My Little Garden

Hi Everyone! I love plants very much and it is very difficult to grow them in a flat because of the weather conditions  Violets, for example,  do not grow well here because of the darkness. So, I have plants that go well in small places and where there is a bit of sunlight. In the summer,  the sun is terrible here and dries the soil of the vases. I got a beautiful flower vase on the mother's day that has a plastic container, but I do know its name and it is in bloom again! This means that she likes the place where I put  is and my watering as well. I also love succulents,  but many times the strong wind caused the vases fell down on the floor and the plants broke and became weak. The space is so small that I bump into them and they fell down on the floor as well. I also have a "Dracaena Frangans". When I brought it it was short, but now it is almost two-meter long.
I love basil and I intend to have a vase of it. I like to put basil leaves on the tomato sauce and pizza. Pizza with basil it is called "Marguerita Pizza". I want to have seasoning plants. There is a corner here that has sunlight, but in the summer the plants simply dry.

My rosemary was drought. I got the other plant from a neighbor more than 25 years ago. I do not know the name either, but it has beautiful purple flowers.

It is growing good.

This plant is so good because it bears any bad conditions.

My rosemary is growing good. I put it on the food.

This is " Guaco " or Mikania glomerata , which is good for coughing.

Do you know the name of this flower?

I love Finding Neverland !

Wishing you a lovely week! Sandra

Woolen Vertical Hat for Beginners

I have been knitting lately. This is a present to my daughter and this is the first woolen hat that I made. It was hard to find an easy pattern. I think it is a bit long than I wanted. I will put the pattern  soon because I have some doubts. I also would like to make a bigger flowerror but I do not know how to make it yet.

We are in Winter and it is chilly and rainy, but today is a beautiful day.

Wishing you a nice weekend! Sandra

Teeny Tiny Doll - Christiene

This is the first fabric doll that I made. I made it for a gift, but I sold it instead. I started it on July 26 in 2014 and ended on August 10, 2014. The reason I decided to make a doll is because I love Tildas very much. I saw a Tilda once but I regret I had not bought it. It had an amazing embroidered apron, a beautiful dress and hat. I have never seen another one so beautiful like that. Maybe I am going to try making another teeny tiny doll with a embroidered apron. I have to be inspired! The most difficult things to make were really the dress and her hair. I used everything I had at home. I hope you like Christiene.

I made this blog to practice writing because I am studying for an examination. The thing is that I have made new friends here and have learned so much reading the posts. This is a great time!

I will try to post more often.

Cheers, Sandra

# The Grasshoppers #

Last summer we had some visitors here. They used to sing on the trees and flied to our homes. They were the grasshoppers that sang all the time from dawn to midnight. I have never seen so many grasshoppers like last summer.

They reminds me the Aesop's fable "The Ant and Grasshopper". I don't know whether everyone knows this fable, so I'll tell you this story.

The grasshoppers spent the warm summer days singing on the trees while the ants worked to store up food for  winter.  When that season arrived, they grasshoppers begged for the ants for food, but the ants refused to give  them food, so they died of hunger. This story has been  used to teach children the proverb: to work today to eat tomorrow.

The grasshoppers visited us last summer and their songs were very beautiful. I hope you liked it!

Wishing you all a lively week!

HAPPY EASTER!

Wishing you a Happy Easter to everybody! This is my little bunny disguised as a little dog! Just joking.

Cheers, Sandra

Poetic Organ Grinder and His Puppet

There was a poetic group in the club last Sunday. It reminds me my childhood when my mother and I used to go downtown  and there was an organ grinder and his parrot. But this time there is no parrot but a puppet. The Muppet chose a piece of paper and I read the poem while a guy plays an accordion. I read the poem and people got around to listen to the poem. The poem is The Guests by the Brazilian poet Mário Quintana. I took only one picture because I was so delighted that I forgot to take much more.

Enjoy!


The guests by Mário Quintana

This life is a strange inn
From where we almost always go away wildly
Because our suitcases are never packed
And our bill is never paid on time...

The Skies Full of Clouds

Autunm is on the corner and  it is a bit less hot here. I enjoy taking pictures of the sky, so I hope you like the pictures. It reminds me the Cold Play song "the sky full of stars", but in this case it is full of clouds!  I have been busy studying, but always thinking of posting.  Cheers!