Sleep tight

There are moments that have to be kept forever. This is one of them. Just resting...

Mistic villa

And so life gathers its magic and combines a mist of beauty and history. The paths are crumbled with faith and honor. The strings of melancholy keep on echoing through the air. Moorish girls are seen around the fountains. Knights are struck by civilization. The eras passed and the villa is still unique. Flourished by its own scent, filled with love and spiced by hatred stories. At night the echoes of doomed souls surround the narrow streets. Young girls still perish at someone’s arms, and flowers still resemble their faces. Life remains … 

This is a small villa called Sintra in the surroundings of Lisbon. 

Iris's thoughts

Despite the black cloud that keeps on interfering in my life, I keep on struggling on a daily basis. This is just a path that one has to go through, but I can see the light at the end of the road. Days had gone by while I was supposed to be somewhere else at this time, so the doctors have said, but I'd rather keep on living and enjoy the beautiful life that I have in its fullness! I'm not a quitter, and I will just enjoy the love of those who surround me and help me with my inner strength. Believe ...

Seeds

And with the fall comes along the seeds.
I've decided to save some cherry seeds, and after a proper cleaning they are ready to be used as an handcraft work. In the small jar just a few pumpkin seeds that will be used in my vegan dishes.

Dark days

Iris is sick ...
Cancer they say. I believe that's what I heard, because honestly I didn't hear much ... The vet was trying to explain the entire process, but my body was the only thing present because my mind was somewhere else. Most likely travelling to the past and trying to gather the most important moments of my life with her ... The most important being of my life, really ... The one that stuck together with me along my ups and downs. She was the only one going through my different apartments, different jobs, different friends, a divorce, different boyfriends, moving to another city and then again to another country and returning to start all over again. She was always there. She still is. And I know that she will always be. But despite all of this, she's still sick ... My best friend is sick and she's not even aware of it ...

Perfect juice

Ingredients:

1 medium cucumber
1 medium carrot
1 apple
10 mint leaves
1 kale leaf
1/2 cup raisins
1 piece of ginger

How to prepare:

Add the cucumber in a blender, which will give the required amount of water, and fibers.
Then add the carrot, because it is rich in fiber, has beta carotene, helps protect our skin, helping to prevent various types of cancer including skin cancer.
Then add the apple as it will not only gives a nice flavour, as it is also rich in antioxidants with lots fiber too.
To further enrich the juice with magnesium and calcium, important for our body to function well, we will add the mint.
Add the kale leaf which is also rich in magnesium and fiber, and to give a sweet taste to the juice add the raisins that are rich in fiber and magnesium.
At the end add a very special ingredient: ginger. It is known to be an antioxidant which helps speed up your metabolism helping you to lose weight, ideal for those who will practice exercises.

Iris inside the box

This is not a good picture, I am aware of that. I do need to buy a new camera though ... But meanwhile this is the best that my camera could do, while Iris was helping me out making this puzzle.

She likes to be cooperative ;)

And we did manage to finish the puzzle!

Do not disturb

What a life ... ;)

Irís is my cat. She loves to wander around the house, but there are some days that she feels so tired that she really needs to take a nap from time to time. Here's a snapshot taken while she was having some inner thoughts ... She needed to think about life, and didn't want to be disturbed, so I didn't.

Christmas Strawberries

So, you may start wondering ... Now that Christmas is arriving what should I do to enjoy the season?

 

 

 

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Bottles on the Wall

Iglo

For the ones that really enjoy books, like I do :)

Quotes

Isn't that so? ....

Through a glass

Sometimes we have the need to look to ourselves through a glass. A mirror that projects what we don't want to see. Just a glimpse from what we keep on hiding to the world, and most of the times even to ourselves. Imagine if we could reach the image and keep it forever. To be able to look at it when we are feeling down and grab the energy that rises through the mirror when we look at it? Could life be perfect on that moment? ...
Sometimes ... we feel strangers to ourselves. Always trying to feel special and needed when there is no one around to give us the strenght to move on. That's a glass. The projection of our inner needs and feelings. Just a material from this world that was defined to show us that we really can cope with breakdowns.
It's just a simple glass.
Sometimes, we tend to forget what we really are, and we prefer to live according the image. A simple image through a glass which is just a mirror from our inner world.

It's called ... culture

Around the house

 

 One of my favourites : an old appliance for my juices. Still working. 

 Cactus : because sometimes I forget to water the plants, and these ones don't complaint about it ;)

One of my favourite chairs. Just because it's a one piece furniture.

Should I

Should I keep on walking? ...

Should I embrace the rocks along the way?
The final stones and pebbles that appear, now and then, just to stop life from moving around.
The final step, the end of misery as it is seen.

Should I stare?
Should I keep on breathing?
To inhale the deep dark clouds surrounded by pain and suffer.
The gasps of memories gone, that keep on coming back from time to time just to be remembered.

Should I cry for help?
Should I raise my hands and beg for mercy?
Way high.
Touch the sky and smell the white clouds full of hope.

Should I? ...

Try to be someone else so the tears can go away.
Pretend another world, another body in order to escape.
Try not to be the same soul ... in vain ... just to fly around and disappear ... maybe some day ...

Should I keep on dreaming?
Should I believe it is going to be better? ...

Should I? ...
And I just keep on walking ...

Choco Made

It's chocolate all right. Exhibition in a close by villa - Óbidos. This is an anual event that gathers all kinds of chocolates and ideas related with it. It's a must seen and a must go, but I must say that at the end of the day it was to much choco enviroment, I think I am not going to eat it for a while ...

Popping the ballons

Popping the ballons .....










This was how my house looked like in order to celebrate my last birthday ...

A little bit of colour around the white walls ...

I am glad that the other parts of the house were spared ... hard to clean the ballons ... But I liked the effect.

Cyber Cat

My cat likes to interact with the adults world ... Sometimes she likes to chat a bit with her friends, so everytime that she thinks that I am not around she jumps to the laptop and decides do socialize with others around the world ... A cat's world? ... My cat's world indeed :)

Cromelech

I went to Alentejo - south Portugal -  and decided to visit some peculiar stones left here by our ancestors ... it's called cromelech  and is the most important megalithic site in Portugal, consisted by 96 standing stones arranged in an oval. It is said that it was used for sacred rituals. I find this things trully amazing ...
There are so many beauties out there, spread over, among us, and it seems that sometimes people don't care for its existence.