Sala de estar/jantar - Living/dining room

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Algumas/alguns de vocês devem lembrar-se que mudei de casa muito recentemente... Este é um dos motivos para a minha falta de tempo e produtividade em termos de manualidades. Uma casa dá bastante trabalho, mas é com muita satisfação que vemos as coisas a comporem-se. Hoje vou mostrar-vos a sala, que está quase pronta (para ficar como quero faltam alguns pormenores como um candeeiro em arco, um quadro numa das paredes que não se vêem nas fotos, um plasma de 50 polegadas em vez do LCD de 32 que trouxe do apartamento, etc.
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Some of you may recall that I moved to a new home recently. This is one of the reasons for my lack of productivity sewing wise. A house is considerably more time consuming to maintain than a small apartment but it rewards me with great satisfaction decorating it and making it our own. Today I will show you the living/dining room which is almost complete as we envisioned it (it lacks a couple of paintings on the wall facing the table end on the right, an arc lamp, a 50 inch plasma, and a few other minor details).
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Cake! Cake! Cake!

And amazing opportunity to chat with Kathy of KB Kakes, taste her amazing cake!!



Come and taste cake, and party on The Party Bus! There are still some spaces available, so RSVP - ASAP!

Some Winners & a New Guest!

WOW!! you all loooove some fabric!! and i think i can honestly say by your reactions... i completely love bringing it to you and i'm quite sure Tammy feels the same!! ;) I can also guess that you don't want to wait on the announcement of the winners about as much as i don't want to talk hard birthday numbers anymore!!.... so let's get on with it( it's on the 29th and i'll be the big 33 years old!! ) haha...

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Amber said...
you really don't look a day over 21 :-) yeah for birthday celebrations!!

May 31, 2010 9:55 PM


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Rebecca Maples said...
p.s. I follow already, do I still get a second entry?

June 1, 2010 8:29 AM


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Sarah N. said...
Happy birthday! I am a June baby too! I hit the big 4-0 last year and survived - so I am sure you can survive the mid-thirties!

Thanks for throwing such a great birthday celebration.

June 1, 2010 4:57 AM

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ErinB said...
I now follow Karamat also!

June 1, 2010 4:22 PM

AND

guess who has just arrived as our next fabulous blogger Guest! It's Miss Kate Conklin of Kate Conklins Designs!!

Such a fantastic quilt designer... Kate has been lovingly embraced by the modern quilting community since her huge display of her generosity towards the Haiti earthquake victims by giving a tremendous amount of support to { Craft Hope for Haiti } and thus, their relief efforts to the victims by way of donations to Dr.'s Without boarders!

her patterns have become a fan favorite and she has brought 2 ( patterns of your choice ) for three of my party guest to win!! Here are some fabulous examples of her art!

The guidelines!

just leave a quick little note saying... hi!

for additional entries:

become a follower of mine!! ;)

become a follower of { Kate Conklin Designs }!!


I will keep this give-a-way open until Saturday the 5th of June at 9:00 pm PST.

PLEASE NOTE... THERE ARE GONNA BE A LOT OF WINNERS THIS MONTH... SO, YOU'LL HAVE TO CHECK BACK TO SEE IF YOU'RE ONE OF THEM.... AND YOU"LL HAVE TO SEND ME AN EMAIL IF YOU ARE! GOOD LUCK KIDS!! ;)

Casual e confortável em branco dourado e bege Casual and confy in white, beige and gold

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Vou tirar férias a partir de amanhã e na próxima semana, e inspirada por esse facto hoje só me apetecia vestir este género de roupa, muito confortável e casual. Também acabámos de mudar de instalações na empresa e o ar condicionado ainda não está a funcionar nas novas salas, por isso aqui estou eu com ar de férias no trabalho!

I’m taking a small vacation break starting tomorrow and during the next week; that inspired me for this casual and comfy outfit. Besides all, my company just moved to new facilities and the new air conditioners aren’t running yet, so here I am embracing the vacation spirit at work!







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A usar:
- T-shirt comprida branca estampada
- Calças de linho brancas (são transparentes, por isso costumo usá-las com tops compridos e túnicas, a não ser que vá para a praia)
- Casaco de malha bege
- Sabrinas bege com aplicações douradas
- Bolsa entrançada bege e branco
- Colar concha feito por mim (ver aqui)
- Relógio dourado estilo retro, várias pulseiras, anéis dourados, brincos bola dourados.

Wearing:
- Oversized white printed T-shirt
- White linen pants (they are see-through so I only wear them with oversized tops and tunics, unless I’m wearing them to the beach)
- Beige knit cardigan
- Nude golden embellished ballerina flats
- Basket weave bag in white and beige
- Seashell necklace made by me (click here)
- Retro style golden watch, several bracelets, golden rings, small golden pearl earrings.

Entertaining Tip: Planning

New Rule

Birthday Parties are fun! When you're planning a birthday party, whether it's for kids or adults, plan an easy meal, pizza, bbq, regardless of what it is, make sure it's easy, because there is more to a party than just food.

If you can swing it, order it out, have it caterered, just don't fuss with it.

And remember regardless of the age of the brithday girl or boy whether they are 3 or 53, have some games. A treasure hunt, a get to know the people at the party game, have a casino table (Grown up party...) and have fun!

The more fun you are having, the more fun your guests will have!

Top ao estilo Missoni – Missoni style top

Fiz este top no verão passado, a imitar um modelo de Missoni. No meu blog de costura explico como fazê-lo, é muito fácil.

I made this top last summer; it’s a Missoni knockoff and on my sewing blog there’s a tutorial on how to construct it, it’s quite easy






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A usar:
- Top inspirado em Missoni feito por mim, ver aqui como se faz.
- Blusão sem mangas vermelho
- Calças de ganga skinny pretas
- Sandálias vermelhas pespontadas
- Bolsa com contrastes em preto
- Relógio, pulseiras, anéis e brincos em preto e prateado

Wearing:
- Missoni knockoff made by me (tutorial here)
- Red jacket with short sleeves
- Black skinny jeans
- Red topstitched sandals
- Bag with black highlights
- Watch, bangles, rings and earrings all in silver and black

Hire Professionals!

Not too long ago I did a series on hiring a wedding planner, and posted a letter from a bride who didn't hire us, and how she wished she did. It's here if you want to read it.



Recently, I found a post on the subject with with a tragic series of event that occured because she didn't hire professionals. I found this on one of my favorite people's blog, Mark from Queen of Hearts in Philadelphia.



A Cautionary Wedding Tale







You know that sinking feeling when your gut tells you something is really not a good idea?



That’s the feeling I ignored when my fiancé talked me out of hiring Mark Kingsdorf as my day-of wedding coordinator.





At the time, we were living in an historic home with beautiful grounds next to a stables, and chose to have our wedding at home as an obvious choice. The owners of the stables had taken some bit of persuading to allow us to have a wedding next door: so much so that they insisted that we hire valet parkers to avoid any possible disturbance to the horses as they were brought to and from their stalls and pasture. But somehow, I got it all together, including with a hefty insurance policy and a list of conditions.





My husband-to-be had gone to spend the night with his parents, and as the day of the wedding dawned with blue skies, I felt reasonably confident that I was well prepared for the event to come. I got a lot of teasing about the fact that I had typed up and handed out timelines and task lists, and in addition, I tacked up large posters with even more lists of who was doing what, by when, and how.





Seemed straightforward enough. Until I glanced out the window during a bathroom break between hair and make-up and saw that the tables and chairs were still stacked in a corner of the yard. This part of the set-up had been allocated to my fiancé’s friends, and apparently, not a single one of them had shown up.





I looked up at my carefully choreographed list and saw that I had made one fatal mistake – in my timeline, there was no room built in for error. To get even twenty minutes behind at this stage meant there would be no way everything would be set up on time for the ceremony.





I didn’t know where my fiancé’s friends were and I didn’t have a number to get in touch with them. Frantically, I called my future husband’s cell to no avail. Next, I called my in-laws’ house onlyto be informed that my fiancé was in the middle of a massage and couldn’t be disturbed! My friends and family suddenly found their work load doubled, and I ruthlessly sized up both the very young and the elderly for their suitability to be roped into the task.





Fuming silently – okay, maybe not so silently – I returned to the make-up chair with my updo slightly askew, cursing, panting and lightly sweating. Luckily, I had hired professionals for this job, as I was hardly looking like ideal bride material by this time. A couple of medicinal glasses of champagne later, I finally regained my composure.





With about ten minutes to go before the start of the ceremony, I couldn’t resist looking out the window to check on the progress outside, and that is where I saw, to my utterhorror, a van parked right in front of the pasture gate with the musicians unloading, totally blocking the way for a highly strung horse and his even more highly strung owner.





Aaagh! Disaster!





Frantically, I began yelling to try to get their attention to move the van. Without thinking, I began pounding on the window, and all of a sudden, I had everyone’s attention as my fist went straight through the historic seventeenth century glass and I started to bleed – profusely, in fact!





Oh *****! was my first thought.





Don’t bleed on the dress! was the second.





I’ve just destroyed a piece of our nation’s historic heritage, what am I going to do? That was the last semi-rational thought I had before I unraveled completely.





As far as my second thought was concerned, I had the great fortune that my future brother in law is an emergency room doctor, and even better, he happens to travel with everything you need to stitch up a bleeding bride. It’s a great thing that bandages come in bridal colors…





I was even luckier in the serious matter of replacing a seventeenth century window pane. I came back from my honeymoon to find, by way of fantastic coincidence,someone had decided to do some architectural restoration on another part of the house, and there, up a ladder, I discovered my very own historic window replacement specialist.



Moral of the Story: I dont' care who you hire, but hire a professional wedding planner!