We are going away for a long vacation. Thank you for your visits and we hope you have a MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR....
29/11/2005
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We are going away for a long vacation. Thank you for your visits and we hope you have a MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR....
27/11/2005
Filha de Immigrantes
An American friend from London sent me a list entitled Forty Things in the Life a Portuguese Child. The list was made for those children born to Portuguese immigrants. I am part of a generation that grew up in the 1970´s to parents who came from little Portuguese rural villages to a country where everything was strange and big. We learned along with our parents a new language and way of life, while still preserving their old way of life. The life our parents left behind in Portugal.
For me, being a first generation born American is sometimes not knowing who you are but knowing you are someone different. It is thinking that I am different but loving that difference just the same. It is being the same but appreciating the uniqueness in everyone. It is thinking that everyone is like me but not everyone likes the way you think and do things. Then at some point in life realizing that you would not want it to be any other way.
(Some of the) 40 Things in the Life of a
1. You ate sopa de coves for dinner at least three times a week, and every Sunday.
2. You were as tall as your grandmother by the age of seven.
3. Your mom´s main hobby was cleaning.
4. You were surprised to find out that wine was actually sold in stores. (All of our fathers made wine at home.)
5. You thought that killing the pig each year and having torresmos, morcella, linguica, and hanging the dead pig from the ceiling was absolutely normal.
6. You never ate meat on Christmas Eve (Consoada) or any Friday for that matter.
7.You were beaten at least once with a wooden spoon or broom.
8. You have at least one relative who came over on "the boat".
9. You have at least six male relatives named Tony, Frank, Joe, or Louie.
10. You had a drink of wine before you were a teenager.
11. You were pinched under the arm in church by your mother.
12. Your grandparent´s furniture was as comfortable as sitting on plastic. Wait!! You were sitting on plastic.
13. You thought talking loud was normal.
14. There was a crucifix in every room of the house.
15. You couldn´t date a boy without getting approval from your father. (if you could date and he had to be Portuguese.)
16. You were anxious about taking your lunch to school. (It usually smelled different from other kids....must have been the "panados.")
17. Every condition, ailment, misfortune, memory loss and accident was attributed to the fact that you didn´t eat something.
18. You knew how to translate a letter for your parents by the age of seven.
19. And finally.......even the family dog understood Portuguese.
Thanks, Fatima.
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25/11/2005
Made in Portugal -11 (Portuguese Do it Best ;))!
Com Natal a espreitar: Original Ideas for Christmas Shopping:
(Na fotografia) (Photograph)... Recebi numa encomenda (por supresa) os ainda mais lindos ao vivo, postais do Ricardo. Postcards and illustrations and artwork.
Os também lindos postais destas 3 artistas Portuguesas. Christmas postcards and other beautiful handmade gifts.
Todos estes postais são tão bonitos que dão para moldurar e oferecer como quadros...todos illustrações originais pelos artistas.As lindas bonecas da Patricia . Beautiful Handmade Dolls. As obras de arte em malas da Dubla. Beautiful handmade bags.
A nossa prima também comecou uma loja on-line dos seus trabalhos. Needlecrafts. Boa Sorte, Sónia.
Tudo feito à mão em Portugal e presentes unicos. Todos vendem as suas obras on-line e enviam pelo correio. Tambem tem à venda em varios pontes do país. Há um mundo de artigos por descobrir!
All of these products are hand made by artists in Portugal. All available for purchase on-line!
24/11/2005
23/11/2005
Postais Antigos de Trajes Saloios
Edição A.V.L.-Lisboa Costumes de Portugal
O MINHO...VIANA DO CASTELO e BRAGA em postais antigos.
Graças à Sandra lembrei-me que tinha comprado estes e outros postais antigos, todos de costumes Portugueses. Sempre gostei do "folclore" Português. E os trajes de cada região são bonitos e unicos.
22/11/2005
18/11/2005
Associação Coração Amarelo
As luzes de Natal estão quase a ser inauguradas em Sintra e a musica de Natal ouve-se nos grandes centros. O Natal está proximo. Que bom!
Falei esta semana com a Elisabete da Associação Coração Amarelo e ela informou-me que a venda de Natal vai acontecer de 28 Novembro até 3 Dezembro aqui:
Venda de Natal da Associação Coração Amarelo
28 Novembro até 3 Dezembro
Rua do Carmo,15
1º Esq.
Lisboa
Todos os fundos da venda revertem para fazer um almoço para os idosos e comprar uma lembrança para aqueles que não tem literalmente ninguém para quem passar esta altura do ano.
A mantinha e a Saloinha com a pequena Maria (parabens Raquel e Ricardo!) vão estar lá para ajudar. "Aceitamos tudo que se possa vender neste tipo de vendas." Tambem podem mandar artigos para venderem para esta morada ou entregar ao proprio aqui :
Associação Coração Amarelo
Rua Projectada A, à Rua Sousa Lopes, loja 10-C
1600-207 Lisboa
Telefone/Fax 217950055
Email coracaoamarelo@oninet.pt.
Horas de abertura:
Segunda à Sextas : 9-13h00 e 14h-17h
Esta associação em coloboração com a Delegação da Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa de Lisboa e a Santa Casa da Miséricordia de Lisboa ajudam idosos com mais de 65 anos que vivem em solidão.
Quando era estudante fazia voluntariado com Little Brothers-Friends of the Elderly em Boston. Visitava os idosos, dava lhes boleias aos almoços da associação ou ao medico, etc. Hà anos quando vim para Portugal também comecei a mais o Luís a formação com o Coração Amarelo mas com o tipo de trabalho que temos faltava nos o tempo. Mas hà outras maneiras de ajudar.
Se estiverem em Lisboa essa semana é dar um passeio ao Chiado e visitar estas maravilhosas pessoas que fazem parte deste muito necessário projecto.
Boas compras!


