Hi! i'm Denise but you can call me Denny!

i'm a Portuguese girl born and raised in London by my amazing single mother, as a child i had this dream that one day i would meet a handsome Portuguese boy and live happily ever after in Portugal, and guess what, it actually happened.......

Pedro and i met back in 2009 while we were both on a huge turning point in our lives, it took us a while before we realised we were completely head over heals for each other, but we did and we've been together ever since, we were living between London and Holland when we welcomed our baby girl Petal into the world, a couple of years later we decided to finally move to Portugal and in 2013 we opened Vintage Daggers Tattoo (read more about the shop here) since then we added 3 cats to the family mix and in 2015 we welcomed our baby boy River into this world and as if all that isn't enough we have just added Mr Frankie the sausage dog to our ever growing family  (a miniature dachshund) 

life can go by super fast and its easy to forget all the little moments that make life so great! so after years of wanting to make a blog i have finally done it :) this space will be where i share bits and pieces of our life and where i will also share anything and everything that makes me feel happy, be it cooking,plants, diy's, tattoos, places to go and visit, cake recipes and everything else i put into my head that i think you might like.

Although i'm Portuguese, i lived in London my whole life, and sadly i didn't attend a Portuguese school so i never got to learn how to read and write Portuguese, everything i know i taught myself, i still have a lot to learn but i'm super proud of myself at how far i have come in the past five years we have been living here in Portugal, with that said i still feel more comfortable writing in English and also i would like this little blog to be read by anyone, i'm not much for writing anyway, i'm more of a picture girl so i hope you like pictures because thats what this blog will have lots of, and speaking of Pictures, a few weekends ago we met up with the oh so lovely Nicole Giopp to have some family pictures taken on the beach on a sunny autumn day, not only is Nicole super lovely but she has the cutest little miniature dachshund Yuka! and as you can imagine Frankie and Yuka has the best time playing on the beach ;) it's not easy to get a family picture of all of us but we managed.

So this is us, im super excited but yet nervous to share this space with all of you, but i hope you will stick around, i'll be back real soon to share something sweet :)

-Love Denny-