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After a few weeks of being more then occupied with small renovation works in our home, making feelings and organising 1m2, I think it's time for a little break.
Won't be long but I will close the shop for a bit so that I can have total relaxation time.
Will be back before you know it! Be well & enjoy yourself! :)

Flickr Favorites

1. Remembrance, 2. The Book Reader,
3. Zulu 13:16 - Incoming Train, 4. Black line

All the above pictures had the word 'Berlin' as tag. That's the place I'll be heading to on Thursday. I'll be attending 'Hello Etsy' in the weekend and will meet up with lots of lovely peeps.
I have a dinnerdate on thursday evening with Vadjutka and Petit Plat. Can't make it too late as Marta will lift me out of bed on early Friday morning since she is coming by night train and will arrive at an ungodly hour. We'll have Friday to gallivant in Berlin together. I've never been there so if you have any 'must-sees' or 'go there's', let me know!
I'll be closing my shop & blog until next week as I'm treating myself to a week vacation. Be good while I'm gone! :)

Merry go round

Every last friday of the month, I jump on the 'Merry go round'. What is the Merry go round exactly? Each month, a group of craftswomen from around the world join together and give their reponses to the same question/challenge.This months question was 'do you take a holiday from your craft/art?
I can't remember last time I took a holiday from my creative work as I always seem to be doing something. It's a constant factor in my life and I wouldn't know any other way really. When I go away on a road trip, even if it's only a short one, I usually take a bag along to assemble happy girls. My hands are always busy and it feels strange if they are not doing anything.
The past weeks have been busy with house chores so my creative time has been limited but I don't see it as a holiday as it was totally not my choice not to be creative. :)
Nearly done with all the house stuff so I hope to be back on my blog sometime soon to share creative stuff again. :)
Want to know if the other Merriers are taking a creative break? Hop over to their blogs. Please bear in mind that the members will be posting at different times of the day, depending on which world time-zone they are in :)

Laura at Blue Terracotta
Monika at Red2White
Ruth at Birdland Creations
Kim at Vilt a la Kim
Sara at Crafts of Texture
Samantha at Vintage is for lovers
Mariana at Florcita
Agathe at Le Bar du Vent
Jen at Painted Fish Studio
Bethany at Dirksen Dabbles

Portugal Pictures

It took me some time to post some pictures of Portugal in my blog. Just been superduper busy the past week. Didn't take that many pictures either but here are some impressions...

Aveiro

Pottery shopping

Having coffee & pastry in Nariz under a clear blue sky.

The trainstation in Aveiro.

This picture is a bit blurry but I wanted to show you anyway.
We had a very fun evening playing with PlayDoh and the kids were
somehow inspired by Babuschka's... could it be my bad influence? :)

Kerrin's beautiful kiddies:
Gabriel

Inês

Simone

Oops, my beautiful new bag made by Heli got pooped on.
Right on the head of 'cute' *sigh* made for some good laughs though
and apparently it brings luck so I didn't mind too much...

Porto

Spend a little time jumping the waves on the beach.
Oops, everyone had soaking wet pants & dresses.
But it was so much fun! Loved it!

Loved spending time with Kerrin, her super duper sweet kiddies and meeting Nanouke. It was also a bit sad as Kerrin is relocating to New Zealand tommorrow, there was a lot of saying goodbye involved while being in Portugal. Never fun to say goodbye!
For us it wasn't too hard as we both knew we would only be a convo away...