Cloche-mania!!!

These are some of my cloches! I like them so much...glass, willow, metal... I love putting everything inside them!
Have a sunny week end!!!
Hugs,
Vale

Thank you!!!

I want to thank you my friends for all your encouraging words!!! I think that with all your wishes my life may only be fantastic!!! I'm sure you'll bring me luck!!! It's so nice for me to have found so many blogfriends!!!
Have a sunny week end!!!

Kitchen corner!

I'll have to move from my home...that's very sad because I spent all my energies, passion, love, time and money to decor it! May be I made a wrong investment, but I don't think so...I have enjoied both my home and terrace for three years and I haven't regrets...nothing is for ever and when a door closes...may be a gate will open! I'm going to move to my mother's home...it's a wonderful and big house but it isn't mine and the cohabitation with her scares me! What I really want is a my own home for me and my children, my freedom and my independence...nothing in my life has been more disappointing than living with a man! So now I've found an aim in my life...having a house and making it my home!!! I don't know if or when I'll be able to do it, but... dreaming is free! So I show some corners of my home before I dismantle it! This is a corner of my kitchen...I bought the garde-manger in Antibes with my friend Paola and I repainted it...the white and green tea-cups are ancient and from England, while the bowls are from a flea market in Stockholm. The cream cups are from Norway and the cake stand comes from Antibes too. They are lovely souvenirs because they remind me happy moments of my life!

Tanti baci!!!

My life is changing...

My life is changing...it isn't the first time I must restart my life...every time it's difficult, stressing and tiring but I think that we can learn from every situation...we may lose something but surely we may gain something else... what it's really difficult for me it's "resetting" my mind..but I'm sure I'll make it!


I want to give this nice award Magny (http://magnyslillekrinkelkrok.blogspot.com) gave me, to some blog friends...I really love their blogs...they are a source of inspiration for me and they all are very nice and creative persons!

to Marja Kristina (http://homefromheart.blogspot.com/)
to Pirre (http://gallerihonshuset.blogspot.com/)
to Janneke (http://harten3-janneke.blogspot.com/)
and to Lisbeth (http://lisbethsinlilleverden.blogspot.com/)

A warm "ciao" to all of you!!!

Award!

I want to thank my friend Magny (http://magnyslillekrinkelkrok.blogspot.com/) for the nice award she gave me!!! She has a lovely blog and she is a very creative person!!! I'll give the award to other friends as soon as possible!
Thank you all for the shows of affection and friendship you give me!!!
Have a nice day!!!

Back to work!

Holidays are over... it hasn't been a fantastic summer this year... many problems to handle... life isn't always easy, but we say that after the storm sunshine always comes back! I've neglected my blog in the last weeks, but I hope to recover my energies for my hobbies! Creativity is an important help for overcoming difficulties!

Morning cofee!

Lazy mornings...cofee break before going to the beach...a rest time before starting a new long year of everyday life!

Hot summer!

After some sunny and cooler days, it's now very hot again!
What's better than iced water and night breeze waiting for summer vacations???

My grand-grandmother's coffe-pots

I've found these two old enamelled coffe-pots in my mother's loft ...they belonged to my grand-grandmother! They are a little bit ruined but... I put them on a shelf of my kitchen and I'm very proud of my old family memories!
I wish you a nice week end!

Plants shopping by bike!

I love my bike! It's so old...and it has 2 very big baskets! I live in the pedestrian area, so I always use it to go to work, to do shopping, to visit friends...my bike is a part of me!!! I've bought some new plants for the balcony...it has been very hot during the past days and some of the old plants died!

I want to give this award which Iris gave me, to other three blogs I like so much! It has been a very difficult choice, because I really love all your blogs!
The first one I give to Desireé (http://vosgesparis.blogspot.com/). She was the first who helped me when I start blogging. Her blog is charming and sophisticated, a source of inspiration!
The second is for Marjolijn (http://somethingwhite.blogspot.com/). Her blog is charming and romantic and she is one of the first persons I met blogging!
I give the third award to Ann-Catrin (http://finthemma.blogspot.com/). I like the brightness and the joy of life of her blog!!!

I didn't understand what a blog was and how many friends it could give the chance to meet! Now I know! Thank you all!

Have a nice week-end!

Two months ago I bought this old bird-cage at Lucca's antique market! The seller told me that it's from Tyrol! I thought to repaint it, because it's a bit spoilt, but I've now decided I like it in this way! I often wonder why I love cages so much...I'm even phobic of birds... they are hanging on the wall of my balcony and from the ceiling of the kitchen!

I want to thank my German friend Iris/Herzblatt (http://corapatchwork.blogspot.com/) who gave me a nice award!!! She is so friendly and she has a very nice blog! I'll give this award to two other blogs... I'll do it as soon as possible...but now I must go to work!!!

Happy week end!!!

Happy birthday Vale!!!

On Sunday it's my birthday! This is the new plant my collegues gave me today! It's so hot now that my poor sweet pea died! I needed a new plant for my terrace!
Have a nive week-end!

Gardening...in the balcony!

After a very busy week a relaxing time taking care of my balcony!
I'll have many guests in the next days, so everything must be ready!
Have a relaxing week-end!

Lucca!

Lucca  from my balcony!
Some of you asked me for a clearer image of  the background of my photos!
The dome and  the bell-tower you see in front is S. Giovanni e Reparata, now used as auditorium. It was built in XII century on the remains of a Roman Domus from the 1st century B.C., on the remains of Roman thermal baths, on the remains of an Early Christian basilica from the 4th-5th centuries A.D., on those of the Baptistry and the crypt from the 9th century A.D.
Behind you can see the San Martino Cathedral with its Romanesque marmoreous façade and beautiful portico and by the 13th century bell tower embellished with merlons.

Buon fine settimana!

Have a nice week end!

Un vecchio baule pieno di novità!

An old trunk with new fabrics!

Copri paralume in cotone

Lamp-shade cover. 100% white cotton

Barattolo in vetro decorato

Floral heart etched glass jar.

Vassoio con cloche in vetro "cake"

"Cake" etched dish and cloche.

Vecchia bottiglia in vetro. Decorazione corona

Old glass bottle. Crown etched.