<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066</id><updated>2012-02-29T16:27:42.344-03:00</updated><category term='Vietnam'/><category term='Holland'/><category term='Japanese fabrics'/><category term='batiks'/><category term='Siggies'/><category term='One Block Wonder'/><category term='Park'/><category term='Curves'/><category term='Graffiti'/><category term='São Paulo'/><category term='NY Beauty'/><category term='Christmas'/><category term='Doodling'/><category term='Gigante'/><category term='Geckos'/><category term='Bookbinding'/><category term='Inspiration'/><category term='Gardening'/><category term='Picture collage'/><category term='Pies and Tarts'/><category term='Rio de Janeiro'/><category term='Knitting'/><category term='Moving'/><category term='BSR'/><category term='Building Houses'/><category term='Friendship block'/><category term='Show and Tell'/><category term='Singapore'/><category term='fabric shop'/><category term='The Hague'/><category term='Bernina'/><category term='Travels'/><category term='Brazil'/><category term='Sewing group'/><category term='Quilt Show'/><category term='Comfort Quilts'/><category term='Pincushionswap'/><category term='Home'/><category term='Hexagon&apos;s'/><category term='Giveaway'/><category term='Pentagons'/><category term='origami'/><category term='Patchwork'/><category term='Boxes'/><category term='Sampler'/><title type='text'>Quilts and Boxes</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>141</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-5553165776373044797</id><published>2012-02-27T21:43:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2012-02-27T22:23:24.004-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rio de Janeiro'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travels'/><title type='text'>A colourful weekend in Rio, part 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;As DH and I attended the Rio Carnaval parade of the finalists from a 'camarote', a box, we received special t-shirts for the night. To completely immerse into the Brazilian spirit I immediately cut up my green t-shirt and added on ribbons, &lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;rhinestones and&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;sequins. Some special party make-up to make the picture complete! LOL!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Omdat DH en ik de Rio carnavalsoptocht van de finalisten bekeken vanuit een soort privetribune, kregen we speciale t-shirts die we voor deze avond moesten aantrekken. Om dan ook maar meteen helemaal mee te doen, ging ik dit groene t-shirt met een schaar te lijf en versierde ik het met linten en stras-steentjes. Nog een beetje party make-up erbij... LOL!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VqGUXd-iSYs/T0v6DdVGqXI/AAAAAAAACTM/_jVVA1hDYws/s1600/P2250071.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VqGUXd-iSYs/T0v6DdVGqXI/AAAAAAAACTM/_jVVA1hDYws/s400/P2250071.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-heITlpb8SHg/T0v57nH8bZI/AAAAAAAACTE/kqEHTm3-EzM/s1600/DSCN3751.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-heITlpb8SHg/T0v57nH8bZI/AAAAAAAACTE/kqEHTm3-EzM/s400/DSCN3751.jpg" width="360" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s8yEMcP_SUU/T0v54xllAnI/AAAAAAAACS8/3XMwi6EMP3s/s1600/DSCN3646.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s8yEMcP_SUU/T0v54xllAnI/AAAAAAAACS8/3XMwi6EMP3s/s400/DSCN3646.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iZs_vYqt-X4/T0v7gvKMdHI/AAAAAAAACTc/ZRG7OOe0uKY/s1600/DSCN3650.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iZs_vYqt-X4/T0v7gvKMdHI/AAAAAAAACTc/ZRG7OOe0uKY/s400/DSCN3650.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;hahahaaa you will never see me like this!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pOYBxDkVi_o/T0v6NZXj7lI/AAAAAAAACTU/LgULh2gtsK4/s1600/P2260251.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pOYBxDkVi_o/T0v6NZXj7lI/AAAAAAAACTU/LgULh2gtsK4/s400/P2260251.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Where is Waldo...&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;The show started at 9PM and lasted till 6AM! We did not make it until that time but stayed for quite some time!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Grab a cup of coffee as I could not make a small selection ;o) Enjoy!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De show begon om 9 uur 's avonds en duurde tot 6 uur 's morgens! Zo lang zijn we niet gebleven maar wel lang genoeg om met volle teugen te genieten!&lt;br /&gt;En hier gaatie dan! 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margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G7NsnKzMVSE/T0v_OHquK5I/AAAAAAAACWM/JvmbaADy7H8/s1600/DSCN3747.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G7NsnKzMVSE/T0v_OHquK5I/AAAAAAAACWM/JvmbaADy7H8/s400/DSCN3747.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Hello São Paulo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Groetjes vanuit Brazilië,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-5553165776373044797?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/5553165776373044797/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=5553165776373044797&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/5553165776373044797'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/5553165776373044797'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2012/02/colourful-weekend-in-rio-part-2.html' title='A colourful weekend in Rio, part 2'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VqGUXd-iSYs/T0v6DdVGqXI/AAAAAAAACTM/_jVVA1hDYws/s72-c/P2250071.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-4726476337588726194</id><published>2012-02-26T22:34:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2012-02-26T22:34:18.958-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rio de Janeiro'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travels'/><title type='text'>A colourful weekend in Rio, part 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A weekend away! Yes, no less than Rio de Janeiro! This is the place where people think of when I say I live in Brazil. Colourful, relaxed, samba and beaches. We did the town by bike and on foot, saw the Carnaval's finalists parade and had a great time. Because we took so many pictures I will break this story over a few posts.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Een weekendje weg! Yes! Lekker naar Rio de Janeiro! Dit is waar mensen aan denken als ik vertel dat ik in Brazilië woon. Kleurrijk, relaxed, samba en strand. We hebben de stad bekeken vanaf de fiets, te voet en zagen de Carnavalsoptocht van de finalisten. Het waren 2 heerlijke dagen. Omdat we zoveel foto's hebben gemaakt, verdeel ik het over een paar dagen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;There we go!&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp; Daar gaatie dan!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WlEE0f_-IjM/T0rLA28aaAI/AAAAAAAACQ8/HULcocZZ7zo/s1600/DSCN3594.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WlEE0f_-IjM/T0rLA28aaAI/AAAAAAAACQ8/HULcocZZ7zo/s400/DSCN3594.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Posto 9 @ Ipanema Beach&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-j_zC0BH8oa8/T0rLEhql2TI/AAAAAAAACRE/xR8-Zc0B-44/s1600/DSCN3602.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-j_zC0BH8oa8/T0rLEhql2TI/AAAAAAAACRE/xR8-Zc0B-44/s400/DSCN3602.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Near Posto 7 @ Ipanema Beach&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eCWGExuGgp4/T0rLIa6ncxI/AAAAAAAACRM/bjjpsEuwkKE/s1600/DSCN3616.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eCWGExuGgp4/T0rLIa6ncxI/AAAAAAAACRM/bjjpsEuwkKE/s400/DSCN3616.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Outside the 'Real Gabinete Português de Leitura'&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZBDnHLpipNk/T0rLN3pc9qI/AAAAAAAACRU/EKji8L8Awi4/s1600/DSCN3617.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZBDnHLpipNk/T0rLN3pc9qI/AAAAAAAACRU/EKji8L8Awi4/s400/DSCN3617.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Inside the 'Real Gabinete Português de Leitura'&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8hgJgsCzess/T0rLeO2YEVI/AAAAAAAACR0/1vAPlRXmMjw/s1600/P2250060.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8hgJgsCzess/T0rLeO2YEVI/AAAAAAAACR0/1vAPlRXmMjw/s400/P2250060.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Confeitaria Colombo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wk72QcN1ByI/T0rMYCBatZI/AAAAAAAACSs/Q6j4kCmydK0/s1600/P2260133.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wk72QcN1ByI/T0rMYCBatZI/AAAAAAAACSs/Q6j4kCmydK0/s400/P2260133.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Teatro Municipal&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-beditIsIN_Q/T0rLQ6sVZsI/AAAAAAAACRc/AdMF3pNlC6g/s1600/DSCN3627.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-beditIsIN_Q/T0rLQ6sVZsI/AAAAAAAACRc/AdMF3pNlC6g/s400/DSCN3627.jpg" width="298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;In an artsy souvenir shop 'houses from scraps'&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hbGMRyAxgtQ/T0rLTvkhFOI/AAAAAAAACRk/YaNj_DeusBk/s1600/DSCN3630.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hbGMRyAxgtQ/T0rLTvkhFOI/AAAAAAAACRk/YaNj_DeusBk/s400/DSCN3630.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;In the same shop: patchwork!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ecCUrdkFyDs/T0rLZroKrMI/AAAAAAAACRs/22q2KHBK9vg/s1600/DSCN3631.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ecCUrdkFyDs/T0rLZroKrMI/AAAAAAAACRs/22q2KHBK9vg/s400/DSCN3631.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;This shop you can find in Santa Teresa, a lovely neighborhood in Rio&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OB0DhPmQjR0/T0rMOzcwwsI/AAAAAAAACSk/pNmE7Wl2YUc/s1600/P2250107.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OB0DhPmQjR0/T0rMOzcwwsI/AAAAAAAACSk/pNmE7Wl2YUc/s400/P2250107.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;More houses to build...&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EvrS5x7PYxU/T0rMEjWC1nI/AAAAAAAACSc/yAqScmwUocA/s1600/P2250106.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EvrS5x7PYxU/T0rMEjWC1nI/AAAAAAAACSc/yAqScmwUocA/s400/P2250106.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;A restaurant in Santa Teresa with some old doors from the Bonde tram&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IM-WkXED120/T0rLmhqCJNI/AAAAAAAACR8/02CyTmvDfac/s1600/P2250065.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IM-WkXED120/T0rLmhqCJNI/AAAAAAAACR8/02CyTmvDfac/s400/P2250065.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Carioca Aquaduct where the Bonde tram used to cross before the accident in August last year&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z1DtF_I0ePg/T0rMjSncc8I/AAAAAAAACS0/_xRwcj_zXk0/s1600/P2260140.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z1DtF_I0ePg/T0rMjSncc8I/AAAAAAAACS0/_xRwcj_zXk0/s400/P2260140.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Beer &amp;amp; bolinhos de bacalhau&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Groetjes vanuit Brazilië,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-4726476337588726194?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/4726476337588726194/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=4726476337588726194&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/4726476337588726194'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/4726476337588726194'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2012/02/colourful-weekend-in-rio-part-1.html' title='A colourful weekend in Rio, part 1'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WlEE0f_-IjM/T0rLA28aaAI/AAAAAAAACQ8/HULcocZZ7zo/s72-c/DSCN3594.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-2198150803939291663</id><published>2012-02-22T22:41:00.001-02:00</published><updated>2012-02-22T22:41:37.670-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pies and Tarts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Building Houses'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Boxes'/><title type='text'>Assembly lines</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-m8JGkamzklg/T0WCquU_hVI/AAAAAAAACQk/GoUfJlzPkmQ/s1600/DSCN3583.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="220" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-m8JGkamzklg/T0WCquU_hVI/AAAAAAAACQk/GoUfJlzPkmQ/s400/DSCN3583.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Finally! My first houses from scraps are rolling from the assembly line. First I tried the paper piecing way, but that&amp;nbsp;didn't&amp;nbsp;do it for me. With a second set of templates I decided to take the machine piecing road. So when I am not cleaning, at yoga, the gym or&amp;nbsp;whatever&amp;nbsp;than working at this assembly line is my morning job!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He he, eindelijk! De eerste huisjes van scraps rollen van de lopende band. Eerst met paper piecing geprobeerd, maar dat liep niet helemaal zoals ik wilde. En nu dan met een 2de set malletjes loopt het redelijk gesmeerd onder de naaimachine door. Als ik niet loop te poetsen, of bij yoga in de knoop lig, of bedolven onder gewichten in de gym, dan sta ik 's morgens achter de lopende band van de huisjesfabriek!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;What else? When I decided not to participate in the next bazar, simply not enough boxes in stock and I have other things that I want to do, I received an email: "for teacher presents in May I would like to buy your boxes.... can you make me 15 pieces?" :o) This gives me enough time to start another assembly line! This is my afternoon job!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wat nog meer? Toen ik vorige week besloot om niet mee te doen met de volgende bazaar, vanwege een te kleine voorraad en ik geen zin heb om me te haasten, kreeg ik een mailtje. Of ik voor de maand mei 15 dozen kon maken voor juffen en meesters op een school. :o) Dit geeft mij genoeg tijd om de komende tijd de volgende lopende band te maken: dit is mijn baantje voor de middag!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9j75PDcLyxA/T0WCuYLBKPI/AAAAAAAACQs/kIrX-FkUaZs/s1600/DSCN3584.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9j75PDcLyxA/T0WCuYLBKPI/AAAAAAAACQs/kIrX-FkUaZs/s400/DSCN3584.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kLmCwuhtxw4/T0WCxNqiDqI/AAAAAAAACQ0/iNwNXJlFLzc/s1600/DSCN3586.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kLmCwuhtxw4/T0WCxNqiDqI/AAAAAAAACQ0/iNwNXJlFLzc/s400/DSCN3586.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;And in the evening? Working on my Pies &amp;amp; Tarts.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;En 's avonds? Dan werk ik aan de Pies &amp;amp; Tarts.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;How about the&amp;nbsp;carnival&amp;nbsp;in Brazil?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;We will be going this coming weekend to Rio de Janeiro to watch the parade of the finalist!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Heb je nog iets gedaan aan carnaval in Brazilië?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;We gaan komend weekend naar Rio naar de optocht van de finalisten kijken!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Groetjes uit Brazilië, Hilde&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-2198150803939291663?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/2198150803939291663/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=2198150803939291663&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/2198150803939291663'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/2198150803939291663'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2012/02/assembly-lines.html' title='Assembly lines'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-m8JGkamzklg/T0WCquU_hVI/AAAAAAAACQk/GoUfJlzPkmQ/s72-c/DSCN3583.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-7007511869180004390</id><published>2012-02-20T15:02:00.000-02:00</published><updated>2012-02-20T20:13:17.670-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Knitting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sewing group'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='São Paulo'/><title type='text'>A morning @ the Knit Cafe</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;Since a few months I am part of a sewing group. In this last month more expat ladies, who know the ins and outs of expat life all too well, have joined this group. Last Friday we met at the Knit Cafe. I have been there once before (&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/11/knit-cafe-in-sao-paulo.html" target="_blank"&gt;click&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;) and at that time would have loved to stay there for a few hours...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sinds een paar maanden ben ik lid van een naaigroepje in São Paulo. De laatste tijd hebben zich meer vrouwen aangesloten die ook al wat langer meedraaien in het expat-leven en de klappen van de zweep kennen. Afgelopen vrijdag hadden we afgesproken in het Knit Cafe. Ik was daar al een keertje eerder geweest (&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/11/knit-cafe-in-sao-paulo.html" target="_blank"&gt;klik&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;) en het leek mij toen al zo leuk om daar eens een paar uurtjes door te brengen...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;And so we did!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kqO06rf4Yw0/T0J3jcBLoHI/AAAAAAAACQc/5Ep-xJ-QPTg/s1600/2012-02-17+11.25.43.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kqO06rf4Yw0/T0J3jcBLoHI/AAAAAAAACQc/5Ep-xJ-QPTg/s400/2012-02-17+11.25.43.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2MOcT5O0sNA/T0J3LdmuzEI/AAAAAAAACQE/tVtn70_M3UI/s1600/2012-02-17+11.26.28.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2MOcT5O0sNA/T0J3LdmuzEI/AAAAAAAACQE/tVtn70_M3UI/s400/2012-02-17+11.26.28.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Crochet, patchwork, looking for patterns, knitting...&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hCaULaEuQ44/T0J3Q-mJWOI/AAAAAAAACQU/1VV3SjWXMwc/s1600/knitcafe3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hCaULaEuQ44/T0J3Q-mJWOI/AAAAAAAACQU/1VV3SjWXMwc/s400/knitcafe3.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hD7O1HmILvM/T0J3PAVHiuI/AAAAAAAACQM/_jObrb8B4-k/s1600/2012-02-17+11.46.58.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hD7O1HmILvM/T0J3PAVHiuI/AAAAAAAACQM/_jObrb8B4-k/s400/2012-02-17+11.46.58.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I could not refuse: in the shop I found some matching satin thread to the cotton I bought here before.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Oh dear, I wonder when I will have time for this project as well! ;)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Ik kon het niet laten: in de winkel vond ik bijpassend satijndraad bij de katoen&amp;nbsp;die ik hier al eerder had &amp;nbsp;gekocht. &amp;nbsp;Maar wanneer heb ik nou eigenlijk tijd om dit project ook nog te gaan doen! ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Groetjes uit Brazilië, Hilde&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-7007511869180004390?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/7007511869180004390/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=7007511869180004390&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/7007511869180004390'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/7007511869180004390'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2012/02/morning-knit-cafe.html' title='A morning @ the Knit Cafe'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kqO06rf4Yw0/T0J3jcBLoHI/AAAAAAAACQc/5Ep-xJ-QPTg/s72-c/2012-02-17+11.25.43.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-186965658592019082</id><published>2012-02-12T14:43:00.001-02:00</published><updated>2012-02-13T22:38:31.580-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vietnam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Building Houses'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travels'/><title type='text'>I ♥ fabric!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;This is fun! I have dashed into my pile of fabrics and I am making a mess. All kinds of different pieces of fabrics from long ago go through my hands, some I have never used (shame!), others from my first quilt &amp;nbsp;of 21 years ago, from my mom when she made fabric wall-hangings while I was watching her as a small kid, souvenirs from different countries I once lived, in short: I am enjoying it!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wat is dit leuk! Ik ben mijn stoffenvoorraad ingedoken en maak er een heerlijk rotzooitje van! Allerlei lapjes van lang geleden komen naar boven, sommige nooit gebruikt (schandalig!), van mijn eerste quilt van 21 jaar geleden; van mijn moeder uit de tijd dat zij wandkleden maakte en ik als klein meisje toekeek; souvenirs uit andere landen waar ik heb gewoond, kortom: Genieten met een grote G!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vyDwKwFrFVc/TzfQxrCSmJI/AAAAAAAACOQ/DG4pL8Uu4Gw/s1600/DSCN3580.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vyDwKwFrFVc/TzfQxrCSmJI/AAAAAAAACOQ/DG4pL8Uu4Gw/s400/DSCN3580.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Well, it isn't that bad, I still can pass along... There was a time I&amp;nbsp;thought&amp;nbsp;these plastic boxes were ideal to store fabrics, but I don't like it anymore. These boxes become one big mess inside where&amp;nbsp;fabrics&amp;nbsp;'disappear'. That's why this project 'Building Houses from Scraps' is fantastic! Just turn over two boxes and blindly grab 365 different&amp;nbsp;pieces&amp;nbsp;of fabrics and cut out 5"&amp;nbsp;blocks.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eigenlijk valt het reuze mee, ik kan er nog makkelijk langs... Ooit dacht ik dat die plastic bakken de oplossing waren voor mijn lapjes, nu vind ik het maar niks. De bakken worden één grote rommel waar de lapjes in 'verdwijnen'. Daarom is dit project 'Building Houses from Scraps' geweldig! Gewoon twee bakken omkeren en 365 lapjes blind pakken en vierkantjes van 13 cm snijden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eLbktjO-GsU/TzfQ1lyd7yI/AAAAAAAACOY/McZAHrCSqrE/s1600/DSCN3576.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eLbktjO-GsU/TzfQ1lyd7yI/AAAAAAAACOY/McZAHrCSqrE/s400/DSCN3576.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;cutting area&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;These blocks will be divided into 5 pieces:&amp;nbsp;front door, front wall, front roof, side wall and side roof and all parts in a different box. Shuffle a little bit and than taking out one part of each box for one house without looking. I think it is going to be motley, a colourful city where I would like to live. To get a little bit of a coherency I will make all windows in the same colour as well as the sky and chimneys. By the way, this is not my idea but from my quilting friend Marian, who lives in The Hague. She makes beautiful quilts. Her kids made her a blog, but she didn't use it yet. Maybe this will push her to get started! ;)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deze vierkantjes ga ik verdelen in 5 delen: voorkant huis, zijkant huis, dakje voor, dakje zijkant en voordeur en in 5 verschillende doosjes stoppen. Daarna een beetje husselen en elk onderdeel voor een huisje bij elkaar pakken zonder te kijken. Volgens mij wordt dat een bonte verzameling, een kleurrijk stadje waar ik wel zou willen wonen. Om er een beetje samenhang in aan te brengen worden alle raampjes, lucht en schoorstenen hetzelfde. Dit is trouwens niet mijn idee maar van Marian, een quiltvriendin uit Den Haag. Zij maakt mooie dingen. Haar kinderen hebben een blog voor haar gemaakt, maar ze heeft er nog niets opgezet! Misschien is dit net het duwtje wat ze nodig heeft. ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Only 65 pieces to sort out and than I will clean up the mess.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Nog 65 lapjes te gaan en dan de rotzooi opruimen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ahbN-CjYlAQ/TzfQ_cPDqYI/AAAAAAAACOg/heq3Wg10T84/s1600/DSCN3577.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ahbN-CjYlAQ/TzfQ_cPDqYI/AAAAAAAACOg/heq3Wg10T84/s400/DSCN3577.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;300 different kinds of 'brick stones'&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1IVIC4G8c8Y/TzfREDvBqfI/AAAAAAAACOo/bMdN3HkYpr0/s1600/DSCN3578.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1IVIC4G8c8Y/TzfREDvBqfI/AAAAAAAACOo/bMdN3HkYpr0/s400/DSCN3578.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;my sewing machine disappeared&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;This&amp;nbsp;process&amp;nbsp;of organized chaos reminds me of our years in Saigon, Vietnam. We lived there for 3 years and on the streets there was always something to be amazed of:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dit hele proces van georganiseerde rotzooi doet me erg aan onze tijd in Saigon, Vietnam denken. We woonden daar 3 jaar en er was altijd wel iets op straat waar we ons over konden verbazen:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m1E6cL7zryc/TzfRM6OugQI/AAAAAAAACOw/H7dLJBV5FxE/s1600/PC010049.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m1E6cL7zryc/TzfRM6OugQI/AAAAAAAACOw/H7dLJBV5FxE/s400/PC010049.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;naai-atelier - street side alteration&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Sk5k9k2Q8I4/TzfSwMkOAsI/AAAAAAAACO4/JepCUSNpqLM/s1600/Saigon+%252819%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Sk5k9k2Q8I4/TzfSwMkOAsI/AAAAAAAACO4/JepCUSNpqLM/s400/Saigon+%252819%2529.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;buying fabrics with me sister in Saigon&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;Every now and then I could find one bolt of quilting fabric, for example from Michael Miller, for only 2$ a yard!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heel af en toe stond er één rol met quiltstof tussen, bv van Michael Miller, voor 2 euro de meter!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LEbvjOubtLg/TzfSz1gWOgI/AAAAAAAACPA/_C6-oQY7aAY/s1600/Saigon+%25287%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LEbvjOubtLg/TzfSz1gWOgI/AAAAAAAACPA/_C6-oQY7aAY/s400/Saigon+%25287%2529.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;street vendor&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I love it how cutting up fabrics brings you back down to Memory Lane!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Heerlijk zoals het snijden van lapjes je ineens terug brengt in de tijd.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Groetjes uit Brazilië,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-186965658592019082?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/186965658592019082/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=186965658592019082&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/186965658592019082'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/186965658592019082'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2012/02/i-fabric.html' title='I ♥ fabric!'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vyDwKwFrFVc/TzfQxrCSmJI/AAAAAAAACOQ/DG4pL8Uu4Gw/s72-c/DSCN3580.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-8520410095212841775</id><published>2012-02-06T22:09:00.000-02:00</published><updated>2012-02-12T16:12:47.311-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Patchwork'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Park'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='São Paulo'/><title type='text'>Patchwork in the park</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;Last Friday I flew back from Holland to Brazil and I was so lucky: when my plane punched a hole in the clouds it started to snow, causing chaos in traffic on the ground. Only late that evening when I arrived home in São Paulo the news showed me what I just escaped from! In my luggage my survival kit made it safe and sound, even the bottle Fray Check is still in one piece! (the label says it is flammable liquid...)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Afgelopen vrijdag heb ik zo'n geluk gehad met mijn terugvlucht naar Brazilië! Het vliegtuig vertrok om 10 uur 's morgens, en op het moment dat we door de wolken heen schoten, begon het te sneeuwen in Nederland en liep al het verkeer vast. 's Avonds laat kwam ik thuis in&amp;nbsp;São Paulo en zag ik via uitzending gemist het journaal met alle beelden van sneeuw en vertragingen in het verkeer. Het overlevingspakket in mijn koffer is veilig aangekomen, zelfs het flesje Fray Check is nog heel! (het label zegt dat het brandbare vloeistof is...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fNUvkXBJL9Y/TzBj79cf7OI/AAAAAAAACNo/XF3UiVBh1_8/s1600/2012-02-06+12.34.18.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fNUvkXBJL9Y/TzBj79cf7OI/AAAAAAAACNo/XF3UiVBh1_8/s400/2012-02-06+12.34.18.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;From 14ºF in Holland to 98.6ºF in São Paulo... that needs a bit of getting used to. The walks with the dogs are turning to a slow pace. And everything else as well! Due to the&amp;nbsp;jet-lag&amp;nbsp;I wake up early - or is it the menopause? - and I take the dogs to the park&amp;nbsp;at 6.30am,&amp;nbsp;sunset. Still nice and cool. And this is what I saw in the park!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Van -10ºC in Nederland naar +37ºC in São Paulo... dat is even omschakelen. Dan gaan de wandelingen met de honden in een heel ander tempo. Alles gaat langzamer! Door de jetlag ben ik vroeg wakker - of is het door de overgang? - en dan laat ik de honden gewoon wat vroeger uit. Net bij zonsopgang, rond 6.30 uur, is het nog redelijk koel. En toen zag ik dit in het park!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C4LnyrjYjfg/TzBkKlz3vVI/AAAAAAAACN4/Bu94vAVTveE/s1600/2012-02-06+12.42.00.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C4LnyrjYjfg/TzBkKlz3vVI/AAAAAAAACN4/Bu94vAVTveE/s400/2012-02-06+12.42.00.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Patchwork in Ibirapuera Park&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Peq-fOob5-k/TzBkO6tY0TI/AAAAAAAACOA/9HQ8PZCGdcs/s1600/2012-02-06+12.44.35.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Peq-fOob5-k/TzBkO6tY0TI/AAAAAAAACOA/9HQ8PZCGdcs/s400/2012-02-06+12.44.35.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Promoting to recycle your bags&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;Every morning I take my dogs to this park, and every morning it feels good to be there. It gives me energy and I enjoy the green scenery before heading home.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In dit park loop ik elke ochtend met de honden, elke keer is het heerlijk om hier te lopen en dan laad ik mezelf weer een beetje op voordat ik naar huis ga.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jV0bp_xiTe4/TzBkEu58foI/AAAAAAAACNw/qkXOTXqla1M/s1600/2012-02-06+12.39.59.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jV0bp_xiTe4/TzBkEu58foI/AAAAAAAACNw/qkXOTXqla1M/s400/2012-02-06+12.39.59.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Groetjes vanuit São Paulo,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hilde&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-8520410095212841775?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/8520410095212841775/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=8520410095212841775&amp;isPopup=true' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/8520410095212841775'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/8520410095212841775'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2012/02/patchwork-in-park.html' title='Patchwork in the park'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fNUvkXBJL9Y/TzBj79cf7OI/AAAAAAAACNo/XF3UiVBh1_8/s72-c/2012-02-06+12.34.18.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-3713470543384741987</id><published>2012-02-01T08:04:00.000-02:00</published><updated>2012-02-01T08:04:43.421-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Home'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fabric shop'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travels'/><title type='text'>Survival kit - Overlevingspakket</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;What will you bring back with you when you return to your DH and dogs in Brazil?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Als je nou weer naar je huis, mannetje en hondjes in Brazilië gaat, wat neem je dan mee? Ik moet dan altijd aan dat woordspelletje denken: ik ga op reis en neem mee...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ESvrUupNx4g/TykERu5dmaI/AAAAAAAACNY/ZXiBf97M9Rw/s1600/DSCN3571.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ESvrUupNx4g/TykERu5dmaI/AAAAAAAACNY/ZXiBf97M9Rw/s400/DSCN3571.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Retail therapy&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;I think I have been modest with my retail-therapy! Do you notice the big piece of fabric at the bottom with a smaller piece and the Fray Check? This comes from &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://dorryvanbeers.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Dorry's shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. I will use them for my house quilt, can't wait to get started! The small stack of fat quarters on the left are from &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://dorryvanbeers.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Dorry's&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://scheringeninslag.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Schering &amp;amp; Inslag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; and &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.quilterspalet.nl/" target="_blank"&gt;Quilters Palet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://expatquilterreturnshome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Rose-Anne&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; gave me a few purple pieces for my Pies &amp;amp; Tarts quilt and a cute label for the back. Although in the middle of unpacking in her new home, we were able to uncover these pieces!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ik ben best bescheiden geweest met mijn retail-therapie aankopen, al zeg ik het zelf. Zie je die grote lap onderaan met een klein lapje erbij en de Fray check? Dat komt bij &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://dorryvanbeers.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Dorry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; vandaan. Die zijn voor de huisjes quilt. Mijn handen jeuken om ermee aan de slag te gaan! Het stapeltje fat quarters links is van &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://dorryvanbeers.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Dorry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://scheringeninslag.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Schering &amp;amp; Inslag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; en &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.quilterspalet.nl/" target="_blank"&gt;Quilterspalet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://expatquilterreturnshome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Rose-Anne&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; gaf me nog een paar paarse lapjes met een leuke label voor op de achterkant van de Pies &amp;amp; Tarts quilt. Hoewel ze nog midden in de verhuizing zit, wisten we deze stofjes alvast te bevrijden uit de dozen! ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HjBKQaN2iGQ/TykEUBj7K4I/AAAAAAAACNg/TfJshWd0c4Q/s1600/DSCN3573.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HjBKQaN2iGQ/TykEUBj7K4I/AAAAAAAACNg/TfJshWd0c4Q/s400/DSCN3573.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Survival kit&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Of course I will bring back other stuff as well, stuff i can't get in Brazil. Unfortunately I am not allowed to bring in cheese to this part of the world, otherwise I would have brought about 8 kilo of Dutch farmers cheese! I still have to buy a few other goodies but this can go into my suitcase. I found a green jacket in the sales and a lovely Dutch magazine Flow for my mandatory daily quiet time to regain energy. Unfortunately I was ill yesterday and slept the whole day. So I will squeeze everything into my last 2 days before I get on to the airplane this friday. The flight will take 12 hours, enough time to relax! It is time to go home!&amp;nbsp;Three weeks away was just good.&amp;nbsp;I miss my buddy DH and the dogs. And my studio, I want to get started again!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;En natuurlijk gaan er ook andere spullen mee die ik niet in Brazilië kan krijgen! Helaas mag er naar dit werelddeel geen kaas mee :( anders had er zo een half wiel boerenkaas bij gelegen! Ik moet nog een paar andere spulletjes kopen zoals stophoest voor een kennis. Ben blij met mijn groene jasje, lekker in de uitverkoop en Flow tijdschrift, voor mijn verplichte dagelijks rustuurtje om energie op te bouwen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Zo stom, gisteren was ik ziek, misselijk en heb de hele dag geslapen. Nu heb ik nog 2 dagen om van het Hollandse te genieten en prop ik de afspraakjes van gisteren er gewoon maar bij. Straks in het vliegtuig kan ik 12 uur op mijn stoel zitten, brrrr, na 2 uur heb ik al een houten kont! Maar ik heb weer zin om naar huis te gaan! Ik mis DH en de hondjes! En mijn werkkamer, ik wil weer aan de slag!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Groetjes uit Den Haag, Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-3713470543384741987?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/3713470543384741987/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=3713470543384741987&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/3713470543384741987'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/3713470543384741987'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2012/02/survival-kit-overlevingspakket.html' title='Survival kit - Overlevingspakket'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ESvrUupNx4g/TykERu5dmaI/AAAAAAAACNY/ZXiBf97M9Rw/s72-c/DSCN3571.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-4991621601127834192</id><published>2012-01-29T18:58:00.000-02:00</published><updated>2012-01-29T18:58:31.557-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Holland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fabric shop'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travels'/><title type='text'>Retail therapy!</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;Thank you so much for the heart warming comments on my last posting! Some send me tips for books and others shared their own&amp;nbsp;experiences&amp;nbsp;with me by email. It feels like being in a warm bath. It is obvious that I am not alone and that this stage will pass, thank goodness! Menopause in Dutch is 'transition' and that is what it is! The doctor told me to be nice to myself, to regain my energy. I need to go back to sports, something I couldn't do because of a slipped disc. Maybe start a quilting group...!? We will see.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wat waren de reakties op mijn vorige post hartverwarmed! Sommigen stuurden tips voor boeken en anderen schreven mij over hun ervaringen. Het voelt als een warme deken om me heen. Het is wel duidelijk dat ik echt niet alleen ben in deze fase and dat het ook weer voorbij zal gaan, gelukkig maar! Het is tenslotte de overgang, niet waar?! De dokter vertelde me dat ik gewoon lief moet zijn voor mezelf. Niet teveel dingen tegen mijn zin doen, dat vreet immers energie. Snel weer gaan sporten, want dat heb ik veels te lang niet kunnen doen vanwege een verschoven tussenwervelschijf. Misschien een quiltgroep beginnen in São Paulo...!? Wie weet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The doctor told me retail-therapy is very good! ;)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Volgens de dokter is retail-therapy erg werkzaam! ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0gojYKhayBg/TyWmN5d4brI/AAAAAAAACNA/wMjVgs91TpM/s1600/DSCN3558.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0gojYKhayBg/TyWmN5d4brI/AAAAAAAACNA/wMjVgs91TpM/s400/DSCN3558.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.quilt-it.nl/index.php" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"&gt;Quilt it Dotty&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(link)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aalJkqZCWuQ/TyWmVEnqh1I/AAAAAAAACNQ/O7JSI8XUHrw/s1600/DSCN3569.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aalJkqZCWuQ/TyWmVEnqh1I/AAAAAAAACNQ/O7JSI8XUHrw/s400/DSCN3569.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;view from above at&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://scheringeninslag.com/kort-bondig/quiltwinkel" target="_blank"&gt;Schering &amp;amp; Inslag&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(link)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Together with my friend&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://expatquilterreturnshome.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Expat Quilter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;who just moved back to Holland,&amp;nbsp;I went quilt-shop-hopping in Tilburg and Woudrichem, two great shops that are very different. At the last we stayed for lunch in the restaurant upstairs from the shop and had a wonderful view over the river the Maas and the surrounding countryside. Well worth a visit!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Samen met mijn vriendin &lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="http://expatquilterreturnshome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Expat Quilter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, die net terug verhuisd is naar Nederland, ben ik op quiltshop-hopping gegaan in Tilburg en Woudrichem, twee leuke winkels die erg verschillend zijn. Bij de laatste bleven we lunchen in het bijbehorende restaurant met uitzich over de Maas en zijn uiterwaarden. Echt een aanrader!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"&gt;Last but not least!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;DS studies in New York and in his free time he worked on his own magazine&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;I am happy to say it is finally finished! The reviews are good, he is even invited to participate in an exhibition at the MoMa in NYC! Here is a&amp;nbsp;presentation&amp;nbsp;of his work, done by &lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="http://shop.fourteen-nineteen.com/new/mossless-issue1.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Shop Nineteen-Fourteen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt; in London. You understand that DH and me are soooooo proud!!!! ;)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DS studeert in New York en in zijn vrije tijd heeft hij hard gewerkt aan het uitbrengen van zijn eigen tijdschrift. Het is eindelijk klaar! De resencies zijn goed en hij mag zijn werk zelfs tentoonstellen in een exhibitie in het MoMa in New York City! Dit filmpje geeft een indruk van zijn werk en is gemaakt door &lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://shop.fourteen-nineteen.com/new/mossless-issue1.html" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Shop Nineteen-Fourteen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;in Londen. Je snapt wel dat DH en ik apetrots zijn!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://3.gvt0.com/vi/hPBVyVJ0DLM/0.jpg"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hPBVyVJ0DLM&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266"  src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hPBVyVJ0DLM&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Groetjes uit Den Haag&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-4991621601127834192?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/4991621601127834192/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=4991621601127834192&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/4991621601127834192'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/4991621601127834192'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2012/01/retail-therapy.html' title='Retail therapy!'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0gojYKhayBg/TyWmN5d4brI/AAAAAAAACNA/wMjVgs91TpM/s72-c/DSCN3558.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-3674205997065584600</id><published>2012-01-22T09:52:00.000-02:00</published><updated>2012-01-22T09:53:53.775-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Holland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Home'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Moving'/><title type='text'>Time out!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span title="Het lukt me gewoon even niet meer." wf="Het lukt me gewoon even niet meer." xf="I can just not. "&gt;I need a break. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="De batterij is op." wf="De batterij is op." xf="The battery has run out. "&gt;The battery has run out. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Ik dacht steeds dat de oorzaak ergens anders lag; aan het steeds weer verhuizen van land naar land, steeds weer opnieuw opzetten van een vriendenkring, en deze keer als 'empty nester', nieuwe vrienden die weer snel vertrekken naar een ander land, een nieuwe" wf="Ik dacht steeds dat de oorzaak ergens anders lag; aan het steeds weer verhuizen van land naar land, steeds weer opnieuw opzetten van een vriendenkring, en deze keer als 'empty nester', nieuwe vrienden die weer snel vertrekken naar een ander land, een nieuwe" xf="I always thought that the cause lay elsewhere, in the ever moving from country to country, again and again creating a circle of friends, and this time as' empty Nester, new friends who quickly move to another country, a new "&gt;I always thought it was due to other things, in&amp;nbsp;always moving from country to country, again and again creating a circle of friends, and this time as' empty nester', new friends who quickly move on&amp;nbsp;to another country, a new &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="taal, de eenzame dagen." wf="taal, de eenzame dagen." xf="language, the lonely days. "&gt;language, the lonely days. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Moedeloos wordt ik ervan." wf="Moedeloos wordt ik ervan." xf="I get discouraged it. "&gt;I can't do it anymore, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Ik kan het gewoon niet meer opbrengen, om er weer opnieuw energie te stoppen." wf="Ik kan het gewoon niet meer opbrengen, om er weer opnieuw energie te stoppen." xf="I just can not afford to have energy again to stop."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;I need a time out.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span title="Ik kan het gewoon niet meer opbrengen, om er weer opnieuw energie te stoppen." wf="Ik kan het gewoon niet meer opbrengen, om er weer opnieuw energie te stoppen." xf="I just can not afford to have energy again to stop."&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Het lukt me gewoon even niet meer. De batterij is op. Ik dacht steeds dat de oorzaak ergens anders lag; aan het steeds weer verhuizen van land naar land, steeds weer opnieuw opzetten van een vriendenkring, en deze keer als ‘empty nester’,&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;nieuwe vrienden die weer snel vertrekken naar een ander land, een nieuwe taal, de eenzame dagen. Moedeloos wordt ik ervan. Ik kan het gewoon niet meer opbrengen, om er weer opnieuw energie te stoppen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1K8ixsDyJ78/TxvtJ6TYKNI/AAAAAAAACMo/3it9zWuv6r0/s1600/DSCN3535.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" nfa="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1K8ixsDyJ78/TxvtJ6TYKNI/AAAAAAAACMo/3it9zWuv6r0/s400/DSCN3535.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Mom's winter garden&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Until a month ago my mom suggested I might be in menopause. But I don't have any hot flashes. But you do have a lot of moodswings﻿.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Totdat mijn moeder een paar maanden geleden zei dat ik misschien in de overgang ben. Maar ik heb helemaal geen opvliegers zei ik. Maar wel veel&amp;nbsp;stemmingswisselingen.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Last week I went to see a doctor at&lt;/em&gt; &lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.careforwomen.nl/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Care for Women&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt; &lt;em&gt;and she opened my eyes. I now realise I actually&amp;nbsp;suffer for a couple of years already from the symptoms of menopause, of crying, poor sleep, depression, lethargy and difficulty concentrating. Probably the IUD adds up to it! Once placed because of heavy bleedings, could now&amp;nbsp;contribute to&amp;nbsp;my depression.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Vorige week ben ik bij een arts van &lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.careforwomen.nl/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Care for Women&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt; langs geweest en die heeft me een spiegel voorgehouden. Ik besef nu dat ik eigenlijk al een paar jaar last heb van de overgang, van huilbuien, slecht slapen, depressieve gevoelens, lusteloosheid en&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;concentratiestoornissen. En waarschijnlijk draagt een spiraaltje daar aan bij! Ooit laten plaatsen vanwege heftige bloedingen en weer laten vervangen. Nooit geweten dat die ook kan bijdragen aan depressieve gevoelens.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;With the help of phytotherapy against the hormone disbalance and nutritional supplements to&amp;nbsp;calm down&amp;nbsp;my unrest, my body should regain its balance. And of course the IUD has to go! Out!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Met behulp van fyto-therapie tegen de hormoonschommelingen en aanvulling met vitaminen en mineralen om het malen in mijn hoofd tot rust te brengen, zou mijn lijf weer in balans moeten komen. En natuurlijk gaat dat spiraaltje er uit! Weg ermee!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;﻿﻿ &lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BKbWH-g-I-8/TxvyjcycI_I/AAAAAAAACMw/dbQvkpW9aCM/s1600/DSCN3540.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" nfa="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BKbWH-g-I-8/TxvyjcycI_I/AAAAAAAACMw/dbQvkpW9aCM/s400/DSCN3540.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;﻿ &lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why did it take so long to find out. I am so tired at the moment. On other blogs&amp;nbsp;I do not read so much about this stage of life, but I am sure there are others that&amp;nbsp;have the same problems.&amp;nbsp;It is good to be able to&amp;nbsp;be back home, to talk to friends and family. I have decided to stay a bit longer in the Netherlands, one more week without any dates, to read a book, take the time to visit a quilt shop, to walk along the beach.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Mijn hemeltje, als ik zo terug kijk heb ik het wel heel erg ver laten komen. Ik ben nu zo ontzettend moe. Op andere blogs lees ik er nauwelijks iets over, maar ik ben vast niet de enige die er last van heeft.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Het is fijn om weer even tot mezelf te komen, even niets te hoeven, er over te kunnen praten met familie en dierbare vriendinnen. Ik heb besloten een weekje langer te blijven in Nederland. Een weekje extra waarin ik geen afspraken maak, een boek ga lezen, de tijd kan nemen om naar een quiltwinkel te gaan, een strandwandeling te maken. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;I am fortunate I can do this and to know DH fully supports me. It is good to know new projects are waiting for me to come back to Brasil. Just take a&amp;nbsp;deep breath and than&amp;nbsp;my house building project will start as well!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Wat een geluk dat ik dat kan doen en DH er helemaal achter staat. En wat is het toch fijn dat er nieuwe projecten op mij liggen te wachten in Brazilie. Nog heel even diep ademhalen en dan aan de slag met dat huisjesproject!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Groetjes, Hilde&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-3674205997065584600?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/3674205997065584600/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=3674205997065584600&amp;isPopup=true' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/3674205997065584600'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/3674205997065584600'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2012/01/time-out.html' title='Time out!'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1K8ixsDyJ78/TxvtJ6TYKNI/AAAAAAAACMo/3it9zWuv6r0/s72-c/DSCN3535.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-169188698874384816</id><published>2012-01-15T15:48:00.001-02:00</published><updated>2012-01-15T15:48:57.543-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pies and Tarts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Holland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Home'/><title type='text'>In a few hours...</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;I will be on my way to Holland! Finally! DH will bring me to the airport and pick me up again in two weeks time. Two weeks full with visits to friends and family, and quilt shops of course!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over een paar uurtjes ben ik onderweg naar Nederland! Eindelijk! DH brengt me naar het vliegveld en over 2 weken haalt hij mij weer op. Twee weken vol met familie en vrienden, en natuurlijk ook een paar quiltwinkels!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;My nerves are getting restlessness, it is always the same, that never stops. Did I pack everything? I should bring some HOME-work, some small things I can work on while being at home with my parents.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ik word nu wel een beetje zenuwachtig, heb ik alles gepakt? Dat verandert dus nooit. Misschien zou ik wat THUISwerk mee moeten nemen, voor als ik straks thuis op de bank bij mijn ouders zit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SrXkoIv5xsI/TxMKyrVNgKI/AAAAAAAACMY/zcGleAkhuWg/s1600/DSCN3529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SrXkoIv5xsI/TxMKyrVNgKI/AAAAAAAACMY/zcGleAkhuWg/s400/DSCN3529.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Maybe I should bring these green circles from the Pies and Tarts quilt. I want to use them in a purple border for this quilt.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Misschien deze groene rondjes die van de Pies and Tarts quilt komen. Ik wil ze verwerken in een paarse rand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oI9dLVy8lX0/TxMKpq_awDI/AAAAAAAACMI/Iu9reSNAAjs/s1600/DSCN3524.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oI9dLVy8lX0/TxMKpq_awDI/AAAAAAAACMI/Iu9reSNAAjs/s400/DSCN3524.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;This is only half of the quilt, it is slowly growing &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Hier een gedeelte van de quilt, alweer een beetje verder gegroeid&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FdZZqHqzH2c/TxMKt0zdagI/AAAAAAAACMQ/OFN4VHZmS1A/s1600/DSCN3527.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FdZZqHqzH2c/TxMKt0zdagI/AAAAAAAACMQ/OFN4VHZmS1A/s400/DSCN3527.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hurry up, just a few more things to pack!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Where are your toiletries? Your coat! Keys of the house in Holland?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Passport? Ticket!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Hé, schiet eens op! Je moet nog een paar dingen inpakken!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Waar is je toilettas? Je jas! Sleutel van ons huisje in Den Haag?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Paspoort? Ticket!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bey! Groetjes nog net vanuit Brazilië!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Hilde &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-169188698874384816?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/169188698874384816/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=169188698874384816&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/169188698874384816'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/169188698874384816'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2012/01/in-few-hours.html' title='In a few hours...'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SrXkoIv5xsI/TxMKyrVNgKI/AAAAAAAACMY/zcGleAkhuWg/s72-c/DSCN3529.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-3052879580399450605</id><published>2012-01-11T23:13:00.000-02:00</published><updated>2012-01-12T07:05:56.966-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Boxes'/><title type='text'>Custom Made Sewing Box</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://hennie-myblog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Hennie&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; asked if I could me her a Brazilian sewing box, and I could not refuse. Since the PincushionSwap from 2010 we still keep in contact. Than the one and only friend who made me feel welcome in Brazil right from the start, but left for Sri Lanka a few months later :( , asked me for 2 boxes to keep her business cards together. Yep, will do that!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Toen &lt;a href="http://hennie-myblog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Hennie&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; mij vroeg of ik een Braziliaans naaidoosje voor haar wilde maken kon ik natuurlijk niet weigeren! Sinds de Pincushion Swap van 2010 hebben we nog steeds kontakt. En toen vroeg mijn vriendin, die mij vanaf het eerste moment in Brazilië opving, maar helaas een paar maanden later alweer vertrok voor Sri Lanka :( , of ik voor haar 2 doosjes voor haar businesskaartjes wilde maken. Jeetje, zei ik, heb je nu al zoveel nieuwe kennissen? Ok, doe ik!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PgkbKsdNoF0/Tw4uujuTEPI/AAAAAAAACLg/tqkZ1Gxow-0/s1600/DSCN3515.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PgkbKsdNoF0/Tw4uujuTEPI/AAAAAAAACLg/tqkZ1Gxow-0/s400/DSCN3515.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;slowly coming together&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-W0GNZT498D0/Tw4uzRF3kEI/AAAAAAAACLo/uAC4jP8NtoI/s1600/DSCN3516.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-W0GNZT498D0/Tw4uzRF3kEI/AAAAAAAACLo/uAC4jP8NtoI/s400/DSCN3516.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;my own sewing box in the background to the right&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KE3PYc-MaqE/Tw4u3fpvKII/AAAAAAAACLw/8TVvjzQ0SDQ/s1600/DSCN3517.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KE3PYc-MaqE/Tw4u3fpvKII/AAAAAAAACLw/8TVvjzQ0SDQ/s400/DSCN3517.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;almost done&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ADk47S4C3Gw/Tw4u7T8kUQI/AAAAAAAACL4/kQj4Ua8k4UU/s1600/DSCN3520.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ADk47S4C3Gw/Tw4u7T8kUQI/AAAAAAAACL4/kQj4Ua8k4UU/s400/DSCN3520.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;the inside&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BvmsNv6K4js/Tw4u_-0QYuI/AAAAAAAACMA/7HRfwTrx1BI/s1600/DSCN3523.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BvmsNv6K4js/Tw4u_-0QYuI/AAAAAAAACMA/7HRfwTrx1BI/s400/DSCN3523.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;DONE!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;They will go in my suitcase to Holland and next week delivered to their new owners. The sewing box will go by mail and the other two hand-delivered when I will see my friend in The Hague. She will be there at the same time, I am so happy!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De doosjes gaan mee in de koffer als ik volgende week naar Nederland vlieg. Het naaidoosje gaat daar op de post en de andere twee kan ik persoonlijk aan mijn vriendin geven, want zij is dan ook toevallig in Den Haag. Heerlijk!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The two weeks in Holland are fully booked with visits to family and friends! A sharp contrast to the often lonely days in São Paulo. It will be hard to go back...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De twee weken dat ik in Nederland ben zijn helemaal vol met bezoekjes aan familie en vrienden, een groot contrast met de vaak eenzame dagen in São Paulo. Het zal weer moeilijk zijn om terug te gaan naar Brazilië...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Groetjes uit Brazilië,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-3052879580399450605?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/3052879580399450605/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=3052879580399450605&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/3052879580399450605'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/3052879580399450605'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2012/01/custom-sewing-box_11.html' title='Custom Made Sewing Box'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PgkbKsdNoF0/Tw4uujuTEPI/AAAAAAAACLg/tqkZ1Gxow-0/s72-c/DSCN3515.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-1045031027384009916</id><published>2012-01-07T09:35:00.000-02:00</published><updated>2012-01-07T09:41:36.563-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pies and Tarts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='São Paulo'/><title type='text'>Saturdays ramblings</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Just some pix from the last couple of days/weeks &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Gewoon wat kiekjes van de afgelopen tijd&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lwe1rVNNlQA/Twgku4vDekI/AAAAAAAACKY/vag601GWMRU/s1600/2012-01-04+16.39.21.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lwe1rVNNlQA/Twgku4vDekI/AAAAAAAACKY/vag601GWMRU/s400/2012-01-04+16.39.21.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://oops-lah.blogspot.com/2011/12/second-advent-sunday-give-away.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;SHE&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; showed me the link to this &lt;a href="http://thelastpiece.typepad.com/the_last_piece/2011/11/a-christmas-origami-tutorial.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;TUTORIAL&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and this flower is&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;now mirrored in my friends house&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://oops-lah.blogspot.com/2011/12/second-advent-sunday-give-away.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;ZIJ&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; vertelde over deze &lt;a href="http://thelastpiece.typepad.com/the_last_piece/2011/11/a-christmas-origami-tutorial.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;UITLEG&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; en nu hangt deze bloem&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;voor de spiegel bij een kennis thuis&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gdY9BKLthWI/Twgky10iQYI/AAAAAAAACKg/wkroiezIji8/s1600/DSCN3509.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gdY9BKLthWI/Twgky10iQYI/AAAAAAAACKg/wkroiezIji8/s400/DSCN3509.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Just came back from the groomer's with a nice tie!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Net terug van het trimmen met mooie een stropdas!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IoPHqAcsRS0/Twgk2sVdvWI/AAAAAAAACKo/vD0e7Gdg5Fk/s1600/DSCN3511.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IoPHqAcsRS0/Twgk2sVdvWI/AAAAAAAACKo/vD0e7Gdg5Fk/s400/DSCN3511.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Pies &amp;amp; Tarts in progress&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6nz5wfI79B8/TwglIwXxDOI/AAAAAAAACK4/3k81bCW3O4o/s1600/DSCN3513.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6nz5wfI79B8/TwglIwXxDOI/AAAAAAAACK4/3k81bCW3O4o/s400/DSCN3513.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Siggies to be swapped overseas.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;If you want to participate in this exchange please contact &lt;a href="http://quiltsandsiggies.blogspot.com/2011/11/siggyruil-siggyswap_22.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;HER&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Siggies klaar om de wereld over te swappen.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Bij &lt;a href="http://quiltsandsiggies.blogspot.com/2011/11/siggyruil-siggyswap_22.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;HAAR&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; kun je je aanmelden als je hier ook aan mee wilt doen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kWv7xSaJBng/TwglEUeiQ6I/AAAAAAAACKw/TXhppQhDKTM/s1600/2012-01-06+10.07.06.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kWv7xSaJBng/TwglEUeiQ6I/AAAAAAAACKw/TXhppQhDKTM/s400/2012-01-06+10.07.06.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Art @ MuBe, the Brasilian Museum of Statues&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PEtTZWR3-DA/TwgpgbEOfvI/AAAAAAAACLA/U4PLzkGfMD4/s1600/2011-12-28+14.28.16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PEtTZWR3-DA/TwgpgbEOfvI/AAAAAAAACLA/U4PLzkGfMD4/s400/2011-12-28+14.28.16.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Street Art @ São Paulo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MZMZPc-UmWQ/Twgq45jBRVI/AAAAAAAACLI/VKEPUsdUjzc/s1600/2011-12-28+14.18.48.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MZMZPc-UmWQ/Twgq45jBRVI/AAAAAAAACLI/VKEPUsdUjzc/s400/2011-12-28+14.18.48.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gLf54_9JYDg/Twgq9WdVmqI/AAAAAAAACLQ/NFLgWLW4Wcc/s1600/2011-12-28+14.21.57.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gLf54_9JYDg/Twgq9WdVmqI/AAAAAAAACLQ/NFLgWLW4Wcc/s400/2011-12-28+14.21.57.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3q_UpNBouMM/TwgrCDZ-KCI/AAAAAAAACLY/-1IQKDZnmyY/s1600/2011-12-28+14.23.41.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3q_UpNBouMM/TwgrCDZ-KCI/AAAAAAAACLY/-1IQKDZnmyY/s400/2011-12-28+14.23.41.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Fun memories of the kids with the installation art of Olafur Eliasson&lt;br /&gt;@ Pinacoteca Museum, São Paulo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Just little bit of everything, nothing big! &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Gewoon een beetje van alles wat!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Groetjes uit Brazilië,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Hilde &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-1045031027384009916?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/1045031027384009916/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=1045031027384009916&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/1045031027384009916'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/1045031027384009916'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2012/01/saturdays-ramblings.html' title='Saturdays ramblings'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lwe1rVNNlQA/Twgku4vDekI/AAAAAAAACKY/vag601GWMRU/s72-c/2012-01-04+16.39.21.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-2701324033848936920</id><published>2012-01-03T13:28:00.002-02:00</published><updated>2012-01-03T13:58:39.020-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pies and Tarts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Building Houses'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Show and Tell'/><title type='text'>Presents -  kadootjes</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DgM-gmKPLwk/TwL6rjTgayI/AAAAAAAACHA/MSRUruHMo5g/s1600/DSCN3303.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DgM-gmKPLwk/TwL6rjTgayI/AAAAAAAACHA/MSRUruHMo5g/s400/DSCN3303.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;These 2 little door hangers finally got their ribbons and are hanging on my cabinet doors in my small overloaded studio. They are presents for some dear ones in Holland who I will visit later this month!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deze 2 hartjes hebben eindelijk hun lintje gekregen en hangen nu nog aan de kastdeur in mijn kleine overvolle studio. Straks gaan ze mee in de koffer naar Nederland en zijn ze een kadootje voor een dierbaar persoon. Over 2 weken is het zover!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0eCWuxFwtok/TwL_uNXk8_I/AAAAAAAACIk/xb8Bv0jrHnY/s1600/DSCN3491.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0eCWuxFwtok/TwL_uNXk8_I/AAAAAAAACIk/xb8Bv0jrHnY/s320/DSCN3491.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LIo6v5cZ-w4/TwL_xsjwJfI/AAAAAAAACIs/PSpEsFE0Ezg/s1600/DSCN3494.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LIo6v5cZ-w4/TwL_xsjwJfI/AAAAAAAACIs/PSpEsFE0Ezg/s320/DSCN3494.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;DD received a small make-up bag loaded with nail polish in all rainbow colours. We do not give big presents with Christmas but instead have a Secret-Santa with a special personal poem to go with it. The pattern for this bag I found &lt;a href="http://sewlikemymom.com/makeup-bag-tutorial/" style="color: #38761d;" target="_blank"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;. The outside fabric is from China and the inside is African.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DD kreeg een klein make-up tasje afgeladen met nagellak in alle kleuren van de regenboog. Met kerst liggen er geen grote kado's onder de boom maar vieren we een verlate surprise avond met kleine kadootjes en een gedichtje. Het patroon van het tasje vond ik &lt;a href="http://sewlikemymom.com/makeup-bag-tutorial/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;HIER&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. De stofjes komen echt uit China en Afrika.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PHan0pcKAGw/TwL_n4-Uh7I/AAAAAAAACIU/w5qkoagFB0k/s1600/DSCN3486.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PHan0pcKAGw/TwL_n4-Uh7I/AAAAAAAACIU/w5qkoagFB0k/s400/DSCN3486.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jpmYmTpQXgI/TwMgmUGRPbI/AAAAAAAACKQ/OGOlimj3aBc/s1600/DSCN3490.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jpmYmTpQXgI/TwMgmUGRPbI/AAAAAAAACKQ/OGOlimj3aBc/s320/DSCN3490.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;My parents gave me an ereader for Christmas! What a great gadget to get books from overseas into Brazil! I was hoping to be able to read Dutch books as well, but apparently those books have an extra security with Adobe drm. I bought a book over the internet in Holland but still can't read it on my Kindle. Too silly to be true! But thanks to Calibre.com I can convert epub books to the right format for Kindle. The cover was promptly made!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Van mijn ouders heb ik een erader gekregen. Nu kan ik heel makkelijk in Brazilië aan NL boeken komen. Dat klopt ook wel, maar door de extra beveiliging met Adobe drm kan dat dus weer niet! Je koopt legaal een boek over internet maar zou dan alsnog dit boek moeten kraken om het te kunnen lezen! Te zot voor woorden! Maar het hoesje was snel gemaakt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vl2mH9NmjJk/TwMgKJv1YKI/AAAAAAAACJk/6bP6USUGbmo/s1600/DSCN3301.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vl2mH9NmjJk/TwMgKJv1YKI/AAAAAAAACJk/6bP6USUGbmo/s320/DSCN3301.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iISkXODISfU/TwMgM67JKcI/AAAAAAAACJs/3RjEf5U6rnc/s1600/DSCN3302.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iISkXODISfU/TwMgM67JKcI/AAAAAAAACJs/3RjEf5U6rnc/s320/DSCN3302.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;One of the staff members in DH's office had a baby girl with the beautiful name Gabriela. I made her a bib and a personalized bunting in a special box. This box is now filled with jewelry of this baby girl.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Een van de medewerkers op DH's kantoor heeft een babietje gekregen, een meisje met de mooie naam Gabriela. Ik heb een slabbetje en een persoonlijke slinger in een mooie doos voor haar gemaakt. De doos wordt nu al gebruikt voor de sieraden van de kleine meid. je kan er maar nooit te vroeg mee beginnen! ;) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8GeX_j8vdm4/TwMgREIzlDI/AAAAAAAACJ0/YDyKXyv5KE8/s1600/DSCN3504.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8GeX_j8vdm4/TwMgREIzlDI/AAAAAAAACJ0/YDyKXyv5KE8/s320/DSCN3504.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;I am completely happy with my presents!&lt;/i&gt; Ik ben super blij met mijn kadootjes!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Fi4HNuCy3yU/TwMgWJWIPLI/AAAAAAAACJ8/iIimOaqzdJM/s1600/DSCN3505.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Fi4HNuCy3yU/TwMgWJWIPLI/AAAAAAAACJ8/iIimOaqzdJM/s320/DSCN3505.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IVsfRc6g_ZQ/TwMgaaHR8rI/AAAAAAAACKE/jNeybIUC0J0/s1600/DSCN3506.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IVsfRc6g_ZQ/TwMgaaHR8rI/AAAAAAAACKE/jNeybIUC0J0/s320/DSCN3506.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Have you made your first houses yet? Uh, no, not yet I am afraid. I am so into the Pies &amp;amp; Tarts! The more I finish the more fun I have! Besides that, I ordered some fabrics to Build houses from scraps with &lt;a href="http://www.quilt-it.nl/index.php?orderby=product_cdate&amp;amp;DescOrderBy=DESC&amp;amp;Itemid=2&amp;amp;option=com_virtuemart&amp;amp;page=shop.browse&amp;amp;category_id=26&amp;amp;manufacturer_id=0&amp;amp;keyword=&amp;amp;keyword1=&amp;amp;keyword2=" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;HER&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and the package is waiting for me in Holland...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Heb jij al een huisje gemaakt? Uhh, nee, nog niet. Ik zit zo helemaal in de Pies &amp;amp; Tarts, die wil ik eerst zoveel mogelijk afmaken. Ik heb wel al wat extra lapjes bij &lt;a href="http://www.quilt-it.nl/index.php?orderby=product_cdate&amp;amp;DescOrderBy=DESC&amp;amp;Itemid=2&amp;amp;option=com_virtuemart&amp;amp;page=shop.browse&amp;amp;category_id=26&amp;amp;manufacturer_id=0&amp;amp;keyword=&amp;amp;keyword1=&amp;amp;keyword2=" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;HAAR&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; besteld en die liggen nu op mij te wachten in Den Haag...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #38761d; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Groetjes uit Brazil,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-2701324033848936920?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/2701324033848936920/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=2701324033848936920&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/2701324033848936920'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/2701324033848936920'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2012/01/presents-kadootjes.html' title='Presents -  kadootjes'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DgM-gmKPLwk/TwL6rjTgayI/AAAAAAAACHA/MSRUruHMo5g/s72-c/DSCN3303.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-2236463357260930822</id><published>2011-12-31T13:06:00.001-02:00</published><updated>2012-01-03T13:29:04.195-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Home'/><title type='text'>Oliebollen!</title><content type='html'>&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EYbwpDrqe_8/Tv8axfE0zDI/AAAAAAAACEw/LKDkSjPGwO0/s1600/DSCN3496.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EYbwpDrqe_8/Tv8axfE0zDI/AAAAAAAACEw/LKDkSjPGwO0/s400/DSCN3496.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Recipe from Holtkamp 'De Banketbakker'&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;Standing in the kitchen making typical Dutch New Year's Eve food: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliebol" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;oliebollen&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; or oil fritters. Comfort food for when we get nostalgic. It takes some time to make them and my thoughts are wondering and I think about all that happened around me in 2011.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ik ben oliebollen aan het bakken, lekker voor oudejaarsdag en misschien avond als er nog wat van overblijft! Typisch een tijdstip en eten waarbij je gedachten gaan zwerven en het afgelopen jaar voorbij komt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;It has been one of the most rocky roads (or is it rocky oil fritter) I have ever been on, with deep downs and ups alike.&amp;nbsp; I arrived in Brazil in December 2010 and after 1 year I can't give life here more than a 4 out of 7. São Paulo is one of the biggest cities in the world and quality of life is not very high compared to other places. So you have to make it happen your self. Without direct social support from family and friends back home, and DH working night and day, 7 days a week, I felt lonely many times. Even during trips he needed to work. With DD and DS far away but happy where they are, it is time to sort things out for myself. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-djNSxdFSq8Y/Tv8a0_JYZSI/AAAAAAAACE4/4Bwxth_bD0k/s1600/DSCN3497.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-djNSxdFSq8Y/Tv8a0_JYZSI/AAAAAAAACE4/4Bwxth_bD0k/s400/DSCN3497.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Het is geen makkelijk jaar geweest, veel ups en downs (net zoals de kraters van de oliebollen!) Vorig jaar kwam ik in december naar Brazilië en nu, na 1 jaar, geef ik het leven hier een mager 6-je. São Paulo is een van de grootste steden in de wereld en de kwaliteit van leven staat tot geen verhouding van dat in Nederland. Je moet het dus echt zelf waarmaken. Zonder een sociaal opvangnet van familie en vrienden en DH rond de klok aan het werk, zelfs tijdens die paar uitstapjes die we maakten, ben ik vaak eenzaam geweest. DD en DS wonen en werken ver weg, maar hebben het gelukkig wel naar hun zin. Dus nu is het tijd dat ik het een en ander voor mijzelf ga uitzoeken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XOSLbgIJlrM/Tv8a41WpKZI/AAAAAAAACFA/na72A9DlDTk/s1600/DSCN3501.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XOSLbgIJlrM/Tv8a41WpKZI/AAAAAAAACFA/na72A9DlDTk/s400/DSCN3501.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Yum! They are delicious!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;I am trying to enjoy the days more and not to long for people or things that are not here with me. I try to give it a place inside of me. This makes it easier to accept where I am now. It is all about choices being made in the past and what we do with it today. Some days are easier than other days. Just listen to my heart and follow my gut-feeling in my projects as well as in life, that is where I want to focus on for this coming year!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sR8vgyJhggM/Tv8a8kiWc6I/AAAAAAAACFI/XFI6ZYkBA_0/s1600/DSCN3503.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sR8vgyJhggM/Tv8a8kiWc6I/AAAAAAAACFI/XFI6ZYkBA_0/s400/DSCN3503.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ik probeer meer van de dagen zelf te genieten en niet teveel stil te staan bij wat of wie niet hier bij mij is. Ik probeer het allemaal een plekje te geven, dat maakt het makkelijker om te accepteren waar ik nu ben. Het draait allemaal om de keuzes die we ooit gemaakt hebben en hoe we daar nu mee omgaan. Soms is het makkelijk, en soms lukt het wat minder. Gewoon naar mezelf luisteren, naar wat ik echt zelf wil en mijn instinct volgen zowel met de projecten als het dagelijkse leven, dat is wat ik het komende jaar wil doen!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;For today it is: eating 'oliebollen', making some stitches on my Pies &amp;amp; Tarts&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;and listening to the Dutch radio with the final music Top 2000 all times!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;En voor vandaag is dat oliebollen eten, werken aan mijn Pies &amp;amp; Tarts&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;en naar de Top 2000 luisteren via internet radio! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Wishing you a healthy and inspirational 2012!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ik wens je een gezond 2012 met veel inspiratie!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;XXX Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-2236463357260930822?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/2236463357260930822/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=2236463357260930822&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/2236463357260930822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/2236463357260930822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/12/oliebollen.html' title='Oliebollen!'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EYbwpDrqe_8/Tv8axfE0zDI/AAAAAAAACEw/LKDkSjPGwO0/s72-c/DSCN3496.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-2545568099874772973</id><published>2011-12-30T21:23:00.001-02:00</published><updated>2011-12-30T22:44:43.266-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travels'/><title type='text'>This week went by so fast!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;We stayed a few days in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraty" style="color: #38761d;" target="_blank"&gt;Paraty&lt;/a&gt;, a small old village on the coastline of the state Rio de Janiero. It was simply wonderful, being there with my family. Together we walked the streets, visited small beaches by boat and shared stories for hours. Here are a few pictures to give you an idea.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We zijn een paar dagen in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraty" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Paraty&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; geweest, een klein dorpje aan de kust in de staat Rio de Janeiro. Het was geweldig om daar met mijn gezin te kunnen zijn. Samen een paar dagen door het dorpje dwalen, een boottocht langs een paar strandjes en heel veel bijkletsen. 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KGOaUjldI54/Tv5ADF5ZSlI/AAAAAAAACEY/fgpJW8tSLS0/s1600/DSCN3455.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KGOaUjldI54/Tv5ADF5ZSlI/AAAAAAAACEY/fgpJW8tSLS0/s400/DSCN3455.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;The kids have returned already to their own place in London and NYC and the house is empty again. It all went by too fast! That's what happens when you are having fun!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De kinderen zijn alweer naar hun eigen plek in Londen en New York City en het huis is weer leeg. Het is allemaal veel te snel voorbij gegaan! Zo gaat dat nu eenmaal als het fijn is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Groetjes vanuit São Paulo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-2545568099874772973?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/2545568099874772973/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=2545568099874772973&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/2545568099874772973'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/2545568099874772973'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/12/this-week-went-by-so-fast.html' title='This week went by so fast!'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-E-_RGLip6ZA/Tv5C2DdFoUI/AAAAAAAACEk/smNstUjuOq8/s72-c/2011-12-23+18.53.59.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-6928929177178790867</id><published>2011-12-18T19:00:00.002-02:00</published><updated>2011-12-30T21:26:44.443-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Building Houses'/><title type='text'>Wishing you Happy Holidays!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Christmas tree is up!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;De kerstboom is weer opgetuigd!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;;o)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SOa-DuaV8gQ/Tu5JpVT7RnI/AAAAAAAACBM/DBmmc_nPYPs/s1600/DSCN3316.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SOa-DuaV8gQ/Tu5JpVT7RnI/AAAAAAAACBM/DBmmc_nPYPs/s400/DSCN3316.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Gaucho kings and the tango couple from Argentina are keeping watch &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;De Argentijnse Gaucho koningen en het tango-paar Josef en Maria houden een oogje in het zeil&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lSdFO1G2T9s/Tu5LrssbKqI/AAAAAAAACB8/QEXBvUMg13Q/s1600/DSCN3321.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lSdFO1G2T9s/Tu5LrssbKqI/AAAAAAAACB8/QEXBvUMg13Q/s400/DSCN3321.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A small collection of Santa's from everywhere around the globe&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Een kleine collectie kerstmannen van overal ter wereld &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--9M3ySVtnuM/Tu5LTwFCs4I/AAAAAAAACBU/9toewKZ4AuY/s1600/DSCN3305.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--9M3ySVtnuM/Tu5LTwFCs4I/AAAAAAAACBU/9toewKZ4AuY/s400/DSCN3305.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VmUAPb4jZVI/Tu5LYT_LPwI/AAAAAAAACBc/Z_TMT0DAnKI/s1600/DSCN3306.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VmUAPb4jZVI/Tu5LYT_LPwI/AAAAAAAACBc/Z_TMT0DAnKI/s400/DSCN3306.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T4nuSZtW_Ug/Tu5LbipSWII/AAAAAAAACBk/OC_P40hl77M/s1600/DSCN3309.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T4nuSZtW_Ug/Tu5LbipSWII/AAAAAAAACBk/OC_P40hl77M/s400/DSCN3309.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A touch of Christmas in all corners of the living room&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;Een beetje kerst in alle hoeken en gaten&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AHz-kG3hvDY/Tu5VVVGKZzI/AAAAAAAACCU/D7nCyqLXVXI/s1600/DSCN3317.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AHz-kG3hvDY/Tu5VVVGKZzI/AAAAAAAACCU/D7nCyqLXVXI/s400/DSCN3317.jpg" width="331" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Even this kitsch Buddha from Vietnam gets some lights on his fat belly&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zelfs de kitsch Buddha uit Vietnam krijgt een paar lichtjes op zijn dikke buik&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ayZwwQ0L8Ms/Tu5LfPPRLtI/AAAAAAAACBs/ddMnNBNJV2A/s1600/DSCN3310.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ayZwwQ0L8Ms/Tu5LfPPRLtI/AAAAAAAACBs/ddMnNBNJV2A/s400/DSCN3310.JPG" width="370" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The dogs and I are waiting for DD to come home. Her flight is rescheduled because of a strike by the Iberian Airline pilots! So she comes 2 days later and won't be here for her 23rd birthday! One thing's for sure: we will never book flights with them anymore!&amp;nbsp; Her stay with us is so short already...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Samen met de hondjes wacht ik op DD, wanneer komt ze nou? Haar vlucht is dankzij een staking van de Iberia piloten met 2 dagen vertraagd en daardoor is ze niet thuis voor haar verjaardag. Zou je ze niet! Een ding is zeker, we vliegen nooit meer met een Spaanse vliegtuigmaatschappij! Nu is haar verblijf bij ons nog korter...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A quilters nightmare after washing this quilt...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The red coloured fabrics bled all over the place!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Een quilters nachtmerrie na het wassen van deze quilt...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;De rode kleuren zijn helemaal doorgelopen!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x2z1GSZviEE/Tu5LiLLDkJI/AAAAAAAACB0/p4puWVa0_iU/s1600/DSCN3314.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x2z1GSZviEE/Tu5LiLLDkJI/AAAAAAAACB0/p4puWVa0_iU/s400/DSCN3314.jpg" width="298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;After consulting some friends and &lt;a href="http://www.quilterspalet.typepad.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Evy from the Quilters Palet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in Holland I washed it twice more with some new white coloured quest towels&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Naar advies van &lt;a href="http://www.quilterspalet.typepad.com/" style="color: #38761d;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;i&gt;Evy van de Quilters Palet&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; heb ik het nog een paar keer gewassen met nieuwe witte gastendoekjes&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jlPKXY5fHg8/Tu5NnVlWhBI/AAAAAAAACCE/tPHGlChS5Ns/s1600/DSCN3315.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jlPKXY5fHg8/Tu5NnVlWhBI/AAAAAAAACCE/tPHGlChS5Ns/s400/DSCN3315.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The small red spot are gone but one type of fabric turned pink... aargh, I can pull all my hair out for being so stupid!!! Next time, when I am in Holland, I will buy the colour catcher cloths, as they are not available in São Paulo as far as I know. But for now it's okay... sigh&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;De kleine rode vlekken zijn eruit en alleen 1 soort stofje is nog roze.... aargh, ik kan mezelf wat wat aandoen dat ik dit heb laten gebeuren!!! De volgende keer dat ik in Nederland ben, koop ik van die kleurenvangdoekjes die hier dus weer niet te koop zijn. Maar voor nu kan het ermee door... zucht&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;*********************&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Wishing you all a wonderful time this Christmas and a splendid 2012, may all your UFO's and PDF's be finished and houses been built! :-x&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Vanaf deze kant wens ik jullie allemaal hele fijne feestdagen en een heel goed 2012 waarin alle UFO's en PDF's af komen en alle huisjes gebouwd worden! :-x&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ix-fn12rcnc/Tu5PlSwbTzI/AAAAAAAACCM/tibCTACXbRc/s1600/PC110019.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ix-fn12rcnc/Tu5PlSwbTzI/AAAAAAAACCM/tibCTACXbRc/s640/PC110019.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;These two make my day!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Mijn lieve (b)engeltjes!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Lieve groet vanuit Brazilië! Hilde &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-6928929177178790867?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/6928929177178790867/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=6928929177178790867&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/6928929177178790867'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/6928929177178790867'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/12/wishing-you-happy-holidays.html' title='Wishing you Happy Holidays!'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SOa-DuaV8gQ/Tu5JpVT7RnI/AAAAAAAACBM/DBmmc_nPYPs/s72-c/DSCN3316.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-3958616097702959500</id><published>2011-12-15T16:04:00.000-02:00</published><updated>2011-12-15T16:04:11.079-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pies and Tarts'/><title type='text'>Pies and Tarts</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;Just a short update today. I am working on my PHD (Project Half Done) and know what I want! First I laid out the blocks with Pies on the floor and made only a few changes. Can you spot them? The bright green ones moved a bit and all blocks with purple Pie pieces are at the outer ring.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Een kort berichtje vandaag. Ik ben bezig met mijn PHD (Project half Done) and ik weet wat ik wil! Eerst heb ik alle blocks met de pies op de vloer gelegd en een paar kleine verandering gemaakt. Zie je het verschil? De fel groene blokken zijn wat verschoven en de blokken met paarse Pie-stukjes liggen allemaal aan de buitenkant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jTfbznCSz4Q/Tuox4-Xq9_I/AAAAAAAACAg/oRiSCqyLYTA/s1600/DSCN3278.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="383" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jTfbznCSz4Q/Tuox4-Xq9_I/AAAAAAAACAg/oRiSCqyLYTA/s400/DSCN3278.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;first position&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2VskrVHUDr8/Tuox8Bn7GGI/AAAAAAAACAo/BHMjNLPtA3Y/s1600/DSCN3280.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="381" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2VskrVHUDr8/Tuox8Bn7GGI/AAAAAAAACAo/BHMjNLPtA3Y/s400/DSCN3280.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;second position&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aLhIaQMTGNg/TuoyAoQN4ZI/AAAAAAAACAw/G1WV3o7QKlw/s1600/DSCN3283.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="383" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aLhIaQMTGNg/TuoyAoQN4ZI/AAAAAAAACAw/G1WV3o7QKlw/s400/DSCN3283.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;third position&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;Now the Tarts are moving in. Did I say this project is already halfway done...? There will be another ring around it with purple blocks and green Pies... &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;;o) &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nu gaan de Tarts er tussen in. Zei ik nou net dat dit project al halverwege was...? &lt;br /&gt;Er gaat nog een buitenste rand omheen van paarse blokken met groene Pies... ;o)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YyxT5-wUTMY/Tuo03iYrUSI/AAAAAAAACBA/TTBxTfxh3kU/s1600/DSCN3299.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YyxT5-wUTMY/Tuo03iYrUSI/AAAAAAAACBA/TTBxTfxh3kU/s640/DSCN3299.JPG" width="348" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-3958616097702959500?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/3958616097702959500/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=3958616097702959500&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/3958616097702959500'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/3958616097702959500'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/12/pies-and-tarts.html' title='Pies and Tarts'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jTfbznCSz4Q/Tuox4-Xq9_I/AAAAAAAACAg/oRiSCqyLYTA/s72-c/DSCN3278.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-8204946377981165953</id><published>2011-12-12T22:49:00.000-02:00</published><updated>2011-12-15T16:08:54.107-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Building Houses'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Brazil'/><title type='text'>Quilters in Brazil! Venha e participe!</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;Normally I never make a New Year's resolution, because half way January I forget all about it...but this time it is going to be different.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Normaal doe ik daar niet aan, aan goede voornemens voor het nieuwe jaar. Halverwege januari ben ik toch alweer vergeten wat ik van plan was... maar deze keer is het anders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;style&gt;@font-face {  font-family: "Calibri";}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }&lt;/style&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="PT-BR" style="color: #38761d; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Normalmentenunca faço promessas de Ano Novo, porque lá pela metade de janeiro já esquecitudo sobre isso... mas desta vez vai ser diferente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LgHs1_co4MQ/TuaamsgzI4I/AAAAAAAACAY/b0yn4sWeyxI/s1600/Icoon+huisjesquilt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LgHs1_co4MQ/TuaamsgzI4I/AAAAAAAACAY/b0yn4sWeyxI/s400/Icoon+huisjesquilt.jpg" width="388" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://buildinghousesfromscraps.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://buildinghousesfromscraps.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;I simple got infected before it even started! It's a new virus spreading wildly, more than 800 quilters are already taking part: I am going to build houses! Not a few ones, not a couple more but I have promised to make 366! Huh? Yep, in the year 2012 I am joining &lt;a href="http://buildinghousesfromscraps.blogspot.com/" style="color: #38761d;" target="_blank"&gt;Jeanneke&lt;/a&gt; in her quest to build a house from scraps every single day during the coming year.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ik ben al besmet voordat het werkelijk is uitgebroken! Er gaat een nieuw virus door quiltersland, het spreidt zich uit als een olievlek; er zijn al meer dan 800 deelnemers. Ik ga huisjes bouwen, niet eentje, niet een paar meer maar 366 in totaal! Wat? Yep, in 2012 ga ik samen met &lt;a href="http://buildinghousesfromscraps.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Jeanneke&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; elke dag een huisje bouwen van scraps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;style&gt;@font-face {  font-family: "Calibri";}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }&lt;/style&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="PT-BR" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Eusimplesmente fui infectada antes mesmo de ter sido iniciado!É um novo vírus quese espalhou largamente, mais de 800 quilters já estão fazendo parte: eu vou construircasas! Não umas poucas, mas eu prometi fazer 366 no total! Hein? Sim, em 2012estou me unindo a &lt;a href="http://buildinghousesfromscraps.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Jeanneke&lt;/a&gt; na sua missão de construir uma casa por dia comscraps (retalhos) durante o ano que vem.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Wouldn't it be nice if also quilters from Brazil are going to join in!!!?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sign up before this coming 31th of December and join the world wide fun. More about the ins and outs you can find &lt;a href="http://buildinghousesfromscraps.blogspot.com/2011/11/de-regels-rules.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;here&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En wat zou het leuk zijn als dat virus ook overslaat naar Brazilë! Je kunt je nog aansluiten tot 31 december van dit jaar bij deze nieuw rage. Meer info vind je &lt;a href="http://buildinghousesfromscraps.blogspot.com/2011/11/de-regels-rules.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;hier&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;style&gt;@font-face {  font-family: "Calibri";}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }&lt;/style&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="PT-BR" style="color: #38761d; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Nãoseria bom se também quilters do Brazil participassem!!!?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="PT-BR" style="color: #38761d; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Inscreva-se ante de 31de dezembro e junte-se a esse mundo divertido.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="PT-BR" style="color: #38761d; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Mais detahes e o padrão você pode achar&lt;u&gt;aqui,&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="PT-BR" style="color: #38761d; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;En cima de meu blog fica um traduçao das regras.&lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-8204946377981165953?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/8204946377981165953/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=8204946377981165953&amp;isPopup=true' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/8204946377981165953'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/8204946377981165953'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/12/quilters-in-brazil-venha-e-participe.html' title='Quilters in Brazil! Venha e participe!'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LgHs1_co4MQ/TuaamsgzI4I/AAAAAAAACAY/b0yn4sWeyxI/s72-c/Icoon+huisjesquilt.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-6515754151843375776</id><published>2011-12-12T14:00:00.001-02:00</published><updated>2011-12-12T14:08:25.862-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Knitting'/><title type='text'>How did you do that?</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;When someone asks you this, you can take it as a compliment! And sometimes it is very simple and easy to make, for instance the poncho/shawl I showed you last week.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Als iemand dat aan mij vraagt, voel ik me best wel gevleid. En soms is het vrij simpel te maken zoals met de omslagdoek die ik je vorige week liet zien.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xaFe2rU6_7w/TuYcJVQqEKI/AAAAAAAAB_s/az7fVKpMHI8/s1600/DSCN3294.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xaFe2rU6_7w/TuYcJVQqEKI/AAAAAAAAB_s/az7fVKpMHI8/s400/DSCN3294.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Here is how you can make your poncho:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Knit a rectangle piece of about 20"-23" wide by 60" long in stockinette stitch. I used thick yarn with needles #10 to make it a bit more loose than written on the instructions label and made it 40 stitches wide. Because this yarn has thick and thin parts, I did not add any other decorative stitches.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En zo kun jij er ook eentje maken:&lt;br /&gt;Brei een rechthoekige lap van ongeveer 50-60cm breed bij 150 cm lang in tricotsteek. Voor dit katoen heb ik naald 10 gebruikt en gebreid over 40 steken. Volgens het label moest ik naald 8 gebruiken, maar ik wilde het wat losser hebben. Omdat het katoen al decoratief is van zichzelf, heb ik geen andere steken gebruikt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8EfmMu1yVhE/TtSWJovkP4I/AAAAAAAAB88/ly0qSrkp6_E/s1600/DSCN3247.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8EfmMu1yVhE/TtSWJovkP4I/AAAAAAAAB88/ly0qSrkp6_E/s400/DSCN3247.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GrHIralK9sM/TuYcCgyPikI/AAAAAAAAB_c/NtNDAXObrQY/s1600/DSCN3289.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GrHIralK9sM/TuYcCgyPikI/AAAAAAAAB_c/NtNDAXObrQY/s400/DSCN3289.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;After finishing the rectangle piece, you bring the finished end to the side at the start. This way you make some kind of a loop. Sew the end to the side with the same thread, take care to leave an opening of about 30-33" to put your head through.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Als de lap lang genoeg is, breng je het afgehechte gedeelte naar de zijkant bij het begin van de lap. Naai het einde tegen de zijkant aan en zorg ervoor dat je een opening houdt van ongeveer 75-80 cm voor de hals. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zZv-UeynJ64/TuYb-pvv_rI/AAAAAAAAB_U/52b2SFFlRSA/s1600/DSCN3287.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zZv-UeynJ64/TuYb-pvv_rI/AAAAAAAAB_U/52b2SFFlRSA/s400/DSCN3287.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UXB4zM2U3VU/TuYcF1ca2EI/AAAAAAAAB_k/VLqUVCZ6-8Y/s1600/DSCN3290.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UXB4zM2U3VU/TuYcF1ca2EI/AAAAAAAAB_k/VLqUVCZ6-8Y/s400/DSCN3290.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Add some nice buttons or a clip near to the seam, and finished!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Nu nog een paar leuke grote knopen of een mooie clip vlakbij de naad&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;en klaar is kees!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xZj7aXN223E/TuYfXfqbsTI/AAAAAAAAB_8/qN8AJpBLFjo/s1600/DSCN3297.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xZj7aXN223E/TuYfXfqbsTI/AAAAAAAAB_8/qN8AJpBLFjo/s400/DSCN3297.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The original one, bought in Buenos Aires&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Please refer to friends, books or internet in case you don't know how to knit ;o)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-6515754151843375776?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/6515754151843375776/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=6515754151843375776&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/6515754151843375776'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/6515754151843375776'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/12/how-did-you-do-that_12.html' title='How did you do that?'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xaFe2rU6_7w/TuYcJVQqEKI/AAAAAAAAB_s/az7fVKpMHI8/s72-c/DSCN3294.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-7999141155083441926</id><published>2011-12-07T15:30:00.001-02:00</published><updated>2011-12-07T16:39:00.098-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Knitting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Boxes'/><title type='text'>I did it again...</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G5-Ml1oMYt8/Tt-j_wpoFJI/AAAAAAAAB-k/BN8G6pQrRAI/s1600/bze.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G5-Ml1oMYt8/Tt-j_wpoFJI/AAAAAAAAB-k/BN8G6pQrRAI/s400/bze.jpg" width="293" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Before...&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;Pfff, I wanna put my feet up and relax! This morning I was promoting my workshops box-making at a Christmas bazaar in São Paulo. I made some Christmas decorations to bring a festive touch to my table and by the end of the morning a few boxes found a new home and the trees, stockings and buntings came back home with me! Even Mr. and Mrs. Santa came back home ;-p&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pfff, nu wil ik even met mijn voeten omhoog en uitrusten! Vanmorgen was ik op een kerstbazaar in São Paulo om mijn workshops dozen-maken te promoten, De afgelopen week ben ik druk in de weer geweest met het maken van kerstversiering om mijn tafel een beetje op te leuken. Geen idee of dat hielp, maar er zijn weer een aantal doosjes geruild van eigenaar en de kerstversiering kwam weer mee naar huis. Zelfs meneer en mevrouw Santa zijn weer thuis! ;-p&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D1WjVLl2ICw/Tt-kFRDbk-I/AAAAAAAAB-s/dei0duhkjVo/s1600/bazar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D1WjVLl2ICw/Tt-kFRDbk-I/AAAAAAAAB-s/dei0duhkjVo/s400/bazar.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;and after&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;I don't know if I will do this again. But somewhere down the line I don't want to give up. Anyway, I finally can start making our house 'Christmas proof' before the kids come home to be with us for one week (only).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hmm, ik weet niet of ik dit nog een keertje doe. Maar ergens klinkt er een stemmetje dat ik niet moet opgeven. Nou ja, in ieder geval kan ik nu beginnen met ons huisje 'kerst-klaar' te maken voordat de kids komen logeren.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DQmKR2NmYgk/Tt-nkg1-BLI/AAAAAAAAB-0/8NXElOx6Cgw/s1600/DSCN3267.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DQmKR2NmYgk/Tt-nkg1-BLI/AAAAAAAAB-0/8NXElOx6Cgw/s320/DSCN3267.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;When browsing all kinds of blogs there are some nice ideas coming by. The Christmas cone trees are inspired by &lt;a href="http://mariejoze.blogspot.com/2011/12/tassen-en-kerstboompjes-bags-and.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Mai&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. She made them with a styrofoam cone inside, I made a simple version with a stiff batting inside.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De laatste tijd komen er leuke ideetjes langs op de verschillende blogs die ik lees. De puntige kerstboompjes zag ik bij &lt;a href="http://mariejoze.blogspot.com/2011/12/tassen-en-kerstboompjes-bags-and.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Mai&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Die van haar hebben een styrofoam cone aan de binnenkant, ik heb een simpelere versie gemaakt met een stijve voering.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Remember my KIP (knitting in progress)? Tadaaa! It is not a scarf as I mentioned before, it is more like a poncho. So easy to make and it feels so soft!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vorige week schreef ik over mijn KIPje? Tis klaar! Het is eigenlijk geen sjaal maar meer een soort cape. In ieder geval supermakkelijk om te maken en deze voelt heerlijk zacht aan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L7cKthfISIQ/Tt-vje8y4ZI/AAAAAAAAB_E/7WyoTmGJr3Y/s1600/DSCN3274.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L7cKthfISIQ/Tt-vje8y4ZI/AAAAAAAAB_E/7WyoTmGJr3Y/s400/DSCN3274.jpg" width="288" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Me and Botero's lady in the bathroom ;o)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;10 more days before my daughter comes home and 14 before I can hug my son... can't wait to have my family together again! The last time that happened is a year ago....&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nog 10 dagen voordat mijn dochter thuis komt en nog 14 voordat ik mijn zoon weer in mijn armen kan sluiten. Heerlijk om straks weer als gezin samen te zijn, de laatste keer is alweer een jaar geleden...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;So hurry up and prepare the house!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1-K9xbpLp_s/Ttd8qysj04I/AAAAAAAAB-E/KI4ZJq_h5Tc/s1600/DSCN3260.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1-K9xbpLp_s/Ttd8qysj04I/AAAAAAAAB-E/KI4ZJq_h5Tc/s640/DSCN3260.jpg" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Glad you came back home with me!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-7999141155083441926?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/7999141155083441926/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=7999141155083441926&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/7999141155083441926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/7999141155083441926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-did-it-again.html' title='I did it again...'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G5-Ml1oMYt8/Tt-j_wpoFJI/AAAAAAAAB-k/BN8G6pQrRAI/s72-c/bze.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-2539134179619038695</id><published>2011-12-01T11:09:00.001-02:00</published><updated>2011-12-01T11:19:44.743-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><title type='text'>Lovely couple</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;still hot from the sewing table:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1-K9xbpLp_s/Ttd8qysj04I/AAAAAAAAB-E/KI4ZJq_h5Tc/s1600/DSCN3260.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1-K9xbpLp_s/Ttd8qysj04I/AAAAAAAAB-E/KI4ZJq_h5Tc/s400/DSCN3260.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;A sweet couple ready to celebrate&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b9TrF7GMuGY/Ttd8xKFGbBI/AAAAAAAAB-M/khCeBeSl3sI/s1600/DSCN3261.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b9TrF7GMuGY/Ttd8xKFGbBI/AAAAAAAAB-M/khCeBeSl3sI/s400/DSCN3261.jpg" width="172" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Mrs. Santa with her reindeer&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xbBc59G1iX4/Ttd84j_pORI/AAAAAAAAB-c/oArSUkzS-o0/s1600/DSCN3263.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xbBc59G1iX4/Ttd84j_pORI/AAAAAAAAB-c/oArSUkzS-o0/s400/DSCN3263.jpg" width="251" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Mr. Santa just decorated the tree&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o4HR6g8k0hE/Ttd80Ete3gI/AAAAAAAAB-U/g0kxlsJFAkk/s1600/DSCN3262.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o4HR6g8k0hE/Ttd80Ete3gI/AAAAAAAAB-U/g0kxlsJFAkk/s400/DSCN3262.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Happy Holidays!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-2539134179619038695?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/2539134179619038695/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=2539134179619038695&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/2539134179619038695'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/2539134179619038695'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/12/lovely-couple.html' title='Lovely couple'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1-K9xbpLp_s/Ttd8qysj04I/AAAAAAAAB-E/KI4ZJq_h5Tc/s72-c/DSCN3260.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-3356677260309025339</id><published>2011-11-29T06:25:00.001-02:00</published><updated>2011-11-29T06:31:49.967-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pies and Tarts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Knitting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><title type='text'>SIP + KIP + PIW = HIM</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WrBH2JkLTI8/TtSWGZHf7yI/AAAAAAAAB80/4O9OLftBSgc/s1600/DSCN3244.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WrBH2JkLTI8/TtSWGZHf7yI/AAAAAAAAB80/4O9OLftBSgc/s400/DSCN3244.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Santa's In Progress&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8EfmMu1yVhE/TtSWJovkP4I/AAAAAAAAB88/ly0qSrkp6_E/s1600/DSCN3247.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8EfmMu1yVhE/TtSWJovkP4I/AAAAAAAAB88/ly0qSrkp6_E/s400/DSCN3247.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Knitting In Progress&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6sOSE4iHRow/TtSWNEmiC1I/AAAAAAAAB9E/0nHMWpW4qqk/s1600/DSCN3248.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6sOSE4iHRow/TtSWNEmiC1I/AAAAAAAAB9E/0nHMWpW4qqk/s400/DSCN3248.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Pies In Waiting&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-egAGQlg-umM/TtSWPwCU4CI/AAAAAAAAB9M/-TDS1ErxpHg/s1600/DSCN3249.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-egAGQlg-umM/TtSWPwCU4CI/AAAAAAAAB9M/-TDS1ErxpHg/s400/DSCN3249.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Work In Progress = House Is a Mess&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-3356677260309025339?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/3356677260309025339/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=3356677260309025339&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/3356677260309025339'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/3356677260309025339'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/11/sip-kip-piw-him.html' title='SIP + KIP + PIW = HIM'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WrBH2JkLTI8/TtSWGZHf7yI/AAAAAAAAB80/4O9OLftBSgc/s72-c/DSCN3244.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-9160474215725827625</id><published>2011-11-25T12:36:00.001-02:00</published><updated>2011-11-25T13:15:56.757-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='São Paulo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><title type='text'>Made in Brasil</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;It's been a bit quiet on this end but the sewing machine has been running!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;I need some Christmas decorations for the next bazaar with the newcomers club in São Paulo. Not only boxes but also some fabric items just to bring some Holiday spirit to my display.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Het is de laatste tijd een beetje stil aan deze kant van de aardkloot, maar de naaimachine heeft het druk! Ik heb wat kerstdecoratie nodig voor mijn tafel bij de volgende bazaar van de Newcomers club. Naast de dozen ook wat stoffige items om de kerstsfeer binnen te halen. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T-8bb_rgVNE/Ts-oBRSgPuI/AAAAAAAAB8k/bcKls6xfDrU/s1600/DSCN3241.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T-8bb_rgVNE/Ts-oBRSgPuI/AAAAAAAAB8k/bcKls6xfDrU/s400/DSCN3241.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;stocking buntings&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NjRPgen3_WM/Ts-n-_bVamI/AAAAAAAAB8c/xomhRdiAoto/s1600/DSCN3240.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NjRPgen3_WM/Ts-n-_bVamI/AAAAAAAAB8c/xomhRdiAoto/s400/DSCN3240.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-b_Vm3x-lBqE/Ts-mHn2K6gI/AAAAAAAAB8M/sAbwpkPKA7s/s1600/DSCN3235.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-b_Vm3x-lBqE/Ts-mHn2K6gI/AAAAAAAAB8M/sAbwpkPKA7s/s400/DSCN3235.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Lynette Anderson designs&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nl0iPBFucac/Ts-mLH26D1I/AAAAAAAAB8U/djbpDxljWcQ/s1600/DSCN3239.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nl0iPBFucac/Ts-mLH26D1I/AAAAAAAAB8U/djbpDxljWcQ/s400/DSCN3239.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;The designs for this mini quilt are from the quilt here below I made about 10 years ago while living in Singapore. I simply shrank the pattern and only used a few of them. And again the temperature is far from freezing.... ;)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De patroontjes voor deze quilt komen van deze quilt die ik bijna 10 jaar geleden maakte toen ik nog in Singapore woonde. Nu heb ik het patroon een beetje laten krimpen. En wederom is de temperatuur niet echt koud.... ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6P1WelhpG7k/Ts-rJdXDwLI/AAAAAAAAB8s/ECZhU5aqyr8/s1600/kerst+2002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6P1WelhpG7k/Ts-rJdXDwLI/AAAAAAAAB8s/ECZhU5aqyr8/s400/kerst+2002.JPG" width="341" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;'waiting for Santa'&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;Something nice to share? Yes! A Dutch baby boy is born here in SP and we are going to celebrate!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nog iets leuks gebeurd? Ja! Er is een Hollands baby knulletje geboren hier in SP en dit moet gevierd worden!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SPbRRfiXu8k/Ts-mCoUUa_I/AAAAAAAAB8E/6EMQdjW3kzg/s1600/DSCN3234.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="125" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SPbRRfiXu8k/Ts-mCoUUa_I/AAAAAAAAB8E/6EMQdjW3kzg/s400/DSCN3234.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Lodewijk&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;On typical Brazilian fabric with Delft's blue letters &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Op typisch Braziliaans stof met Delfts blauwe letters&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;...&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;made&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="background-color: #38761d; color: white;"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Brazil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt; ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Off to more sewing!&lt;/i&gt; Ik ga weer verder!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-9160474215725827625?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/9160474215725827625/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=9160474215725827625&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/9160474215725827625'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/9160474215725827625'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/11/made-in-brasil.html' title='Made in Brasil'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T-8bb_rgVNE/Ts-oBRSgPuI/AAAAAAAAB8k/bcKls6xfDrU/s72-c/DSCN3241.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-2720939624905512889</id><published>2011-11-17T09:59:00.001-02:00</published><updated>2011-11-17T10:50:15.571-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Knitting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='São Paulo'/><title type='text'>Knit Cafe in São Paulo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7vrDn3tqADg/TsT4QWl6hSI/AAAAAAAAB7g/qqAzM-b_p8U/s1600/knit-cafe3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7vrDn3tqADg/TsT4QWl6hSI/AAAAAAAAB7g/qqAzM-b_p8U/s400/knit-cafe3.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;Yes, there is a knit cafe in SP and it is so cool! As I told you last week, I bought a scarf for DD in Buenos Aires last week and I want to make another one for myself. When I started looking on the internet for a wool shop, I found this one: &lt;a href="http://www.novelaria.com.br/"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Novelaria&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a trendy shop near Vila Madalena, a trendy area in SP. It only opened a few months ago but it feels like much longer.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6nLLToUZGIU/TsT4TDZ6M4I/AAAAAAAAB7o/fe_r7v8PNVE/s1600/knit-cafe2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6nLLToUZGIU/TsT4TDZ6M4I/AAAAAAAAB7o/fe_r7v8PNVE/s400/knit-cafe2.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Yes, er is een hele leuke nieuwe winkel in SP, een brei-cafe. Vorige week had ik in Buenos Aires een sjaal gekocht voor DD en ik wil er eentje voor mijzelf maken. Dus ging ik op zoek naar een wolwinkeltje in de buurt en vond deze op internet: &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.novelaria.com.br/"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Novelaria&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/i&gt;een trendy winkeltje vlakbij Vila Madalena, een trendy buurtje in SP. Het is pas een paar maanden open maar het voelt alsof het al veel langer bestaat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2Vu_8DLLVv4/TsT4VVWuKTI/AAAAAAAAB7w/T3PxMhMk7Sc/s1600/knit-cafe1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2Vu_8DLLVv4/TsT4VVWuKTI/AAAAAAAAB7w/T3PxMhMk7Sc/s400/knit-cafe1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;There was a nice group of ladies chatting and learning how to knit or do crochet. I would have loved to join them but my Portuguese is too limited, I know already how to knit and crochet and DH was with me ;)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Het was er heel gezellig binnen met vrolijke dames op de stoelen die les kregen in breien en haken. Ik had er zo bij willen gaan zitten maar mijn Portugees is nog niet zo goed, breien en haken kan ik (helaas) al en DH stond te wachten ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nihTPAmN_7A/TsT3aRxb5BI/AAAAAAAAB6w/KIbKOT-g7-s/s1600/DSCN3231.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nihTPAmN_7A/TsT3aRxb5BI/AAAAAAAAB6w/KIbKOT-g7-s/s400/DSCN3231.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;I bought some cotton and it was hard to choose a colour, there were so many to choose from! And you know what? It comes from Argentina, Buenos Aires! If I had known last week where to find this material I would have saved so much money! I paid more for the yarn than I paid for the knitted woolen scarf in BA... Brazil puts so much tax on imported goods, it is not fun anymore. But seeing this cafe with the beautiful colours and great ambiance, it is still worth it!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZXm-uG3doGU/TsT3eQ5reNI/AAAAAAAAB64/2D2GbG8XYJE/s1600/DSCN3233.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZXm-uG3doGU/TsT3eQ5reNI/AAAAAAAAB64/2D2GbG8XYJE/s400/DSCN3233.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Het was moeilijk om een keuze te maken uit alle kleuren die ze hadden, maar ik heb er een paar strengen katoen gekocht. En weet je wat? Het komt allemaal uit Argentinië, Buenos Aires! Als ik dat had geweten vorige week, dan had ik het daar gekocht! Dat had me aardig wat geld gescheeld want alles wat geïmporteerd wordt is vreselijk duur in Brazilië. Ik heb nu meer geld uitgegeven aan de katoen dan in BA aan de gebreide wollen sjaal! Maar ja, te weten dat dit leuke cafeetje in SP is met zo'n leuke sfeer en mooi materiaal, dan moet het maar zo zijn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8URUVIhStrQ/TsT3XvS_xII/AAAAAAAAB6o/aTOKPfPY15o/s1600/DSCN3230.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8URUVIhStrQ/TsT3XvS_xII/AAAAAAAAB6o/aTOKPfPY15o/s400/DSCN3230.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Will I knit something for you boys as well?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Zal ik ook iets voor jullie (wild)breien?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-2720939624905512889?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/2720939624905512889/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=2720939624905512889&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/2720939624905512889'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/2720939624905512889'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/11/knit-cafe-in-sao-paulo.html' title='Knit Cafe in São Paulo'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7vrDn3tqADg/TsT4QWl6hSI/AAAAAAAAB7g/qqAzM-b_p8U/s72-c/knit-cafe3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-2708637121111759198</id><published>2011-11-09T15:30:00.000-02:00</published><updated>2011-11-09T16:25:03.495-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travels'/><title type='text'>Recharged!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Back home full with wonderful impressions and many pictures of my trip to Buenos Aires, Colonias and Montevideo. Buenos Aires is the main city in Argentina, Colonias and Montevideo are located in Uruguay.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Ben weer thuis en zit vol met geweldige indrukken en heel veel foto's van de steden die ik de afgelopen week heb bezocht: Buenos Aires in Argentinië en Colonias en Montevideo in Uruguay.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WBSUwtKge9U/TrqkfXJVEOI/AAAAAAAAB58/2XZY-x7Kd3A/s1600/karte-0-9012-en.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="382" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WBSUwtKge9U/TrqkfXJVEOI/AAAAAAAAB58/2XZY-x7Kd3A/s400/karte-0-9012-en.gif" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DOW79TEaXKE/TrqkhGaB01I/AAAAAAAAB6E/3BLLVBs3e7o/s1600/Picture+1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="367" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DOW79TEaXKE/TrqkhGaB01I/AAAAAAAAB6E/3BLLVBs3e7o/s400/Picture+1.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;São Paulo is at the right top corner and the cities I visited are at the Rio Plata, at the bottom of this map. DH had to be there for business so I had all days to myself to explore. We flew from São Paulo to Buenos Aires and the first person I bumped into was this 'handsome' guy!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;São Paulo ligt rechts bovenin en de steden waar ik even op bezoek was, liggen onderaan aan de mond van de Rio Plata. DH moest hier zijn voor allerlei afspraken en ik had alle tijd voor mijzelf. Vanuit São Paulo zijn we naar Buenos Aires gevlogen en de eerste die ik daar tegen het lijf liep was deze 'knappe' vent!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X6_K7jwNlN0/Trqfy-2nQHI/AAAAAAAAB2c/LcDW9c3eF5g/s1600/DSCN3055.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X6_K7jwNlN0/Trqfy-2nQHI/AAAAAAAAB2c/LcDW9c3eF5g/s400/DSCN3055.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Liam from Beady Eye (before Oasis) ;)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Buenos Aires is a wonderful city with an European flair:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Buenos Aires is een prachtige stad met een Europese sfeer:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;At the Plaza Mayo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CIkk5-8RWnU/Trqf2IBsS4I/AAAAAAAAB2k/m-4c1md0IY4/s1600/DSCN3057.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CIkk5-8RWnU/Trqf2IBsS4I/AAAAAAAAB2k/m-4c1md0IY4/s400/DSCN3057.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Souvenirs&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uVZfyevpfzE/Trqf833u-EI/AAAAAAAAB20/a945-UMdOt4/s1600/DSCN3061.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uVZfyevpfzE/Trqf833u-EI/AAAAAAAAB20/a945-UMdOt4/s400/DSCN3061.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B9_RdqrQTDc/Trqf52bfnpI/AAAAAAAAB2s/SJc5uAj28c8/s1600/DSCN3060.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B9_RdqrQTDc/Trqf52bfnpI/AAAAAAAAB2s/SJc5uAj28c8/s400/DSCN3060.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;symbol of the mothers of Plaza de Mayo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--7VXafbMEcI/Trqgd_tDfqI/AAAAAAAAB30/7LdPBuxfSuc/s1600/DSCN3113.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--7VXafbMEcI/Trqgd_tDfqI/AAAAAAAAB30/7LdPBuxfSuc/s400/DSCN3113.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Weekend market at Palermo Soho&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-X3u7BJTYFM8/TrqgYjMKNEI/AAAAAAAAB3s/L2ONjLlHZP4/s1600/DSCN3099.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-X3u7BJTYFM8/TrqgYjMKNEI/AAAAAAAAB3s/L2ONjLlHZP4/s400/DSCN3099.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Mausoleums at La Recoleta Cemetry&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5mIydAhMSWE/TrqgTwThGlI/AAAAAAAAB3k/qCjbGi5zORo/s1600/DSCN3096.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5mIydAhMSWE/TrqgTwThGlI/AAAAAAAAB3k/qCjbGi5zORo/s400/DSCN3096.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Evita Peron&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-emee4Xq00kc/TrqgAaZgRcI/AAAAAAAAB28/jz0KyVbqn1M/s1600/DSCN3075.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-emee4Xq00kc/TrqgAaZgRcI/AAAAAAAAB28/jz0KyVbqn1M/s400/DSCN3075.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Caminito street in La Boca&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KojYKMosif8/TrqgD3QeRJI/AAAAAAAAB3E/d12OwULT8tk/s1600/DSCN3076.JPG" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KojYKMosif8/TrqgD3QeRJI/AAAAAAAAB3E/d12OwULT8tk/s320/DSCN3076.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-djqLdnO0nEI/TrqgGiWL-KI/AAAAAAAAB3M/HsQ6fWWr29c/s1600/DSCN3078.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-djqLdnO0nEI/TrqgGiWL-KI/AAAAAAAAB3M/HsQ6fWWr29c/s400/DSCN3078.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Tango couple&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-szthZsgjS6g/TrqgMCVr6QI/AAAAAAAAB3U/e8OGy2WmG8Y/s1600/DSCN3082.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-szthZsgjS6g/TrqgMCVr6QI/AAAAAAAAB3U/e8OGy2WmG8Y/s400/DSCN3082.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Say cheese!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n52yrGWKH6M/TrqgPT8dxNI/AAAAAAAAB3c/we2dtppSFRs/s1600/DSCN3087.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n52yrGWKH6M/TrqgPT8dxNI/AAAAAAAAB3c/we2dtppSFRs/s400/DSCN3087.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Stadium of Boca Juniors soccer team&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FS9wAxWpSPQ/TrqgmMeElMI/AAAAAAAAB4E/C23F3NuwZ20/s1600/DSCN3125.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FS9wAxWpSPQ/TrqgmMeElMI/AAAAAAAAB4E/C23F3NuwZ20/s400/DSCN3125.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;At a demonstration for equal rights&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LOUIlUBTSUM/TrqghI092hI/AAAAAAAAB38/Mw1ilisYbBA/s1600/DSCN3124.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LOUIlUBTSUM/TrqghI092hI/AAAAAAAAB38/Mw1ilisYbBA/s400/DSCN3124.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;He's been creative!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tLK-W9eoS5o/TrqgqW3uk9I/AAAAAAAAB4M/2iT7ggBQNNc/s1600/DSCN3126.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tLK-W9eoS5o/TrqgqW3uk9I/AAAAAAAAB4M/2iT7ggBQNNc/s400/DSCN3126.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2nmWAVRo02o/TrqguGx8TwI/AAAAAAAAB4U/xADyzYtzGOo/s1600/DSCN3123.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2nmWAVRo02o/TrqguGx8TwI/AAAAAAAAB4U/xADyzYtzGOo/s400/DSCN3123.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Green!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;Leaving Buenos Aires behind us we took the ferry boat to Colonias, a small old town in Uruguay, just across the Rio Plata.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Met de ferryboot vertrokken we uit Buenos Aires en staken we de Rio Plata over naar Colonias, een leuk klein dorpje in Uruguay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Uw8VMrW3XOc/TrqhIcA-cKI/AAAAAAAAB5E/ZxJYfzZmsY4/s1600/DSCN3187.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Uw8VMrW3XOc/TrqhIcA-cKI/AAAAAAAAB5E/ZxJYfzZmsY4/s400/DSCN3187.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7um0Jv5SgN0/Trqg-jp96BI/AAAAAAAAB40/njGmNBm5gxQ/s1600/DSCN3171.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7um0Jv5SgN0/Trqg-jp96BI/AAAAAAAAB40/njGmNBm5gxQ/s400/DSCN3171.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RTH6weIFoMw/Trqg6SmVtjI/AAAAAAAAB4s/keLLjYShyMM/s1600/DSCN3152.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RTH6weIFoMw/Trqg6SmVtjI/AAAAAAAAB4s/keLLjYShyMM/s400/DSCN3152.jpg" width="298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Qf59RNwhoTs/TrqgyqkWirI/AAAAAAAAB4c/lPpDispgZ_Y/s1600/DSCN3135.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Qf59RNwhoTs/TrqgyqkWirI/AAAAAAAAB4c/lPpDispgZ_Y/s400/DSCN3135.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gR_pgZsnqIw/Trqg2TXl9PI/AAAAAAAAB4k/smhW_k7TZp0/s1600/DSCN3143.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gR_pgZsnqIw/Trqg2TXl9PI/AAAAAAAAB4k/smhW_k7TZp0/s400/DSCN3143.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Enjoying a good glass of wine and calamaris&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gm7LdgdU0G4/TrqhCVWDCSI/AAAAAAAAB48/ZCA1ZEh79Y4/s1600/DSCN3184.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gm7LdgdU0G4/TrqhCVWDCSI/AAAAAAAAB48/ZCA1ZEh79Y4/s400/DSCN3184.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Uruguayan flag&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;After a few hours roaming the streets, we took a car to Montevideo, an almost 2 hour drive. Unfortunately no pictures of this trip through the beautiful countryside...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Na een paar uurtjes door dit stadje te hebben gelopen, gingen we met een auto naar Montevideo, een rit van 2 uurtjes. Helaas geen foto's genomen van het mooi boerenland waar we doorheen reden...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JUjQirM4Cf0/TrqhMNzoDAI/AAAAAAAAB5M/dTvpyzBL1gY/s1600/DSCN3195.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JUjQirM4Cf0/TrqhMNzoDAI/AAAAAAAAB5M/dTvpyzBL1gY/s400/DSCN3195.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;In Montevideo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LFcESK3hU-I/TrqhaPqbZFI/AAAAAAAAB5k/5bP4oEzZXQQ/s1600/DSCN3201.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LFcESK3hU-I/TrqhaPqbZFI/AAAAAAAAB5k/5bP4oEzZXQQ/s400/DSCN3201.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pEnP5T3fgu4/TrqhQOakzCI/AAAAAAAAB5U/SSNfpRdBuaI/s1600/DSCN3197.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pEnP5T3fgu4/TrqhQOakzCI/AAAAAAAAB5U/SSNfpRdBuaI/s400/DSCN3197.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;mural with painting of Torres García&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TBRtI0DHwig/TrqhUlOhR4I/AAAAAAAAB5c/D4hUMfna1sQ/s1600/DSCN3200.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TBRtI0DHwig/TrqhUlOhR4I/AAAAAAAAB5c/D4hUMfna1sQ/s400/DSCN3200.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Lucky locks to keep your loved one with you&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qVvWC9o8Ssw/TrqwPfngELI/AAAAAAAAB6M/NTlWybJxOSw/s1600/DSCN3198.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qVvWC9o8Ssw/TrqwPfngELI/AAAAAAAAB6M/NTlWybJxOSw/s400/DSCN3198.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Plaza Indepedencia, old and new come together&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5zcq_7rPXxA/TrqwSeRLHqI/AAAAAAAAB6U/ayzPuq-cRAU/s1600/DSCN3216.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5zcq_7rPXxA/TrqwSeRLHqI/AAAAAAAAB6U/ayzPuq-cRAU/s400/DSCN3216.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;old houses being renovated&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uNaKCuoAt1c/TrqhjLfTYCI/AAAAAAAAB50/4gmyiTWv0IU/s1600/DSCN3212.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uNaKCuoAt1c/TrqhjLfTYCI/AAAAAAAAB50/4gmyiTWv0IU/s400/DSCN3212.JPG" style="cursor: move;" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;After a bike ride along the coast, Montevideo in the distance&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;I did not see any quilts at the arts markets in the cities but I bought a nice knitted scarf I want to copy! I am fully recharged and ready to start new projects!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quilts heb ik niet gezien op de vele kunstmarktjes maar ik heb wel een leuke gebreide sjaal gekocht die ik wil namaken. Ik ben weer helemaal vol nieuwe energie en heb er weer zin in! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil! Hilde&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-2708637121111759198?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/2708637121111759198/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=2708637121111759198&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/2708637121111759198'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/2708637121111759198'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/11/recharged.html' title='Recharged!'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WBSUwtKge9U/TrqkfXJVEOI/AAAAAAAAB58/2XZY-x7Kd3A/s72-c/karte-0-9012-en.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-8659054118286148350</id><published>2011-11-02T13:34:00.001-02:00</published><updated>2011-11-02T13:34:55.002-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Home'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Singapore'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Show and Tell'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='batiks'/><title type='text'>Fresh air</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qXbcTASPjGI/TrEp6cc4QkI/AAAAAAAAB08/Qun7INyPNP8/s1600/DSCN3043.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qXbcTASPjGI/TrEp6cc4QkI/AAAAAAAAB08/Qun7INyPNP8/s400/DSCN3043.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Bem vindo!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;In São Paulo we live in an apartment on the 8th floor, the highest of this building. There is only one apartment on each floor, so when you step out of the elevator, you step right into my world. Full with memories of our nomad life with some quilts in between. Time to shake them out and get some fresh air!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;In São Paulo wonen wij op de 8ste, de bovenste verdieping. Elke verdieping heeft maar 1 appartement, dus als je uit de lift komt, stap je zo maar binnen in mijn wereldje. Deze staat vol herinneringen uit ons zwerversbestaan, met af en toe een quilt er tussenin. Hoog tijd om ze eens uit te schudden en te laten luchten!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G8eqVGCddhM/TrEqBUg8TNI/AAAAAAAAB1E/bnsYeSrfr28/s1600/DSCN3048.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G8eqVGCddhM/TrEqBUg8TNI/AAAAAAAAB1E/bnsYeSrfr28/s400/DSCN3048.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The Japanese monk keeps guard&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pcH0ZO--M_4/TrFDT4s-ItI/AAAAAAAAB1U/DgxbsVdRZSU/s1600/DSCN3050.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pcH0ZO--M_4/TrFDT4s-ItI/AAAAAAAAB1U/DgxbsVdRZSU/s400/DSCN3050.jpg" width="365" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The kimono quilt I made together with &lt;a href="http://expatquilterreturnshome.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;her&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; while living in Singapore. We shared the fabrics but the quilts were very different when they were finished. This was my first attempt to quilt by machine.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Deze kimono quilt heb ik in Singapore gemaakt, samen met &lt;a href="http://expatquilterreturnshome.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;haar&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. We deelden de stofjes maar toch werden onze quils heel verschillend. Dit was trouwens mijn eerste poging om te quilten met de machine. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DX4Lwc0w9rI/TrEgCEH8EhI/AAAAAAAAB00/8RsgxtZCie0/s1600/Bintang+Batik+Quilt+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DX4Lwc0w9rI/TrEgCEH8EhI/AAAAAAAAB00/8RsgxtZCie0/s400/Bintang+Batik+Quilt+%25282%2529.jpg" width="396" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Batik Bintan&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Batik Star quilt was made for a quilt challenge in Singapore. It is game of 8, 6 and 5 point stars and if you look close, circles and squares are coming out. At that time I was living in Saigon, Vietnam, but was still in close contact with the girls of the &lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://anzaquilters.blogspot.com/"&gt;ANZA quilt&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/u&gt; in Singapore. I still miss their vibe but thanks to blogging I can still be inspired by their stories.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Deze Batik Sterren quilt heb ik gemaakt voor een quilters wedstrijd in Singapore. Het is een spel van 8, 6 en 5 puntige sterren en samen vormen ze opnieuw cirkels en vierkanten. Ik woonde toen al in Saigon, Vietnam, maar had nog veel kontakt met de &lt;a href="http://anzaquilters.blogspot.com/" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;ANZA quiltgroep&lt;/a&gt; in Singapore. Nog steeds mis ik de geweldige energie die uit deze groep voort kwam, maar dankzij weblogs kan ik nog steeds genieten van hun quilts en verhalen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6m5JBJbpwpo/TrFDP4R4v5I/AAAAAAAAB1M/7SXgqKFpynI/s1600/DSCN3049.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6m5JBJbpwpo/TrFDP4R4v5I/AAAAAAAAB1M/7SXgqKFpynI/s400/DSCN3049.JPG" width="355" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Antique piece&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The third quilt on the ladder is given to me by my aunt who lives in Michigan. It's an antique one she bought a long time ago and thought I would like it. She brought it when she came to visit me in Vietnam. I love it! It is all hand pieced, quilted and repaired. And especially those repaired patches makes this quilt so touching.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;De laatste quilt op deze ladder heb ik gekregen van mijn tante uit Michigan. Het is een antieke quilt die ze lang geleden eens gekocht heeft. Toen ze bij mij op visite kwam in Saigon, nam ze hem voor me mee, ze dacht dat ik het wel mooi zou vinden. Nou en of, ik ben er heel blij mee! Het is met de hand gemaakt, gequilt en gerepareerd. Vooral de kleine reparaties maken deze quilt zo leuk.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9JCwXJ46xzE/TrFDfxCeAhI/AAAAAAAAB1s/qEBFJxSMmQo/s1600/DSCN3053.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9JCwXJ46xzE/TrFDfxCeAhI/AAAAAAAAB1s/qEBFJxSMmQo/s400/DSCN3053.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Repair patch&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Well, the dust is shaken off and the quilts are back in the little hallway.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;DH needs to travel to Buenos Aires, Argentine, and Montevideo, Uruguay, for business. He will need to work all days but wants me to come along... YES! My two hairy monsters are going to stay at a dog boarding house with a garden, just outside São Paulo and I will be away for the next coming days. The physio taped my back, the doctor gave me painkillers just in case and I am going to get some fresh air and reload my batteries! See you later! &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Zo, de dekens zijn gelucht en hangen weer op hun plekje in het halletje. DH moet op zakenreis naar Buenos Aires, Argentinië, en Montevideo, Uruguay. Hij zal alle dagen moeten werken maar hij wil wel graag dat ik mee ga.... YES! Mijn twee harige monsters gaan uit logeren bij een hondenpension met tuin, net even buiten São Paulo en ik ben lekker even weg. De fysio heeft mijn rug getaped, de dokter heeft pijnstillers meegegeven voor het geval dat en ik ga even verse lucht bijtanken. Tot laters!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4GaMWMqQ-rc/TrFc7nKXduI/AAAAAAAAB18/0SGq44Z5C3o/s1600/DSCN3034.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="347" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4GaMWMqQ-rc/TrFc7nKXduI/AAAAAAAAB18/0SGq44Z5C3o/s400/DSCN3034.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Tot volgende week!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-8659054118286148350?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/8659054118286148350/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=8659054118286148350&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/8659054118286148350'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/8659054118286148350'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/11/fresh-air.html' title='Fresh air'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qXbcTASPjGI/TrEp6cc4QkI/AAAAAAAAB08/Qun7INyPNP8/s72-c/DSCN3043.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-5414615224537417280</id><published>2011-10-30T13:24:00.000-02:00</published><updated>2011-10-30T13:24:45.901-02:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Halloween!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4J8lwccJV_g/Tq1qbB7B7vI/AAAAAAAAB0s/kH3bjH83oXY/s1600/slide_194450_428314_large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4J8lwccJV_g/Tq1qbB7B7vI/AAAAAAAAB0s/kH3bjH83oXY/s400/slide_194450_428314_large.jpg" width="366" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="280" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3sSlQ87chM0/Tq1p_7xwL-I/AAAAAAAAB0c/LHMvr4yUtHM/s400/fire+dog.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;More pictures from Tompkins Square Park Halloween Dog Parade in NYC &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/24/tompkins-square-park-hall_n_1028438.html#s428314"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-5414615224537417280?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/5414615224537417280/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=5414615224537417280&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/5414615224537417280'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/5414615224537417280'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/10/happy-halloween.html' title='Happy Halloween!'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4J8lwccJV_g/Tq1qbB7B7vI/AAAAAAAAB0s/kH3bjH83oXY/s72-c/slide_194450_428314_large.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-4965453139571994778</id><published>2011-10-28T16:41:00.001-02:00</published><updated>2011-10-29T11:11:52.686-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pies and Tarts'/><title type='text'>Pies on the table</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Slowly there are more pies coming out of my hands. Most quilters make this recipe with an off white background, but I want it to be green! ;) I started out with mainly blue coloured slices, but decided to add some spices to make it a bit more tasty. Because that's what we need to do ones in a while: spice it up!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wI7czK3mEGs/Tqrk3Ys7_2I/AAAAAAAAByc/WDJliwRQI0w/s1600/DSCN3024.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wI7czK3mEGs/Tqrk3Ys7_2I/AAAAAAAAByc/WDJliwRQI0w/s400/DSCN3024.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Langzaam komen er meer taartjes bij. De meeste quilters volgen het originele recept en gebruiken een lichte achtergrond, maar ik wil natuurlijk weer wat anders: groen! ;) In het begin waren er alleen maar blauwe taartpuntjes maar nu zit er wat meer pit bijgeroerd.&amp;nbsp; Dat is tenslotte wat we nodig hebben: meer kleur en smaak om de boel een beetje op te vrolijken!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Last week I was a bit depressed because of the bad situation with my back. I went to see a chiropractor and fortunately he was able to manipulate my spine a bit and slowly there is some improvement, but I still have to be careful. Maybe it is better that nobody has rung the doorbell for a workshop so far. There is interest, but no follow up. We will see, but the days are very quiet. Just have to be patient till I can run around again as I used to do. So, make some more pies!!!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_qNPyVdlSMo/Tqrk7kd3VkI/AAAAAAAAByk/4D3vk0GnqrE/s1600/DSCN3026.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_qNPyVdlSMo/Tqrk7kd3VkI/AAAAAAAAByk/4D3vk0GnqrE/s400/DSCN3026.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vorige week zag ik het even niet meer zitten door oa mijn pijnlijke rug. Gelukkig heb ik een chiropracter gevonden die mijn rug heeft behandeld en nu gaat het een beetje beter. Neemt niet weg dat het erg stil is. Maar misschien is het ook wel beter zo, dat er zich nog niemand gemeld heeft voor een workshop. Er is wel interesse, maar niemand meld zich. Ach, we zien wel. Ik moet gewoon nog even doorzettenn en me koest houden totdat ik weer als vanouds kan rondrennen. Dus, gewoon nog wat meer taartjes maken!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ijE2JbH6nqQ/Tqv7XXXC3tI/AAAAAAAABzk/CgbtCE3aWD4/s1600/DSCN3027.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ijE2JbH6nqQ/Tqv7XXXC3tI/AAAAAAAABzk/CgbtCE3aWD4/s400/DSCN3027.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-4965453139571994778?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/4965453139571994778/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=4965453139571994778&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/4965453139571994778'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/4965453139571994778'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/10/pies-on-table.html' title='Pies on the table'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wI7czK3mEGs/Tqrk3Ys7_2I/AAAAAAAAByc/WDJliwRQI0w/s72-c/DSCN3024.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-9211290696742768809</id><published>2011-10-25T17:51:00.003-02:00</published><updated>2011-10-26T07:55:49.721-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Show and Tell'/><title type='text'>A welcome visitor!</title><content type='html'>&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4KJbnOPz-T4/TqblW0ubCEI/AAAAAAAABxI/wkPEkOZU_KU/s1600/DSCN3019.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4KJbnOPz-T4/TqblW0ubCEI/AAAAAAAABxI/wkPEkOZU_KU/s400/DSCN3019.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;our projects at the table&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;Thanks for all your heartwarming replies and emails, it made me cheer up again! Some sent some nice links to websites for inspiration and others even wanted to jump in the plane for a visit! But not until I can walk &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;again &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;for a longer distance so we can go and explore the city of São Paulo.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-R7Y42EIDA8k/TqblcEbjDqI/AAAAAAAABxQ/zqICWqqWSXg/s1600/DSCN3021.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-R7Y42EIDA8k/TqblcEbjDqI/AAAAAAAABxQ/zqICWqqWSXg/s400/DSCN3021.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;her almost finished quilt based on &lt;a href="http://annbrauer.blogspot.com/"&gt;Ann Brauwer's&lt;/a&gt; (click)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Wat een lieve reakties en emailtjes, ik werd er helemaal weer blij van! Sommigen stuurden links door van leuke websites voor inspiratie en anderen wilden zo in het vliegtuig springen om op bezoek te komen! Maar beter om even te wachten tot ik weer helemaal mobiel ben, dan kunnen we samen São Paulo verder gaan ontdekken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GvOmOARIBto/TqfYnxXVbqI/AAAAAAAABxg/0sqC0Wo3i3s/s1600/IMG_1042.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GvOmOARIBto/TqfYnxXVbqI/AAAAAAAABxg/0sqC0Wo3i3s/s400/IMG_1042.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Can I keep this one? Please??&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;Over the last few months I got to know an English lady who likes to quilt as well and makes &lt;a href="http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/06/more-inspiration.html" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;lovely quilts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;(click) in vibrant colours. Yesterday I asked her if she wanted to come over and there she was with some show and tell!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Een paar maanden geleden heb ik een Engelse quiltster leren kennen die leuke &lt;a href="http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/06/more-inspiration.html" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;kleurrijke quilts&lt;/a&gt; (klik) maakt. Toen ik haar gisteren vroeg of ze zin had om langs te komen, zei ze meteen ja. Vanmorgen was ze er en liet meteen haar projecten zien.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;She showed me her crazy patchwork dog toys and Bickel, my standard schnauzer, wanted to keep this one! No no, you have to wait a little bit as other dogs ordered these toys already!&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;Here is a biscuit, good boy!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ze liet haar crazy patchwork hondenspeeltje zien en Bickel, mijn lieve standard schauzer, loopt er zo mee weg! Nee, nog even wachten, deze zijn al besteld door andere hondjes! Hier heb je een koekje, brave hond!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Aahh, this was just what I needed after feeling low: getting out of my shelter and take some action. When my back is getting better, we will go exploring more quilt shops in town! I need to be a bit more patient ;)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dit was dus precies wat ik nodig had: uit mijn schuilplaats komen en weer actie ondernemen. Als mijn rug weer beter is, gaan we op onderzoek uit naar quiltwinkels in de stad. Ik moet gewoon nog even een beetje meer geduld opbrengen ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Ciao from Brasil, Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-9211290696742768809?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/9211290696742768809/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=9211290696742768809&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/9211290696742768809'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/9211290696742768809'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/10/welcome-visitor.html' title='A welcome visitor!'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4KJbnOPz-T4/TqblW0ubCEI/AAAAAAAABxI/wkPEkOZU_KU/s72-c/DSCN3019.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total><georss:featurename>Sao Paulo - São Paulo, Brazil</georss:featurename><georss:point>-23.5489433 -46.6388182</georss:point><georss:box>-24.014749300000002 -47.270532200000005 -23.0831373 -46.0071042</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-4209620395641939196</id><published>2011-10-23T12:58:00.000-02:00</published><updated>2011-10-28T22:26:36.712-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pies and Tarts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Moving'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='São Paulo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Brazil'/><title type='text'>Looking for my mojo...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QND2vMGRhlE/TqQXLzippHI/AAAAAAAABwo/K2bb8ze-73U/s1600/DSCN3009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QND2vMGRhlE/TqQXLzippHI/AAAAAAAABwo/K2bb8ze-73U/s400/DSCN3009.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;It's not there at the moment, my drive and appetite to climb all (fabric) mountains and get into the spirit of tackling all loose threads. It is nothing special, we all suffer it every now and then, but this time it is a deeper dip: living in São Paulo is not piece of cake!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XEH5gS4Nc_8/TqQXQklusJI/AAAAAAAABww/fvMflLOwXwE/s1600/DSCN3011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XEH5gS4Nc_8/TqQXQklusJI/AAAAAAAABww/fvMflLOwXwE/s400/DSCN3011.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Het is er even niet meer, de zin om (stoffen) bergen te beklimmen en de draadjes aan elkaar te verbinden. Het wonen in São Paulo is gewoon niet makkelijk. We hebben allemaal wel eens dat het een tijdje minder gaat, maar wonen in deze stad valt mij erg zwaar. Ik zit in een dip.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;I miss my family and friends and someone who triggers my mojo. Speaking Portuguese is such a hurdle. Retail shopping for fabrics would be good these days, but every thing is a bit outdated or simply too expensive.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gWfaMdTAZjU/TqQXUqmG8pI/AAAAAAAABw4/PUYg67iKSF0/s1600/DSCN3016.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gWfaMdTAZjU/TqQXUqmG8pI/AAAAAAAABw4/PUYg67iKSF0/s400/DSCN3016.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ik mis mijn familie en vrienden en iemand die mij weer energie geeft om door te gaan. De Portugese taal blijft een struikelblok en eens even lekker stofjes gaan kopen als medicijn, is niet echt een optie: de lokale stofjes hier zijn behoorlijk ouderwets of de geimporteerde erg duur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EXJzQscr9U0/TqQXZP3mkVI/AAAAAAAABxA/cp7aELrwQwA/s1600/DSCN3017.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EXJzQscr9U0/TqQXZP3mkVI/AAAAAAAABxA/cp7aELrwQwA/s400/DSCN3017.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;A painful back does not help, and it takes so long to get up again. DH is a big support but works 80 hours a week and without my other dear ones it is quite a lonely walk. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;But I know I will get better and find my mojo again. Maybe it is hiding in one of those stacks of fabrics...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Een pijnlijke rug helpt natuurlijk niet mee, en het duurt nu al zo lang. DH doet wat hij kan maar moet ook 80 uur per week werken. Echt, zo in mijn uppie duurt het wel erg lang. Maar ik weet dat ik er weer uitkom en mijn inspiratie weer terug vind. Misschien heeft het zich wel ergens in deze stapeltjes verstopt....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brasil, Hilde&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-4209620395641939196?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/4209620395641939196/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=4209620395641939196&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/4209620395641939196'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/4209620395641939196'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/10/looking-for-my-mojo.html' title='Looking for my mojo...'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QND2vMGRhlE/TqQXLzippHI/AAAAAAAABwo/K2bb8ze-73U/s72-c/DSCN3009.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total><georss:featurename>Sao Paulo - São Paulo, Brazil</georss:featurename><georss:point>-23.5489433 -46.6388182</georss:point><georss:box>-24.014749300000002 -47.270532200000005 -23.0831373 -46.0071042</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-4738063536605710539</id><published>2011-10-13T11:15:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2011-10-13T11:15:43.332-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pies and Tarts'/><title type='text'>Slowing down</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;Time out! I have been ignoring my back making boxes and now I have a sciatic nerve syndrome. Bummer! Just continued making boxes for too long to have some stock for the bazaar from last week. My back was getting worse and worse. Sitting on a comfy chair and stitching along, is what I have to do for some time.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bRi5yn2a4FY/Tpbs8ZSqWkI/AAAAAAAABwU/LVaCrTTCljw/s1600/DSCN2986.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bRi5yn2a4FY/Tpbs8ZSqWkI/AAAAAAAABwU/LVaCrTTCljw/s400/DSCN2986.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even gas terug, ik ben te lang doorgegaan met een pijnlijke rug, en nu heb ik ischias. Balen! Gewoon te lang doorgegaan met dozen maken voor de bazaar en de andere dingen. Nu dus even heel weinig doen, veel zitten op de tuinstoel en alles onder handbereik. Maar dan krijg je wel allerlei kleine klusjes geklaard! Deze twee deurhangertjes hebben nog een lintje en een knoopje nodig. Als ik straks weer wat beter kan lopen, ga ik naar de handwerkzaak in de buurt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uETCDlkgt3M/Tpbs4LJPxHI/AAAAAAAABwM/_wu3I-tFLx0/s1600/DSCN2985.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uETCDlkgt3M/Tpbs4LJPxHI/AAAAAAAABwM/_wu3I-tFLx0/s400/DSCN2985.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;with some lavender inside....&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;These two door-hangers are almost finished, they just need a ribbon and a small button.When I can walk longer distances I will go to the shop to buy them.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rq7M4PQWlqA/TpbtB7Oc24I/AAAAAAAABwc/UNmj7UK8RM4/s1600/DSCN2987.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rq7M4PQWlqA/TpbtB7Oc24I/AAAAAAAABwc/UNmj7UK8RM4/s400/DSCN2987.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Maybe I can finish the pies &amp;amp; tarts quilt! Slowing down?? ;))&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Misschien lukt het me wel om de pies &amp;amp; tarts af te maken! Hoezo rustig aan?? :))&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-4738063536605710539?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/4738063536605710539/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=4738063536605710539&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/4738063536605710539'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/4738063536605710539'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/10/slowing-down.html' title='Slowing down'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bRi5yn2a4FY/Tpbs8ZSqWkI/AAAAAAAABwU/LVaCrTTCljw/s72-c/DSCN2986.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-8353306296088039552</id><published>2011-10-05T17:28:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2011-10-28T17:26:37.347-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Boxes'/><title type='text'>It was good!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O9etxCT4uuA/Toy3nWpzvbI/AAAAAAAABv4/6eVOV-Tw3ec/s1600/DSCN2978.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O9etxCT4uuA/Toy3nWpzvbI/AAAAAAAABv4/6eVOV-Tw3ec/s400/DSCN2978.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;At first I thought I was at the wrong place. For the first part of the morning there was hardly any interest for my boxes and workshops. Fair enough I thought, I am not selling any trinkets, but they would fit inside my boxes though!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;But then suddenly it became busy with happy ladies asking when the first workshop is going to take place! And nine boxes found a new home!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Zff4CUCbxTs/Toy3yjbnO3I/AAAAAAAABwE/Dxa670o4qck/s1600/DSCN2981.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Zff4CUCbxTs/Toy3yjbnO3I/AAAAAAAABwE/Dxa670o4qck/s320/DSCN2981.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eerst dacht ik van wat doe ik hier! In het begin van de ochtend werd er amper een blik geworpen op mijn tafel, er was meer oog voor glimmende ringetjes ed. Prima, dacht ik toen, dan maar niet, ben ik weer wat wijzer. Hoewel ze wel in mijn doosjes passen!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maar toen werd het opeens druk met enthousiaste vrouwen die graag een workshop willen doen en zich afvroegen wanneer en waar het gaat gebeuren! En negen doosjes vonden een nieuw huis!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e-V4Yd7R90s/Toy3q-AzssI/AAAAAAAABv8/cojLuKYyRd0/s1600/DSCN2979.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e-V4Yd7R90s/Toy3q-AzssI/AAAAAAAABv8/cojLuKYyRd0/s400/DSCN2979.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;close up of my table&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ggqiozt6hYQ/Toy3vJcwAKI/AAAAAAAABwA/pizVK3E9BGY/s1600/DSCN2980.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ggqiozt6hYQ/Toy3vJcwAKI/AAAAAAAABwA/pizVK3E9BGY/s400/DSCN2980.jpg" width="331" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;I am back home and a bit tired. Time for a cup of tea and put my feet up and relax with a little bit of cross stitch work.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ik ben weer thuis. Voor nu even met de voetjes op de bank, een kop thee onder handbereik en even bijkomen met een klein borduurwerkje.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B_1fu9zGEQA/Toy33thWXXI/AAAAAAAABwI/Whmq0iEwzv4/s1600/DSCN2982.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B_1fu9zGEQA/Toy33thWXXI/AAAAAAAABwI/Whmq0iEwzv4/s400/DSCN2982.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-8353306296088039552?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/8353306296088039552/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=8353306296088039552&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/8353306296088039552'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/8353306296088039552'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/10/it-was-good.html' title='It was good!'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O9etxCT4uuA/Toy3nWpzvbI/AAAAAAAABv4/6eVOV-Tw3ec/s72-c/DSCN2978.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-8540973687222889203</id><published>2011-10-04T14:08:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2011-10-28T22:25:13.585-02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='São Paulo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Boxes'/><title type='text'>Packing my suitcase</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7BtFNovG7HA/Tos9xYOp7UI/AAAAAAAABv0/JWcScaQlXF8/s1600/DSCN2977.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7BtFNovG7HA/Tos9xYOp7UI/AAAAAAAABv0/JWcScaQlXF8/s400/DSCN2977.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;with boxes this time. It is finally going to happen: tomorrow I will be at the Bazaar for an international women's group in São Paulo. The first time I wanted to go, I was still traveling and the second time my back was too painful. This is my third attempt, so that must be a good omen! ;)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;I am a bit nervous of how the response will be. I have to be there on time, not to forget a little notebook, my business cards, workshop info, etc. But first I have to wrap the boxes carefully before closing the suitcase.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Next time I will give you an update!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mijn koffer ligt deze keer klaar om gepakt te worden met dozen! Het gaat er eindelijk van komen: morgen sta ik op de Bazaar van een internationale vrouwenclub in São Paulo. De eerste keer dat ik wilde gaan, kon ik niet omdat ik wat langer in NL bleef en de tweede keer had ik teveel last van mijn rug. Dit is mijn derde poging dus wie weet, brengt het geluk! ;)&lt;br /&gt;Ik ben wel een beetje zenuwachtig hoe de reacties zullen zijn. Ik moet er op tijd zijn, mijn opschrijfboekje niet vergeten, mijn kaartjes, workshop info, etc...&lt;br /&gt;Maar nu eerst even alle dozen met beschermpapier inpakken.&lt;br /&gt;Volgende keer een verslag! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil! Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-8540973687222889203?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/8540973687222889203/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=8540973687222889203&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/8540973687222889203'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/8540973687222889203'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/10/packing-my-suitcase.html' title='Packing my suitcase'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7BtFNovG7HA/Tos9xYOp7UI/AAAAAAAABv0/JWcScaQlXF8/s72-c/DSCN2977.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total><georss:featurename>Sao Paulo - São Paulo, Brazil</georss:featurename><georss:point>-23.5489433 -46.6388182</georss:point><georss:box>-24.014749300000002 -47.270532200000005 -23.0831373 -46.0071042</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-4937155821000637702</id><published>2011-10-01T12:40:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2011-10-01T12:40:55.327-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Graffiti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gigante'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='São Paulo'/><title type='text'>For a special person</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;My teacher Portuguese is a very special person for me. I got to know her through a Dutch friend who, unfortunately, left Brazil last week. My teacher comes to my house once a week and wants me to get to know the other side of São Paulo.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mijn lerares Portugees heeft bij mij een speciaal plekje. Ik heb haar leren kennen via een Nederlandse vriendin die helaas vorige week Brazilië heeft verlaten. Mijn lerares komt eens in de week bij mij thuis en wil graag dat ik de andere kant van São Paulo leer kennen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;She understands very well the ups and downs of being an expat in São Paulo. Every now and then she takes me into town and shows me the good sides of São Paulo. It really is not only traffic jams, air pollution, ugly grey buildings and crime. There is more but you only have to know where it is hiding! She is the one who showed me (or is it introduced me to?) The Giant!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ze begrijpt de ups en downs van het expatleven in São Paulo maar al te goed. Af en toe neemt ze mij de stad in aan laat de leuke kanten van de stad zien. Het is echt niet alleen maar verkeerschaos, luchtvervuiling, lelijke grijze gebouwen en criminaliteit. Er is meer maar je moet het wel weten te vinden! Zij is degene geweest die mij de Giant heeft laten zien!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;After making &lt;a href="http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/09/ta-dah.html" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;the Giant quilt&lt;/a&gt;, she was wondering if I could&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;make her an applique on a t-shirt...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Na het zien van de &lt;a href="http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/09/ta-dah.html" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Giant quilt&lt;/a&gt; vroeg ze zich af of ik misschien&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;een applicatie op een t-shirt kon maken...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7OGhoZZ5734/Tocq4G39sMI/AAAAAAAABvs/dP3XzJEG2EQ/s1600/DSCN2957.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7OGhoZZ5734/Tocq4G39sMI/AAAAAAAABvs/dP3XzJEG2EQ/s320/DSCN2957.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bX6-889OATg/Tocq0YfBy_I/AAAAAAAABvo/XuOthFP0fPQ/s1600/DSCN2954.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bX6-889OATg/Tocq0YfBy_I/AAAAAAAABvo/XuOthFP0fPQ/s320/DSCN2954.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2FWSbjFk6Ow/Tocq69hXNhI/AAAAAAAABvw/hrHeOZYBqMo/s1600/DSCN2959.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2FWSbjFk6Ow/Tocq69hXNhI/AAAAAAAABvw/hrHeOZYBqMo/s320/DSCN2959.jpg" width="286" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="pt"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Cara Mel, obrigada por ser&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;tão paciente&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps"&gt;comigo!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="pt"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-4937155821000637702?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/4937155821000637702/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=4937155821000637702&amp;isPopup=true' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/4937155821000637702'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/4937155821000637702'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/10/for-special-person.html' title='For a special person'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7OGhoZZ5734/Tocq4G39sMI/AAAAAAAABvs/dP3XzJEG2EQ/s72-c/DSCN2957.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-5211430288527552222</id><published>2011-09-24T11:21:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2011-10-01T12:41:29.216-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Graffiti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gigante'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Singapore'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='São Paulo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='batiks'/><title type='text'>Twin Brothers (Os Gemeos)</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-saHSdTbUX4I/Tn3iwIYGNXI/AAAAAAAABuk/60DpsJaCRsw/s1600/DSCN2922.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-saHSdTbUX4I/Tn3iwIYGNXI/AAAAAAAABuk/60DpsJaCRsw/s400/DSCN2922.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Spot the difference!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;No, you do not squint, there are two on the table!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;After putting a picture on Facebook, a friend asked for a twin brother of the Giant, as a present for a just born baby in Singapore! Isn't that nice?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Nee, je kijkt niet scheel hoor, er liggen er twee op de tafel!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Nadat ik een foto op Facebook had gezet, kreeg ik het verzoek om een tweelingbroertje te maken van de Giant om als kraamkadootje op&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;te sturen naar Singapore! Leuk he!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_wV1yPBoZ5k/Tn3i1V5YK7I/AAAAAAAABuo/V0wE9eK92sM/s1600/DSCN2925.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_wV1yPBoZ5k/Tn3i1V5YK7I/AAAAAAAABuo/V0wE9eK92sM/s400/DSCN2925.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ns2UNICnjqk/Tn3i6LH497I/AAAAAAAABus/N5p0qoC4rEg/s1600/DSCN2928.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ns2UNICnjqk/Tn3i6LH497I/AAAAAAAABus/N5p0qoC4rEg/s400/DSCN2928.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Sold!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;The funny thing is that most of the fabrics I used for this quilt are bought in&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Singapore during the time I lived there!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; text-align: center;"&gt;Het grappige is dat de meeste stofjes die ik in deze quilt heb gebruikt, gekocht zijn in Singapore, in de periode dat ik daar woonde!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brasil, Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-5211430288527552222?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/5211430288527552222/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=5211430288527552222&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/5211430288527552222'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/5211430288527552222'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/09/twin-brothers-os-gemeos.html' title='Twin Brothers (Os Gemeos)'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-saHSdTbUX4I/Tn3iwIYGNXI/AAAAAAAABuk/60DpsJaCRsw/s72-c/DSCN2922.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-4673848488354027169</id><published>2011-09-21T22:56:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2011-09-21T22:56:30.230-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Watch out when you read this!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Tr0XbJX2Hmk/TnqP7TRfAjI/AAAAAAAABug/VVBD-M_ErpY/s1600/quiltpox.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="350" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Tr0XbJX2Hmk/TnqP7TRfAjI/AAAAAAAABug/VVBD-M_ErpY/s400/quiltpox.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ha! I love this sign! It is so true! &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;It was hiding in one of my quilt books and it is from the shop where I had my very first quilt lessons, about 23 years ago.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The shop was called 'Stars and Stripes Quilt Co' and was located at Johnson Ferry Road, Marietta, Georgia (USA). I don't think it is still there.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;But I am still under the weather... ;)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Need more treatment!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Ha, ik vind dit kaartje zo leuk! En het klopt ook nog!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Het kaartje zat verstopt in een van mijn quiltboeken en het is van de winkel waar ik 23 jaar geleden mijn eerste quiltlessen volgde.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;De winkel heette 'Stars and Stripes Quilt Co' en was gelegen aan de Johnson Ferry Road in Marietta, Georgia (USA).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Ik geloof dat de winkel niet meer bestaat, maar ik heb&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;het wel nog steeds onder de leden... ;)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Ik heb meer behandeling nodig!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-4673848488354027169?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/4673848488354027169/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=4673848488354027169&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/4673848488354027169'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/4673848488354027169'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/09/watch-out-when-you-read-this.html' title='Watch out when you read this!'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Tr0XbJX2Hmk/TnqP7TRfAjI/AAAAAAAABug/VVBD-M_ErpY/s72-c/quiltpox.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-8430926619472477029</id><published>2011-09-19T14:12:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2011-09-19T14:13:32.168-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Giveaway'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Boxes'/><title type='text'>And the winner is...!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TTNRfa02cww/TnDQvntlJqI/AAAAAAAABuM/c070kgJeUrY/s1600/DSCN2919.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TTNRfa02cww/TnDQvntlJqI/AAAAAAAABuM/c070kgJeUrY/s400/DSCN2919.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;First of all I want to thank all 16 followers who left some kind and lovely comments on my latest anniversary posting!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Unfortunately there can only be one winner of my specially made sewing box and the winner is...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Natuurlijk wil ik eerst de 16 volgers bedanken die lieve en leuke berichtjes hebben achtergelaten op mijn 'mijlpaal' posting van vorige week.&lt;br /&gt;Helaas kan er maar een de winnaar van mijn speciale naaidoosje zijn en dat is geworden....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WfsAAsT68bE/TndzeuQ-3zI/AAAAAAAABuU/n3APxDWp0wU/s1600/Picture+2.png" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://culipatch.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Quilting Mieke!&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;dl class="avatar-comment-indent" id="comments-block"&gt;&lt;dd class="comment-body" id="Blog1_cmt-5713445280689610412"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #38761d;"&gt;piep&lt;br /&gt;wat een mooie doosen die kan een naaldjesvrouw nooit genoeg hebben toch??&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #38761d;"&gt;erg mooi en kleurrijk!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #38761d;"&gt;zal  me een link plaatsen op mijn blog &lt;br /&gt;knuf quiltingmieke&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i style="color: black;"&gt;The box will come your way soonest! &lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Het doosje komt naar je toe!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="color: #38761d;"&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;And now back to normal life. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Time to finish my second &lt;a href="http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/09/ta-dah.html"&gt;Giant quilt&lt;/a&gt; which is ordered for a just born baby!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Nu gaan we weer normaal doen en de 2de &lt;a href="http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/09/ta-dah.html"&gt;Giant quilt&lt;/a&gt; afmaken dat besteld is voor een pasgeboren baby!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brasil! Hilde&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-8430926619472477029?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/8430926619472477029/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=8430926619472477029&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/8430926619472477029'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/8430926619472477029'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/09/and-winner-is.html' title='And the winner is...!'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TTNRfa02cww/TnDQvntlJqI/AAAAAAAABuM/c070kgJeUrY/s72-c/DSCN2919.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-7037288951645879464</id><published>2011-09-14T14:15:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2011-09-14T14:19:08.149-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Giveaway'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Boxes'/><title type='text'>Here is my first Giveaway!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;About 1 year ago, &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;I started my blog about my 2 main passions &lt;span style="color: #351c75;"&gt;box-making&lt;/span&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;quilts&lt;/span&gt; and my move to Brasil and I recently had my 100th post while the visits counter hit the 25.000 marker!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;To thank you all for your visits to my blog, your often inspiring comments and support during the past year I have made a special giveaway present: a small box for your sewing tools with a Brazilian taste!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-j9VRnpiQkfQ/TnDQe6S2NVI/AAAAAAAABt8/k7oypqT-5eM/s1600/DSCN2912.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-j9VRnpiQkfQ/TnDQe6S2NVI/AAAAAAAABt8/k7oypqT-5eM/s320/DSCN2912.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ruim een jaar geleden begon ik deze blog om te vertellen over mijn 2 passies &lt;span style="color: #351c75;"&gt;dozen maken&lt;/span&gt; en &lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;quilten&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt; en mijn verhuizing naar Brazilië&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. Een tijdje terug had ik mijn 100ste post en de bezoekers aantallen passeerden de mijlpaal van 25.000! Om jullie te bedanken voor jullie bezoekjes aan mijn blog, jullie vaak lieve en inspirerende woorden gedurende het afgelopen jaar heb ik een special giveaway kadootje gemaakt: een naaidoosje met een Braziliaanse twist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ccr1FjMzRfI/TnDQjBgU7GI/AAAAAAAABuA/IjPCVwFpmf0/s1600/DSCN2915.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ccr1FjMzRfI/TnDQjBgU7GI/AAAAAAAABuA/IjPCVwFpmf0/s320/DSCN2915.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Brazilian stamps with a design of a sewing lady and a tassel made out of special ribbons from Salvador-Bahia decorating the outside and on the inside a 'patchwork ' of my paper scrap stash and a small pincushion.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Braziliaanse postzegels met een naaister als afbeelding en een 'kwastje' van lintjes uit Salvador-Bahia aan de buitenkant en een patchwork van papieren van mijn restjes stapel aan de binnenkant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DYaFznEqEP8/TnDQs0iToZI/AAAAAAAABuI/1bTpXnCTnq8/s1600/DSCN2918.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DYaFznEqEP8/TnDQs0iToZI/AAAAAAAABuI/1bTpXnCTnq8/s320/DSCN2918.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;What do you need to do to put your name in the hat for this giveaway?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;To enter this giveaway, you must be a follower of my blog and leave a comment telling me you are a follower and why you would like to win this giveaway. If you want to put a note of this giveaway in your own blog, I will be very happy!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Please make sure that I have a way to contact you if you are the winner, such as a link to your blog or an email address.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;This giveaway is open&amp;nbsp;until Sunday September 18th and to&amp;nbsp;anyone, no matter where you live. I will draw a random winner on Monday September 19th.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-22rsSeVEqqE/TnDQyw5Z1yI/AAAAAAAABuQ/uC0sJMbK3lo/s1600/DSCN2920.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-22rsSeVEqqE/TnDQyw5Z1yI/AAAAAAAABuQ/uC0sJMbK3lo/s320/DSCN2920.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Wat moet je doen om mee te kunnen doen aan deze giveaway?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Om mee te doen moet je een volger zijn van mijn blog en een berichtje hieronder achterlaten dat je een volger bent en wat je van deze giveaway vindt. Als je dit wilt door-bloggen op je eigen blog, vindt ik dat super!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zorg ervoor dat je bereikbaar bent met bv een link naar jouw blog of jouw email adres.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deze giveaway is open tot en met zondag 18 september en het maakt niet uit waar je woont. De gelukkige winnaar wordt maandag 19 september bekenbaar gemaakt!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TTNRfa02cww/TnDQvntlJqI/AAAAAAAABuM/c070kgJeUrY/s1600/DSCN2919.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TTNRfa02cww/TnDQvntlJqI/AAAAAAAABuM/c070kgJeUrY/s320/DSCN2919.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brasil, Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-7037288951645879464?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/7037288951645879464/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=7037288951645879464&amp;isPopup=true' title='17 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/7037288951645879464'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/7037288951645879464'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/09/here-is-my-first-giveaway.html' title='Here is my first Giveaway!'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-j9VRnpiQkfQ/TnDQe6S2NVI/AAAAAAAABt8/k7oypqT-5eM/s72-c/DSCN2912.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>17</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-7435935769818153189</id><published>2011-09-06T17:24:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2011-10-01T12:42:30.493-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Graffiti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gigante'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='São Paulo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Show and Tell'/><title type='text'>Ta-dah!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GZyP1R4ZdnI/TmZ2n_LxdcI/AAAAAAAABtE/gh1ha4PSw2k/s1600/DSCN2881.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GZyP1R4ZdnI/TmZ2n_LxdcI/AAAAAAAABtE/gh1ha4PSw2k/s400/DSCN2881.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OUIOGLZ53lQ/TmZ2qc_YVbI/AAAAAAAABtI/eNZXdpNwfGY/s1600/DSCN2883.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OUIOGLZ53lQ/TmZ2qc_YVbI/AAAAAAAABtI/eNZXdpNwfGY/s400/DSCN2883.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LfkS8i30MJI/TmZ2s3quL_I/AAAAAAAABtM/kOHt3Wy0sSo/s1600/DSCN2885.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LfkS8i30MJI/TmZ2s3quL_I/AAAAAAAABtM/kOHt3Wy0sSo/s400/DSCN2885.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sPM6JWoIgpY/TmZ2xV7kcoI/AAAAAAAABtQ/JrHFdsiLhGs/s1600/DSCN2887.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sPM6JWoIgpY/TmZ2xV7kcoI/AAAAAAAABtQ/JrHFdsiLhGs/s400/DSCN2887.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;I proudly present: my little mural man, O Gigante, the Giant, based on the Graffiti design of OsGemeos, the twin brothers who I told you about in &lt;a href="http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/search/label/Graffiti"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;these postings&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. It measures 12x27", it is machine quilted and this morning I finished the binding at my sewing group meeting. Young moms, old moms (ha!), baby and toddlers around, chatter and laughing, a good way to spend the morning.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Met gepaste trots presenteer ik hier mijn kleine grote man: O Gigante, de reus, gebaseerd op het graffiti design van OsGemeos, de tweelingbroers waar ik al eerder over vertelde in &lt;a href="http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/search/label/Graffiti"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;deze postings&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. De quilt is 31x68cm, machine-quilted and vanmorgen heb ik de binding afgemaakt tijdens de naaiclub bijeenkomst. Jonge moeders, oude moeders (ha!), baby and peuters er omheen en tussendoor, geklets and gelach, een heerlijk ochtendje.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v3CXO9_9Sig/TmZ213ZIwuI/AAAAAAAABtU/2ZuTRvHRLFU/s1600/DSCN2888.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v3CXO9_9Sig/TmZ213ZIwuI/AAAAAAAABtU/2ZuTRvHRLFU/s400/DSCN2888.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LovrzZGnl-8/TmZ2-996xpI/AAAAAAAABtY/TbYvRQrOhZY/s1600/DSCN0744.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LovrzZGnl-8/TmZ2-996xpI/AAAAAAAABtY/TbYvRQrOhZY/s400/DSCN0744.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;DD in São Paulo in front of the original design&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NlBPNajLOcc/TmZ3IfD9ogI/AAAAAAAABtc/Y7dtjGfYHhI/s1600/LeanneNYC.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NlBPNajLOcc/TmZ3IfD9ogI/AAAAAAAABtc/Y7dtjGfYHhI/s400/LeanneNYC.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;DD in NYC in front of another Giant by OsGemeos&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;It always feels a bit awkward when I finish a project, you have to reset your goals. I will make a few boxes, just to have some quick results before I start a new quilt.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Het is altijd een beetje een raar gevoel als ik een project afheb. Nu moet ik weer op zoek naar een nieuwe uitdaging. Eerst maar weer eens een paar dozen maken, dat gaat lekker snel en kan ik nadenken over de volgende quilt. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Here is a fun movie about another project of the Brazilian Grafiteiros OsGemeos, Nina and Nunca.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hier nog een leuk filmpje over een ander project door de Braziliaanse graffiti kunstenaars OsGemeos, Nina en Nunca.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://1.gvt0.com/vi/__C-MjmVUrU/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/__C-MjmVUrU&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266"  src="http://www.youtube.com/v/__C-MjmVUrU&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;Last week &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://oops-lah.blogspot.com/"&gt;Vreni&lt;/a&gt; told me I posted my 100th posting&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;and this week I past the 25.000 visits!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;Time to come up with a give-away!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;To be continued! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brasil, Hilde&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-7435935769818153189?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/7435935769818153189/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=7435935769818153189&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/7435935769818153189'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/7435935769818153189'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/09/ta-dah.html' title='Ta-dah!!'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GZyP1R4ZdnI/TmZ2n_LxdcI/AAAAAAAABtE/gh1ha4PSw2k/s72-c/DSCN2881.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-6570983479715496601</id><published>2011-09-02T11:07:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2011-09-03T13:50:50.351-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='São Paulo'/><title type='text'>A wonderful week</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;Last week our daughter came to stay with us for one week. It became a very intense week of visiting nice spots in São Paulo (SP) and 36 hours in Rio de Janeiro! Two very different cities only 45 minutes &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;away from each other &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;by air.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De afgelopen week was onze dochter bij ons in São Paulo (SP). Het werd een heerlijke intensieve week met bezoekjes aan leuke buurtjes in SP en 36 uur in Rio de Janeiro! Twee hele verschillende steden op enkel 45 minuten vliegen afstand van elkaar. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fCOwMw7yiO0/TmDQ88KutMI/AAAAAAAABss/PDpkGVPYNp4/s1600/mosaicBeco.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fCOwMw7yiO0/TmDQ88KutMI/AAAAAAAABss/PDpkGVPYNp4/s400/mosaicBeco.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Beco de Batman - Batman's Alley SP&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;It is said that many buildings in SP could use &lt;a href="http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/travel/13hours-saopaulo.html"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;a giant rinse in a urban bathtub&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and that is so true! They are so grey and dirty due to the air pollution! Maybe that is why the colourful paintings on the walls are in striking contrast with its surroundings like in the above picture in Vila Madalena.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Er is eens geschreven dat de gebouwen in SP &lt;a href="http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/travel/13hours-saopaulo.html"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;een flinke wasbeurt kunnen gebruiken&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; en dat klopt! Ze zijn zo grijs en grauw door de luchtverontreiniging die er heerst. Misschien is het wel daardoor dat de kleurrijke graffiti op de muren zo in kontrast staat met de omgeving. De foto's hierboven zijn genomen in het wijkje Vila Madalena. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PVdrnCylyZ4/TmDY4xvP-EI/AAAAAAAABsw/JKOnTgE1080/s1600/mosaicRio.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PVdrnCylyZ4/TmDY4xvP-EI/AAAAAAAABsw/JKOnTgE1080/s400/mosaicRio.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;36 hours in Rio&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;In Rio we walked and walked and walked. Up to the Corcovado, down to the famous beaches enjoying the fresh air and relaxed atmosphere. The next day we took the Bonde tram from Santa Theresa to Centro, just a few hours before &lt;a href="http://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/rio-daily/accident-with-bonde-kills-5-in-santa-teresa-daily-update/"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;a tragic accident&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;took place where 5 people died. We visited a great installation about&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;the life and works of Miles Davis&lt;/u&gt;, walked some more through the neighborhoods of Centro, Lapa and Santa Theresa before heading back home. By just escaping the accident, this visit to Rio became even more special.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Rio hebben heel wat afgelopen, naar de Corcovado en langs de beroemde stranden, genietend van de schone lucht en de ontspannen sfeer. De volgende dag namen we het Bonde trammetje van Santa Theresa naar Centro een paar uur voordat er een &lt;a href="http://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/rio-daily/accident-with-bonde-kills-5-in-santa-teresa-daily-update/"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;tragisch ongeluk&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; gebeurde waarbij 5 mensen om het leven kwamen.&amp;nbsp; We brachten een bezoek een een tentoonstelling over &lt;a href="http://entretenimento.uol.com.br/ultnot/2011/08/01/miles-davis-e-tema-de-exposicao-no-rio-e-em-sao-paulo.jhtm"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;het leven en werk van Miles Davis&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, we liepen nog wat meer voordat we 's middags weer naar huis vlogen. Door het ongeluk is dit tripje heel speciaal bezoek geworden. Alsof er engeltjes op onze schouders meeliepen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Some other colorful inspiration and 'good food'...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zfcUMTFfQIA/TmDZRMYyxQI/AAAAAAAABs0/3yscCHB2D_g/s1600/DSCN2745.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zfcUMTFfQIA/TmDZRMYyxQI/AAAAAAAABs0/3yscCHB2D_g/s320/DSCN2745.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Museu of Arte SP&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TGfJ8Kk9l7o/TmDZZ6V6rHI/AAAAAAAABs4/vyDx6Kq7Ej8/s1600/DSCN0748.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TGfJ8Kk9l7o/TmDZZ6V6rHI/AAAAAAAABs4/vyDx6Kq7Ej8/s320/DSCN0748.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Croquete Holandese in SP!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Since a couple of months we are able to buy the real Dutch kroket at &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMsMYqC6J2E&amp;amp;feature=share"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Quickies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Sinds een paar maanden kunnen we hier in SP &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMsMYqC6J2E&amp;amp;feature=share"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;echte kroketten&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; kopen!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;PS: You can find Quickies at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Rua José Bonifacio, 114 - Centro SP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-6570983479715496601?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/6570983479715496601/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=6570983479715496601&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/6570983479715496601'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/6570983479715496601'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/09/wonderful-week.html' title='A wonderful week'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fCOwMw7yiO0/TmDQ88KutMI/AAAAAAAABss/PDpkGVPYNp4/s72-c/mosaicBeco.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-7588644160634025927</id><published>2011-08-30T17:36:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2011-08-30T17:36:45.965-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Moving'/><title type='text'>Some flowers for my mother in law</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-agGd2OKaQZs/Tl0_Dj6YiyI/AAAAAAAABsg/3QDpcZcsEPE/s1600/DSCN2875.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-agGd2OKaQZs/Tl0_Dj6YiyI/AAAAAAAABsg/3QDpcZcsEPE/s320/DSCN2875.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;My mother in law is moving to a new apartment where service and care will be on hand. Quite a step to make for a lady of 85 years. Unfortunately we are not able to help out with packing her belongings and all other things that needs to be done with a move. This is one of those moments I hate to be an expat and to live far away from my family. Right now I want to be close to my family and share the ups and downs together.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s_-ywj7Nj64/Tl0_HlgttJI/AAAAAAAABsk/7HGIaveU954/s1600/DSCN2876.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s_-ywj7Nj64/Tl0_HlgttJI/AAAAAAAABsk/7HGIaveU954/s320/DSCN2876.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;So, instead of cleaning out her cupboards and packing boxes, I made something for her new home. The ones she already has are either too warm or made from silk and not handy when she is in her wheelchair. I think she will like these two sweet coloured fabrics combined.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QqkFJjQKfC4/Tl0_LV8xfOI/AAAAAAAABso/cEh2nmx_QfA/s1600/DSCN2877.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QqkFJjQKfC4/Tl0_LV8xfOI/AAAAAAAABso/cEh2nmx_QfA/s320/DSCN2877.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Mijn schoonmoeder gaat verhuizen naar een nieuwe flat met verzorging in een nieuwe stad. Een hele stap voor een Haagse dame van 85 jaar. Het is gewoon heel jammer dat we haar niet kunnen helpen met alles wat er bij de verhuizing komt kijken. Dat zijn zo van die dingen die het expat leven niet makkelijk maken. Dan wil je gewoon dichtbij je familie zijn en de dingen samen delen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In plaats van het schoonmaken van alle kastjes en de spulletjes inpakken of weggooien, heb ik iets voor haar nieuwe woning gemaakt. Degene die ze al heeft is of te warm of glijdt steeds open als ze in haar rolstoel zit omdat het van zijde is gemaakt. Ik denk dat ze deze twee zoete stofjes samen wel leuk zal vinden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xlFnLh4ns7o/Tl0-_FNGk0I/AAAAAAAABsc/2Gxzom9Sqd4/s1600/DSCN2843.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xlFnLh4ns7o/Tl0-_FNGk0I/AAAAAAAABsc/2Gxzom9Sqd4/s400/DSCN2843.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;It is already on its way to Holland in the suitcase of my daughter!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I will tell you more about my time with her in my next posting! &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;De kamerjas zit al in de koffer onderweg naar Nederland!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Mijn dochter is weer vertrokken en we hebben het heerlijk gehad samen! Ik zal je meer vertellen in mijn volgende posting. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brasil! Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-7588644160634025927?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/7588644160634025927/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=7588644160634025927&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/7588644160634025927'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/7588644160634025927'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/08/some-flowers-for-my-mother-in-law.html' title='Some flowers for my mother in law'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-agGd2OKaQZs/Tl0_Dj6YiyI/AAAAAAAABsg/3QDpcZcsEPE/s72-c/DSCN2875.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-7752520556150095408</id><published>2011-08-24T10:00:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2011-08-24T10:02:48.701-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Home'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='São Paulo'/><title type='text'>Home for the week!</title><content type='html'>&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XLrja14jNho/TlTw-U1QOdI/AAAAAAAABrA/LSSCk1fBeDM/s1600/DSCN2740.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XLrja14jNho/TlTw-U1QOdI/AAAAAAAABrA/LSSCk1fBeDM/s320/DSCN2740.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;A Leapin' Lizard pattern&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;This week there won't be a lot of sewing going on as my DD arived in São Paulo just for one week. On her way she visited her brother in NYC and now she is with me! She brought me some mail from Amsterdam and look what I got from my dear friend &lt;a href="http://expatquilterreturnshome.blogspot.com/" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Rose-Anne&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deze week zal er van naaien weinig terecht komen: mijn lieve dochter is even voor een weekje over vanuit Nederland. Eerst een paar dagen in NYC bij haar broertje en nu dus even een stop in São Paulo. In haar tas zat post vanuit Nederland! Een leuk patroontje van &lt;a href="http://expatquilterreturnshome.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Rose-Anne&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XOlz8qisc6Y/TlTxAzLYdgI/AAAAAAAABrE/EBe1zkAKD2E/s1600/DSCN2741.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XOlz8qisc6Y/TlTxAzLYdgI/AAAAAAAABrE/EBe1zkAKD2E/s320/DSCN2741.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;It's just wonderful to have her here.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;She was just a bit tired after exploring the streets of NYC with her brother, who lives there. After a lot of chatting and cups of tea she snuggled up with Spetter and a quilt on the sofa, and she just...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Het is superfijn haar weer even om me heen te hebben. We hebben heerlijk zitten kletsen en na een paar koppen thee, was ze, samen met Spetter en een quilt, zo vertrokken... nog moe van de wandelingen door de straten van NYC.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-7752520556150095408?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/7752520556150095408/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=7752520556150095408&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/7752520556150095408'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/7752520556150095408'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/08/home-for-week.html' title='Home for the week!'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XLrja14jNho/TlTw-U1QOdI/AAAAAAAABrA/LSSCk1fBeDM/s72-c/DSCN2740.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-6284546506970561216</id><published>2011-08-17T18:23:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2011-08-17T18:23:50.993-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='NY Beauty'/><title type='text'>New York Beauty in São Paulo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0pACEncFc3c/TkwqEEhkdfI/AAAAAAAABq8/1jHKIMxlbd8/s1600/DSCN2734.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0pACEncFc3c/TkwqEEhkdfI/AAAAAAAABq8/1jHKIMxlbd8/s400/DSCN2734.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;For the last couple of days I feel much better, my back doesn't hurt so much anymore. Even sitting behind the sewing machine is possible again, and that gives me new energy!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Every time I come back from a few weeks on home leave, I like to clear 'the clutter' in my house. Rearrange storage and trow things out I don't like anymore. Also in my sewing room, but there is nothing I don't like! But a bit of re-organizing empties my cluttered mind and these blocks appeared.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I made them last year during a workshop when I was still in Holland, waiting for the move to Brazil. Time to make more blocks and look for other patterns. I ended up drawing new patterns as the finished size is rather small, 6 inch. This is so much fun, as there are so many more possibilities! To be continued!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fdtXA0Uzbmk/Tkwp_dJiCqI/AAAAAAAABq4/gwSepdfM0NU/s1600/DSCN2731.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fdtXA0Uzbmk/Tkwp_dJiCqI/AAAAAAAABq4/gwSepdfM0NU/s400/DSCN2731.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;De laatste dagen gaat het eindelijk wat beter met mijn rug en heb ik weer zin om achter de naaimachine te kruipen. Dat geeft weer nieuwe energie!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Elke keer als ik een paar weken in ons huisje in Nederland ben geweest, heb ik zin om het huis op te gaan ruimen, spullen er uit te halen die ik nooit gebruik of eigenlijk in de weg staan. Soms staan ze er nog precies zo als vlak na de verhuizing!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Ook mijn werkkamer moet eraan geloven! Maar daar mag natuurlijk niks worden weggegooid. Tijdens het opruimen kwam ik deze blokken tegen.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Die zijn gemaakt tijdens een workshop in Den Haag, vorig jaar vlak voor de verhuizing. Dus nu aan de slag om er iets mee te gaan doen!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Omdat de blokken vrij klein zijn, 6 inch, en ik er geen kon vinden in de boeken, heb ik er vanmorgen een paar patronen bij gemaakt. Best een leuk werk en er zijn nog zoveel mogelijkheden! Wordt vervolgd!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-6284546506970561216?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/6284546506970561216/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=6284546506970561216&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/6284546506970561216'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/6284546506970561216'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/08/new-york-beauty-in-sao-paulo.html' title='New York Beauty in São Paulo'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0pACEncFc3c/TkwqEEhkdfI/AAAAAAAABq8/1jHKIMxlbd8/s72-c/DSCN2734.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-1947187167570591201</id><published>2011-08-11T17:21:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2011-08-11T17:21:18.663-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pies and Tarts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Boxes'/><title type='text'>This one stays!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-g3g2gkAX7Y8/TkQ3TakGFRI/AAAAAAAABq0/eh2qRQE5xUY/s1600/DSCN2729.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-g3g2gkAX7Y8/TkQ3TakGFRI/AAAAAAAABq0/eh2qRQE5xUY/s400/DSCN2729.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;I am going to keep this box for myself! The Aurifil and the Cosmo threads fit in perfectly! If I had gone to the &lt;a href="http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/08/bad-start.html"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;bazaar&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; yesterday, this box would have probably been sold. So you see, everything happens for a reason. Or maybe we can turn around things if we keep our minds open...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deze doos wil ik voor mezelf hebben! De Aurifil en Cosmo garen passen er perfect in! Als ik gisteren wel naar de &lt;a href="http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/08/bad-start.html"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;bazaar&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was gegaan, was dit doosje vast en zeker verkocht. Zo zie je maar weer, alles gebeurt met een reden. Of is het gewoon een andere manier van kijken...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-1947187167570591201?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/1947187167570591201/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=1947187167570591201&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/1947187167570591201'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/1947187167570591201'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/08/this-one-stays.html' title='This one stays!'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-g3g2gkAX7Y8/TkQ3TakGFRI/AAAAAAAABq0/eh2qRQE5xUY/s72-c/DSCN2729.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-93235870940816263</id><published>2011-08-10T14:39:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2011-08-10T14:39:03.647-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Boxes'/><title type='text'>A bad start</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VK0Ooylf6Rk/TkK8iK7aGpI/AAAAAAAABqw/JqXb_bAjOg8/s1600/DSCN2726.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VK0Ooylf6Rk/TkK8iK7aGpI/AAAAAAAABqw/JqXb_bAjOg8/s400/DSCN2726.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;What a bummer! Today I should have been at a bazaar in São Paulo, promoting my workshops box-making with this pile of boxes. Instead, I am home on pain-killers for a sour back. I made a wrong move just before leaving The Netherlands for Brazil. Maybe I worried too much about the parents, was running around too much and did not take time out for myself and it was difficult again to say goodbye to my beloved ones.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;I don't know. Fact is that I was so much looking forward to this event, to get started with something I like doing. Not to worry, there will be another bazaar in 2 months time.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Maybe it had to be this way, I will have time to make more samples, make a better business plan and be better prepared.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wat een pech! Vandaag had ik op een bazaar in São Paulo deze dozen willen laten zien en eventueel verkopen. En op die manier mijn workshops dozen-maken willen promoten. In plaats daarvan ben ik thuis met pijnstillers voor een pijnlijke rug. Een verkeerde beweging gemaakt vlak voor vertrek vanuit Nederland naar Brazilië.&lt;u&gt; &lt;/u&gt;Misschien heb ik mij teveel zorgen gemaakt om de oudjes, was ik te druk bezig met rondrennen en nam ik niet genoeg tijd voor mezelf, en was het wederom moeilijk om afscheid te nemen van mijn familie.&lt;br /&gt;Ik weet het niet. Feit is dat ik uitkeek naar dit event, om weer aan de slag te kunnen gaan met iets dat ik leuk vind om te doen. Gelukkig is er over 2 maanden weer een bazaar.&lt;br /&gt;Misschien heeft het zo moeten zijn, ik heb nu wat meer tijd om meer voorbeelden te maken, een nieuw business plan te maken en me gewoon beter voor te bereiden. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-93235870940816263?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/93235870940816263/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=93235870940816263&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/93235870940816263'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/93235870940816263'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/08/bad-start.html' title='A bad start'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VK0Ooylf6Rk/TkK8iK7aGpI/AAAAAAAABqw/JqXb_bAjOg8/s72-c/DSCN2726.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-944066652528235525</id><published>2011-08-07T18:02:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2011-08-09T17:53:22.398-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Hague'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>Last little bits</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-I0YRzNgMZ_E/Tj6NIsV3lDI/AAAAAAAABp8/P5jN7qp3z9M/s1600/DSCN2686.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-I0YRzNgMZ_E/Tj6NIsV3lDI/AAAAAAAABp8/P5jN7qp3z9M/s200/DSCN2686.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Last day in Holland and I am packing my suitcase. Tomorrow we fly back to  São Paulo, to our dogs and my sewing room. I came to realize that being  in Holland is not really a holiday, it is more our second home from  where we can be with our family and where we run around to see our friends. Unfortunately there is not even enough time to see them all.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fbTrMfoEJZ0/Tj6NFkKrd4I/AAAAAAAABp4/jowevkfMCT8/s1600/DSCN2681.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fbTrMfoEJZ0/Tj6NFkKrd4I/AAAAAAAABp4/jowevkfMCT8/s200/DSCN2681.JPG" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;De laatste dag in Nederland en de koffers worden gepakt. Morgen vliegen we weer terug naar São Paulo, naar onze hondjes en mijn atelier. Ik ben tot de conclusie gekomen dat het hier zijn eigenlijk geen vakantie is maar gewoon het zijn in ons tweede huis. Hier zijn we dichtbij de &lt;br /&gt;familie en rennen we rond om onze vrienden te zien. Helaas lukt niet eens om ze allemaal te zien.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;During this month there have been many great moments  and some sad ones. It is simply hard to leave our parents behind when  their health is not what it used to be. But I have no choice and they  understand. I can come back whenever this is necessary and I always have  our small apartment where I can stay.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jAnEho8pvUs/Tj6NNyU2otI/AAAAAAAABqE/9rdwT-g98HA/s1600/DSCN2695.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jAnEho8pvUs/Tj6NNyU2otI/AAAAAAAABqE/9rdwT-g98HA/s200/DSCN2695.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Museum Panorama Mesdag&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De afgelopen weken hadden hoogtepunten en ook een paar diepte punten. Het is gewoon zo moeilijk om onze ouders hier achter te laten nu hun gezondheid&lt;br /&gt;achteruit gaat. Maar ik heb geen keuze en gelukkig&lt;br /&gt;snappen ze het. Ik ben gewoon erg blij met ons&lt;br /&gt;plekje in&lt;br /&gt;Den Haag waar ik op elk moment terug kan komen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Some random pictures from the past weeks:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Worth a visit is the still working gin distillery in The Hague: &lt;a href="http://www.museumvankleef.nl/index.php"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Van Kleef&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. You can try all there flavours!!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3x3TXIIyUS8/Tj6NLgsx_1I/AAAAAAAABqA/AktnRkz5ZmY/s1600/DSCN2688.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3x3TXIIyUS8/Tj6NLgsx_1I/AAAAAAAABqA/AktnRkz5ZmY/s200/DSCN2688.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Antwerp&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Echt een bezoekje waard als je in Den haag bent: de jenever distilleerderij &lt;a href="http://www.museumvankleef.nl/index.php"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Van Kleef&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. En het leukste is dat je alles mag proeven!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;We visited the museum &lt;a href="http://www.panorama-mesdag.com/"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Panorama Mesdag&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp; it is like stepping back more than 100 years in time.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panorama-mesdag.com/"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Panorama Mesdag&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, zo mooi! Het is net alsof je 100 jaar terug gaat in de tijd.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;A day in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerp"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Antwerp&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Did you know that the names&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;comes from the Dutch word 'hand werpen'—akin to&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Old English 'hand' and 'wearpan' (= to throw), that&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;has changed to today's warp.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xi5nDiAH3AA/Tj6NRhAXR5I/AAAAAAAABqI/XOGf0OGKO74/s1600/DSCN2698.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xi5nDiAH3AA/Tj6NRhAXR5I/AAAAAAAABqI/XOGf0OGKO74/s200/DSCN2698.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Een dagje in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerp"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Antwerpen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Wist je dat deze naam komt van het woord hand-werpen?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Back in The Hague, close to the paper shop Damen at Noordeinde, is a very small lane to a very pretty garden with the smallest flower shop in town.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Weer terug in Den Haag vond ik dit leuke bloemenwinkeltje vlak bij de papierwinkel Damen op het Noordeinde: het kleinste bloemenwinkeltje in de stad in een smal steegje met mooie tuin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eebSNfct4ek/Tj6NVAq8fLI/AAAAAAAABqM/gi45ag5Lsm0/s1600/DSCN2699.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eebSNfct4ek/Tj6NVAq8fLI/AAAAAAAABqM/gi45ag5Lsm0/s200/DSCN2699.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;A very funny sight, this giant stroller near a giant lamp shade, performing arts at Het Lange Voorhout.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Een heel grappig gezicht, deze reuze kinderwagen naast een reuzen lamp op het Lange Voorhout.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LQxGnu_aFMw/Tj6NZMQNTiI/AAAAAAAABqQ/ecZfAqvzzAk/s1600/DSCN2709.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LQxGnu_aFMw/Tj6NZMQNTiI/AAAAAAAABqQ/ecZfAqvzzAk/s200/DSCN2709.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Seen inside the town hall of The Hague: an installation of antique and modern Chinese clothes.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gezien in de hal van het stadhuis in Den Haag, deze antieke en moderne Chineze jasjes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Some other bits: &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sGk2sC1yh8E/Tj6Nb0QhPcI/AAAAAAAABqU/V2NbW7j0sOM/s1600/DSCN2711.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sGk2sC1yh8E/Tj6Nb0QhPcI/AAAAAAAABqU/V2NbW7j0sOM/s320/DSCN2711.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;A pincushion for a friend&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pVEPtc04-WE/Tj6NebJPQ6I/AAAAAAAABqY/0rJJDJpVPFo/s1600/DSCN2712.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pVEPtc04-WE/Tj6NebJPQ6I/AAAAAAAABqY/0rJJDJpVPFo/s320/DSCN2712.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;A new project!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zhzRFiRg3f4/Tj6Nhxu3WmI/AAAAAAAABqc/6trqaPI0t5A/s1600/DSCN2713.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zhzRFiRg3f4/Tj6Nhxu3WmI/AAAAAAAABqc/6trqaPI0t5A/s320/DSCN2713.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;To bring with me to Brazil&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;And this really was the very last thing we did in Holland!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wJwwy2uM4r4/Tj7y1zcWG8I/AAAAAAAABqs/OVi5vIcy8X0/s1600/DSCN2719.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wJwwy2uM4r4/Tj7y1zcWG8I/AAAAAAAABqs/OVi5vIcy8X0/s320/DSCN2719.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pk9qJKNIP_k/Tj7yzy5ntbI/AAAAAAAABqo/DpEmNpToVSk/s1600/DSCN2724.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pk9qJKNIP_k/Tj7yzy5ntbI/AAAAAAAABqo/DpEmNpToVSk/s320/DSCN2724.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Cheers from Holland! Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-944066652528235525?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/944066652528235525/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=944066652528235525&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/944066652528235525'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/944066652528235525'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/08/last-little-bits.html' title='Last little bits'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-I0YRzNgMZ_E/Tj6NIsV3lDI/AAAAAAAABp8/P5jN7qp3z9M/s72-c/DSCN2686.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-1308728125207272441</id><published>2011-07-31T10:02:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2011-08-09T17:57:46.957-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Holland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Boxes'/><title type='text'>Souvenirs from New York City and Paris</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QSR4gYzFkLs/TjVKehS_A6I/AAAAAAAABpo/4lnXeCJJMyo/s1600/IMG_3581.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QSR4gYzFkLs/TjVKehS_A6I/AAAAAAAABpo/4lnXeCJJMyo/s400/IMG_3581.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;When I am in Holland, friends ask me to give a workshop in box-making. One day I will do it, but not this time around. We are busy seeing old friends and family. Some days I cook dinner at home and bring it on my bike to my dear MIL, other days I help her clean up the house. Time is flying by and I enjoy every minute!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w1KLM1ZVcps/TjVKjPb-LWI/AAAAAAAABps/HhYVVpWGvOk/s1600/IMG_3583.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w1KLM1ZVcps/TjVKjPb-LWI/AAAAAAAABps/HhYVVpWGvOk/s400/IMG_3583.jpg" width="335" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Als ik in Nederland ben zijn er altijd vrienden die vragen of ik een workshop kan geven. Dat lijkt me heel leuk en gezellig maar deze keer komt het er echt niet van. We zijn druk met vrienden en family. Af en toe kook ik een maaltijd voor mijn MIL en andere dagen help ik haar een beetje met het opruimen van het huis. De tijd vliegt voorbij en ik geniet van elke minuut.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;In between I worked on two boxes for my SIL. She asked if I could make a jewelry box for a good friend of hers. It had to match the NYC wallpaper in her friends bedroom. Red colour inside please! Sure!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tussendoor heb ik aan 2 dozen gewerkt voor mijn SIL. Ze vroeg of ik  een sieradendoos kon maken voor haar vriendin, passend bij het NYC  behang in de slaapkamer. Rood aan de binnenkant! Natuurlijk!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wZoo01rtWIM/TjVKpVzJjtI/AAAAAAAABpw/oVNHYeRSXPI/s1600/IMG_3591.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wZoo01rtWIM/TjVKpVzJjtI/AAAAAAAABpw/oVNHYeRSXPI/s400/IMG_3591.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-R8ZIEH8QFx0/TjVKukyy14I/AAAAAAAABp0/TRPb0mSzXf0/s1600/IMG_3593.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;She loved it! So, can you make another one? For my future DIL? This time Paris and purple inside. Okay, but no more after Paris! I could not find purple for the inside so used a bright pink, I think it is just as fine!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-R8ZIEH8QFx0/TjVKukyy14I/AAAAAAAABp0/TRPb0mSzXf0/s1600/IMG_3593.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-R8ZIEH8QFx0/TjVKukyy14I/AAAAAAAABp0/TRPb0mSzXf0/s400/IMG_3593.JPG" width="383" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ze vond de NYC doos prachtig! Ach, kun je er nog eentje maken? Voor mijn aanstaande DIL? Deze met plaatjes van Parijs en paars aan de binnenkant. Dat is goed, maar dat is de laatste hoor! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Just finished the Paris box and I will jump on my bike to deliver the box and go for dinner with the family. I do not need to cook this time!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The doos is klaar en nu ga ik op de fiets om hem af te leveren en met de family een hapje te gaan eten. En ik hoef niet te koken! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Greetings from Holland! Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-1308728125207272441?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/1308728125207272441/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=1308728125207272441&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/1308728125207272441'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/1308728125207272441'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/07/souvenirs-from-new-york-city-and-paris.html' title='Souvenirs from New York City and Paris'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QSR4gYzFkLs/TjVKehS_A6I/AAAAAAAABpo/4lnXeCJJMyo/s72-c/IMG_3581.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-197269533724214712</id><published>2011-07-27T03:59:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2011-07-27T03:59:33.987-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Holland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gardening'/><title type='text'>My mom's garden</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RQSkYZEwBNg/TiCD0j3rbyI/AAAAAAAABoI/0QZppafKFN4/s1600/DSCN2675.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RQSkYZEwBNg/TiCD0j3rbyI/AAAAAAAABoI/0QZppafKFN4/s320/DSCN2675.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Close to where I stay, the Peace Palace&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;Since one week I am in Holland and soaking up all things Dutch: biking, grocery shopping, talking, clean air, summer weather and even storm! It is just so much easier being here than trying to set up life in São Paulo.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ik ben alweer een week in Nederland en geniet van elk moment: fietsen, de AH, kletsen, schone lucht, zomers weer en storm! Het is gewoon zoveel makkelijker om hier te zijn dan een nieuw leven op te bouwen in São Paulo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Pl5JCJdtSHw/TiCDX8Chk9I/AAAAAAAABno/4x92mcIePWk/s1600/DSCN2664.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Pl5JCJdtSHw/TiCDX8Chk9I/AAAAAAAABno/4x92mcIePWk/s320/DSCN2664.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Statues in The Hague, Lange Voorhout&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;Being close to the family is so good, especially because some are not doing all too well at the moment. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Het is zo fijn om dichtbij de familie te zijn, vooral nu het met een paar even niet zo goed gaat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;It is so much easier talking your own language and being able to express your feelings and thoughts. With friends I pick up where we left off. It is just like slipping in some old comfortable shoes.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BNafKQdo9Fg/TiCDcQEREJI/AAAAAAAABns/3EyEiuL9doo/s1600/DSCN2667.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BNafKQdo9Fg/TiCDcQEREJI/AAAAAAAABns/3EyEiuL9doo/s320/DSCN2667.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Den Haag Sculptuur&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Het is gewoon zoveel makkelijker te praten in je eigen taal, zonder veel nadenken je gedachten en gevoelens te kunnen verwoorden. Met vrienden pak ik de draad weer op alsof ik niet ben weggeweest. Het is net alsof je zo in een oude makkelijke schoen stapt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Today I went on my bike and took some pictures in the area where I stay.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IeNPtHI5r84/TiCDfdJQfMI/AAAAAAAABnw/V6MYISck9BA/s1600/DSCN2668.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IeNPtHI5r84/TiCDfdJQfMI/AAAAAAAABnw/V6MYISck9BA/s320/DSCN2668.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Outside the Binnenhof, where the government resides&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Vandaag nam ik deze foto's in de buurt van waar ik verblijf.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;No fabrics bought yet? Of course I did! In a lovely new shop in Naaldwijk, a small city near The Hague, &lt;a href="http://www.dequilthoeve-winkel.nl/"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;de Quilthoeve&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,  I bought some fat quarters and a handy small iron for the smaller  piecing projects. It also works on 110V so I can use it in Brazil.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0AbGENtvvpg/TiCDjM9mD5I/AAAAAAAABn0/iyo-GbfkmDk/s1600/DSCN2670.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0AbGENtvvpg/TiCDjM9mD5I/AAAAAAAABn0/iyo-GbfkmDk/s320/DSCN2670.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Museum Mauritshuis &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Heb je nog geen stofjes gekocht? Natuurlijk wel! In Naaldwijk in de nieuwe quiltwinkel &lt;a href="http://www.dequilthoeve-winkel.nl/"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;de Quilthoeve&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  heb ik een paar fat quarters en een handig klein strijkijzertje gekocht  voor het kleinere werk. Het werkt ook op 110V dus ik kan het mooi gebruiken in Brazilië.&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;A few more weeks before I go back to São Paulo which means stepping out of my comfort zone. But that is okay, by that time I will be ready for more new experiences.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F3_uCYJ3eU8/TiCDmjcQNNI/AAAAAAAABn4/Yot9YNcCLz0/s1600/DSCN2671.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F3_uCYJ3eU8/TiCDmjcQNNI/AAAAAAAABn4/Yot9YNcCLz0/s320/DSCN2671.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Het Plein with its terraces&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Over een paar weken ga ik weer terug naar São Paulo en zal ik mijn 'comfort zone' weer verlaten. Maar dat geeft niet want dan heb ik weer nieuwe energie en ben ik weer klaar voor nieuwe indrukken en ervaringen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ItpwYPOMcks/TiCDp89Qa7I/AAAAAAAABn8/CP1bL9VOIys/s1600/DSCN2672.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ItpwYPOMcks/TiCDp89Qa7I/AAAAAAAABn8/CP1bL9VOIys/s320/DSCN2672.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Where I buy all my supplies for my boxes: &lt;a href="http://www.papier-royaal.nl/"&gt;&lt;u style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Damen&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I-6k-7lnJns/TiCDxvJuY2I/AAAAAAAABoE/W3UWqT96nD4/s1600/DSCN2674.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I-6k-7lnJns/TiCDxvJuY2I/AAAAAAAABoE/W3UWqT96nD4/s320/DSCN2674.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;They have so many papers to choose from!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SbsIs3Y01mc/TiCDt1jKuJI/AAAAAAAABoA/q0LHK7dQ1aA/s1600/DSCN2673.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SbsIs3Y01mc/TiCDt1jKuJI/AAAAAAAABoA/q0LHK7dQ1aA/s320/DSCN2673.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Even Brazilian papers&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Greetings from Holland! Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-6972897802332016446?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/6972897802332016446/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=6972897802332016446&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/6972897802332016446'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/6972897802332016446'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/07/being-back-in-my-comfort-zone.html' title='Being back in my comfort zone'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RQSkYZEwBNg/TiCD0j3rbyI/AAAAAAAABoI/0QZppafKFN4/s72-c/DSCN2675.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-1962445665898300112</id><published>2011-07-03T22:24:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2011-07-04T09:19:28.136-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='São Paulo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Boxes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Picture collage'/><title type='text'>Coisas Brasilieras</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #38761d; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A new experiment: a picture collage on canvas with embroidery!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-o-YmnDu3lM4/ThDb_rO0wAI/AAAAAAAABlY/jEM8WhpBmNs/s1600/P7030072.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-o-YmnDu3lM4/ThDb_rO0wAI/AAAAAAAABlY/jEM8WhpBmNs/s400/P7030072.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;Because a good friend is leaving Brazil I wanted to try out something different for a farewell present. When I just arrived 6 months ago, she was the one who introduced me quickly into her group of friends and pushed me to go on with my arts. It makes me feel sad as I just got to know her and it does not happen so often you feel a connection with someone in a new place.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Een nieuw experiment: een fotocollage op canvas met borduurwerk!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_vT2EInGfq4/ThDcLB2f3zI/AAAAAAAABlc/i_zPnbaDNbo/s1600/P7030075.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_vT2EInGfq4/ThDcLB2f3zI/AAAAAAAABlc/i_zPnbaDNbo/s400/P7030075.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Omdat een goede vriendin Brazilië gaat verlaten, wilde ik iets nieuws uitproberen om als afscheidscadeau aan haar te geven. Toen ik hier 6 maanden geleden arriveerde, heeft zij mij heel snel in haar vriendenkring opgenomen en stimuleerde me om met mijn crafting iets te gaan doen. Het is jammer dat ze gaat want het gebeurt niet vaak dat je zo snel met iemand een klik hebt in een nieuwe omgeving.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Together with her Portuguese teacher, (who is now trying to learn me the language), we visited some interesting sites of São Paulo. During these trips I made many pictures. After bringing a selection together as a collage I had it printed on some kind of canvas, not exactly the type of canvas I wanted, but for this experiment I gave it a go. After the printing I added some embroidery and a few funny items to give it more texture. This is the result and she likes it!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Samen met haar lerares Portugees, (die nu mij de taal probeert bij te brengen), zijn we een paar keer op stap geweest om São Paulo te leren kennen. Elke keer maakte ik foto's en een aantal daarvan heb ik in een collage verwerkt. Deze collage heb ik op canvas laten printen, niet helemaal het type canvas dat ik zocht, maar voor dit experiment wilde ik het wel uitproberen. Daarna heb ik er met borduurwerk en een paar kleine grapjes wat meer body aan gegeven. Dit is het eindresultaat en ze is er heel blij mee!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RaVqEi7dJyc/ThGvMFSVADI/AAAAAAAABlw/8ELBQcr0i9w/s1600/DSCN2659.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="271" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RaVqEi7dJyc/ThGvMFSVADI/AAAAAAAABlw/8ELBQcr0i9w/s400/DSCN2659.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;With the pictures I made a few more boxes, of course! &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Met de foto's heb ik nog een paar dozen gemaakt natuurlijk!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Tu5eQXn2RNs/ThGvIqfHq6I/AAAAAAAABls/Idlq7ge389c/s1600/DSCN2658.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="238" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Tu5eQXn2RNs/ThGvIqfHq6I/AAAAAAAABls/Idlq7ge389c/s400/DSCN2658.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TfAAZIwVwtw/ThEDEt5jBtI/AAAAAAAABlg/Uv6mS_bFO4I/s1600/DSCN2655.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TfAAZIwVwtw/ThEDEt5jBtI/AAAAAAAABlg/Uv6mS_bFO4I/s400/DSCN2655.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Eliana, me, Beth and Lidia&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;When I started this blog one year ago I was hoping to get into contact with other quilters in São Paulo. A little later, when &lt;a href="http://ildicolor.wordpress.com/" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Hilde&lt;/a&gt; and I organized the pincushion swap, many Brazilian ladies joined in and since then I got to know a few! We met last Saturday at a quilt market nearby. With my broken Portuguese and Beth's English we understood each other pretty good. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Toen ik een jaar geleden met deze blog begon, hoopte ik met behulp hiervan in kontakt te komen met andere quilters in São Paulo. Een tijdje later, toen &lt;a href="http://ildicolor.wordpress.com/"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; en ik de pincushionswap organiseerden, melden zich ook veel Braziliaanse dames aann en sindsdien heb ik er een paar via internet leren kennen. Afgelopen zaterdag was het zover en hebben we elkaar ontmoet op een quiltmarkt! Met mijn gebrabbel in Portugees en Beth's Engels kwamen we er best wel uit!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-1962445665898300112?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/1962445665898300112/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=1962445665898300112&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/1962445665898300112'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/1962445665898300112'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/07/coisas-brasilieras.html' title='Coisas Brasilieras'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-o-YmnDu3lM4/ThDb_rO0wAI/AAAAAAAABlY/jEM8WhpBmNs/s72-c/P7030072.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-5166141352255261742</id><published>2011-06-29T15:01:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2011-06-29T15:01:45.502-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Boxes'/><title type='text'>Cappuccino break!</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;Deadlines! So much to do before I go on home-leave so the pressure is on! Time for a break, time for cappuccino!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tijd begint te dringen! Er is nog zoveel te doen voordat ik op verlof naar huis ga, dus er zit druk op de ketel! Tijd voor een cappuccino pauze!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-W6VIFG2WBT0/TgtaMETdg9I/AAAAAAAABlE/ywbCOy4-gRM/s1600/DSCN2649.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-W6VIFG2WBT0/TgtaMETdg9I/AAAAAAAABlE/ywbCOy4-gRM/s400/DSCN2649.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The lady who will look after my dogs when I am away, ordered a jewelery box covered with fabric. I made two different ones, one with a soft 'topping' and one without. She can choose which one she likes best, the other one will go to my shop.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De dame die op mijn hondjes zal passen als ik er niet ben, heeft een sieradendoos, bekleed met stof, besteld. Ik heb er gelijk 2 gemaakt, een met een zachte top en eentje zonder. Zo kan ze kiezen welke ze het mooiste vindt, de andere gaat dan in mijn winkeltje.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iX_R6I3iib4/TgtaSBSzBpI/AAAAAAAABlI/uepc_mT46Rw/s1600/DSCN2650.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iX_R6I3iib4/TgtaSBSzBpI/AAAAAAAABlI/uepc_mT46Rw/s400/DSCN2650.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5lP386Vq-wA/TgtaXMh2E9I/AAAAAAAABlM/u_Jg_5RNWzo/s1600/DSCN2651.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5lP386Vq-wA/TgtaXMh2E9I/AAAAAAAABlM/u_Jg_5RNWzo/s400/DSCN2651.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Cappuccino is finished!&amp;nbsp; More boxes are in the pipeline! I want to make as many as possible before I leave this coming Monday. It's just because I want to promote my workshops at the next Bazaar here in São Paulo, in August, only a few days upon my return from Holland. This will give me another good reason to come back to São Paulo!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zo, mijn cappuccino is op! Ik ga gauw weer verder met nog meer dozen. Als ik in augustus terug kom van verlof, is er een bazaar in São Paulo waar ik een tafel wil huren om mijn workshops te promoten. Een goede reden om terug te komen naar São Paulo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qGufcyyZTWE/TgtaZ2sUOXI/AAAAAAAABlQ/YKrjL9G6-j0/s1600/DSCN2652.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qGufcyyZTWE/TgtaZ2sUOXI/AAAAAAAABlQ/YKrjL9G6-j0/s320/DSCN2652.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;If you want to know how to make the dividers for inside the boxes, take look here: &lt;a href="http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/02/tea-box-order.html"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Tea box order&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Als je wilt weten hoe je de scheidingswandjes kunt maken voor in de doos, kijk dan even hier: &lt;a href="http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/02/tea-box-order.html"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Tea box order&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #38761d; text-align: center;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-5166141352255261742?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/5166141352255261742/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=5166141352255261742&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/5166141352255261742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/5166141352255261742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/06/cappuccino-break.html' title='Cappuccino break!'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-W6VIFG2WBT0/TgtaMETdg9I/AAAAAAAABlE/ywbCOy4-gRM/s72-c/DSCN2649.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-3702562006303557137</id><published>2011-06-27T12:42:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2011-06-27T12:44:06.657-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>More inspiration</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hhVeI2h6lzA/TgigyOy1HUI/AAAAAAAABk4/0UiCXVcC0Jk/s1600/DSCN2620.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hhVeI2h6lzA/TgigyOy1HUI/AAAAAAAABk4/0UiCXVcC0Jk/s400/DSCN2620.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;Last week's sewing was at my place and my new friend brought her Wonky Town quilt.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;I just love her colour arrangement and the blocks are so playfully all together. Seeing this quilt makes me smile!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vorige week kwam mijn nieuwe quilt vriendin bij mij thuis met in haar tas haar Wonky Town quilt. Ik wordt helemaal vrolijk van het zien van de kleuren en het speelse karakter van alle blokken samen!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The basic pattern comes from &lt;a href="http://www.unrulyquilter.com/tutorials/"&gt;&lt;u&gt;The UnRuly Quilter&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and it is called Wonkytown. The link has a free tutorial.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Het basis patroon komt van &lt;a href="http://www.unrulyquilter.com/tutorials/"&gt;&lt;u&gt;The UnRuly Quilter&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, en heet Wonkytown. Via de link kom je bij het gratis te downloaden patroon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CPXw-qvT_Bg/Tgig3a_5J8I/AAAAAAAABk8/ntR2bzjXgKY/s1600/DSCN2621.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CPXw-qvT_Bg/Tgig3a_5J8I/AAAAAAAABk8/ntR2bzjXgKY/s400/DSCN2621.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;She only started quilting recently and I think she already has found her own style! Maybe she can inspire you too!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De maakster is pas begonnen met quilten en ik vind dat ze nu al een leuke eigen stijl heeft! Misschien ook een leuke inspiratie voor jou!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Ciao from Brazil! Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A1Nlot-vK_Y/Tgig8ZVxBaI/AAAAAAAABlA/3OFq1BaWZcw/s1600/DSCN2622.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A1Nlot-vK_Y/Tgig8ZVxBaI/AAAAAAAABlA/3OFq1BaWZcw/s320/DSCN2622.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-3702562006303557137?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/3702562006303557137/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=3702562006303557137&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/3702562006303557137'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/3702562006303557137'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/06/more-inspiration.html' title='More inspiration'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hhVeI2h6lzA/TgigyOy1HUI/AAAAAAAABk4/0UiCXVcC0Jk/s72-c/DSCN2620.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-8053531897600106132</id><published>2011-06-22T14:48:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2011-06-22T22:11:13.636-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pies and Tarts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Brazil'/><title type='text'>Back home again</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;The trip to Salvador, Bahia, was wonderful!&amp;nbsp; The town, the people, the food and the beach...! I didn't do a lot of sewing...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ons reisje naar Salvador, Bahia, was geweldig! Het dorpje, de mensen, het eten en daarna het strand...! Ik ben niet echt veel bezig geweest met naald en draad...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6rr8MaBEFEQ/TgIXexhB2sI/AAAAAAAABkM/KZNYsYC6kNc/s1600/DSCN2531.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6rr8MaBEFEQ/TgIXexhB2sI/AAAAAAAABkM/KZNYsYC6kNc/s400/DSCN2531.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;On our way to ...&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-o6RveZXKYR4/TgIXjr3uOHI/AAAAAAAABkQ/ZMxW3GkJHWM/s1600/DSCN2536.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-o6RveZXKYR4/TgIXjr3uOHI/AAAAAAAABkQ/ZMxW3GkJHWM/s400/DSCN2536.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Salvador&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sWnfSfBuKAw/TgIX-CkkT-I/AAAAAAAABkk/mF9tvTEEofA/s1600/DSCN2571.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sWnfSfBuKAw/TgIX-CkkT-I/AAAAAAAABkk/mF9tvTEEofA/s400/DSCN2571.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8pxGAniL-Jw/TgIYHIvPmAI/AAAAAAAABks/qExDjzUEQHU/s1600/DSCN2555.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8pxGAniL-Jw/TgIYHIvPmAI/AAAAAAAABks/qExDjzUEQHU/s400/DSCN2555.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4rNKRtOtGLw/TgIXokU6aEI/AAAAAAAABkU/Y-itLfIu1IA/s1600/DSCN2551.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4rNKRtOtGLw/TgIXokU6aEI/AAAAAAAABkU/Y-itLfIu1IA/s400/DSCN2551.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Peeking inside a classroom lace making / kantklossen / rendeiras&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6W64eO5CHtg/TgIXs_TPl_I/AAAAAAAABkY/rjJjV5-Xnag/s1600/DSCN2566.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6W64eO5CHtg/TgIXs_TPl_I/AAAAAAAABkY/rjJjV5-Xnag/s400/DSCN2566.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Peeking inside a tourist shop!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FOXsXc6idLg/TgIXxvAaeVI/AAAAAAAABkc/uzBzOmlXoW0/s1600/DSCN2568.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FOXsXc6idLg/TgIXxvAaeVI/AAAAAAAABkc/uzBzOmlXoW0/s400/DSCN2568.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2mMzvLP8ono/TgIYDLNl64I/AAAAAAAABko/swUncI3Qj-I/s1600/DSCN2617.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2mMzvLP8ono/TgIYDLNl64I/AAAAAAAABko/swUncI3Qj-I/s400/DSCN2617.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Okay, I did a little bit of piecing!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;I can tell you that this kind of piecing is very addictive! And I am going to stick to the colours &lt;span style="color: lime;"&gt;greens&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;blues&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Het in elkaar zetten van deze 'pies' is gewoon verslavend! En nu weet ik het zeker: het wordt &lt;span style="color: lime;"&gt;groen&lt;/span&gt; en &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;blauw&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The suite case is unpacked and waiting for the next trip. In about two weeks I will go to my home country for about one month. Can't wait!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De koffer is weer uitgepakt en klaar voor de volgende trip. Over 2 weken vlieg ik naar huis, naar Nederland en blijf daar voor een maand. Heerlijk! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-8053531897600106132?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/8053531897600106132/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=8053531897600106132&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/8053531897600106132'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/8053531897600106132'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/06/back-home-again.html' title='Back home again'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6rr8MaBEFEQ/TgIXexhB2sI/AAAAAAAABkM/KZNYsYC6kNc/s72-c/DSCN2531.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-2824672188518868595</id><published>2011-06-14T21:36:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2011-06-14T21:36:15.695-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pies and Tarts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Brazil'/><title type='text'>Packing my suitcase</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_uvkPOe92lM/TffyIUw6QPI/AAAAAAAABkA/r-pluh1mBEM/s1600/DSCN2524.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_uvkPOe92lM/TffyIUw6QPI/AAAAAAAABkA/r-pluh1mBEM/s320/DSCN2524.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;My DH and I are going to make a trip to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador,_Bahia"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Salvador, Bahia&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a village in the north-east of Brazil! It is about 2000 km from São Paulo. We are going to visit the old village and relax for a few days at the beach. What to bring!? I have been busy planning this trip for some time, reloaded the battery of my camera, sorted out colours, sharpened my needles, laying out my necessities on the table. I think I have all I need for this trip.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hdL1ER3SJp8/TffyQYMYGfI/AAAAAAAABkI/fiNiGaaUKRE/s1600/DSCN2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hdL1ER3SJp8/TffyQYMYGfI/AAAAAAAABkI/fiNiGaaUKRE/s320/DSCN2529.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Mijn DH en ik gaan een reisje maken naar &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador,_Bahia"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Salvador, Bahia&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, een stadje in het noord-oosten van Brazilië. Het ligt 2000 km van São Paulo vandaan. We gaan er de oude stad bezoeken en een paar dagen op het strand luieren. Wat zal ik in de koffer stoppen!? Ik ben al een tijdje bezig met het plannen van deze reis, de batterij van mijn camera is opgeladen, ik heb kleuren uitgezocht, de naalden geslepen en alle benodigdheden op tafel uitgestald. Ik geloof dat ik alles heb.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Green and blue colours are my favorite for this trip. Most of us use a lighter colour for the background but, as usual, I prefer something different. ;)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yrMOzfDeqW4/TffyM4Jx38I/AAAAAAAABkE/GsPZ6GQWz68/s1600/DSCN2528.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yrMOzfDeqW4/TffyM4Jx38I/AAAAAAAABkE/GsPZ6GQWz68/s320/DSCN2528.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Groene en blauwe kleuren wil ik gebruiken tijdens deze reis. De meesten gebruiken een lichte achtergrond voor dit project, maar, zoals gewoonlijk, wil ik gewoon weer iets anders. ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Alarm clock is set; we have to get up early to get to the airport in time before the famous traffic jam of São Paulo. Looking forward to some warm and sunny days, never mind the prediction of some showers! With my green and blue project in my suitcase this trip can't go wrong!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The alarmklok staat aan; we moeten vroeg op de beroemde files van São Paulo te ontwijken en op tijd op het vliegveld te zijn. We kijken uit naar een paar warme en zonnige dagen, af en toe een regenbui maakt niet uit. Met mijn blauw en groene project in mijn koffer wordt deze trip genieten!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS: &lt;i&gt;the little Giant is ready to be quilted, waiting for my return&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS: de kleine reus ligt klaar om gequilt te worden, volgende week als ik weer terug ben&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-2824672188518868595?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/2824672188518868595/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=2824672188518868595&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/2824672188518868595'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/2824672188518868595'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/06/packing-my-suitcase.html' title='Packing my suitcase'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_uvkPOe92lM/TffyIUw6QPI/AAAAAAAABkA/r-pluh1mBEM/s72-c/DSCN2524.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-3826816389509635739</id><published>2011-06-09T17:04:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2011-10-01T13:07:35.733-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Graffiti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gigante'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='São Paulo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Boxes'/><title type='text'>A little bit more progress made</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;Outside it is rainy and cold (10˚C), inside the temperature is slowly dropping; only in the kitchen near the stove we kind find some warmth. But don't think I am having troubles staying warm: while playing with the sunny colours in my different projects I forget about the cold.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yCqitbly_Dw/TfEeMzgcdhI/AAAAAAAABj0/Ccp0tv3tIdE/s1600/DSCN2520.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yCqitbly_Dw/TfEeMzgcdhI/AAAAAAAABj0/Ccp0tv3tIdE/s400/DSCN2520.jpg" width="238" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;O Gigante (Os Gemeos)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Buiten is het koud (10˚C) en regenachtig, binnen gaat de temperatuur langzaam omlaag. Alleen in de keuken, vlakbij het gasfornuis en de oven is het een beetje aangenaam. Maar denk maar niet dat ik het koud heb: door het spelen met zonnige kleurtjes in de verschillende projecten wordt ik helemaal warm en vrolijk!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;What do you think of this one? This chap is coming together. But I realize I have to place his feet on the ground seeing this picture. To get a sense of proportion, I want to add another object, something like a streetlight. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wat denk je hiervan? Deze kerel is bijna klaar. Nu ik deze foto zie, zie ik dat ik zijn voeten op de grond moet zetten. Om het in proportie te brengen, wil ik er nog een ander voorwerp bij plaatsen, zoiets als een straatlantaarn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9aT5-uGgEPk/TfEeJq3dC2I/AAAAAAAABjw/0Mn5r0byW9g/s1600/DSCN2519.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9aT5-uGgEPk/TfEeJq3dC2I/AAAAAAAABjw/0Mn5r0byW9g/s320/DSCN2519.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;This week I cleaned up my cutting table and &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;made an extra photo - memo board. I covered a painters canvas with a piece of batting, a Vietnamese scarf, ribbons and buttons. Now I have my family and friends a little closer.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eindelijk heb ik mijn snijtafel weer eens opgeruimd en een extra foto - memo bord gemaakt. Een schilderscanvas heb ik bekleed met een stukje batting, een Vietnamese sjaal, linten en knopen. Nu heb ik mijn familie en vrienden een beetje dichter bij me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BxKSGDd3uOY/TfEeEa_DVBI/AAAAAAAABjs/Spi6LMR6EbM/s1600/DSCN2515.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BxKSGDd3uOY/TfEeEa_DVBI/AAAAAAAABjs/Spi6LMR6EbM/s400/DSCN2515.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Another box came out of my hands and I like the warm combination of colours. I have to make stock in case I can join a bazaar in August. Just to promote my workshops box-making which I would like to get started one day!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Niet stil gezeten: deze doos staat nu te pronken op de tafel. Ik moet een voorraadje gaan maken voor het geval ik mee kan doen met een bazaar in augustus. Daar kan ik dan mijn dozen workshops gaan promoten. Hopenlijk komen die hier een keertje van de grond!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y11LWwXPwjE/TfEd-wmJPYI/AAAAAAAABjk/pkoliXQELwE/s1600/DSCN2513.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="293" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y11LWwXPwjE/TfEd-wmJPYI/AAAAAAAABjk/pkoliXQELwE/s400/DSCN2513.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KzzWmOvLPV0/TfEeB8aerzI/AAAAAAAABjo/IP_g_IDXVaA/s1600/DSCN2514.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="361" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KzzWmOvLPV0/TfEeB8aerzI/AAAAAAAABjo/IP_g_IDXVaA/s400/DSCN2514.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-3826816389509635739?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/3826816389509635739/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=3826816389509635739&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/3826816389509635739'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/3826816389509635739'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/06/little-bit-more-progress-made.html' title='A little bit more progress made'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yCqitbly_Dw/TfEeMzgcdhI/AAAAAAAABj0/Ccp0tv3tIdE/s72-c/DSCN2520.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-4204030969598961705</id><published>2011-06-04T17:26:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2011-10-01T13:07:55.206-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Graffiti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gigante'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='São Paulo'/><title type='text'>W.I.P.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uVMNr9y2E4/TeqSA-5U3SI/AAAAAAAABjE/7V5a5HNz7bo/s1600/DSCN2503.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uVMNr9y2E4/TeqSA-5U3SI/AAAAAAAABjE/7V5a5HNz7bo/s320/DSCN2503.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xbBB2qcWgvg/TeqSDciMq3I/AAAAAAAABjI/jEh3lBU6Ufo/s1600/DSCN2504.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xbBB2qcWgvg/TeqSDciMq3I/AAAAAAAABjI/jEh3lBU6Ufo/s320/DSCN2504.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aXNHyNYdf2o/TeqSGEDDgFI/AAAAAAAABjM/jh2xNI3yrTA/s1600/DSCN2505.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aXNHyNYdf2o/TeqSGEDDgFI/AAAAAAAABjM/jh2xNI3yrTA/s320/DSCN2505.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ReXbkx7qt68/TeqSlYqAIQI/AAAAAAAABjg/nQ-p4JRi8Wk/s1600/DSCN2512.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ReXbkx7qt68/TeqSlYqAIQI/AAAAAAAABjg/nQ-p4JRi8Wk/s320/DSCN2512.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The giant mural 'O Gigante' from Os Gemeos is growing...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-4204030969598961705?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/4204030969598961705/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=4204030969598961705&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/4204030969598961705'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/4204030969598961705'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/06/wip.html' title='W.I.P.'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uVMNr9y2E4/TeqSA-5U3SI/AAAAAAAABjE/7V5a5HNz7bo/s72-c/DSCN2503.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-7083663778109496640</id><published>2011-06-01T11:32:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2011-10-01T13:08:14.953-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Graffiti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gigante'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='São Paulo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Geckos'/><title type='text'>Thank you!</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;Thanks for all your votes with the Quilting Gallery last week. I came third in the contest and won a 1-year long subscription on &lt;a href="http://www.quiltpatternmagazine.com/"&gt;The Quilt Pattern Magazine&lt;/a&gt;, an on-line magazine. A special thanks goes to the Yahoo Group Patchepinte in Brazil, they started a voting frenzy and pushed my Gecko Dance to the top three. Obrigada! With the quilt story contest in Dutch I ended up somewhere in the bottom ;-)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vorige week deed ik mee met een wedstrijd van de Quilting Gallery en dankzij al jullie stemmen kwam ik op de 3de plaats! Hiermee heb ik een abonnement op  &lt;a href="http://www.quiltpatternmagazine.com/"&gt;The Quilt Pattern Magazine&lt;/a&gt; gewonnen, een internet tijdschrift. Een speciaal bedankje gaat naar de Yahoo Group Patchepinte hier in Brazilië waar ik deel van uit maak. Zij hebben met velen op mijn Gecko Dance gestemd. Obrigada!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8E4D8AlNIfs/TeZEdmogBRI/AAAAAAAABic/v8d0PbmCYng/s1600/dogsweater.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="156" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8E4D8AlNIfs/TeZEdmogBRI/AAAAAAAABic/v8d0PbmCYng/s200/dogsweater.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;My DS is back to his town, NYC, where the weather is hot and humid. Here it has turned chilly and with no heating system in the house we are dressed in many layers. If the sun comes out the house warms up a little. I am not looking forward to some rainy days, they say will come over the weekend.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;On the streets dogs are wearing sweaters, so funny! Just like on this picture from Google images, they wear hair clips and shiny ear decorations, some even wear shoes. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mijn zoon is weer terug op zijn plek in NYC. Daar is het behoorlijk warm maar hier is het koud geworden! We zitten nu in huis met allerlei laagjes aan omdat er geen verwarming in huis is. Als de zon schijnt, warmt het een beetje op, maar ze hebben regen voor het weekend voorspeld en daar kijk ik niet naar uit.&lt;br /&gt;Op straat dragen veel honden truitjes, zoals op dit plaatje van Google images. Dat ziet er grappig uit naast hun haarklipjes, oorbellen en soms ook schoentjes. Die van mij zien er dan maar slordig uit...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;I told you about a sewing group I was going to. Well, I found new friends! They are as crazy as I am about sewing, patching, quilting and colours! This gives me a warm feeling and makes settling into this new country a bit easier. Yes, I still not feel settled in. It is something that's called 'expat dip', a new adventure and you should go out and make new friends but you have no energy to do so. With the kids out of the house, it is such a different story to move to a new country. It needs time.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Het naai/quiltgroepje is leuk! Ik heb er een paar nieuwe vriendinnen bij die net als ik van naaien, patchen, quilten en kleuren houden. Dit is zo fijn en maakt het wonen in een nieuw land een beetje makkelijker. Mijn hart is hier nog niet, zo zonder de kinderen is het verhuizen naar een ander werelddeel niet makkelijk. Wat je noemt een 'expat-dip'. Spannend en een nieuw avontuur, maar er niet van kunnen genieten. Het heeft tijd nodig.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BjWoYUACkYs/TeZF-vg87aI/AAAAAAAABio/wInJbQFs-Z4/s1600/DSCN2502.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BjWoYUACkYs/TeZF-vg87aI/AAAAAAAABio/wInJbQFs-Z4/s320/DSCN2502.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;WIP in progress&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Yk2Qu1OMKYk/TeZF8EnX-xI/AAAAAAAABik/sXJpRocmxis/s1600/DSCN2501.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="241" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Yk2Qu1OMKYk/TeZF8EnX-xI/AAAAAAAABik/sXJpRocmxis/s320/DSCN2501.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;With my DS back in NY, I will try to speed up this '&lt;u&gt;Giant&lt;/u&gt;' project.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;En nu weer aan de slag met dit 'Giant' project.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brasil! Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-7083663778109496640?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/7083663778109496640/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=7083663778109496640&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/7083663778109496640'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/7083663778109496640'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/06/thank-you.html' title='Thank you!'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8E4D8AlNIfs/TeZEdmogBRI/AAAAAAAABic/v8d0PbmCYng/s72-c/dogsweater.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-7465551706214919743</id><published>2011-05-27T08:08:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2011-05-27T08:08:09.851-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Geckos'/><title type='text'>Chilling</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;Another week has flown by. Hanging around with my DS, cooking him some wholesome meals, watching movies, visited some museums etc. Not a lot of sewing done. Instead he helped me with a picture collage I am doing on the computer. It is going to be a present for a friend I just got to know here, but unfortunately she is already leaving SP. I will show you when she has opened it.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Tatatadah! Today I am going to a sewing group, here in São Paulo, for the first time. I will bring this quilt with me and some other small hand work. I am very much looking forward to socialize with like minded people, you know what I mean!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Weer een week voorbij, wat vliegt de tijd! Samen met mijn DS lekker rondgehangen, hem eens goed te eten gegeven, samen films gekeken, een paar musea bezocht, etc. Niet zoveel achter de naaimachine gezeten dus. In plaats daarvan heeft hij mij geholpen met een foto collage die ik op de coputer aan het maken ben. Het is een cadeau voor een vriendin die ik hier pas heb leren kennen, maar nu alweer vertrekt uit SP. Ik zal het je laten zien als zij het heeft uitgepakt.&lt;br /&gt;Jippie! Vandaag ga ik voor de eerste keer naar een quilt/naai-groepje, hier in São Paulo. Deze quilt neem ik met me mee, samen met wat klein handwerk. Ik kijk er erg naar uit om een nieuw clubje van gelijk gestemde zielen te leren kennen, je snapt vast wel wat ik bedoel!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3dbuXVlG9sY/TdK1AWBNX2I/AAAAAAAABgg/NXsk-5x-Gcs/s1600/P5180069.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3dbuXVlG9sY/TdK1AWBNX2I/AAAAAAAABgg/NXsk-5x-Gcs/s400/P5180069.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;I entered this quilt in the weekly contest of the Quilting Gallery. This time the subject is 'wildlife'. If you like to vote for my quilt please click on the logo, here down below, this will bring you to the website. Thanks for your vote!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ik heb deze quilt aangemeld voor de 'weekly contest' van de Quilting Gallery. Het onderwerp van deze week is 'in het wild levende dieren'. Als je op mijn quilt wilt stemmen click dan op het logo hieronder, dan kom je op hun website. Alvast bedankt voor jouw stem!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://quiltinggallery.com/2011/05/27/vote-now-wildlife-etc-quilts/?utm_source=feedblitz&amp;amp;utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&amp;amp;utm_campaign=0&amp;amp;utm_content=416375"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nNbeP6zY0Q8/TdxaIUz2CGI/AAAAAAAABiI/fgzTO-WIUVU/s1600/quilting-gallery.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil! Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-7465551706214919743?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/7465551706214919743/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=7465551706214919743&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/7465551706214919743'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/7465551706214919743'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/05/chilling.html' title='Chilling'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3dbuXVlG9sY/TdK1AWBNX2I/AAAAAAAABgg/NXsk-5x-Gcs/s72-c/P5180069.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-6427029409330028114</id><published>2011-05-24T11:18:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2011-05-24T22:49:22.896-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Graffiti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='São Paulo'/><title type='text'>New project</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;As you maybe know from earlier posts, I like the graffiti from the twin-brother painters Os Gemeos here in São Paulo a lot. After hearing that the building with this painting on it is going to be teared down, I thought of trying to make a quilt of 'The Giant'.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zoals je misschien weet van mijn blog, bewonder ik de graffiti van de tweelingbroers Os Gemeos in São Paulo. Toen ik hoorde dat het gebouw waar deze tekening opstaat, afgebroken gaat worden, dacht ik dat het misschien wel leuk is om van 'The Giant' een quilt van te maken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9m1WKaCmDXM/Tdu4pOnNurI/AAAAAAAABiE/xAVvE-gjtaU/s1600/DSCN2410.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9m1WKaCmDXM/Tdu4pOnNurI/AAAAAAAABiE/xAVvE-gjtaU/s400/DSCN2410.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;I am not sure how this is going to work out as I am not going to applique but sew all pieces together..&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoe dit eruit gaat zien, weet ik nog niet. Ik wil de verschillende delen namelijk aan elkaar naaien en niet appliqueren... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jqV328eqBEA/Tdu4e4iwxuI/AAAAAAAABh4/Io3yIxwDxO4/s1600/DSCN2475.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jqV328eqBEA/Tdu4e4iwxuI/AAAAAAAABh4/Io3yIxwDxO4/s400/DSCN2475.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B_XHPE1-GEE/Tdu4bVM3R_I/AAAAAAAABh0/R2YO9rKcKhk/s1600/DSCN2474.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B_XHPE1-GEE/Tdu4bVM3R_I/AAAAAAAABh0/R2YO9rKcKhk/s320/DSCN2474.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;My DS suddenly came home for 2 weeks! He lives and studies in NYC and we do not get to see him so often, so you can imagine I am delighted to have him around. Even more so because my DH is traveling for almost 3 weeks. This butterfly he found sitting on the pavement and stayed on his finger for about 15 minutes before flying of.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En toen stond ineens mijn DS voor mijn neus! Hij woont en studeert in New York City en komt niet zo vaak thuis, dus je kunt je wel voostellen dat ik superblij ben hem voor 2 weken om me heen te hebben. Temeer omdat mijn DH voor bijna 3 weken op reis is. Deze vlinder zat op de stoep, en bleef toen bijna 15 minuten op zijn vinger zitten voordat hij weer verder vloog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FTsST8L6qOU/Tdu4h3cJ9DI/AAAAAAAABh8/YrKoyQ9bDX0/s1600/DSCN2481.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FTsST8L6qOU/Tdu4h3cJ9DI/AAAAAAAABh8/YrKoyQ9bDX0/s320/DSCN2481.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pOrSQ_rRb9g/Tdu4lnBwTAI/AAAAAAAABiA/Fqf-YsyUh6g/s1600/DSCN2482.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pOrSQ_rRb9g/Tdu4lnBwTAI/AAAAAAAABiA/Fqf-YsyUh6g/s320/DSCN2482.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-6427029409330028114?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/6427029409330028114/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=6427029409330028114&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/6427029409330028114'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/6427029409330028114'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-project.html' title='New project'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9m1WKaCmDXM/Tdu4pOnNurI/AAAAAAAABiE/xAVvE-gjtaU/s72-c/DSCN2410.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-6580618658067034448</id><published>2011-05-17T15:54:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2011-05-17T16:58:10.466-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pincushionswap'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Geckos'/><title type='text'>Gecko Dance - Dança de Lagartixa</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I am so happy to show you my latest work&lt;/i&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Eindelijk, hier istie dan:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Gecko Dance&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ffycHt0CuoA/TdK1J4HnN5I/AAAAAAAABgk/B5I9YtoF8IA/s1600/P5180071.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="398" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ffycHt0CuoA/TdK1J4HnN5I/AAAAAAAABgk/B5I9YtoF8IA/s400/P5180071.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;What started as a squarish convergence quilt with a pattern by Ricky Tims, turned out to be an abundance of circles and pastel colours&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Wat begon als een strakke 'convergence' quilt met rechte hoeken naar een patroon van Ricky Tims, is veranderd in een zee van cirkels en pastelkleuren&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3dbuXVlG9sY/TdK1AWBNX2I/AAAAAAAABgg/NXsk-5x-Gcs/s1600/P5180069.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3dbuXVlG9sY/TdK1AWBNX2I/AAAAAAAABgg/NXsk-5x-Gcs/s320/P5180069.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;It measures 90 cm (35.5") square&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;De maat is 90 vierkante cm &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GZT2PWZ9hns/TdK1RSMRYLI/AAAAAAAABgo/TYycD4-6h44/s1600/P5180072.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GZT2PWZ9hns/TdK1RSMRYLI/AAAAAAAABgo/TYycD4-6h44/s320/P5180072.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Rose-Anne came up with this name (long live Skype!)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Lieve Rose-Anne bedacht de naam (lang leve de Skype)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CgAQdFsnFmg/TdK1YXzXHCI/AAAAAAAABgs/4EKVrrd0r-4/s1600/P5180073.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CgAQdFsnFmg/TdK1YXzXHCI/AAAAAAAABgs/4EKVrrd0r-4/s320/P5180073.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I love this turquoise&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;De turquoise kleur komt zo mooi naar boven&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AZ0yFAEIG58/TdK1dX_-_nI/AAAAAAAABgw/94S4I3wO36w/s1600/P5180075.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AZ0yFAEIG58/TdK1dX_-_nI/AAAAAAAABgw/94S4I3wO36w/s320/P5180075.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-I1lhx3RXhCk/TdK1iroHuLI/AAAAAAAABg0/x_zpao9NQN4/s1600/P5180076.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-I1lhx3RXhCk/TdK1iroHuLI/AAAAAAAABg0/x_zpao9NQN4/s320/P5180076.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-14rzi2Xr3Qo/TdK1r2zXfPI/AAAAAAAABg4/5n0_wUzpIZk/s1600/P5180078.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="314" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-14rzi2Xr3Qo/TdK1r2zXfPI/AAAAAAAABg4/5n0_wUzpIZk/s320/P5180078.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The back of the quilt with the name tag in the right bottom corner&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;De achterkant met in de rechter benedenhoek de label&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Maybe it sounds weird, but I am actually very proud with the outcome! It was a constant searching and balancing of shapes, colours and lines.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Misschien klinkt het raar, maar ik ben hier best trots op! Het was een enorm zoeken naar de juiste balans tussen de stofvormen, kleur en bijpassende quiltlijnen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Some other news:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I still had not received my pincushion from the swap I organized with Hilde in Germany in March. But finally it arrived yesterday, after 5 weeks in the mail with the Easter chocolate bunny still inside! &lt;/i&gt;;-)&lt;i&gt; Thank you &lt;a href="http://michimachtdas.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Michi&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for the lovely Lotus Pincushion!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7Oa4LW-4Dyg/TdK8WJctGvI/AAAAAAAABg8/d_l52Xt12vM/s1600/DSCN2465.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7Oa4LW-4Dyg/TdK8WJctGvI/AAAAAAAABg8/d_l52Xt12vM/s320/DSCN2465.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OUeEyZSge0E/TdK8YZxIwLI/AAAAAAAABhA/6djfKWL6H9A/s1600/DSCN2467.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OUeEyZSge0E/TdK8YZxIwLI/AAAAAAAABhA/6djfKWL6H9A/s320/DSCN2467.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BACKkk52SyI/TdK8a39FK5I/AAAAAAAABhE/iH85ajV1smc/s1600/DSCN2469.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BACKkk52SyI/TdK8a39FK5I/AAAAAAAABhE/iH85ajV1smc/s320/DSCN2469.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Ik had nog steeds mijn pincushion niet ontvangen van de swap die ik samen met Hilde uit Duitsland in maart had georganiseerd. Gisteren kwam het pakje eindelijk aan! Het chocolade passhaasje zat er nog in! Dank je wel &lt;a href="http://michimachtdas.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Michi&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; voor deze prachtige Lotus Pincushion!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2HRtD0l0-xg/TVgFv2OeASI/AAAAAAAABQE/xkHV3mZsgRw/s1600/DSCN1993.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2HRtD0l0-xg/TVgFv2OeASI/AAAAAAAABQE/xkHV3mZsgRw/s200/DSCN1993.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;And last but not least, I joined a (Dutch) story contest about my favorite quilt, Gekko Quilt. You can vote for me at the website of the &lt;a href="http://www.quilterspalet.nl/picture.php?pic=47&amp;amp;id=1"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Quilterspalet&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a shop in The Hague, Holland. If you would like to vote for me just click on &lt;a href="http://www.quilterspalet.nl/picture.php?pic=47&amp;amp;id=1"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;stem op deze inzending&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; besides the picture of my quilt. You have to repeat one more time this click! My DD will translate the story in proper English for me, so that will follow soon.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;En als laatste nog even dit: ik heb een verhaaltje ingestuurd voor een wedstrijd bij de &lt;a href="http://www.quilterspalet.nl/picture.php?pic=47&amp;amp;id=1"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Quilterspalet&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Het gaat over mijn Gecko quilt. Als je het leuk vind kun je op mij stemmen!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brasil! Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-6580618658067034448?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/6580618658067034448/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=6580618658067034448&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/6580618658067034448'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/6580618658067034448'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/05/gecko-dance-danca-de-lagartixa.html' title='Gecko Dance - Dança de Lagartixa'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ffycHt0CuoA/TdK1J4HnN5I/AAAAAAAABgk/B5I9YtoF8IA/s72-c/P5180071.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-7809613841574497818</id><published>2011-05-11T15:06:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2011-05-11T15:06:27.646-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Doodling'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BSR'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Geckos'/><title type='text'>Almost finished</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UVqm4LIadX0/TcrFWXmCtjI/AAAAAAAABgI/fwy8eA9M50c/s1600/DSCN2455.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UVqm4LIadX0/TcrFWXmCtjI/AAAAAAAABgI/fwy8eA9M50c/s400/DSCN2455.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Are you still working on that gecko quilt? Hmm, yes. Because the threads kept on shredding, breaking, knotting, etc I could not work on it for hours in a row. Until my dear friend &lt;a href="http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/03/showing-of-my-friends-quilt.html"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Rose-Anne&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; told me about a lecture by Cindy Needham. This lady knows all the inns and outs about machine quilting, thread tensions, needles and most of all: Problem Solving. Her website is: &lt;a href="http://www.cindyneedham.com/"&gt;&lt;u&gt;http://www.cindyneedham.com/&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Check this out, also when you are not machine quilting!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The first change I made was the position of the thread delivery: from horizontal to vertical. What a difference this makes! Now it is a bit more fun to work on my quilt and there is only a small part left for the quilting. Before doing the final stitches I started to tie-off all the threads. This gave me some time to think about the final doodle lines to make this quilt complete! The quilt looks already much better. Next posting this one is finished! Sure it is!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wj_HtmpeqeA/TcrFY90xkZI/AAAAAAAABgM/6Y_inC3vdAQ/s1600/DSCN2456.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wj_HtmpeqeA/TcrFY90xkZI/AAAAAAAABgM/6Y_inC3vdAQ/s400/DSCN2456.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;the back side -&amp;nbsp; de achterkant&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Ben je nou nog niet klaar met die Gecko quilt? Duurt wel errug lang zeg! Hmm, ja, inderdaad. De draad ging steeds rafelen en brak af, knopen aan de onderkant. Kortom, ging pretje om voor uren aan te werken, vandaar. Totdat mijn lieve vriendin &lt;a href="http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/03/showing-of-my-friends-quilt.html"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Rose-Anne&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; me vertelde over een lezing die zij had gevolgd bij Cindy Needham. Deze dame weet alles over quilten met de machine: draadspanning, soorten garen, naalden en, heel erg prettig, hoe de Problemen op te lossen. Haar website is zeker de moeite waard om te lezen: &lt;a href="http://www.cindyneedham.com/"&gt;&lt;u&gt;http://www.cindyneedham.com/&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Het eerste wat ik meteen deed was de positie van het garenklosje te veranderen van liggend naar staand. Wat een verschil zeg! Nu is het in ieder geval niet meer zo'n nachtmerrie om aan deze quilt te werken en ik ben bijna klaar.&lt;br /&gt;Voordat ik de laatste quiltsteken maak, heb ik alvast de draadjes afgehecht. Nu ziet de quilt er al een stuk beter uit en heb ik kunnen nadenken over de laatste doodle lijnen De volgende keer istie af! Zeker weten!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-7809613841574497818?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/7809613841574497818/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=7809613841574497818&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/7809613841574497818'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/7809613841574497818'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/05/almost-finished.html' title='Almost finished'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UVqm4LIadX0/TcrFWXmCtjI/AAAAAAAABgI/fwy8eA9M50c/s72-c/DSCN2455.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-2372185280547126906</id><published>2011-05-05T19:38:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2011-05-05T20:09:34.583-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Siggies'/><title type='text'>Siggy exchange</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BAHCCNUL4W4/TcMhNV-dkSI/AAAAAAAABgE/aaGqyck9ih0/s1600/Siggie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="303" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BAHCCNUL4W4/TcMhNV-dkSI/AAAAAAAABgE/aaGqyck9ih0/s400/Siggie.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;From Lenka Kozlíkova, Helma de Jongh, Annette Hartmann, Leontien Mulder, Lorraine Kabot, Judy Lindsay, Cokkie Tirion, Mary Irogan, Sandra Kissinger-Young, Nadia Conti, Mary Kruimer, Simonetta, Isabelle Stirnemann, Véronique Haaker.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;More Siggies have found their way to Brazil. To be precise 11 in total for the last 6 weeks. To make it a full sight I have added in a stamp which I use to send Siggies around the world. Every time again it is fun to receive an envelop with a small letter and a finished block with a personal touch. Sometimes I receive a Siggy without a request before hand, sometimes the request for a Siggy comes with an email, and always I send one in return.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In de afgelopen 6 weken hebben er weer Siggies hun weg naar Brazilië gevonden, 11 om precies te zijn. Op nummer 12 heb ik een postzegel geplaatst, deze plak ik vaak op een envelop als er weer een Siggy de andere kant op gaat. Het is elke keer weer leuk om een envelop te ontvangen met een leuk briefje erbij. Soms valt er zomaar een Siggy op de deurmat, soms is er eerst een verzoek via email, en elke keer stuur ik er eentje terug. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;If you are interested in this Exchange of Siggies you have to contact &lt;a href="http://quiltsandsiggies.web-log.nl/quilts_and_siggies/2011/04/s.html"&gt;&lt;u&gt;her&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Send her an email and she will get back to you with further instructions.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Als je geïnteresseerd bent in deze Siggie Swap neem dan kontakt op met &lt;a href="http://quiltsandsiggies.web-log.nl/quilts_and_siggies/2011/04/s.html"&gt;&lt;u&gt;haar&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Stuur haar een email en zij zal je vertellen wat te doen om aan te sluiten.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-2372185280547126906?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/2372185280547126906/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=2372185280547126906&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/2372185280547126906'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/2372185280547126906'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/05/siggy-exchange.html' title='Siggy exchange'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BAHCCNUL4W4/TcMhNV-dkSI/AAAAAAAABgE/aaGqyck9ih0/s72-c/Siggie.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-8293293396910107099</id><published>2011-05-03T22:55:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2011-05-03T22:55:36.290-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BSR'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pincushionswap'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Geckos'/><title type='text'>Slowly making progress</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ASmTvEIAwuU/TcCuH2dwFrI/AAAAAAAABfo/Xc_P2B_EYQE/s1600/DSCN2434.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ASmTvEIAwuU/TcCuH2dwFrI/AAAAAAAABfo/Xc_P2B_EYQE/s400/DSCN2434.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Slowly more doodle lines are added to my Gecko quilt. I love to see how the soft shine of the quilting thread merges with the colours of the fabrics. But using this thread with the BSR is not always fun....&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KUMzu7MSzi4/TcCuKfftw4I/AAAAAAAABfs/xOl8uc1b5aQ/s1600/DSCN2435.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KUMzu7MSzi4/TcCuKfftw4I/AAAAAAAABfs/xOl8uc1b5aQ/s400/DSCN2435.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Langzaam aan komen er meer steekjes bij in lange fantasielijnen. Het is een mooi proces om te zien hoe de kleuren van dit zachte glanzende draad zich mengen met de kleuren van de stoffen. Maar wat een vervelende draad is het toch om met de BSR te gebruiken...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U-UZR9jORSQ/TcCuM3KJ14I/AAAAAAAABfw/yGzUixZQSYc/s1600/DSCN2436.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U-UZR9jORSQ/TcCuM3KJ14I/AAAAAAAABfw/yGzUixZQSYc/s400/DSCN2436.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Every day new pictures of Pincushions, who have reached their destination somewhere around the world, are added to the album. Just click on the image of the Swap at the top on the right hand side to see the new additions. They are such a great inspiration for your next pincushion swap!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Elke dag komen er nieuwe foto's bij in het album van speldenkussentjes, die inmiddels zijn aangekomen op de plaats van bestemming ergens rond de wereld. Klik op het plaatje van de Swap hier rechtsboven om de pas toegevoegde kussentjes te bewonderen; een goede inspiratiebron voor de volgende swap!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-8293293396910107099?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/8293293396910107099/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=8293293396910107099&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/8293293396910107099'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/8293293396910107099'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/05/slowly-making-progress.html' title='Slowly making progress'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ASmTvEIAwuU/TcCuH2dwFrI/AAAAAAAABfo/Xc_P2B_EYQE/s72-c/DSCN2434.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-1074244481553598986</id><published>2011-04-29T18:04:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2011-04-30T11:21:59.778-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pincushionswap'/><title type='text'>Pictures are here!</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hildehoogwaerts/sets/72157626609592518/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zM7vB3Wja7E/TXqeCcc2UzI/AAAAAAAABVE/hS0rUrYckNs/s200/pin-icon-1.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Click on the picture to go to the album&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;Here are the pictures we have received so far of those who joined the Hilde &amp;amp; Hilde Pincushion Swap 2011. Just click on the picture and it you will get you to the album. We hope you have received yours by now. To be honest, I am still waiting for mine... ;-) In case your pincushion is not in the album but you did join this swap, let me please have a picture of yours because it should be included!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hier zijn de foto's van de Hilde &amp;amp; Hilde Pincushion Swap 2011. Klik op de foto hierboven voor het album. We hopen dat je jouw speldenkussentje nu inmiddels hebt ontvangen. Ik wacht nog steeds op de mijne... ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Staat jouw speldenkussen hier niet bij en heb je wel meegedaan, stuur mij dan een mailtje want dan is het album niet kompleet!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="" id="result_box" lang="pt"&gt;&lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;Aqui estão as&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;fotos&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;que&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;recebemos&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;até agora, de&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;quem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;se juntou&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;ao&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;Hilde&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;&amp;amp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;Hilde&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;Pincushion&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;Swap&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;Basta&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;clicar&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;sobre&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;imagem&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;você&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;poderá ir&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;para&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;o álbum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;Esperamos que&lt;/span&gt; já &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;tenha&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;recebido&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;o seu&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;Para ser&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;honesta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;eu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;ainda estou esperando&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;o meu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;...&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;;-)&lt;/span&gt; C&lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;aso a sua&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;almofada&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;não esteja&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;no&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;álbum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;, e&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;você&lt;/span&gt; tenha participado&lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt; deste&lt;/span&gt; troca&lt;span title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; avise-&lt;span title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;me&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;por favor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt; porque&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;esta deve ser&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;incluída no álbum!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="" id="result_box" lang="pt"&gt;&lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;(obrigada a Beth!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-1074244481553598986?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/1074244481553598986/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=1074244481553598986&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/1074244481553598986'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/1074244481553598986'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/04/pictures-are-here.html' title='Pictures are here!'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zM7vB3Wja7E/TXqeCcc2UzI/AAAAAAAABVE/hS0rUrYckNs/s72-c/pin-icon-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-5433737318905809036</id><published>2011-04-28T13:52:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2011-04-28T14:00:28.646-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hexagon&apos;s'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Siggies'/><title type='text'>In the mailbox this week</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PG9XRSbii6I/TbmQNE36PoI/AAAAAAAABe8/qfUkY77Wfwg/s1600/DSCN2365.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PG9XRSbii6I/TbmQNE36PoI/AAAAAAAABe8/qfUkY77Wfwg/s320/DSCN2365.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;This week is flying by! I had some dates with new found friends and worked on a custom order for picture frames in between Portuguese lessons and other time consuming things we all need to do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deze week vliegt voorbij! Een paar afspraakjes met nieuwe vriendinnen,  een bestelling voor fotolijstjes en tussendoor ook nog 'even' Portugese  les en andere tijdverslindende zaken die we allemaal (helaas) moeten  doen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ejRRebi7JgE/TbmQJyK1uyI/AAAAAAAABe4/9ZyXdKPv6is/s1600/DSCN2364.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ejRRebi7JgE/TbmQJyK1uyI/AAAAAAAABe4/9ZyXdKPv6is/s320/DSCN2364.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;And suddenly someone made my day very special! All the way from Germany this parcel came with Liesel's book and a lovely fabric.&lt;u&gt; &lt;a href="http://ildicolor.wordpress.com/"&gt;Hilde&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/u&gt; what a great gift, I love it! Thanks a lot! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nAUAIPqLIvc/TbmVXStUi8I/AAAAAAAABfA/iLSZUudbkaw/s1600/DSCN2366.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nAUAIPqLIvc/TbmVXStUi8I/AAAAAAAABfA/iLSZUudbkaw/s320/DSCN2366.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En toen maakte iemand mijn dag wel heel erg leuk! Helemaal vanuit Duitsland kwam deze dikke vette envelop met Liesel's boek en een leuk lapje stof! Helemaal te gek! Danke schön liebe &lt;a href="http://ildicolor.wordpress.com/"&gt;Hilde&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Also some more Siggies found their way to São Paulo, so I better start making new ones for those who want to exchange with me. They are on its way!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Er kwam nog meer post aan in São Paulo: Siggie post! Ik zal gauw aan de slag gaan om mijn Sigies jullie kant op te sturen. Ze komen er aan!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;And these are the picture frames I made for a custom order.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ME_BveokynY/TbmQDkXs6aI/AAAAAAAABew/v0hAZAaWwe8/s1600/DSCN2361.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ME_BveokynY/TbmQDkXs6aI/AAAAAAAABew/v0hAZAaWwe8/s320/DSCN2361.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hier zijn de foto lijstjes die besteld waren.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Cheers from Brazil, Hilde &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FsDuSR9DPTs/TbmQGQoBh8I/AAAAAAAABe0/badkikINK7E/s1600/DSCN2362.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FsDuSR9DPTs/TbmQGQoBh8I/AAAAAAAABe0/badkikINK7E/s320/DSCN2362.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-5433737318905809036?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/5433737318905809036/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=5433737318905809036&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/5433737318905809036'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/5433737318905809036'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/04/in-mailbox-this-week.html' title='In the mailbox this week'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PG9XRSbii6I/TbmQNE36PoI/AAAAAAAABe8/qfUkY77Wfwg/s72-c/DSCN2365.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-6697034623331307092</id><published>2011-04-23T12:16:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2011-04-23T12:16:36.660-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Doodling'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Geckos'/><title type='text'>Boa Páscoa!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iUfgVDnUtdA/TbLmcrQzP6I/AAAAAAAABeY/Ia6YYYMv0tk/s1600/DSCN2354.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iUfgVDnUtdA/TbLmcrQzP6I/AAAAAAAABeY/Ia6YYYMv0tk/s320/DSCN2354.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Wishing you all a Happy Easter from Brazil! I am enjoying some lovely lazy days, just doing a little bit of stitching besides moving around some last bits of the move, walking the dogs, baking an Easter bread and sipping wines in the afternoon.... In Brazil we can enjoy 4 days of Easter, starting on Thursday and Sunday being the last one.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vanuit Brazilie wens ik jou fijne Paasdagen! Ik geniet hier van een paar heerlijke luie dagen in en rond ons huisje, een beetje quilten, de laatste verhuisrommel opruimen, wandelen met de honden, paasbrood gebakken en s' middags een lekker wijntje. In Brazilië kunnen we genieten van 4 vrije dagen, beginnende op de donderdag en zondag is de laatste dag! Zalig!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aGWyL7jBjBI/TbLmgyF83SI/AAAAAAAABec/hZY3eVhtbw4/s1600/DSCN2359.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aGWyL7jBjBI/TbLmgyF83SI/AAAAAAAABec/hZY3eVhtbw4/s320/DSCN2359.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Quilting this Gecko quilt is more of a challenge than I thought it would be. I just want to have the right density of doodling. Maybe I started to dense in the center, and going to the outside I don't want it to be so intensely stitched. Do I want to do circles all the way? It is a constant looking for and listening to my inner drive, gut feeling. It is like finding a new me and I love it!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Het is een veel grotere uitdaging dan ik verwacht had om deze Gecko quilt te quilten. Ik ben de hele tijd op zoek naar de juiste intensiteit van het 'doodlen'. Misschien ben ik iets te intens begonnen in het midden en nu wil ik dit naar de randen toe luchtiger maken. Moeten het overal cirkels worden? Het is een konstant zoeken luisteren naar mijn 'resonantie', mijn onderbuik gevoel. Heel spannend om dit proces te volgen en ik geniet ervan!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Ciao from Brazil, Hilde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/575623115300129066-6697034623331307092?l=geckoboxes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/feeds/6697034623331307092/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=575623115300129066&amp;postID=6697034623331307092&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/6697034623331307092'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/575623115300129066/posts/default/6697034623331307092'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://geckoboxes.blogspot.com/2011/04/boa-pascoa.html' title='Boa Páscoa!'/><author><name>Hilde</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11011686887001041744</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBXpiAcTqXs/TzueUTuLXhI/AAAAAAAACPM/GD_1mGxkDqo/s220/Leuk%2521.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iUfgVDnUtdA/TbLmcrQzP6I/AAAAAAAABeY/Ia6YYYMv0tk/s72-c/DSCN2354.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575623115300129066.post-4434312480883590180</id><published>2011-04-18T14:31:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2011-04-18T14:31:36.252-03:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Doodling'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BSR'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Geckos'/><title type='text'>Doodling with the BSR</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-thNXG48rtQ8/TaxwQoeyHmI/AAAAAAAABd8/TUfJ8TpOl6U/s1600/DSCN2349.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-thNXG48rtQ8/TaxwQoeyHmI/AAAAAAAABd8/TUfJ8TpOl6U/s320/DSCN2349.jpg" width="85" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;A few posts back I mentioned that I had some problems with the BSR of my Bernina. Oops, I should not have mentioned this because it was all my own misunderstanding of this wonderful stitch... Mr. Toledo of the Bernina shop here in town, came by and checked the machine: she is in excellent form, he told me! He showed me how to change from BSR1 to BSR2 and told me to change the bobbin tension... was I stupid!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Een tijdje geleden vertelde ik hier dat ik problemen had met de BSR van mijn Bernina. Nou ja, dat had ik dus beter niet kunnen doen want het was dus gewoon een simpele handeling die ik over het hoofd had gezien. Mr Toledo van de Bernina winkel in de stad kwam vorige week langs en legde me een paar dingen uit. Om van BSR1 naar BSR2 te veranderen druk je eenvoudig op de nummers op het 'stekendashboa
