Cómo hacer una guirnalda de navidad

Para decorar tu casa esta Navidad aprende a hacer esta sencilla guirnalda de papel. Esta es una manualida muy fácil que puedes hacer con los niños. Puedes colgar tu guirnalda del árbol de navidad o utilizarla para decorar los paquetes de regalo.Materiales: Papel metálico (o de regalo), tijeras, pegamento y un hilo o cuerda.Sigue los pasos que se explican en el video para hacer tu adorno navide...

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Cómo doblar servilletas

Para que las cenas de Navidad y Nochevieja sean perfectas aprende cómo doblar servilletas de modo elegante y sencillo. Sorprende a tus invitados con una mesa de lujo y dobla tus servilletas en forma de espiga siguiendo las instrucciones de este vid...

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Como hacer un farolillo de navidad

Diviértete realizando esta manualidad con los niños y decora tu árbol de navidad.Para hacer un farolillo o una decoración navideña sigue las instrucciones que te dan en el vídeo.Necesitarás:Papel de vinilo, o metalizado (puedes utilizar papel de regalo). Unas tijeras y pegamento.Más manualidades de Navidad aq...

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Como hacer disfraces de Halloween

Este es un ejemplo de como hacer un accesorio para un disfraz de Halloween. Disfázate de diablillo con esta diadema, te explicamos como hacer los cuernos del disfraz con una cartulina....

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It's Hallowe'en, (again!)

I'm sure there's nothing that says Hallowe'en parties must be on the 31st of October so we had one last Saturday at Rosi and Pablo's house. We were met at the door by this group of ghouls...Click left on the picture to see it full size...here's one of the extras from the Scream movies and friend......and a very pretty pumpkin modelled by an old crone......and finally, Count...

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Como hacer flores de papel fáciles

Una forma sencilla de hacer unas vistosas flores de papel que puedes utilizar como decoración o para adornar tus regalos.Necesitaras pliegos de papel de varios colores. Recorta la forma de flor varias veces sobre el papel, lúego úne dos o tres flores unas sobre otras combinando distintos colores y si quieres distintos tamaños. Une las flores por el centro con un poco de pegamento o utilizando un pasador metálico. Decora el centro de las flores pegando un poco de brillantina, unos abalorios o un strass adhesivo.Cuando envuelvas un regalo puedes...

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Como hacer un árbol de navidad de fieltro

Para hacer un árbol de navidad como esté necesitarás unos trozos de fieltro verde, unos botones, hilo, aguja y un poco de algodón. Instrucciones para esta manualidad:Dobla el fieltro y recorta dos árboles de navidad iguales. Cose unos botones y decoraciones en un lado del fieltro recortado.Empezando por la parte superior cose el abeto por los extremos, deja un trozo de hilo...

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Welcome to sunny, er, snowy Spain!

We have been having a mixture of weather for the last couple of weeks. It has been nice and fine and then we have had a couple of wet days. But now it has turned colder and although we haven't had snow or frost here yet, there was snow on the mountain range in the distance and it has turned very win...

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Peaceful it´s not...

It´s not a JCB, it´s a Fiat-Hitachi and here it is outside our front gate this morning breaking up the concrete between 2 lines which were cut last week.The concrete outside of our house seemed harder than that further down the road and needed a lot of effort to get through.After the digger had chopped the concrete it then went back down the road removing the broken concrete. More to come no dou...

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It´s really peaceful here...

We knew that work was due to start on the ermita and last Friday and Monday we had this little vehicle, a "bobcat", clearing the site at the front and back.Also due to start was the replacement of the water pipe from the water tanks to go down the road and into the village so another digger started at this end today.Meanwhile, a rather larger JCB is making it´s way up the road towards us and cutting the trench for the new pipe - it should be right outside our door tomorrow - can´t wait!Meanwhile, it´s time for the farmers to collect their almonds...

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The 7th plume...

The last pampas plume is out, and it´s pink! (It´s the one on the lef...

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What´s his game?

On a trip down to Cambrils we came across these gentlemen playing a version of "petanque/skittles" in the park. The chap playing was throwing his clubs at his opponent´s clubs, the aim being to knock them over.If you want to play "spot the skittle", just click on the picture to see it full size - it is there. Also, if you know the name of this game, then let me kn...

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Pampas plumes

The pampas grass we put in 2½ years ago has produced 6 plumes with a 7th on the way.Click left on the image for a larger viewIt looked so nice with the ermita behind, I had to take a photo of it. By the way, it´s not snow on the ground - as part of our work on the garden this summer we had all the earth covered in pebbles with porous membrane underneath to stop weeds growing...

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Our leaky pump

Sunday 31st August. After the meal in the Plaza Mayor we could all see the very dark clouds over the mountains to the south and hear the rumbles of thunder, indeed in the evening, the lightning was quite spectacular, but it didn´t rain very much because we were just on the edge of the storm. Then, at around 2:00 am, Monday morning, there was an almighty flash and a crack of...

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Sunday 31st, the feast of San Ramón

This afternoon at 14:00 everyone is in the Plaza Mayor for the paella seen here whilst being made by the special cooks.We all sit in our peña groups for the meal which lasts for the remainder of the afternoon......after which it´s home for a well deserved siesta and that´s the end of the fiesta for this year. We should be given a t-shirt which reads "I survived the Torre del...

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Saturday 30th, San Ramón´s eve.

It´s time for another meal for the peña but this time it´s at our house and Margaret has made a giant lasagne. Before the meal, people from the group help prepare the salads and starters......and Floyd does a splendid job setting the table, so good in fact, that here´s a photo of it before the group got to it and made the usual mess.At midnight, there was a group playing in...

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Como hacer manualidades con fieltro: alfiletero

Me ha gustado mucho ese alfiletero realizado con tejido de fieltro, es una manualidad sencilla y original, fácil de hacer siguiendo los pasos que te dan en el tutorial con fotografías.Materiales:Necesitarás un tapón de plástico de una botellaUnos trozos de fieltro en dos coloresAguja e hijjo para coserUn poco de algodón para rellenar.Tutorial aquí.Más manualidades con fi...

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Como hacer ganchillo: círculo de ganchillo

En este video podrás ver paso a paso como tejer un círculo de ganchillo. Es una forma fácil de aprender a hacer punto de ganchillo. Uniendo varios círculos podrás elaborar todo tipo de objetos y manualidades.Más manualidades de ganchi...

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The circus comes to town!

Thursday, 28th August - the Circo Badín is in town, not so much a circus but 2 young guys who are funny, one who is an acrobat and juggler, the other accompanies him on the keyboard.Press play on the video to see what actually happened.Click left on the picture to see it full size.These guys were naturally funny and did some great improvisation aimed at the people in the audience...

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It's fiesta time again!

Saturday, 9th August and we go down to the peña with 14 others to clear the weeds and generally make the place habitable in preparation for the fiesta activities which will take place there. Breakfast for everyone of sausage and fried eggs follows.Saturday, 16th August and we go with 6 others from our peña into Alcañiz to buy food and drink for the festivities.Monday, 18th...

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What's at the bottom of this garden?

Sunday, 10th August and we are invited to celebrate Floyd's birthday with Jordi and Emelia at Marc and Andrea's house which is down by the river and used to be the original olive mill.Click on any picture to see it full size.Over the years Marc and Andrea have done a lot of restoration on the mill but it is a huge project as can be seen from the photo above.First we had Andrea's...

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Cómo hacer pulseras de macramé

Ya os hemos enseñado como hacer pulseras con hilo, con nudos y también pulseras de fieltro y de abalorios.Aquí tienes las instrucciones paso a paso para hacer otra pulsera de macramé.El macramé se hace tejiendo varios hilos o cordones mediante la realización de nudos que crean un diseño.Instrucciones pulsera - paso 1Para hacer la pulsera, primero elige 8 hilos de colores,...

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My 60th!

Saturday, 2nd August, (the day before my birthday), and 24 of us celebrated my 60th with a superb meal followed by some entertainment.Floyd was the photographer for this occasion - click on the image for a larger view.We had the fountain working which is on the new terraza where the swimming pool was, (more on this feature later when the jacuzzi is finally installed).Our friends...

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