Uno belissime blog!

I found this blog this morning!  mui belissime.... lovely!!

this is her 1st give away...till the 26th!  check it out!

digital quilting magazine

I so love when I can get things online!  and this is a first of quilting...or any craft magazine! you do have to sign up for a subscription... I did it!! and it was so worth it because you get tons of things for download and all pdf with patterns ready to be printed!  check it out ! I think you you ladies will like it!!

oh well!!

had to change the blog once more!!! it wasn't working out too well... too heavy to download and too spread out...margins didn't align well either.... as I can't fix it yet... a change was due!!  but now this is my goal... to learn how to work with html... and not be at the mercy of searching for something that fits me!!

anyway!! this looked like a good idea just now... we are well into a cold front  that just came from the south... it might even snow down there!!! here, it's been raining straight on for almost 3 days... and it is cold!! so a hot chocolate just about now feels good.... be my guest !!  even if it isn't as cold wherever you are... cold chocolate feels good too!!
I would like to know what  you think about this new environment!!

On a different subject,  I really feel bogged down, it seems the day doesn't have enough hours for all that I have to do and would like to do!!  hours fly by and then when you see it is another day already!! what's happening with time... has someone given a spin to the earth a little too faster lately!!?

oh well!! have to make the best of it.. let's have some chocolate!

and back to work... or nothing gets done!!!  see ya!

So now you know who I am .... just a little more about my life and you had a view of what was my family some few years ago.  I now have my two grown up boys,  26 and 24, and my dear Paul, no grandchildren yet, Zoltán has just gotten married and Joshua is still looking for his better half! Life has been hard and has been good at the same time, life and hardships go together as cookies and milk! and these challenges makes strong and better if we do know how to deal with them in the proper manner. As I start in this endevour... I am a teacher and a translator, but these things don't really complete me... I do like doing it but they don't fulfill me, so I am slowly getting started with my more assertive process of creation and working with crafting!  I have so many ideas and things I would like to do, but first had to make room for these things in may life, beginning with setting my sewing room in a way that I could really work in it and feel like I was in afternoon tea with friends.  It is not completely finished yet, but it is workable, and will try to have pictures posted.  But most of all I am very happy that I can start thinking about this now, it is something I have always wanted to do, but having to provide for my little ones for a little awhile when they were younger and having to make ends meet didn't allow room for my desire to be creative very much. I used to have days with very long hours!  As I know some of you might have had to as well!  I have also realized that life can be simpler and easier, and for some time now I have been trying to live it simpler as well.  My house is a reflection of it, small, rustic and comfy!  I don't enjoy environments were we can't feel like we are home.  Hotels are beautiful, but they don't look lived in or inviting, they are impersonal and cold.  I tend towards the Provence and French decor... I love the look of living in and historical without being only for show... le champ ... the country ... that's what I love!  the plants and flowers, nature and all it can provide... I live 10 mins from one of the biggest cities in the world, São Paulo, the city that never stops... and what a nightmare, traffic is very intense at times and days, noisy, pollution... you get the picture!  so it is so good to come home!

Inspire Online Magazine

Inspire Online Magazine -- for those ladies who are inspired by a teatime idea...and love blogging!! just found this blog and an online pdf magazine... some fun things inside... enjoy!

atmosfera di casa

atmosfera di casa -- This a lovely place with beautiful white embroidery!! gorgeous actually!!

Blogging

This blog has been  a slow start; this last month everyone at home was fighting a cold hard to get rid of..., but also  it is funny to write not knowing who will read what you write, you really don't who they are except for a little tiny picture to start with! from people's profiles... what to write, how to write, about what? 
Many of you I can't read much, except for the beautiful photos of your life and work and yet we can have a glimpse show of each and everyone in a special way; some don't even have a picture so we are left imagining what that person looks like!   What what we can see is that which is good and important, unique to each person!

So I decided to relax and just be me!  The things you see are what is important to me!

My work will slowly come around too.... only now can I really dedicate myself to the things I enjoy so much! !  Creating is something that is part of me... couldn't live without it!!

I'm sure you all know how that is... it is almost as having a baby, you give life to ideas and feelings! you have a sense of accomplishment and realization!  making our environment more loving more beautiful...less violent or aggressive.... for that I am thankful to all of you whose blogs I have been to... this is a collective message to all bloggers  I've visited and haven't received a message from me... sometimes time is lacking!!  Thank you for all the beautiful and inspiring things!!!

moments past

 my beautiful mom, who has already left this earthly life!

one who has suffered much during wartime,

leaving her homeland -- Hungary  -- and family,

coming to a completely new world and life in a foreign country, 

who didn't speak the new language or how to communicate,

and not a penny to her name!

Her last earthly year was the peak of her career,

chosen by fellow colleagues as the "Lawyer of the Year" 

-- she acquired her degree at 53-4 years old.... 

one of the top of her class!

anyuka is about 16 years old here

 

Bandi is about 11-12 here, I'm almost 2

Born at the end of the war,

Bandi also suffered in his early life

while in a DP camp in Klagenfurt, Austria,

where he was born,

until they could get 

a visa to travel elsewhere! Brazil...

Where I was born !

And here I am at around 2-3 years of age

                                                                almost  2 year old kis Ica

 

nagy Ica a few years ago

my not so secret garden

I couldn't call my garden a secret garden where fairies dwell, because it is a very wide and sunny place and plants haven't yet reached it's full size!! I had to plant everything that is growing here, and still planning where to have my vegetable garden... but I do have a grove...and I think that fairies do fly about in this grove which  looks like a sacred grove...where the birds come around, and squirls run around  humming birds fly and woodpeckers nest...along with ... parrots and tucans !  It is lovely to sit in my sewing room looking out the window to the grove and being taken by the multiple chirping of birds!  Where else could we have all of this in the heart of winter?

where else?

maple trees are not typical of a tropical climate, but they grow well in the south
-- here is one of my  maple tree during fall in Brazil

fake grape vine

 

would these green leaves be growing at the same 

time as the old leaves are turning red?

where else would spring happen at the same time as fall is falling in?