Sky Watch Friday

Joining Sky Watch I show you the sky above my home. These pictures where taken at my kitchen window. I have always the most beautiful skies and, if I could, I would be all day taking pictures. Never mind the weather, be it rainy or sunny, clear or cloudy, the sky is always amazing here.

See for yourselves.

Bookworm Award

I've been tagged by Lara and the rules for this award are:

Pass this on to 5 blogging friends. Open the closest book to you, not your favorite or most intellectual book, but the book closest to you at the moment, to page 56. Write the 5th sentence, as well as two to five sentences following that.


And, as her way affronting, forth she hied,
Her ev’ry gesture such a grace expirèd,
Stars, Skies and Aether’s circumabient tide,
And all that saw her with love-fire were firèd.
Those eyne wherein Dan Cupid aye doth nide,
Such vitl spirits in all life ispirèd;
The frigid poles with torrid ardours burnèd,
And spheres of Artic frost ro flame were turnèd.

Well, this is from The Lusiades by Luís de Camões.
This was the book in english I had closest to me.

It’s better to go to the wikipedia here and here to learn more about this poet of ours and his work.

Well,

Alexandra – Happy Hearts at Home

Irene – The Green Greek

Smilnsigh

Mélia

And last one is everybody who would like to make this.

Giving Thanks - Thursday

For my Faith.




This is one of my girls, giving a white rose to Our Lady, after having taken her First Communion, some months ago.

Giving Thanks at Kelli.

Giving Thaks - Wednesday

For being a mother

Giving Thanks at Kelli.

Giving Tanks - Tuesday

For our Home

We give thanks to Our Lord who gave us this nice home where everybody praises Him day and night.

Giving Thanks at Kelli.

Giving Thanks - Monday

For the Family

For my husband ( the man with a hat), for my two little girls ( the ones he's holding by hand, a little girl with dress and another with a poney tail and pink shirt), and for my big girls ( with the pink shirt and black trousers and the other with blue shirt).
Praised be the Lord.

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Show & Tell Friday

All Fridays, Kelli at There Is No Place Like Home hosts a Show and Tell Friday. So, here I am showing you some of my aprons, begining with one my mother gave me years ago. It has some matching pot holders.

And the next one was made by my grandmother before I was married so I would wear it when I would be married.

Also this one, was made at the same time. Notice the detail of the fabric, it's an opera house.



These are not so special, just some common aprons I were everyday.



It was my oldest daughter who is wearing it so I could take a picture.
See the detail here. I like oranges very much. I think it's a pretty thing.

This one has pears on it. Fruit patterns in the kitchen give always a good note.

And now these, nothing special, just pretty.

I have more and I keep buying them because I do like aprons and I wear them everyday.

Past Christmas – Decorations

Today I will show you some Christmas decorations that we usually put in hour house in the begining of December. Also some in the streets of our town.

That's all, folks.



Past Christmas - The Table

I know I put already, yesterday, one picture of the table but today is the day when I'm going to show some more about it.



Here it is the table before it was set, the piano in the bottom and a lot of books everywhere. The candles must be replaced.



And in here you can see the begining of it, the bit where the children seat.

The part for the adults, with the red glaces my husband gave me some Christmasses ago and the crackers. The towel it was my husband who gave too with matching napkins.

A detail with the poinsetia.



And here one of the baby Jesus my husband gave me. In the childrens table there's one too, we can hardly see it in the firts picture because he's laying down.

Tomorow the theme will be: Christmas Decorations.

Past Christmas - Food

As you now, I’m crazy for Christmas and I can’t wait for it, as I was a child.
I’m making lists of everything I might need to buy, to shop, to make, to do...
I keep thinking about the menu, all the cakes and desserts I want to make, if the linens are ok, if we have enough chairs – we always have but even so, every year I fell I must make sure we have.
As you can see by the picture, we put a big table on and a smaller one. Plus side boards of every kind to acomodate all the food and people.
All pictures I am posting now belong to last years Christmas and to the one before.
So, I remembered to post some for several days. It will be called Past Christmas and if you would like to join me, just give me a note.

In the picture with the tables, you can see first the smaller one which was destined for children that’s why I have paper glasses. They liked it very much because there was a 19 century kind of Santa Claus on it.
The big table, on the bottom, has proper nice red glasses, which was a present from my husband in a previous Christmas, some years ago.
It’s rather dark this picture because it was raining and the lights were off in that moment, I don’t know why.
Near the window there’s a table that, in the moment I took the picture, was still empty of food.

And now some food for you to see.
I must say that the desserts are always made and choosen by me. The main courses and etc are my husband departement. Rissols and the kind are usually brought by my brother’s wife.

My sister never comes because they go to her mother in law house at Christmas Day and have dinner with us at my brother’s at Christmas Eve because is the most important moment for families here, and always have been.

Well, it’s enough for today. More pictures tomorow.

Tomorow I will show you more about the tables.

P.S.: Maybe you are wondering about the food so I will explain.

In the first picture (with food):

Apple pie and crumble, croquetes (made with minced meat), rissols (with shrimps inside), Bolo Rei (translated King Cake, very traditional, with dried fruit and all kind of nuts inside and on top); Bolo Vicente ( Vincent Cake, a must in our Christmasses, as my grandmother always made it) and several of those dried fruits.

Picture 2:

Several of my husband specialities, seeing first brocolli, cawliflower and a special kind that looks a mixture of both; caramelized onions; roasted potatoes; goose, etc.

Picture 3:

the lovely bird; chestnuts and brussels sprouts; some sausages,...

Last picture:

Sweet rice; sausage rolls and rabanadas or golden slices as they are called (fried bread after being rolled in milk and egg).

More to see tomorow.