tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405768726690211714Fri, 30 Aug 2024 02:14:17 +0000Portugalonephotoperweekspringfridays in the blogspring colorswinter colorsautumnmaking me happynaturewinterPortoautumn colorsfallflowersautumn coloursbragainspiringliberty of london fabricsewing projectsDourochristmascreativityinspirationwalksGalizaamarelosapril flowersautumn gardencity autumn colourscores de portugaldecorfabricfloral mandalasfoodgaliciaorganic foodraw foodDIYHydrangeaalmonds treeamy buttlerazulejosbeginingbookscalçada portuguesacelebrationcrochetdeep galizaeartheasterfloral scented sachetsfloreshortênciaslavanda sachetslavendermagnoliaoutonoproductivitysewing moodspare timespring colors. orange tree blooms.spring walks.summersweettilestutorialurban gardenverãoDan BennettFebruaryGuimarãesLisboaMomViajarWIPalentejoarticlesazulbasilbibsbiológicobloomsblossombluebolhao marketbunch of white rosesbunting flagscandlescarnationscasas alentejanascerealschita portuguesechristmas season. sweet treatscoastcollagescolorful stashcolourscookingcosta portuguesacottondaliadaylightdecor for babiesdocesequinoxequinóciofabricsfebruary flowersflowesfreesiasgardemgardensgaspachogiftglasses pockethortênsiashousesinspiring peopleisabel susan spring collectionjardimlanguagelearningliberty lifestylelinenmarmercado do bolhaomint and pinkmittensmonção autumn walksmorangosmothermumnatural flavournestnortenorthnutritionsoceanorganicpadrõespatchworkpatternperspectivepinkpodraneasportuguese coloursprojectsredroses sachessan franciscosaturdayscentsearassolanumstrawberriessuccesssummer and autumnsunlightsunsetsweet treatssweetiestexturesto-do listtruly goodvasevegetablesvermelhovineyards leaveswomenyellowsévoraSeasonal handmade life, nature cycles and the beauty of a simple life.http://mariafitadevies.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)Blogger103125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405768726690211714.post-5277002408170999717Mon, 18 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +00002016-04-18T14:09:43.434+01:00PortoPortugal Good morning and happy Monday!How are you? How was your weekend?  Last week we had a photography of a bunch of spirea flowers and today we have a seagull in one statue in Aliados Avenue in Porto. Porto has a lot of seagulls, I mean a lot. There was a time that I slept listening to seagulls and I was not even close to the river or the sea! Have a lovely week! Porto Images: http://mariafitadevies.blogspot.com/2016/04/one-photo-per-week-week-15-porto-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405768726690211714.post-8244594749143427299Mon, 11 Apr 2016 14:06:00 +00002016-04-11T15:07:13.367+01:00april flowerseasteronephotoperweek Hello friends and happy Monday! How are you? How was your weekend? We worked on our urban garden by planting summer vegetables. Let’s see how do they growth. After that was such a cold and rainy days that we were cozy at home and finally got the chance to organize my entire fabric stash.  Last week we had a beautiful photography from a Lycianthes rantonnetii  and today I want to http://mariafitadevies.blogspot.com/2016/04/one-photo-per-week-spirea-easter-flower.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405768726690211714.post-3117399851609196546Fri, 08 Apr 2016 11:30:00 +00002016-04-08T15:32:36.424+01:00spring colorsurban garden Hello friends! Do you remember that we luckily had the opportunity to have an urban garden near our home? If you want to recall go here. Well, we received it late October and the first time we work on it was in the mid of November. Turnip greens didn’t grow further than a finger! We were quite expecting that as they should be seeded in August and we were doing it in November. After it was sohttp://mariafitadevies.blogspot.com/2016/04/our-urban-garden-early-spring-time.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405768726690211714.post-8658939822224367115Mon, 04 Apr 2016 20:20:00 +00002016-04-04T21:20:26.482+01:00onephotoperweekspringspring colors Hello friends! How are you? How was you weekend? We had pretty rainy days here so I decided to bake: cookies and tried for the first time “bola de carne” (hum, how would I translate this to English? No idea! It is somehow kind of focaccia with different meats inside, really yumnny!)  March has gone and we are already in April with days with more daylight. Love when this happens, and withhttp://mariafitadevies.blogspot.com/2016/04/one-photo-per-week-week-14-welcome.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405768726690211714.post-7312270747548368890Wed, 30 Mar 2016 09:06:00 +00002016-03-30T10:06:10.930+01:00bolhao marketmercado do bolhaoPortoPortugalspring walks. Happy Wednesday everyone! How are you doing? Today we have a walk in one of the most traditional Porto markets. In the last years, our Easter routine, if we can name it like that, includes a walk on Holy Saturday morning to Bolhão Market in Porto for buying a bouquet of white flowers for offering as a gift. As a plus we tend to buy sausages and spices also. It is always one of a kind experience http://mariafitadevies.blogspot.com/2016/03/spring-walk-in-porto-bolhao-market-come.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405768726690211714.post-4739569157493645717Fri, 18 Mar 2016 15:07:00 +00002016-03-18T15:07:26.248+00:00fridays in the blog Happy Friday everyone! How is your week going? Do you want a brilliant update on the most recent confirmation in science? So what’s new?, you may ask. The confirmation of the existence of gravitational waves! Did you follow this on the news on February? This is pretty amazing.  Gravitational waves were predicted by Einstein 100 years ago. Last September something happen in the detector andhttp://mariafitadevies.blogspot.com/2016/03/gravitational-waves-fridays-here-at-blog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405768726690211714.post-1632040558602901208Mon, 14 Mar 2016 16:45:00 +00002016-03-14T16:46:05.762+00:00onephotoperweekwalkswinterwinter colors Happy Monday everyone! How was your weekend? Good, relaxing, inspirational?! We had beautiful sunny warm days around here. Let's go for the photograph of this week? Do you remember last week photograph of the cute yellow bird adding some color to a grey sky in Linz? If you don't click here. I looked to the calendar and realized that whitin one week will be equinox and officially http://mariafitadevies.blogspot.com/2016/03/one-photo-per-week-week-13-last-winter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405768726690211714.post-4567681998490001739Mon, 07 Mar 2016 21:24:00 +00002016-03-07T21:24:54.865+00:00onephotoperweekwalkswinterwinter colors Happy Monday everyone! How was your weekend? Good, relaxing, inspirational?! Do you remember last week photograph of water droplets in a cruciferous leaf? If you don't click here. This week a bunch of water droplets in the solid state and a cute yellow bird adding some color to a grey sky in Linz. Have a nice, creative week! Linz Images: Maria Miranda http://mariafitadevies.blogspot.com/2016/03/one-photo-per-week-week-12-water.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405768726690211714.post-5175813438982581354Mon, 29 Feb 2016 20:41:00 +00002016-02-29T20:41:38.850+00:00natureonephotoperweek Happy Monday everyone! How was your weekend? Good, relaxing, inspirational?! Do you remember last week photograph of a water droplet? If you don't click here. This week, as it was pretty hard to select only one water droplet image, we have again an image on this topic: a bunch of water droplets in one cruciferous leaf. Have a nice, creative week! Sobrado dos Monxes, A Coruña Imageshttp://mariafitadevies.blogspot.com/2016/02/one-photo-per-week-week-11-water_29.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405768726690211714.post-2240153676730906791Wed, 24 Feb 2016 08:00:00 +00002016-02-26T17:41:04.392+00:00making me happysweet treats If life gives you lemons... you make lemonade! Right?! Well, you make lemonade, lemon curd, flavored corn cookies and lemon tart with blueberries. No, lemons were not in promotion at the grocery store! It happens that I got a nice organic batch from my Dad. These lemons have the best scent and taste that I know. I got a break while our sweetie was taking a nap and the first thing I tried was http://mariafitadevies.blogspot.com/2016/02/sweet-treats-with-lemon-and-making-me.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405768726690211714.post-3583850561666946465Mon, 22 Feb 2016 17:43:00 +00002016-02-22T17:43:02.872+00:00onephotoperweek Happy Monday everyone! How was your weekend? Good, relaxing, inspirational?! Do you remember last week photograph of water reflections? If you don't click here. This week, I thought it would be nice to keep going on the water theme and I chose one photograph of water droplets. It was pretty hard to elect only one, so I will on this topic for the next ones. And this one is almost, almost droppinghttp://mariafitadevies.blogspot.com/2016/02/one-photo-per-week-week-11-water.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405768726690211714.post-8738337804148846275Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:00:00 +00002016-02-19T10:11:28.990+00:00creativityfridays in the blog Happy Friday everyone! I have found some pretty interesting articles and shared them on facebook but forgot to do it here. Today, we have creativity and mental health and socks.  Yes, you read it well socks and what they say about you. Are you wearing neon polka dots or with some comics on it? Do I hear a yes? You are intriguing and rebellious. It is what John Haltiwanger says in his http://mariafitadevies.blogspot.com/2016/02/creativity-and-socks-fridays-here-at.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405768726690211714.post-1519900727811633600Wed, 17 Feb 2016 17:01:00 +00002016-02-18T09:18:48.768+00:00deep galizagaliciaGalizawinter colors Hello everyone and happy Wednesday! How is your week going? Around here we had one warm sunny day for the last week and rain again. Lovely rainy days, let me enjoy them making plans for lemon curd, cuddling with my sweetie, having an herbal tea while listening Mozart lullabies. Well, most of the times I make a huge effort to not fall asleep before her while we are listening lullabies but that ishttp://mariafitadevies.blogspot.com/2016/02/winter-outdoors-walk-at-sobrados-dos.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405768726690211714.post-3669919540690105665Mon, 15 Feb 2016 05:00:00 +00002016-02-15T05:00:00.191+00:00bragaPortugalwinter colors Happy Monday everyone! Last week we had a gorgeous magnolia bloom photographed. Today, we have a photograph of Winter reflections in the lake. Another way of watching around us through water reflections. Pretty nice, hum? Gives a different perspective. Optical physics that explains these phenomena behind this is pretty complicated, but who cares about physics when watching this beauty?! Those http://mariafitadevies.blogspot.com/2016/02/one-photo-per-week-week-10.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405768726690211714.post-6125685739856015377Thu, 11 Feb 2016 17:21:00 +00002016-02-11T18:02:34.820+00:00braganaturePortugalwinter Hello everyone! How are you doing? We are almost in the middle of February, are you keeping up all your new year wishes and goals? Days here are lived at the pace of our newborn sweetie and being enjoyed with all of what that means. She started to smile intentionally this week and we were delighted! On the opposite of this week, last one we had some lovely sunny days so I took the chance to http://mariafitadevies.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-walk-in-park-up-in-hill-and-making-me.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405768726690211714.post-5474527872118168933Mon, 08 Feb 2016 23:19:00 +00002016-02-08T23:19:57.010+00:00magnoliaPortugalwinter colors Happy Monday everyone! Last time we had a "one photo per week" we had a tree with multicolored leaves that I spotted in my neighborhood. Today we have a photograph from a gorgeous magnolia bloom. I love to watch magnolia blooms this time of the year. What about you? Can you already spot blooms around you? Have a nice week! Images: Maria Miranda http://mariafitadevies.blogspot.com/2016/02/one-photo-per-week-week-9.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405768726690211714.post-4253161996545389752Thu, 10 Dec 2015 17:52:00 +00002015-12-10T17:52:42.668+00:00christmaschristmas season. sweet treatsdocesHello everyone! This year we started the Advent with a special treat for our sweet tooth and since then we haven't stopped. Hmm where will this lead..! When we reach this time of the year I always have a desire of having "rabanadas" (french toasts in English, I think). Changed the milk for almond milk and they were delicious. I forgot to take pictures so no images at all, but there are http://mariafitadevies.blogspot.com/2015/12/sweet-treats-holidays-season.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405768726690211714.post-2787308595016194705Sat, 05 Dec 2015 18:55:00 +00002015-12-05T19:31:00.064+00:00organic foodurban gardenvegetables Hello everyone! In the past years, urban gardens have become common in Portugal. That I am aware there are quite a few in Lisboa, in Porto but where we live there were not so much and mostly located in small villages outside the city. This is not such a big urban city and the countryside is just around the corner.  However, last October for our complete surprise our parish council http://mariafitadevies.blogspot.com/2015/12/our-urban-garden-our-most-recent.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405768726690211714.post-4874530251280620523Fri, 04 Dec 2015 08:10:00 +00002015-12-04T08:10:00.209+00:00fridays in the blogwinterwinter colors Hello everyone. The other day I came across an article, written by Laura Vanderkam, based on a study done by Leibowitz, that I found quite interesting specially if you do not like days getting darker as I do this time of the year. Approximately, in one month and a half time we might start to see a slight daylight increase. Until then, there is some valuable ideas in the article. Don't http://mariafitadevies.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-norwegian-secret-to-enjoying-long.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405768726690211714.post-4530242168047237981Wed, 02 Dec 2015 22:25:00 +00002015-12-02T22:25:20.640+00:00autumn colorsautumn coloursbragafallPortugal Hello everyone! After the first signs of Autumn in this post, we can spot other nature changes. The vineyards leaves that turn in stunning red colours, the birds nests that were unrecovered all of this time and the appearance of these "berries" on the trees in my neighboord. Quite nice! , Have a nice late Autumn day! Images: Maria Mirandahttp://mariafitadevies.blogspot.com/2015/12/autumn-outdoors-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405768726690211714.post-3512613474736811899Mon, 23 Nov 2015 07:34:00 +00002015-11-23T07:36:47.261+00:00autumnautumn coloursfallonephotoperweekoutonoHello and happy Monday!  Last photograph was from a blossom tree in Porto. It was a long time ago! Today I am sharing a photograph from a tree in Braga. I particularly liked this one. You can still spot the leaves in greens, yellows and red hues. Have a nice week! Images: Maria Mirandahttp://mariafitadevies.blogspot.com/2015/11/one-photo-per-week-week-8.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405768726690211714.post-2663808777778146677Sat, 21 Nov 2015 17:17:00 +00002015-11-21T17:21:10.021+00:00floral scented sachetslavenderliberty of london fabricmaking me happy Floral Sachets are one of those things that I never get tired of making. I like so much opening the drawers and have wonderful natural scents! These were made with scraps of some of my favorite Liberty of London fabric prints: Sarah's Secret Garden, Theodora, Katie and Millie and Mirabelle, backed with plain linen or polka dots linen. Aren't they a lovely gift tied with a linen rope and http://mariafitadevies.blogspot.com/2015/11/liberty-of-london-floral-sachets.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405768726690211714.post-7548857263477910875Mon, 16 Nov 2015 12:29:00 +00002015-11-16T12:29:21.134+00:00autumnautumn colors Hello and Happy Monday!! Such a long time since the last post around here. It was not planned at all, happened! I took these photographs a month and half ago when Autumn was giving its first signs, nuts, chestnuts, mushrooms could be found in the woods and plenty of browns, yellows and red colours. Since then every Sunday we are having yummy roasted chestnuts and experimenting different granola http://mariafitadevies.blogspot.com/2015/11/autumn-outdoors.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405768726690211714.post-960109205019284703Sun, 19 Apr 2015 20:02:00 +00002015-04-19T21:02:40.803+01:00PortoPortugalspringspring colors Hello lovelies! Hope you had a relaxed weekend! Last photograph was from Porto by night from Serra do Pilar. This one is also from Porto, a tree blooming in Passos Manuel st.  Have a nice week! photos: Maria Miranda http://mariafitadevies.blogspot.com/2015/04/one-photo-per-week-week-7.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405768726690211714.post-4131785852943999223Sat, 18 Apr 2015 14:30:00 +00002015-04-18T15:33:01.124+01:00floral mandalasspring Hello everyone! Do you remember the last mandala I posted here? With those wild natural elements I picked, I created another mandala, in pink-purple, yellow and green colours. Now, looking to the photos I noticed that the center is somehow empty, and it is not quite aligned. All the three so far that I made are quite different but I like all. I will let the pollen set a little more and then I http://mariafitadevies.blogspot.com/2015/04/floral-mandala-and-making-me-happy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0