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A Portuguese Love
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A Portuguese Love Zazzle Store Official blog. Find about new products, Portuguese traditions and culture,short reviews on fabulous Zazzle stores and tips on promoting your Zazzle Store.Welcome!

Help me help Davis, my nephews dog!

http://www.vamosajudarodavis.b logspot.pt Davis is my nepehws dog. Hes a shar pei dog and he is very sick. He takes pills every day to manage pain and he will stop walking as the illness progresses. W...

23 may 12

Portugal got Silver in the Worlds Best TV & Films Awards

“Portugal – The beauty of simplicity” won Silver Medal at  The 55th Worlds Film Awards 2012 awards ceremony  for Short Film category for the promotional film. The video was a productio...

25 apr 12

Animation about Barcelos Rooster!

Graduation movie at Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam.The unofficial symbol of Portugal is the brightly colored Galo de Barcelos - Barcelos Rooster. This animation tells the story of the legend.

23 apr 12

Be careful when hitchhiking!

Last week I read shocking news in the newspaper. A young Danish woman asked for a ride  and was raped. It happened in Rio Maior maybe 80km from my town. Although not able to speak Portuguese she...

22 apr 12

Fontinhas squatters forced to leave the school by force

António Serginho Photo Hello friends and readers. I’ve been too busy to write anything but today I bring to this blog an important story. Sure that you already know that I love Oporto city and its pe...

21 apr 12

Happy Easter Everybody!

06 apr 12

Portuguese Sagres Tall Ship photos!

As I told you previously I went to visit NRP Sagres on the weekend. I had great expectations about this ship and they were totally fulfilled. I visited Sagres during night with my sister and nep...

04 apr 12

Unique Bonjour liqueur almonds from Arcadia

Its Easter time. In many countries it is traditional to eat almonds at this time of the year. The small fruit is often covered with coloured sugar or chocolate. We eat those almonds too. Bu...

04 apr 12

Zazzle is sweet!

Look what I just found when I logged in to my Zazzle account, today. Unfortunately my birthday is on February, yes Im from the sign of Aquarius. So Ill have a lot to wait before I get  a "sp...

31 mar 12

The beautiful N.R.P Sagres!

Beautiful ship Sagres celebrates 50 years of service to the Portuguese Navy this year and 75 years of life. The ship Sagres was built in the shipyards of Blohm and Voss in Hamburg in 1937. She was&nb...

29 mar 12

Buarcos - a small fishermen village Im fond of!

To those who are already bored with my postages about Oporto heres something new with a taste of Summer. Buarcos is a fishing village, or, at least it was. When I moved to Figueira da Foz in the...

28 mar 12

Oporto is the best place to travel in Europe!

My favourite Portuguese city has just bee chosen Best European Destination by  212.688 voters who have made their choice online.  20 selected towns were competing for the prestigi...

28 mar 12

J. Brommers Zazzle Store is pure Spring magic!

Today were having a great Spring day. Walking for a while at local city garden after lunch time has made me think of the art of Joana Brommers. No computers, just traditional media and lots of whimsi...

27 mar 12

Listen to Fado de Coimbra at Fado ao Centro

Last Monday I travelled to Coimbra. Its 50 km from where I live. A woman was handing out flyers and invited me to enter a new Coimbras fado house. I was pleasantly surprised by the discovery. Fado ao...

25 mar 12

Pinterest updated Terms of Service

A few weeks ago I expressed on this blog some concern about what I read in Pinterests Terms of Service. Today when I opened  my email box I found this Pinterest message. It does not answer ...

24 mar 12

Foreigners impressions on Portugal

"Linda and I had Portugal on the back burner for many years. A mistake! Had we not procrastinated, this would have been a return trip. Portugal is booming. With a strong economy and funds from th...

23 mar 12

Two photographers were hit by the police in Lisbon

From time to time I bring some more serious matters to this blog. Yesterday Portuguese workers were on strike nationwide. My country is at crossroads and I cant see the end of it. Portugals biggest u...

23 mar 12

Egg Hunt Champion!

Easter Egg Hunt Champion! by aportugueselove Make your own tshirts at zazzle.com.

23 mar 12

Custom Skins! New product at Zazzle!

When I started at Zazzle I checked all POD available. Im glad I picked Zazzle. Since last year they keep adding new products for us to customize. Custom Skins are here! I love this possibility. So no...

23 mar 12

Zazzle warning about pishing scam! Read this!

This content was found at Zazzle Forum. I spent many days without checking it. I think many of you would like to be informed. Unfortunately scam people hit every where and now they targeted us, Zazzl...

23 mar 12

A cute Easter greeting card for kids!

Hello readers, friends and fellow Zazzlers! I just finished my Easter Greeting card proposal for Zazzle. Its aimed for kids as many of my store products. Its a fantasy, I called it Happy Easter Fanta...

22 mar 12

Great Psychedelic Fractal Art by Firdaus Emir at Zazzle!!

Prepare yourself to be hypnotized!! Firdaus lives down-under, right, in the far Australia. She operates from Wollongong, New South Wales. She says that shes mostly known as Webgrr...

21 mar 12

Portuguese ceramic

Many of the ceramic Portuguese traditional pieces are hand-painted by incredibly talented artisans. If youre looking for something that is still faithful to tradition youll find it for sure...

17 mar 12

The tradition of bread in Portugal is a Gourmands Award Book!

Gourmand’s 16th Awards took place at Paris’ famed music hall, Les Folies Bergeres, following the opening of the second Paris Cookbook Fair. The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards was founded in 1995 by E...

13 mar 12

I bought myself a pair of purple shoes!

Oporto has lots of shoe shops. You can find designer shoes and simple ones, cheap and expensive ones all in one street. As it was sales time I could not resist to return  home with a new pair of...

13 mar 12

Portuguese Filigree at Sílvia Netos Zazzle Store

Hello readers! It has been a long time since my last products showcase. I had a problem with one Zazzler if you remember. He disliked my blog linking to his store and made a complaint to Zazzle. I th...

12 mar 12

Contemporary handicraft in Gaia - Amor de Galo

A few weeks ago, you know,  I went to Oporto. As usual I try to make the best of my time when I go there. As the weather was fine I crossed D.Luis bridge over the river Douro and went to Gaia, t...

12 mar 12

How Portuguese filigree is made

The art of filigree found its origin in the Far East maybe China and India. Its a delicate, lace like ornamental openwork composed of intertwined wire threads of gold - 19.25 Karat gold is used in Po...

12 mar 12

Sold a Christmas magnet!

Rudolf,Santa and the Snowman by aportugueselove Sell art online at Zazzle. Usually I dont promote my sales. But today I sold this Christmas magnet! Thats intriguing! Were still nine months away ...

12 mar 12

Can anyone explain Pinterest to me?

 Excerpt from Pinterests terms of use: "We may, in our sole discretion, permit Members to post, upload, publish, submit or transmit Member Content. By making available any Member Content thr...

06 mar 12

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