A wink at Autumn

I recently thrifted  a mint enamel teapot & some awesome kitchen crochet handles.

 Although i dread the days getting shorter and cold i feel that it's time to accept the coming of a different season and purchasing beautiful objects helps a lot!

Say hello to Mora and Nico

Last weekend i was taking a walk around the neighborhood with my friend Carla and we decided to ring at Mora's bell to say a quick hello on our way home.
Nico welcomed us with a reverse serenade and we went up for a few minutes of chatting.

Her apartment is very tiny but so cozy and filled with lovely details, light and a lot of love.

A picnic in August

Here´s some pictures of a picnic i organized in the middle of August.

We went to a beautiful garden in the city named Palácio de Cristal - dogs were not allowed but we sneaked in Miga, Nuno´s dog in and it was one of the few time during that month were i could relax and be with friends.

Stop

July went by in a flash.

 I spent basically all my free time cleaning the house, trying not to go mad because my closet collapsed (all my clothes lying everywhere, like a bomb exploded in the room) and answering a lot of booking requests for the Guest-house.

Summer is a busy time for us and i'm very glad that we were for the last three months fully booked but i got overwhelmed by everything going on at the same time.

I work part-time for a big corporate phone company and spend 6 hours a day talking on the phone with not so polite customers and one day last month i just woke up and felt i could not go out of the house and talk to strangers on the phone anymore.

I had to stop and realize that i was having a nervous breakdown, went to the doctor and asked for a sick leave, so I´m home for  the last two weeks now and will be until the end of September.

I feel this is a good chance to change what´s in need of change.

Leave a job that for seven years allowed me to survive but now feels like it´s keeping me from being alive.

Will need courage, will need planning, but i'm ready.

35

About two weeks ago i turned 35 years old.

Still can not believe it, i guess when i think of myself i still see the 17 year old me.

Say goodbye to June

June was a month full of people to enjoy, i did not had the chance to take photograph all of them but here are a few nice pictures i took:

Angela , who i didn't saw since last year - we met in an event in Serralves where people can enjoy for free the gardens and the museum during some frenetic 48 hours where all sort of thing can happen;
Nicolau, a wonderful crazy boy that besides being a really good friend is a wonderful designer and illustrator helping us building the website for our guesthouse.
Katherine, a talented photographer traveling all over Europe for the summer and whom i am currently hosting at home.

I want summer nights to be warm so i feel like going out, i miss going out just for a walk and meeting people and then staying in the street talking and laughing.

Home is were paper goods are

Ah, the office.
The place where i now gather years and years of hoarding of stationary goods and practice my most effective relax therapy: writing and preparing letters to send to old and new friends all across the world - and a all lot of them even living in the same city as i am, ahaha.

I treasure the idea of dedicating time and some old hand-written calligraphy to show my love, to let these people know they are appreciated and sometimes i slow my pace and make little tiny paper surprises,wondering about their faces when they go into the mailbox, when all they expect these days are bills and unwanted publicity.

Once a friend of mine told me that she used to imagine what would wake her up out of a hypothetical coma and she said :' i think hearing the voice of my kids would do it for me and for you dear Sara i always imagined somebody covering your bed with letters'.
i always smile when i remember that, i think she knows me well.

P.S. Thank you, C for your post and for making me come back to this very neglected blog.
(life getting in the way of living, as usual)