White!

I adore white...

















...a white and scented cloud in my garden...


















...apple tree blossoms from a friend's garden...

















...a wooden basket for new white flowers...

Strange messages appear on my pc today...something wrong...I hope to solve these problems, but I'm not very expert!!! Hope to be able to visit you!!!
Anyway, wish you all a nice and sunny week end!!!

S. Zita

A visit to the St. Zita's plants fair in a sunny day...















...Piazza dell'Anfiteatro adorned by any kind of plants...

















...houses with the round walls...

















...colours...

















...Azaleas...













...nice shops...an event which takes place every year and the occasion for some purchases...we can also see the body of the Saint which is still intact after several centuries! A tradition for my town!
I don't annoy you telling her history this year...but if you're curious you can read my last year post!

Monday enamel post!

I've been invited by Lynda for the Monday enamel post! Thank you Lynda!

















...I like this nice initiative and I like old enamelware...

















..I bought these two little pots in Provence some years ago...they're chipped but I like the pale pink and the little flowers on the lid...

















...and about pink....my old rose is starting to bloom...these first flowers welcome me this morning...
A pink new week to you all!!!

Last projects

Some of my last simple projects...as you know I spend most of my free time in the garden and I've not so much time for new creations...this winter has been so long and hard that I now feel like breathing open air...

















...I made the two decorative boards from wooden tablets...

















..they have urns and topiary subjects...

















...I used image transfer because unfortunately I cannot paint...

















...same technique for the devotional candles....I haven't electricity in my garden, so I need to have a big amount of candles...I'll decorate them with a lot of different images!

Nothing creative during this week...a big pipe in the kitchen was broken down...a lot of water in the kitchen and chaos...plumbers, bricklayers and in the next days the painter...I had to move everything from the kitchen and then I'll have to move everything back!

Thank you for all your nice comments on my previous post...I'm happy you liked my little bed!!!
Have a nice and sunny week end!!!

Little bed history...

My parents bought this old little bed for me when I was born...then my sister slept there...and then my cousin, my children and my niece...a little piece of family history which have been kept in my cave for years...I couldn't leave it there anymore...

















...and it's now in my garden...I still have to sew some special pillows...

















...it's better under the sun...

















...or under the white wisteria??? I was very excited to sit on it again....many years passed from the time I slept there!!!

A little gnome in my garden!

Beacause of my new passion for gardening, my dear friend Margherita gave me a gift from her holidays in France...

















...the little gnome was boxed with brush and colours...

















...I've waited for 8 months...I'm not very clever with little brushes....and finally I painted him!!! He's so funny and a bit kitsch...and he will have a special place in my garden!

I won Rosemary's giveay some weeks ago...I received these lovely cake labels yesterday!

















Thank you Rosemary! I love them!!!
A great week end to you all!

Discoveries...and...the winner is...

Everyday a new discovery in the garden...

















...little signs of nature's awakening...

















...yesterday buds...tomorrow flowers...

















...the ancient rose...

















...shy pansies survived from the cold Winter...

















...and tomorrow??? A new adventure and new discoveries!


...and the winner of my giveaway is...

















...Conny! Please Conny write me an email with your address and I'll send you your gifts!
Thank you everybody to join it and for all your nice comments!
You always make me very happy!!!

N°6

I've received an invitation from my friend Cecilia to take part in a blog-game...the game consists in publishing the photo n.6 of the published posts and remembering the moment in which it was posted...

















I made a lot of these little linen hearts filled with lavender for LC which had just been on the web!!!

...I remember that at the beginning I had no idea of what a blog was and how I had to do...I posted photos with no text...I was so shy!!! My ex-partner made the first version of my blog and I took some months before blogging in the right way!!!

Now I've to choose 10 blogfriends and invite them to this game!
I chose Yvonne, Vianne, Francesca, Laura
, Kerstin, Nat, Zaira, Mia, Marge, Ingrid!

So ladies what you need to do, if you want....absolutely if you feel like...is to go back to the past at the beginning of your blogs and find the photo n.6!
Happy new week!

Metal hook and cross

Last finds at the antique market...
















...white paint and numbers for the old metal hook...


















...white and grey patina for the metal cross...













...a little game of images with the linen wings...

I finally painted my garden chairs and tables... made little creative projects and worked in the garden...but I hadn't time to take photos! Long days at work and little free time!
Thanks to old and new friends to join my giveaway!

Going to work...

...in a sunny and Spring day may be a nice thing...I live near my work place...

















...that's what I see every morning...Via dei Fossi is a very typical street in the centre of Lucca...

















...the peach trees in one of the cloister of the foundation where I work...

















...the old Madonna statue under the trees...

















...somebody always gives her fresh flowers...

















...an overview of the cloister under the sun...

















...camelias filled of flowers...
Working may be not always a pleasure, but surely I can say to be lucky to see all this beauty from the window of my office!

A nice new week to you!

Happy Easter!

Little Easter decorations...too busy at work and in the garden...

















...I made this little Easter tree...I want to enjoy my olive tree inside before moving it in the garden...

















...simple paper eggs...

















...a little nest in one of my bircage...
















...quail eggs and two paper doves...

















...white heather everywhere...I found it during a walk in the countryside!

Don't forget my giveaway...you have time till April 13!

Happy Easter! Buona Pasqua! Joyeuse Paques! Felices Pascuas! Frohe Ostern!
Glad Påsk! God påske! Vrolijk Pasen!