♥ business card

What is it? Easy to explain! I've collected sevaral busines cards of restaurants, coffee and bars in a few years. Actually I find the graphic of most of them really good looking so I decided to stick some of them up a board and hang it on the kitchen wall. so I found a solution to embelish my wall and also The best busines cards I've never had are from several Berlin's restaurant, I also got thousand cards in Thailand and Vietnam from my last trip, it seems that there everyone has a business card!!!

My favorite business card is from Hakkasan - London! go and check it out!! the food is amazing and the venue is ... stunning!!!

♥ patchwork pattern

My last hobby is sewing and I'm doing lot of research throught blogs looking for nice patterns and things to made. Actually I found loads of amazing blogs, the net is full of really ceative women! Anyway I discover another good tool: the Victoria and Albert Museum has created an online patchwork pattern maker.

You can upload your image, pictures and the tool gives to you the right pattern so you'll be ready for cross sewing. Here below the web page I did with my image! You also can download the pdf of it, is not it really cool? And trust me very very easy.

Have fun with this tool by V&A!

♥ weekend game: what your prefered colors say about you

Hey hey here we go with my last discovered on line tool!

Select colors you like and dislike in this cool quiz. Then all sorts of data about your personality will be revealed.

Have fun this weekend with this super test!

My result:
You are a leader, you know how to organize the groups of persons and give them your energy.
You are also able to have an in-depth thinking, you think before acting, and you know how to communicate your knowledge.
Finally you are dynamic, your actions are only directed by your own will and you know how to lead people.

♥ recipe card maker

I just find this amazing tool, it's a generetor of card repipes. Next time you want to share a recipe to a friend, try printing out recipe cards using this tool Skip To My Lou's recipe card maker. You can choose different layouts and the size too. It's really a cute way to pas your recipes to friends.

Here on the left my first recipe card I made ready to share with you:

♥ tagliatelle ai funghi!! Enjoy tagliatelle and also this tool!!

♥ clare nicolson

I just bumped into this wonderful and oh-so-cute website and I immediatly pop in here just to show it to you, it's too gorgeous!!!! I've a pleasure to introduce to you .... http://www.clarenicolson.com/
I'm totally in love with birds in this period and this website is full of them! OMG!! I found lovely birds made from vintage fabric and filled with fragrant lavender, go and have a look at them and you can check that truly all types of fabrics are amazing. The website is oh-so-lovely too, all backgrounds are fantastic! You can also buy several and different kind of colorful cushions: the design on the front of each cushion is digitally printed onto cotton or silk, while the reverse is a coordinating panel of vintage fabric which is sourced for every cushion making each one unique and extra special! Below some samples of their wonderful and vintage fabrics.

Clare Nicolson creates a range of teatowels. The digitally printed teatowels are available in 100% cotton.
Also all teatowels come with a vintage fabric tab to hang wherever you want and make your kitchen even fancier! Is not stunning this little elephant on this teatowel? I totally love all these goods.

♥ still birds

Hey lovely reader out there, here a new project I gonna make. Here is the other thing I add to my DIY list: they are little aromatic birds.

I found them from this super-creative website Spool and here you can download the pattern. I totally LOVE this shape, so colorful, so simple and sweet. I gonna stuff them with dried lavender I already bought from this website: lavander.

I guess so they can be sachets or you can put somewhere such as something pretty to look at and in the maintime the smell is nice.

I'll make the birds from some of different fabrics I bought a while I know for sure they'll be lovely, ok not the first!! . Seriously I'll show some pics of them so you can check them out.

Anyway I'm going to use them like gift, what do you feel about receiving handmade gifts?

♥ kit talking shirt by Petit Bateau

Hi all, i've just discovered this terrific kit! They are 29 ink pads proposed in the kit: Talking Shirt. With the help of 29 stamps, 2 washable ink pots and your unlimited imagination you can create original t-shitrs! Washable ink becomes the excuse to write just about anything that crosses your mind. You can change the sentence on yout shirt every time you want.

Unfortunately i also discovered this kit was available in all Boutique Petit Bateau from 28th April till May 18th 2010. I missed it!!!!

♥ happy sunny friday

♥ Yoga Session in London

This post to say I found a really cozy and friendly place where I had a really relaxed lession of yoga. I found this thanks a post on secret london.

The centre is called YOGANESH CENTRE and it's neal Benthenal Green tube station. The teacher was so nice and cute, she follewed us on every steps and it has donation based classes!! After my lesson I was totally regenerated!!

Anyway after that I bumped into anothere oh-so-cute venue just on the right of Yoganesh: the gallery cafe: some tables on the terrace outside, a big glasses door and a really cozy atmosphere inside. Yestarday there was a gig as well so I felt totally in love with this small cafe. I looked for some review oon line and it seems quite cool especially on Wednesday and Friday evening but also it's very fancy for the Sunday brunch.

♥ Celebrate 10 Years of Tate Modern

Last weekend it was the festival to celebrate Tate Modern’s 10th anniversary and there was a free arts festival for all in the turbine hall. This event was No Soul For Sale – A Festival of Independents. The festival brought together over 70 of the world’s most exciting independent art spaces, non-profit organizations and artists’ collectives, from Shanghai to Rio de Janeiro.
Here on the rigth some snaps regarding the exibithion I saw, actually all of them were very strange and weird, honestly I couldn't get the properly meanings of everyone. There were also some perfomrances,art events, music, and film. I had 2 hours of really good time.

♥ life

"E stasera affini la lingua, non nel senso di baci, nel senso di parole. E io avrei una gran voglia di ridere, ti prego, dimmi che stasera mi farai ridere, col vino e le anguille e i gesti delle mani. Vengo a vederti, ma tu fammi girare la testa, che nonpensopiùnonpensipiù, cantiamo sbagliati a collo rovesciato e poi facciamo la cosa giusta, ci complementiamo."

♥ cineforum

As every Monday evening my friends and I watch a movie: cineforum' night! I've brought this appointment with me in London and so which films for this evening? Scarface direct by B. De Palma and with the superstar Al Pacino. I have to admit that I've never seen it and I can't wait for it!!!!
The top3 of best movies I saw during cineforym's night is this:

• La Giuria
• Conspiracy Theory
• Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

If you have some titles to suggest please write me, they are really welcome!

♥ lovely birds

This afternoon I went down to the city to buy some accessories for my new sweet home. I went to Muji, Butlers and John Lewis. I got losing at John Lewis, 7 floors of everything and trust me you can find there loads of really pretty things at convenience prices but you can spot them out after an hard and scrupulous research, this definitely means you should go there without boyfriend!!

Anyway I found everything I was looking for and also lot of wonderful other thing but I was good and I didn't buy them ... so far! I found so many stunning things on bird theme and I immediatelly felt in love with them! I'm going to be back really soon!! I collected some pictures of them here on the right, are not all these birds so cute and gorgeous? All of them are from John Lewis: you can hang these oh-so-pretty fabric bird decorations or this delicate bird ornament, made just from wire and wood, around the home to brighten your space in summertime.
The metal tealight holder (on the top) is perfect for adding a Victoriana-inspired look to home and of course it can miss a little bird hooked on top. These pretty bird-shaped placecard holder with a silver finish are my favorite after the bed sheets: pastel-coloured, embroidered birds perch prettily on this chic and white bed linen. Girls ... I need to be back there right now and pick them up!!!

♥ tapas night

Here my last supper, I don't know why but I love the little food, finger food, all food you can pinch and which food is as perfect as tapas??!. I bet with my boyfriend, we had a competition on SPANISH TAPAS. It was a really good night!! we bought lots of ingredient and Spanish wine as well and we started to make our 3 tapas per each! On the left you can see my tapas: croquettas, mozzarella frita, toast with eggs, tuna and ali&oli, everything was really yummy. He made patatas brava whit chilli souce, bacalao fritos and stuffed pimientos. Who won? .... it was a very hard decision, everything was good, tasty and high quality food. Eventualy both of them were winners!

the ingredients?? Best quality, low cost and good fun!!

♥ last news from London: WHITE CHAPEL GALLERY

My last exploring took this straordinaty gallery: WHITE CHAPEL GALLERY (E1 7QX).

It is a public art gallery on the north side of Whitechapel High Street. Internationally acclaimed for its exhibitions of modern and contemporary art and its pioneering education and public events programmes, the Gallery has premiered international artists such as Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Nan Goldin, and provided a showcase for Britain’s most significant artists from Gilbert & George to Lucian Freud, Peter Doig to Mark Wallinger. Actually all of their exhibitions are quite odd and weird but you can miss it!

♥ secret london

Do you believe this place is in London??! Promise!! I was really surprise when I bumped into this amazing and marine area!! I was walking and looking for a pub to have a beer after work and I found this stunning place (incredible!!!) and also a gorgeous pub. I couldn't stop myself to pop in just a moment and share this only photo I took early, actually my camera battery was empty. Stay tuned I gonna go there tomorrow to take lots of snaps!!

♥ lovely cups

I love thislittle set of coffee cups! Aren't they so cute? I'm becoming crazy here in London , there are too many shops! These cups are from marks&spencer, there is whatever you want in his shops, the desing is so cool and the price pretty cheap. I love spending my time inside the supermarket and this is one of my favorite because of his focus on desing and mainly on packaging of all his goods.

Which the next supermarket to exploring? the biggest Tesco!!! I'm very confident in it!!

♥ still london

Hi all,
Last week I was really busy looking for e new flat in London. I had lots of viewings after work but also on last Saturday and i took the opportunity to explore some new areas . Moreover, trust me, I saw lots of rubbish and odd properties. I can’t believe there is lots of guys they don’t care about their properties. Some flats are totally dismissed and dirty, in one of them there isn’t the washing machine, in another it misses the couch and on the advertising they say: totally furnished! Honestly I expected to find some s**tty flats. Eventually I found one and it’s amazing! This flat is just renewed and TRULY TOTALLY FURNISHED!

Anyway I was talking about this because all this looking for gave me possibility to discover new areas in London and I was quite surprised because I bumped into 2 really pretty zones: Dalston (E8) and Wapping (E1W).
Dalson is at north-east of Angel and north of Shoreditch, it is an urban area with definite touches of Shoreditch chic - before Shoreditch went the commercial route, that is. I think it a new area for eclectic and stylish people. Anothere amazing area but more residential is Wapping: is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets which forms part of the Docklands to the east of the City of London. It is situated between the north bank of the River Thames, it's so nice! Full of docks and boats!! Wapping's proximity to the river has given it a strong maritime character, which it retains through its riverside public houses and steps, such as the Prospect of Whitby and Wapping Stairs. Many of the original buildings were demolished during the construction of the London Docks and Wapping was further seriously damaged during the Blitz. As the London Docklands declined after the Second World War, the area became run down, with the great warehouses left empty. The area's fortunes were transformed during the 1980s by the London Docklands Development Corporation when the warehouses started to be converted into luxury flats. Fantstic!

I wanna show you some great little places I bumped into during my flat viewings:
Dolston Superstore
on Kingsland High Street, the main artery dissecting Dalston. Suited to its surroundings, it’s a confidently cool and slightly camp New York-style dive bar split between two floors, clad in cement, brick and steel vents. It’s enlivened with fluoro flashes, tables for two, graffiti, art installations and in-the-know aural offerings. The long, wooden bar is top and tailed by a DJ booth and an open-plan kitchen. Downstairs, the intimate and dark basement is decorated with graphic illustrations and there are retro televisions on the bar and a corner DJ box. This is a very fashion-conscious, arty place, and the people that come here are in keeping with that. There are lots of gay (and straight) young couples enjoying drinks and larger groups of people gearing up for a night out. I had just a beer and was ok, in terms of food, as well as substantially sized, modestly priced sandwiches, burgers and salads, there’s a daily selection of own-made cakes. Entertainment-wise, I know there are plenty of ants in these pants with regular DJ showcases, exhibitions, launch parties, barn dances and music nights. And of course there’s also free wi-fi.
Opened only last year and has become swiftly known for its eclectic line ups and awesome theme nights.
Location: E8 2PB

Wapping Project
The Wapping Project is a centre for the arts in East London located in the historic Wapping Hydraulic Power Station. A multipurpose exhibition and performance space, the Wapping project features newly commissioned works by visual artists, choreographers, composers, writers, poets, designers and film makers. They have a restaurant and bar. The music policy and atmosphere are surprisingly unpretentious and it has a live, fun, upbeat vibe. However, quirky East End glamorous style is the norm here, so dress to impress. A word of warning: the upstairs bar is heaving by 10.30pm so it’s best to arrive earlier if you want a seat.

Enjoy your weekend!!

♥ thailand & vietnam

Hi darling! I' m back from my long and amazing holiday ready to post more and more again. I wanna also talk you about the states I explored, they are stunning but also totally different than Europe. I found also inspirations for thinking about important things like life, friendships, family and so. I'll be back soon with some stories about these wonderfull and far away places.

On the left some photos about Vietnam lifestyle, Tample, Mekong River and Thailand food.

♥ city guide: California Bakery in Milan

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P.zza Sant’Eustorgio, 4
20121 Milano
Tel. 02.398.11.538
Orario: 8.30-24.00, 7 giorni su 7

V.le Premuda, 44
20129 Milano
Tel. 02.760.11.492
Orario: 8.30-24.00, 7 giorni su 7
tranne Lunedì fino alle 20.30

L.go Augusto
Via Verziere ang. Via Merlo, 1
20121 Milano
Tel. 02.760.06.026
Orario: 8.30-20.00, 6 giorni su 7
chiuso Domenica

♥ holiday time

♥ see you soon ♥

♥ last italian post

Hi all,
I'm moving to London in a couple of days and as you surely can imagine I'm really excited!! Actually I've slept very badly for days!! i'll post from there and maybe something more interesting!
So I pop in just to leave here a little taste of my next months. I bumted into this gorgoeus shop in Regent Street when I was in London last time and I immediatly felt in love with that.

I can't stand to have a walk through London's streets.

I already wrote about Anthropologie but now ... I've just spot some fantastic necklaces on their website and I have to share their beauty with you.

See you from London!

♥ give away

I've just bumped into this amazing and divine website and I was really shocked cause its beauty! What's it? It's an terrific website about lovely handmade bags.

In 2004 Laura Nelli started Nelle, a handbag company focused on creating luxurious handbags and clutches. By combining quality fabrics with her keen attention to detail Nelle handbags and clutches illustrate Laura’s deep appreciation of vivid colors and textures. actually I'm a bit jealous because I also used to sew when i was at the university but after the degree I focused on my job and left almost totally my passion and hobby: vigutto. It's the first time I talk about my secret but we i discover these awesome and gorgeous bags I immediatly thought about one of my last creation, a clutch pretty similar to this on the right. Anyway, I promise I'll post a special vigutto note just to explain better what it was and what it still is! In the meantime have fun and shopping on Nelle's website, it's worth it, trust me!

♥ come on spring, come on!!!

♥ lately

"The sunshine atop of my curly head, crispy clean sheets on a double bed,
Honey spread on morning toast, fizzy ice cold water to my thirsty throat,
Bright colour after black and white nights, a warm hug and kiss after midnight flights,
A purr in my ear under a fluffy cover, a sparkling dream of an exquisite love,
These things you are and the things we’ll be, something special glitters inside y&m"

♥ shoes: ballets

I was surfing as usual through my favorite blogs and websites and I found these shoes!! They are so lovely don't you think?

As practical as they are adorable, these flats will have you doing a rain dance. PVC upper, lining and sole with a grosgrain bow. Made in Italy.

Price: $ 55

♥ hobby

During my last trip in London I got this whole series of colors for food and other things to enrich the top of desserts or cake. Why is it so easy to find everything in London!!!?? I love that city.

Then now I have to use them and I was thinking to bake some macarons, they are so lovely and seems really yummy too. I found the recipe into "Il libro del cavolo", apparently they are not so easy to make but I wanna try through! I will let you know how they'll come up. In the maintime I'm wonder to know ask you which is your best recipe to make pancake?

♥ gloomy day's needs

It' happended again! This morning I brought rollings up and it was raining again! I can't believe it... immediatly i thought "please rain goes away!!" It was strange because I was surfing on my favotite blogs and I found this snap on right, right after tht thinking, it was really appropriate at that moment! I wanna share it with you, isn't it cute and cool??!
Anyway it was so gloomy day I decided to set my new wardrobe up but the incredible thing is that i decided to trow away the oldest clothes I don't use anymore!!! (I use to not trow away anything).

I split them in :

♥ to keep over

♥now size 40 clothes to keep hoping to lose weigth (fingers crossed)
♥ small, quite old and never used clothes to swap with girl friends of mine (I'll arranging a swap party @ my home on next sunday). I think it's a really good idea, we'll see it's true or not.

I did a massive cleaning in my wardrobe through, I'm very pride of myself, well done!! (I use to keep everything).

I also re-cover some boxes to storage some clothes with my favorite design, I picked it up in Milan 2 year ago during the "fuori salone". Definitely this task was really funny!

Now everything is in the right place.

♥ have a lovely weekend

Just found it and I fell in love with it immediatly!! I have some hopes and dreams in the years to come!

♥ cooking school: chicche della nonna

♥ Ingredients
1 kg. potatoes
300 gr. ricotta
300 gr. flour

200 gr. spinach
150 gr. parmesan

1 egg

a bit of salt

♥ To dress: butter, a little onion, cream, salt and tomatos. On the top a dusting of parmesan.

♥ Instruction:
Boil the potatos and remove the peel. Boil the spinach and mince thinly them. Take a bowl and put into ricotta, egg, spinach tritati and parmesan and mix them together properly. Add salt in case it needs. Add the crumble potatos and flour too. You should get a pretty tough dough. Take a piece od dough and roll it till getting a long cylinder wide like a finger then you can cut it in a little pieces, pass them into the flour and put them on a tray.

Chicche are now ready to be cooked!! Now it's time to prepare the souce and it's pretty easy: fried the onion with butter, add the tomato souce and let it cooks for 10 minutes. Turn away from the stove and add the cream mixing.

Boil water (add some salt but not add oil!!) and drop the chicche into. When they'll lift on the top of the water they are ready to be dried, it takes quite short time.

Dry and put in a bowl the chicche, now add the souce and stir softly. Dress them with a dusting of parmesan on the top. Yummy!!!

Enjoy your chicche, they will be delicious for sure"

♥ Lonely Planet's best in travel 2010

Lonely Planet, my favorite travel guide, released its latest issue of Best In Travel 2010 guide and various top 10’s of different categories were published. Among them are:
Top 10 Best Value Destination to Visit In Year 2010,
Top 10 Countries To Visit in 2010,
Top 10 Cities and Top 10 Regions of the world to visit in year 2010.

Why am I speaking of this? Off course I was really excited to find out what the most unexpected: my favorite italian city Lecce is in! Lecce is selected by Lonely Planet as one of the Top 10 Cities ... WOW!
Anyway I wanna tell you something more about the stunning LECCE.

It is in the South of Italy and very close to the sea, the region is called Puglia but the area is also known as Salento. The atmophere is always cool, every time I go there I feel better maybe because the tenants are sociable and friendly and Lecce actaully is always crowded and it seems every day is party time! The shops, bars and reastaurants are cool, you can find the collest bar next to the cheapest one but both of them are great!!

It'a a baroque city, you can still see and visit a lot of of palaces, monuments and churches (the most important are Duomo and S. Chiara) in this style with amazing and particular decorations. "Pietra leccese" is a white and calcareous stone, actually it is pretty crumbly, this material was used to build houses, palaces and churches or just to to embelish them but also it's used nowadays to make several handmade objects such as vases, lamps, statues and more. You can find lots of shops that sell them in the centre of the city.
You can miss to have a look at Roman Anphitheatre from II sec. in piazza Sant'Oronzo and the Castello Carlo V.

Of course the food is delicious and the wine as well! Puglia is the most producer of wine in Italy, you can taste different type of them. About food? All plates with vegetables are yummy and tasty, the best is fave&cicorie. They make lots of kind of pasta like in every city in Italy but the most popolar is "orecchiette alle cimederape" (I decided to not explain to you these recipes, it's a sort of "go&taste"). Where is the best place to go for supper? Actually at their houses!!! The Lecce's women are down right the best cookers!

Restaurants:

- Le zie: the best one!! 100% tipical

- Carlo V: pizzeria

- La torre di Merlino: cool and good

After dinner:

I suggest you to walk through Via Ferrante d'Aragona, you'll bump into lots of bars or you can go to another area near S. Chiara Church and tehre there is a really cool place to have a drink: Al civico N°1.

I'll add some more information about Lecce in a next post, promise!

Here I've reported 2 lists of Lonely Planet’s Best In Travel 2010 Guide:

Top 10 Best Value Destination (Alphabetic ordered)

1.Bulgaria;
2.Kenya;
3.Iceland;
4.India;
5.Las Vegas;
6.London;
7.Malaysia;
8.Mexico;
9.South Africa, and
10.Thailand

Top 10 Cities To Visit in 2010

1.Abu Dhabi,
2.Charleston (South Carolina),
3.Cork (Ireland),
4.Cuenca (Ecuador),
5.Istanbul,
6.Kyoto (Japan),
7.Lecce (Italy),
8.Sarajevo,
9.Singapore, and
10.Vancouver (Canada).

♥ I issue my personal list of next travels,here you go:

Thailandia, Morocco, Greece, Kroazia, Sicily, Barcellona, Ireland ... probably too much!!! But i love dreaming...and what about your one?

♥ my nowadays need

♥ I need to think it's spring ♥

♥ greeting cards

Yestarday I surfed a lot on the net and I had benefite, I found lots of information & steers about my next holiday but also some weird stuff. Here a sample but useful idea: most situations really only require one of the following phrases: "thank you", "sorry" or "fuck you". Well now you won't even need to speak. All one need do is administer the appropriate hand letter-pressed card, and it's stated in style, way cooler than what your mouth could do. Thirty-three of each card in a foil stamped box that reads ALL OCCASIONS CARDS.

they are by You and Me, The Royal We is a product line conceived of and created by 3 studio mates in Brooklyn, New York: Oliver Jeffers, Mac Premo and Aaron Ruff.

Have fun!

♥ design: packaging

I've just found these divine packagings on the net. Don't you think they are so sweet and cute?? I think it's the best way to convert a sample meal in a cool and appealing bite! They aren't posh, the ideal snack for a party or to serve in their branded corners. Last year I went to the ice rink at Somersethouse in London, actually one of the most impressive skating backdrops in town, and it was sponsored by TIFFANY ... I let to you the comments!!! It was stunning, amazing ... make me wow!!
The atmosphire was already great because of the setting, you know the Somerset House is a massive and imposing building on the Themes and then the Tiffany green was in every nooks so try to imagine the splendour... If you'd like to skate there next year don't forget to book in advance the tickets, it's pretty popular this place so it's quite hard to find tickets.

Actually skating is not my cup of tea but it's worth to go there just to have a look and have a cup of coffee at the temporary Tiffany bar.

♥ I love you

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

♥ City guide: still London

Hi guys, sorry for my absence but I was off and i took all those days to relax myself and try to guess...where ddi i spend the most of them? Exactly, in London! I had really wonderful time!
Here the best things I'd like to share with you:

♥ COCKTAILS SCHOOL @ 69 colebrooke row . We had a classroom on 5 amazing cocktails in this supe cool bar. It's in angel in a nook just off Upper Street.
If you fancy trying some of these unique cocktails then do book one f their Cocktail Masterclasses. Tony Conigliaro and Nick Strangeway are truly the greatest bartenders in the world. Thank you guys, it was great!!!
♥ GORDON'S WINE BAR is the oldest wine bar in London. The atmophire made me wow!!! It buried deep beneath the street where you only can see a suble sign and a really small door. Downstairs is all bare brickwork arches and candlelit tables. Ideal, if you're looking for somwhere to take your first date. It was crowed of drinkers of all ages. You can breathe the love of this unique venue and of good wine.
♥ SUPPER CLUB is a place in Notting Hill just off Portobello Rd, it's quite cool. You can eat, drink and dance there. Honestly it's not my cup of tea, too cool and apparence but it was nice because we spent much time talking randomly on our bed/table, it was pretty relaxeing.
♥ GREENWICH is so cute. I went there on Sunday and i bumped into a sweet market, so nice! G. is crowded of restaurants, caffee, bars and pub and we had a down right English fish&chips. you have to go on the hill and watching the skyline...awesome! Also you can get G through the foot tunnel under the Thames. FYI: It is 1,217 feet in length and approx 50 feet deep. Its original purpose was to allow south London residents to work in the docks on the Isle of Dogs. It was designed by Sir Alexander Binnie and was opened on 4 August 1902 at a cost of £127,000. The tunnel is lined with 200,000 glazed white tiles. It is open 24 hours a day, although the lifts do not always run the full time.
♥ CANARY WHALF is a large office and shopping development in East London really close to Greenwich, actually is a new business district. It's built on the site of the West India Docks on the Isle of Dogs so there are lots of little docks and the atmosphire in the night is quite stunning because there are lots of restaurents on the rivers and the view is great, if you like the skycraper. ok it's not the best place in London of course but if you are around it's worth to have a walk there.

♥ it's

I silently root for us while you are scrunching your past life up and this makes you younger of 10 years in a bunch of minutes
I love to create our special phrases and only we can get them. This language says we can try for ever to dance together trusting each other. In the meantime I wear my pringles socks having a milkshake, I can savour your flavour
I fall in love with coffee every morning but time blows off quickly and I’m again at the airport with my luggage through the checking desk waiting for my flight listening my favorite playlist losing myself. In a couple of days I’ll be again at the airport but this time I already feel a squeeze in my stomach

I wanna toast to every time I would have shouted but nothing went out from my mouth

Something is happening, it has happened, it’ll happen ...

♥ quote of the week

♥ People lose health to make money and then lose money to recover health ♥

♥ cooking school: hummus

I'm going on holiday next days so I wanna leave to you a special recipe I love: Hummus.

It is quite popular throughout the Middle East and Northern Africa but also in Europe especially in London (where I tasted it first). Usually I eat it with pita but it's also great with raw carrots, celery, and cauliflower. My version is spicier than most (I love chilli pepper, you know!!) and uses more lemon juice than most. This recipe is from an elderly Lebanese woman so I'm sure enought it's good.

As you can notice it's really easy to make: preparetion time takes around 10 minutes and trust me it's a delicacy.

Ingredients:
♥ 1 16 oz. can chick peas; drained and well-rinsed
♥ 1/4 c tahini (sesame paste)
♥ 2 lg. cloves garlic; chopped
♥ 5 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice (about two lemons)
♥ 1/5 cup olive oil
♥ 1 tsp. coarse salt
♥ 1 tsp. ground cumin
♥ 1/8 tsp. cayenne pepper
♥ 1/5 cup warm water

Preparation:

1. Place all ingredients except water in a food processor and process for about 2 minutes.

2. Remove lid and scrape down sides. Add water and process briefly again. Scrape down sides. The mixture should be somewhat coarse and not quite runny. Add a bit more water if needed.

3. Refrigerate for four hours to allow flavors to meld. The consistency will thicken to a firm paste.

Enjoy your hummus.

♥ St. Valentine's day round 4 - freeprintable

Here you go if you are looking for nice freeprintables and of course about Valentine set. I found some divine creativities on the web such as wraping, scrapset, greeting card and some more ideas to decore your stuff.

Here a neutral set with a kick of red - vintage, modern, elegant - such as a fun little collection of digital scrapbook papers and elements.

Two peas in a bucket, one of my favorite site, offers us another really nice digikit regarding cupido (it includes 6 sparkly papers, 7 cute elements and a complete alpha that will leave you dazzled and lovestruck).

I also suggest you these cute blogs to get a cute greeting card as free pdf: cottage indistrialist e creaturecomforts . Here you go for adorable lovebird cards, perfect for your valentine (designed by Lee May Foster) but they are in sale.

♥ some words make me happy

"need you, deep in my arms,
tucked and curled into my body,
softly sleeping, lips open and purring,
kiss you whilst you sleep and when you rise,
morning brings brand new adventures,
my green eyed sunrise, so warm to touch"

♥ quote of the week

"Everybody knows a certain thing is unrealizable until somebody unaware of this comes and invents it"

Albert Einstein

♥ St. Valentine's day- round 3 - cooking school

This morning the suggestion I'd like to give you is about Valentine's dinner. I mean, we could take this occasion to stay close with our parter and have with him/her a special/cute dinner. One of my favorite recipe is flan, all types of flan usually look so small, tender and cute, basically they are delicacies of the food world. I choose this recipe as starter: Prawns and porcini flan. Prawns are quite

♥ INGREDIENTS
Flan:
6 prawns, peeled
100 gr Porcini Mushrooms
a bit of butter
1 ½ tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
half glass of white wine
1 cloves of garlic (don't worry you don't smell of it and garlic is so aphrodisiac!!)
2 eggs
a bit of parsley
nutmeg, salt and pepper

Sauce:
bechamel
100 GR grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese
salt and pepper

♥ PREPARATION
Bechamel Sauce: Heat up your pre made bechamel with a bit of milk , away from the heat add the grated Parmesan cheese stirring to amalgamate and also salt and pepper.

To prepare the flan: sauté the sliced mushrooms in oil and a nut of butter with a garlic clove, nugmet, salt and pepper. Remove the garlic clove when golden-brown. Mix together the 2 prawns, mushrooms, 3/4 of the sauce, the egg yolk, grated Parmesan cheese, a bunch of parsley and mix everything. Add the whipped white eggs to the mixture.
Put into the cupcake pans and bake in the oven for 10 minutes (180°) till they are cooked. Turn over the flan on the plate and cover with the left bechamel sauce. Embellish with the left praws and some teeny piece of parsey.

Enjoy your meal!!

♥ St. Valentine's day- round 2

I've just found this crunchy idea on a really cute and italian yummy blog. This could be a grat idea to start better your St.Valentine's day. Let me remind you... having coffee every morning with your partner is something special to me. Anyway you could make your Valentine' rise cuter following this easy cuddle.

Make shortcrust pastry and the trick is : to cut the rolled dough with the same shape of your heart coffee-cup (obiouvsly you need to buy it previously!).

♥ INGREDIENTS:

300 gr flour
150 gr butter
100 gr sugar
1 yolk
1 whole eggs
a bit of lemon peel
a bit of salt
half of teaspoon of baking powder

About direction you can see this past post: cookies.

Isn't it so cute??