Curioser

Summer colors

2012-08-08T01:17:00.000+01:00

Summer has such an effect on me! Whenever I feel the warmth of the sun in my pale skin it´s like a whole new different world of possibilities opens right in front of my eyes. I just want to dance and lay in the sand and do things I've been wanting to do in a while. So besides all the business that is my life, with the preparations of my moving to Cambridge, work and summer camps, I have found time to draw and try some new stuff with my watercolors. Well I still wasn't able to finish but I will show you the final result soon!

I've also been doing some shopping and I just purchased what I would like to call part of my summer soundtrack. The Smiths may not be the happiest music ever but their lyrics are just great and oh so romantic, well some of them. If you never listen to them I encourage you to do so you wont regret it!

Hope you're enjoying your holiday...

**Rita** (photos by me)

25 before 26

2012-07-25T01:18:00.002+01:00

It's that special day of the year again, 25th of July, the day the world welcomed me. It's my birthday! This year I'm going to try doing a list of things I can accomplish before my next birthday. It is going to be particularly hard since I'm rubbish at keeping any kind of list. I promise I will try...seriously!

1. Do a 30 day drawing challenge
2. Learn French
3. Learn how to punt
4. Move to Cambridge
5. Decorate my own bedroom
6. Learn how to take better pictures
7. Use film camera to take pictures
8. Fall in love again
9. Make someone happy
10. Get better at Photoshop and Illustrator
11. Spend some time improving my blog
12. Learn to drive
13. Have a cat
14. Travel somewhere new
15. Design my own greeting card line
16. Lie on the grass in a sunny afternoon, in bare feet, with someone that makes me happy
17. Learn new English words
18. Make new friends
19. Improve my baking and cooking skills
20. See Matt Corby in concert
21. Do some kind of sport to keep fit
22. Visit old friends
23. Read more poetry
24. Be closer to God everyday
25. Actually do everything on this list!

**Rita**

Jonah and the whale

2012-07-16T02:47:00.001+01:00

Today I want to talk to you about something that has been bothering me. As you may or may not know I'm planning moving to Cambridge this coming September. I have been thinking about moving ever since I got back from England two years ago. I actually never knew why I didn't stay there in the first place. I guess in a way it was good to have some time to think and pray about what I really felt and what are really God's plans to my life during this time I am back home. Since last year I then decided I would be moving there permanently and have been preparing things with that end.
One of the hardest parts of doing this is telling your family, friends, etc. about your decision.
My family took it pretty well, I guess they knew I would never stay for long. The person that impressed me the most was my dad. He is always quite skeptical about big changes and risks, he always thinks twice about everything and is very wise in general. As you can imagine I was expecting some kind of big lecture on how hard things are going to be and that life isn't going to get any easier just because I moved countries.... but instead he was the first one to say he fully supported me, I mean I still got the lecture but it really made me feel like I can count on my parents in case things go wrong. As for my grandma she still thinks I'm joking every time I say I'm moving in September, but she is the cutest! :)
Now about some friends and acquaintances... I have been getting some really weird reactions from them.
They ask me why I really want to go as if I had some kind of second intentions about moving. The main question is always: "What is your reason for wanting to go?" but with the kind of tone that says: "Do you really think you're going to do better out there? Is it really wise to move when you have a job here?" Sometimes I think they all think I'm making a huge mistake, that I'm supposed to stay! I think it is normal to be sad and not wanting your friend to go because you will miss him, specially if your member in a church, but I've been feeling they don't get me at all. As you can imagine I am also really scared and am always thinking: "What if things go wrong? What if this is not what God wants me to do at all?" This kind of attitude has not been good for me at all. Today a lady from church that I really like and respect told me that in her opinion people are better off staying in their home churches because they will grow much more... Really? that is not how I think at all! I love my church and the way God has been working in it but I also think no one is irreplaceable, that you will grow in your faith wherever God chooses you to be. One of the stories that pops on my head with all this is the one about Jonah and the big fish.

The story opens with God speaking to Jonah commanding him to preach repentance to the city of Nineveh. Jonah found this order unbearable. Not only was Nineveh known for its wickedness, but it was also the capital of the Assyrian empire, one of Israel's fiercest enemies. Jonah, a stubborn fellow, did just the opposite of what he was told. He went down to the seaport of Joppa and booked passage on a ship to Tarshish, heading directly away from Nineveh. The Bible tells us Jonah "ran away from the Lord." In response, God sent a violent storm, which threatened to break the ship to pieces. The terrified crew cast lots, determining that Jonah was responsible for the storm. Jonah told them to throw him overboard. First they tried rowing to shore, but the waves got even higher. Afraid of God, the sailors finally tossed Jonah into the sea, and the water immediately grew calm. The crew made a sacrifice to God, swearing vows to him.
Instead of drowning, Jonah was swallowed by a great fish, which God provided. In the belly of the whale, Jonah repented and cried out to God in prayer. He praised God, ending with the eerily prophetic statement, "Salvation comes from the Lord." (Jonah 2:9)
Jonah was in the giant fish three days. God commanded the whale, and it vomited the reluctant prophet onto dry land. This time Jonah obeyed God. He walked through Nineveh proclaiming that in forty days the city would be destroyed. Surprisingly, the Ninevites believed Jonah's message and repented, wearing sackcloth and covering themselves in ashes. God had compassion on them and did not destroy them.

Unlike Jonah I don't want to ignore what I think is God's will for me. Do not think I'm taking this lightly, I had a whole year to ponder and think about things and to pray about it, I have doubts every day and as I told you before I am afraid that this is not actually what God wants me to do. But I also don't want to be living in a 'what if' land where I regret not having made the move because I was afraid and because of what people say. Are we not called to get off our comfort zones? Or is England considered a comfort zone because it is not a third world country?...I feel like I have taken too much of your time already, but I would really like to know your thoughts on this...

I really just pray that God truly guides me and helps me to look at Him wherever I am and whatever I am doing.

**Rita**

(via)

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”

2012-07-08T15:35:00.000+01:00

Wishing you a happy, relaxing Sunday. :)

**Rita**

Everything is average

2012-06-26T01:59:00.002+01:00

Do you ever get that feeling you have so much to say but when it's time to say it there's not a word or a sound coming out of your mouth? I do. I've been having what you might call a writers or artist block, not that I'm claiming to be one or the other. I've been feeling like this for months now, it's like part of my nature it's gone, like I lost all my special abilities.

I feel the need to create, to draw, to write so I take the pencil and start drawing...a line that originates another line, some dots, maybe some hair...no! This is rubbish start again...a line...aaaaaaaah! There's no remedy I feel that everything I do is just not good! Even my pictures, I rarely take pictures that I can say I enjoy nowadays. I mean I have my vintage camera still in the plastic, is this even normal?!

I think I've finally became one of those people who are just regular. Don't get me wrong I have nothing against regular, I just never thought I would be one, I don't want to be one!

One of the things I like to do to be inspired is to go online and look for illustrations I think pretty, look for styles and pictures that I think interesting. Even that has making me feel useless, I see so many great work being done for so many people I feel that I will never be that good. I'ts like from all of the things I like to do I'm not really good at any of them. So I like drawing....but I'm just not good enough, I like photography...I'm just not good enough...I like singing...and I'm just not good enough. Is it possible to be just average in anything you do?

When I read 1 Corinthians 12, I am so glad and amazed on how God uses each one of us, and our different gifts, to glorify Him and do his work on Earth as different part of his body. But then again I can't help but wonder where do I belong, what am I really good at? Where do I fit?

Have you ever got this feeling, that you're receding from where you were?

xxRitaxx

Alfama it's Beautiful

2012-06-14T01:31:00.000+01:00

I'm not going to make a post telling you how sorry I am for not keeping my blog updated for so long and stuff like that... Instead I just want you to know that It's that time of the year again! Streets are decorated with colorful ornaments, the smell of sardines and typical goodies are always in the air, there's people everywhere and they are actually smiling. It's Santos in Lisbon again!

Hope you're all doing fine, and if you get the change come and pay a visit to Lisbon, you wont regret it! ;)

Rita

Once upon a time there was Candy and Dan

2012-03-15T00:41:00.001Z

“Once upon a time, there was Candy and Dan.

Things were very hot that year.
All the wax was melting in the trees.
He would climb balconies, climb everywhere, do anything for her,
oh Danny boy.
Thousands of birds,
the tiniest birds, adorned her hair.
Everything was gold.

One night the bed caught fire.
He was handsome and a very good criminal.
We lived on sunlight and chocolate bars.
It was the afternoon of extravagant delight.

Danny the daredevil.

Candy went missing.

The days last rays of sunshine cruise like sharks.
I want to try it your way this time.
You came into my life really fast and I liked it.
We squelched in the mud of our joy.
I was wet-thighed with surrender.

Then there was a gap in things and the whole earth tilted.
This is the business. This, is what we’re after.
With you inside me comes the hatch of death.
And perhaps I’ll simply never sleep again.
The monster in the pool.
We are a proper family now with cats and chickens and runner beans.
Everywhere I looked.
And sometimes I hate you.

Friday — I didn’t mean that, mother of the blueness. Angel of the storm.
Remember me in my opaqueness.
You pointed at the sky, that one called Sirius or dog star, but on here on earth.
Fly away sun.
Ha ha fucking ha you are so funny Dan.
A vase of flowers by the bed. My bare blue knees at dawn.
These ruffled sheets and you are gone and I am going too.
I broke your head on the back of the bed but the baby he died in the morning.
I gave him a name.
His name was thomas.
Poor little god. His heart pounds like a voodoo drum.”

― Luke Davies, Candy

If you haven't yet you need to watch this film. **Rita**

Just because

2012-03-07T01:11:00.000Z

a photo....

a book...

a quote...

a film...

one bracelet...

a song...

Hoping you have a great continuing of the week.

**Rita**

A girls problem

2012-02-15T23:18:00.000Z

I don't think I ever really posted photos where you can actually see how my hair looks like after I dyed it. I admit I wasn't confident about it and after a while I'm finally getting used to it. You may not believe it but when I went to the hair dresser I asked for ombre hair and got out with this, (it was actually a lot worse, I had to get back there and dye some parts of it with my original color). Now I'm just hoping it gets longer faster so it be like I wanted it from the beginning. I guess we all have hair traumas right?
**Rita**

Valentine's wishes

2012-02-14T01:02:00.001Z

"Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine."

Songs of Songs

(piccsy)

Either alone or in good company wish you all a happy Valentine's day. **Rita**

Monday Recommends

2012-02-06T23:53:00.000Z

I want to share with you my dear readers some of my favorite things from the past days and month.

One of my aims for 2012 is to read at least 1 book a month and so far I've read two. Franz Kafka letter to his father and the one I'm going to recommend just now, The Reader. It's such a great story and really easy to read as well. You might have heard of it because there is a film about it with Kate Winslet. It's about a romance between a 15 year old and a older women. I wont tell you anymore you must read it to know, I tell you that the book is really much better than the film.

After you read the book of course you wont resist and have to watch the film! Kate Winslet really plays a great role in it and she even won a golden globe for it if I'm not mistaken. Ralph Fiennes and David Kross were really good as well. Love the photography on the film.

Finally one of my most recent discoveries in the music world is mister Matt Corby. I was blown away with his voice and couldn't believe I've never heard of him before! Besides he is blessed with incredible good looks could you ask for more? Do take a peak...

Erm... get yourself together you haven't heard him yet so you better sit down and prepare to be even more amazed!

Now I hope you have a great week and please stop drooling... ahhaah! **Rita** :)

weheartit

4 impossible things before breakfeast

2012-01-27T00:10:00.002Z

"I can't believe that!" said Alice.

"Can't you?" the queen said in a pitying tone. "Try again, draw a long breath, and shut your eyes."

Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said. "One can't believe impossible things."

"I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

I find this quote from Lewis Carroll really very inspiring. Why not believe impossible things? So I decided to give it a go and start believing it everyday as well, I didn't believe as many as 6 but I believe 4 are equally as good. Maybe tomorrow I'll believe some more! So here it goes....

1. I have the most beautiful wings and I can travel all over with them. I'm going to visit friends soon...

2. "My bed wouldn't let me get up this morning, I did struggle! But I had to stay in, she can be really persuasive when she wants" - Said I to my boss.

3. "Yes is true I'm dating JGL. I gotta tell you he smells so nice! Speak to you later, bye." (click!)

4. Dear miss Nunes we're sending you this letter to inform you that you've been nominated as a successor for the role of princess and will never have to worry about doing your hair, or anything else as a matter of fact, in your entire life. We'll be sending a limousine to pick you up at 6pm.

sincerely, Elizabeth II.

Ok, that's it for today, this is really fun to do actually, you should try it! what kind of impossible things will you think off?

**Rita**

10 things I love about Monday!

2012-01-23T00:49:00.000Z

1. Hilarious Cat

2. Vintage cameras

3. Books and windows

4. Long soft Ombre hair

5. This Illustration

6. Tea in a jar

7. This lovely shirt

8. Forever ring

9. always hot Jared Followill

10. This quote

via pinterest

Have a great week! **Rita** :)

What I've been up to lately...

2012-01-18T00:47:00.000Z

So lately besides working I've been trying to get in touch with my artistic side. As you may have noticed I didn't really post much this year. I just didn't have a lot of patience to think about posts lately. I know it sounds awful and as consequence I haven't really spend much time on my blog. It's just I've always posted because I felt like it and really enjoyed it and I still do but I don't want to make of my blog something I must do but I want to be able to post only when I feel like it. I am seeing this state as a refresh of ideas. Hope you understand I still adore you all! :)
But continuing with what I was saying... I've been trying to get in touch with my artistic side and I've been carrying a sketch book with me everywhere. I've been mostly drawing on my way to work in the train or the bus (that's when I have time). At first I was determined to draw only feathers, because I love them so, but then because I've joined Hitrecord I kind of couldn't resist and started sketching some other characters and even type. I really love all the concept of the site and all the artist I've seen so far, it has given me a lot of inspiration and will to keep drawing. It all came out of Mr. Joseph Gordon-Levitt's master mind! combine cuteness and brains and a Regular Joe is born. When I feel ready I will surely post some of my drawings to show you guys.

I've also been keeping up with my reading and I'm reading Franz Kafka Letter to His father. I've read metamorphosis that was by him as well and I loved it. This made me want to read more of his work and I'm not disappointed.

Also this weekend was spend watching films at home. I've watched Rio, (500) Days of summer and 50/50 (feeding my JGL obsession). I had watched (500) days of summer and 50/50 before but my sister didn't so I made the effort of watching it again. Lol I actually love to show films I like to people and see their reaction and explain parts they may not understand. But don't worry I wouldn't do that in the cinema.... xD

Just to end in style I will also tell you the song that has been on my mind lately. It's "Please, please, please let me get what I want..." by The smiths (500) soundtrack. :)

Hope you enjoy and feel free to share your addictions lately it would give me great inspiration. ;p ***Rita***

Treats in the mail!

2012-01-09T00:21:00.001Z

Hello there!
So sorry for my absence this couple days but you know my excuse is always work... Hope you all had a great New Year's beginning with lots of lovely stories to tell. As soon as I get a bit more free time I'll hopefully be posting some more material.

Now a few weeks ago I won a couple of Giveaways and I just want to say a little thanks to Michele and Marisa for their lovely packages that finally arrived.

Seriously love this Illustration and the scrapbook I'm already using, taking it with me everywhere! So thanks again hope you have a great coming week. :)

**Rita**

Christmas night

2011-12-27T23:25:00.000Z

Hello Lovelies,

I want to wish you all I great New Year and share some of my Christmas decorations and presents. As I predicted I didn't get anything from my wishlist but I didn't mind at all, the gifts were all meaningful. My favorite one was a box with my name on it filled with sweets and cakes that my wee bro made himself. Seriously he is not the type of boy to do such things so believe me I was really impressed with his gift. What a cutie. :)

It's tradition in Portugal to open the gifts on Christmas eve at midnight and instead of eating Turkey we Portuguese have our own tradition of eating Bacalhau (that is dry cod). So for Christmas dinner we had Bacalhau and other sea food specialties as you can see in the pictures bellow.

Cutest Box ever from my little brother, he molded my name himself and baked the cakes. :)

Our Christmas table. As you can see there's crab and shrimp oh how I love sea food!

Hope you had a great meaningful Christmas filled with your own traditions. **Rita** hug :)

My really shallow Christmas list

2011-12-18T23:51:00.000Z

Dear Santa,

I know I haven't always been the best of girls and sometimes I really screw things up. I mean I don't really believe in you and think that the idea of people ignoring Jesus and making the party about you is just absurd! But because I to like to dream and because the chances of me getting any of the presents I'm wishing for is as impossible as you existing (mostly because I've passed the age of asking for presents and these are the sort of, If I had the money right now, kind of presents). So here they are...

First on my wishlist is the Iphone 4 S. Now this baby has been in stores quite recently and I've been drooling over it in the Apple store quite a few times. The first time I heard the price I almost collapsed. (One day, one day...)

Second on my list is the hair straightener. Well I know I could easily buy some cheap one and get it over with. The thing is I saw this commercial for a reaaaally cool new one and It's quite expensive so....

Third on my list is a Starbucks Thermo travel mug. ehehehe I'll probably buy this myself!! My friend has one and we went to Starbucks and got ourselves a discount when using it. Really nice if you love Starbucks as much as I do. :)

And last but not least, and probably the one thing it would make me really happy. A New Year's trip to Northern Ireland. I would love to go and spend New Year's weekend with friends in NI but the flights are really expensive and Easyjet doesn't really have flights on the days I could go. Really a shame hopefully will be able to go next year.

photos via Pinterest

I think this is all of my shallow wishlist. Do you guys have any gifts you would like to get this Christmas? Please do share so I wont feel to bad by myself! xD

Wishing you all a very very happy Christmas.

**Rita**

New hair style

2011-12-12T00:24:00.001Z

I was very excited about this Saturday. I was finally going to the hairdresser and get my Ombre hair done. I had never dyed my hair before so I took some pictures and told the hairdresser I trusted her experience to help me get the better color and highlights. I was so very excited and she even covered the mirror so I could only see the final result so I wouldn't spoil the surprise... When I was finally finished and the moment of truth came I couldn't believe my eyes! "Don't get scared you just need to get used to it." She said. I was so shocked I didn't know if I would smile or cry. My hair was not just dyed on the ends but most of it was done and she added this really big and brighter than all the rest highlight right in the front of my hair that makes it look so cheap. Needless to say I was really disappointed. Not to say all my friends looked at me with a bit of a shock and mocked me every time I took my hat off. Yes I wore a hat all day long and need to think of a way to hide the awful hair and big bright highlight for a whole week! Because I'm working I can only have time to go back to the hairdresser next Saturday and get it done right. I can already imagine the look on peoples faces when they see me with this awful hair...

Seriously it doesn't look so bad because I'm wearing a bonnet but once I take it of it's really scary. OMW what have I done!!? (hopefully next Saturday all will be well again...)

Ok just so I can forget a bit about the hair issue I'm going to share some really awesome pictures. I can't tell you how much I love Christmas lights. Can't get enough of it and think it adds a really romantic touch to Christmas nights and streets.

What is your favorite Christmas detail or decoration? Wishing you a really great weak. :)
**Rita**

Sorce: Pinterest, Weheartit

Films I've watched lately

2011-12-09T00:46:00.000Z

Hello my lovely readers. I am so sorry if I haven't been posting very regularly lately but I've been quite busy with work and you know how it goes... But because I'm a filmaholic I always make time to watch some films so here's the list of what I've been watching lately....

North & South: This is actually a BBC mini serie that I didn't know about until recently. It´s the kind of classic romance you just can't stop watching and want more and more episodes, specially because Mr. Thornton is just the hottest ever!!

One Day: I finally got to see this lovely film. I've been wanting to watch it for a while and I was not disappointing. It's such a beautiful story but with a bit of a sad ending.... Can't tell you anymore you must see it yourself.

Submarine: Remember my post a few weeks ago telling you how much I loved this movie soundtrack? Well it wasn't just the soundtrack I loved, I actually think this is a great film and would recommend it any day. The story is really lovely please do watch it.

Hope you enjoy the list and if you already seen any of these what did you think? What have you been watching lately?

**Rita** :)

Lisbon and her Christmas lights

2011-12-01T21:54:00.001Z

I just can't get enough of this City, please see for yourself.

xoxo Rita :)

Update and Breaking Down part1

2011-11-28T23:51:00.001Z

Hello lovelies,

This past week has been quite busy. The first weeks of a new job are always a period of adaptation. Adaptation to the new people and to their rules... but so far everything is going well and I'm liking the work I'm doing. Of course is to soon to tell if this will keep up, but I will enjoy it till it lats.
Another thing that has been going on in my mind lately is how Christmas is just around the corner. I'm the kind of person who does't want to hear about Christmas before December but it's getting really hard to do it. People all around me keep asking me if I already have a Christmas tree and the decorations up. I guess I can't run from it any longer and I better start preparing the house because the 1st of December is next Thursday, can you believe it!?

This weekend I went to the cinema and guess what film did I watch? Breaking Down part 1. Now once again I'm not the kind of person who in normal circumstances would pay to see this kind of film. But I am the kind of person who would do it just to hang with her friends and in the end having a good time anyway. So I did go see the Twilight Saga and it wasn't the worst I've seen, (almost...lol). I particularly liked the part when Edward tries to speak Portuguese, yes he tried because I couldn't really understand with the funny accent going on, lol. Anyway it was a good try and I had fun looking to all the pretty dresses Bella wore (Oh yeah and Jacob is not bad t look at also). Here's my favorite:

Loved the wedding dress and all the details really really pretty. what do you think?
Hope you have a great week. :)
**Rita**

Having a Coke with you

2011-11-22T00:51:00.001Z

is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne

or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelona

partly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastian

partly because of my love for you, partly because of your love for yoghurt

partly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the birches

partly because of the secrecy our smiles take on before people and statuary

it is hard to believe when I'm with you that there can be anything as still

as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it

in the warm New York 4 o'clock light we are drifting back and forth

between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles

and the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paint

you suddenly wonder why in the world anyone ever did them

I look

at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world

except possibly for the Polish Rider occasionally and anyway it's in the Frick

which thank heavens you haven't gone to yet so we can go together the first time

and the fact that you move so beautifully more or less takes care of Futurism

just as at home I never think of the Nude Descending a Staircase or

at a rehearsal a single drawing of Leonardo or Michelangelo that used to wow me

and what good does all the research of the Impressionists do them

when they never got the right person to stand near the tree when the sun sank

or for that matter Marino Marini when he didn't pick the rider as carefully

as the horse

it seems they were all cheated of some marvelous experience

which is not going to go wasted on me which is why I am telling you about it

—Frank O'Hara

Stuck on the Puzzle

2011-11-20T23:27:00.001Z

After spending almost three months sending CVs, portfolios and going to interviews I finally am starting my new job today. It's not exactly what I had in mind but then again my mind is always deviating so I'm surely going to make the best off it, plus is a design related job and I can't really complain right now. Sometimes I wonder if I still am capable of human interaction. All this time I've been so concentrated in my little world I'm afraid my social skills aren't on it's best... I shall not panic for I have a second plan. whenever I don't understand or don't know what to say... I smile and get on with my life. Don't get me wrong I'm actually quite excited about tomorrow, in the measure of what is possible. I even did my manicure and brushed my hair so I look my best, at least I can count on that if all rest fails. I think... Whatever happens I'm glad I can finally get busy and actually earn some money so cheers to that.

Me nostalgically trying to look cool (not really)

On to other subject...as you might know, if you follow my blog, I'm a film addict. My latest obsession is a British film called "Submarine". I firstly felt curios about this film because of one song that plays in it. "Piledriver Waltz" from The Artic Monkeys. That is my favorite song from their new album, so I figured if the film makers had such good taste in music the film itself couldn't be that bad. And Oh Boy! this film really made my day and I'm even going to say it's on the list of my favorite films. Plus I found out, after seeing the film, that the soundtrack is all by Alex Turner! So not only just I loved the film but I can't stop listening to the soundtrack.
I need to leave you now for tomorrow I need to get up quite early, but I will leave you with this lovely song from Submarine. Hope you enjoy and have a great week.

**Rita**

Package Palls Experience

2011-11-19T01:55:00.000Z

It was ever so fun to make part of the Package Pall experience. My PP was Amber Kozo and she is from Maryland, U.S.A. Her blog is www.novels-and-nonsense.blogspot.com. We had to put together a package full of goodies and send to each other, can you imagine having more fun?! It was really fun changing e-mails and getting to know Amber better. Amber just graduated in May and loves everything about the crafting world, that's definitely a thing we have in common! :)

Here are some pictures of the package I sent to Amber:

I sent her some Handmade little bag, a Tela Bags pocket money purse, 2 frames one of them handmade, a hair ribbon and some accessories, a kitten notebook with some lovely cards to go with it, a sunny pencil and a cow rubber, a Amalia's postcard, and finally a Edgar Allan Poe book (that I must have forgotten to include in the picture!)

When I got Amber's package I was completely out of my mind, not just because I love getting mail, but because everything she put together was so adorable.

When I opened the box I had a lovely card from Amber:

Everything was wrapped with a local newspaper and also tagged with lovely descriptions of the goodies inside (so nice I almost didn't want to spoil it by open it):

When I finally open it I was so pleased with everything. She sent me a Blue scarf, I really was needing one. A picture frame, some Mint nail polish, along with some extra nail goodies, I've been looking for that color for ages so you can imagine how thrilled I was when I saw it. Very cute blue buttons, a hand made ring, and finally a set of cards that are so lovely.

Thank you so much Amber I really loved everything. Hope you find my package nearly as lovely. :)

I also want to thank Gentri for organizing everything it was really a fun experience. Here's also a link to Gentri´s blog, please go and say hi!! :)

**Rita**

No to Procrastination!

2011-11-18T00:21:00.001Z

Procrastination has been an issue in my life for quite a while but I've been struggling with it more this days. It seems that every important thing I have to do is replaced it with a not so important task, like I'm running away from things. I don't know how many of you suffer from this terrible act but this can actually affect an entire life! I went to Wikipedia and read that: "Procrastination may result in stress, a sense of guilt and crisis, severe loss of personal productivity, as well as social disapproval for not meeting responsibilities or commitments. These feelings combined may promote further procrastination. While it is regarded as normal for people to procrastinate to some degree, it becomes a problem when it impedes normal functioning. Chronic procrastination may be a sign of an underlying psychological disorder. Such procrastinators may have difficulty seeking support due to stigmatic beliefs that task-aversion is caused by laziness, low willpower, or low ambition."
Now I'm not saying that I have all that but I definitely feel like I'm getting there. So you can have an idea I am the kind of person that likes to draw and be creative, but the minute I'm asked to draw a specific thing or to create some specific layout for someone rather than pleasure I get all procrastinator about it, not just with that but with other things as well. I tell myself I have plenty of time and then end up doing it at the last minute. This cannot be normal am I having a psychological disorder? I know I'm totally sounding like a hypochondriac right now but I really feel like this kind of behavior is getting me nowhere and it may also be affecting my creativity. So I decided NO MORE!! I don't want to be this kind of person it is not healthy nor productive.
There's a list of things I have to do and been wanting to do but have postpone it too long, and I believe getting organized and having schedules is gonna help me overcome this issue.

List of things that I must do:
-Get the website layout ready by next week,
-Get the front door poster ready by next Wednesday,
-Create new blog buttons,

List of things I've been wanting to do:
-Start exercising everyday,
-Learn how to play the Acoustic Drum Box,
-Read a book at least every two months,
-Start drawing everyday,
-Learn HTML properly,
-Learn French

I can't remember anything more right now but the important thing is that I'm committed to go trough with this. In the end the truth is if I don't do this for myself who will? :)
There's also this really funny video I found on youtube about Procrastination I think yous should see:

p.s. Don't forget to enter the Giveaway while you still have time...