'Auld Lang Syne' by Hilary Grist (Happy New Year!)

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE, ALL THE BEST YET TO COME FOR 2012!!!!!

hudson

Hudson - Against The Grain from Dropbear on Vimeo.

just found out this band from "down under", great song, great voice, great animation, great...

thank you Chloe Douglas from plenty of colour...

sunset - dec. 27, 2011

a glimpse of the sunset from our bedroom's window...observing this beautiful sunset and admiring birds gliding peacefully across the sky...don't you think I am lucky????

don't keep calm...

love this poster...

handmade scarf

a scarf made for Enrico's friend for Xmas.  Love Ikea's fabric...

merry xmas

a little late to post my Christmas...just a little shrine for this festive season, not intending to make a huge display but a few things here and there to brighten up the living room...

HappappaTaiso (official)

another great exercise in animation style...

はっぱっぱ体操練習動画

a lovely exercise...

浜田雅功・槇原敬之－雞肉炒飯

Merry Christmas to all out there!!!!!!

Givers - Up Up Up

Slow Club - Two Cousins

Good Shoes - Never Meant To Hurt You

The Postmarks - Goodbye

Libera - Far Away (Live)

embroidery

Have to carry on my project...

dinner at home

So last night we had our friends over for dinner, a not so Italian dinner, Mr. D had helped me to set up the table, it looks so nice.  Warm and very welcome, love the snowman's napkin, good job Mr. D!!!!Oh mind, I didn't snap any pictures of the dishes that I had prepared except the cakes...Anyway we had our antipasto with sushi and artichokes pasqualina,  first course udon noodle with black soya sauce and seafood, main course I had prepared two meat dishes i.e. stewed spared ribs with beer and meat curry, my friend Stefano and Antonella brought me the spices from Turkey, hot steamed basmati rice, and, of course, the two cakes that I had prepared and pasticini from Romina and Costantino to complete our dinner.

Here is the recipe for Pear cake (ciambella deliziosa)

125g            butter at room temperature
1 tbsp each  butter and brown sugar  (for cooking the pears)  
130g            brown sugar
3                  medium size pears
2                  large eggs
175g            flour
1 1/2 tsp      baking powder
60ml            milk
a pinch of salt
one grated lemon rind

Preparation
Preheat oven at 180°C.  Peel and core pears and reduce them in small pieces.  Use a non-stick frying pan and soften (not mushy) them with a tablespoon of butter and sugar.  Beat brown sugar and butter until pale then add one egg at a time, slowing add in baking powder, lemon rind, sifted flour divided in 3 portions and mix delicately after each portion of the flour.  Now take half of the cooked pear and distribute in a 23cm round cake tin which you have rubbed with butter and sprinkled with some flour, and the rest of the pear in the mixture and give it a nice stir.  Bake for 30 minutes.  Let it cool and sprinkle some icing sugar on top.  Enjoy.

Exhibition

Participated in an exhibition.  My piece of work was the puzzle.  Each participant had to choose a  French words from a list given by my friend.  I had chosen "fermè" but I had twisted around and embroidered a phrase in Italian, which in short meant, "the opposite of opened/aperto in French".  It was interesting to see so many different ideas and creativity of everyone in this project.

Alghero beach

Last Sunday Mr. D and I spent a lovely afternoon with our sandwiches in hands at the beach, the weather was exceptionally warm for this time of the year.  Thinking to go for a swim end of this week if the mercury  continues to stay above 19°C...

Embroidery--Work- in-progress

Finally I have finished this embroidery of Gwyneth Paltrow, at the time being I am doing some embroidering on this very chic sofa...

dawn

 I had the opportunity to observe sunrise in an "unusual" way.  I took an early flight from Alghero to Rome, 7 am flight to be exact, the sky was slowly transforming from darkness by a ray of strong white light with different layers of colors: yellow, pinkish, blue, and grey. As the airplane moving slowly towards Rome, the endless sky was gradually brightened up and bringing a fresh new day to the earth...

handmade scarfs

During Christmas period I had made several scarfs. They were made with mix 'n' match wool and cotton  fabric, fleece, and machine-stitched the words onto beautiful flowery fabrics.  I could not believe they were all sold!!!!!It was such a satisfaction and I have been asked to do more...