Winter Essentials We Love

 Material: 100% Sheep Wool Blankets

Dimensions: 130cm x 180cm

Made in Portugal

Material: 100% Sheep Wool Blankets

Dimensions: 130cm x 180cm

Made in Portugal

Material: 100% Sheep Wool Blankets

Dimensions: 130cm x 180cm

Made in Portugal

Available Patterns: Triangle, Vintage Plaid, Diamond

Brushed Wool Blankets  are made of 100% Portuguese wool woven on traditional mechanical looms, and then brushed to make them extra cosy. 

Care: They can be washed cold and allowed to air dry, or dry cleaned. Medium temperature iron, if needed. 

Material: 100% Wool

Dimensions: 125cm x 170cm

Handmade Portugal

Created to inspire an ambient backdrop for any occasion, Castelbel diffusers have been carefully made to fragrance and personalize any room. Used at home or in the office, each different fragrance will stamp your personality on your environment.
By placing the rattan sticks into the liquid infusion the fragrance is drawn up and gently released throughout the room.  

Size: 250ml

Made in Portugal

Created to inspire an ambient backdrop for any occasion, Castelbel diffusers have been carefully made to fragrance and personalise any room. Used at home or in the office, each different fragrance will stamp your personality on your environment.
By placing the rattan sticks into the liquid infusion the fragrance is drawn up and gently released throughout the room.  

Size: 250ml

Made in Portugal

Beautiful hand poured aromatic candle that will delicate fragrance any space with the same perfume that characterises this collection, allowing you to create a cosy and welcoming atmosphere. In addition to being an elegant decorative element that perfectly matched any decoration, it is also a fine gift that will be much appreciated.

Casa Betina

Hand poured soy candles made in small batches to maintain product integrity and quality.  Using all natural pure Soy Wax, and blended with essential oils native to the wild fields of Portugal and certified premium fragrance oils.

The candles are free from paraffins, phthalates, parabens, lead, dyes, stabilizers, and UV inhibiters. Using only natural soy wax, a cotton wick, and scented oils (both essential and premium fragrance oils) so they won't overpower you, cause headaches, allergies, and are safe for pets.  A clean, natural burning candle in your home. 

Vessel: Re-usable Glass  3.25"W x 3"H 

Burn time:  about 60+ hours depending on care candle 

Wax & Wick:  premium soy with cotton wick (never any dyes or enhancers)

Includes a beautiful gift box evoking the Portuguese hand painted ceramic tiles. 

Available in various scents:

* New Fall Edition * Spiced Orchard - Notes: Apples, Cloves, Cinnamon, All Spice

Saturday Morning Cleaning - Top note:  Lemon  /  Mid Note: Lily of the Valley 

Pastel De Nata - Cinnamon, Lemon, Tahitian Vanilla perfectly blended

Cherry Blossom Lemon - all-natural lemon and a kiss of sweet cherry blossom essential oil 

Doce Algarve - Top note:  Sweet Almond  /  Mid Note: Lemon

Hand Poured in Toronto

Beautiful hand poured aromatic candle that will delicate fragrance any space with the same perfume that characterizes this collection, allowing you to create a cosy and welcoming atmosphere. In addition to being an elegant decorative element that perfectly matched any decoration, it is also a fine gift that will be much appreciated.

250g

Made in Portugal

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.

We carry our birthplace, Porto, in our name, and this beautiful Portuguese town continues to inspire Claus Porto’s creations. Indeed, the biscuit porcelain vessels that hold our candles bear a distinctive, textured Diamond pattern, drawn from the motifs found in Portuguese architecture. When the candle is lit, the Diamond design creates a soft, shadowy glow from the translucent porcelain, as the candle’s fragrance envelopes the room. Drawing on 130 years of heritage in the beauty and fragrance world, our fragrances are created by renowned perfumers using the finest raw materials, to conjure up a unique olfactory experience.

Size: 270g

Made in Portugal

From celebrated author Anthony De Sa comes a raw and compelling novel of love, war and the heartbreaking effects of memory.

"'You must listen to my words. You must promise to tell my story the way I have shared it with you.'"

Tanzania, 1956. A Maasai woman gives birth to a child with albinism. The child is seen as a curse upon her tribe, and so begins Pó's tumultuous story. As Pó navigates the world, she must claim her life in the face of violence and ostracism.

Further south, in Portuguese-controlled Mozambique, Ezequiel struggles for acceptance too. Adopted by missionaries, he is not recognized by his Portuguese father's community, or by his Makonde mother's tribe. When civil war erupts, he must choose who to fight for and who to leave behind.

Pó and Zeca come together in a time of momentous change. Love connects these two outsiders, forcing them to confront the shattering impact of colonialism and war. Children of the Moon is a stunning and unforgettable exploration of the love of two people at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control.

Paperback Edition

Carol Robertson shares her fascination with the country and its cuisine in lively journal entries and delightful drawings, while David Robertson's evocative photographs provide a look at the wonders of the Portuguese landscape and culture. The result is a personal travel book for lovers of good food. Portugal is blessed with a flavorful and complex cuisine that brings together influences from Europe, Africa, and the Muslim world. The simple-to-prepare dishes rely on pork and seafood of all kinds, as well as tomatoes, olives, kale, hot and sweet peppers, garlic, mint, and the silken magic of virgin olive oil. Treat yourself to a true taste of Portugal.

Hardcover

Colouring Book

This book is for the child in all of us.  Learn about the Azores through different artists' perspective.

Art Matters!

By Terry Costa

Push for Happy: An Interactive Emotional Awareness + Regulation Children's Book

Push for Happy is an interactive emotional intelligence, awareness, and regulation book. It prompts children to label feelings, emotional triggers, and to put themselves into the storybook along the way. Children create their own character, drawing out body scans, by illustrating how they experience the feeling and where they feel it in their body. Children draw their triggers while thinking about how to regulate their emotions and considering the characters’ experiences.

This book was created by Tania DaSilva, a child, and youth therapist, it allows children to create a one-of-a-kind storybook, making themselves one of the main characters! It follows four friends throughout their day and their emotional ups and downs, the biggest lesson being emotions aren’t permanent and awareness helps us regulate. 

 Material: 100% Sheep Wool Blankets

Dimensions: 130cm x 180cm

Made in Portugal