End of the Year Festivities 2012/Dresses
Making of the custom made dresses for the End of the Year 2012.
End of the Year Festivities 2012/“Mercadinho de Natal”
Beyond the illuminated firs, the poinsettias, the decorated huts by the marketers, the lights and Christmas decorations with giant Christmas balls, the girls are the main attraction of the “Christmas Market” project.
There are 24 girls, with their Christmas clothes and beauty. Smiles and sympathy will attract the tourists and the locals to the wooden huts where the regional products are sold.
Funchal Cities Golf Tournament 2012
The golf tournament of Funchal city is organised by Funchal’s city hall for amateur male and female players, where national identities take part on this event.This year the event had for the first time special guests from Les Drives de Saint-Tropez, who came to Madeira to participate in this tournament. This event happens annually at the Santo da Serra’s golf court.
Madeira Flower&Wine Show/Chelsea 2012
In May 2012, invited by the Pestana group, Isabel Borges was invited to make a project with flowers and girls for the presentation of the Madeira flower & wine show at the pestana chelsea bridge hotel, promoting this way at the social areas of the hotel the Madeira island and the hotels from the pestana group for four days.
Madeira Wine Festival 2012/Project
Project with watercolour drawings of the dresses and hats of the girls for the Madeira Wine Festival 2012.
Madeira Flower Festival 2012/Before the Parade
Before the parade all the girls from the group meet to retouch some garment and make up details for the Flower Festival Parade.
Madeira Flower Festival 2012/Project
Project with watercolour drawings of the dresses and hats for the girls and of the float for the Madeira Flower Festival Parade.
Madeira Flower Festival 2012/ End of the Parade
My heart is painted green and blue!
Green, from the green hills, where the sun brightens the north.
Blue, from the blue seas, that extends to the affectionate sky.
Mountains and valleys sleep tenderly in my heart.
Where linen embroiderers wait for their men to arrive from the sea.
The same men who dig and harvest our farms.
I want to keep this blooming spring from my island!
It is green and blue that my heart is painted!
I want so deeply to feel that there will always be joy on being a Madeira Native. I proudly observe my land, the churches, the roses blooming, the hope that the color green brings to us, the lavish blue sea, these are the colors of the island that I love.
This great Island that makes my home and I filled with life, making everyone happy.
I leave here my tribute with all sorts of colors transmitting bliss to my special island and all its inhabitants.
Madeira Flower Festival 2012/Float Flowers
Giant flower structures built with iron and wire to be decorated with thousand of flowers for the Madeira Flower Festival float.
