Hochwald
This is a bit of our visit to Hochwald. Beautiful Germany, as usual.































This is a bit of our visit to Hochwald. Beautiful Germany, as usual.































We’ve been to this miniature park, Madurodam. The 1:25 scale replicas of famous Dutch landmarks are wonderful and it’s quite impressive to think that the park is already 65 years old. It was restored in 2011 to celebrate its 60th birthday.
Madurodam was named after George Maduro, a jewish law student from Curaçao who fought the Nazi occupation forces. He died in 1945 at Dachau concentration camp.
Estivemos no parque Madurodam, onde há réplicas de vários monumentos holandeses na escala de 1:25. O parque foi renovado em 2011 para celebrar seu 60 anos.
O nome Madurodam vem em homenagem a George Maduro, um estudante de direito judeu de Curaçao que lutou contra os nazistas pela Holanda e morreu em 1945 no campo de concentração de Dachau.

















When you think about a park with more than 7 million tulips, (more than 800 varieties of it) and other varieties of gerberas, daffodils and roses, this is the place. It’s only open seven weeks a year. It’s beautiful, it’s colourful.
Quando você pensa num parque com mais de 7 milhões de tulipas, (mais de 800 espécies) e ainda outras variedades como gérberas, narcisos e rosas, este é o lugar. Aberto somente 7 semanas no ano, o parque é lindo e colorido.











































Neste domingo fomos para um “colha seu próprio produto da fazenda”. Ja havíamos ouvido falar de fazendas como esta ao redor de Paris onde produtores abrem suas portas para a colheita em uma determinada temporada, mas foi uma amiga que deu a dica desta fazenda específica, La Ferme de Viltain. Se trata de um grupo de fazendas com o nome de “Chapeau de Paille” (Chapéu de Palha). Esta fazenda específica que fomos não é orgânica.
Chegando lá, não precisa falar francês tão bem para perceber o que tem que ser feito. Logo na entrada podemos pegar tesouras, um carrinho de mão e um punhado de sacos plásticos ou uma cesta de papel para as frutas. Muitos já levam sacolas de casa. Alguns locais são cercados por uma fita branca que diz para não colher nada naquele local. Isso faz com que haja rotatividade e que a produção continue fluindo por todo o verão.
Não fui preparada para fazer uma sessão de fotos com a minha família (podem notar o McLaren e a sacola de fraldas que meu marido está carregando), mas deu para documentar o nosso dia que foi para lá de legal!
Colhemos primeiro vagens, depois passamos pelas abobrinhas, cenouras, morangos, alfaces, tomates e maças. Tem flores para colher também! Na saída pesamos nossas sacolas e pagamos. Com tudo o que pegamos e mais uma garrafa de suco de maças pagamos 10,45 Euros!!! Definitivamente um lugar bem bacana para passar uma tarde com as crianças. Elas aprendem, tem contato com a natureza, se divertem e no final rende até uma bela sopa de legumes para o jantar sem que haja nenhuma reclamação! :)
Last Sunday we went to a “pick-it-yourself farm”. We’ve already had heard of farms like this around Paris where producers open their doors for the harvest in a specific season, but it was a friend who told about this particular farm, La Ferme de Viltain. It is a group of farms with the name “Chapeau de Paille” (Straw Hat). This particular farm that we were was not a organic one.
Once there, we don’t really need to speak French so well to realize what has to be done. At the entrance we can grab scissors, a wheelbarrow and a handful of plastic bags or paper basket for fruit. Many people bring some bags from home. Some areas are surrounded by a white plastic tape that says to don’t pick anything from there.
I wasn’t prepared to do any photo session with my family ( you can notice the McLaren and the diaper bag that my husband is carrying), but I was able to document our day that was beyond cool!
We passed on green beans, zucchini, carrots, strawberries, lettuce, tomatoes and apples. There were flowers too! By the checkout, our takings were weighted and we payed, with a big bottle of apple juice, just 10,45 Euros. Definitely a very nice place to spend an afternoon with the kids. They learn, have contact with the nature, have fun and at the end we can have a nice vegetable soup for dinner without any complaints! :)
I’m sharing two of my projects that I did recently. Some months before my daughter was born, inspired by Pinterest I decided to make a cloud. This was my first project ever since I bought my Singer. Fine if you don’t look too close! lol
Then, when my daughter was around 8 months I decided to transform a boring green pillow into something else and I made one of the 21 projects from the book “Scandinavian Stitches” (Kajsa Wikman).
You probably imagine how it was to work with my sewing machine while my baby was already crawling and showing her personality everywhere. Well, I’ve finished it now when she completed 12 months!
Not so sure about the patterns I used but I guess I have improved a bit… :)
There’s a huge joy when a little newborn comes back all grown up for a cake smash session!
“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ” Norman Vincent Peale
Miss A. came back for a photo session to celebrate her first Birthday!
It’s been a while since we’ve been to a museum together. I love this shot because he looks like a prince! ;)