Mother's Day Gift Sets

Gently cleansing and luxuriously fragrancing the skin, each soap is manually stamped with a portuguese motif and hand-wrapped to ensure the highest quality and perfection. 

Soap wrapped in paper decorated with a satin ribbon and a small ceramic tile. Each wrapper replicates a traditional portuguese tile. 

Available Gift Sets:

- Olive Leaf & Green Tea and Cilantro & Lime

- Orange & Almond and Ginger & Orchid

- Lavender & Chamomile and Rhubarb & Cassis 

Weight: 2 x 200g / 2 x 7 oz

Made in Portugal

1 Card and 1 envelope, 4.25”x5.5”

 BeKnow Cards:

• Handcrafted in Portugal
• Black foil letterpress
• Blank inside as the canvas should be yours
• 100% cotton FSC® certified paper
• 4.25 x 5.5 inches 
• Includes Euro Flap envelope (color may vary)

Paper Mountain Info:

blank inside
A2 size: 4.25" x 5.5" 
printed on matte white cardstock
comes with kraft envelope, cellophane sleeve
designed and printed in Toronto, Canada. 

The Paperhood:

This listing is for 1 card and 1 envelope
Card size: 4.25" x 5.5"
Blank inside for your personal message.
Professionally printed in offset on 100lb enviro matte card stock.

OUR ECO COMMITMENT:
Printed on premium 100% recycled paper
Envelope is made of 100% recycled material, 30% PCW
Online orders are shipped without plastic sleeves, to keep our environmental footprint as low as possible.

A vibrant tour of Portugal, featuring more than 200 photographs that bring to life one of the most beautiful countries in the world.

In this gorgeous book, writer and photographer Christine Chitnis invites you to celebrate the unique, timeless beauty of Portugal through the stunning designs and hues that define Portugal’s countryside, coast, small towns, and cosmopolitan cities.

This collection features over 200 stunning photographs that illustrate the ways that color and pattern are woven into the very fabric of the country’s culture, history, architecture, and traditions. Each section features insightful essays that explore the artistry of azulejos, the colorful ceramic tiles covering much of Portugal’s architecture; the intricately embroidered details of traditional lavradeira costumes; the rich flavors of Portuguese cuisine, and so much more.

Throughout these vibrant pages, you’ll discover the vivid stories behind each color and pattern, transporting you to the gorgeous fields of Alentejo, the sparkling waters of the Algarve, the busy streets of Lisbon, the lush valleys of the Douro, and beyond.

The first glass producing factory – A Real Fábrica de Vidros da Marinha Grande – was established by the Marquis of Pombal in 1769. Since then many factories have maintained the regions secular tradition. They produce high quality mouth blown glass.

The Depósito da Marinha Grande, with their vast variety of products, keeps up their tradition, introducing innovative techniques in the production of this sustainable, yet noble product.

Material: Mouth Blown Glassware

Dimensions: Height 18.5 cm, Diameter 5.5 cm

Made in Portugal

This Gift Set includes 2 DMG vintage champagne flutes.

The first glass producing factory – A Real Fábrica de Vidros da Marinha Grande – was established by the Marquis of Pombal in 1769. Since then many factories have maintained the regions secular tradition. They produce high quality mouth blown glass.

The Depósito da Marinha Grande, with their vast variety of products, keeps up their tradition, introducing innovative techniques in the production of this sustainable, yet noble product.

Material: Mouth Blown Glassware

Dimensions: Diameter 5cm, Height 16cm

Made in Portugal

Necklace with Heart of Viana on the back, Gold Plated Silver

Part of Zodiac Collection honouring Portuguese historical women.

Gold plated silver 925% necklace with 40cm (plus 5cm of extension) and 3.5gr.

Size of pendant of 2.0cm.

Handmade in Portugal

Gold Plated Silver bracelet Heart of Viana in filigree, part of The Classics Collection. 

The Heart of Viana was created as a symbol of devotion to the Sacred Heart but soon became an icon and emotional heritage of Portugal. Gold plated silver 925‰ center with 1,5cm and 1,0 gr. Elastic pearl bracelet.

According to an old tale, a pair of earrings were offered to Queen Maria II during her visit to Viana do Castelo and the popular model quickly became known as the Queen Earrings.

Silver bracelet Viana's "Conta" in filigree, part of The Classics Collection. Gold plated silver 925‰ center with 10mm and 1,0 gr. Elastic pearl bracelet.

Gold plated silver 925% with 3.0cm charm and 1 gr. Elastic pearl bracelet.

Handmade in Portugal

Gift Set pictured is Beirabaga Jam, Cidreira Tea 14g, Honey 500ml

Custom box with this combination is available.  

***At Check out, please specify your custom selection.  If we don't receive a note, we will ship box as pictured.

You can choose from the following:

Jam:  Fig, Pumpkin, Redcurrent, Arbutusberry, Angel Hair, Apple, Tomato

Tea:  Lemon Verbena, Linden Tile, Cidreira and Camomile

Honey:  Serramel Wild Lavender Honey 500g

Barnacle Love, Paperback, By Anthony De Sa

Shortlisted for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize

Like Wayson Choy and David Bezmozgis before him, Anthony De Sa captures, in stories brimming with life, the innocent dreams and bitter disappointments of the immigrant experience.

At the heart of this collection of intimately linked stories is the relationship between a father and his son. A young fisherman washes up nearly dead on the shores of Newfoundland. It is Manuel Rebelo who has tried to escape the suffocating smallness of his Portuguese village and the crushing weight of his mother’s expectations to build a future for himself in a terra nova. Manuel struggles to shed the traditions of a village frozen in time and to silence the brutal voice of Maria Theresa da Conceicao Rebelo, but embracing the promise of his adopted land is not as simple as he had hoped.

Manuel’s son, Antonio, is born into Toronto’s little Portugal, a world of colourful houses and labyrinthine back alleys. In the Rebelo home the Church looms large, men and women inhabit sharply divided space, pigs are slaughtered in the garage, and a family lives in the shadow cast by a father’s failures. Most days Antonio and his friends take to their bikes, pushing the boundaries of their neighbourhood street by street, but when they finally break through to the city beyond they confront dangers of a new sort.

Heart of Viana necklace in filigree in Gold Plated Silver, part of The Classics Collection.

The Heart of Viana was created as a symbol of devotion to the Sacred Heart but soon became an icon and emotional heritage of Portugal.

For those who own it the Heart of Viana is a symbol of honest and generosity.

Gold plated silver 925% necklace with 45cm and 4.6gr.

Three Sizes of Heart of Viana pendant (excluding the loop):

1.  1.5 cm and 1.5gr

2. 3cm and 2.8gr

3. 3.5cm and 4.6gr

Handmade in Portugal

Anthony De Sa's novel of rare evocative power that captures the space between innocence and knowing--for a city, for a community and most especially for a trio of unforgettable boys.

     On a steamy summer day in 1977, Emanuel Jaques was shining shoes in downtown Toronto. Surrounded by the strip clubs, bars and body rub parlors of Yonge Street, Emanuel was lured away from his friends by a man who promised some easy money. Four days later the boy's body was discovered. He had been brutally raped and murdered, and Toronto the Good would never be the same. The murder of the Shoeshine Boy had particularly tragic resonance for the city's Portuguese community. The loss of one of their own symbolized for many how far they were from realizing their immigrant dreams.
     Kicking the Sky is told from the perspective of one of these children, Antonio Rebelo, a character first introduced in Barnacle Love. Twelve-year-old Antonio prizes his life of freedom and adventure. He and his best friends, Manny and Ricky, spend their days on their bikes exploring the labyrinth of laneways that link their Portuguese neighborhood to the rest of the city. But as the details of Emanuel's death expose Toronto's seedier underbelly, the boys are pulled into an adult world of danger and cruelty, secrets and lies much closer to home.
     Kicking the Sky is a novel driven by dramatic events, taking hold of readers from its opening pages, intensifying its force towards an ending of huge emotional impact.

Paperback Edition

More delicious, easy to follow recipes from the streets of Lisbon to the rustic countryside.

Queen Filigree Gold Plated Silver earrings

Part of The Classics Collection. 

According to an old tale, a pair of earrings where offered to Queen Maria II during her visit to Viana do Castelo and the popular model quickly became known as the Queen Earrings.

Gold plated silver 925% earrings.  

Various Sizes:  

• approximately 2.5cm (excluding hook) and 2.2 gr 
• approximately 4.0 cm (excluding hook) and 4.8 gr.
• approximately 5.5 cm (excluding hook) and 7.3 gr.
• approximately 6.5 cm (excluding hook) and 11.2 gr.

Made in Portugal

Gift Set pictured is Jose Gourmet Pumpkin Jam 250mp, Tea 14g, Serramel- Wild Lavender Honey 500gr.

***At Check out, please specify your custom selection.  If we don't receive a note, we will ship box as pictured.

You can choose from the following:

Tea:  Lemon Verbena, Linden Tile, Cidreira and Camomile

Silver earrings in filigree, part of CICLO Collection.

The CICLO Collection is inspired by Nature - its forms and textures, and how it continuously renews, recreates and reinvents itself, without ever losing its essence.

Silver 925% earrings with 1.0cm and 2.0gr.

Handmade in Portugal