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On January 6th II

Homemade pastries

My mum made these delicious "rosquillas de limón" (lemon pastries) today. They are so yummy! They are incredibly tasty and lemon flavored... Perfect with some tea or coffee in the afternoon. I just thought I had to share! =P

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Belated Christmas pictures

Hi there!

I guess it is a little bit late to post Christmas pictures... But Hey, Christmas is great, isn't it? So, why does not it last forever?

As you can see, our Christmas tree was dressed in gold, silver and white. Elegant and timeless colors that I usually love in Christmas.

For the tree, I like just simple warm white lights to add some sparkle, and let the ornaments set the colors of the whole tree.

The decorations we chose were: warm white lights; golden Christmas balls, in different shapes, finishes and models; different golden ornaments, such as presents, a drum and golden sacks; Christmas balls made of pearls; crystal balls with golden leaves on them; crystals; pearls garlands; and a golden ribbon.

As I have more pictures from Christmas, I have decided to make separate posts to share them, in order not to bore you with tons of images. I hope you enjoy them!







Happy Holidays, Merry (Belated) Christmas and Happy New Year!

These are some digital postcards made by me with pictures I took at home to wish my friends and contacts a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2012. So, I am taking the chance to wish you all, too, a Happy "rest" of the Holidays and a Happy New Year 2012! Hope this upcoming 2012 is even better than 2011 for you and wish also all your dreams come true. I hope you like the pictures!

See you in 2012!

Celebrating at home

Hi again!

I am posting something I should have published some time ago... These pictures were taken at home in July, when we celebrated my grandma's Birthday. Those Summer days are long gone by now, but the tablescape pictures I took that day turned out pretty well.

The things I like the best are the bright colors in the pictures and the calm feeling produced by those soft colors and the natural light in the room.

I really like, too, the nice cupcakes pattern in the napkins that my mom and I chose for the occasion. We were looking for something informal, and that is why we chose those napkins and we decided to combine the colors of the glasses: three of them in clear and three in purple.

Please, just forget about the UGLY dining chairs in there... We are currently working on that, choosing a new dining table and new chairs for the dining area. Hopefully we will have them for Christmas!

I know this is a quite irrelevant topic, but I had planned to post about it and share the pictures. Anyway, what do you think about it? Do you like it or not?

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Coral Prints

What do you do when you are looking for something for your home but you do not seem to find it anywhere?

I do it.



So, when I was searching for the perfect paintings for my half bathroom, I knew what I wanted and how I wanted it. Actually, I found some options in stores and online, but for a price I was not going to pay being them mass production products or a very high price if they were vintage or unique.



So, why not making them to get something exclusive, personal and for a reasonable price? And this is what I got: three vintage-looking coral prints just the way I like, the size I need and the colors I wanted. Now, they are just waiting to be framed and to be hung in the powder room.

I have already bought several passe par touts to get them contrasted with the white backgrounds of the drawings. I got some off white ones; a soft blue one; some grey ones and a red one, and I still have to decide the ones that matches the paintings and the bathroom the best.

 

What do you think? Do you like them?

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Currently...

Hi all!

I have decided I am going to post something here on the blog more often. At least, I am going to try.

So, my current project is the one you can see here... So much fun, huh? I am stripping my bedroom door! Quite tedious stuff, but it is always worth it when you see the final result after painting the door: a perfect finish white door.

Hopefully, I will have finished stripping it tomorrow and I will put it back in its place to start stripping the living room door. I say 'hopefully' because I am going to do the monthly grocery shopping tomorrow morning; also, some window shopping at the mall will keep me busy until the afternoon, and that is when I will have the time to work.

Please, just ignore the ugly floor you can see on the second pic... It is actually the floor in the spare/storage room we keep to take these projects, hehe.

Door painting

Finally! I can share one of the doors in my house TOTALLY finished... The bathroom one. I mean, I have finished more doors, but, this is the one I had taken some 'during' pictures. Still have some doors left though, but I am getting closer to have them all painted!

Actually, the doors were painted a cream/beige/sand/ivory/light yellow color... I do not know what to call that ugly color (for doors). In addition, they had been painted with a roller and in a glossy finish, and they had several coats of paint under that last one: white, black, blue, red, orange... (depending on the room); so, they looked pretty bad. I did not want to get something worse than I had, so I decided I would strip the paint to paint them the correct way.

Stripping the paint is the hardest step. It is not difficult at all, but sometimes it is really boring and it takes a lot of time. However, if you do this with patience and get to strip all the paint off perfectly, you will get a perfect final job: the door will look just like it had not been painted or even varnished.

After stripping the paint with two different scrapers and a scurer (for smaller areas and moldings), it is necessary to clean the door with paint thinner, in order to remove all the grease of the previous products. The next step is sanding the door and clean again with steel wool, so we can get a soft finish for the wood.

The last part is the fun one: priming, sanding; painting first coat, sanding; painting second coat and sanding, in case you need to apply a third coat. I just needed two coats of Valentine's Valenite in a satin finish to get to the result you see. I also used an enamel blender to make it look less 'glossy'. The color is an off white called "coco" (coconut).

I had planned not to paint the original door hinges; but, after cleaning them I realised that I would get a "cleaner", more even look if I painted them, too. And, I am happy with the result.

So, now I have a fewer number of doors left (four, exactly), since it takes a lot of work. I will try to have them finished for September - October, though! Oh, and just ignore the UGLY floor in the hallway, please; it is still waiting to be replaced/painted/covered (I am not sure yet, hehe).

What do you think? =) Thanks for visiting!