Hexagon Pool Tote

It's officially summer time.

E oficialente tempo de Verao.

And it has been so hot lately

that I've decided to use my grandson's pool

as a cool spa

and use it myself on these hot afternoons.

Tem estado tao quente ultimamente

ue decidi usar a piscina do meu neto

como um spa refrescante

nestas tardes tao quentes.

(SPA nao tem traducao literal

mas tem a ver com terapia hidraulica, hidromassagem...

pesquisei e descobri que o termo SPA se aplica

a uma cidade belga cujo nome medieval em latim era Aquae Spadanae.)

And to make it more serious,

I made me a pool bag,

E para me tomar a serio

fiz um saco de piscina,

 to carry my towels and my sunscreen

up to the deck where the pool is.

para levar as toalhas e o protector solar

para a varanda onde esta a piscina.

I've machine applique a flower hexagon on a purple square,

and then sewn three squares

to form a row of three.

Apliquei a maquina uma flor feita com hexagonos num quadrado roxo

e depois cosi um quadrado ao outro

para formar uma fila de tres quadrados.

With four rows of purple squares with applique flower hexagons

I was able to put together

a real nice pool tote,

don't you think?

Com quatro filas de quadrados roxos

com flores de hexagonos aplicadas

consegui fazer uma sacola ben gira,

nao acham?

Enjoy your summer,

and I'll see you all later!

Aproveitem bem o Verao

e ate breve!

Hexagon table center

After Washington DC

have been fighting a nasty cold

and some tooth aches... taking antibiotic right now

and late next week will be a dentist appointment...ugh!

Anyway...

Today's post is about more hexagons

(I'm definitely in love with hexies!).

I've just finished a Christmassy table center,

and I like the primitive look of it.

The colors and the homespun fabric

kinda did give it the appearance I was looking for.

I'm keeping this one for myself

but I will soon have one for sale.

Also I've been experimenting some projects with empty jars

(I simply can't trow out a glass jar!),

and I made this kinda of Christmas landscape.

I think soon I'll write a whole post just about empty glass jars...

And for last but not least,

I would like to share with you all

a beautiful sunset yesterday...

... and I even caught "something" shooting up in the sky...lol...

...oh well!, it sure was pretty!

I'll see you all soon!

Giveaway - seven days left to enter and win!

Once again,

I've been up since 3:30 AM!

I reckon that's the price to pay

for becoming a little kitten adoptive mom!

 

 

 

 

 

 

The little bugger

wakes me up 'cause he wants to eat

but what it really wants is to play!

Oh!... and he is good, really good, at hide and seek!

Of course, he's asleep now and me... I have to fight my own yawning just to stay awake!

Now about the giveaway...

... you still have 7 more days to enter

and win

one of my 3 Tunisian crochet handmade pouches.

The last day to enter is next Friday, October 15,

and I'll announce the 3 winners  on Saturday, October 16.

It's easy to enter,

just leave me a comment about what you like the most,

either about my blog or about my BearyNiceCrafts Etsy shop.

That's it!

Go ahead, and click here to enter!

And don't forget to leave your email

so I can contact you if you win.

On another note,

I've been keeping myself busy

(kinda forcing myself a little bit, but busy is definitely good).

I've finished two more totes,

a new polka dot series, with patchwork applique,

and I think they came out really nice.

Soon I'll be listing them on my

BearyNiceMade ArtFire Shop.

And that's it for today.

You all have a good one!

"All is worthwhile if the soul is not small"

At 6:00 in the morning everything seems to have a different dimension...

I've been up since 4:00 am.

I still keep waking up to different weird unusual things...

Since J's passing it has been like that.

Please don't misunderstand...

I'm fine, and I do realize that missing him this much

can do that to your subconscious mind.

But somehow it's very comforting to me.

It started that week of August 17th... static...

and static and static on the phones...

...till they died.

Unusual sounds in the house,

smoke detectors will go on for no reason and won't stop

(I had to remove them).

This night it was a phone ringing, just the ringing sound,

the phone was not actually ringing.

And the butterflies.

Everyday I see all these wonderful butterflies

just fluttering around.

After my mom passed,

I kept awaking up to the sound of her voice and the words Lena, get up!

The words of the Portuguese most famous and wonderful poet

Fernando Pessoa

keep popping in my mind

"all is worthwhile if the soul is not small"

(tudo vale a pena quando a alma nao e pequena).

Time is very strange... 

... in one hand it seems like

I'm still inside a long nightmare struggling to wake up,

but on the other hand it seems like everything happened a long time ago...

and it has been only 32 days since it happened.

My niece has been staying with me since Friday night.

Like usual we did lots of things...

... a little sewing,

a little cooking, a little manicure,

a little napping while watching movies on TV...

... projects for Halloween costume

(this year she wants to be a vampire princess,

so we tried some of my dresses, projected a cape out of

a velvet material I had from years and years ago),

and sewn a few small prizes for her future scavenger hunt

she has been planning.

This is the pic of the tiara she sewn for her costume...

Do you remember Mr. Yellow Bunny I had made for my sister-in-law...?,

I had promised I would show you the pic

when she had it on the bench...?, well, here it is.

 The saying is very cute and its purpose

is to function like a time out bench,

but a well pleasant time out...don't you think?

The week has been busy,

I still have so many things to deal with,

and of course I still have to pursue finding a job

until I can (hopefully) go back to my career as a special ed teacher.

I think this may explain the reason of this time distortion to me...

... my days used to be very routine like... taking care of J

was a very methodical and regular task,

everything circled towards his care

and now it seems I have all this time on my hands!

The shop has taken some of all this time out my hands,

setting it up, making things to sell, promoting it,

takes quite a bit of it

but still...

... sometimes the emptiness just kind installs itself without a warning...

Oh well...

I've made 3 more sets of quilted coasters for the shop.

I like them a lot and they look quite good I think.

And about my last post... about what happened

with my floppy disk treasure box tutorial,

 I checked it out yesterday again and of course

she hadn't post my comment but she did rectify it, linking it to my blog,

as you can see by the pic bellow.

Anyhow... at least she did rectify it.

But I also noticed by her last post

she had been somehow punished by Google,

it seems she could not publish graphics and images...

I've also noticed I was not the only one

she was not giving credits or linking to...

... and for sure I should not have been the only one aggravated by that.

And that's it for today.

My niece is still sleeping

and shortly I'll have to go get her up and get her ready for church.

Until my next post, I'll see you then.

Hexagon Coasters

In order to keep myself sane

I have to be busy,

and that's what has been happening.

Every morning

I wake up with some kind of project in my mind,

and with the opening of my Etsy store

it seems that everything I think about

is to create little projects for the store.

Lately
I've been making cute coasters out of quilted hexagons.

Let me tell you it can be quite relaxing!

I just love to choose the coordinating prints,
sew the hexagons
and put everything together.

I am even considering to make a big quilt!

Some of these hexagons
already made their way into
 my BearyNiceCrafts shop.

You can find them there.

Anyway...
 I thought I would let you have a peek in here also.

This is how they look like:

I'll see you on my next post.