What I Do Here

I try really hard to keep my Pinterest boards realistic. I currently live in São Paulo, Brazil, and there are just a lot of items I can't get here. Craft stores as we know them in the US don't exist, and neither does sour cream. Cream cheese is quite expensive, and don't even get me started on Cream of Whatever condensed soups. I live in a nice but old apartment, and putting nails in the cinder-block walls is out of the question, so most of the decorating ideas my friends pin are not going to happen while we live here. I know I'd spend way too much time on Pinterest if I pinned everything I liked just because I liked it, so I try to keep my pins restricted to things I actually think I could do, given my own circumstances.

I'm also the kind of person who likes to keep track of what she's done and how it turned out. This is why I love Goodreads.

So this blog is my attempt to account for what I've done, what changes I made or would make, whether I'd attempt it again or recommend it to my friends, etc. I plan on writing about projects, crafts, recipes, movies, and the other ideas I see pop on on my friends' boards. I'm not super crafty, even when I have access to American craft stores, so you're getting the perspective of a total amateur. I like to see this as a strength; if I can do it, anyone can.

Feel free to follow my boards, comment on what you see, and share the love.