Window in Palmi

Palmi, Italy. 2008

The gate of -food- heaven

Once opened this door, you may enter my kind of heaven....perfect raw and not raw fish, cutted and displayed in such a perfect way you won't believe it!

I wish I could travel to Japan again, and stay there for months, in order to visit every corner of this amazing country.

May one day I will be doing it with my family!

Florence + The Machine - Dog Days Are Over

Happiness, hit her like a train on a track 
Coming towards her, stuck still no turning back
She hid around corners and she hid under beds
She killed it with kisses and from it she fled
With every bubble she sank with a drink
And washed it away down the kitchen sink

The dog days are over
The dog days are done
The horses are coming so you better run

Run fast for your mother run fast for your father
Run for your children for your sisters and brothers
Leave all your love and your longing behind you
Can't carry it with you if you want to survive

The dog days are over
The dog days are done
Can't you hear the horses
'Cause here they come

And I never wanted anything from you
Except everything you had
And what was left after that too, oh.

Happiness hit her like a bullet in the back
Struck from a great height
By someone who should know better than that

The dog days are over
The dog days are done
Can you hear the horses
'Cause here they come

Run fast for your mother and fast for your father
Run for your children for your sisters and brothers
Leave all your love and your loving behind you
Can't carry it with you if you want to survive

The dog days are over
The dog days are done
Can you hear the horses
'Cause here they come

The dog days are over
The dog days are done
Can you hear the horses 
'Cause here they come

The dog days are over
The dog days are done
The horses are coming
So you better run

Amazing vintage little box - gramophone needles box

'La voce del padrone' is the Italian translation for His Master Voice, that for many years was the name of a large record label. 

This is a vintage gramophone pin box, available in my Etsy shop, where you may also find further info about the brand and its italian translation.

Pencils

I found those lovely bulky pencils at the supermarket, and I thought i couldn't live without it....at least, they looks good in pictures!!!

Tea set from Morocco

This fab tea set came from Marrackech suq (covered market).
It is now available in my etsy shop, click here for further info

Wish you were here - Pink Floyd

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,

blue skies from pain.

Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?

A smile from a veil?

Do you think you can tell?

And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts? 

Hot ashes for trees?

Hot air for a cool breeze?

Cold comfort for change?

And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.

We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,

Running over the same old ground. 

What have you found? The same old fears.

Wish you were here.

Succulents

Collectionable beautiful plants!

Leather Bow

Glitter & Gold - Rebecca Ferguson

How good or bad, happy or sad
Does it have to get?
Losing yourself, no cry for help
You don’t think you need it

And old friends are just a chore,
But now you need them more than ever before

All that glitter and all that gold
Won’t buy you happy
When you’ve been bought and sold
Riding white horses, you can’t control
With all your glitter
And all of your gold
Take care of your soul
Take care of your soul

How high, how low, how on your own
Are you gonna get?
Because
Losing your soul, will cost you more
Than the life you’re paying for

And all those friends you left behind
You might need ’em when it’s cold outside

All that glitter and all that gold
Won’t buy you happy
When you’ve been bought and sold
Riding white horses, you can’t control
With all your glitter
And all of your gold
Take care of your soul

One day you’re gonna wake up and find that
New dream is losing its shine and
Nobody is by your side
When the rain comes down and you’re losing your mind

So, who you gonna run to?
Where you gonna hide?
Glitter and gold
Won’t keep you warm
On those lonely nights

And all those friends that were such a chore
You’re gonna need them more than ever before

All that glitter and all that gold
Won’t buy you happy
When you’ve been bought and sold
Riding white horses, you can’t control
With all your glitter
And all of your gold
Take care of your soul
With all of your gold
Take care of your soul
Take care of your soul

Robin redbreast & his friend, the squirrel

I met those two lovely creatures in Southampton, Uk, in 2007. I know, it is ordinary to meet squirrels and birds there, but I've enjoyed this so much I had to take pics. Sometimes it woth to be childish, it brings you a lot of unespected happiness.

Pic of the robin was not that good, so I had to zoom in and modify it a little bit, in order to make the bird visible...I'm not that happy witht he outcome, but it is a good memory rather tha a good picture!

Ladybug

Few years ago I had a meeting with a friendly ladybug, and I decided to take some pics in b&w. Ladybugs love posing for pics!

Glutein-free biscuits

Ingredients:

300gr glutein free flour (I used Schar mix C)
160gr butter
1 egg + 1 egg yolk
130 sugar
jam you like most

Procedure:

Cut butter in small pieces, place the pieces in the middle of the flour and work them with your hands  untill you obtain a sandlike misture.
Add sugar and eggs, work it with hands untill you get an homogeneous and compact dough.

Place the dough in a plastic wrap and let it stand in the refrigerator for half an hour.

Then gently stretch it out witha  rollin pin, cut it in pieces of the size you like, and make a little pressure in the middle of each biscuit for making place to the jam.

Bake in the oven

Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stone 1969

Oh, a storm is threat'ning
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away

War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

Ooh, see the fire is sweepin'
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost its way

War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

The floods is threat'ning
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Or I'm gonna fade away

War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

I tell you love, sister, it's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Kiss away, kiss away

Fruit baskets

Those are two lovely small wooden fruit baskets that my housband painted in white. they look so nice and I'l like to use them, but I don't know how. any suggestion?

Winter sea in Southern Italy

I took those pics in Southern Italy (Calabria) few years ago: it was nearly winter, no turists at all, and an incredible light on this amazing winter sea. I've been fashinated by the tiny tree that grows on the rock, nature is powerful!

Christmas gifts

For my beloved girl fiends I've prepared crochet earings, and I took care of the packaging as well.
To show my love I've done my best to give something 100% handmade. The meaning was ''I know you already have everything, and I know for suure I will never be able to find something as special as you are...so I tried to give you my time and care to say I love you!''
This is what I made: sparklings silver earings packaged in green and red. I each frame on red packages I handwrote the name of my friend after taking those pics.

For one of them I've made the earings with clip instead of the hook: I think they looks even nicer!

Nice and easy to do: crochet cover for my pottery pen holder

Lovely olive green cotton thread, crochet low stich and less than one hour of work: I'm so happy with the result!