(photos: Constança Cabral)
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Clutch de Festa :: Party Clutch
This is the clutch I made for yesterday’s wedding. My dress was dove grey and my jacket a purplish blue so I chose a blue/green fabric to lighten up the outfit. The wedding was great, by the way!
(photo: Tiago Cabral)
Alianças :: Wedding Rings
Aprovação :: Approval
Quer-me cá parecer que o lençol foi aprovado pelo seu novo dono!
I’m guessing that the sheet has met the approval of its new owner!
(photos: Tiago Cabral)
Lençol à Antiga :: Old-Fashioned Sheet
Things I’m Not Afraid to Tell You
Não sou grande amiga de controvérsia no meu blog mas acho que chegou a altura de esclarecer uma questão que me tem ocupado os pensamentos nos últimos tempos. Tem havido muita conversa sobre honestidade e autenticidade online. Agora até há um desafio na blogosfera, intitulado “Things I’m Afraid to Tell You”, que apela a uma maior transparência, incitando os bloggers a partilharem as suas dificuldades e os seus “podres”. Há muita gente que diz que esta avalanche de blogs focados exclusivamente em coisas positivas e bonitas (sejam elas móveis, bolos ou crianças) é desonesta, por um lado, porque só mostra uma parte da vida e não o todo, e contraproducente, por outro, porque em vez de inspirar, dá azo a sentimentos de inveja e inadequação. No fundo, defende-se que devemos todos ser “livros abertos” e que não nos podemos limitar a partilhar as coisas boas das nossas vidas, porque isso pode ser mal interpretado por quem nos lê.
Well, allow me to disagree. If the subject of a certain blog is interior decoration and if every week that blog shows appealing homes, why must the blog author start telling us that she just had a fight with her mother, that her child is ill or that she has inadvertently burnt her lunch? Or even worse, that she shows nice homes but she can’t afford this particular sofa or that particular lamp?
Let’s look at my case. I started writing this blog to document the things I was making and as motivation to make more and better things. Nowadays I write it not only for me but also for you, whom I try to show that it’s possible to have a very rich life without needing to keep consuming all the time. I believe that our homes are vital to our happiness and that, for that reason, we should try to make them as agreeable as we possibly can. I also think that living in tune with the seasons makes life much more urgent and special. But I’ve once been compared to Martine and some people write to me saying that I’ve got a perfect life because I arrange flowers and bake cakes. Isn’t that a rather limited vision of my life? Everyone has access to the flowers that grow on roadside verges, as well as to eggs, sugar and flour. I just happen to choose to make something with it and I always try to present the things I make in the most appealing way I possibly can. And when I show you a corner of my home, it’s obvious that I clean up and tidy before taking the photos! But that doesn’t mean that what I show to you is a lie — on the contrary, sharing these things with you makes me want to be a better person: tidier, more resourceful, more generous. The same goes for a picture of a smiley, well-dressed baby… that picture doesn’t mean that he never cries or that he never has dirty nappies.
Why should you I tell you that I struggled with breast-feeding? Or that my first winter in England was really difficult? Or that my friends have nicer clothes than me? If I were to whine, would my blog be more interesting? I reckon with would be very boring indeed…
All I really want to say is that I’m not comfortable with this whole wave of forced sincerity that’s going on right now on blogs. Online or offline, we tend to behave the same way. I mean, people don’t show themselves 100% to those they are not intimate with: no-one is going to share their sorrows with colleagues or mere acquaintances. We’ve all got our public faces and almost every one of us chooses to only share our struggles with our special people. That doesn’t make us dishonest, nor liars. So if that is the accepted behaviour in society, why in the world should we be so much more open and vulnerable online?
Bebé Aviador :: Baby Aviator
(photos: Tiago Cabral)
Colecção de Tecidos :: Fabric Stash
(photos: Tiago Cabral)
Heart-Felt Holidays :: Giveaway Winner
Heart-Felt Holidays :: Giveaway
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