Inspirations: On the streets (Porto)

Conheces este bigode?

Do you know this moustache?

Lachafa was for four weeks in porto, portugal, being an intern at the school (she is studying at the moment with the goal of becoming a teacher :)). Of course she also makes fotos when she is seeing street art or other inspiring things! So these fotos are all from her made for me! 

And yes... the moustache is also to be found in porto!

Look around for stranger....!

...or some love...

A friend of Lachafa is student teacher for art in porto. She created the decoration for the reading bee with the kids. She made animals out of old books! One of them you can see below. I just love the teeths ^^

And yes, it seems that I am back :) I am feeling way better know, hopefully can skip all the "drugs" very soon. But hey, I can move my back and hips again! Or rather... I can dance again! Okay, my neck still tries to annoy me... but in the end he'll also give in and be useable again! Ha! 

Can you imagine how terrible it was for me not to be able to dance? It is not to go dancing or something like this but just all the tiny moves here and then hearing music. I didn't know how much I am moving / dancing all day until I couldn't do it anymore.

So... too many words... 'cause I just wanted to tell you that I am back to my blog and therefor back to you :)

And thanks for all your nice words and concerns! I am sorry that I didn't answered all of you but writing / being on the computer (doing anything at all...) was not the easiest thing for me to do. 

Visiting Lachafa in Münster

This blog entry is full of inspirations! 

At least for me but I hope you'll also find some inspirations. And please tell me, because Lachafa is my little (no not so little anymore) sister and I am just sooooo proud of her and her stuff (and ideas and creativity... okay, I guess you got my point ^^). But I think it is the in the rights of a big sister to be proud of her younger siblings :) (for my little brother search for tophino in my blog, he makes great music!).

Just have a look at this collar she made! With hundreds of tiny beads sewn on a piece of felt! And all what she said was: Oh, that was easy...

This are long paper pieces she pinned on her wall. Her plan is to change them from time to time to change the decoration in her room (she is a student now, sharing a flat). 

She cut a lino stamp and printed it on the paper. You see that only a quarter of the ornament is the real stamp.

She made a combination of a pillow and a plushy! 

You remember my polymer clay buttons? Take a closer look at the eyes of the whale! :)

This one is a crochet scarf... 

...you can just tighten it. But she told me just some days ago that she used the scarf as a skirt! 

Some pictures about Münster... 

Giant geckos (a Tokkee! I had some a few years ago! Love them :))...

...climbing up and down the houses.

The same time you can find miniature versions of the city...

...would all suit into the mouth of the gecko ^^

I always love this kind of facades...!

Lachafa :)

From every point of the city you can see steeples...

...but don't believe you could sue them as a help for orientaion. Way too many!

And she made me also a crochet cap like hers! (and will make me another one.. just a reminder sweetheart! ;))

You see the cages? Behave!

Yes... this one is frightening!

The light was just magical...

...and the ducks too cute ^^

Oh, every city needs water!

The street art Lachafa and I found... and the ruins of their train station I'll show you in another post :)

Not so lazy sunday morning...

Hello there, I'm lachafa, saraccinos baby sister.

She's been trying to get me to contribute to her blog for ages, but for several reasons unsuccesfully, one of the biggest being that I don't own a good camera.
This is still true, but today I decided not to care and just go with it.

I hope i can figure this out :D

I assume some of you know this feeling: Today I woke up and just NEEDED to do something crafty.
So I trawled my room for a bit and found this:




















A piece of expensive looking fabric I've been dying to work with, a green zipper and some of saraccinos adorable buttons.

Of course I started off by sewing the zipper on with the wrong side up, but that's what you get for being to quik on a sunday morning. :(
I started over and kept going and in the end I'm quite happy with the result:
















It's a little box pouche. I will use it to carry around my knitting stuff when I'm on the go!




















Once again THANK YOU, saraccino, for the buttons. I love to add them to my stuff, they really make the expression "cute as a buttton" work. :D