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

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.

Size: 210g

Made in Portugal

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

Berry Kiss - Notes: fresh picked strawberries, vanilla

Hand Poured in Toronto

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.

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

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

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

Do you know what Julius Caesar, Vasco da Gama, Fernando Pessoa, James Bond and Queen Elizabeth II have in common? They are all linked to the history of Lisbon! That’s right, Lisbon is a fascinating city! Throughout its more than 2000 year history, it welcomed Romans, Arabs and other civilizations, was the starting point for the Age of Discovery, which made Portugal one of the most influential countries on earth and even served as inspiration for the legendary British spy, James Bond. Today it is very much in fashion and a favorite destination for travelers from all over the world! This is not a history book but a compelling collection of engaging stories and fun-filled facts that will help you get to know Lisbon while testing your adventurous spirit and endless curiosity! At the end, there are several suggestions of things to do and places to visit with your family, as well as a little diary where you can jot down your memories.

Awaken the young explorer in you and embark on an amazing voyage of discovery as you explore this wonderful city! 

Paperback

Paperback Children's Book:  "Néveda in Azores" is a bilingual (PT/ENG) illustrated book about a flower girl that travels all nine islands of Azores. A story for the child in all of us.

Text and characters: Terry Costa
Illustrations: Vera Bettencourt
Edition: Miratecarts, 2019

Devilla - Blanket

Material: 100% Cotton

Size: 140cm x 170cm

Made in Portugal

Unisex Crewneck sweatshirt 50% cotton and 50% polyester

Heavy Cotton Poly Blend with Light Fleece Interior 

Unisex / Fits true to size

Unisex Crewneck sweatshirt 50% cotton and 50% polyester

Heavy Cotton Poly Blend with Light Fleece Interior 

Unisex / Fits true to size