Happy 101 Blog Award!

<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My dear friend <span style="font-size: large;"><strong>B</strong></span> at <a href="http://www.notasparrowfalls.com/"><span style="font-size: large;">Not A Sparrow Falls</span></a> gave me this award a week ago. Oh I'm so happy!!!! I'm new to blogging and this is just the second award I receive, it's a joy and a honour that B decided to pass it to me!</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm85M_vAb4JeMlU8exnFCG37n1dRwT3MXu-8lL1SOX3EXuH_UpAx1pFMCAZgF9zpb7LYdRDD9RDWDaZ-L5f6r9_kYHZx99wpCMqmjAgxbZdYhcXzBINwgnaLOtKmQJ3Ui8z3zOvPhlIS4/s1600/Picture+6.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm85M_vAb4JeMlU8exnFCG37n1dRwT3MXu-8lL1SOX3EXuH_UpAx1pFMCAZgF9zpb7LYdRDD9RDWDaZ-L5f6r9_kYHZx99wpCMqmjAgxbZdYhcXzBINwgnaLOtKmQJ3Ui8z3zOvPhlIS4/s320/Picture+6.png" tt="true" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">B is a sweet strong girl who has just seen her mum passing away because of breast cancer...she writes her blog to deal everyday with this big loss. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">She is very courageous person, so please stop by B and say hello, it will make her day!!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Now, I have to list 10 things that make me happy. Here they are:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">1. Cuddling my daughter</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">2. Sleeping in my husband's arms</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">3. Trekking in the mountains</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">4. Cross stichting and sewing</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">5. Travel </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">5. The smell of the wood </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">6. Spend an afternoon with my best friend talking and shopping</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">7. Have a big yummy breakfast with every sort of sweets</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">8. Reading a book in bed</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">9. A cup of chocolate with cream in a winter, cold afternoon</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">10. My cat purring </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Now I have to pass this award to some other blogger ladies:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Kristine at <a href="http://thepaintedhive.blogspot.com/">The Painted Hive</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Suzanne at <a href="http://privetandholly.blogspot.com/">Privet and Holly</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Francesca at <a href="http://passionedeco-francesca.blogspot.com/">Passionedeco...perchè le case hanno un'anima</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Kym at <a href="http://kyandra10.blogspot.com/">Kyandra Rose</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Pamela at <a href="http://frenchbuttons59.blogspot.com/">French Buttons</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I've chosen them because they are all new blogging friends of mine, please take some time to stop by and say hello.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Have a wonderful week end, my dearests!!!</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii-QPNvMGvEjrZ2gTg2GSqm_3FnUnJqBlRE8yHKlC0NyjjgGTAt6eEQOqKxNiHy4OpegtcFaKqe0sQHEl-oBwviBss9Fo7EBz-U6MpKnxBIpQiorDghlmjhoZDqQx8a0UmlTkhaY-aQ5E/s1600/firma1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii-QPNvMGvEjrZ2gTg2GSqm_3FnUnJqBlRE8yHKlC0NyjjgGTAt6eEQOqKxNiHy4OpegtcFaKqe0sQHEl-oBwviBss9Fo7EBz-U6MpKnxBIpQiorDghlmjhoZDqQx8a0UmlTkhaY-aQ5E/s320/firma1.jpg" tt="true" /></a></div>

Happy 101 Blog Award!

My dear friend B at Not A Sparrow Falls gave me this award a week ago. Oh I'm so happy!!!! I'm new to blogging and this is just th...

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A blue sky, please!!!

<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here in Italy it has been a day with <span style="font-size: large;">a lot of rain and snow</span>! ...yes...you've read it correctly...rain and snow in May!!! </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And also some other blogging friends form Canada today has posted about snow. So I've found that spring is still a sort of ghost around the world.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Oh, please may we have a <span style="font-size: large;">blue sky</span>? and some sun and warm temperature?</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMKDxTiN59cejvEg1LJk0D0mR9BGafpoxsip9Y8U-_09ixAYONxlXk01xcLgrjfIfZQMEhPJuYaikz7I41yiv-Crc7l-45D7PCetC_ozYSBz4w8rSb9pdNuJUbyIt0_IPwBpDZ05g2A14/s1600/1272999473.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMKDxTiN59cejvEg1LJk0D0mR9BGafpoxsip9Y8U-_09ixAYONxlXk01xcLgrjfIfZQMEhPJuYaikz7I41yiv-Crc7l-45D7PCetC_ozYSBz4w8rSb9pdNuJUbyIt0_IPwBpDZ05g2A14/s640/1272999473.png" tt="true" width="452" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As the sky is totaly grey at the moment, I've found these pictures I want to share with you, to make a sort of <span style="font-size: large;">sun dance</span>!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Uuab0X8DuaFL4Trc6DNmPbBJHd6C-wXosilDcFzCljAe_fKjaY9Mdgf9LIoZwFHv5q08SKenj_OROvgm_QjibD314YeZInGZhFkj3jvBLUY5fkHqQ1gulS6jZyLc-w5d2j2uEUjV584/s1600/1272999522.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Uuab0X8DuaFL4Trc6DNmPbBJHd6C-wXosilDcFzCljAe_fKjaY9Mdgf9LIoZwFHv5q08SKenj_OROvgm_QjibD314YeZInGZhFkj3jvBLUY5fkHqQ1gulS6jZyLc-w5d2j2uEUjV584/s640/1272999522.png" tt="true" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know these are interior pictures, but they have that turquoise touch I would really like to see in the sky right now!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGX4hGm6pNfrPR-LYWKCuR7-MWlgiXB5h8RsyxyoCpnDRw0EjYYSaUXJ0-Voe3wR38UWjrIxU1W7B9KAx20F-4Grsfq7adKDxt7UBxU32491f6vJRswMeNAlrgSvgBf-COGPh5f3bdYjU/s1600/1272999572.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGX4hGm6pNfrPR-LYWKCuR7-MWlgiXB5h8RsyxyoCpnDRw0EjYYSaUXJ0-Voe3wR38UWjrIxU1W7B9KAx20F-4Grsfq7adKDxt7UBxU32491f6vJRswMeNAlrgSvgBf-COGPh5f3bdYjU/s640/1272999572.png" tt="true" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And finally a coastal ispired pictures because it's May and we are all thinking about <span style="font-size: large;">summer holidays</span>, not grey foggy days...or not?  </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiczWBhiKaOnKrOh8zZQoOQnS0gFGkr2sDY-ZREow7D8pjVqWucYKnP6ZR0JXXospaYkpciClWwfeLSeIjp4L3-jVtfoj6EdcNGuhBE9VNkjp_3WfdO1S1qt6uyzZWW4PxgvJkLA4P1iY4/s1600/1272999621.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiczWBhiKaOnKrOh8zZQoOQnS0gFGkr2sDY-ZREow7D8pjVqWucYKnP6ZR0JXXospaYkpciClWwfeLSeIjp4L3-jVtfoj6EdcNGuhBE9VNkjp_3WfdO1S1qt6uyzZWW4PxgvJkLA4P1iY4/s640/1272999621.png" tt="true" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">All images from: <a href="http://jessicathomasdesign.com/">Jessica Thomas</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiWzoYfmw38S545L0G382JXcQdfdlpw4dk-1yz04EVVhWiDfBf9p_vr_mkBsy9BKcVQpaQMas3HzaFMs2olsJ7A-niURHEhY676HyjK3eCijZr078nhO3meOGrv-WC38wOlU2OOJYeLjs/s1600/firma1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiWzoYfmw38S545L0G382JXcQdfdlpw4dk-1yz04EVVhWiDfBf9p_vr_mkBsy9BKcVQpaQMas3HzaFMs2olsJ7A-niURHEhY676HyjK3eCijZr078nhO3meOGrv-WC38wOlU2OOJYeLjs/s320/firma1.jpg" tt="true" /></a></div>

A blue sky, please!!!

Here in Italy it has been a day with a lot of rain and snow ! ...yes...you've read it correctly...rain and snow in May!!! And also some ...

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A BIG THANK YOU!

<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yesterday evening I'be had one of the <span style="font-size: large;">sweetest surprise ever </span>since I've started my blog-adventure! Talented <span style="font-size: large;">Kristin</span> at My <a href="http://myuncommonsliceofsuburbia.blogspot.com/">Uncommon Slice of <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Suburbia</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> posted about me on her beautiful blog just to say thank you for being one of her reader.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I was amazed...really...I remained without words for some minutes and my husband asked to me: "What  happens?" </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Kristin is a very sweet lady and we started to write each others mails a few weeks ago. She has a very famous blog and I'm always a little bit shy when I stumble upon successful blogs with tons of readers...I say to myself: ""Oh, she will never have the time to write me back, 'cause she has already a lot of blogging friends and she will also be very busy.."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">But Kristin replyed to me so quickly and I was so delighted!!! She wrote me that she was thrilled that I've send a mail to her....well I was MUCH MORE THAN THRILLED!!!! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">So I have to say a big <span style="font-size: large;">THANK YOU to Kristin</span>, not only because she posted about me and my blog, but especially because of her kind words! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I agree with you, dear Kristin, as women we need to stick together, without any jealousy, because in the bloglad there's space for anyone and the most important part of all our blog-adventures, is finding new sweet friends with whom sharing interests, toughts, laughs!!!</span><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg7LyO31IDw0U2ngrI0OjUpLX3hBcOiG7IF1L5uXRq6w4GjHwIYBvfGd7xhGTBYUrnVhG2KbvY_G9fIPOLNB8WhkhlyaGWnMuE3mCq2KUk8cW9-GlaHnxZDAu8qh9kDrsXPoLn36xoeqM/s1600/gemma_comas.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg7LyO31IDw0U2ngrI0OjUpLX3hBcOiG7IF1L5uXRq6w4GjHwIYBvfGd7xhGTBYUrnVhG2KbvY_G9fIPOLNB8WhkhlyaGWnMuE3mCq2KUk8cW9-GlaHnxZDAu8qh9kDrsXPoLn36xoeqM/s640/gemma_comas.png" tt="true" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Image: <a href="http://www.gemmacomas.com/">Gemma Comas</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I've seen that I've now 100 readers!!!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">So, in this "thank you" post </span>I want to thank you all, my dearest readers</span>!!! The first ones and the new ones! Thank you so much for all your sweet words and for taking the time to visit me and leaving such beautiful comments!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reading the comments, visiting other blogs, discovering new blogs is now one of the most happy moment of my day! Who would guess that just a couple of months ago?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">As I've promised I'm working on a little surprise for you all....I will tell you more!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirBKrNtPtMAsOE13IgfzAAQPcmzjJqBNLI6pfIUdL7GXELYRBtag-ooMcT0r0BN1JvCJ7rm0DeH7CYhY49cP7rhyphenhyphenNfKxk-5uQAis1X6Wgabkox3YMPmOHBrpXVdmseK496KVb3fGo9I4I/s1600/firma1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirBKrNtPtMAsOE13IgfzAAQPcmzjJqBNLI6pfIUdL7GXELYRBtag-ooMcT0r0BN1JvCJ7rm0DeH7CYhY49cP7rhyphenhyphenNfKxk-5uQAis1X6Wgabkox3YMPmOHBrpXVdmseK496KVb3fGo9I4I/s320/firma1.jpg" tt="true" /></a></div>

A BIG THANK YOU!

Yesterday evening I'be had one of the sweetest surprise ever  since I've started my blog-adventure! Talented Kristin at My Uncommon...

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