♥ 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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♥ 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.

via how about orange

♥ 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***

via how about orange

♥ 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.

♥ first runners bottle

Hi gals, do you know what is my last on line purchase? This super bottle on the left. What is it? It's a fab bottle to keep with you duriing ypur workout, mainly durring your running exercise.

It's a great shape for gripping while running, the size is handy size and not too bulky. It's easy to carry and the water pours effortlessly from the spout - just perfect!

Now my question I ask to myself is? Ok ok i can't run but of course i can bring it with me durion my long stroll.

I'm sure I'll enyoy it

♥ if in doubs bake a cake

click on the picture to get more information about this amazing poster

♥ today I've learnt

To follow and get your dreams and aspirations you should believe, trust and count just on yourself.

The result will be more fulfilling.
Believe and chase your dreams regardless and fly highly with them.

My dreams are my life.

♥ Baby Sophisticate Cardigan

I found this handsome pattern on Raverly and I immediately felt in love with that, everything looks great but my attention was grabbed from the the collar, it is so cute.
Baby Sophisticate Cardigan by Linden Heflin is an extremely quick knit (perfect for last minute baby shower invitations). I just made one for my littel boy and I have never seen anything so perfect. I'd like to make daddy a matching one before baby comes! I'm going to hang of the right pattern then I'll share with you.

I'm actually quite brand new in the knitting world and I've never seen before a pattern like this, I mean, knitting from the collar till the bottom, I usually start from the back bottom till the collar. This cardigan turned into a very easy knit regardless.

Click here to download the english version of this fab baby cardigan directly from Linden's blog.

I did traslation for the italian friends here: italian version.

Thanks Linden for sharing the pattern.

I ♥ knitting

♥ fall is arrived

Fall is eventually arrived in London, air is so freezing in the morning but the color of the leaves warms up the city.

Hot days are just a memories and honestly a bit of happiness left me.

I truly need to have a deep sleeping to recover a bit.

I'll post soon an amazing pattern of a fab and sophisticate cardigan for little boy.

♥ city guide: istanbul

♥ tape strips by pugly pixel

Pugly Pixel is a fantastic blog full of inspirations and useful things to download and perfect to enrich your digital works. I do love to read her posts, i can fins always something very cool and stilyling

Here I've summarized Katrina's 3 fab freebie tape stripes, download them and make amazing images for your blog:

♥ vintage fabric deco tapes (here on the right), the newest!

♥ tape strip part 1 (on the left)

♥ tape strip part 2 (below)

Enjoy using them as I do.

♥ cooking school: singapore noodles

Just finished cooking this delicious and beautiful plate. it was very easy to made and the taste is brilliant.

Ingredients

250g rice vermicelli noodles
vegetable oil
150g pork fillets , cut into strips
12 raw peeled tiger prawns
3 garlic cloves , crushed
2cm piece ginger , grated
1 onion , cut into thin half moons
1 red pepper , sliced
2 tsp curry powder
300g bean sprouts
4 tbsp soy sauce
1 bunch fresh chives , chopped
4 eggs , beaten
2 red chillies , sliced
2 limes , quartered

Direction:

1.Soak the noodles following the packet instructions and drain. Heat some oil in a wok and fry the pork until it is browned and just cooked through, tip onto a plate. Add the prawns and fry until cooked. Rinse out the wok.
2.Add a little oil to the wok and fry the garlic and ginger until light brown. Add the onion and pepper and cook until just beginning to soften, then add the spices and cook for a minute. Add the bean sprouts, noodles and about 2 tbsp water and toss everything together.
3.Add the soy sauce, some seasoning and chives and stir for another minute. Push the noodles to one side of the wok and drop in the eggs. Cook, stirring for 1 minute then stir through the noodles.
4.For the veggies, turn half the noodles on to a large plate. For the non-veggies, toss the pork and prawns through the rest and tip onto a separate plate. Serve both with sliced chillies sprinkled on top and lime wedges to squeeze over.

It's suitable for 6 person.

This recipe is by bbc

♥ daily inspiration

Here on the left my last DIY. I'm really proud of that, honestly it gives a fresh and new atmosphere to my bedroom.

It was really easy to make: I just cut the heart and used tape to fix them on the strip. They looks really nice on my wall.

♥ about palettes

I've made this list of very useful link you can use to find out your palette from pictures and any images.

Color Schemer : you can find the right colour palette of your pictures uploading them (JPEG, PNG, or any other common image format). Another tool like this one is Color Palette Generator.

Color Palette Generator: Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image. This is useful for coming up with a website color palette that matches a key image a client wants to work with. Color Hunter: Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette

Css drive: enter the url or upload an images and get your color palette.

Color Scheme Designer: that tool is very useful for designer to find anything around colors.

Here a tool you can enjoy finding new random colors.

Random Color: Find new colors with this handy tool. Use the suggestions to make your own unique palettes.

Last but not least HOW TO FIND the RGB Values of a Color: here a really useful explanation.

Hope you can enjoy them.

♥ floral wooden letters by Emily Readett-Bayley

This should be a short post to share with you these fab letters I just found: Floral Wooden Letters.

Each letter is hand painted with an Emily Readett-Bayley signature floral design in a non- toxic water based paint. On the website there are a wide range of different style of letters such as natural wood, balck, white and more but also other accessories.

You can also create your own wall and check if that suits your style. Price?

From £2,50 each, no bad.

♥ xmas wrapping: part 1

Xmas is coming and we should be getting ready to wrap your gifts. Here I did a selection of free printable I found among the net.

Print these lovely gift wrap sheets:
1) xmas paper by mea.
2) more papers by mea.
I just discovered the amazing blog of Kellie Medivitz. She has designed this modern wrapping paper and tags and she also gives us the instructions.
3) What are you waiting? Enjoy her free printable here.
4) another lovely free goodies by kellie Medivitz

I couldn't help to post also this so cute freebie:
5)freebie from last year by a print a day: fab pattern!

and ending properly my first post regarding xmas theme here you go with xmas cupcake cover.

Enjoy and print.

♥ halloween

Hi all,

it will be HALLOWEEN in less than 1 month so lets celebrate! I selected just few little freebies:

- Invitations by perideaudesigns. Bridgett designed some cute and scary Halloween silhouettes!

- Topper cupcakes by yellows mum

- Idea: design a modern, sweet and scary Halloween tablescape with these easy DIY ideas and items from around your home.

But also a really nice and helpful idea:

- Trick-or-Treat Bag to Benefit UNICEF

Enjoy the halloween period.

♥ lovely crocheted hearts

Just found these fab hearts!! I couldn't help to share with you.

by little birdie secrets

Pattern:
Ch 4. Work 3 tr (triple crochet) into first ch, 3 dc, ch 1, 1 tr, ch 1, 3 dc, 3 tr. Ch 3, sl st into center and fasten off.

Schema in italiano: 4 catenelle, lavora sempre nella 1° catenella i seguenti punti: 3 punti altissimi, 3 punti alti, 1 catenella, 1 punto altissimo, 1 catenella, 3 punti alti, 3 punti altissimi, 3 catenelle, 1 punto bassissimo, chiudi.

video tutorial

I make my first little hearts in just few minutes. Really cool idea right to enrich your xmas presents wrapping.

♥ party time: baby shower memo

I love all these hues of blue, they are so cute, light and bright indeed. Here you can find a list ofthings to do and keep in mind to organize a successful baby shower. I'm not an expert in this parties but I did a good research among several blogs of party-planners and here I've summarized for you. You can find a wide choice of different thigs to keep in mind.

♥ Atmposhire
bunting, pinwheels, paper pompoms, pegs , music

♥ Card:
Save the date
Invite
Thank you for coming

♥ Printables
(choose theme, font, palettes)
food labels/signs, popcorn case, food toppers
sign/tag for cadeau

♥ Food
sweet food: cupcakes, macarones, scones, bignè, meringues, cake, jam
salted food: popcorn, tarallini, little sanwiches
candies: sugars bottons/dice, lollypop, jelly bean, chocolate,

♥ Drink
hot, cold and soft drinks

♥ Setting the table
cultery, tablecloth, napkins, glasses, plates, straws

♥ Petit cadeau
don't foget to be polite, give to your guests a present to thank them for coming. That could be such as something you hand-made, cookies bag, candies bag, cookies shape or let your mind to be creative.

That I got is it's really important to focus the theme of your party and choose the right pallettes of colors to use, every party should be full of vibrant and colorful details!

♥ 3 little things

clockwise from the top
♥ monogrammed mugs by anthropologie, £ 6,00 (via trendinozze)

♥ earrings by bellaluna, USD 26,90

♥ bride veil, my favorite!

♥ knitting first newborn

Hey hon, I'm just popped in here because I wanna share with you my first works I knitted for my little coming baby:

Aren't they oh-so-cute?? I felt in love with them, I can't wait to see them on my baby!! I should thank to CarissaKnits and ... for sharing their free pattners to the net community

♥ baby hat: this is a very easy pattern made by CarissaKnits.
Here the pattern to download, you can find it also on raverly.

♥ baby booties by Routh Bennet: also they are very easy to make, here the pdf pattern and on raverly for more inspirations. Traduzione italiana disponibile cliccando sul seguente bottone:

♥ freebie: business card

Just a short post to share a nice and original business card idea: Google Me Business Card! You can customaz that with your name. check this link out to download the pdf (page2). Isn't it cool?

via howaboutorange, one of my favorite blogs.

♥ bride and groom signs

I found another fantastic free customization from This amazing blog: The Wedding Chicks. Are you looking for Bride and Groom Signs? Here you go!
Here you can find not only the free downloadable signs but also you can custom them simply make your color selections and fill in some info. After you submit the form, a personalized image will arrive directly in your inbox to use however you desire.

These below all colors you can chose for the design and the text.

Chose your palette and enjoy!

♥ ravelry and my new fave

Hi honey, I wanna share with you my last fave and what I discovered yesterday, I'm too excited, I'm feeling like a child has just got a new toy!

I used to knit and sew a lot but after the university when I started to work I left this my passion bit by bit. I wanna show you a secret: vigutto, check that out!! This is my old blog/brand, it was cool few years ago but in the last years I just sewes something behind order. The last best product was fabric laptopcase set: vigcase.

Anyway, now I'd like to kint something for my little baby and I found several super blogs and an amazing social network: revelry! It is a place just for knitters, crocheters, designers, spinners, weavers and dyers to keep track of their yarn, tools, project and pattern information, and look to others for ideas and inspiration. I found such a lot of inspirations!! but also I can't wait to add my works I did in the past.

Stay tunned ... I'm going to share everything with you.

On another side I'm going to change the headline of my blog so ... I need inspirations!

♥ baby boy clothes

clockwise from top left:

♥ bermuda/romper by neck&neck
it's so cute for a little baby, I felt in love with it immediatly. NECK & NECK is a Spanish children’s fashion brand with its own design, which is distributed exclusively through a network of own company shops or franchises. The price is also no too high £19.

♥ sneaker booties by Michelle
They are perfect for a by new born, I found across the net several shoes and booties patterns but honestly the most of them are really more female than male. This shape is perfect for a boy! You can find and download the pattern directly on her blog, click here.

♥ shirt by zara
this 100% cotton shirt is totally cool for a little boy. He could look totally a little man waering it. The price? Very affortable £ 12,99. Of coure the smaller size is 3 months

♥ hat by Hadley, her blog shescrafty
I find it really sweet and cute for a little son. She sells the pattern on her Etsy shop. Hurry up!!

♥ crossover body suit by Petit Bateau
Perfect for keeping your little one warm and cosy day or night. It's designed with easy snap buttons and a crossover front for quick changing. The traditional palette makes this cotton suit a great choice for bouncing baby boys. Of course the fabric is 100% cotton. Buy it on line at selfridges £15.

♥ knit hoddie by gap
This garter knit hoodie is the gap's ultimate in cozy. This chunky knitting hoodie means easy dressing and a happy baby.

I can't wait to star with my baby's shpping!!! I know I'll became a baby clothes shopaholic.

♥ drin drin in portobello

Hi all,

I decided to add a yummy post today. I bumped into this fantastic gelateria just last weekend and I was first really impressed about the design of the shop and the graphic they have used about brand, sign, packaging and all paper stuff. After that I couldn't help to taste the icecream and ... it was heavenly! OMG!!! It was so soft, delicate, creamy ... such a delicacy!

DrinDrin is located in the heart of Portobello Market right next door to the Electric Cinema (189 Portobello Road London W11 2ED) and it's open every day till late (11 p.m.).

When I got home I immediately checked thier website and it seems they spent a great deal of time to create recipes from most refined artisanal Italian tradition, the gelato is completely natural. They try to avoid emulsifiers and non-natural thickeners. You can taste gelato or sorbetti as well.

If you are are around don't miss it!!!

Visit also http://www.dridrigelato.com/