For a long time I wanted to go to Portugal! And I finally did it this past month!
Brazil was colonized by the portuguese from the 1500 to 1822: from them we inherited our language, architecture, food and so much more. As soon as I steped out of the airport in Lisbon I felt like I [...]
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Portugal – May 09
Posted in Travel on May 30, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Heaven in Harrisville #2
Posted in Hand Knitting, Travel, tagged Donna Kay, Harrisville, Harrisville Designs, Mittens Class, Weaving Center on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
OK! My previous post about Harrisville I could not upload all the pictures I wanted and my spell check button did not work (as you read it)! So now I want to enter more of the beautiful pictures I have to remember in the future and to share them with the world (I even got [...]
Heaven in Harrisville,NH
Posted in Hand Knitting, Travel, tagged Andrea Wong, Donna Kay, Harrisville Designs, Mittens Class, New England Mills on October 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I spent one week in Harrisville, NH: from September 14 to 20. Harrisville is heaven on Earth! The owners of Harrisville Designs, Pat and Chick Colony, make a great effort to keep the village as it was originally, early 1800s and they have succeeded! Intact architecture and rich history as Candace Eisner Strick mentions in [...]
Workshop in Troy, Ohio 07/13/08
Posted in Hand Knitting, Travel, tagged portuguese style, socks, Troy Ohio, workshop on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This past Sunday I had a wonderful and enthusiastic group of knitters at a yarn shop called EWETOPIA, learning “All about Socks – Portuguese Style”! My new DVD! We had a great time and I am very proud of this group: they manage to learn the new style of knitting, some of them work with dpn for [...]
My Trip to Brazil
Posted in Travel, tagged Brazil on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My family and I spent three weeks in Brazil. We had a wonderful time: 10 days in Fortaleza, CE and 10 days on Sao Paulo, SP. Some of the places we visited: Beach Park, Volta da Jurema, Morro Branco beach (where i had one hour massage on the beach!), Liberdade (japanese neighborhood in Sao Paulo), [...]
