helena in the corner

I called her Helena. But she's not my sister. I have no idea who she is, I just thought the photo was pretty. I drew her a while back. 

hand drawn font

In between reading my thesis and embroidery, I finally drew up a proper font for this blog. I'm making some final adjustments. So what do you think?

boy in stripes

This is Carlos Manuel in his Sunday's best back in the 1950's.

help me find Zézito!

Some weeks back, on a trip to the flea market I bought a bunch of old frames to start hanging things on the walls. The first photo I framed is my blog's header!

This week's old photo is from a family album I bought last year. The photo I use as a header is also from this album. The little boy's name is José (or Zezito, the way his father signs on the back of each photo) and dew to some strange fortune for me (unfortunate for Zézito) I have his childhood album: from birth to around 5/6 years old. I wonder how can anyone lose such a precious family treasure... So... item 43 on my list is to try to find Zézito (an Amélie style thing to do!!) and give him back his album. I don't have much information about him, no last name, no father or mother's name. He was born in the 50's and I think he lived in Lisbon and they sure did travel alot, because most of the photos are of summer holidays. 

I'll be posting more of his photos in the hope someone might just recognize him. For the mean while I'm having fun drawing Zézito!

olive picking

 

What to do on the weekend? Go olive picking to Lousã. And so wee did.

The event was promoted by two local folk groups that wanted to recreate traditional.olive picking. We didn't work much, just appreciated the scenery, the singing, taking photos and inquiring on how to cure olives, which was something I could have put on my list. After gathering, picking and cleaning, and considering we were the only foreigners that had attended the event on purpose, we were invite to join them for very Portuguese lunch.... feijoada. The rest of the weekend was spent visiting historical villages, geocaching, and picking ripe black olives to take home.

Piodão at a distance

Old photos

I think I'll draw him next.

today isn't going as planned

Frustration is an awful state of mind.

ele e ela

Last night I water coloured the boy and drew the girl. I don't know what I'm going to do with him, but she's going to be embroider. The boy on the swing is almost finished: I bought some metal embroidery hoops to frame him and all I need is a pretty ribbon to hang it.  

1 year old!

Hurray! This blog is 1 year old today! It all started with a tree and a bit of inspiration. 

To celebrate, I took my Polaroid for a stroll through Principe Real!

RAIN

I was caught in the rain today while trying to come to work (in truth, the correct term would be flood).

After seeing the images on tv of how flooded Lisbon was today, I remembered these images of rainy days days and the people stuck in their cars. They look like photos, but they are actually paintings!