♥ new in: SOMEONE SPECIAL BRACELETS

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 Qui vi presento il niuovo modello che ho fatto proprio ieri: someone special!Lo trovate nello shop: www.emmevi.bigcartel.com Sono veramente dolcissimi, e si regalona sul retro.

❤ New stuff in my shop: bracelets viva la mamma, viva la nonna, summer e tanto ancora

eccomi qui con una novità: Emmevi.bigcartel.com!! Qui trovatealcune cose che mi sono messa  a creare tra cui 3 modelli di braccialetti in lycra dai colori estivi. Il modello top è il "VIVA LA MAMMA" con i charm con bimba, bimbo e cuore MUM, perfetto per una mamma. Poi ho voluto fare anche quello per le nonne "VIVA LA NONNA", sono così orgogliose dei loro nipoti!!! E poi naturalmente anche 2 unisex a tema SUMMER o ANIMALI.

 

Sullo store trovere anche altre cosette che ho creato e abreve aggiornerò con delle novità!!
 

♥ Top 10 acquisti fatti per i miei bebè

1)      Tatamia Pegperego: sdraietta, dondolo/altalena e seggiolone. Fantastico, tre in uno! Design compatto e ultra comodo con ruote te lo porti dove vuoi. si può posizionare a diverse altezze quindi il bimbo è sempre alla tua altezza quando è in posizione di straietta; si addatta anche a tutti i tipi di tavolo. SPESA OTTIMA

2)      Specchio auto x ovetto, non potendo mettere l'ovetto sul sedile anteriore avevo la difficoltà di vedere la faccia del mio piccolo essendo l'ovetto rivolto indietro, con questo specchio ho risolto il problema, lo si riesce a controllare comodamente.

3)      Fasciatoio posizionato in bagno sopra lavatrice, veramente comodissimo, io ce l'ho opposto al lavandino quindi faccio tutto in pochi minuti senza sgocciolare o viaggiare con sederini sposrchi per mezza casa. 

4)      Porta ciuccio brevi o heimess con strong clip, diciamo la verità, se si staccano troppo facilemnte è una vera rottura, specialmente se i bambini lo lanciano. Fortunatamente i miei sono stati bravi ma questi della Brevi li ho trovati ottimi.

5)      Kit 4 biberon avent, preso su amazon.co.uk, kit completo di 4 biberon, 2 ciucci e una spazzolina per pulirli, prezzo 12 €

6)      Telo impermeabile x culla/lettino, così il materassino rimane asciutto in caso di fuoriuscite.

7)      Angelcare mangiapannolini, ricariche su amazon.co.uk, molto più economiche che in Italia, spedizione gratuita.

8)      Tappeto rosso gommapiuma, dove i bimbi possono rotolardi, iniziare a gattonare, diciamo una palestrina in grande! Si pulisce benissimo con una spugnetta.

9)      Passeggino doppio phil&teds, agile per andare ovunque. Si trasforma in pochi secondi, si hanno i bimbi sottocchio. Culla + seduta o 2 sedute. NON OTTIMO, DI PIU'! Loro lo adorano.

10)   Più ciucci x la culla/lettino (avent fluorescenti): essenziale, se di notte non si trova il ciuccio è un caos! detto fatto, mettetene vari sparsi per il letto e loro li troveranno facilmente. Io ho trovato comodissimi quellie fluorescenti dfella avent, bisogna caricarli vicino ad una lampadina e per 4-5 orette si vedono.

♥ Giulio and Olivia's room on ApartmentTherapy!!

I'm so happy to see my childres' room on my favorite home style website: apartment therapy!

♥ Biscotti da decorare - italiano

Quest anno ho deciso di fare l'albero di Natale in anticipo ed eccolo qui, già bello piazzato in salotto di casa nostra. Come mi piace il periodo natalizio!!
Ho deciso di non usare decorazioni rosse ma solo questo pallete di colori: bianco, verde e marrone e quindi lana e legno sono perfette.

Le decorazioni le ho comprate o fatte a mano nei mesi scorsi:

- Balls from Riccicasa
- Handmade Wool Balls
- Wooden Pins
- Crochet Stars by Jelly Wares
- White Candels
- Birdhouses from John Lewis, essendo la mia ultima mania, non potevano mancare!
- Cookies, recipe by Bakeat350, sotto vi ho tradotto la ricetta.
- my Olivia's Boots
- loads of Pinecones raccolte quest'estate al mare.








[Ho pure deciso di scrivere di più in italiano che in inglese. Farò un piccolo sunto del post in lingua ala fine.]
 

Nell'impasto dei biscotti ho aggiunto un pò di cannella perchè volevo che si sentisse l'aroma e devo dir la verità... si sente un sacco!! C'è GIA' una bellissima atmostera natalizia in casa nostra.















Qui la ricetta originale  in inglese dei cookies.
E' di Bridget, Bake at 350, il mio guro in tema cookies. Ecco i link qui sotto:

• Glassa
• Biscotti da decorare

Se invece non siete ferrate in inglese e volete le traduzioni cliccate qui:
Biscotti da Decorare - ITALIANO
 

This years our xmas tree is already up in our living room, brighting and smelling! Loads of new decorations are on and NO RED at all.
Here expecially you can find the recipe for cookies for decoration I used, it's by bake at 350 , my mentor!!!

Do you like my Xmas tree?

♥ OK, I'm Back!

Hello everyone! Here I'm again, eventually I'm back, lets see if I can make this blog lively again.

Let's start spending just 2 words about myself: I'm always the same BUT with 2 new fantastic kids in our family: Giulio and Olivia. I'll have surely occasion to speak about them and about kids world in generally.

 

Come on let's swap topic: I'd like to share with you some pearls I bought about xmas, here my first buyings placed last week on line: some xmas tree decorations and something for my kid's room.

This year I gonna use this palette for home xmas decoration: brown, green and white no red at all. Red is allowed just for wrapping gifts.

• Stamps, birdhouses, ribbon and little own by John Lewis
• Duvet Cover and Bows Hanger by H&M home

 

I cant wait for decorating our home.



♥ Give Away

Ciao a tutti, Anni fa ho aperto una pagina su Facebook per le mitiche Ciambelline Ilaria. Dopompoco abbiamo raggiunto 1.000 fans e ILARIA in persona mi ha contattata! Ilaria è fantastica, mi ha invitata a visitare il biscottificio e vedere tuttebquelle Ciambelline appena sfornate ... mmmm... Che profumo e che bontà!Anyway, eccoci qui con il nostro primo GIVE AWAY offerto dal biscottificio Orlandini in concomitanza del lancio delle nuove CIAMBELLINE AL CACAO.Avete la possibilità di aggiudicarvi una fornitura di biscotti per UN ANNO INTERO (24 CONFEZIONI DI BISCOTTI ASSORTITI)Per partecipare dovete:1) essere fans della pagina su Facebook2) taggarsi nella foto delle CIAMBELLINE al CACAO o lasciare un commento su cosa ne pensate.3) E se volete avere doppia possibilità di vincere caricate una foto della vostra colazione con ciambelline Sulla pagina di Facebook!Il give away si chiuderà 31 Luglio a mezzanotte.Il vincitore verrà estratto a sorte con random.org. Se risulterete vincitori, vi contatterò per avere il vostro indirizzo e riceverete a casa le vostre ciambelline preferite.IN BOCCA AL LUPO

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♥ Great Idea

Hey there! Here just to show you this very smart idea for making a cocholate nest in an easy peasy way

♥ Our fridge

♥ Stars Bunting

My little number two is arrived and I was ready with some decorations I was making for her! Here the first one, a stars bunting to hang near her crib. I made them following the easy star pattern below.


Here the star pattern by Jelly Wares.

♥ Today it's baking time!

Hi all, I found this excelent and really yummy recipe on Pinterest.

I wanted to try immediatly and I have to admit that the recipe is brilliant, perfect, very accurate. It's really easy peasy to bake these rolls, they're even simple to make!

Here the fantastic recipe: Delicious Dinner Rolls.

♥ Waiting for Olivia

All patterns available, check them out below.

• Hat with flower: hat pattern available for free here; for the flower click here;
  


• Pink Pikie Hat: my inspiration was from this free pattern then I just changed something, I'll upload my new pattern soon!
  


• Cardigan: free pattern here by Petite Purls.
  


• Dummy Holder: for the flower click here; for the leaf click here.

♥ First birthday party

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And eventually I managed to put together some pics of Giulio's first birthday party. The theme is elefant with red ballon, totally inspired by Dulce Sobremesa.I made wall decorations, table decorations and the cake and decorated biscuits! Yes I DID MAKE the sugar cake and biscuits, honestly I thought it was ore difficult but it wasn't, probably also because the decorations werent' very hard to make.

I just baked a Madeira cake (Francesca Sugar Art Recipe) and covered it with white sugar paste ( I watched some Francesca's video about how to cover a cake on her channel on Youtube). After that I just placed some blu elephants and red ballons on the top of it. I just had colored some sugar paste with my gel red and blue colors, flatted it with a pinroll, cut the shapes and pasted them on the cake.

And here some pics of the table:

I do love to organize this little party!!

♥ Xmas sweet xmas

This is our first Xmas at home with my little one. Last year we were at the hospital as he was born right during xmas's eve night!

I decided to decorated our home with traditional xmas colour: white, red and green so Giulio can surely get the real touch of Christmas. He loves to play with my tree!!!!

So I sewed some red hearts, crocheted some white stars (click for getting the pattern) and bought other decoration such as wooden and fabric ornaments. My mum gave me also some white candels to hang on the tree, they look very nice there, very good idea mum!

and also I bought the Santa clothes for Giulio, he looks so sweet in those, doesn't he?!!

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♥ Sugar cookies -part 2

♥ first bithday party

idea from Dulcesobremesa

♥ Choccolate Cake

Mmm so yummy! Do you want the recipe? Today I gonna give you the recipe in Italian!

TORTA CIOCCOLATINO "Clio"

200 cioccolato fondente
150 zucchero
2 cucchiai farina
4 uova
100 burro

Mescola tuorli con zucchero molto bene poi aggiungere farina. A parte sciogliere il burro e il cioccolato. In una ciotola montare gli albumi a neve lasciandoli un pochino di liquido e metti un pizzico di sale. Mescolare i 3 composti e inforna 30/35 min a 200°.

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Advent Calendar Idea

♥ cyanide and happiness graffiti -London

I absolutely love this graffiti!

♥ A walk in London

I wanna be back!!

I promise I'll be back soon with loads of new inspirations. I'll plan everything during this weekand, hopefully I can post on Monday!

See you soon gals

♥ baby shower

Eventually I had Giulio's baby shower just in time, I mean, he was born 3 weeks in advance so just 5 days after his shower. I enjoyed so much arranging everything and also the party was really cute and was so nice to meet so many good girlfriends of mine. It was a really good laugh afternoon.

I love so much to organize party I'd like to do that such as second job/hobby!!! :-)

♥ handmade photos album

As promise but a bit late I'm here with a new post. Sorry for my lack but I'm currently very busy with my new job: brand new mum!
I think now I can come back and post more often than the last month.

Here on the left you can see the gift I made for my husband: photos album (from Papercase, £2) with an handmade fabric cover. I add an "L" on one of them such as L of London and on the other I add just an heart. These 2 albums host loads of pics of us during last amazing and sparkling 2010.

The gift was really appreciate!


I'll be back soon with more news.

♥ just mum

Hello everyone, sorry for my lack and no posting anymore but i'm a bit busy with my new first little one! He was born on Xmas day and I'm so ... delithed, happy, excited, ....

Hope to come back soon with some posts I've already had in mind such as the present I made for my husband.

♥ pandistelle and paper-toys

Here we go with some new download by Mulino Bianco, a very delicious biscuit Italian company ! This's a very sweet idea: you can download printables to make these cute decorations for your Xmas tree or others.


Ah of course if you are able to find these biscuits taste them, they are delicious dipped in milk ... mmm



Have a lovely Xmas

♥ xmas tags via "how about orange"

I just found on HOW ABOUT ORANGE blog this very useful post: free printable holiday labels, perfect for this season! You can find a selection of really nice printable gift tags. The holidays were fast approaching make sure you are ready!!

Enjoy packing your Xmas present,

♥ advent calendar

Hey all, today I'd like to show the advent calendar I made for my husband. It was very easy to make and it was quite funny as well, what do you need? Few things.

• white paper sheets
• paper tape
• few metres of strip
• scissors
• loads of fantasy, inspiration and creativity!
• some scrapbooking ideas
• 24 number

I made 24 little envelopes using normal white papers just cutting in 3 strips an A4 paper. I folded up every strip in two and I fixed both sides with paper tape leaving opened the top.

I pasted on each bag one number and then ... I used my creativity! Each front of those bags are different, I added hearts, bunting, just paper tape, some cute designs, more.

When I got all my bag totally dressed up t I hanged them to a string and, here we go, I pinned them up the wall. What is there inside these bags? I wrote short letters or just some quotes I love and I also added candies.

Doesn't it sound very easy and cheap? Have a look at the photos above.

♥ bye bye London

Hi all,
sorry if I've been no posting but I moved to Italy and I'm really busy to sort out everuthing for the born of my little one. I'm having good time here in my home town, I had the baby shower too and it was really cute and it was really nice to organize evrything. I'll post soon some pics of it.
Ciaooo

♥ super cute baby overall

I couldn't stop myself, I saw that and iI bought immediatelly and I'm also here to spread the world! It's really too cute this little dungarees by Neck&Neck.

My little Giulio I can't wait to put this on you.

Happy Thanksgiving!

via ohdeedoh image by Flickr - user Suga Daze

♥ cookies by smitten kitchen

Hey hey hye! Yes, I currently have a sweet tooth, I do love loads of differents cakes and sweet and I have been so lucky to find this sweet blog: Smitten Kitchen.

It'a a stunning web site where you can find a delicious mix of photos and recipes. All you find is come from a tiny kitchen in New York City. all recipes are come with tutorials on everything so it's very easy to make them.

Here my pinch:
Crispy, Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies.

The secret of these cookies? Don't overbake them!

Conversion: here and here

♥ xmas card

I found another gorgeous blog in the net: mufn inc. On great designer Paoline's blog now you can find a Christmas card that all of you can enjoy for FREE.

Thanks for this sharing Paoline!! Click on the images to grab your card.

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♥ jolie petite chose

I just bumped into this gorgeous website: JOLIE PETITE CHOSE. They sell a little pieces and mobiles that add for sure a cute and cozy touch at your baby nursery.
This lovingly hand crafted nursery mobile features 5 distinctive elephants with each in its own individual colour and pattern.
This mobile is designed with the elephant trunks pointing up to bring good luck!

All of them are handmade in Jodie’s Melbourne studio and every use fabbric is soft and unique and all patterns are so sweet. You can choose among elephants, owls, tree, birds and more.

When someone asked about the inspiration behind her collection Jodie replied… “My inspiration was to give my lovely little daughter something special made by me to cherish and remember as a part of her life as a baby/infant. Hopefully she will pass the things I make for her on to her own little one someday”…. A lovely reflection that truly sums up the essence of the handmade children’s industry.

They would make the perfect gift for any new arrival.

♥ customize your calendar 2011

My owl barn offer us possibility to personalize the calenzar 2011 on line by chosing 30 different pics of owls. the tool will create automatically a pdf ready to be downloaded.

***xmas freebies are coming soon***

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♥ this shop looks dreamy

This morning I have some wonderful eye candy to share with you.

sass&belle: home accessorises
Have a look at the website. Isn't Sass & Belle just so magical?

It has draemy little homely things and I could probably spend a fortune in it

Here the address:

Sass & Belle Address
Address: 21-22 New Row
Charing Cross
London
WC2N 4LE

♥ cooking school: delicious lemon cake

Good morning everyone! I started my week in a right sweet way this morning and trust me ... it's wonderfull to wake up like that: I had 2 slices of this yummy and gorgeous lemon cake! I couldn't help to have just one ...
I baked that yestarday afternoon, it was the first time I made this cake using this recipe and ... OMG it was a fantastic surprise: it's 100% delicious and easy make as well.

Here the recipe, try baking and let me know how the result will be.

Time baking: 30'
Difficulty: easy peasy,lemon squeezy!

♥ how to knit a cool hat - part 2

*** FREE PATTERN ***

Here you go with the FREE DOWNLOAD of this cool hat pattern! Isn't this hat so gorgeous? I knitted it in one evening watching X-Factor so i can definitely say that the level of difficulty is: easy peasy!

Needles: 4,5 mm
Yarn: less then 2 skeins of Rialto Aran by Debbie Bliss - 100% Extra Fine Merino wool. I bought them on line just here.

Now grab here the pattern and enjoy your knitting!

♥ how to knit a cool hat

work in progress post

The patter of this cool hat will be ready soon in Italian and English.

Stay tuned.

♥ shopping: H&M HOME *** NEW***

I'm just back from Oxford St and I bumped into the new H&M home collection and i was really impressed!!. Of course I already bought few stuff :-). This new range covers bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchen and living rooms. The top effect they used for this first collection is romantice, country, antique-effect cottons, grocery-effect and linens, really cute and right what I do love. This items are now available in London, Stockholm, Copenagen and Amsterdam, they seem pretty cheap and good quality too.

If you have change to go shopping there, you won’t be disappointed. I already decided where to buy my xmas presents for gals friends of mine!!

♥ poetry magnetic words

What fridge is complete without a set of magnetic words to create phrases? This is truly one of my faves, I love to write on my fridge



Visit magneticpoetry.com and grap that suits more yourself.
Have fun!!

♥ e-book

Here we go with a great idea! Yes I truly believe this is an easy, cool and clever way to read your favorite blog when you are not able to go online!
How? Visit zinapal and create your ebook! Zinepal turns existing web content into printable PDFs and eBooks in the ePub, Amazon Kindle and Mobipocket formats. It is the easiest way to repurpose your existing web content and reach additional audiences using eBooks and printable PDFs. In just a couple of steps you can have you personal e-book! With this tool you can repurpose your existing online content to reach additional audiences via eBooks and printable PDFs. Actually I was thinking right about my mum, she is not friendly with blogging so I can show her my post using this easy pdf so my blog is available also for her. Guys have a look and get amazed like me! Here you can grab my last pdf newspaper.

Hurry up, let go and try it!

♥ freebie: monthly calendar

Today I'd love to share with you this template I made few weeks ago to keep in mind all my family business and appointments effortless. I printed 3 of them, I hung them on the board and now we have our own calendar just in front of us, every day till the end of the years ready to be filled in!! I do love to do always new things, explore new places and others, I'd like to think about very easy idea to get but be careful because it's also very easy to forget to do all of these things mainly because we are pretty lazy and tired after work. Well this calendar makes us to remind and add very easily some fun things to our weeks. Having the calendar on our eyes prompts us to keep in mind and book stuff to do such as cineforum evening, discover new restaurants, visit a galleries and more. It's enought a quick look and LETS DO!

Click here to download the template of my monthly calendar and keep you busy!

♥ how to make: halloween's pumpkins

Five days to go to Halloween and here you can find the last minutes tutorial to make your scary pumpkin lantern. I made one with a friend of mine Cla, she is so good at hand making these kind of things.

Here you can download the template, shape or designs to use for cutting your scary punpkin. And here you can see more pumpkins made by my lovely friend Cla

Isn't it so perfect!? anyway lets go haed and let me give you some tips to get it very easily.

Step by step:

1) First able the crucial point is to find the right pumpkin to cut: it could be soft and the size should be suitable for the template you chose. Of course you can also re-size the template adapting it to your pumpkin.
2) Cope the top where the stalk is (cut at 4/5 cm from it or less, it’s depends of the size of your pumpkin), the copped part should look such as a lid. Keep the lid!
3) Empty properly our pumpkin from seeds and stuff.
4) Put the paper of our template on the side you like, hang and fix it on the pumpkin with the help of some needles. Watch out! Make sure you put the needles in the part of the pumpkin you are going to remove so at the end you won’t find any little marks.
5) With a sharp and small cutter/knif notch and make a lot of little cuts on the pumpkin following right the shape of the design. Now you should see the design impress on your pumpkin in broad terms.
6) Start removing the biggest parts (without pay attention at the little details) then you can starting to refine and give a shape cutting precisely and minutely all borders. If you are in trouble, to get the best design out and to make the work easier for you, you can also reduce the thickness near the edges but don’t go too far! And if that is not necessary please avoid it. Don’t reduce to much the thickness otherwise the pumpkin becomes soft and it can wrinkle.
7) Here you go with the magic secret!! Put on all borders a bit of Vaseline so the edges won’t become black because of the air and also this avoids our pumpkin to dry too much.
8) Now put inside a candle and cover with the copped top. It's done!

Light it up and it’s Halloween’s night!! You’ll find something to suit your skill level!


Download printables here

♥ brand new classy baby shoes

***PATTERN FOR FREE***

I just finished to kniw this fab little and oh-so-cute shoes and I'm really happy with how they turned out. I can't wait to see these little shoes on my little one. I knitted several shoes and booties so far and I've learnt a bit more about the knit world so I make my own pattern!!! Yes this is what my mind eleborated mixing loads of "knowledge" coming from reading and knitting loads of other shoes patterns.

Do you fancy it? Isn't it so classy and perfect to fit little feet? The ribbon is a pin for the mum to be and i'm going to give away these bows like a present for my baby shower. I've been knitting them n every colors, they look so fab.

Here you go to download for free the pattern.