Monday Mural - Saint Anthony

A mural of Saint Anthony, Lisbon's patron Saint,  painted on a (probably unused) house door in Alfama, Lisbon's oldest district.
If you find yourself in Lisbon on the 12th and 13th of June, you'll be able to attend the marches and festivities the city throws in honour of Saint Anthony.

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Monday Mural - Lisbon Underground city

Quite a few of Lisbon's underground (subway) stations are decorated with fabulous tile panels, but I found this to be one of the most fascinating.
It can be found at the Oriente station, and was designed by Austrian born artist and architect Hundertwasser (Friedrich Stowasser - 1928/2000), based on his graphic works 686 Good morning city, and executed during 1996/98 by the tile factory "Fábrica Cerâmica Viúva Lamego" in Sintra and Lisbon.

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Signs - Breakfast anyone?

Two different signs I photographed in Portugal regarding breakfast.

The first one was in a coffee shop in Lisbon and the second one was in the kitchen of the Airbnb apartment we rented in Cascais.

More signs at Signs, Signs.

Monday Mural - The Indian

Another mural in the Le Panier suburb of Marseille, France, taken during our visit in September 2017.
Painted in 2017 by "Sock Tetal", a street artist from Avignon.

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Personalised Number Plates IV and Revamping

I was just going to post some number plates when I saw that a couple of number plates would actually suit a post I wanted to write next week...so  here it goes 👍

When I'm alone long enough (with hubby working away) I tend to get bored and decorate - paint walls, move furniture around...



This time, about two weeks ago I decided I would revamp my study. 
The beige Ikea Billy shelves weren't doing it for me, they were too narrow for a lot of my books and files and it was looking too messy!
We had one Metod kitchen high unit with doors in the spare bedroom which I moved to the study, so off I went to Ikea, ordered 3 more 35cm deep units and had them delivered. 
I assembled them all on my own, put them up against the wall and put the books and files back.  
I admire people who have an immaculate study with a small desk and a set of shelves, where do they store all their paper? We both seem to be paper magnets, and as for books, oh yes I could open a library!!

The new look shelving units - they still need a bit of tweaking later on

I decided to give some books away, throw out a lot of the magazines that I hoard - Better Homes & Gardens and the monthly Women's Weekly, the more recent ones were taken to the Clinic where I work, and every night while I sit in front of the TV I've been going through a lot of the paperwork and throwing out very old stuff.
I recovered some money by selling the Billy units, plus a few odds and ends I no longer needed.





Not happy with that mammoth job I also thought I needed to replace two low shelving units I had in my bedroom with our mostly my shoes!!  I blame my shoe fetish on the fact that I worked as a sales assistant in an upmarket shoe shop in my teenage years when I lived in Johannesburg. 
Luckily I don't buy expensive shoes, but after disposing of a few uncomfortable shoes I'm left with about 30 pairs. Now instead of the low shelves I bought a ceiling high 35cm deep Komplement Ikea wardrobe unit, assembled it, had a massive fight with the brick wall as I had to anchor the unit to the wall but was having trouble drilling holes into the brick wall...
A Youtube video and a lot of persistence and sweat and I managed to drill the two holes and the unit is now nicely anchored.

Unfortunately the shoes are still piled up on a corner of the bedroom as the shelves were out of stock.  Ikea has in the meantime advised me that the shelves are coming from the Eastern States and will be delivered to me by Australia post!  

Awaiting the shoe shelves

I hope to have the revamp totally ready by the 7th of September when Jose arrives for his  60th birthday celebration on the 8th.  The revamp will be a surprise to him 😁😁, although I know I'll get reprimanded for doing all this alone with the risk of hurting my back.



So I have been 2 busy as you can imagine 😁.


For other personalised number plates check the following posts:

https://sami-colourfulworld.blogspot.com/2016/04/personalised-number-plates-i.html

https://sami-colourfulworld.blogspot.com/2016/04/personalised-number-plates-ii.html

https://sami-colourfulworld.blogspot.com/2016/05/personalised-number-plates-iii.html