giovedì 4 aprile 2013

Hop Hop Graduate!

Goooood morning!

Mission accomplished! I have done with university! Yeeeey!

On Monday 25 we went to Parma, where I studied, for the academic defence and now I can dedicate my time learning to use my sewing machine and to plan the restoration/furniture of our new house!!.... ah! some weeks ago I decided to buy an Ukulele, so I will spend a little bit of my time learning how to play it :D
Voilà some picture of my third special day (1 and 2 #wedding)



..waiting for the verdict

final grades..

..104/110 !

Dottoressa! 

me and Dvd

my Family 

my friends 

my friends/best women

..little celebration all together! 

Well, in the next post, if we will have finish with the procedure, I will show you the picture of our house! 

Have a nice day! 
Kisses 





















martedì 12 marzo 2013

Yarn again! (finally!)

Hi Everybody!

As I told you last time, in this period I had to study a lot but now I finally finished to write my graduation thesis and on Monday 25, I will graduate :D yeeeey! I'm dread but I hope to survive.

Since I finished to write my thesis I completed a shawl that I started in November, and with the remaining yarn I began to knit a gilet; I thought the yarn was enough but I was wrong :-/ .. I came back to the shop but they told, they sold me lasts two balls of yarn and that this yarn is no more in production! I think I had to start something else, something smaller :-/

But I restarted a crochet blanket - before the move I want to work off the yarn in stash :-) -





Ta-daaaaaa ! 
Do you like the colors? 

I hope you are fine, I and I hope you a nice week! 






domenica 24 febbraio 2013

Updates

Hello dear friend,

It has been a very demanding period. After the Spanish wedding I studied intensely and I passed the last exam, the bigger one! Now I'm writing my graduation thesis and during the last week of March I will finally graduate!
And then I will be able to take a rest and I will finally try my new sewing machine!
In January we visited several house because we want to buy one and we after a little survey we find it!
We find a house in a little town in the country (but near to the sea) surrounded by olive tree groves (in this town they produced olive oil ). I will show you the picture as soon as we will close the transaction!
Now I can say you that is a house with 4 little floor (but in one of this floor there is only the entrance with an access room) with a garden. I'm so happy because I wanted (if possible) a house with a garden and I got it!  

I wish you a good week!
See you!

domenica 6 gennaio 2013

Wedding n°2 and other stories

Hello my dear friends!
First of all I wish you a happy new year and I hope you had a joyful Christmas with your family and friends!
We passed a different Christmas this year because me and my family went to Spain, where me and Dvd got married AGAIN (with a Catholic rite).





The weather was wonderful, so warm! And the 26 of December we took a walk on the beach and it was perfect! We spent all the time in Tarragona with our friends Anna e Lara and my family went to Barcellona. 


We came back on 27th of December and we celebrated a Christmas post Christmas on 29th with my grandmother. 
(I'm sorry for these last pictures, I took them with my phone...)

Dvd said: "this year I didn't know what to give you as a present. So I read all the forum about sewing and then I decided for this one". 

OOOOOOOOOH ! Isn't him adorable??? My first sewing machine!! 



I gave him a remote-controlled helicopter. I know he wanted one of it, I bought it and I had to fight with him in Spain because he saw one of it in a shop and he wanted to buy it there! ...


...But finally it had been worth the trouble :D 

I had to say this had been a very rich Christmas, my mom gave me a pearl necklace, my grandmother pearl earrings and my aunt a pearl bracelet..."because it is Christmas and because you get married, you need something to wear". I love my family, they are really lovely people, and not only for the presents. 
I'm a lucky girl and I hope this new year will be better than the last one. Well, we organized two wedding and they were perfect, we spent time with friends and we had lot of fun. But we lost a special person, my beloved grandfather and lots of people we met in our life passed away this year. An italian proverb say that leap years are fatal, that people and animal die, so I hope all will be better now. 

I have my last exam next week so, I think we will see again after it! 
Hugs and kisses !





lunedì 31 dicembre 2012

Per ricordarti nel giorno del tuo compleanno, brinderò con un bicchierino della grappa Fragolino che mi hai regalato per Natale l'anno scorso. Buon compleanno nonno Gigi.

mercoledì 21 novembre 2012

Honeymoon

Abbiamo riflettuto molto su dove trascorrere la nostra luna di  miele e dopo mille pensamenti, io e Dvd abbiamo optato per gli Stati Uniti. Che per carità è un'opzione scontata ma dato che per viaggi in Paesi come la Thailandia, le agenzie di viaggio cercano di propinarti il loro modello di viaggio e non quello che vorresti tu, allora abbiamo deciso per qualcosa di meno esotico ma alle nostre condizioni.
Siamo stati via 17 giorni, prima tappa New York.

(Chrysler Building)

New York, non ho ancora capito bene cosa mi abbia lasciato. E' una città che ti inghiotte se non stai attento, ha fascino ma allo stesso tempo è estraniante. E' troppo tutto ecco.

Però ci sono dei luoghi che davvero tornerei a visitare, più della città stessa : il museo di Storia Naturale per esempio. Ci abbiamo messo più di tre ore a visitarlo e senza vederne un piano chiuso per restauro e le tre mostre provvisorie. Ci vorrebbe un giorno per visitarlo con calma e un giorno lo merita tutto, e altro che se ci tornerò! Tornerei volentieri anche per visitare il Metropolitan Museum e il Guggenheim, dato che per motivi di tempo abbiamo visitato solo il MoMa (per quanto riguarda l'arte).
Time Square la sera è un altro di quei luoghi in cui andare a fare due passi, così come Central Park, Coney Island, Greenwich Village e l'East Village, due quartieri che ci hanno lasciati piacevolmente stupiti, meno caotici di Manhattan e con più respiro, quartieri "bassi" (nel senso che mancano quei grattacieli che ti tengono con il naso all'insù come in gran parte della città), con palazzi e case rivestite di mattoncini rossi.

(Central Park)

Abbiamo visitato anche il memoriale dell'11 settembre, commovente, un'aura di silenzioso rispetto lo circonda e molte delle persone che abbiamo visto erano lì per piangere i loro cari.
Siamo saliti sul Top f the Rock, Rockfeller Center, a goderci la fine della prima giornata newyorchese, con le luci della città che si accendono piano piano colorando e rischiarando il cielo. La scelta del Rockfeller come osservatorio è stata fatta per due motivi: 1) se fossimo andati sull'Empire State Building non avremmo potuto vedere l'Empire state Building, 2) di solito vanno tutti all'Empire per vedere lo skyline newyorchese e di norma ci sono due ore di coda per comperare i biglietti e un'altra ora buona per arrivare in cima, invece al Top of the Rock no!
Ci siamo anche concessi un cupcake da Magnolia Bakery (uno solo si)...sarà stato grasso? probabile, la crema di burro avrebbe potuto stendere una mucca? anche questo probabile si...ma buono buono buonissimo squisito, delizioserrimo! ne avrei mangiati una montagna, ma il viaggio era ancora lungo, troppo lungo per farlo tutto arrancando! Quindi, se andate a New York, si, vi consiglio di passare a prendere una fetta di torta o un dolcetto qualsiasi alla Magnolia Bakery (che poi è la stessa che si vede a volte in Sex and the City).
Passate anche ad Harlem dato che ci siete, e prendetevi il pollo (sarà una coscia o un pezzo qualsiasi, ma tanto mentre vi guarderà dal piatto, vi sembrerà un pollo intero!) caramellato nel miele da "Amy Ruth's", un ristorante che fa cucina tipica del Sud; non avevo mai mangiato il pollo cucinato così e lo rimangerei volentieri!
Alcune delle mille mila immagini che abbiamo scattato. Le altre al prima possibile :D



(Coney Island)

(Coney Island)


(Flatiron Building)



venerdì 26 ottobre 2012

Our Special Day, Marriage! #2

Hi Everybody!

I'm so sorry for not posting, but now I have lots of picture to show you of our special day!





Can you see the blue flowers? I love them, they are perfect with gypsophila !(thank you mom!)

Here my cousin Silvia is bringing the speech to my father : a big pack of paper! 

My father looking for the speech inside the pack..he likes joking too much :-)

A picture with ours parents, do you like my mother's dress (red one) ? I think she was wonderful! 

My parents and my brother with his girlfriend 










The restaurant
Landscape from the restaurant

Carved Grana Padano cheese, with flower and ours name  

This is our table, with some of the flowers my mom made as decoration

Other flowers made with Fanta plastic bottle 

Menu and name of this table : we decided to choose a poet for each table and David chose one poetry per table

My precious bouquet and the bobbin-lace handkerchief that David's grandmother made for me (to hold the bouquet)

Carved watermelons ...


 ...and...the wedding cake! 
 We chose an ice-cream cake




A friend of us, Marica made the statuettes with "fimo", I can't translate it... it is something similar to the Plasticine, but you have to put it in the oven to harden it. 


What do you think about the pictures? I think we had a really wonderful and precious wedding, nothing was wrong! We are really really happy of our work! 

Have a nice weekend! 
Kisses