This is how the sky looks like these days...
Anyway, I will add few more clouds in my shop this friday 5pm BST (british summer time)...finally!
(*merci Fanja).
^.^

Hello, I hope you are having a nice Sunday...

Did you remember to put the clock forward?

(thanks Hella-Stella for reminding me ^.^ ).

Behind the old alarm clock there's a print from

Sandra Juto. 

Coffee and caffettiere, something that italians 

can't live without!!!
But here in England I like
my café au lait!

 

Anita will be 5 years old soon and I've got
this lovely card for her, from illustrator Rachel Bright.

Enjoy your Sunday :-)

My ultimate knitting addiction: organic cotton yarns to make "spring socks".

My favourite vase in the house has a pattern called Amsterdam and  it is  onions shaped.

A surprise in my mailbox: postcards from Fanja.
In her shop more adorable Lucius...

Monday:

A canvas bag from Mieke Willems, came through the mail box, my favourite now.

More fabrics from the Cloth House (from my trip to London) waiting to be sewed
into something cute.

Dried hydrangeas from my garden.
Les Fleurs for you!

Wish you a good day!

Happy Spring equinox to all!

Sunny and warm here today.

I spent the morning cleaning my neglected backyard garden (-ish) today.

Carnations bought at the local market.

Gradually waking up from hibernation! ( I love this film ).
^.^

Beautiful sunshine here today.

Need to get out of this house and feel the warmth.

I took my pencils out of the box...

I stopped drawing a while ago (10 years almost)

everytime I drew something it looked sad or dark, 

so I stopped.
I feel I can start again, slowly, slowly...
ciao for now!

happy friday ^.^

Hello, this week started green...maybe because it's almost spring?

On Monday my friend Chihoco came for an italian cuisine tutorial! 

We made gnocchi al pesto...the real thing! not those chewy/hard rock

gnocchi or that stuff that tastes anything but basil pesto

you usually find in any supermarket 

(no matter how expensive, they are always far from the real thing!).

I'm from the land where pesto was invented and for 

genovese children is almost compulsive to learn how to prepare

basil pesto.

About gnocchi, I started making it when I was a child, 
my mum used to make pasta fresca every Sunday.

When you grow up in a home like that, you become very picky about food! 

I like everything ( i'm vegetarian though) but must be fresh and

of good quality and nothing beat home made.
So grow your own and make your own!

check Francesca place for a pesto tutorial.

On Tuesday I locked myself out of my home...but on my wandering around town

I found in a charity shop a nice handbag and a great fabric that now hang in my kitchen...

definitely a green casita!
^.^

Here in England is Mother day and so yesterday
I took a "day off" and went to Cambridge to watch "Alice in Wonderland".

The ticket was quite expensive but to me it was worth it.
Perhaps it was enhanced by the three D experience
but also I felt in love with the costumes.
The only things I didn't like it were: the mad hatter dance (why?)
and the "credits song" which I found it really too pop 

and can I say cheesy?

Anyway, at the train station there was a steam train,
I joined the crowd and snapped some pictures,
it was full of senior people (I could feel the nostalgia in the air),
the sound of that train was great and the steam looked like a cloud. 

In my list of "things to do before it's too late" there's a trip on the Darjeeling steam train!

Happy mother day and happy Sunday.

^.^

Before we left for Egypt I went to London, where I bought some fabric,

wool and organic cotton to make summer dresses and tops for Anita and me.

Instead of packing I started working with my sewing machine 

and managed to make a dress for Anita and a top for myself.

Then not happy enough in Egypt I knitted another scarf shawl!!!

It's just that I can't stop making things...^.^

(Will show you soon what I did).

I've got more fabric (will show you that as well) and I'm quite ready to make more.

It is just that I feel at peace when I make something nice and useful!

Ciao.

Back home I received this generous giveaway from Christel...

just right! as reminds me of my holiday and the place where I grew up: Liguria, 

with those mediterranean scents, colours and amazing food!

I was, so far, the lucky winner of:

something green: cultivated under a blue sky! (olives! these are yummi chocolate and almonds ones!!!)

sort of blue! (a soap shaped like a cicada and not a scarab as I thought!)

a green pear shaped paper block...not mediterranean but I like it too (very japanese I say...)

a blue pendant made by Christel, and a heart shaped one

paper garlands made by her again , for anita's room? mmhhhh not sure, I like them too!

and delicious maroccan tea...all lovely wrapped up!

Merci beaucoup Christel for this great prize!

^.^

A long walk on the sea

encounting cute sea urchins

a sponge

and a star fish or a sea spider?

and finally reach the coral reef.

A trip on a "glass boat"

to admire the sea bed.

 Anita wears the summer dress I made for her

just before we left for Egypt.

On the beach she was seriously busy digging

mum knitting...I know it's sick!

An hermit crab named by her "funny". 

A typical egyptian pet

the owner tried to trade 40 camels for Anita!

Not funny I say...

I will always be grateful to the the women's movement !!!

Stunning bougainvillea everywhere

in this bitter sweet tourist's destination.

Grazie Mauro e Roberta!

^.^

 

As-salam alaykum!

We are back from our Red Sea vacation. It was really good!

I will show you more photos soon.

I won a great give away from Christel, lots of nice mediterranean things...

will show you that as well.

At the moment the only thing I can do is knitting myself another shawl...

and keep warm with lots of tea and blankets.

ma'a salama ^.^