http://www.warrenleecohen.com/luciana celebrating life and the beauty of handmade things Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:40:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just thought I'd share this rather unusual way of carrying your kitty cat. Mind you, this was a pretty busy winding road with trucks and buses and a huge drop off into the ocean to the right. I captured it on our way to the Botanical Garden.     Eu achei que ... http://www.warrenleecohen.com/luciana/2010/03/feline-transportation/ Rio's Botanical Garden has always been one of my favourite parks in town. Yesterday we spent a good four hours with the children exploring and admiring the beauties and hidden treasures of this place. We picked some star fruit (carambola) from the ground, watched monkeys playing about, observed a mosquitoes ... http://www.warrenleecohen.com/luciana/2010/03/a-visit-to-rios-botanical-garden/ Whilst trying to keep a healthy rhythm for the children here in Rio we have been managing to fit a little bit of culture in between all the social events with family and friends. Not so easy. But at the end of last week we made it to the Museu ... http://www.warrenleecohen.com/luciana/2010/03/museu-casa-do-pontal/ 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/