Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Giveaway

It was about time I made this! Lately I've met so many fanstatic people on Instagram and Tumblr, so I decided to make a giveaway as in a way to say thank you. Everyone has been so supportive and kind, I wish I could personally thank each one of you.

So, what can you win?




Some ephemera: old photograph, postcard, vintage stamps, books page with botanic illustrations, labels, and one portuguese vintage stamp (+ some extra cat hair). It's not much, but I hope you'll guys like it! 

This giveaway is international, and will end on the 25th September.

To enter just fill out the form below: a Rafflecopter giveaway

Friday, September 13, 2013

Últimamente | Lately






Livros adquiridos ao longo do verão + Livro Cartofilia com fotos antigas de Paris encontrado numa feira


Books acquired over the summer + Booklet with old parisian pictures found in fleamarket

Sunday, September 8, 2013

Cartas ao longo do ano | Letters over the year

Hoje decidi finalmente eliminar um dos tumblrs que tinha criado especificamente para cartas que mandava e recebia. Mantive-o activo durante algum tempo, mas com a criação deste blog não achei que tivesse muito sentido manter ambos (e também porque sou preguiçosa). Aqui vão algumas fotos que tinha publicado nesse tumblr.










Translation:

Today finally I decided to delete my tumblr dedicated to incoming and outgoing mail - Travelling Letters. There wasn't really a need to delete it, but I feel bad for not keeping it updated. And since I've created this blog now, it didn't seem to make much sense to maintain both (considering I also update my personal tumblr regularly, and also have Instagram). Here are a few pictures of mail I sent over the past year.

Monday, September 2, 2013

Uma confissão + diy | A confession + diy

Apesar de ter decidido manter este blog parcialmente em português, devo avisar já que o meu português não é muito bom e que faço muitos erros. Isto porque passei a minha infância na Suiça e como estava constantemente a ouvir françes, italiano e alemão ao mesmo tempo à minha, fiquei um pouco confusa em relação a alguns detalhes da língua portuguesa. Envergonho-me um pouco desse facto; afinal já estou a viver em Portugal há 5 anos, e ando num curso de línguas.

Isto tudo para dizer que sou uma mulher de poucas palavras. Prefiro imagens a textos e textos de escrita. Espero que se não aborreçam comigo (e se tiver um erro mesmo muito parvo avisem-me)!

De seguida queria-vos também mostrar um pequeno something que fiz para uma amiga (também doida por chá) como prenda de anos; trabalhei a madeira, pintei-a com duas camadas para dar um efeito vintage e de seguida transferi as imagens na madeira. No fim passei com verniz para ficar com um pouco de brilho. O resultado final poderia ter sido melhor, mas em geral fiquei contente como ficou. O que acham?








Translation: 

I spent my childhood in a foreign country, and everyday I had to deal with various languages at the same time. Usually, people who experienced this kind of reality tend to develop good languages skills; in the 11 years I lived in Switzerland I learnt (swiss) german, french, italian and a bit of english, but at the same time it left me very confused in regards to certain linguistic details. I've been living in Portugal for 5 years now (and I am taking a degree in languages!) and still make extremly stupid mistakes. It is something that I'm not very proud of, but I guess it's something that awkwardly fits with my "airhead" personality.

But the whole point of this was: I'm not much of a talkative person, nor do I write a lot (which is funny because I write letters?); I much rather post pictures instead of writing long texts, so it might be possible that in the future I will post more pictures than actual texts. I hope you do not grow bored of me!

On another note, I also wanted to show a little something I made for a friend of mine. She's also crazy about tea so I thought I'd make her a tea box as a birthday present for her. I tried to give it a vintage effect, and also added images to it with a recent wood transfer method I discovered. I was hoping for a better end result, but oh well, I tried my best. What do you think?