos &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;com flores de hexagonos aplicadas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;consegui fazer uma sacola ben gira,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;nao acham?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-v9HY4TsjeMo/ThBZG8ueHyI/AAAAAAAAGOY/h6TpOeSeFYc/s1600/DSCN5100.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" i$="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-v9HY4TsjeMo/ThBZG8ueHyI/AAAAAAAAGOY/h6TpOeSeFYc/s320/DSCN5100.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-i5NbjhXduOM/ThBY--BdXLI/AAAAAAAAGOQ/0A9262imWeo/s1600/DSCN5097.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" i$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-i5NbjhXduOM/ThBY--BdXLI/AAAAAAAAGOQ/0A9262imWeo/s320/DSCN5097.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2KbT2qEUOU8/ThBZEQs_rlI/AAAAAAAAGOU/lRzcc_qVPm4/s1600/DSCN5098.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" i$="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2KbT2qEUOU8/ThBZEQs_rlI/AAAAAAAAGOU/lRzcc_qVPm4/s320/DSCN5098.JPG" width="240px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Enjoy your summer,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and I'll see you all later!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;Aproveitem bem o Verao&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;e ate breve!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-8498741273667351362?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/8498741273667351362/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/07/hexagon-pool-tote.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/8498741273667351362'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/8498741273667351362'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/07/hexagon-pool-tote.html' title='Hexagon Pool Tote'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4YrpOc7bjnE/ThBY76x5TsI/AAAAAAAAGOM/x-GagEiLIiE/s72-c/DSCN5096.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-4043582509305296328</id><published>2011-06-29T07:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-06-29T07:46:48.824-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pooh-Pooh'/><title type='text'>Pooh-Pooh Diaries</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Tb_TwM93plw/TgjtVt9T56I/AAAAAAAAGNs/SYBJ9GTObn4/s1600/DSCN5185.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" i$="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Tb_TwM93plw/TgjtVt9T56I/AAAAAAAAGNs/SYBJ9GTObn4/s320/DSCN5185.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Last Monday I had to take my cat Pooh-Pooh to the vet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I'm feeling much reassured now,&amp;nbsp;but it has been a long crazy week. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;She has been having gastrointestinal problems, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;missing the litter box and having accidents all over the place...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Between the constant cleaning and caring for her &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;didn't had much time left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;She is getting better now &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and hopefully soon will be able to play&amp;nbsp;everywhere as usual.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I hope that&amp;nbsp;both of us will be back to our normal routines very soon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Till then, I'll be seing you!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Na passada segunda feira tive de levar a minha gata Pooh-Pooh ao veterinario.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Embora esteja mais descansada agora, tem sido uma semana comprida e maluca.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Ela tem&amp;nbsp;estado com&amp;nbsp;problemas gastrointestinais e tem tido acidentes por todo o lado...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Entre o limpar constantemente e tratar dela&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;nao tenho tido tempo de sobra.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Mas&amp;nbsp;agora ela parece estar melhor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;e esperemos que em breve possa voltar a brincar por toda a casa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Esperemos tambem que em breve tanto ela como eu possamos voltar as nossas rotinas habituais.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Ate breve!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6392627559595359361-4043582509305296328?l=helenismostoshare.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/feeds/4043582509305296328/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/06/pooh-pooh-diaries.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/4043582509305296328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6392627559595359361/posts/default/4043582509305296328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://helenismostoshare.blogspot.com/2011/06/pooh-pooh-diaries.html' title='Pooh-Pooh Diaries'/><author><name>Helenismos</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16732943782394952707</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='12' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VMWnf0b_oXo/TkPp8wLOvhI/AAAAAAAAGdM/-xT-WuDUt4M/s220/DSCN5527.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Tb_TwM93plw/TgjtVt9T56I/AAAAAAAAGNs/SYBJ9GTObn4/s72-c/DSCN5185.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392627559595359361.post-2518897257314914999</id><published>2011-06-18T15:56:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-06-18T15:57:29.657-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UFO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fence Rail Quilt'/><title type='text'>UFO's and a Lilac Fence Rail Quilt</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yHMHk1NsYOQ/Tfymx91dreI/AAAAAAAAGMI/2nNj4bPFhTM/s1600/DSCN5090.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150px" i$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yHMHk1NsYOQ/Tfymx91dreI/AAAAAAAAGMI/2nNj4bPFhTM/s200/DSCN5090.JPG" width="200px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I've finally finished the lilac fence rail quilt top &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;that had been&amp;nbsp;pushed around so many&amp;nbsp;times &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and then finally just laid on top &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;of the drawers cabinet &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;for so long!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Finalmente acabei&amp;nbsp;a manta de retalhos&amp;nbsp;lilas feita com f&lt;em&gt;ence rail blocks&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;(retalhos cosidos a maquina e que formam um&amp;nbsp;padrao conhecido como cerca ou vedacao).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;Este quilt, ou manta de retalhos, &amp;nbsp;tem sido empurrado dum sitio para o outro e finalmente acabou por ficar pousado durante meses&amp;nbsp;em cima do armario.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;It was upgraded from a&amp;nbsp;UFO to a fairly nice finished quilt!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Foi promovido de UFO para uma bonita manta de retalhos!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;So, what's up with UFO's...? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;O que e um UFO...?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;In my craft's room there's a lot of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;UFO's &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;(=Un Finished Objects).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;No meu atelier ha muitos UFO's&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;(ou OPA'S=Objectos Por Acabar).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Since in a while, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;when I'm looking for something in the drawers, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;revolving inside the containers on the shelves, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;emptying my project fabric baskets,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I find &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;another one!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;De vez em quando&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;quando estou&amp;nbsp;a procura de alguma coisa nas gavetas,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;ou revolvendo o interior das caixas que estao nas prateleiras,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;ou quando esvazio os meus cestos de projectos&amp;nbsp;para acabar,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;la encontro mais um!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-q27WcuEQUDQ/TfymeIWu6SI/AAAAAAAAGLs/AUqE5tuVzeU/s1600/DSCN5089.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" i$="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ld267d9iJYQ/Tfymu0-dC4I/AAAAAAAAGME/JEfr7CwOV_A/s320/DSCN5091.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-b_CUxLjEuck/Tfymr96pUHI/AAAAAAAAGMA/avhQ90ZDItQ/s1600/DSCN5092.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240px" i$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-b_CUxLjEuck/Tfymr96pUHI/AAAAAAAAGMA/avhQ90ZDItQ/s320/DSCN5092.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;In this Lilac Fence Rail quilt case &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;the reason for it to have became an UFO &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;was because it is difficult&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;to make&amp;nbsp;available enough room floor&amp;nbsp;space &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;to cut out the backing and the batting &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;and to machine quilt everything together,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;because of the quilt size!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;A razao para esta manta de retalhos lilas se ter tornado num UFO (ou OPA)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;foi por ser muito complicado disponibilizar suficiente espaco livre no chao &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;para cortar &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;o tecido para a parte detras da manta e para o entremeio &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;(ou recheio como ja ouvi chamar em Portugal; trata-se de um material muito fofo que se coloca entre a manta de retalhos e o tecido&amp;nbsp;que forma a parte detras da manta, e que e o que torna a manta confortavel e quente como um cobertor) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;"&gt;e&amp;nbsp;acolchoar esta grande sanduiche na maquina de costura.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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