http://www.warrenleecohen.com/luciana celebrating life and the beauty of handmade things Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:38:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Before we left Canada for our holidays I thought of a few crafts projects to do while here in Brazil. One of them is a very simple baby quilt for my niece/nephew who is due in August.  Because my sister and her husband were coming to spend a week with ... http://www.warrenleecohen.com/luciana/2010/03/a-quick-baby-quilt/ I got those shades as a birthday gift to myself when we were in Philadelphia last December. It was meant to be a joke. I saw them in a antique/miscellanea shop while enjoying a couple of hours on my own browsing the lovely neighbourhood of Germantown. I thought it would ... http://www.warrenleecohen.com/luciana/2010/03/a-case-for-my-funky-shades/ Yesterday we took the girls to beach for the first time since we arrived in Rio. This is actually the same spot where my parents used to take my sister and I when we were kids and there I played with the mermaids, I gave parties for the fish and ... http://www.warrenleecohen.com/luciana/2010/02/the-perfect-spot/ The pictures below don't quite look like Toronto this time of the year. That's right. We've been in Rio now for three days and still adapting to the roasting temperatures. World climate seems to be crazy all over, and it's not any different here. Tomorrow they are predicting a high ... http://www.warrenleecohen.com/luciana/2010/02/hello-from-rio/ It is such a joy to see Marta and Liliana playing with the toys we make for them. It is very rewarding after all the love and work that we put into them. The wind wands were my Christmas present for the girls and their play was completely spontaneous. I never take pictures of the children when they are immersed in ... http://www.warrenleecohen.com/luciana/2010/02/oh-what-a-joy/ It has now been a  year since we left England to move to Canada. It was such an intense year, as you can imagine, that it feels more like five. But the memory of the places and people that we hold dear in that wet and misty island, are as recent as yesterday. While ... http://www.warrenleecohen.com/luciana/2010/02/stroud/ And why is he connected with romantic love? You can see that Valentine's day is not much in my culture as it is not celebrated in Brazil. Nor it is a big deal in (modern) England either though you see a lot of commercial stuff around it there. But here in Canada, ... http://www.warrenleecohen.com/luciana/2010/02/who-is-st-valentine/ Things have been slow here ,crafts wise. Both Marta and Liliana had a bad cold that pretty much rocked our rhythm for the past two weeks. Sleepless nights and a super-clingy baby meant that I couldn't do much other than try to catch up with the house chores and tend ... http://www.warrenleecohen.com/luciana/2010/02/birthday-crowns/ I'm always amazed at how the bread baking workshop that Warren runs manages to gather such a nice group of people, every time! And it wasn't any different this last Sunday at the Toronto Waldorf School. The girls and I visited for a little while and even stayed for lunch this ... http://www.warrenleecohen.com/luciana/2010/02/bread-baking-workshop-3/ Saturday morning we headed out to our favourite park in the area to enjoy the fun the Winter has to offer. The lake is now completely frozen and is a huge outdoors skating rink. Amazingly beautiful. We were so excited about it that last week we all got ice skates for ... http://www.warrenleecohen.com/luciana/2010/02/winter-fun/