Monthly Archives: April 2009

This is my first ever Little House Needleworks chart. I ordered it from Marilyns.com and it arrived within 2 weeks, which isn’t too bad considering the major postal problems we have here in Portugal. The chart came with the threads … Continue reading →

Here are Projects 110 (pink) and 111 (blue). They’re from Milady’s Needle Christmas Quaker Smalls. There are three charts in total, both in colour and monochromatic. I chose to do the monochromatic version for both due to time constraint. The … Continue reading →

So here are the pictures of the finished pillow I made for my mum’s birthday. Here you see the front and the back, what you don’t see is the sides, which are about 3-4 cm high and along each side … Continue reading →

I spent some time at my parents farm over Easter weekend, and went for a walk with my dad, where we ended up picking a lot of wild flowers. I loved this blue one in the picture above, but have … Continue reading →

The photo below is of me at one of my favourite places along the Foz which is basically a really long boulevard by the sea. I have photos of me when I was a baby with my family and my … Continue reading →

So this is the famous S. Bento station in downtown Porto. To tell you the truth I’d walked passed it plenty of times, but never gone inside. Having now been inside I see what a huge mistake I’ve made in … Continue reading →

So here I am again, this was during our lunch break. We stopped at one of the many restaurants on Cais de Gaia and I went for a local dish called a Francesinha, which is a sandwich of about three … Continue reading →

This lady was our tour guide throughout the “caves” of Sandeman, one of the many producers of Port Wine. My friend and I wanted to do a wine tasting and this was one of the ones that had an English … Continue reading →

Another one of Porto’s tourist attractions is the Majestic Cafe, well worth the visit. Not only is the outside beautiful (usually there are less things covering up the facade of this building) but the inside is all very old and … Continue reading →

This is one of the old trams that used to be a common site all over Porto. Unfortunately they stopped running for years, but now they’ve been brought back to the center of town and all along the river to … Continue reading →