tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31532184005372111172024-03-13T17:18:23.848+00:00CountrykittyHandmade, gardening, crafting, home making and pretty things.Federicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05088129802407763234noreply@blogger.comBlogger610125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3153218400537211117.post-83809701483669814672022-07-06T10:59:00.005+01:002022-07-06T11:42:15.509+01:00Embroideries on t-shirts... my way!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ho iniziato da qualche anno a decorare magliette per i miei bimbi usando varie tecniche ma soprattutto <span style="font-size: x-large;">creando piccoli ricami</span> e da allora non ho mai smesso! Piú i bambini crescono, piú fatico a trovare nei negozi top e magliette nello stile che amiamo. Per Leonardo che ha 4 anni trovo ancora parecchie cose carine, ma per Adele che avrá 7 anni ad Ottobre si fatica molto di piú.. per cui son corsa ai ripari e ho iniziato a prendere magliette tinta unita e con pochi materiali e, tuttosommato nemmeno troppo tempo, le ho rese un pó piu carine e sicuramente uniche.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Questa qui sotto é l'ultima creata, quasi identica a una fatta l'anno scorso a dire il vero (la si puó vedere a fine post), ma con bambini che crescono come funghi é un peccato usarle solo per una stagione estiva quindi ho variato molto leggermente il design e ne ho ricamata un'altra per questa estate.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">***</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>I started decorating tops and t-shirts for my children a couple of years ago and haven't stopped ever since. I have been using different techniques but mostly lots of <span style="font-size: x-large;">little cute hand embroideries!</span> The older the children get the more difficult it becomes for me to find cute clothes in the style we love. I can still find nice things for Leonardo who is 4, but for Adele, who is going to be 7 in October, I have been struggling.. so I decided to solve the issue myself, buying some plain t shirts and with very few materials, and not that much time invested, I managed to create some cute and completely unique tops.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>This down here is the last one I made, it's actually almost identical to one I had designed and made last year as, with children growing so fast, it's such a shame to use clothes only for one single summer season. So I slightly modified the design and some of the colours and I made a new one for this summer.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></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/AVvXsEh5HbpG2zUuJWJTRIMFNiIqxKG2s4peDD8zEPbREjDxDX2N5cHxNqL_ZUmSW40OUgAxSDnyWtMWW3gFplqljJGWZy0D_fI38nYwtqD2aUo0ippFRvjdQTO0QgeRxMniY65lQPfOtoqqctmBAe9R0Z6XD8ZLVL2bPIsnoK8r-Ms3y-UXEIrbbeH8CHZuNw/s1821/20220626_110946-01-01.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1821" data-original-width="1366" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5HbpG2zUuJWJTRIMFNiIqxKG2s4peDD8zEPbREjDxDX2N5cHxNqL_ZUmSW40OUgAxSDnyWtMWW3gFplqljJGWZy0D_fI38nYwtqD2aUo0ippFRvjdQTO0QgeRxMniY65lQPfOtoqqctmBAe9R0Z6XD8ZLVL2bPIsnoK8r-Ms3y-UXEIrbbeH8CHZuNw/w480-h640/20220626_110946-01-01.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Quello di oggi piú che un tutorial (non ho proprio le competenze per insegnare in questo ambito!) é <span style="font-size: x-large;">una semplice condivisione di come faccio io e che materiali uso</span> (domanda che mi viene fatta molto spesso su Instagram). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I materiali che uso sono questi:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">- una maglietta tinta unita</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">- un telaietto da ricamo il piú piccolo possibile (per evitare di sprecare troppa carta stabilizzatrice, poi spiegheró il perché).. io ne uso uno da 10 cm ma quasi quasi lo vorrei un pó piú piccolo.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">- fili da ricamo</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">- ago da ricamo</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">- forbici</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">- tela stabilizzatrice per ricami (ne parlo piú sotto!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">***</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">What I am writing in today's post is not a real tutorial (I don't have enough competence and enough experience in this subject to be able to teach something really!) but <span style="font-size: x-large;">it's simply me sharing with you how I usually do this and what materials I use</span> (as this is a question that I am often asked on Instagram).</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">The materials I use are the following:</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">- a plain t-shirt</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">- a small embroidery hoop (the smaller you can get as that will save you some stabiliser as I'll show you later, mine is 10 cm but I am thinking of getting a slightly smaller one)</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">- embroidery floss</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">- embroidery needle</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">- scissors</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">- stabiliser for embroidery (more on this later in the post!)</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></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/AVvXsEh3qbLesq5rjpzltiZhrGy8JWuvgUIq-JpMig2T9esu1-zB82WB78LeVivMGt1LmFIsZVWniZYC3lYHoaKNS2g7qq78HkbgLzL3AuuQlWhwr-Ds147bJznDlUpaUfbwMl7QRbRNzfTs3-w8LAvOE_2IItTznndd80vC6BOYCOk58d-apGEgGkeVCEJxxA/s4032/20220622_143622-01.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3qbLesq5rjpzltiZhrGy8JWuvgUIq-JpMig2T9esu1-zB82WB78LeVivMGt1LmFIsZVWniZYC3lYHoaKNS2g7qq78HkbgLzL3AuuQlWhwr-Ds147bJznDlUpaUfbwMl7QRbRNzfTs3-w8LAvOE_2IItTznndd80vC6BOYCOk58d-apGEgGkeVCEJxxA/w480-h640/20220622_143622-01.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Per ricamare su una maglietta in linea generale direi che serve un qualcosa per trasferire il disegno e un altro qualcosa per stabilizzare il tessuto (essendo la maglina molto elastica).. penso ci siano molti modi per ottenere queste due cose e molti materiali adatti a questi scopi ma io personalmente mi trovo benissimo con questa teletta che mi risolve entrambe le problematiche in un colpo solo. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">E' la Sulky Sticky Fabri-Solvy ed é una teletta stabilizzatrice adesiva su cui si puó trasferire il disegno e si scioglie con acqua a a fine lavoro.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Il primo passaggio é quindi riportare il disegno che si vuole ricamare sulla tela stabilizzatrice. E' abbastanza trasparente quindi si puó facilmente ricalcare il disegno ma volendo questa carta é anche stampabile con una stampante. Per questo passaggio é molto importante (in particolare se si sta usando un materiale elastico come appunto la maglina delle t-shirts) che<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">il pezzo di teletta stabilizzatrice sia grande abbastanza per contenere tutto il disegno ma anche tutto il contorno del telaio</span> (con anche un pó di margine intorno) in tutte le posizioni in cui dovremo spostarlo per ricamare tutto il disegno (nel caso il disegno sia piú grande del telaio, naturalmente, come in questo caso). Questo perché é importante che la stoffa della t-shirt che viene bloccata nel telaio sia tutta sempre rivestita di teletta rinforzante per evitare troppe distorsioni. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">***</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">To hand embroider a t-shirt, you usually need something to transfer the design and something to stabilise the fabric (especially since t-shirts are made of knitted/jersey fabric which is very elastic). There surely are many ways and materials you can use to accomplish those tasks but personally I love using this specific stabiliser as it tackles both issues at the same time.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">It's called <span style="font-size: x-large;">Sulky Sticky Fabri-Solvy and it's an adhesive stabiliser that can be used to also transfer the design and that dissolves in water after use.</span></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">The first step is transferring the chosen design onto the stabiliser. This material is quite transparent so it's easy to copy the design on it but it can also be used with a computer printer. For this step it's very important to <span style="font-size: x-large;">cut a piece of stabiliser large enough to contain not only the design but also the whole hoop</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>(with some allowance all around) in all the positions we will have to place it to cover all of the design area while we embroider (of course that is if the design is larger than the hoop, like in my case). This is because it's quite important that the t-shirt fabric fitted inside the hoop is at any time covered with the stabiliser to avoid fabric stretching.</span></i></div><span style="color: #7f6000;"> </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg3Ot8REBToHLC36W-uky56-gq7CDrGkeaYII9BsZZbNKmghrgxlEM2zdTLZclByIbN5KwxFxlKFqBPjPiAC81FKPenJi9cHYWi0IkMlj8Za5bCsDkfAxJ-HeejCqB_jzSmd8-kstTRj0xLECJBkpsSOdBuAdO7-9YryKEnNU8OTgkwhpjTl7XGeNqug/s3884/20220622_144217-01.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3884" data-original-width="2913" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg3Ot8REBToHLC36W-uky56-gq7CDrGkeaYII9BsZZbNKmghrgxlEM2zdTLZclByIbN5KwxFxlKFqBPjPiAC81FKPenJi9cHYWi0IkMlj8Za5bCsDkfAxJ-HeejCqB_jzSmd8-kstTRj0xLECJBkpsSOdBuAdO7-9YryKEnNU8OTgkwhpjTl7XGeNqug/w480-h640/20220622_144217-01.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Poi pieghiamo a metá la maglietta e la stiriamo per <span style="font-size: x-large;">creare una piega centrale</span> che ci aiuterá a centrare il disegno.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">***</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">The next step is folding the t shirt in half and iron it<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">to create a crease in the midline</span> that will help us to centre the design.</span></i></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/AVvXsEiKmP0_3T8ivjf01RhvYUFvgStxbUXF67Ggr-FOUFfL6f7q8GfTQIRQ2Q605pmMHut668guCOByRt0ELjsKCBNjHu7BErk6JQg_Mun-1L-RTh61RvdLGhwQwV8oX_jrTfXTDE1vzOxJDa1Os4Qeszga8d2rYL-iOm7nt-N1cCrXlUSIEISjWyd4tEioTw/s4032/20220622_144306-01-01.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKmP0_3T8ivjf01RhvYUFvgStxbUXF67Ggr-FOUFfL6f7q8GfTQIRQ2Q605pmMHut668guCOByRt0ELjsKCBNjHu7BErk6JQg_Mun-1L-RTh61RvdLGhwQwV8oX_jrTfXTDE1vzOxJDa1Os4Qeszga8d2rYL-iOm7nt-N1cCrXlUSIEISjWyd4tEioTw/w480-h640/20220622_144306-01-01.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Quindi <span style="font-size: x-large;">si attaccherá il pezzo di teletta stabilizzatrice,</span> su cui abbiamo riportato il disegno, sulla maglietta, aiutandosi con la piega creata nel passaggio precedente, per centrare il motivo.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Se la zona da ricamare é vicina al collo come nel mio caso, possiamo anche tagliare via l'eccesso di carta termoadesiva che rimane in quella zona. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">***</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">We can now <span style="font-size: x-large;">stick the stabiliser piece</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>where we transferred the design onto the t-shirt, using the central crease we've just created as a reference for the placement.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">If the area we are going to embroider is next to the neckline we can cut the excess of stabiliser away from that area.</span></i></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/AVvXsEhDWf0pw8gmt2LecD6gRNma6sCl3BL0kzqXEPk7OocCLxZs_JebR0bRsxKa4cRfEOwUhSGBOsg6yDNxtXpzrOTAsAJvtFpMd8sJuCzYyLgtRBtlbZwRFRX4a8Fhd9Xb0axwsgP6LYgGQjdTPWKa9cA-ucMjdDbTqUcnTlFAhGOq5Hpljr5yjY1Q6mm5-A/s4032/20220622_144839-01-01.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDWf0pw8gmt2LecD6gRNma6sCl3BL0kzqXEPk7OocCLxZs_JebR0bRsxKa4cRfEOwUhSGBOsg6yDNxtXpzrOTAsAJvtFpMd8sJuCzYyLgtRBtlbZwRFRX4a8Fhd9Xb0axwsgP6LYgGQjdTPWKa9cA-ucMjdDbTqUcnTlFAhGOq5Hpljr5yjY1Q6mm5-A/w480-h640/20220622_144839-01-01.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Poi, iniziando da dove si preferisce,<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">inseriamo il telaio</span> ricordandoci di rimanere sempre all'interno della zona coperta dalla tela stabilizzatrice. <span style="font-size: x-large;">Non tirare troppo la stoffa nel telaio</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>perché anche con la tela stabilizzatrice, rimarrá comunque elastica e se troppo tesa, una volta finito il ricamo si vedranno delle zone con arricciature.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">***</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">Then, starting from one area of the design, <span style="font-size: x-large;">we will hoop the t-shirt fabric</span> making sure all the area inside the hoop is covered with the stabiliser. It's important <span style="font-size: x-large;">not to stretch the fabric too much</span> in the hoop as, even with the stabiliser, the knitted material will easily over stretch and that may result in wrinkles around the embroideries.</span></i></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/AVvXsEhDf6gFOjToXOguyG5K2DmoVOGd-BSKRP1wsoiE7XzFvSyEJa9eAPFhekSxW6X7IXD3AL6nvKWWavMwjMkUtBjmuR1E-JxmZ3XPbWttV08k7PdwmTeMGATu51uO7PycTDSp4Jlq7QuXHnCMbgLLzhvZUBNxtL01xdBYpY5VlCJqfwaDxge1F3XJtt415A/s4032/20220622_145001-01-01.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDf6gFOjToXOguyG5K2DmoVOGd-BSKRP1wsoiE7XzFvSyEJa9eAPFhekSxW6X7IXD3AL6nvKWWavMwjMkUtBjmuR1E-JxmZ3XPbWttV08k7PdwmTeMGATu51uO7PycTDSp4Jlq7QuXHnCMbgLLzhvZUBNxtL01xdBYpY5VlCJqfwaDxge1F3XJtt415A/w480-h640/20220622_145001-01-01.jpeg" width="480" /></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-size: x-large;">Sceglieremo i colori </span>e inizieremo a ricamare! ..non sono esperta in materia e non so dare consigli su tecniche e nomi dei punti ma su internet ci sono infiniti video e tutorial!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">***</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We'll choose the floss colours</span> and begin embroidering! ..I am unfortunately not a very skilled embroiderer so can't advise on stitches names and techniques but there are plenty of videos and tutorials on the web!</span></i></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/AVvXsEiYYBg-kzWC1Ov6_lHoU9gLEf6GUbxzbezkaMP76Wwz1dS3VOPk_9mdy0FKuWLyCdEXinQzUUs775IkYk8J6WuMZNxqrzXfnDkeH428YW_Djm4Tx0P4J2DB8oZPtxpU_e6XLz46Vj2-zupbSqHepcOQy9KlbGmM5Lz2MTjTQVRL38-7atsss_e-a103FA/s3024/20220623_183047-02-01.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="2268" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYYBg-kzWC1Ov6_lHoU9gLEf6GUbxzbezkaMP76Wwz1dS3VOPk_9mdy0FKuWLyCdEXinQzUUs775IkYk8J6WuMZNxqrzXfnDkeH428YW_Djm4Tx0P4J2DB8oZPtxpU_e6XLz46Vj2-zupbSqHepcOQy9KlbGmM5Lz2MTjTQVRL38-7atsss_e-a103FA/w480-h640/20220623_183047-02-01.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Se il disegno é piú grande del telaio, come nel mio caso, <span style="font-size: x-large;">ci sposteremo lungo il disegno</span> con il telaio man mano che finiamo di ricamare una zona.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">***</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">If the design is larger than the hoop, like in my case, <span style="font-size: x-large;">we'll move along the design</span> with the hoop every time we finish to embroider a specific area. </span></i></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/AVvXsEiIhDTuBv7Q7OYWwALdN8g1uqFyY8TPabfjDuXELRLMPXeIbWJkyLoMC7wXUIZP5jl-atMaSZj6uFb5TcbKfyawA5sDVkgoV10gHadoJIo0P5JYdS9zttJZQ1Fcdo8Kch6a0E-BZ2Kau2ZOGa75xL4Pq5VnYyM7ED9yEd3IarV6L2xbBl1xT88BIjfZbg/s4032/20220625_185409-01.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIhDTuBv7Q7OYWwALdN8g1uqFyY8TPabfjDuXELRLMPXeIbWJkyLoMC7wXUIZP5jl-atMaSZj6uFb5TcbKfyawA5sDVkgoV10gHadoJIo0P5JYdS9zttJZQ1Fcdo8Kch6a0E-BZ2Kau2ZOGa75xL4Pq5VnYyM7ED9yEd3IarV6L2xbBl1xT88BIjfZbg/w480-h640/20220625_185409-01.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A lavoro finito possiamo<span style="font-size: x-large;"> tagliare via tutto l'eccesso di tela stabilizzatrice</span> lasciando solo quella piú vicina al ricamo.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">***</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">At the end we can<span style="font-size: x-large;"> cut away most of the excess stabiliser</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>and leave only the bits next to the embroidery.</span></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-i3FEw43a6P9qPYyZ2LHImZiersSoAmwkILvLMHvNFT4-i8lB98a6I-bi7o43WVAf4EDCZ4zgO02f0noFwiQrZRJCxfoogmtj9g_yj8xKpCL0SGaVXuobd5368mwWDO6bvFJ2aJ5nszM-o60A3eXPfWF3IR-2nBxyeKND4Qzun048GPgL4dtWDvQEiQ/s4032/20220625_190303-01-01.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-i3FEw43a6P9qPYyZ2LHImZiersSoAmwkILvLMHvNFT4-i8lB98a6I-bi7o43WVAf4EDCZ4zgO02f0noFwiQrZRJCxfoogmtj9g_yj8xKpCL0SGaVXuobd5368mwWDO6bvFJ2aJ5nszM-o60A3eXPfWF3IR-2nBxyeKND4Qzun048GPgL4dtWDvQEiQ/w480-h640/20220625_190303-01-01.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Infine, seguendo le istruzioni della tela stabilizzatrice, una bella sciacquata con acqua nel lavandino fino a che tutta <span style="font-size: large;">la carta adesiva si sará sciolta nell'acqua...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">***</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">We'll then follow the instructions of the stabiliser and <span style="font-size: x-large;">dissolve it in water with a good rinse...</span></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg3Ot8REBToHLC36W-uky56-gq7CDrGkeaYII9BsZZbNKmghrgxlEM2zdTLZclByIbN5KwxFxlKFqBPjPiAC81FKPenJi9cHYWi0IkMlj8Za5bCsDkfAxJ-HeejCqB_jzSmd8-kstTRj0xLECJBkpsSOdBuAdO7-9YryKEnNU8OTgkwhpjTl7XGeNqug/s3884/20220622_144217-01.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV8NN-HbT4vUDxot2p8sYKW-E_VIumxyxxD3Z291aaHyqFhfU-MdW-5ZKlonpP6O_L4iw2I0P9IEWzsLcYrZkybPOrzKIwy9XFyL0KQdriSc3ldyc60N_UVojmnVQcAwY8xDXTgnWsEVhHuLnW4yJGbQWYuh_IupdJqYw3ss5fkwyhmFF2DGLy9qs_UA/s4032/20220625_190435-01.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV8NN-HbT4vUDxot2p8sYKW-E_VIumxyxxD3Z291aaHyqFhfU-MdW-5ZKlonpP6O_L4iw2I0P9IEWzsLcYrZkybPOrzKIwy9XFyL0KQdriSc3ldyc60N_UVojmnVQcAwY8xDXTgnWsEVhHuLnW4yJGbQWYuh_IupdJqYw3ss5fkwyhmFF2DGLy9qs_UA/w480-h640/20220625_190435-01.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ed ecco la maglietta lavata, asciugata, stirata e <span style="font-size: x-large;">pronta per essere indossata e molto molto amata!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">***</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">And here is the t-shirt after being washed, dried, ironed.. <span style="font-size: x-large;">all ready to be worn and loved!</span></span></i></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/AVvXsEitQHUCd70h9hNjpeF22oGtK_LshlZHHFROyj2C3olz34J5pTbNbuLISQJOmP6pvTotBS-8DyRq9RSsKekSpiOz4XscYFGEKh45HWUVkWmEjtxUcykuCt-wNvBjdA754f4vYvaK-g3AkxvNI2Nv1ajBbLjOvJcDeDBbadNZMROINYJ1zMruVKEkDCchEw/s2053/20220629_120313-01-01-01.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2053" data-original-width="1540" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitQHUCd70h9hNjpeF22oGtK_LshlZHHFROyj2C3olz34J5pTbNbuLISQJOmP6pvTotBS-8DyRq9RSsKekSpiOz4XscYFGEKh45HWUVkWmEjtxUcykuCt-wNvBjdA754f4vYvaK-g3AkxvNI2Nv1ajBbLjOvJcDeDBbadNZMROINYJ1zMruVKEkDCchEw/w480-h640/20220629_120313-01-01-01.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">..e per finire il post ecco una carrellata di un pó di magliette (e un vestito) decorate negli ultimi due anni.. come detto sopra non sono una provetta ricamatrice, non conosco i nomi dei punti e spesso mi invento io come farli, ma mi piace tanto creare i disegnetti e scegliere i colori.. e <span style="font-size: x-large;">per fortuna l'effetto finale, anche se i punti sono molto alla buona, é comunque, secondo me, tanto carino :)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">***</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>...and finally a roundup of a few t-shirts (and a dress) I decorated during these past two years.. as I mentioned above I am not a very skilled embroiderer, I don't know the stitches names and I often improvise without following any specific technique, but I love designing those cute motives so much and choosing the colours... <span style="font-size: x-large;">and I think the end result, even with some very random stitches, is luckily still quite cute :)</span></i></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/AVvXsEg9tfs0JxLE3BN3byake3RvrQLO3bZu3iN4TFFqaknwD4sRri7zfwm6t9Ftr91FxCtFGmjXZf2E-Gm7uXuF2Ev3Hu-XSBrQLkoM8Pr8pcVk8h69u3tVTDV_T_hsN63Etu4CRvNDeKPxQr3aG3cALVOj1okjZy8Tes3uZCwr66FSPvupLOtfER4blRzfBA/s1000/tshirt%20embroidery%203.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcwgl5ttwnXurQ4p2rIJnpI_81T-UMrMlkC1_UiJSI0PouDn4fzhG1u6AEhjiObLQQIh-py-KyrPXvuQ27vqwtRXG-3HchWoDEyl6mOvL3u6UywYSFKa1ATM1AnWqcvPvvtu4C0xutgSuN1S0Ff-KGmh_6cAIXfGoapLtWdy3iP6HV9cmrIDwoVbyNag/s1000/tshirt%20embroidery%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcwgl5ttwnXurQ4p2rIJnpI_81T-UMrMlkC1_UiJSI0PouDn4fzhG1u6AEhjiObLQQIh-py-KyrPXvuQ27vqwtRXG-3HchWoDEyl6mOvL3u6UywYSFKa1ATM1AnWqcvPvvtu4C0xutgSuN1S0Ff-KGmh_6cAIXfGoapLtWdy3iP6HV9cmrIDwoVbyNag/w640-h640/tshirt%20embroidery%202.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_ACUTvzVHRgeaPnr_3e-UAHIgNeuWu0YPmhLZ_R66Qxbfgs4jNx5Oqku5f5L4V4ohs3wIvYU6Qmg0-2ty0rEUK9nGXlJGB8Xo7tYEDHW5cOaNQiNpIxWb6wLvalCixnNz-gKwkr10Q3p7lPqHjw6rLPMEsTKBn-D8nD2n7tidYR4_ZT6JpY3OY6PQCg/s1000/tshirt%20embroidery%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_ACUTvzVHRgeaPnr_3e-UAHIgNeuWu0YPmhLZ_R66Qxbfgs4jNx5Oqku5f5L4V4ohs3wIvYU6Qmg0-2ty0rEUK9nGXlJGB8Xo7tYEDHW5cOaNQiNpIxWb6wLvalCixnNz-gKwkr10Q3p7lPqHjw6rLPMEsTKBn-D8nD2n7tidYR4_ZT6JpY3OY6PQCg/w640-h640/tshirt%20embroidery%201.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>love </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Federica xx</span></i></div></span>Federicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05088129802407763234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3153218400537211117.post-87962881900363642802020-10-20T16:11:00.002+01:002020-10-21T09:34:06.709+01:00Winter Wonderland Advent Calendar<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div>Manco da qui come al solito da tanto tempo.. ero passata per un post, diciamo, un pó di servizio (se sei qui per le FAQ sul cartamodello, e non ti interessano le mie chiacchere.. corri pure giú sotto l'ultima foto ^_^) e con l'intenzione di aggiustare qualche problemino di un blog ormai obsoleto, ho combinato un pasticcio e ora (non ho idea del perché.. ho cercato di risolvere per piú di un'ora senza successo..) ho un blog completamente asimmetrico, senza colonne e tutto scombinato.. che rabbia :( </div><div>Comunque, il tempo stringe, ho poco tempo per scrivere ed é inutile perdersi in lamentele.. solo mi dispiace che visivamente il blog sia tutto sottosopra. </div><div><br /></div><div>Chi mi segue su Instagram, che ormai é l'unico posto online che frequento, saprá giá che l'inverno scorso ho progettato e creato un<span style="font-size: large;"> Calendario dell'Avvento per i miei bimbi</span>, che é piaciuto tanto a loro, a me e alle tante amiche virtuali che mi seguono.</div><div><br /></div><div>***</div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>I have been missing for a long time on my blog... and actually today I was here for a bit of a technical boring post.. (if you are here for the pattern FAQ and don't fancy my ramblings, feel free to scroll down just below the last picture ^_^)so I just opened my blogger page and when trying to fix a minor issue (due to the fact my blog is very old and not up to date) I ended up messing the whole thing up (not sure how..) so now, despite me spending more than one hour trying to sort this out, I ended up with a blog without side columns and all weird and asymmetric... grrr so annoying you have no idea! </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>:( </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>Anyway, I don't have much time now because of all of that, so rather than complaining I'll go to the point, although I am so sorry for the way the blog is looking at the moment for all of you. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>If you are following me on Instagram (the only online place I am regularly posting nowadays) you will already know last Christmas I designed and created an <span style="font-size: large;">Advent Calendar for my little ones</span>, that was a success for them, for me and for many of my virtual friends that follow my account. </i></span></div></div><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EXBPEFztSmk/X4717AvR14I/AAAAAAAAqGE/6mUmZ9-y79k4jYDhPJ94dwWZnK2CT1YWwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1403/advent%2Bper%2Bblog%2B1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1403" data-original-width="992" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EXBPEFztSmk/X4717AvR14I/AAAAAAAAqGE/6mUmZ9-y79k4jYDhPJ94dwWZnK2CT1YWwCLcBGAsYHQ/w453-h640/advent%2Bper%2Bblog%2B1.jpg" width="453" /></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-size: large;">E' nato in fretta e furia a fine Novembre dello scorso anno</span> (io sono sempre quella dell'ultimo minuto ma stavolta ho superato me stessa in quanto a corse!) .. erano giorni o settimane che volevo creare o comprare qualcosa per i miei piccoli, dato che ora hanno un etá per comprendere il concetto di attesa e di tempo che scorre. <span style="font-size: large;">Ma non trovavo mai l'idea giusta.</span> Poi mi son ricordata di un calendario dell'avvento che un'amica aveva acquistato (non handmade), tutto in feltro: un pannello con un grande albero di Natale (classico .. verde) e sotto le taschine, dove tenere appunto le piccole decorazioni da appendere giorno per giorno.. Ho cercato in lungo e in largo per acquistarne uno di giá fatto o un cartamodello, dato che ho scoperto poi che quel genere di calendari é molto popolare e ce ne sono tanti tipi sia handmade che non. Ma nessuno mi entusiasmava troppo, nessuno era nel mio stile. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">***</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">It was created last year around the end of November </span>(I am usually a last minute kind of girl.. but this time I definitely surpassed myself!).. I had been thinking of buying or making a calendar for weeks as my kids are now at an age where they can understand waiting and time, <span style="font-size: large;">but couldn't find any idea that really made my heart flutter.</span> </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>Then suddenly I remembered the Advent calendar a friend of mine had bought in the past: it was not handmade but it was a large felt panel with a classic green Christmas tree and some pockets below to hold the ornaments to hang on the tree day after day. I searched a lot for either a ready made or a pattern to make something like that, as I had since found out that this style of calendar is actually quite popular and there are many versions of it. But I couldn't find anything exciting or in my style. </i></span></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qrLNqrx1q10/X4716SoPqrI/AAAAAAAAqF8/jEpA3K7gj1g7PE-lYT0Fjn2IGGiK-cnNACLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/advent%2Bper%2Bblog%2B2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qrLNqrx1q10/X4716SoPqrI/AAAAAAAAqF8/jEpA3K7gj1g7PE-lYT0Fjn2IGGiK-cnNACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/advent%2Bper%2Bblog%2B2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z8K77o8fzXM/X4716tMm0SI/AAAAAAAAqGA/Y2_M_ZNexmMHC8gcV9DTKumSHDWLsBCywCLcBGAsYHQ/s1064/advent%2Bper%2Bblog%2B3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1064" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z8K77o8fzXM/X4716tMm0SI/AAAAAAAAqGA/Y2_M_ZNexmMHC8gcV9DTKumSHDWLsBCywCLcBGAsYHQ/w301-h400/advent%2Bper%2Bblog%2B3.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rfPy1ZKngUA/X47199hilBI/AAAAAAAAqGI/cNewVrUKBawttske8l7G1LEu2DTOvMosACLcBGAsYHQ/s1334/advent%2Bper%2Bblog%2B4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1334" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rfPy1ZKngUA/X47199hilBI/AAAAAAAAqGI/cNewVrUKBawttske8l7G1LEu2DTOvMosACLcBGAsYHQ/w300-h400/advent%2Bper%2Bblog%2B4.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><span>E poi di punto in bianco, eccola, l'illuminazione: fare</span><span style="font-size: large;"> un albero di Natale un pó diverso dal solito.. un pó piú fiabesco, piú nordico, piú stilizzato e piú mio.</span> </div><div>Un piccolo villaggio tutto innevato con un grande albero al centro da vestire ogni giorno con decorazioni colorate.</div><div> Da li' lavorando giorno e notte per qualche giorno ho progettato e creato il pannello. Giusto in tempo per il primo di Dicembre! Ma per le decorazioni.. ah beh... quelle son state un luuuuuungo work in project durato per tutto Dicembre :) Le ultime le ho completate letteralmente giusto qualche giorno prima di Natale :)</div><div><br /></div><div>***</div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>Then... suddenly, there came the inspiration out of the blue: making<span style="font-size: large;"> a Christmas a tree a bit different from the usual, a bit more fairytale like and a bit more nordic.. a bit more me.</span></i></span></div><div><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">A little snowy village and a naked tree ready to be dressed up with many colourful ornaments.</span></i></div><div><div><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">I then spent the following 3-4 days working literally non stop, days but mostly long long nights, and the panel was thankfully ready on the first day of December!<br />The ornaments though.. well they were only ready on paper.. but they were a long loooong work in progress along all December :) </span></i></div><div><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">The last few were ready just a few days before Christmas :)</span></i></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ukugCEcOxbM/X471_I73LHI/AAAAAAAAqGM/Yrk5fB0ObJYF0D_XSiIaQ1KBHw3iIFQGwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/advent%2Bper%2Bblog%2B5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ukugCEcOxbM/X471_I73LHI/AAAAAAAAqGM/Yrk5fB0ObJYF0D_XSiIaQ1KBHw3iIFQGwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h400/advent%2Bper%2Bblog%2B5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Mi é stato chiesto diverse volte se fosse possibile acquistarne uno di uguale, ma purtroppo per reale totale mancanza di tempo mi é davvero impossibile. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ma mi é stato chiesto anche se avrei mai pensato di farne un giorno un cartamodello, e a questa richiesta, inaspettatamente anche per me (ritenevo fosse un articolo troppo grande e difficile da trasferire con spiegazioni e cartamodelli su carta), sono riuscita a dire di sí, e <span style="font-size: large;">cosí finalmente questo weekend, dopo che ci lavoravo non stop nelle poche ore childfree e sopratuttto nelle sere/notti da quasi tre mesi, é in vendita nel mio negozio il cartamodello del mio <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/873638342/pattern-cartamodello-winter-wonderland" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">calendario dell'Avvento Winter Wonderland</a><a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/873638342/pattern-cartamodello-winter-wonderland" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a></span><a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/873638342/pattern-cartamodello-winter-wonderland" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">(<b>qui</b>)</a>, oltre ad altre versioni di cartamodelli con solo le decorazioni (<a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/887570505/pattern-cartamodello-winter-wonderland" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>qui</b></a>, per chi non volesse cimentarsi in tutto il pannello), e dei mini set di decorazioni per chi ne volesse fare solo alcune. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">***</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><i><span style="color: #7f6000;"> I have been asked many times if I could make some to sell but unfortunately that is really impossible due to complete lack of time. I have also been asked many times if I could create a pattern for it, and that, totally unexpectedly for me too (as I thought it was a project too large and too complicated to be put on paper) was a request I managed to fulfil, <span style="font-size: large;">so finally, after working on it on every childfree hour but mostly on evenings and nights for almost three months, this past weekend I realised the <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/873638342/pattern-cartamodello-winter-wonderland" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Winter Wonderland Advent Calendar pattern</a></span> and it's now on sale in my Etsy shop. </span></i></div><div><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">It actually comes in different versions as I wanted to try to cater for all needs. So there is the complete Winter Wonderland Advent Calendar pattern (<a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/873638342/pattern-cartamodello-winter-wonderland" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>) and also the pattern for just the 24 ornaments (<a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/887570505/pattern-cartamodello-winter-wonderland" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>) if you don't fancy the whole project plus some mini sets of 4 ornaments each in case you want to make just some of them.</span></i></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xgZpfc3Lc_U/X471_BRCvAI/AAAAAAAAqGQ/9rH_OVfa6PkFoZuuXTrXSQuOYvY4jWm-wCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/advent%2Bper%2Bblog%2B6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xgZpfc3Lc_U/X471_BRCvAI/AAAAAAAAqGQ/9rH_OVfa6PkFoZuuXTrXSQuOYvY4jWm-wCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h400/advent%2Bper%2Bblog%2B6.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5GeXBXL3KCE/X472AdIFyEI/AAAAAAAAqGU/5KaXHthStVInQLe4Fwd00Sb-1nJH2xREgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1500/advent%2Bper%2Bblog%2B7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1500" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5GeXBXL3KCE/X472AdIFyEI/AAAAAAAAqGU/5KaXHthStVInQLe4Fwd00Sb-1nJH2xREgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/advent%2Bper%2Bblog%2B7.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Tutta questa premessa per spiegare il motivo di questo post, in questo blog ormai trascuratissimo. Avevo bisogno di un luogo con un pó di spazio organizzato dove poter chiarire vari dubbi e fornire informazioni per chi ha giá acquistato e mi ha fatto domande, o chi vuole acquistare ma ha qualche dubbio. </div><div style="text-align: center;"> E naturalmente anche perché mi fa piacere lasciare traccia di questo immenso lavoro che mi ha dato tanta tantissima soddisfazione anche qui nel mio blog che é ed é sempre stato il mio diario delle cose belle :) </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Allora andiamo per punti in base a tutti i dubbi e domande posti:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">- E' un cartamodello cartaceo o un pdf? </span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> E' un cartamodello in versione pdf, scaricabile dopo l'acquisto e stampabile a casa vostra. In base a come vi trovate meglio a lavorare potete pensare anche di stampare solo le pagine effettive dei cartamodelli, e consulare le istruzioni al pc, anche se io in genere mi trovo meglio ad avere tutto gia stampato, ma va a preferenze.</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> - E' disponibile solo il calendario in Inglese? </span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> Assolutamente no! E' disponibile sia in Italiano che in Inglese e l'inserzione é la stessa. Il cartamodello é infatti un pdf scaricabile e dopo averlo acquistato potrete scegliere se scaricarlo in Italiano o in Inglese o in entrambe le lingue dato che avrete il link a entrambi i files. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>- E' disponibile solo cartamodello per il Calendario completo o posso acquistare le istruzioni solo per le decorazioni senza il pannello? </b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Si, come dicevo sopra, nel mio negozio troverete varie inserzioni, sia per il cartamodello completo con pannello e decorazioni (<a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/873638342/pattern-cartamodello-winter-wonderland" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>qui</b></a>), che per il set di 24 decorazioni senza il pannello (<b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/887570505/pattern-cartamodello-winter-wonderland" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">qui</a></b>) che i vari set di 4 decorazioni ciascuno. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">- Hai un elenco di colori di feltri che hai usato? </span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Purtroppo no! E il motivo é molto semplice, quando ho creato il mio calendario mancavano pochi giorni a Dicembre e solo allora ho avuto l'idea giusta per farlo, quindi ho semplicemente raccimolato tutto quello che trovato in craft room e usato solo cose che avevo giá, quindi in alcuni casi, anche feltri molto vecchi o piccoli scampolini (tanté che se fate caso per esempio le decorazioni nocciola e quelle verdi che ho creato hanno tonalitá diverse di decorazione in decorazione perché ho dovuto per forza di cose usare scampolini e rimanenze varie! )</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>- Puoi dirmi dove acquisti quei feltri di colori cosí delicati e melange? </b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Certamente! Premesso che come dicevo, alcuni feltri sarebbero introvabili anche da me stessa perché molto vecchi e scovati chissá dove 15 anni fa, ma in linea generale posso consigliarvi dove trovare feltri molto carini.
In Italia conosco <a href="https://www.cosedilaura.it/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>https://www.cosedilaura.it/</b></a> che ha feltri assolutamente stupendi (di cui un paio, presi in fiera durante una visita in Italia anni fa, li ho usati anche qui) e con tante tonalitá delicate e alcuni anche con l'effetto melange che adoro. Al momento nel suo negozio ha due linee di feltro che han colori diversi tra loro (ma tutti belli), una spessa 1 mm e una spessa 2 o 3 mm. Io ho usato (e uso in genere) feltro spesso 1 mm ma va bene anche il 2 mm (ho usato anche quello) mentre il 3 mm é un pó troppo spesso per questo genere di progetto a mio parere.
Se invece siete magari in UK io per il feltro uso per lo piú o Ebay inglese o questi siti:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><a href="http://www.billowfabrics.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>www.billowfabrics.co.uk/</b></a></span></i></div><div><i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><a href="www.woolfeltcompany.co.uk/ " rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>www.woolfeltcompany.co.uk/ </b></a></span></i></div><div><i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><a href="http://www.paper-and-string.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>www.paper-and-string.net/</b></a></span></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> Se non siete ne' in UK ne' in Italia, purtroppo non ho consigli o conoscenze di negozi ma posso dirvi che la linea (credo sia Americana) <b>National Nonwoven</b> ha feltri bellissimi, alcuni usati in questo progetto (e in alcuni casi venduti dai negozi Inglesi linkati sopra)!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>- Posso usare stoffa anziché feltro per le decorazioni? </b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ahimé no, perché per il tipo di lavorazione, essendo cuciti direttamente sul dritto (sagome messe rovescio contro rovescio) il bordo rimane a vivo e quindi se fosse di stoffa, invece che feltro, sfilaccerebbe di sicuro. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ecco.. queste sono le domande e i dubbi che mi avete scritto in questi giorni, ma se ne verranno fuori altri, saró felicissima di aggiungerli alla lista qui sopra in modo che sia disponibile a tutti. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Spero di essere stata utile... mi spiace essere stata un pó di corsa.. normalmente amo chiaccherare nel mio blog ma ahimé ormai, i tempi delle chiacchere piacevoli sono un ricordo lontano (ma sono certa torneranno!)
Un abbraccio e grazie inifinite per passare di qui </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> *** </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">All of this to explain the reason of this post in my neglected blog. I needed a place where to clarify some doubts and answer some questions I was asked in these days both by people who already purchased the patterns and by people who were interested in buying it.</span></i></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">And also because I would love to have a trace of that immense job that gave me so much satisfaction, here in my blog too :)</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></i></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">So.. let's get to the point:</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: medium;"><i>- Is it a paper or a pdf pattern?</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><i> It's a pdf file, that you can download after the purchase and you can print at home. You can even decide to only print the actual templates pages and consult the instruction pages directly at the computer/tablet, but if you are like me, I usually prefer to have everything printed, but it's just personal preferences.</i></span></div></div><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: medium;"><i>- Is the pattern available only in Italian or only in English? </i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">It's available in both language and the two versions are in the same shop listing. As the pattern is a pdf file, after you purchase the listing you will have access to both the English or the Italian versions and you can decide which one (or even both) to download.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: medium;"><b><i>- Can I buy only the instructions to make the felt decorations rather than the whole thing?</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">Sure, as explained above, you can buy the pattern for the whole project, or for just the 24 ornaments, or some mini sets of just 4 ornaments each. You can find all those patterns in my shop.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: medium;"><b><i>- Do you have a list of the names or brands of felt you used for this project?</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">Unfortunately no, and the reason is very simple, as I explained above, this was a project made at the very last minute just for me and my kids, with no intention whatsoever at that time to create a pattern. So I just picked up whatever I found in my craft room, some being old materials not available anymore. That's why you may notice that among my ornaments I have sometimes unintentionally used different shades of green felt or of nut brown felt and the reason is that I used old scraps and remnants of the felts I had at home.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: medium;"><b><i>- Can you tell me where I can find felt in those delicate and melange shades you used?</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">That I can do! At least in the UK, as that's where I live.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">Most felts I have used (except for the old scraps and remnants mentioned above) were bought either on <b><a href="www.ebay.co.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.ebay.co.uk </a></b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">or in these shops:</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><a href="http://www.billowfabrics.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>www.billowfabrics.co.uk/</b></a></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><a href="www.woolfeltcompany.co.uk/ " rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>www.woolfeltcompany.co.uk/ </b></a></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><a href="http://www.paper-and-string.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>www.paper-and-string.net/</b></a></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">If you are not based in the UK unfortunately I cannot help you with names of shops but I can advise on a brand of felt I love that is <b>National Nonwoven</b> (I think it's from the US but not sure) and that is what some of the shops mentioned above sell.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: medium;"><b><i>- Can I use fabric rather than felt for the ornaments? </i></b></span></div><div><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">Unfortunately no. That's because the ornaments are worked on their right sides (so they are sewn with their wrong sides together) so the raw edges are visible and that is fine with felt but not so much with fabric as the edges would fray. </span></i></div><div><i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></i></div><div><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">There, these were some questions I have been recently asked but if more will come I will surely add to this list so they can be available to everyone.</span></i></div><div><i><span style="color: #7f6000;"> </span></i></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">I hope my post can be useful... I am sorry I am a bit in a rush.. as you know I love chatting a lot on my blog rather than using it as a technical info place... but I am sure the time for lovely chats will come back one day when my children will be a bit older.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">In the meantime thank you so much for stopping by!</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;"><i>Federica</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Federicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05088129802407763234noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3153218400537211117.post-8835424818811617342020-06-13T10:34:00.004+01:002020-10-20T11:20:27.525+01:00Perpetual calendar<div style="text-align: center;">
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Ecco il mio progetto da quarantena, come lo chiamo io, un calendario perpetuo circolare,<span style="font-size: large;"> per insegnare ai bimbi il ritmo dei giorni della settimana, dei mesi, e delle stagioni.</span></div>
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A inizio quarantena ho cercato, come penso un pó tutti, qualsiasi attivitá e supporto per poter stimolare i bimbi in assenza dell'asilo, e mi sono imbattuta, tra le tante cose, in una ruota del meteo (vedi<b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/533853580/todays-weather-wheel-digital-download" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> qui</a></b>) che ho subito acquistato, stampato ed assemblato e che é stata un successone coi bimbi. </div>
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Da quel momento mi son messa in testa di trovarne uno su quel genere ma con i giorni della settimana, mesi ecc. e siccome son molto pignola e ne volevo uno proprio come dico io, e siccome avevo immensamente bisogno di un progetto che mi tenesse la mente e le mani occupate (ma non con il cucito, perché mi é impossibile per ora cucire avendo i bimbi sempre con me) in questo periodo cosí difficile.. é nato lui.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">Here is my "lock down project" as I like to call it, my circular perpetual calendar, <span style="font-size: large;">to help my kids to learn the rythm of the days of the week, of the months and of the seasons</span>.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">At the beginning of the lock down, I was frantically searching, like I guess everyone, for anything that could help me to stimulate and support my children in the absence of nursery, and among many other things, I met a cute weather wheel (found <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/533853580/todays-weather-wheel-digital-download" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a></b>) that I bought straight away, and printed and assembled and that was a huge hit with the kids.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">From that moment I decided I really wanted to find something like that but with the days of the weeks, months etc. and because I am quite picky and I really wanted something precisely like I had in my mind and because I desperately needed something to keep my mind and hands occupied (but not sewing related as I couldn't really manage to sew with the kids with me all the time) during such a difficult time... I decided to create this.</span></i></div>
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Purtroppo questo post non contiene istruzioni dettagliate ne' grafiche scaricabili ne' purtroppo mi é possibile vendere questo calendario o riprodurlo, prima di tutto per la questione pratica che é in formato A3 quindi non entra nel mio scanner e per la maggior parte delle stampanti da casa. Ma <span style="font-size: large;">vuole essere semplicemente un racconto di come l'ho creato </span>con qualche info di base che magari potrá servire a chi si sentirá ispirato a provare.</div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>Unfortunately this post does not include specific step by step tutorial or downloadable graphic, and I can't sell this calendar or make it available as a printable, first of all for a simple practical matter, the fact that is in a A3 format, so too big for my scanner and for most home printers. <span style="font-size: large;">This post is mainly a quick chat about how I created</span>, with some basic info that may be helpful if you want to embark in the same journey.</i></span></div>
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Come prima cosa ho pensato alla <span style="font-size: large;">parte grafica</span> che é quella che mi ha invogliata di piu a questo progetto. Ho riempito qualche ora di alcuni pomeriggi, mentre il piccolo faceva il pisolino, a disegnare e colorare in compagnia della mia assistente, e pian piano ho abbozzato dei disegnetti che rappresentassero i mesi dell'anno. </div>
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Se cercato "perpetual calendar" su pinterest ci sono diversi esempi di calendari su questo genere a cui mi sono in parte ispirata. Ho preso spunto per alcuni elementi, ma per la maggior parte ho chiuso gli occhi e immaginato come vedo ogni mese e con un pó di prove e tante matite colorate mi sono davvero divertita e rilassata a disegnare.</div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>First of all I began thinking about<span style="font-size: large;"> the illustrations </span>as those were the bit I was mostly looking forward to. I filled a few hours in the afternoons, while the little one was napping and my little assistant was colouring next to me, with drafting a few illustrations to depict the months of the year.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>If you look for "perpetual calendar" on pinterest you will be able to find a few, and I got inspired by them for the construction and for some of the elements. But mostly, I closed my eyes and thought about how I would imagine and visulalise a specific month and with some trials and lots of coloured pencils I truly had a lot of fun and relaxing time drawing.</i></span></div>
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Infine mi son armata di goneometro e ho iniziato la creazione vera e propria dei dischi. Le misure che ho usato sono all'incirca (non avevo un compasso quindi ho usato piatti, scodelle e coperchi di pentole per fare i cerchi!) le seguenti:</div>
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E naturalmente ho diviso ogni disco in tanti spicchi quanti necessari, 31 per i numeri dei giorni, 12 per il disco dei mesi, 4 per il disco delle stagioni e 7 per il disco dei giorni della settimana.</div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>And of course I divided each disc in the necessary slices, so 31 for the days of the month, 12 for the months disc, 4 for the seasons disc, and 7 for the days of week disc.</i></span></div>
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E, usando lo schermo del pc con i nomi e i numeri in una calligrafia a piacimento, come finestra luminosa, appoggiando sopra i vari dischi, ho ricalcato tutti gli elementi con una matita molto leggera.</div>
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Ho poi inserito dei piccoli disegnini sia per le stagioni che per i giorni della settimana. Adele sta iniziando a leggere, ma ho pensato che per Leonardo sarebbe stato utile avere un disegnetto che gli facilitasse il riconoscimento delle stagioni e dei giorni, e anche per rendere il tutto ancora piú carino :)</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">I then laid the discs one on top of the other in the final layout and with some tissue paper I drafted the shape of the window indicator for the day/month/season. It was drafted very approximately by hand, it's not precise and not very symmetric..</span></i></div>
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L'ho riposizionata sopra i dischi e ho effettuato eventuali aggiustamenti (altri li ho dovuti fare anche alla fine.. dopo aver assemblato il disco.. il prezzo da pagare per fare le cose alla buona!)</div>
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Ho plastificato i dischi per permettere (spero) una durata maggiore. Per i piú piccoli ho usato una laminatrice, ma avendo solo una A4, per i piú grandi ho usato una pellicola adesiva trasparente.</div>
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Con un coltellino appuntito ho preparato il buco al centro di ogni disco.<br />
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Prima di unire i dischi ho tagliato dei piccoli dischetti di cartoncino da inserire tra di loro che mi pare, rendano piú semplice lo scorrimento dei dischi tra loro.</div>
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..posizionando sul retro la sagoma dell'indicatore senza la finestra per supporto al calendario.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">..placing the indicator shape without the window behind the bigger disc to support the calendar.</span></i></div>
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Questo post davvero velocissimo l'ho creato principalmente perché sul<a href="https://www.instagram.com/countrykittypics/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> <b>mio Instagram</b></a> (dove condivido piccoli scorci di vita quotidiana e cose belle che mi circondano) ho nelle ultime settimane raccontato che, causa lockdown da Covid19, mi sono lanciata a fare gli scones e tantissime persone mi han chiesto la ricetta. Per chi non li conoscesse, sono dolcetti tipici Inglesi che si gustano con clotted cream e marmellata accompagnati da te' bollente (il tutto viene chiamato Cream Tea) e che normalmente potevamo gustare nelle tearoom dei villaggi in cui facevamo tanti giretti nei weekend di sole. Causa appunto lock down, non potevamo piú concederci questo piccolo (ma potente a livello calorico ^_^) sfizio e cosí, ho deciso di provare a farli io.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">This post is a quick one I created mainly because in <b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/countrykittypics/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">my Instagram page </a></b>(where I often share daily happy pieces of my life and lovely things that surround me) I recently shared my new experiences with scones and so many Italian people asked me a recipe for them. If you don't know then, they are typical British cakes, that are served with jam and clotted cream accompanied by a hot tea (all of this together it's usually called "Cream Tea"). We would usually enjoy them during our weekend strolls around villages, but now because of Covid 19 pandemic and lock down, I had decided to try and make them myself to enjoy this (very caloric) treat at home.</span></i></div>
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Non mi ero mai lanciata prima, inanzitutto perché appunto, non ne avevo mai sentito il bisogno impellente essendo una coccola che ci facevamo magari dopo lunghe camminate in campagna per Cotswolds o per celebrare belle giornate del weekend, e secondo perché ero assolutamente convinta che fosse una di quelle ricette complicatissime e che servissero delle teglie apposite per dar loro la forma ecc. niente di piú sbagliato in assoluto!</div>
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Son di una semplicitá e velocitá disarmante.. (davvero... che e un problema perché ora li facciamo quasi ogni weekend mannaggia!) e l'unico attrezzo che serve é un semplice tagliabiscotti rotondo da 5-6 cm circa.. se con le cappette vengon ancora piú carini ma vabenissimo anche tondo e basta!</div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>I had never tried before, firstly because I had never really felt the need as they were a treat we would allow ourselves after long countryside walks or to celebrate beautiful day outs in the Cotswolds on sunny days, and secondly because I was absolutely convinced they were a very tricky long recipe and that they required some special kind of baking tray... well that couldn't be any wronger!</i></span></div>
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Mi spiace non avere un tutorial step by step, ma non ho mai pensato a creare un post del genere e lo faccio appunto soprattutto in risposta alle tante domande e richieste di ricetta dato che l'originale é in inglese e, pur avendone trovata una in Italiano apparentemente tradotta dall'originale, in realtá ha dosi leggermente diverse....</div>
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La ricetta originale é di Mary Berry una famosissima cuoca/pasticcera Inglese e l'ho trovata <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/tea_time_scones_77839" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>qui </b></a>nel sito della BBC qui ve la traduco semplicemente in Italiano, con eventuali accorgimenti miei personali, per chi non avesse dimestichezza con la lingua inglese.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">The original recipe is from Mary Berry a very famous British cake maker and can be found<b><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/tea_time_scones_77839" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> here</a></b> in the BBC website.</span></i></div>
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*il baking powder che é un lievito chimico istantaneo (a base di bicarbonato di sodio, cremor tartaro e amido di mais) qui in Inghilterra viene venduto in barattoli e usato per quasi tutti i dolci, io ho appunto usato l'originale baking powder per farli. Ho trovato diverse ricette su google per farselo da se nel caso ci si voglia lanciare. Comunque dovrebbe corrispondere alla buona al lievito chimico istantaneo Italiano venduto in bustine (tipo Bertolini, Paneangeli..) ma ho faticato un pó, girando parecchio su Internet, sia a confermare questo sia a capire che tipo di proporzione vada applicata. Purtroppo non ho alcuna conferma ufficiale ma da quel che ho trovato, credo che un cucchiaino raso di baking powder corrisponda all'incirca a 5 gr di lievito istantaneo per dolci Italiano.</div>
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Rompere un uovo in una ciotola a parte, sbatterlo e aggiungere circa 140 ml di latte, mescolare e aggiungerne buona parte (quanto basta, dovrebbe rimanerne un pó per la glassatura) all'impasto fino ad ottenere un composto morbido e molto molto umido e appiccicoso.</div>
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Puó sembrare sia impossibile da lavorare ma in realtá é importante che rimanga davvero molto umido!</div>
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Lavorare delicatamente il composto con le mani su una superficie infarinata, aggiungere a mano l'uvetta se la si desidera, impastandola insieme al composto, e stenderlo con un mattarello ad un'altezza di circa 2-3 cm.</div>
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Lasciarli risposare su una grata e consumarli idealmente in giornata.</div>
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Gli scones, qui in UK esustono dolci o salati. Quelli dolci,di solito possono essere plain (senza uvetta.. come piacciono a me!) o fruit scones (con uvetta) e si decorano con marmellata (solitamente di fragole, ma puó essere anche lamponi o altro) e conla deliziosa clotted cream.</div>
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Ecco la clotted cream é un pó il nodo ostico perché per me é la cosa piú buona degli scones e purtroppo in Italia non esiste, da quel che so. In internet ci sono sia ricette per crearla (ma pare piuttosto laborioso) sia idee per sostituirla.. Naturalmente io qui la trovo quindi non ho mai provato a sostituirla ma ho la sensazione che, come trovato in alcuni blog, unire mascarpone e panna montata sia il modo per ottenere qualcosa di delizioso e molto molto simile! Magari fate un giro su google e cercate un modo di sostituzione che vi ispiri..</div>
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Se poi volete decorarli proprio in modo tradizionale.. mi é stato spiegato che il modo originale Cornish (della Cornovaglia, dove sono popolarissimi) sia mettere prima la marmellata e poi sopra la clotted cream, mentre il modo del Devon (la contea nel sud ovest subito prima della Cornovaglia) sia mettere prima la clotted cream e poi la marmellata sopra. Io ho provato entrambi i sistemi ma decisamente trovo molto piú comodo e semplice il metodo del Devon :)</div>
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I miei tempi biblici ormai, chi mi segue, li conosce... e questo tutorial per creare delle mollette senza bisogno di cucire nemmeno un punto, lo <span style="font-size: large;">avevo promesso circa un anno fa </span><span style="font-size: small;">su <b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/countrykittypics/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a></b></span> che ormai é l'unico posticino dove riesco a trovare il tempo di condividere quel che amo.. ma meglio tardi che mai e finalmente eccolo.</div>
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A dire il vero, vista la situazione attuale, avrei voluto prepararlo appena iniziato il lockdown in Italia e poi nel resto dei Paesi Europei e del mondo, per portare un piccolo svago, una distrazione.... ma chiaramente non é stato possibile perché la vita, come per tutti, mi si é ribaltata da un giorno all'altro e solo ora riesco, rubando tempo prezioso (piccole tranche al giorno.. infatti ci stan volendo molti giorni per riuscire a completare questo post) a tutte le incombenze giornaliere, a pubblicarlo.. non é stato semplice ma mi faceva davvero piacere farlo, per <span style="font-size: large;">spargere un pizzico di gioia e colore in questi tempi cosí bui.</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">If you are a long time blog reader you already know my usual loooong timescales for everything...<span style="font-size: large;"> I did actually promised a tutorial for these easy and cute no sew hairclips almost a year ago</span>, on <b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/countrykittypics/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a></b> (the only place I currently manage to find some time to share the things I love).. but as they say, better late than never so here it is.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">To be honest, given the current world climate, I actually really wanted to publish it as soon as Italy, and then many other European and world countries, went into lockdown, as I wanted to provide a little bit of inspiration and distraction... but obviously my life was turned upside down from one day to the other, when schools/nurseries closed and only now, stealing a little time every day (it took me almost a week to prepare this post) from my many home and mum duties, I am managing to publish it... it wasn't easy finding the time, but I really wanted to, because <span style="font-size: large;">I really want to try and spread a tiny bit of colour and happiness </span>in these dark times.</span></i></div>
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Premetto che non ho inventato nulla! <span style="font-size: large;">Mi son basata e ispirata dalla costruzione base di alcune vecchie mollette che aveva Adele, prese al supermercato! </span>E da lí ho cercato di pensare a come farne di simili io. </div>
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Altra premessa.. proprio perché non prevedono nessuna cucitura (son basate sull'uso di ferro da stiro, orlo svelto, e colla a caldo)<span style="font-size: large;"> i margini esterni potranno col tempo consumarsi e frastagliarsi un pó..</span> (lo stesso era successo con quelle prese appunto al supermercato) ma la cosa secondo me non toglie molto alla bellezza delle mollette e soprattutto é un piccolo prezzo da pagare per la semplicitá nel crearle. </div>
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Tutte le mollette che vi mostro in questo post son state create in due volte.. la prima (quelle blue e rosa a fine post) lo scorso giugno, quindi quasi un anno fa, le seconde, quelle senape, rosse, rosa e marroni, a Gennaio di quest'anno quindi circa 5 mesi fa. A fine post ho inserito una foto fatta in questi giorni per mostrare come risultano le mollette dopo molti mesi di uso piú o meno quotidiano.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">First of all let me say I didn't completely invent these hairclips from scratch..<span style="font-size: large;"> I got inspired by the basic construction of some old hairclips I had bought at a supermarket for Adele years ago!</span> As they seemed pretty cute and easy to replicate I tried to think of ways to make some more myself.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">Also, exactly because they don't include any sewing (they only need some hemming web tape, an iron and a hot glue gun)<span style="font-size: large;"> the edges will probably fray a bit with time.. </span>(the same happened to the ones I had bought at the supermarket) but in my opinion, the whole prettiness of the hairclips is not that ruined by a bit of wear and tear and it's a small price to pay for the easiness of this project.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">All the hairclips I am showing you in this post were made in two batch.. the first batch (the pink and blue ones) was made almost a year ago, June last year, and the second batch (the mustard, brown, pink and red) was made in January, a few months ago. At the end of the post I uploaded a quick pic taken in these days to show you some of them and how they are after several months of almost daily usage.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Ed eccoci al tutorial!</b></span></div>
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Quello che vi serve é:</div>
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- mollette di metallo con denti da alligatore/coccodrillo (alligator hair clips se le cercate in inglese) come quelli che vedete nelle mie foto (su Amazon dovreste trovarle penso)</div>
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- stoffe varie</div>
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- pistole per colla a caldo</div>
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- orlo svelto (quello che si trova al sueprmercato)</div>
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- taglierina da stoffa, righelli e tappetino per tagliare la stoffa sono ideali ma non essenziali se non li possedete.. potete natualmente tagliare con una forbice e usare un normale righello</div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;"><i><b>And here is the tutorial!</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>What you'll need:</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>- blank metallic alligator hair clips </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>- fabric in various patterns</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>- hot glue gun</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>- hemming web tape (in the UK you can find it in the supermarket where they usually keep a small selection of sewing supplies)</i></span></div>
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Step 1: Tagliate una striscia di stoffa di circa 2.2 cm per 24 cm e un equivalente lunghezza di orlo svelto di 24 cm (l'orlo svelto dovrebbe essere alto 2 cm, se cosí non fosse tagliatelo in modo che sia 2 cm di altezza)</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">Step 1: Cut a 24 cm x 2.2 cm stripe from the fabric and the same length (24 cm) from the hemming web tape (that is usually 2 cm high, if it's not, cut it to size as it need to be 2 cm high)</span></i></div>
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Step 2: ripiegare i lati lunghi della striscia di stoffa su se stessi verso il centro, come in figura 2 e stirare per fissare in posizione</div>
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Step 3: inserire la striscia di orlo svelto, nella striscia di stoffa, come in figura 3, appiattendola bene con le dita</div>
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Step 4: ripiegare nuovamente la stoffa verso il centro e stirare in posizione </div>
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Step 5: in questo modo l'orlo svelto incollerá la stoffa definitivamente in posizione</div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>Step 2: fold back the fabric stripe lengthwise towards the centre as in figure 2 and press to secure in position</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>Step 3: temporarily reopen the fabric strip, and place the hemming web inside the folded fabric, as in figure 3, and flatten it out with your fingers</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>Step 4: fold back again the fabric stripe lengthwise towards the centre and press </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>Step 5: by iron pressing the hemming web will melt and the fabric stripe will be permanently glued in this position</i></span></div>
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Step 6: dividere la striscia di stoffa in due sezioni, una corta da 4 cm e una lunga da 20 cm</div>
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Step 7: Tagliare in diagonale, come in figura 7, le estremitá della sezione di stoffa lunga</div>
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Step 8: piegare in tre la sezione lunga di stoffa come in figura 8 per creare un fiocco</div>
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Step 9: stirare per fissare in posizione il fiocco</div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>Step 6: cut the fabric strip in two pieces, one 20 cm long and the other 4 cm long</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>Step 8: Fold twice the long strip of fabric as in figure 8 to create a bow</i></span></div>
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Step 10: con un pó di colla a caldo sul dorso della molletta attaccare il fiocco appena formato</div>
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Step 11: premere con le dita per fissare e poi lasciare raffreddare</div>
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Step 12: mettere un goccio di colla a caldo al centro del fiocco</div>
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Step 13: posizionare trasversalmente e incollare il pezzetto piccolo di stoffa sul fiocco, come in figura 13</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">Step 10: with a bit of hot glue on top of the hair clip stick the bow to the clip</span></i></div>
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Spero il tutorial vi sia utile.. non sono passaggi semplici da spiegare a parole (specie con una quattrenne che chiacchera e fa domande non stop mentre cerco di pensare e scrivere due righe in croce :) ), per questo ho cercato di fotografare tutti gli step e credo/spero, che anche senza leggere, ci si possa basare sulle foto per capire.. Alla fine é un progettino davvero semplicissimo e velocissimo!</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">And at last, these down here, is the current situation of wear and tear after a few months of almost daily use, so you can see for yourself if you reckon the project is worth it, despite a bit of unavoidable fraying..</span></i></div>
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Un abbraccio .. e spero di tornare su questi schermi prima o poi ma al momento non credo proprio sará possibile ahime!</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">A big hug.. and hopefully one day I'll be back again on this little place of mine.. although I doubt it will be very soon..!</span></i></div>
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Per quanto la mia vita sia davvero strapiena e le mie giornate, spesso, passino senza che io abbia un attimo, un solo attimo, per prender fiato (da cui la mia assenza da questo angolino di mondo che tanto mi é caro) <span style="font-size: large;">cerco comunque, sempre, sempre, davvero SEMPRE, di avere una o due project bags piene di qualche lavoro a maglia in progress</span>. Per i momenti di calma, rari, ma ogni tanto ci sono, o piú semplicemente, per quando ho necessitá di un momento per me stessa anche se non ne avrei il tempo, e la maglia é uno dei modi migliori per respirare a fondo e cercare di allontanare ogni ansia e stress, anche se temporaneamente.</div>
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Ho lavorato, e sto lavorando a un paio di cardigan per Adele ultimamente, ma son lavori lunghi che richiedono mesi per essere completati nel poco tempo che ho a disposizione, per cui <span style="font-size: large;">avevo bisogno di un piccolo progettino da poter completare in pochi giorni</span>, che mi desse quella soddisfazione di lavoro finito di cui avevo bisogno. Questo riccio era proprio il progetto perfetto.</div>
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Mi ci son voluti davvero solo pochi giorni (beh di sferruzzamento fino a tardi la sera, a dire il vero, ma il bello dei lavori piccoli e veloci é che li vuoi vedere subito finiti e quindi ci dai dentro!) e i bimbi, soprattutto Adele che se n'é subito impossessata, lo adorano!</div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>As much as my life is so busy and my days often pass without me having the chance to catch my breath (hence my absence from this corner of the world so dear to me)<span style="font-size: large;"> I always always ALWAYS try to have a project bag or two, filled with some knitting wip</span>, for the rare quiet moments, or simply for when I need it to decompress.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>I have been working on a couple of cardigans for Adele lately, but it takes months for me to able to complete them, so<span style="font-size: large;"> I needed a little project to be able to finish in a few days </span>(rather than a few months!) and this hedgehog was just perfect for the purpose. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>It took me literally just a few days (of intensive night time knitting to be fair! But that's the excitement you get from a quick project, you just to want it finished soon soon soon!) and the kids, especially Adele, absolutely adore it!</i></span></div>
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Tutte le informazioni su questo progetto le trovare nella <b><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/projects/country-kitty/hans-my-hedgehog-size-large" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mia pagina Ravelry</a></b>.</div>
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Il pattern é gratuito e lo trovate o su<b><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/hans-my-hedgehog-size-large" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> qui su Ravelry</a></b> o direttamente sul <b><a href="http://webloomhere.blogspot.com/2017/01/hans-my-hedgehog-new-enlarged-knitting.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blog dell'autrice, qui</a></b>, ed é disponibile in diverse misure. Io ho creato la misura grande, ma qualcosa mi dice (come da immediata richiesta di Adele) che arriveranno prima o poi anche dei baby ricci ;)</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">All the info about my project can be found on <b><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/projects/country-kitty/hans-my-hedgehog-size-large" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">my Ravelry page</a></b>.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">The pattern is free and can be found <b><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/hans-my-hedgehog-size-large" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here in Ravelry</a></b> or directly <b><a href="http://webloomhere.blogspot.com/2017/01/hans-my-hedgehog-new-enlarged-knitting.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here in the author's blog</a></b>, and it's available in different sizes. I knitted the large size... and something tells me (as for Adele's request) that this hedgehog will need some baby hedgehogs soon too ;)</span></i></div>
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I giorni e le settimane (e i mesi..) passano, i weekend sono spesso, meteo permettendo, pieni di meravigliose passeggiate nella natura. Un tempo documentavo ogni piccolo giretto fatto nella stupenda campagna che ci circonda, qui nel blog. Ora ahime' é impossibile farlo.. ma questa volta mi sono impegnata e, complice il fatto che ho dovuto e voluto sistemare tutte le foto per fare un photoalbum da stampare, avendo gia tutte le foto belle pronte e "scremate" ho deciso di condividerne un pó della tante anche qui.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">Days, weeks and even months pass by, our weekends are often, weather permitting, full of beautiful countryside walks in the middle of the most gorgeous nature. Once I used to keep track of all our walks and hikes and of all the special places we discovered in the countryside that surrounds us, here in my blog. Now, unfortunately, that is impossible due to lack of time... but this time, thanks to the fact I had to sort out and prepare the pictures to make a photobook for us, I decided to take advantage of having the pics all ready and shortlisted and I managed to share some of them here too.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">Because such an enchanting place needs to be told about, to be shared, to be shown..</span></i></div>
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Queste foto sono alcune di quelle che piú amo (piú altri tremila primi piani e stupende foto dei bimbi, che in un contesto del genere son praticamente tutte da appendere al muro, ma che preferisco tenere per noi) di quella stupenda giornata di Giugno trascorsa a Hidcote Manor Garden.</div>
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Un sabato dove per una volta, stanchi da giornate molto piene durante la settimana, abbiamo deciso di concederci una giornata di puro relax. Niente zaini pesanti e scarponcini da trekking, niente mappe e salite faticosissime (ma che valgono la pena), niente sudore e piedi doloranti. Solo un giardino incantevole, un prato dove fare un rilassante picnic e tanti album di stickers, solo cottage, aiuole fiorite, labirinti e percorsi in mezzo a ogni pianta e ogni infiorescenza possibile e immaginabile. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">These pics are some among of the ones I love the most (plus so many portraits of the kids, that, in such a charming environment, are basically all wall-worthy, but I'd rather keep them for ourselves) from that special June day spent at Hidcote Manor Garden.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">One Saturday when we decided, for once, to just do something relaxing. We were very tired after some exhausting busy weeks so we decided, for once, to ditch our heavy rucksacks, our hiking boots, and to spend a day without (rewarding but tiring) uphill slopes, sweat and sore feet. Just one gorgeous garden, a manicured lawn perfect for laying down for a picnic and a few sticker books to play with, and then flower borders, paths and trails among all the most beautiful blooms.</span></i></div>
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Quello che ho scritto nel titolo (come un paradiso terrestre) non é un'esagerazione. E' davvero quello che ho provato. Da amante dei giardini (in particolare quelli in stile inglese) e del rosa e del lilla, questo luogo era per me davvero una specie di eden. Alcuni viottoli mi hanno fatto, non mi vergogno a dirlo, battere il cuore piu forte dall'emozione. In particolare, (si capirá dal quantitativo di foto) quello coloratissimo di peonie e allium e altri mille fiori, dove ho scattato le foto di Adele che corre e di me che la faccio "volare". </div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">The words I used in the title are not an exaggeration. It truly is what I felt like. As a garden lover (especially an english gardens lover) and as a lover of pink and purple cottage style flowers, that place was a kind of "eden" to me. Some paths, I am not ashamed to say it, made my heart beats a bit faster. Especially (it'll be easy to guess from the amount of pics) the very colourful one, full of alliums, peonies and so many other perennials, where I took the pics of Adele running and the one of me making her "fly".</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">That path truly made me fall in love.</span></i></div>
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Il giardino é mantenuto dalla National Trust (che é un pó tipo il Fai italiano), é a poco piú di un'oretta da casa nostra ed é molto molto famoso, infatti erano anni e anni che volevo visitarlo, idealmente in questo periodo dell'anno. Poi tra una cosa e l'altra, nei weekend liberi privilegiavamo sempre altri giri o camminate. Non mi sono mai "impuntata" a volerlo visitare, perché si, mi ispirava parecchio, ma davvero non avevo idea di quanto incantevole fosse, altrimenti lo avrei fatto molto prima.. e infatti mi pento di non averlo fatto prima!</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">The garden is kept by National Trust, it's a bit over an hour from our home, and it's very very famous. And that is why I had been meaning to visit it for years and years, ideally around this time of year. But then, in the free weekends we would always choose something else over it, being a local walk or a proper hike. I never insisted on visiting it, despite my desire to, because honestly I had no idea how enchanting it truly was, otherwise I would have visited it waaaay before now!</span></i></div>
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Immaginatevi un manor (una residenza nobile antica) in un piccolissimo villaggio di tipo 7-8 cottage, e immerso in mezzo alla più meravigliosa campagna nel nord dei Cotswolds, circondato da questo grande giardino con mille zone diverse da visitare. I viottoli del giardino antico tra rose inglesi, peonie, allium, cespugli e perenni di tutti i tipi.. (il mio preferito), un frutteto, un bosco di altissimi faggi, un giardino roccioso, ponticelli e sentierini, un giardino piú formale ed elegante, una fontana, angoli diversi da esplorare, due cafè, un negozio di articoli carinissimi da giardino e di piante, una grande serra, un orto-giardino, un prato dove fare picnic, una zona selvaggia di alberi e sentierini, tanti punti panoramici dove godere della meraviglia della campagna circostante... ma é difficile spiegare a parole.. non si puó, bisogna proprio visitarlo!</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">Just imagine an old manor, in the middle of a tiny hamlets made up of probably 6-7 cottages, immersed in the most beautiful countryside in the north of the Cotswolds area, surrounded by this wonderful big garden full of so many different areas to explore. The paths in the old garden (which was my favourite) full of peonies, english roses, alliums and so many bushes and perennials, and then an orchard, a beech wood, a rock garden full of winding paths and a stream with little bridges to cross, and then a more formal elegant garden, a fountain, many different corners and nooks to find and enjoy, two cafes, a little garden shop, a big greenhouse, a huge kitchen garden, a manicured lawn where having picnics, a wild woodland area, many panoramic points perfect to enjoy the views across the surrounding open countryside... but it's quite hard to explain with words..... it has to be seen!</span></i></div>
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Rivedere queste foto in un(ennesima) giornata di pioggerellina, nella settimane, presumo, piú piovose dell'anno, é un balsamo che mi ricorda che l'estate, nonostante tutto é dietro l'angolo, con i suoi colori e profumi.. nel frattempo vi saluto!</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">To see this pictures during this drizzly-rainy day (one of too many in a row in this very unsummery June), it's like a balm to my soul that reminds me that despite the grey sky and the raindrops on the windows, summer is almost here, with its scents and colours!</span></i></div>
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Credo di avere addocchiato per la prima volta una bambola in stile Waldorf quando Adele era neonata, o forse ancora in pancia. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ne sono rimasta subito affascinata</span> e, non sapendo assolutamente nulla a riguardo, mi limitavo a osservare le poche che trovavo in vendita da bravissime artigiane indipendenti, soprattutto in Est Europa e Paesi Nordici, molto costose (piu che giustamente, ora so, ma lo avevo giá intuito allora quanto lavoro ci stava dietro) e altrettanto meravigliose, e avevo gia intenzione di regalargliene una acquistata da qualche artista quando avrebbe avuto l'etá giusta per apprezzarla. Non so perché, <span style="font-size: large;">ma</span> <span style="font-size: large;">avevo giá dato per scontato che non era qualcosa alla mia portata.. non capivo come si poteva "scolpire" il visino in quel modo, e i capelli?</span> Davvero non sapevo nulla a riguardo e non avevo il tempo ne' l'energia per informarmi e studiare.</div>
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Poi non so perché ma sono passati mesi, anzi anni, e pian piano ho cambiato idea. Ho deciso di informarmi e nel caso, se avessi ritenuto la cosa fattibile, di provarci.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">I think I had spotted a Waldorf doll for the very first time when Adele was a newborn, or maybe when she was still inside my bump.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="font-size: large;">I remember I got enchanted straight away</span>, and knowing absolutely nothing about them, I was happy enough browsing the web among the few beautiful ones I could find on sale, made by amazing doll makers, mainly from Eastern and Northern Europe. They were all very expensive (as it's only fair as I now know, but I had already guessed back then, how much work there is behind those masterpieces) and equally beautiful, and I was already thinking about giving one as a gift to Adele, bought from one of these talented artisans, as soon as she would have had an appropriate age to appreciate them and play with them. I don't know why, <span style="font-size: large;">but I had already assumed that making one of these dolls was completely out of my league</span>, and I totally ruled out the possibility of crafting one myself.... maybe because I couldn't understand how it was possible to "sculpt" those faces, those noses, those cheeks, and also the hair?! I really didn't know anything at all about that world and I also didn't feel I had any energy or time to try to study and learn at that time.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">Then, months passed by, even years actually, and I slowly changed my mind. I decided to get to know a bit more about that universe, and maaaaaaaybe to try and make one myself.</span></i></div>
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Fast Forward di 3 anni o poco piú e questo Natale sotto l'albero nel nostro salotto la mia folletta ha trovato, tra i tanti pacchetti portati da Babbo Natale, qualcosa che sapeva (piú o meno) sarebbe arrivato dalla sua mamma. <span style="font-size: large;">Qualcosa che ha visto lentamente nascere dalle mie mani nei mesi precedenti.</span> Ci tenevo che vedesse che la bambola la stavo facendo io, perché leggendo vari articoli e libri a riguardo, ho capito che é importante per il bambino, qualora possibile ovviamente, che veda e capisca che certi giochi sono stati creati a mano, ho letto che ha un effetto rassicurante e questa cosa mi é piaciuta tanto.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">Fast forward just over 3 years and this past Christmas, under the tree of our lounge, my pixie found, among many gifts from Santa, also something that she knew (more or less) would have been given by her mum. <span style="font-size: large;">Something that she slowly saw coming to life between my hands in the previous months.</span> I really wanted her to see that the doll was being made by me, as I had been reading some articles and books about this, and I understood how important it is for a child, whenever possible of course, to see and understand that some toys have been created by hand, I read that it has a comforting effect and I loved that. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">E' stato un processo molto lungo.</span> Prima di studio per capire dove andare a parare, che libri o pattern acquistare, quali materiali prendere e dove trovarli. Poi di lavorazione vera e propria, entrando in un mondo di un tipo di manualitá affascinante mai provata prima. La parte di creazione é stata sicuramente parecchio lunga, in particolar modo i capelli, ci sono volute settimane solo per quelli, ma il grosso é stato sicuramente lo studio precedente.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was a very long process. </span>First of all the study to understand where to find some information, which patterns of books to buy, which materials were needed and where to source them. Then the proper making process, where I entered a fascinating new crafting world made of new techniques I had never heard about nor experienced before. The making process was certainly time consuming, especially the hair making, as it literally took weeks just to create them, but the biggest hurdle was definitely the whole studying bit that preceded the making.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">To (try to) make it a bit easier to anyone following me and interested in maybe trying their hand at this (but also selfishly as an important reference for myself for the future)<span style="font-size: large;"> I decided to share quite a lot of all the info and choices I made regarding patterns and materials</span>, so if you are interested, please keep on reading this post until the end as I'll try to be as detailed as possible.</span></i></div>
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Per quanto riguarda la bambola in se' io avevo acquistato, forse ancora un anno fa, un libro molto informativo, che parla anche molto della teoria delle bambole Waldorf, di tutto quello che ci sta dietro, oltre a dare istruzioni per crearne di varie misure e tipi. Il libro si chiama "Making Waldorf dolls" di Maricristin Sealey. Io l'ho usato come infarinatura generale e come fonte di informazione sull'argomento, ma non ho usato ne' istruzioni ne' cartamodelli da quel libro.</div>
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Dopo ore e ore e ore e ore, giorni, giorni e giorni spesi su internet a cercare di trovare quello che potesse essere il cartamodello piú adatto allo stile di bambola che volevo fare io questi sono state le fonti che ho trovato, usato e/o acquistato io:</div>
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- tutorial gratuito di Faith and String distribuito in vari post<b> <a href="http://faithandstring.com/category/doll-making/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://faithandstring.com/category/doll-making/</a></b>. L'ho usato come infarinatura iniziale di base,per capire un pó di cosa trattava questo mondo ancora sconosciuto, un pó come il libro, e ho apprezzato molto le foto, ma per me, essendo a digiuno totale in materia, non sarebbe stato sufficiente.</div>
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- pattern Jointed Waldorf Pacifier doll di Lali dolls acquistato su Etsy: <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/157740737/pdf-pattern-jointed-waldorf-pacifier" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/157740737/pdf-pattern-jointed-waldorf-pacifier</b></a></div>
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Questo é stato il pattern che ho principalmente usato. Il prezzo é paragonabile a quello di un libro ma in effetti é un libro di 104 pagine di istruzioni molto dettagliate, consigli, trucchetti e foto. </div>
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Di questa autrice, avevo in passato acquistato anche alcuni pattern di vestitini per bambole (che ho in parte usato per questa bambola) e mi ero trovata molto bene.</div>
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Di questo pattern ho usato peró la parte relativa ai capelli, dato che spiegava in dettaglio come creare una "crochet cap" (la cuffia a uncinetto che fa da base ai capelli), che l'altro modello invece non prevedeva. (detto questo, premetto che istruzioni su come creare una crochet cap si possono trovate anche gratuitamente sul web, io per esempio avevo trovato anche questo post <a href="https://puppensaltini.wordpress.com/tag/capelli-bambole-waldorf/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://puppensaltini.wordpress.com/tag/capelli-bambole-waldorf/</a> anche se non l'ho usato quindi non posso garantire ne' sul risultato ne' sulla facilitá di seguire le istruzioni).</div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>Regarding the doll itself, I had purchased, more than a year ago, a very interesting book that talks about the theory behind Waldorf dolls, their history and meaning, and it also gives some general instructions to create a few different types. </i></span><i>The book is "Making Waldorf dolls" by Maricristin Sealey.</i><i> I used this book to get a basic rough idea of what I was heading myself into, but I personally didn't use any of the patterns and instructions inside it.</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">This is the main pattern I have used to make my doll. The price is comparable to a book price, and that is because this pattern is indeed comparable to a book, as it includes 104 pages full of extremely detailed instructions, tips and tricks, and many many step by step pictures.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">I followed its instructions almost in every detail, I just omitted the dummy and the ears (I wasn't sure they would go well with the hairstyle I had in mind, but if I change my mind I can easily add them later on) and for the hair (which the pattern DOESN'T INCLUDE) I used other patterns/tutorials which I will tell about later on.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">(but, as stated above, I cannot give my experience as I didn't followed this, but I used the pattern above by Wild Marigold)</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">Well, if you managed to read until here you will have guessed that I basically did a biiiiig mix and match to try and make a doll that was as close as possible as the one sitting in my dreams!</span></i></div>
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E infine per quanto riguarda gli abitini, beh i materiali e le stoffe li avevo giá tutti in casa, presi negli anni dai siti e negozi piú disparati, incluse le stoffe del pigiama che ho fatto riciclando vecchi muslin (non so il nome in Italiano, quelle pezze che si usano con i neonati, per pulire rigurgiti ecc.) di Adele! Mentre per i modelli (eccetto per l'abitino che ho disegnato io, e per le cose a maglia di cui parleró dopo) ho usato tutti modelli inclusi in questo <b>pacchetto di Wild Marigold</b> acquistato su Etsy</div>
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La lavorazione é stata semplice, ma purtroppo ho avuto un pó di problemi con il posizionamento dei bottoni difficile da spiegare qui in poche righe.. anche perché oramai ho dimenticato cosa fosse successo.</div>
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- cuffietta: <b>Gnome Hat by Fig and Me</b> acquistato qui</div>
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Credo il pattern fosse inteso per una bambola molto piú piccola della mia, ma in ogni caso il risultato non mi dispiace, e se avró voglia in futuro penso sia facilissimo modificare leggermente il pattern per aumentare le dimensioni.</div>
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- <b>scarpette stile Mary Janes</b>: free tutorial trovato qui <a href="http://littlejennywren.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-little-jenny-wren-shoe-simple.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://littlejennywren.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-little-jenny-wren-shoe-simple.html</a></div>
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E dopo questa sfilza infinita di elenchi su elenchi su elenchi, giusto due parole su questa mia prima avventura nel mondo delle bambole in stile Waldorf.</div>
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Scoprire che <span style="font-size: large;">quella che pensavo fosse una tecnica inarrivabile </span>ottenibile solo con corsi avanzatissimi con esperte in materia, o che necessitasse mani di vera artista e abilitá irraggiungibili<span style="font-size: large;"> in realtá si é dimostrato un lavoro lento, piacevole, minuzioso, sorprendente, a tratti molto faticoso</span> (fare la cuffietta a uncinetto su lana Mohair é stato un lavoro che pensavo non finisse mai e per il quale credo di aver perso diverse diottrie.. un incubo a tratti e non esagero..), <span style="font-size: large;">e magico..</span> vedere quel visino che si formava.. scoprire che con tutto un sistema di legature e di vari lenti ma semplici passaggi potevo anche io "scolpire" il nasino, il viso le guance e creare quella dolcissima espressione unica di queste bambole é stato meraviglioso.. forse una delle cose di cui piú sono orgogliosa nella mia vita craft, specie se penso che 3 anni fa o poco piú avevo giá assunto che non era qualcosa alla mia portata ed ero giá intenzionata ad acquistarne una fatta a mano da qualche altra artigiana.</div>
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Quello che piú ho amato di questo processo, oltre a vedere la sua espressione che prendeva forma, é stato colorare quelle guanciotte a fine lavoro, ricamare il pettirosso e i funghetti sui suoi abitini, scegliere le lane, i colori, vedere il suo guardaroba che pian piano aumentava!</div>
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- l'attaccatura snodabile di gambe e braccia. Non so se ho sbagliato qualcosa io (molto probabile) o se é proprio il sistema, ma non mi piace che il cordoncino che unisce gli arti al busto con l'uso diventi sempre piu visibile e quindi che gli arti "penzolino" un pó. Dovró vedere come sistemare la cosa ma non so se ci siano soluzioni..</div>
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- i capelli, mi piacciono, ma li immaginavo un pochino diversi. In rete (e nel tutorial citato piu sopra) avevo visto tanti esempi di capigliature fatte con mohair spazzolabile e credevo i filamenti della lana si allungassero veramente tanto, mentre ovviamente non possono fare miracoli e ho dovuto aggiungere ancora filamenti di lana per renderli piú lunghi e folti. Ecco, avessi la possibilitá di frequentare magari un corso un giorno, mi piacerebbe approfondire questo aspetto!</div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>And after this neverending series of lists upon lists, just a few words from me about this first adventure around the Waldorf dolls world.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>Finding out that <span style="font-size: large;">what I thought was a technique completely out of my league</span>, that someone could only learn through advanced classes or if blessed enough to have an innate artist talent, <span style="font-size: large;">was instead a slow, detailed, surprising, pleasant and sometimes boring and difficult</span> (especially the crochet cap bit, that I honestly thought I was never going to complete and that was really a struggle for my poor eyesight as crocheting Mohair is literally pure craziness to me. a real nightmare and I am not exaggerating!) <span style="font-size: large;">... but mostly magical.. </span>to see that face taking shape.. to find out that through a slow work of simple steps and tiying around the head I could actually sculpt that little button nose myself, and that sweet face, those chubby cheeks.. and that adorable expression that made me fall in love with these dolls in the first place. It was amazing. Maybe it was one of the most proud moment of my crafter life, especially if I think that around 3 years ago I was already taking for granted that this was not something I could ever be able to make and I was already shortlisting dolls to buy from some other artisans.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>What I loved most about this process was, besides seeing the doll expression taking shape, was colouring the cheeks at the end of the work, embroidering the robin and the little toadstools on her clothes, choosing the yarn, the shades, watching her lovely wardrobe increasing piece by piece!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i> - the jointed arms and legs. I don't know if I did something wrong (quite likely) or if that's the way it's supposed to be, but I don't really like how visible the thread is at the joints, and especially the fact that now, using the doll the limbs are dangling a bit too much from the body. I'd like to find a solution and sort this out but I am not sure how.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>- the hairstyle. I love the hair but I was envisioning them a bit differently. In the web (and in the tutorial mentioned above) I had found many examples of hairstyle made with brushable Mohair yarn and I was expecting the fibres to actually expand quite a lot, but of course that cannot realistically happen, so I had to add a few extra yarn strands to make the hairstyle thicker and longer. Well, if I will ever have a chance to attend a Waldorf doll making class I would definitely love to understand a bit more about this process!</i></span></div>
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Posso solo sperare di avervi dato qualche dritta o indicazione, nel caso foste interessate a cimentarvi, o di avervi fatto conoscere qualcosa di nuovo nel caso non foste familiari con il mondo di queste meravigliose bambole! A me questo lungo lunghissimo post sicuramente servirá come riferimento futuro.. sono certa che non sará la prima e unica bambola in stile Waldorf che faró. Spero arriveranno compagne e compagni sia per la signorina che per l'ometto di casa. Giá mi immagino la prossima versione al maschile, con salopette a maglia color duck egg, pigiama a quadretti beige, berretto con pom pom grigio, mannaggia mi prudono le mani, vorrei iniziare subito!!!</div>
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Vabeh, nel frattempo in casa ci coccoliamo tutti questa amata "Bambola" (si si chiama cosí.. che fantasia eh!), la viziamo a suon di torte, pizze, ravioli di feltro e mille altre leccornie.. le organizziamo feste di compleanno, le offriamo te' e biscottini e le invidiamo non poco (io, per lo meno) quell'adorabile guardaroba che si ritrova, fortunella lei :)</div>
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<i style="color: #7f6000;">Personally, this very very long post, will be extremely useful in the future as a detailed reference... I am sure this won't be the first and only Waldorf style doll I make,. I hope some girlfriends and boyfriends will join her at some point, for both the pixie girl and the bear boy to play with. I can already envision a boy version with a pair of duck egg knitted dungarees, some beige gingham pjs, a grey knitted pom pom hat... awwww itchy hands!!!!</i></div>
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<i style="color: #7f6000;">In the meantime we all take care of "Bambola" (that means doll in italian, yes, so very creative right!?), we spoil her with a constant supply of cakes, pizzas, felt ravioli and so many other yummy things.. we organise birthday parties for her with tea and cookies, and we are very very jealous (well, that's only me) of her gorgeous wardrobe! Such alucky lucky dolly!</i></div>
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La mia piú cara amica, qui in UK, mi aveva avvisata giá molto tempo fa. Lei ha una bimba un anno e mezzo piú grande di Adele e mi aveva detto che passata la soglia dei 2 o 3 anni sarebbe stato un pó piú difficile trovare nei negozi quel tipo di abbigliamento che noi (entrambe) adoriamo per le nostre bimbe (righine fiorellini, pois, tinte unite, disegni molto delicati di animaletti ecc.). Devo dire che effettivamente cosí é stato. Qualcosa di carino nello stile che amo, ancora lo trovo ma faccio effettivamente molta fatica al momento. Le cose piú deliziose le fanno in genere per bimbe sotto i 2 o 3 anni.</div>
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Cosí, gia da un pó di tempo, mi sono messa in testa di sfruttare il pochissimo tempo che ho a disposizione (in particolare da quando, un mesetto fa anche il piccolino ha iniziato due mattine al nido a settimana...) e la manualitá acquisita negli anni, oltre che i tanti metri di stoffa accumulati nel tempo e di provare a fare qualcosa per Adele io stessa.</div>
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Chiariamo subito una cosa, non é conveniente dal punto di vista economico ne' di tempo. Ma la soddisfazione é tanta e il poter creare qualcosa nello stile che si ama, specie se non lo si trova nei negozi, non ha prezzo.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">My dearest friend, here in the UK, had warned me already a long time ago. She has a little girl who is one and a half years older than Adele, and she had told me that once girls reach 2 or 3 years of age, it becomes a little more tricky to find in shops clothes in the style we (both) love.. (I mean stripes, dots, chintzy florals, plain and simple colours, sweet animal illustrations etc.) and I have to say that I can confirm that.</span></i></div>
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Il modello che ho usato é il <a href="https://shop.made-by-rae.com/products/geranium-dress" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Geranium dress di Made by Rae</b></a>, straconsigliatissimo e giá usato in passato per fare vestitini (sia per Adele che per altre bimbe) e che tra le varie opzioni puó essere anche fatto piú corto, come appunto, top. In questo caso ho usato anche l'<a href="https://shop.made-by-rae.com/products/geraniumxp" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">expansion pack</a> (un pacchetto con extra opzioni da usare con il pattern di base) per fare le maniche lunghe, che avevo acquistato molto tempo fa ma non ancora mai sperimentato.</div>
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Fare il top in se' (una volta che i pezzi del modello erano gia stati stampati e ritagliati e incollati e pronti all'uso) ha richiesto mi pare una bella mattina lunga di lavoro e tuttosommato non é stato troppo complicato. </div>
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Forse é stato piú complicato fare le foto di lei che lo indossa che fare il top in se'... come si puó vedere dalle immagini sfocate e con inquadrature non proprio dritte :)</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">Overall I can safely safe it was probably harder to convince her to take some pictures while wearing it rather than making the top itself.. as you can see from the wobbly out of focus pics and the weird angles :)</span></i></div>
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Spero nelle prossime settimane di riuscire a creare qualche altro top, sempre con questa modello cosi versatile (l'expansion pack permette di fare mille opzioni tra maniche corte, lunghe, busto corto o lungo, fiocchi, colletti e quant'altro!) .. ma come al solito, il problema da queste parti é il tempo!</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">I hope, during the next weeks/months, to be able to create some other tops, always with this very easy and versatile pattern (especially since the expansion pack includes to many different options, with long or short or 3/4 sleeves, long or short top, bows, peter pan collars etc.)... but as usual, time is not on my side.. so let's see!</span></i></div>
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Controllavamo le previsioni ogni giorno (piú volte al giorno!). La prima volta che avevano promesso neve era martedí, ma non é successo proprio nulla. La seconda volta era giovedí, ma fino a quasi ora di andare a letto il cielo era scuro e non lasciava presagire nulla, noi eravamo tutti in salotto a giocare e controllavamo alla finestra ogni tanto. E poi improvvisamente, senza nemmeno che ce ne accorgessimo, ha iniziato, <span style="font-size: large;">e in pochi minuti tutto era bianco e silenzioso.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Che magia.</span></div>
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Era tra l'altro l'ora di andare a nanna per i bimbi, e Adele era cosí emozionata che non ascoltava nemmeno i libri della buonanotte che le leggevo, e ogni tot voleva andare alla finestra a vedere!</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">We were checking the forecasts every single day, (more than once a day!). The first time they promised snow was last Tuesday, but nothing happened. The second time was on Thursday, but up until almost bedtime the sky was perfectly still, we were playing in the lounge and checking at the window every now and then. And then suddenly, without even realising it had started, <span style="font-size: large;">it was all silent and white.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">It was at the kids' bedtime and Adele was so excited she wouldn't even listen to her bedtime stories I was reading, and she constantly wanted to go to the window and check!</span></i></div>
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Il mattino dopo era Narnia. <span style="font-size: large;">Era un mondo incantato</span>, la meraviglia dell'inverno nella sua epressione piu bella, l'attesa di bimbi e grandi, e le scuole chiuse e il lavorare da casa (per chi puó.. per chi non puó sicuramente un pó piú fatica per spalare in fretta e furia e guidare piano piano, ma per fortuna le strade erano abbastanza pulite), e le palle di neve, e i micioni che tentennavano per uscire, e tutto coperto di zucchero a velo, e passeggiate nel bosco che é tutto diverso dal solito, e il laghetto completamente ghiacciato, le anatre che pattinano un pó, pupazzi di neve da fare, stivali di gomma, doppi calzettoni, fiocchi che scendono non stop, sorrisi tra sconosciuti, bambini emozionati, slittini, cani felicissimi...</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">And the day after it was all like Narnia. <span style="font-size: large;">It was an enchanting fairytale world</span>, the most beautiful side of Winter, after all the waiting, and the schools closed, and many people working from home (of course who wasn't able do that, had to quickly shovel their driveways and venture to work, but luckily, at least in our area, the roads were quite good), and then snowballs, and our cats hesitant to go out, and everything coverd in icing sugar, and walks in the woods that suddenly are all so different from usual, and the lake completely frozen, and the ducks and geese doing some ice skating, and snowmen to build, and welly boots, and double socks and no stop snowflakes falling, smiles among strangers, excited kids, sledges and happy dogs..</span></i></div>
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E per la prima volta, dopo piú di 10 anni che viviamo vicino alla zona dei Cotswolds (e ancora di piú che viviamo in Gran Bretagna) siamo riusciti a visitare qualche villaggio di quell'area meravigliosa, dopo una nevicata. Un pó perché le nevicate sono rare e non necessariamente arrivano ogni anno, un pó perché spesso durano giusto il tempo di un giorno e una notte e con la prima pioggia si scioglie giá tutto, un pó perché, le poche volte che sono state davvero intense, si ha poca voglia di prendere la macchina ed avventurarsi in strade magari ghiacciate o comunque pericolose.. insomma <span style="font-size: large;">non ero mai riuscita a realizzare questo piccolo sogno.</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">And for the first time, after more than ten years living close to the Cotswolds area (and even more, living in the UK), we managed to visit some Cotswolds village after a snowfall. We had never been able to do that before, partly because snowfalls are not very frequent and they don't happen every year, party because when they happen they often last just for 1-2 days and then the first rainfall just makes everything melt down, and partly because after the really heavy ones, we never felt like taking the car and driving along possibly dangerous icy roads... and because of all of this<span style="font-size: large;"> I had never been able to fulfil this little dream of mine.</span></span></i></div>
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Ma questa volta, nonostante la nevicata sia stata davvero molto intensa, i comuni erano preparati e le strade erano state pulite molto bene, quindi Sabato e Domenica, abbiamo deciso, complici due meravigliosi giorni di cieli azzurri e sole intenso,<span style="font-size: large;"> di avventurarci verso i Cotswolds e vederli in versione innevata</span>. Sabato ci siamo diretti a<span style="font-size: large;"> Bibury e Barnsley</span>. Abbiamo camminato e camminato, evitando i sentieri piú ghiacciati, ci siamo goduti la quiete di questi villaggi per una volta non troppo affollati di turisti, abbiamo ammirato i cottage con i tetti innevati che sembrano casette di pan di zenzero con la glassa sopra... </div>
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E la parte piú magnifica di tutte é stato <span style="font-size: large;">il momento del tramonto</span>.. un tramonto rosa pastello di quelli che solo l'inverno ti sanno regalare. E vederlo dalla stradine alla fine del villaggio, nel silenzio, di fronte a dolci colline bianche, il rosa del cielo interrotto solo dalle sagome di alberi spogli.. indescrivibile a parole.. <span style="font-size: large;">mi sembrava di essere dentro un quadro! </span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">But this time, the snowfall was quite a heavy one, but the councils were prepared so most of the roads in our area had been cleaned up, so on Saturday and Sunday, also thanks to a couple of beautiful sunny days, we decided <span style="font-size: large;">to venture to the beautiful snowy Cotswolds</span>. On Saturday we had a stroll around <span style="font-size: large;">Bibury and Barnsley.</span> We walked and walked, dodging the very icy patches, enjoying the quietness of these villages, that for once, were not too full of tourists, admiring the cottages with their roofs covered by what looked like icing sugar on gingerbread houses.. and the most beautiful bit was the <span style="font-size: large;">sunset</span>. A perfect pink winter sunset. And staring at it from the little road at the end of the village, just silence, stillness and sweet gentle snowy hills in front of you.. the pinkness of the sky interrupted only by the dark shapes of bare trees.. impossible to describe it with words.. <span style="font-size: large;">I felt like I was inside a painting!</span></span></i></div>
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Domenica invece, siamo riusciti a combinare un giretto all'ultimo minuto con i nostri amici. Dopo un pranzo velocissimo a casa nostra abbiamo messo tutti gli stivali di gomma, berretti e guanti, marsupio e passeggino per i bimbi, e tante risate e salti sulla neve per le bimbe, e tutti abbiamo goduto di <span style="font-size: large;">una bellissima e freddissima passeggiata a Lower e Upper Slaughter</span> (e lungo il delizioso sentiero di campagna che li unisce..). La neve era gia in parte sciolta ma il paesaggio era comunque stupendo (beh.. é meraviglioso sempre e comunque anche senza neve.. con la neve puó solo diventare ancora piú speciale!)</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">On Sunday we managed to arrange a last minute day out with our friends. A quick lunch at our place, and then welly boots on, hats and mittens, baby carrier and pushchair for the little boys, lots of laughter and jumping on the snow for the girls, <span style="font-size: large;">a long cold walk in Lower Slaughter and Upper Slaughter</span> (and along the countryside path which joins them) for all of us. The snow was already partly melt but the landscape was still absolutely beautiful.. (well.. it's stunning without any snow anyway.. so a bit of white icing can only make it more special!)</span></i><br />
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I giorni di neve sono finiti (almeno per ora.. ma fino alla fine di Marzo, e a volte anche oltre, non si puó certo escludere che ne arrivino ancora.. vedremo..).. la pioggia ha sciolto quasi tutto, e cosi ci rimangono strade fangose e poltigliose fuori, ma anche <span style="font-size: large;">tanti ricordi di quei "giorni da libro di favole"!</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">Snowy days are over (at least for now.. but until the end of March, or sometimes even later, we can definitely not rule out some more.. so let's see).. the rain is melting everything down.. we are left with muddy yucky roads and paths outside, but lots of pictures and <span style="font-size: large;">memories of those "fairytale days"!</span></span></i></div>
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In mezzo a post autunnali, natalizi, di scorci di casa, dei Cotswolds, di vita di tutti i giorni, finalmente, per una volta, il mio blog torna ad essere ció per cui é nato.. una condivisione di lavori creativi.</div>
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Questo quadretto, é stato il regalo di Natale per i miei piú cari amici qui in Inghilterra. </div>
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Amici che sono piú che amici.. che sono quasi (o piú di) una famiglia, in questa isola lontani (sia loro che noi) dalle nostre famiglie di origine, ci si da' forza e ci si aiuta in tutti i modi possibili e immaginabili. Abbiamo anche la fortuna che i nostri bimbi hanno etá molto vicine, per cui veramente, sono grata all'universo o alle costellazioni che ci hanno fatto incontrare!</div>
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Loro hanno un valore inestimabile per me, per noi, per cui non mi ha pesato (anche se a momenti perdevo le speranze di finirlo lo ammetto!) spendere un tempo infinito (letteralmente!) a ricamare questo quadretto che li rappresenta.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">In the middle of autumn posts, Christmassy posts, Cotswolds and countryside posts, daily life posts.. luckily, for once, my blog today goes back to being what it was originally born to be.. a place where I could share my makes with fellow crafters and craft lovers.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">This picture, was the Christmas gift for my dearest friends here in England.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">Friends that are actually more than friends... that are almost like (or even more than) a family, as we all live in this island far away from any real family (both us and them) we end up trying to help each other all the time in every possible way. Our kids are also very close in age, so that's really a stroke of luck and I am so glad to the universe or the lucky constellation that made us meet them!</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">They have an inestimable value to me, to us, so I didn't mind one bit (although at times I admit I was starting to loose hope!) all the endless time spent stitching this picture that portrait them.</span></i></div>
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Si, tempo infinito.. tempo che ho decisamente sottovalutato, non essendo una ricamatrice abituale. Mentre ricamavo i corpi, i visi, i dettagli, mi dicevo "eh dai fatto questo é fatto il grosso.. i dettagli son la cosa piú complicata.. poi la casa sará una passeggiata!" e ne ero proprio convinta eh!</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">While I was stitching the bodies, the faces, the details, I kept telling myself "well.. this is the worse bits, I am pretty sure after this, stitching the house will be a picnic"! and I was so convinced of this!</span></i></div>
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I mattoncini non finivano piú e poi c'erano ancora i microdettagli come i loro gatti sulle finestre, il tetto.. le mini finestrelle..<br />
Notti lunghissime a fare le ore piccole per fare qualche riga in piú.. qualche punto in piú..<br />
Ma la bellezza di fare a mano é proprio questa.<br />
Il poter personalizzare tutto fino al minimo dettaglio, ogni punto e ogni particolare hanno il loro importante significato.. i giochi preferiti dei loro bimbi, il colore dei loro micioni, i dettagli della loro casa, e quelle due stelline...<br />
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">The house bricks seemed to never ever end.. and then all the micro details like their cats on the windowsills, the roof, the little windows..</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">Many long nights going to bed way too late trying to add just a few extra rows.. a few extra stitches..</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">The chance of making everything completely customised, of adding all the little and very important and meaningful detail, the favourite toys of their kids, the colours of their cats, the details of their home, and those two little stars...</span></i><br />
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E poi come al solito i dubbi.. verrá bene? non avevo termini di riferimento, ne' cartamodelli o istruzioni.. son andata proprio a fatto senza grande progettazione (ovviamente ho disegnato il tutto su un foglio di carta prima.. ma non son esperta di ricamo e ho fatto tutto totalmente a caso... come veniva.. e si vede..) ma nonostante questo man mano che il quadretto prendeva forma me ne innamoravo sempre piú e alla fine il risultato mi ha fatto davvero felice (e spero anche loro!)</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">And then the usual doubts.. how will the result be? I didn't have any reference or pattern or instructions.. I just went on step by step without much thought (of course I had first drawn all the image in a piece of paper though... but for the stitching part I just played by ear without any specific knowledge.. and you can probably see that..) but despite all that, while the picture was taking shape, I was falling in love more and more with it, and the final result really made me happy (and hopefully them as well!)</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lo avevo un pochino perso lo spirito natalizio, lo ammetto..</span> era rimasto tra una carta luccicante e un chiudipacco di pignette e fiocchetti tartan di quelli preziosi della merceria sotto casa, lo avevo perso in un piatto di tortellini (rigorosamente senza brodo per me, lo detesto!) a casa della nonna, sul tappeto di casa mia a scartare regali con mamma e papá e i nostri pelosotti, davanti all'albero di plastica con quelle decorazioni coloratissime e anni ottanta che ora mi sembrerebbe un pò orribile ma che a quei tempi era "la gioia piu grande dell'anno", sulle briciole della tavola della nonna imbandita con la tovaglia bianca delle feste, sul divano con i miei cugini a giocare con i nostri tanto attesi giochi nuovi, nel salotto dell'altra mia nonna con le luci calde della sera, il presepio con gli specchietti a creare un ruscello sotto il ponte, il pianoforte che suona musica calda e familiare, sempre la stessa anno dopo anno, <span style="font-size: large;">era rimasto li' nella mia infanzia felice, nella magia della notte in cui arrivava Babbo Natale </span>e la mattina ritrovavo una marea di pacchetti di un vecchietto barbuto davvero troppo generoso.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="font-size: large;">I had somehow almost lost my Christmas spirit, I have to admit it..</span> I had left it somewhere among the shiny wrapping paper and the beautiful precious wrapping decorations made of pine cones and tartan bows, bought in the haberdashery just around the corner, I had left it in my granny's home in a plate of tortellini (without broth as, despite it being very popular and traditional in Italy, I have never been a fan at all of anything soup-y and broth-y!), on the rug at home, unwrapping gifts with my mum and dad and our fur babies, in front of a very plasticky, very colourful, very eighties Christmas tree, that I would find slightly ugly now but that at the time, was the most magical and special sight of the year to me, I had left it on the crumbs over the special white festive tablecloth on my granny's table, on the sofa with my cousins while playing with our special long desired new gifts, and in my other granny's cosy lounge on Christmas evening, with dim lights and the beautiful big nativity with the little mirrors creating a stream under the bridge, and the piano creating those familiar and warm notes, played year after year, <span style="font-size: large;">I had left it there, in my happy childhood, in the magic of the night when Father Christmas arrives</span> and of the morning where I used to find so many gifts from a way too generous old white bearded man.</span></i></div>
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Per anni ho cercato di reinventarla questa magia, nonostante le cose siano cambiate immensamente e in modo drammatico nella mia famiglia, rispetto a quegli anni, e con un pó di sforzo a volte ci sono anche un pochino riuscita, tante volte meno. Poi sono arrivati loro, e la nostra vita si é ribaltata, ma proprio ribaltata. <span style="font-size: large;">E nonostante la stanchezza di un anno molto ma molto piú complesso e faticoso</span> (per molti aspetti) di quello che avrei mai potuto immaginare (non amo lamentarmi in rete, e lo faccio raramente, anche perché alla fin fine, in rete non si sa mai come comportarsi, che se si dice che va tutto bene, non si é realisti e si fa vedere la famiglia mulino bianco che chiaramente non esiste, e se invece ci si lamenta di problemi piú o meno grossi, ci sará sempre qualcuno che li ha piú grandi di te, e quindi é stupido lamentarsi, e ahime' ne conosco, sia in rete che non, diverse di persone che affrontano incubi tremendi ed inimmaginabili che in confronto i miei son ridicoli), un anno che in inglese definirebbero "challenging" (non so bene come tradurre ma direi complicato, difficile, pieno di sfide praticamente giornaliere), e nonostante un autunno davvero pieno e distruggente per via di cose piacevoli e non, nonostante una marea di faccende burocratiche (grazie infinite Brexit..) che ci hanno tenuti impegnati e ci hanno tolto ogni energia e ogni attimo libero negli ultimi mesi, nonostante mille pensieri su decisioni, molto piu grandi di noi, per il futuro che si fanno sempre piú pressanti e che ci angosciano non poco, nonostante tutto questo <span style="font-size: large;">io davanti a quell'albero che profuma di bosco</span>, a quelle decorazioni fatte a mano nel tempo o prese in posti speciali anno dopo anno, davanti a <span style="font-size: large;">quelle manine</span> che appendono i decori e a <span style="font-size: large;">quegli occhietti</span> incantati dalle lucine, davanti a tutta questa magia <span style="font-size: large;">ho sentito lo spirito del Natale piú forte che mai</span> e sono tornata bambina, la sera della vigilia di Natale, aspettando come i miei bimbi l'arrivo della notte piu bella dell'anno.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">For years I have tried to find all that magic again, to create it myself, despite the fact things in my family dramatically changed compared to when I was a kid.. sometimes I was almost successful, sometimes I was not. Then the little ones arrived, and our life was turned upside down, literally upside down. <span style="font-size: large;">And despite this year being way more difficult and tiring,</span> (on so many levels) than I could have ever forecasted (I hate to complain in general, but I especially hate to complain online, as here you never know what to say and how much to say, because if you never complain and only show happy things, it looks like you are showing the perfect family life that certainly doesn't exist, but at the same time, if you complain and talk about the lows, then there will always be someone in a worse situation so you shouldn't really complain, and I certainly know a few people, both online and offline that are dealing with such nightmares that are almost unimaginable to me), a year that I think I can define as "challenging" to say the least, and despite a very tiring autumn, full of good, but also not so good things, and a load of bureocratic matters (thank you so much Brexit..) that took all our energy and free time in the last few months, and despite all the huge impending life decisions, way too big for us to be able to make a sensible choice, despite all of this, <span style="font-size: large;">when I was in front of that tree that smells of forest</span>, in front of those decorations, partly handmade, partly bought, year after year in special places dear to us, in front of <span style="font-size: large;">those little hands</span> hanging up an ornament and <span style="font-size: large;">those little eyes</span> mesmerised by the twinkling lights, in front of all this magic, <span style="font-size: large;">I felt all the Christmas spirit I had missed so much,</span> and I just felt like a child again, I felt like I was feeling on Christmas eve, waiting for the arrival of the most wonderful night of the year.</span></i></div>
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Il periodo dell'avvento, si sa, é spesso piu bello del giorno di Natale stesso. Quest'anno mi ero imposta di fare le cose con calma, di prendermi per tempo, di fissare delle prioritá,<span style="font-size: large;"> di rendere questo periodo davvero pieno di ricordi da portare con noi.</span> I bimbi sono ancora piccoli, ma Adele, avendo 3 anni, inizia a capire abbastanza e cosí il periodo dell'attesa é stato scandito da un calendario dell'avvento (preconfezionato con giochini Playmobil per lei... un giorno avró tempo di farne uno handmade.. un giorno... chissá..., e classico con le finestrelle che si aprono e senza nessun cioccolatino ne' nulla per me.. mi ricordava tanto quelli che avevamo in casa quando ero piccina piccina) e da giri natalizi in paesetti che in quel periodo dell'anno sembrano ancora piú incantati del solito, con le finestre addobbate a piccoli villaggi invernali o con presepi fatti a mano, con gli alberi di Natale pieni di lucine da sbirciare nei salotti, e con i negozi pieni di addobbi e le porte dei cottage ognuna con la sua stupenda corona. E anche da <span style="font-size: large;">riti che vorremmo diventassero nuove tradizioni della nostra piccola famiglia che un giorno, spero, saranno ricordi scaldacuore per i piccoletti..</span> il pattinaggio sul ghiaccio nel garden centre piú natalizio del mondo (il Whitehall di Lacock, un posto pazzesco a Natale), le renne da incontrare e la foto di rito sulla slitta di Babbo Natale, il treno a vapore Santa Special (un treno a vapore tutto natalizio,dove incontrare anche Babbo Natale, qui é un'usanza tipica e ce ne sono quasi in ogni paesetto, anche perché in Gran Bretagna c'é un'immensa passione per tutto ciò che è antico e storico, tra cui anche stazioni vittoriane perfettamente conservate in cui viaggiano ogni weekend tanti treni a vapore, e in cui vengono spessissimo fatte rievocazioni in costume degli anni vittoriani, ma anche del periodo delle guerre o degli anni 50) e il Santa's grotto (una specie di casetta/caverna, che puó essere nei villaggi, nei garden centre o nei centri commerciali, dove i bambini inglesi tradizionalmente incontrano Babbo Natale durante l'avvento, che consegna loro un piccolo dono), la casetta di pan di zenzero da costruire e decorare, i biscotti di Natale da infornare e consegnare a chi si vuole bene...</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">The period before Christmas, I am sure many agree with me, can often be even more special than the big day itself. This year I really tried to do everything slowly, to prioritise, <span style="font-size: large;">to make that period really a special one to fill with memories to forever take with us.</span> The children are still young, but Adele, being three, is beginning to understand a lot, so the Advent period was celebrated with Advent Calendars (a toy Playmobil one for Adele, .. but one day I will find the time to make a handmade one for the kids.. one day.. and a simple, vintage style, without chocolate or treats for me, that reminded me so much of my childhood), with some strolls in beautiful little towns and hamlets, where the cottage windows where decorated with magical Winter Villages and beautiful handmade nativities, and where you could peek the Christmas trees warming up the lounges, and where the shops where full of cheerful decorations and every front door had a beautiful wreath to add to the festive feel. We made the most of the Advent time <span style="font-size: large;">creating new rituals that we hope will become family traditions that one day, I hope, the kids will remember with a heartwarming feel...</span> ice skating in the most Christmassy garden centre of our neck of the woods (Whitehall garden centre in Lacock.. magical.. just magical..), and meeting real reindeer and taking a picture on the sleigh, and a ride on the Santa Special steam train (as it's traditional here in the UK, as most areas have at least one antique train station close by, mainly dating back to Victorian times or earlier, where steam trains are still running for touristic purposes and for historic reenactments, covering the Victorian times, or the War period, or the fifties and so..) and visiting the Santa's grotto, and building and decorating a gingerbread house, and baking Christmas cookies to enjoy and to gift to the loved ones...</span></i></div>
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Il laboratorio di Babbo Natale: ha aggiunto degli stickers con le foto dei destinatari dei regali, cosí i bimbi potevano capire subito per chi era il regalo! Bravo Babbo Natale!)</div>
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E poi la notte piu magica di tutte... per la prima volta ho deciso di adottare un'usanza (che credo arrivi dagli Stati Uniti?) di cui avevo sentito parlare un paio di anni fa, ma aspettavo che almeno Adele avesse l'etá giusta per apprezzarla. La <span style="font-size: large;">Christmas Eve Box</span> (Scatola della vigilia). Una scatola, da aprire la sera della vigilia, dove inserire quello che si vuole. Di solito possono esserci pigiami per la notte di Natale, calzetti comodi e natalizi, qualche dolcetto, una cioccolata calda (in busta) per i bimbi un pó piú grandi, un film da vedere assieme la sera della vigilia e un libro da leggere prima della nanna e magari una lettera di Babbo Natale e un pupazzo o qualche piccolo pensierino se lo si desidera. <span style="font-size: large;">L'idea é di rendere ancora piú coccola e magica l'attesa di questa notte speciale.</span> Io ho messo dentro due pigiamini natalizi (io li ho presi una taglia piú grandi, cosí andranno bene anche durante il periodo prenatalizio l'anno prossimo!), due paia di calzettoni natalizi, due piccoli sacchettini con un biscotto fatto da me, un dvd (una piccola raccolta di episodi Natalizi di Peppa Pig!) e un libro Natalizio da leggere prima di dormire.</div>
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E' stato bellissimo vedere lo stupore negli occhi di Adele per questa cosa cosí strana (tornare giu a vedere la tv con un biscotto da mangiare con il pigiama sul divano con mamma, papá e nonni é stata davvero una cosa strepitosa per lei!) e spero resterá negli anni un ricordo bellissimo e una tradizione di casa per entrambi.</div>
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La giornata di Natale é andata, per vari motivi, diversamente da quello che sognavo e immaginavo, ma spero comunque per i bimbi rimarrá il ricordo di tutto ció che comunque di positivo c'é stato.. di quella mattina cosí incredibile.. di arrivare in salotto e<span style="font-size: large;"> trovare LA sorpresa</span>, della tazza di latte vuota, e le briciole e i pezzetti di carota lasciati da Babbo e renna... e dei regali da spacchettare in pigiama coi nonni e degli wooow uuuuuhhh.. quell'emozione incontenibile, quel luccichio negli occhi, quella felicitá della tanta attesa finalmente ripagata, <span style="font-size: large;">della magia di quella notte e di quella mattina vista attraverso i loro occhi.. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>And then, at last, the most magical night of all... when for the first time in my life I decided to try a new custom (that I think originally comes from the US?) that I had first heard of a couple of years ago, but I was waiting for Adele to be old enough to understand and appreciate this. It's the <span style="font-size: large;">Christmas Eve box</span>. A box to open on Christmas eve night, to fill with whatever you prefer. Usually people put fresh new pyjamas to be comfy on such a special night, some new socks, some sweets or treats, maybe a chocolate drink (sachet) for the older kids, and a Christmas movie for the night, and a Christmas book to ready before bedtime, and maybe a little cuddle toy, and a letter from Santa or whatever you prefer. <span style="font-size: large;">The idea is to make even more cosy and magical that wonderful night.</span> I put two Christmassy pyjamas (I bought them one size up so hopefully I'll be able to use them next year during the Advent period too!), two pairs of sweet Christmas socks, two little bags with homemade cookies, a dvd (Peppa's Christmas special with a few Xmas episodes) and a Christmas book to read before bedtime.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>It was so amazing seeing Adele's eyes taking everything in (going back downstairs after the bath, and them sitting with their pyjamas and a cookies to eat, with mum, dad and grandparents on the sofa, in the lounge only lit by Christmas lights, to watch tv before bed for the first time ever... a totally crazy experience for them!) and I hope it will stay a nice tradition to repeat every year and a lovely memory for both of them. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>Christmas day, for various reasons, didn't go at all as I had imagined and dreamed of, but I still hope the kids will have the memories of all the good things they experienced nevertheless... of that magical morning entering the lounge and <span style="font-size: large;">finding THE surprise</span>, of the empty plate with the glass without milk and only crumbs of cookie and carrot left, of the time spent unwrapping the gifts in their pyjamas with the grandparents, of the WOOOOW UUUHHH OOOHHH ... that uncontrollable excitement, that sparkle in their eyes, that happiness after all the waiting, <span style="font-size: large;">the magic of that night and of that morning seen through their eyes.. </span></i></span></div>
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(Christmas Eve box - la scatola della vigilia di Natale)</div>
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Federicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05088129802407763234noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3153218400537211117.post-45312953057248899242019-01-11T16:36:00.000+00:002019-01-11T16:36:02.372+00:00Seasonal living - Autumn wonderland (part 3 - November)<div style="text-align: center;">
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Ohhhh Novembre, <span style="font-size: large;">dolcissimo Novembre..</span> tutti (me compresa, lo ammetto) decantano Ottobre come fosse il culmine dell'autunno, e mi sento sempre un pó triste quando Ottobre finisce, pensando "ecco, l'autunno é giá volato via" ma tu Novembre sei a tratti ancora piu bello. </div>
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Tutte le foglie che colorano gli alberi in Ottobre in Novembre cadono, e gli alberi diventano spogli ma <span style="font-size: large;">per terra é un tappeto colorato e meraviglioso</span>.</div>
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Si é vero é giá Gennaio, l'autunno é finito da un pezzo, il Natale giá un ricordo, e inzia quell'inevitabile desiderio di Primavera e bulbi e colori pastello e sole... ma... siamo effettivamente ancora nel pieno dell'inverno (e la primavera, specie a queste latitudini, é ancora un miraggio molto lontano) quindi non mi pare troppo fuori stagione raccontarvi ancora un pó del mio amato autunno.. dato che i mesi scorsi sono stati davvero densi e pieni e non ho avuto un solo istante libero per pensare al blog.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;">Oooooh sweet <span style="font-size: large;">sweet November..</span>. everyone (included me, actually) always praise October as if it was Autumn's peak, and I admit I always feel quite sad when October ends, as I tend to think "that's it, Autumn has gone" but, November, you can be even more beautiful than October is.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;">All the leaves that make the trees beautiful in October, fall down in November so on the ground, everywhere you look at, it's all <span style="font-size: large;">a wonderful and colourful crunchy carpet.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;">And yes, it's true, we are in January, Autumn has long gone, Christmas is already a memory, and that inevitable desire of Spring, bulbs, pastel colours and sun is arising... but... we are still in the depths of Winter (and Spring, especially at these latitudes, is still a long long way from now) so I don't feel like it's too much out of season telling you about my beloved Autumn for just a little bit longer.. as the last few months have been so hectic and full and I never had a single spare moment to spend here on my blog.</span></i></div>
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Ormai penso sia piú che evidente, che il blog é soprattutto per me stessa, lo ripeto sempre lo so, ma é che penso che parlare di autunno a gennaio sia la cosa piú assurda che esista dal punto di vista "social". Su instagram per lo meno, é tutto un rincorrere la prossima cosa, la prossima stagione, il prossimo evento.., io invece qui arrivo sempre in ritardo.. <span style="font-size: large;">devo vivere le cose, le stagioni, fotografare, assorbire e poi nei rari momenti di calma e quando riesco, scegliere le foto e raccontare.</span> Le tempistiche e l'aspetto "social" non mi interessano molto a me basta avere un diario da rileggere e delle foto che mi scaldino il cuore da ripercorrere negli anni a venire... Credo che anche alle lettrici piú affezionate non interesserá se sono poco sincronizzata coi tempi e se arrivo sempre in ritardo.. l'importante, penso, sia portare un pó di ispirazione, un sorriso e distribuire bellezza.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">I am sure it's completely obvious by now that this blog is mainly for my benefit, I said this so many times I know, but it's just that talking about Autumn in January seems like the less "social" and web-wise thing to do ever. At least on Instagram it's all about chasing the next thing, the next season, the next event... while I always come so late...<span style="font-size: large;"> I need to live the moments, to feel the seasons, to take pictures, to collect them, to soak up everything and then, in the rare spare and quiet moments, if and when I am able to, I finally choose the pictures and come here to write.</span> The timings and the social aspect and "rules" are really not important for me.. I just want to have a diary to come back to in the future years, full of pictures and words that warm my heart... I have a feeling that many of my most loyal readers will agree with me on this, and they won't care if I am not synchronized with the "social" world uses and timings.. I think the most important thing is to inspire and to spread beauty.</span></i></div>
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Il nostro Novembre é stato pieno di <span style="font-size: large;">passeggiate/biciclettate al sole</span>, (abbiamo avuto un autunno davvero meraviglioso, che abbiamo poi pagato con un dicembre molto grigio e un gennaio ancora peggio..), di foglie e bacche da raccogliere (sai che novitá direte voi!), <span style="font-size: large;">grandi querce su cui arrampicarsi </span>(o meglio insistere fino allo sfinimento perché la mamma ti sieda su quel ramo che sembra proprio una poltroncina da cui sentirsi cosí in alto anche se in realtá é a poco piú di un metro da terra!), stivali infangati, berretti caldissimi, gnocchi di zucca (la nostra ultima fissa...), <span style="font-size: large;">passeggiate colorate in campagne bellissime,</span> un compleanno specialissimo da preparare (vedi <b><a href="http://www.countrykittyland.com/2018/11/a-beary-sweet-birthday.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">qui</a></b>), profumo di funghi, passeggiate stupende in villaggi incantati che si colorano di rosa al tramonto (un pódi foto qui.. altre arriveranno in un altro post)... perché i tramonti di autunno son qualcosa che non si puó spiegare.. e cappottini da finire (vedi <b><a href="http://www.countrykittyland.com/2018/11/a-perfect-little-gentleman.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">qui</a></b>) e salopette da iniziare (coming soon), e <span style="font-size: large;">pomeriggi silenziosi rubati alle mille faccende domestiche e di vita, seduta in cucina a dedicarmi a questo angolino</span> finché i piccoli dormono (quando dormono, perché la folletta ultimamente ha deciso che dormire é per i bambini piccoli e ormai i riposini pomeridiano sono un terno al lotto.. quindi se giá mi vedevate poco, non so in futuro se andrá meglio, anzi..), calze color senape e vestiti di lana..</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">Our November was full of <span style="font-size: large;">sunny walks/bike rides</span> (we had such a wonderful autumn, but we then paid back with quite a grey December and even worse January..), and of pink and red berries and pretty leaves to collect (oh! that's something new, you will probably say!), <span style="font-size: large;">mighty oak trees to climb </span>(well, more like begging mummy to put her on that branches that look like a chair, where she can feel she is on top of the world even though that is actually slightly more than a metre from the ground!), muddy boots, warm hats, butternut squash gnocchi (our latest obsession..),<span style="font-size: large;"> colourful country walks</span>, a special birthday to organise (see<a href="http://www.countrykittyland.com/2018/11/a-beary-sweet-birthday.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> <b>here</b></a>), smell of mushrooms, strolls in beautiful enchanting villages that in the late afternoon become magical with those amazing pink autumn sunsets that are hard to describe with words,... and knitted coats to finish (see <b><a href="http://www.countrykittyland.com/2018/11/a-perfect-little-gentleman.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a></b>) and dungarees to cast on (coming soon), and<span style="font-size: large;"> rare quiet afternoons stolen from house and family duties to devote to myself and to this corner of my world</span>, sat at the kitchen table writing my blog while the little ones nap (when they nap, as my pretty pixie has decided she is too old for napping so now, afternoon naps are a complete bet every day, they may happen or not, so if I was not coming here often, I don't think this is going to improve soon..) and mustard coloured tights and woolen dresses..</span></i></div>
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Ecco queste foto, che naturalmente sono solo uno spicchio, un piccolissimo spicchio di quello che son stati questi mesi.. uno spicchio che sa di calore, di calma, e di coccole, anche se spesso la nostra vita é tutt'altro.. (ma veramente veramente tutt'altro.. che di fiabesco ha molto molto poco..) queste foto, questi momenti e queste sensazioni, <span style="font-size: large;">sono quelle che voglio portare con me </span>e ricordare nel tempo..<br />
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;">And so these pictures, that obviously are just a very very small portion of what these months have been... a small portion that feel like warmth, cosiness and calm to me , even though most of the time our life is way different from all of this (but seriously, way way different.. our life many days is the exact opposite of the calmness and fairy tale feeling that these pics have!).. these pictures, these moments, as brief as they may have been, these feelings, <span style="font-size: large;">are what I want to take with me</span> and to remember in the future..</span></i><br />
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Un abbraccio a chi passa di qui! ... e Buon Anno!</div>
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E le foglie coloratissime e il mio liquid amber che dalla finestra sembra un'illustrazione di una pagina di un libro di fiabe, e i lavori a maglia a tutto ritmo per non arrivare troppo tardi a completarli che poi arriva il freddo freddo e servono proprio. e le giornate grige calde e coccole a casa a fare biscotti e dolcetti. E gli stivali di gomma e le pozzanghere. e le zucche. arancioni, bianche e rosa (queste ultime con un pó di aiuto di pittura e pennelli!). E le lucine. E il profumo di torta di mele. E i film e le serie sul divano la domenica pomeriggio finche i piccoli pisolano (innamorata pazza di This is us e di Outlander) per non parlare di Anne with an E, ma quella me la sono guardata mentre stiro assieme ai video coccolosissimi di <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjW7vWkbkkQ9XkckjKUkrlg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Valentina dell'<i>angolo del focolare</i></a>) perché le giornate iniziano a farsi corte e non si sta fuori tanto.</div>
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E quella luce stupenda.. bassa e calda che solo l'autunno. E i tramonti rosa da fermarsi con la macchina a fare foto e parlarne persino con gli sconosciuti che si fermano accanto a te. E un compleanno speciale e la sua prima festina vera con gli amichetti e una mamma tanto felice di vederla felice. E mille coccole e risate coi nonni. E regali speciali da perparare e creare stando sveglia ogni notte fino all'una e mezza per un paio di settimane con la voglia incontenibile di vedere la sua faccia e il suo wooow appena li avrebbe visti (che non é proprio successo perché aveva una mattina super lunatica e non voleva nemmeno aprire i regali ma non importa... vita da mamma è anche questo..andrá meglio la prossima volta ;)!)</div>
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E passeggiate nei Cotswolds ma anche nei boschi dietro casa. E guardarsi incontro sbalorditi da quanto meraviglioso e incantevole ogni angolo sia in Autunno. Una fiaba. E bacche rosa da raccogliere (si ancora!) e mille bulbi da piantare per avere qualcosa da aspettare con impazienza a fine inverno. E il nostro primo pranzetto in due in circa 3 anni (si 3 anni...) come fidanzatini, a mangiare tapas spagnole e continuare a ridere per quanto sembrava strano non venire interrotti ogni trenta secondi (grazie nonni, grazie grazie grazie!). E halloween, e zucche da intagliare insieme per la prima volta, (3 anni é un etá davvero magica.. per la prima volta inizia a capire e interagire molto e si possono provare a fare cose assieme, anche se il caratterino tremendo e le scenate tipiche dei due anni sono ahime ancora tutte presenti, e infatti questo intagliamento é durato giusto 10 minuti prima che si stufasse e volesse passare ad altro!) e la festina all'asilo e una zucca glitterata da cucire e un vestitino da streghetta e uno da scheletrino, che ti fanno innamorare di questa festa che in realtá non sopporti. E le candele accese all'imbrunire. E profumo di legna bruciata lungo le nostre passeggiate.</div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>And so many colourful leaves and my liquid ambar that, seen from the window, looks like an illustration on a story book, and knitting full steam because it's soon going to be cold and we will soon need to wrap up. And grey cosy cuddly days spent at home making cookies and cakes. And welly boots and puddles. And pumpkins, all sort of pumpkins, orange, white and pink (the latter with some help from paint and brush though!). and twinkly lights. And smell of apple cake. And movies and series (absolutely love This is us and Outlander, and adore Anne with an E, but this one I mostly enjoyed while ironing on my own, together with the super cosy videos from </i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjW7vWkbkkQ9XkckjKUkrlg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Valentina of </i>"L'angolo del focolare"</a><i>, which I adore) on the sofa on a Sunday afternoon while the kids sleep as days are too short to spend long time outside. And that low warm sun light that only Autumn has. And amazing pink sunsets, that make you stop with the car and that make you chat about in amazement with other people who stopped like you did. And a special birthday, and her very first real party with her little friends and a mum so proud and happy to see her happy. And so many cuddles with grandma and grandpa who flew from Italy for the little ones. And very special gifts, that made me stay awake until 1.30am every night for 2-3 weeks only powered by the image in my head of her smiling and saying a big wow when opening them (she had a very moody day so that didn't really happen... but that's ok.. mama's life.. it will get better next time ;) )</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">And walks in the Cotswolds and in the woods round the corner. And staring in amazement at how beautiful enchanting every corner is in Autumn. A fairytale. And pink berries to pick (yes, again and again!) and plenty of tulip bulbs to plant to have something to look forwards at the end of Winter. And our first lunch out together, just the two of us, like boyfriend and girlfriend, in 3 years (yes 3 years), to eat tapas and keep on laughing about how weird it was to not be interrupted every thirty seconds for the first time in ages (thank you nonni, thank you so much!). And Halloween, and pumpkins to carve for the first time together (3 years is such a magical age.. she is starting to understand things and we can interact much more, although the crazy tantrums and bad behaviour typical of the 2 years are still there, so the pumpkin carving which she was so excited about lasted just 10 minutes and then she got bored and moved on to something else!), and the party at the nursery, and a glittery pumpkin to sew, and a little witch and a little skeleton, who managed to almost made me love this celebration I usually can't stand. And candles and lanterns at twilight. And the smell of wood fire along our walk.</span></i></div>
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Federicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05088129802407763234noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3153218400537211117.post-42453904549062950202018-11-27T14:50:00.000+00:002018-11-27T15:26:20.596+00:00A beary sweet birthday<div style="text-align: center;">
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Potrei iniziare il post con qualche frase poetica, melanconica ed emozionante su questo momento cosí importante della vita di una mamma... ma in realtá quello che mi viene da dire a caldo dopo un weekend meraviglioso ma anche stancantissimo é.. "per fortuna compiono gli anni solo una volta all'anno"! E ancora piú per fortuna compiono UN ANNO (il compleanno piú magico e speciale di tutti no?) una sola volta nella vita! :)</div>
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Certo che me la cerco, volendo fare tutto (no stavolta tutto proprio no, ma tanto si) fatto a mano, tutto personalizzato, tutto come piace a me.. ma se cosi non fosse non sarei io, quindi <span style="font-size: large;">benvengano i tour de force perché poi la soddisfazione é tanta e perche creare é quello che mi rende felice!</span></div>
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E per il compleanno di Leonardo, pensavo avrei fatto poco niente, perché se giá prima era difficile, ora con due piccoletti, creare e preparare cose é quasi impossibile. Ma non so come ce l'ho fatta. Non son riuscita a fare tutto quello che avevo in mente ma quasi (tra le cose rimaste fuori l'unica di cui davvero mi dispiace tanto é una salopette a maglia per il festeggiato che volevo fargli indossare e a cui mancano in pratica solo le bretelle ma non ce l'ho proprio proprio fatta sigh) </div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">I could begin this post with some poetic and melancholic and emotional words about this very important moment for the life of a mother, but the truth is, what comes to my mind after an exhausting weeks and days is simply "thanks goodness they only have birthdays once a year" and even more "thanks goodness they become ONE year old (the most special and important birthdays of all I would say) once in a lifetime! :)</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">Of course, it's all my fault as I always want to make everything homemade (no, not everything, not this time, but most things), everything customised, everything the way I love it.. but if I didn't do this then it wouldn't be me, so <span style="font-size: large;">these super busy days are more than welcome because I am so content and happy afterwards, and because creating keeps me happy and sane!</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">And for Leonardo's first birthday I honestly thought I wouldn't have made many things myself, because, if it was already hard before, now, with two little ones, finding the time is almost impossible. But I made it. No idea how, but I made it. I didn't manage to do every single thing I had in mind but most (the only thing I had to leave out and I am really sad about is a pair of knitted dungarees which I wanted him to wear on his big day, and there were only the straps missing but I really wasn't able to finish it on time :( )</span></i></div>
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Vorrei avere il tempo e la possibilitá di farvi qualche tutorial o printable per le pochissime cose fatte ma la vedo davvero dura. <span style="font-size: large;">Spero comunque le immagini possano esservi d'ispirazione e darvi magari qualche idea </span>che poi possiate sviluppare a modo vostro. Devo dire che parecchie idee le ho riciclate dalla festa del primo compleanno di Adele :) (vedi<b> <a href="http://www.countrykittyland.com/2016/10/one.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">qui</a></b>)</div>
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Son fortunata perché me la cavo con la grafica e il pc (beh non é arrivato dal cielo.. ho studiato tanti tutorial e provato all'infinito e imparato tutto da autodidatta in anni e anni) per cui riesco a personalizzarmi quasi tutto quello che mi serve... e per il resto tanto aiuto di pinterest e un pò di creatività e via. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">I'd love to have the time and the chance to make some tutorial or create some printable for the things I made (like I used to do in the past every now and again) but I really don't think it's going to happen. <span style="font-size: large;">I hope the pictures can still inspire you and maybe give you some ideas</span> to then develop in your own way. I have to say many ideas were recycled from Adele's first birthday :) (see <b><a href="http://www.countrykittyland.com/2016/10/one.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a></b>)</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">And I am lucky, because I can play a bit with pc and graphic (well, it's not something that was gifted to me, I worked quite hard and spent a lot of time learning completely on my own using all kind of web tutorials and just trying stuff) so I am able to personalise quite a lot of the things I have in mind.... and then a bit of pinterest help and a bit of creativity and there we go.</span></i></div>
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L'idea delle fotine che compongono il numero uno trovo sia stupenda e, ancora una volta (com'era successo con Adele) <span style="font-size: large;">io e Nicola siamo stati a lungo incantati a osservare i cambiamenti..</span> é davvero un colpo d'occhio vedere tutto raccolto, dal giorno zero a qualche giorno prima dell'anno.. vedere questo pulcino (mica tanto pulcino eh.. 4.10kg alla nascita!) dai capelli scuri e gli occhi blu notte che pian piano é diventato un piccolo ometto dai capelli biondi e ondulati, gli occhi (per ora) verdi come la mamma, un visetto stupendo che si fa perdonare tutto (e ce n'é parecchio da perdonare eh ma parecchio parecchio!!!)</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">I find the idea of the little pictures creating the big number one absolutely lovely, and once more (it happened the same when I made the one for Adele two years ago) <span style="font-size: large;">Nicola and me spent ages just staring at the pics, enchanted and mesmerised by the changes</span> happened in just 12 months.. seeing the pics of this little tiny birdie (not so tiny actually, as he was 4.10 kg at birth!) with dark hair and dark blue eyes slowly becoming a little man with blondish hair and green eyes (like his mum, at least for now) and that sweet sweet face, so sweet that everything gets forgiven and forgotten (and there is a lot, and I mean a lot to be forgiven, with this naughty little man!!!)</span></i></div>
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E passando alla parte pratica (decorativa e culinaria) che sicuramente dopo tutto questo blaterare è quella che può interessarvi di più vado per punti perche se no mi perdo!<br />
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<b><span style="color: #45818e;"><u>Props e decorazioni fatte a mano</u></span></b><br />
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-cake topper.<br />
Orso Fatto da me. Non esiste pattern.. fatto in quattro e quattrotto rifacendomi molto al fiocco nascita che avevo fatto a suo tempo.. e a parte il fatto che il muso ricorda un pó piu una scimmia che un orso (non avevo proprio tempo di rifarlo) é davvero perfetto ed esattamente come lo desideravo!<br />
Numero uno di legno. Riciciclato da torta Adele e ridipinto :) lo avevo preso su ebay inglese anni fa.<br />
Stelline di feltro doppiato con carta fusibile in mezzo e su cui ho semplicemente infilato uno stecchino di legno da spiedini.<br />
Poi qualche pigna dai boschi qui dietro e tanto zucchero a velo!<br />
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- Cappellino<br />
Anche questo fatto al volo (per modo di dire.. ci son volute un pò di orette..) e a fatto senza un tutorial preciso. Avevo scaricato <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?safe=off&source=hp&ei=CQf9W4bXLoTTwQKOrKfoBg&q=children%27s+party+hat+template&btnK=Google+Search&oq=children+party+hat+te&gs_l=psy-ab.3.0.0i22i30l4.2383.8089..9344...2.0..0.125.1885.22j2......0....1..gws-wiz.....6..0j35i39j0i131.-mu0IPrahPI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">qualche modello</a> dal web, e poi li ho modificati creando il mio e infine ho disegnato il resto io.. ispirandomi ad alcuni trovati in rete che però erano di carta. Son andata molto a tentoni e spiegare come ho fatto a parole è impossibile.. ma in rete ci son diversi tutorial per fare cose del genere.<br />
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-Bunting con orsetti e stelle<br />
Disegnato da me al pc (io uso inkscape da anni che è un pò come illustrator ma piu basico e gratuito) e stampato su cartoncino e tagliato, e poi attaccato a un sempplice cordino fissato con nasgtro adesivo sul retro.<br />
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-finta lavagna primo compleanno<br />
Io l'ho fatta da me al pc ma ci son parecchi negozi su etsy (e forse altrove)che le fanno per voi se fornite info e dati!<br />
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-Targhette cibi buffet<br />
disegnate da me al pc e poi stampate su cartoncino e tagliate<br />
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- Piatti, piattini, salviette, posate, bicchieri , bunting di carta azzurro a pois e palloncini vari<br />
Per lo più ebay inglese. E pensare che le cosine a tema orso le ho trovate per caso tutte all'ultimo minuto mentre cercavo altro (anche perché avevo gia comprato piatti e salviette semplici blu) e dopo che avevo disegnato già la grafica e tutto e sembra siano fatti apposta e super coordinati, non potevo non prenderli. Che fortuna pazzesca!<br />
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">And moving onto the more practical bits, after all this rambling, I am following bullet points to try and remember everything.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">- Cake topper</span><br />
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">Bear: handmade by me. I didn't use any pattern, it was quickly designed and stitched up and it clearly resembles the bear I had made for Leo's birth wreath... and except for the fact its face looks a bit too much like a monkey, I have to say I really love it and it came out exactly the way I had designed it on paper.</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000;">Numer 1: it's a wooden one, I had bought on Ebay years ago and used on Adele's first birthday cake. I painted blue all over.</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000;">Stars on the sticks: they are just simple doubled felt stars with thermo fusible paper in between and a wooden skewer in between.</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000;">And then some pine cones from the woods around our house and lots of icing sugar!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">- Party hat</span><br />
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">This one too was whipped up very quickly (well... not that quickly as it took a few hours, but I mean I made it in a rush) without following a proper tutorial. I had downloaded <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?safe=off&source=hp&ei=CQf9W4bXLoTTwQKOrKfoBg&q=children%27s+party+hat+template&btnK=Google+Search&oq=children+party+hat+te&gs_l=psy-ab.3.0.0i22i30l4.2383.8089..9344...2.0..0.125.1885.22j2......0....1..gws-wiz.....6..0j35i39j0i131.-mu0IPrahPI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a few templates</a> from the web and eventually made up my own... with heavy inspirations from a few I had found around (although they were made of paper).</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000;">I really went on with a trial and error method and the result is as cute as imperfect (if you would see the inside of the hat you would understand) and I wouldn't be able to explain with words without pics to support.. but there are a lots of tutorials in the web that you could use as a base to then do something similar to this if you want to.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">- Bunting with bears and stars</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000;">I drew it with Inkscape (it's similar to Illustrator but more basic and free) on the pc and then printed on card and cut out and hang with some string attached with simple sellotape on the back.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">- Mock blackboard with facts and stats</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000;">I made it myself on the pc on Photoshop Elements but there are a few shops on Etsy (and probably elsewhere too) that can make for you after you provide them with your info and facts.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">- Food tags</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000;">Drawn by me again on Inkscape and Photoshop and then printed on card and cut</span><br />
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">- Plates, napkins, wooden cutlery, light blue polka dots paper bunting and plenty of various balloons. All bought more or less all from Ebay. And to think that the bear themed props were found last minute while looking for something else (I had already bought simple blue plates and napkins!) and when I realised they perfectly matched the theme and the illustrations I had designed I had to buy them, what a stroke of luck, they were perfect!</span><br />
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Tutto fatto da me e praticamente le stesse cose o quasi preparate per il compleanno di Adele (ma meno, perchè eravamo meno persone). Alcune cose le ho preparate in anticipo e congelate (i mini panini e il danubio), altre preparate il giorno primo (tutti i dolci) altre la mattina stessa (il resto.. tramezzini e pizze varie).<br />
Pizza alta tipo fornaio, pizzette di pasta sfoglia, tramezzini pomodoro e mozzarella, tramezzini gamberetti e salsa rosa, tramezzini tonno e uova, patatine varie, olive, danubio scamorza,olive ,capperi e pomodori secchi, danubio speck e galbanino, mini panini con salumi, mini panini con scamorza e verdure grigliate<br />
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">Everything made by me and more or less the same things I had prepared for Adele's first birthday (but something less as we were less people this time). Some things were prepared in advance and frozen (the mini panini buns and the danubios), others the day before (all the cakes and sweet things), and some other on the same morning (pizzas and sanwiches).</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">I made thick and very soft pizza (we call it bakery pizza in Italy), little puff pastry pizza squares, tomato, mozzarella, and mayo sandwich, prawns and pink sauce (mayo+ketchup) sanwiches, tuna, egg and mayo sandwiches, crisps, olives, danubio (like a soft filled bread) with scamorza (smoked mozzarella) olives, capers and sundried tomatoes, and danubio with speck (smoked ham) and cheese, mini panini buns with various cured meats, and mini panini buns with scamorza and grilled vegetables.</span></i><br />
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E infine <span style="font-size: large;">i <span style="color: #45818e;"><b>dolci</b></span>, che son stati davvero il pezzo forte </span>e che mi hanno impegnato piu di ogni altra cosa.. ho voluto davvero sperimentare e provare qualcosa di nuovo!<br />
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<b><span style="color: #45818e;"><u>Torta compleanno limone e ricotta</u></span></b><br />
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(ricetta per la versione semplice che ormai é diventata una delle torte preferite di casa nostra trovata <a href="https://blog.giallozafferano.it/ilchiccodimais/torta-al-limone-ricotta-si-scioglie-in-bocca/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">qui</a>.. )<br />
Fatta due volte e sovrapposta con in mezzo crema diplomatica<br />
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Continua la missione di voler rendere bello questo dolce tanto brutto qusnto buono! Dopo il salame travestito da Christmas pudding stavolta mi son divertita a giocare con la pasta di zucchero e ta tadaaan! Lo adoro, non riesco a credere che l'ho fatto davvero io!!!!<br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><b><u>Cake pops a orsetto e riccio</u></b></span><br />
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Loro son stati proprio la soddisfazione più grande lo devo dire! Hanno richiesto ben tre prove. La prima seguendo alla buona le ricette trovate in siti italiani... (riassumendo: usando merendine gia pronte per fare una prova e marmellata come legante) fallimentare a dire poco :( buttato via tutto (ma non necessariamente per colpa delle ricette, probabilmente essendo la prima volta ho fatto molti errori anche io)<br />
La seconda, usando ricette da siti inglesi (in particolare questa), decisamente piú pesanti e caloriche ma assolutamente perfette.. l'ho usata come prova generale per capire bene la tecnica soprattutto per imparare a decorare bene dato che non avevo tutorial precisi e ho dovuto improvvisare.<br />
E infine la terza, quella definitiva, in cui sono nate tutte queste delizie. Si delizie! Perché la maggior parte delle volte ste cosine son tante belle quanto a malapena edibili (vedi torte decorate con pasta di zucchero super belle ma che alla fine vuoi mettere un tiramisu?!) e invece questi cosini son davvero deliziosi, e per fortuna, visto il lavoraccio per crearli, son andati letteralmente a ruba tra adulti e soprattutto bambini!<br />
{mi son divertita cosí tanto a farli, che ho fatto le foto dei vari step e prepareró presto un tutorial}<br />
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">And then the </span><span style="color: #76a5af;"><b>cakes</b></span><span style="color: #7f6000;">, which really were the main feature of the buffet </span></span><span style="color: #7f6000;">I think, and that took most of my time and energy during the party preparation, as for once I wanted to try something new and very risky (for me)!</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="color: #76a5af;"><b><u>Birthday cake</u></b></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">Simple ricotta and lemon cake (a favourite of ours.. recipe <a href="https://blog.giallozafferano.it/ilchiccodimais/torta-al-limone-ricotta-si-scioglie-in-bocca/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> but it's in Italian) made twice, and stacked up with custard and cream in between</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="color: #76a5af;"><b><u>Chocolate salami dressed up as a bear</u></b></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">My mission of trying to make chocolate salami (that is a very good but very ugly cake indeed) as cute as possible, continues, after the one dressed up as a Christmas pudding, see here, this time I enjoyed playing with icing fondant and I really love the result, can't believe I made it myself!!!</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="color: #76a5af;"><b><u>Bears and hedgehogs cake pops</u></b></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">They were the main satisfaction and the thing I am more proud about the party! They required three trials. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">The first time I had used recipes found in Italian websites, I used some shop bought little cakes (as I was in a rush) and jam to join everything. Well.. they went straight in the rubbish bin :( (not necessarily due to the recipe, it just didn't work at all, maybe also because it was my first time and I didn't do everything exactly as it was supposed to be done)</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">The second time I used british recipes (this one) and although the ingredients are waaaay more heavy (butter butter and lots of it) the result was perfect. I used this trial to understand well all the steps and to experiment with the decoration part, as I didn't have any precise tutorial to follow. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">And finally the third time, a couple of days before the party, as these cake pops keep well in the fridge for a few days, and these sweet delicious cuties were created at last. Yes delicious! Because, in my experience, the less fancy and pretty the cakes are, the better in terms of taste (don't let me compare a delicious homemade tiramisu with a super fancy but quite boring standard layered cake covered in fancy fondant decorations please!), but this time I have to say these little cuties were a surprise. They remind me a bit of chocolate salami (what in english I think it's called fridge cake) but with vanilla taste instead of chocolate. Absolutely delicious and that's testified by the fact that luckily (after all the hard work to make them) they were really appreciated by both adults and mostly by kids who ate plenty of them!</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">{I enjoyed so much making them that I decided to take many pics of the step by step and I am going to post a tutorial soon}</span></i><br />
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Orsi e orsetti, azzurro, turchese e marrone, cioccolata e crema, infiniti palloncini, una bomboletta di elio, tanti bambini scatenati, una casa piena di lucine e di risate, un orsetto ormai ometto accoccolato alla sua mamma che pian piano si è lasciato andare e fatto spupazzare da tutti, un cielo grigio e piovoso degno del peggior giorno di novembre che ha reso la casa buia (ma tanto coccola) e le foto abbastanza brutte, e infine una mamma felice e soddisfatta e molto molto stanca.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">Big bears and little bears, blue, turquoise and brown, custard and chocolate, plenty of balloons, a whole canister of helium, a house full of laughter and twinkly lights, a little bear (who is already a little man) glued to his mummy at the beginning of the party, but then slowly warming up and getting cuddled by everyone by the end of it, a very grey rainy sky as only the worst November days can be, that made the house dark (but cosy) and the pics not that good, and finally a very happy, content and super tired mama.</span></i></div>
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{eccolo qui sotto l'orsetto felice felice, circondato da mille palloncini e alle prese con la sua torta di compleanno (la prima delle tante, quella mangiata il giorno vero del compleanno, venerdi, il giorno prima della festina) e con i suoi nuovi giochini per i quali deve giá lottare perche la sorellona se li é naturalmente accaparrati tutti all'istante!}</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">{here is the happy little bear, surrounded by lots of balloons and busy with his birthday cake (the first of many, this was the one we had on his proper birthday day, the day before the party) and with his new toys, for which he already had to fight for with his big sister of course!}</span></i></div>
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Buona vita ometto mio, hai, abbiamo, fatto solo il primo passo ora pian pianino arriva il resto. <span style="font-size: large;">Cresci piano piano e rimani sempre cosí coccolone ti prego</span>, che anche se mi lamento, perché non mi lasci fare niente, in realtá le tue coccole e il tuo essere mammone son la cosa piú bella del mondo!<br />
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">Have a fantastic life my little bear, you, we, made only the first step, now slowly the rest of the journey will fold out in front of you. <span style="font-size: large;">Don't grow too fast please, and stay cuddly as you are</span>, because, even if I always complain because you never let me do anything at all, I love your cuddles and your being such a mummy boy is the best thing in the world!</span></i></div>
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Per me significa cogliere tutto il bello che la stagione che stiamo vivendo offre, significa fare "bucket lists" di cose da fare per celebrarla al meglio, per goderne a pieno. Significa annusare gli odori di quella stagione, osservarne i colori, percepirne l'essenza.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mi ritengo estremamente fortunata di vivere in un luogo del mondo in cui le stagioni cambiano, in cui il mondo intorno a me si trasforma in continuazione..</span> non potrei pensare di vivere in un luogo tropicale con l'estate tutto l'anno, indipendentemente dal fatto che non amo il caldo, ma mi mancherebbe proprio il cambiamento, l'attesa, lo stupore e la meraviglia della natura che si sveglia dopo un lungo inverno, delle foglie che si colorano d'autunno, del ghiaccio (e magari della neve) d'inverno.</div>
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Facile farlo in autunno che é il mio periodo preferito.. un pó piu difficile sará farlo a febbraio quando stremata dal lungo inverno vorró solo vedere gemme e sognare picnic su prati.. ma ci si proverá. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">To me living seasonally means seizing all the things, that the season we are currently in, offers, it means making a "bucket list" of simple and little things to do to celebrate it, to enjoy it at its best. It means smelling the smells, staring at the colours, feeling the essence.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="font-size: large;">I feel extremely lucky to live in a place in the world where seasons change, where the world around me continually evolves and transforms..</span> I cannot imagine living in a tropical place where it's Summer all year long, regardless of the fact I am not a fan of hot weather, but I would really miss the changing of the seasons, the waiting, the wonder at the arrival of Spring, the colours of Autumn, the frost (and maybe snow) in Winter.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">It's quite easy doing it in Autumn, as it's the season more dear to my heart... it will probably be a bit trickier in January or February, when I will be tired of the long winter and craving a picnic on a sunny lawn... but I will definitely try.</span></i></div>
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Poche pochissime parole, perché ne avrei tante da dire ma poi non riuscirei a postare piú di un post al mese.. per cui lasceró le foto parlare per me.. e lasceró che raccontino il nostro settembre... e le prime foglie colorate sugli alberi e sui sentieri, e le bacche rosa che quest'anno (vi accorgerete) son state e son tuttora un;ossessione, e le more da raccogliere e le marmellate da preparare, e i cardigan e i maglionicini per le passeggiate con i primi freschi del tardo pomeriggio (dopo un'estate inglese anomalissima e davvero incredibilmente caldissima), e gli ultimi giri in bici della stagione con quella luce particolare dell'inizio dell'autunno..</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">And Hydrangeas taking that beautiful faded shade, and conkers to collect in the basket of her mini bicycle, and then the air finally cold enough to wear their mama made knitted hats (post to come soon).. and that smell of wet grass, of wood, of soil.. of autumn</span></i></div>
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..e scoiattoli e anatre da andare a trovare, a cui dare leccornie e con cui fare amicizia, e stivali di gomma dopo una lunga estate in sandali non stop, e biscotti e torte da fare assieme (con mille litigate nel mezzo perché fare i biscotti con una duenne quasi treenne non é proprio una passeggiata eh) perché che autunno é senza biscotti e torte fatte in casa, e funghi, ghiande, foglie colorate, ciclamini ed erica..</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">..and squirrels and ducks to feed and to become friends with, and wellies after a long summer in sandals, and cookies and cakes to make together (with a few tantrums in between, because making cookies with a 2 almost 3 years old is not a picnic at all!) because what kind of Autumn would it be without homemade cookies and cakes, and mushrooms, and acorns, and colourful leaves, and cyclamens, and heathers..</span></i></div>
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Potrebbero sembrare tutte cose ovvie, scontate, nulla di incredibile in fondo, ma per me é l'essenza di quel tanto agognato "qui ed ora" che mi é molto difficile attuare in pratica ma vivere la stagione intorno a me mi aiuta un pó. </div>
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Qualche settimana fa ero al telefono con una persona molto cara dall'Italia (tra l'altro molto amante della natura) e parlando del caldo molto anomalo che c'era lí mi é venuto spontaneo chiedere "ma gli alberi han giá cambiato colore nonostante il caldo?" e la risposta mi ha davvero fatto pensare "Cambiato colore? mmmm non saprei, non ci ho fatto caso, mmm si forse si, le foglie son cadute in effetti, ma le han giá spazzate eh!"</div>
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Mi ha fatto pensare che in fondo anche io tempo fa non facevo caso se gli alberi avevano cambiato colore o meno. Forse avevo meno tempo per farlo, ma in realtá questo é il periodo della mia vita in cui ho meno tempo ed energia fisica e mentale in assoluto quindi no, non é quello il motivo. </div>
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Non so cosa sia cambiato in me, forse avere un giardino mi ha aiutato ad essere piú connessa con la natura e con le stagioni, non lo so, ma so che pur nel mezzo del trambusto che é la mia vita attuale con due piccoli terremoti ad assorbire ogni minuto delle mie giornate, son felice di notare queste cose ora, e di goderne a pieno e di celebrarle.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">They could all seem very boring and obvious things, nothing so special at the end of the day, but for me, they are the essence of the "here and now" which I find so hard to really practice, but living the season, and looking around me all the time, helps me a bit.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">Some weeks ago I was on the phone with a dear person, very close to me, (and a nature lover, by the way) in Italy, and this person was talking to me about how warm and unusual Autumn had been in Italy until then, so I don't know why, but it came naturally to me to ask "but what about trees? Have they changed colour despite the warm weather?" the answer was "changed colour? mmmm not sure really, I haven't noticed, let me think, mmm yes maybe they have, but they already cleaned the roads from the leaves!". This answer made me think. Some time ago, many years ago, I was the same. I would have never noticed if the leaves had changed or not. Maybe I didn't really have time to notice? Mmm not sure, as currently I am living the most busy and mentally and physically draining time of my life but despite this I am constantly looking around. I am not sure what has changed. Maybe having a garden made me feel more connected with the seasons. Not sure. What I know is that I am so glad that even in the middle of the most exhausting days I still have that need to look around and catch the beauty and the desire to celebrate it.</span></i></div>
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Spero nel mio piccolo di trasmettere questo anche ai miei bimbi, magari sará poco, magari sará niente ma magari vedranno il mondo intorno a loro con occhi piú curiosi e <span style="font-size: large;">ameranno come me la meraviglia di questo lento scorrere delle stagioni</span> e dell'incanto che ognuna di loro porta con se'.</div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>I really hope I'll pass down all of this to my kids, maybe it's a bit silly, nothing very important, but maybe they will look at the world around them with curious eyes, and<span style="font-size: large;"> they will stare in amazement at the wonder of the slow flowing of the seasons</span> and at the magic that each of them brings.</i></span></div>
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Chi mi segue da tanto noterá molto presto, in questo e nei prossimi post, che negli ultimi tempi ho dovuto abbandonare il mio PRIMO amore (il cucito) per un altro dei miei tanti (troppi) amori, la maglia. Puó sembrare un controsenso in un periodo della mia vita in cui ho davvero zero, (e non dico per dire.. ho proprio ZERO) tempo, dato che la maglia richiede tempi di lavoro infiniti, specie rispetto al cucito. Ma il fatto é che <span style="font-size: large;">la maglia ha tutti quei vantaggi</span>, che ho spesso decantato, che il cucito non ha: portabilitá, possibilitá di iniziare e smettere quando si vuole, possibilitá di farla in giro per la casa, o anche in macchina o in giro. <span style="font-size: large;">Tutte doti perfette per la mia vita attuale</span>. Ammetto che in craft room sono mesi che non entro se non, ogni tanto, per usare la stampante, o fare qualche brevissimo lavoretto. Il cucito mi manca infinitamente, e avrei mille e uno progetti per la testa, ma per ora va bene cosí. I progetti di cucito aspettano (spero non troppo, perché tante cosine sarebbero a dire il vero soprattutto per i miei bimbi, finché son piccoli) e io intanto mi siedo sul divano, mentre i piccoli giocano, o la sera mentre vediamo la tv (raramente, quando non siamo troppo stanchi) dopo che sono andati a letto, o in macchina quando nel weekend facciamo qualche giro fuori porta, e tiro fuori ferri (o uncinetto) e gomitolo e pian piano nascono piccole grandi cosine che mi fanno stare bene, che mi fatto sentire soddisfatta, che mi rilassano in giornate a volte distruggenti. </div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>Who among you has been reading my blog for a while will notice straight away that lately I had to abandon my first and MAIN love (sewing) in favor of another passion of mine (among the many..), knitting. It may seem illogical in a period of my life when I have zero (and I seriously mean ZERO) time to do anything, as knitting takes up so much time, especially compared to sewing. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>But the reality is that <span style="font-size: large;">knitting has so many advantages</span>, that I have often mentioned in the past, like portability, possibility to pause and start again without any issue whenever I want, and most of all the fact I can knit anywhere I want or need to. Those are all <span style="font-size: large;">perfect benefits for my current lifestyle. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><i>I really miss sewing so much and I have so many ideas running through my mind, but that's fine, this kind of family life is what I had always been dreaming of, so that's fine. The sewing projects will wait (hopefully not too long as most things I have in mind are for my kids, while they are still little) and in the meantime I will knit or crochet while I sit on the sofa close to my pixies while they play, or at night after they go to bed while we watch tv (if we have the energy too.. often we don't), or while in the car during weekends if we drive around for day outs, and my hands in those moments spared here and there will create big and small projects that make me so happy and so content, that make me relax when days sometimes get crazy and exhausting. </i></span></div>
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E cosí in questi mesi cosi pazzi, da quando é nato questo orsetto che ci ha letteralmente stravolto la vita (molto ma molto piú di quanto avesse fatto sua sorella) le mie mani, nei pochi momenti liberi hanno fatto nascere qualche pupazzo di feltro cucito a mano, un paio di acquerelli, pupazzi a uncinetto, e cardigan, berretti e cappottini a maglia. E pian piano finalmente li condivido anche qui.</div>
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Oggi, vi racconto proprio dell'ultimo dei lavori nati. Questo <span style="font-size: large;">adorabile giacchino/cardigan che sa proprio di libro di storie (dal nome appunto), di coccolo, di antico.</span> Il mio piccolo ometto che cresce e che con questo giacchino sembra davvero un vero mini gentleman. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;">And so in these mad crazy months, after this adorable little bear came into our lives and literally turned everything upside down (much much more than when his big sister had arrived into our lives) my hands, in the little spare moments found here and there, made some handsewn felt softies, a couple of watercolour paintings, some crocheted toys, and some hats, cardigan and coats for my little loves. And I am finally slowly starting to share everything in here too.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;">Today I am starting from the very last thing I made. This<span style="font-size: large;"> lovely coat/cardigan that to me, feels like storybooks (hence the pattern name), like cosy days and old times. </span>My little bear is growing so fast and already looks like a little gentleman with this little coat.</span></i></div>
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Il pattern l'ho acquistato su Ravelry, si chiama <span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/storytime-scholar" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Storytime Scholar</a></b> </span></div>
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La lana usata é la stessa del cappottino che avevo fatto per me (ricordate? Vedi <b><a href="http://www.countrykittyland.com/2014/11/happiness-is-warm-hand-knitted-coat.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">qui</a></b>) .. a suo tempo ne avevo avanzato un gomitolone da 250 gr che é bastato e avanzato per questo progetto. Si chiama Cascade Ecological Wool color Latte.</div>
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Ho aggiunto qualche nota e appunto sulla<b><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/projects/country-kitty/storytime-scholar" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> mia pagina di Ravelry</a></b>, per quel poco che ricordavo, mentre ho il brutto vizio di non scrivermi mai niente mentre sferruzzo mentre dovrei segnare appunti, note, misure e problemi.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">I bought the pattern on Ravelry, it's name is <span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/storytime-scholar" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Storytime Scholar</a></b> </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">I used leftover wool from the coat I made for me years ago (remember? <b><a href="http://www.countrykittyland.com/2014/11/happiness-is-warm-hand-knitted-coat.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a></b>).. I had a big 250gr skein that was more than enough for this project. The name of the yearn is Cascade Ecological Wool, shade Latte.</span></i></div>
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Il pattern é piacevole e grazie alla lana chunky, anche abbastanza veloce. L'unico problema incontrato é che il cappottino é risultato forse un pó piccolino sulla pancia, non so se perché ho sbagliato la taglia (il mio ometto é nato gigante e lo é tuttora) dato che ovviamente ci ho messo poco piú di un mese a crearlo. O perché ho sbagliato misura ferri (probabile, perché ho avuto un pó di problemi con lo "swatch" iniziale per decidere le misure dei ferri da usare, mi venivano sempre troppo piccoli anche aumentando la misura dei ferri). In ogni caso per fortuna il bloccaggio ha fatto miracoli (vorrei tanto aver fatto una foto del prima e del dopo il bloccaggio, la trasformazione é impressionante) e gli va bene anche se un pó ciucciatino sulla pancia. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">The project is a really pleasant one, and thanks to the chunky yarn, it's also quite fast to create. The only issue I had was about the sizing as, the coat is a probably a tad tight on the tummy. I am not sure if that's because I picked up the wrong size (my little man was very big when he was born and he still is a little giant), especially since it obviously took me a bit more than a month to complete it, or because I picked the wrong needle size (I had some issues with the initial swatch. I kept on increasing needle size but it would still always be too small compared to the pattern) but anyway he still fits it ok and I still think it looks adorable on him.</span></i></div>
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Ho pensato e ripensato a come tornare nel blog, con quale post, con quali foto, con quali parole, come descrivere le emozioni, come descrivere la vita a quattro, come descrivere i cambiamenti, gli stravolgimenti.. ma come si fa a raccontare in un solo post piú di un anno di assenza (in cui é andato tutto bene, ma semplicemente non c'e stato il tempo materiale, che in realtá non c'é nemmeno ora, per poter anche lontanamente pensare di tornare a scrivere qui). Ci ho pensato a ripensato ma non ne vengo a capo. E allora<span style="font-size: large;"> ho deciso di tornare come niente fosse</span>, come se l'ultimo post fosse di una settimana fa e cosí eccoci qui, come ogni autunno, per una delle nostre amate passeggiate, ma questa volta in quattro, e se sbirciate qua e la' tra le foto intravedrete il nuovo arrivato (beh, chi mi segue su IG lo conoscerá giá bene), il piccolo orsetto vestito da cerbiatto (non piú tanto piccolo dato che tra poche settimane fará un anno), <span style="font-size: large;">il nostro amatissimo Leonardo</span>, ultimo arrivato in famiglia.. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">I had been thinking a lot about how to come back on my blog, which kind of post should I write, which photos would I post, which words should I use, how to describe all the emotions and changes and craziness of life as a family of four, how can I write about all of this, about a year far from this place (a year that all in all was absolutely fine just simply and completely overwhelming), in just one post? I had been thinking again and again and I really cannot find a way to make a grand entrance so <span style="font-size: large;">here I am, with a simple post, as if my last one was just over a week ago</span>. So here it is, my typical Autumn post about a walk in the Cotswolds, like I wrote many others in the past, but this time with a slight difference, there were four of us, and it you browse among the pics, you will peek a little bear dressed up as a fawn, <span style="font-size: large;">please meet our little beloved Leonardo</span>, (not so little anymore as he soon will be one year old) the latest family addition (of course if you follow me on IG you will already know about him)..</span></i></div>
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Certo c'é instagram che amo molto e che mi permette di rimanere in contatto con le tante amiche web conosciute negli anni e dá modo di condividere un pó di cose belle della mia vita ma il blog é un'altra cosa.. e quindi anche se il tempo, davvero non c'é, io voglio provare a ricavarlo qua e la'. Certo iniziare con un post con piú di 30 foto non aiuta, tra il sistemarle, ridimensionarle, caricarle, e scrivere ste poche parole ci ho messo quasi una settimana (seriamente.. non per dire), ma magari i prossimi post saranno piú "compatti" e riusciró a passare di qua con un pó di regolaritá.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">Of course there is Instagram which lets me keep in touch with many of my online friends and lets me share a few happy things from my daily life, but blogging is something else entirely.. so even if I really have no idea how and where I will find the time, I think I will have to try to. Well, obviously starting off with a 30 plus pictures post was not such a good idea (it took me roughly a week, and I am not joking, among preparing the pics, loading them, writing the post etc,), but maybe the next ones will be a little bit more "compact" and I will hopefully be able to write a post every week or so.</span></i></div>
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E per tornare dopo un anno non potevo che scegliere di condividere le foto di una delle giornate piú belle vissute recentemente. Un giorno di ottobre, una passeggiata nei Cotswolds (<span style="font-size: large;">Lower e Upper Slaughter</span> per la precisione, con il percorso delizioso, semplice e veloce che li unisce), un clima ancora molto piacevole (prima che arrivasse il gelo di questi giorni), una bimba scatenata tra corse, foglie da calciare e su cui buttarsi e "jumping in muddy puddles" (Peppa Pig docet) beh piú che una pozzanghera era un guado di un fiumiciattolo ma vabeh, un orsetto che esplora curioso il mondo sulla schiena della sua mamma, villaggi magici, fermi nel tempo, silenziosi e incantevoli, <span style="font-size: large;">una natura che esplode in tutti i colori dell'autunno</span>, alberi carichi di mele, foglie dorate e bacche.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">To come back on here after more than a year I couldn't choose anything different than this really. One of the happiest days we experienced recently. A beautiful October day, a walk in the Cotswolds (<span style="font-size: large;">Lower and Upper Slaughter</span>, precisely, and the simple and quick trail that joins them), a perfect weather (still mild, definitely not as cold as it is now), an excited little girl running around, jumping and throwing herself on crunchy leaves, and of course "jumping in muddy puddles", as Peppa teaches (well, more like a ford on a stream than a muddy puddle but anyway...), a curious bear exploring the world from his mama's back, magical, silent and enchanting villages where time seems to stand still, <span style="font-size: large;">a magnificent nature bursting with autumn colours</span>, trees full of apples, golden leaves and berries.</span></i></div>
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Come faccio a farci stare tutto questo (foto e parole) in un post di instagram? Impossibile. Ecco perché mi é mancato il blog.. <span style="font-size: large;">perché ho questo bisogno di raccontare, di raccogliere, di ricordare e ricordarmi di quanta bellezza c'é</span>. Perché il blog era ed é un pó il mio diario delle cose belle, piú per me stessa che per i lettori, l'ho detto infinite volte. Che siano paesaggi stupendi, momenti da ricordare, una ricetta per dei biscotti strepitosi, un lavoro a maglia da consigliarvi, un pattern di cucito di cui mi sono innamorata, una corona da mettere alla porta... mi piace raccogliere, in questa piccola isola felice e allo stesso tempo condividere perché anche chi passa di qui possa magari essere ispirato, essere invogliato, o viaggi un pó con gli occhi e il cuore.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">How can I fit all of this (pictures and words) in just one instagram post? It's impossible really. That's why I missed my blog so much... <span style="font-size: large;">because I have this strong need to narrate, to collect memories, to remind myself and others of how much beauty there is</span>. Because my blog was a bit like a "happy things diary", more for myself than for my readers, I said this so many times, and it's so true. Happy things like a countryside walk, a beautiful village, some moments to cherish, an recipe for delicious cookies, a knitting project to share, a great sewing pattern to talk about, a pretty handmade door wreath to maybe inspire you with and so on... I love collecting these things in this little happy bubble, and I love sharing them so that my readers or whoever will pass by may be inspired, encouraged to do or try something, or may travel a bit with eyes and heart.</span></i><br />
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So che i blog son ormai abbastanza passati di moda a favore di social piú istantanei, ma non importa, io non lo faccio (ne' l'ho mai fatto) per i numeri, anzi l'opposto, i numeri alti mi spaventano parecchio e non so gestirli, <span style="font-size: large;">mi fa semplicemente piacere avere una cerchia di persone che amano le stesse cose che amo io, e che possano trarre serenitá e ispirazione da quello che mostro e condivido.</span> </div>
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<i><span style="color: #7f6000;">I know that blogs are more or less out of fashion now, in favour of other forms of social sharing, but it doesn't really matter to me, I never cared about numbers (and still don't), actually the opposite, big numbers scare me and I am not able to manage them, <span style="font-size: large;">I simply love having a circle of people who love the same things as me, who can draw inspiration and happiness from what I share and show. </span></span></i></div>
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Non so piú da quanto non pubblicavo nel blog qualche nuovo lavoro (che non sia per la mia bimba, o per regali.. ). Avevo proprio voglia di disegnare e realizzare qualcosa di nuovo per il mio negozietto. E mi mancavano le mie fatine, si parecchio! Non che sia stata con le mani in mano ultimamente anzi.. dopo una primavera un pó burrascosa (causa orsetto in arrivo, vedi post precedente) e in cui non sono stata per niente bene, <span style="font-size: large;">nelle ultime settimane invece ho lavorato non stop nelle ore a mia disposizione</span>, per riempire un negozio che iniziava a richiedere tutte le mie attenzioni. Ma tra i soliti richiestissimi (grazie grazie grazie!) fiocchi nascita, tra qualche accessorio, portachiavi, pupazzo decorativo.. volevo proprio tornare a cucire qualche fatina.. e finalmente eccole qui!</div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><i>I don't even know when was the last time I posted some new craft on my blog (I mean something that wasn't for my daughter or for gifts.. ). I really missed designing and making something new for the shop. And I truly missed my little fairies too! Well, I definitely didn't sit and relax on the sofa up until now.. actually the opposite.. after a very rough spring (due to our little bear coming soon to meet us... see previous post) during which I really didn't feel well at all, <span style="font-size: large;">finally during the last few weeks I really cracked on and worked so much</span> (in the only available spare time I have of course) to fill a shop that was in need of all my attention. But among the usual very popular (thank you so so so much) newborn decorations, and among some accessories, keychains, decorative softies... I really wanted to make some new fairies... and here they are at last!</i></span></div>
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Non mi lamento assolutamente dei lavori ripetitivi perché sono parte fondamentale del mio hobby-lavoro e perché tornano molto comodi quando si hanno mille cose per la testa e non si ha tempo ne' energie per creare e disegnare qualcosa di nuovo. Per cui benvenga il lavoro a catena a creare decine di conigli, cicogne, corone.. ma ogni tanto é cosí bello partire da zero e farsi guidare dalle stoffe, da un'ispirazione, da un dettaglio e vedere pian piano qualcosa di nuovo che nasce. E cosí eccole qui.. <span style="font-size: large;">una fatina rosa e una azzurra</span>. Stoffe adorabili che avevo in craft room da troppo tempo e non vedevo l'ora di usare.. E un <span style="font-size: large;">coniglietto</span> e un<span style="font-size: large;"> uccellino</span> a fare loro compagnia..<br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><i>I don't complain at all about repetitive jobs, as actually they are a very important part of my hobby/job and because they are very convenient when I have so many things on my mind and zero time or energy to think, design and create something new. So the "assembly line" kind of work to create bunnies, storks, wreaths etc. are so very welcome... but sometimes it feels so good to start from scratch and let fabric and inspiration guide you, to start from a detail and see something taking shape, slowly, and be curious and anxious about the final result. And so here they are.. a<span style="font-size: large;"> pink and a blue fairies</span>. Adorable fabric that were sitting in my craft room for too long waiting to be used... and a lovely <span style="font-size: large;">bunny</span> and a cute <span style="font-size: large;">bird </span>to keep them company..</i></span><br />
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Si.. mi sono ricordata quanto bello é far nascere qualcosa di nuovo tra le mani e sarebbe bello provare piú spesso a cercare di ritagliarmi del tempo per sperimentare e disegnare.. ma non é facile, e lo sará sempre meno nei prossimi tempi.. ma intanto questo é stato un buon promemoria per me :)<br />
Queste fatine le trovate nel <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CountrykittyHandmade" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mio negozietto</a></b>, fino a che saranno disponibili. Ma se finiranno cercheró di farne altre uguali nei prossimi tempi.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="color: #783f04;">So yes... I was reminded of how good it feels to have something new coming alive between my hands and I really need to remember to try to find the time to design and try something new more and more often.. but that won't be easy at all, especially in the near future.. but it still is a good reminder for me :)</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #783f04;">Anyway, you can find these fairies in <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CountrykittyHandmade" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">my Etsy shop</a></b>, until they will be available. If they will end up out of stock, I will definitely try to make some more in the next few weeks.</span></i><br />
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Federicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05088129802407763234noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3153218400537211117.post-85112547293002392062017-08-15T17:37:00.000+01:002017-08-15T17:47:14.004+01:00If this is a dream....<div style="text-align: center;">
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Un altro piccolo grande miracolo si. Stiamo aspettando di conoscere un mini orsetto, un altro meraviglioso regalo che ha promesso di arrivare in tardo autunno a colorare di azzurro e di emozione e felicitá le nostre vite. Mi fa strano anche dirlo, anche scriverlo.. era qualcosa che sinceramente credevo di non avere nemmeno il diritto ne' il permesso di poter sognare, dopo il grandissimo dono che é stata giá la nostra folletta. E invece a volte forse conviene osare sognare in grande, sperare di essere miracolati due volte in un percorso che per tanti é cosí duro e cosí pieno di fallimenti, provare a fare avverare ancora una volta questo grande desiderio.. perché nella vita non si sa mai davvero. Lo sto imparando a colpi di felicitá che provano in tutti i modi a neutralizzare il mio famoso pessimismo cronico dato dal mio carattere ma anche da tante delusioni e batoste. Lo sto imparando grazie a questo orsetto che calcia e si muove dentro questo pancione giá cosi rotondo e mi ricorda che si, nella vita forse bisogna sempre sperare perché a volte... non sempre ma a volte.. i sogni si avverano, si. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;">Another little immense miracle, yes. We are anxiously waiting to meet a tiny bear, another amazing gift that has promised to come into our lives in late Autumn, and to colour everything of light blue and happy feelings. It still seems so strange to say this, to write this.. it was something that I honestly felt I wasn't even allowed to dream about, after the big, enormous gift that was our pixie when she arrived almost two years ago. But it seems that instead sometimes it's worth dreaming big, hoping for another miracle, in a path that is often so hard and full of disappointments for so many people, and trying to make this dream come true another time.. as with life you never know. I am learning this day after day, with dreams that are becoming true despite my chronic and famous pessimism, that comes from my character but also from many disappointments and bad experiences in my life. I am learning this also thanks to this little bear that is kicking and moving around inside my big round bump, and he is reminding me that maybe, it's always worth dreaming and hoping for something you really want, because, not always, but sometimes dreams do come true.</span></i></div>
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Una gravidanza finora cosí simile a quella di Adele per certi versi e cosi diversa per molti altri. I primi tre mesi sono stati davvero massacranti. Ora va molto meglio, ma mi rendo conto di quanto diversa sia la vita ora rispetto a due anni fa. Adele giustamente assorbe ogni minuto di tempo, ogni granello di energia, ogni pensiero. E' tutto molto piu difficile da gestire e l'unico aspetto davvero positivo di questa nuova totale mancanza di tempo, non solo per fare, ma anche per pensare, é che le mie classiche fortissime ansie e paure vengono tenute molto piú a bada questa volta, semplicemente perché non ho nemmeno il tempo di preoccuparmi ne' di rendermi conto di quello che sta succedendo!</div>
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Se penso a tutti i sogni ad occhi aperti, a tutte le ore passate con la testa fra le nuvole o a leggere dolcissime fiabe alla folletta mentre calciava e si muoveva e accarezzarla da fuori. Ora l'orsetto si subisce invece i calci della sorellina quando mi monta sopra e come lettura sta giá diventando espertissimo di tutti i personaggi di Peppa Pig dato che sono gli unici libri che mi é consentito leggere (o meglio, che sono obbligata a leggere a rotazione ogni giorno! ^_^). </div>
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Con lei avevo giá iniziato creazioni su creazioni i primi mesi: bavaglini, coperte, pupazzi... Con lui sono giá ben oltre metá strada e ho fatto solo ed esclusivamente un orsetto e non vedo all'orizzonte la possibilitá ne' il tempo per fare molto altro :( Le poche ore in cui riesco a lavorare (solo quando Adele dorme e nelle poche mattine in cui é all'asilo) le dedico al negozio e a tante cose di casa. Forse inizieró la pausa maternitá un pó prima di quello che vorrei cosí l'ultimo mese potró dedicarmi in pieno a lui, non vedo molte altre soluzioni altrimenti!</div>
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Per lui siamo nel caos piú totale. Una casa acquistata molti anni fa senza pensare troppo al futuro, senza fare il passo piú lungo della gamba, con i mezzi e le necessitá che avevamo allora, una casa che andava benone per due, volendo anche per tre, ma piú difficilmente per quattro, specie considerando che io lavoro da casa (ma a quei tempi chi osava sognare e sperare tanto?!). E adesso che siamo in un periodo della vita pieno di dubbi sul nostro futuro (dubbi che ci sarebbero stati comunque, dopo tanti anni di vita da emigrati, ma ancora di piú con uno, anzi due, bimbi al cui presente e futuro dover pensare seriamente) pensare di cambiare casa e ripartire da zero senza certezze su cosa vogliamo e possiamo/potremo davvero fare nei prossimi anni, non aveva molto senso. Per cui per il momento rattoppiamo il rattoppabile, e in questo periodo giá cosí eccitante e anche stancante, ci stiamo imbarcando in lavori di casa piuttosto invasivi per cercare di cambiare un pochino il layout e fare un pó piú di spazio per questi due nostri amori cosí piccoli ma bisognosi di cosí tanto spazio, giustamente! Ci diamo un paio di anni per restare in questa casa e focalizzarci su quello che faremo poi.. e poi sicuramente ci si cercherá di spostare in qualcosa di un pó piú spazioso, ma chissá dove.. forse qui vicino, o forse chissá.. ovunque sia il luogo che decideremo (e potremo) chiamare casa. </div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><i>So far this pregnancy has been so similar to my last one on some aspects and so different on others. The first three months have been absolutely terrible and I was miserable. Now things are so much better, but still, it's all so different compared to two years ago. Adele is obviously absorbing all of our energy, all of our time, all of our thoughts. It's so much more difficult to deal with everything now due to total lack of time. We lack time to do things and to think about things, and I suppose the only good aspect of this is the fact that all my heavy fears and anxieties are kept much more under control as I literally don't even have time to worry or to realise what's happening inside me!</i></span></div>
<span style="color: #783f04;"><i> If I think about all the daydreaming, all the hours spent with my hand caressing my kicking bump and my head among the clouds, talking to her, thinking about her, reading her all the sweetest fairytales. And now the little bear is instead suffering from his sisters kicks on my bump when she constantly jumps on top of him, and the main reading material he hears is all the Peppa Pig books his sister is absolutely obsessed with (and I have to regularly and repeatedly read every day more than once a day! He is already becoming an expert of Peppa Pig and all the characters ^_^).</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04;"><i>When I was expecting her I had begun making crafts as soon as I found out I was pregnant, and so bibs, cardigans, blankets, softies... you name it! Now that I am expecting him, I am already more than half way through the pregnancy and I only managed to make one single bear. That's it. And I can't really see much more time becoming suddenly available in the next future at all :( The few hours I have (when she is sleeping or in the few mornings she is nursery) are spent to work for my shop or to do house chores. The only solution I can see at the horizon is to stop and begin my maternity leave a bit earlier than I wanted to.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><i>When I was expecting her we had an empty room that had been waiting for years to have a little occupier, we had decided everything months in advance, we had thought about every little detail. Now we are in the most chaotic time of our life. Our house was bought many years ago without thinking too much into the future, with the possibilities and the needs we had at that time, and without stretching ourselves too much, it's a house that was more than perfect for two, still good for three, but definitely tight for four, considering I work from home too (but who would have thought and hoped things would have developed this way?!). But at that time, who would have thought and hoped things would have developed this way?</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><i>But precisely now, that we are in a phase of our life in which we have so many big doubts regarding our future (doubts that probably would have been there anyway, after many years of expat life, but even more now with one, or actually two, little ones to think about for their present and future lives), moving house and starting again from scratch didn't seem the ideal thing to do until we know what we are going to do and where the future is going to take us (partly our decision but partly also depending on actual possibilities that don't depend on us). So in the meantime we decided to patch up whatever we can, and in a period that is already so exciting but also so tiring, we are going to start with some building works these days, to try and change and improve a bit the space and layout of our nest to make a bit more usable space for our little ones!</i></span></div>
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Tante decisioni sono ancora sottosopra e si faranno probabilmente in itinere. Forse condivideranno la stessa cameretta (fino a che non cambieremo casa) a favore di avere una stanza giochi giú da vivere tutti assieme (Adele la sua stanza la usa praticamente solo per dormire..). Forse invece la condivisione non funzionerá e ci dovremmo inventare come sistemare il resto delle cose e delle stanze. In qualche modo si fará..<br />
Nel frattempo mi prendo quei pochi, pochissimi momenti per me e per lui, per pensarlo e per raccontargli la vita che lo aspetta. Faccio progetti e penso a cose per lui che so giá difficilmente avró il tempo di realizzare. Mi ritaglio rarissimi momenti in cui sognarlo, e mi chiedo come sará. A chi somiglierá? Avrá le guance ciccione come sua sorella? Di che colore avrá gli occhi? Sará bravo come lei o sará un piccolo terremoto? Ma soprattutto, da figlia unica, sposata con un figlio unico, mi chiedo come sará il loro rapporto fratello-sorella, che cosa si prova? Spero saranno amici e compagni per tutta la vita. Spero di vederli crescere affiatati. Spero si faranno compagnia e potranno sempre contare l'uno sull'altra. Spero impareranno a condividere tutto, anche l'amore di mamma e papá.<br />
E' un mondo totalmente nuovo per me e per Nicola che impareremo a conoscere e capire.<br />
E davvero non vedo l'ora che questo sogno si avveri e di vedere i nostri piccolini guardarsi negli occhi per la prima volta... sono piena di gratitudine ora e non immagino quanta ne avró in quel momento.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;">So many decisions are still to be taken, and we will probably take them later on. Maybe the little ones will share a bedroom (until we will move to a bigger house) to be able to have a play space downstairs to share with mum and dad too and spend time together (as Adele almost never plays in her bedroom at all, which is only a room to relax and sleep). Maybe this sharing thing won't work so we will have to sort something else out. We will see...</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #783f04;">In the meantime I am taking those few, very very few spare moments for me and for him, to think about him, and talk to him about what life is waiting for him. I design and make projects in my head for him that I already know I won't have time to make. I try to save some precious moments, very rare moments, to daydream about him, and I wonder how he will be? Who will he look like? Will he have chubby cheeks like his sister? What colour his eyes will be? Will he be calm like his sister or a little hurricane? But most of all, being a only child, married to another only child, I constantly wonder how will their sibling relationship be? How does it feel like to have a sibling? I just hope and dream they will grow like friends and companions. I hope they will play together and they will keep each other company and they will be able to count on each other. I hope they will learn to share everything, even mummy's and daddy's infinite love. It's a whole new world for Nicola and me that we will learn to understand day by day.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #783f04;">And I truly cannot wait for this dream to finally come true and for that moment in which the eyes of our little ones will meet for the first time.. I am so full of immense gratitude now, and I cannot imagine how much gratitude I will feel in that precise moment.</span></i><br />
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Ecco una cosa che non faccio da ormai ben piú di un anno.. e non credo avró a breve tempo di riprendere in mano.. Peccato perché é tra le attivitá craft piú belle e rilassanti che si possano fare, ma richiede tanto tempo (idealmente continuativo) da dedicare senza fretta e senza corse. Cose che al momento non sono pervenute da queste parti :)</div>
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A quei tempi la folletta era ancora piccina e dormiva tanto.. il mio negozio era ancora chiuso per la mia pausa maternitá per cui nelle ore di nanna potevo dedicarmi a crearle tutte le cosine che avete visto in tutti gli scorsi post, inclusi questi quadretti ad acquerello. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;">Here is something I haven't been able to do for more than one year now... and I don't really think I will have time to do in the near (or far) future either.. That's a shame, as it's a really satisfying and relaxing crafting activity but it also requires a lot of slow and (ideally) continuous time to devote to it, without any hurry. This is a situation that it's never really happening lately in our household :)</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;">But at that time, my pixie was still quite small and she used to have long naps. My shop was closed for my maternity leave so during all those long naps I had all the time in the world to devote to crafting for her, all the things you saw in my previous posts, including these watercolour pictures.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;">To be honest for the first illustration, the little mice and toadstools one, the project had always been to paint it. But for the second one, the sleeping bunny and fawn, I was not sure until the end what technique I would have used to give life to that little draft on a piece of paper. Yes, because I often get struck by inspiration like that, without any warning, and so I draw and design and doodle on a piece of paper... to then later decide how I could develop that idea. This time I was not sure if sewing it as an applique work, or if stitching it or if watercolour painting it. </span></i></div>
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Mi é andata bene in entrambi i casi, sia con i topolini che con il cerbiatto e il coniglietto che sonnecchiano. Io li adoro davvero e per la mia veste di principiante molto ignorante in materia non potrei essere piú felice! Certo, di sicuro non saprei riprodurli (si sa, la fortuna dei dilettanti!) ma intanto sono lì sul muro della cameretta di Adele e ce li godiamo entrambe e quindi va benissimo cosí :)</div>
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Pochi post fa vi accennavo che ero via di casa e mi chiedevo come avrei trovato il nostro giardinetto al nostro ritorno, dato che era in corso un periodo di forte e anomalo caldo nel sud Inghilterra... beh alcune di queste foto le ho scattate prima di partire, altre dopo, ma devo dire che tutto sommato non ci sono stati grossi danni, a parte un pratino DECISAMENTE piú tendente al giallo di quello in queste foto.. ma nessun problema.. ci stiamo rifacendo nell'ultima settimana, perché se abbiamo avuto un inverno e primavera e inizio estate davvero secche ora piove un giorno si e uno no quindi decisamente penso che l'Inghilterra tornerá presto ad essere very green come ce la si aspetta!</div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;">A few posts ago I had mentioned that I was away from home and I was a bit worried about how I would have found our little garden on our way back, as there was a strong heatwave hitting the south of England at that time. Well, most of these pics were actually taken before our holiday, but I have to say that the heatwave didn't destroy the garden too much. The only big consequence was a yellow tinged lawn (as all my neighbours gardens, and all of the countryside pastures I have recently seen), but never mind, with all the rain of the last week, I think England will become very green again soon!</span></i></div>
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La bellezza della macchina fotografica é comunque che ci si puó focalizzare e cogliere solo gli angoli migliori perché decisamente il giardino é pieno di zone che non sono cosí fotogeniche come quelle di questo post. Alcune piante hanno sofferto il caldo, altre stanno crescendo a dismisura e necessitano potatura (mi manca il tempo), altre invece sono morte semplicemente perché la loro vita é di qualche anno, e dopo un pó vanno ripiantate, altre sono morte perché non le ho curate abbastanza bene, o perché altre piante accanto a loro sono state piú forti e hanno rubato spazio e risorse.. insomma, ci sono buchi qua e la' e il bilancio di questa annata in giardino é cosí cosí...</div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;">The good thing about taking pictures is that you can focus only on the best corners and views as to be honest the garden is full of corners that are way less photogenic than these. Some plants suffered the heat, others grew wild as I didn't have time to prune them, some died somply because of their age and some others died because I didn't take enough care of them or because other plants next to them became stronger and took over all the space, food and light from them... so, there are some empty spaces here and there, and the overall balance, well.. it could have been better...</span></i></div>
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Ma tutto sommato non posso lamentarmi. I pezzi forti sono sempre li', le rose inglesi, meravigliose come sempre, la lavanda, la nepeta, entrambe molto rigogliose, anche se per via del caldo forte sono giá quasi appassite... molto piu in anticipo rispetto agli scorsi anni... le ortensie, che si stanno colorando in queste ultime settimane. E le peonie, a cui dedicheró anche un post a breve, perché la loro bellezza lo merita, che finalmente ho potuto godere a pieno, dato che la sfortuna aveva voluto che negli ultimi anni le nostre ferie capitassero sempre nel breve periodo della loro fioritura (fine giugno). Quest'anno, sempre per via del caldo.. tutto anticipato e hanno fiorito prima della mia partenza yeah!!!</div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;">But overall I can't complain too much. The most beautiful plants are still there: the roses, still gorgeous, lavender, catmint, both well established, although because of the strong heat they are now already fading.. way earlier than the previous years, and hydrangeas, which have been starting to get coloured in the last few weeks. And then peonies (I will actually write a post about them as they well deserve it) that luckily for the first time in years I was able to enjoy. Usually they always bloom while we are away on holiday at the end of June, but this time, again because of the heat, they flowered much earlier, yeah! </span></i></div>
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Oltre a lavanda, rose e nepeta, il giardino si sta popolando anche dell'odiatissima plastica dei giochi dell'Adele :)! Per mitigare i danni ho scelto colori, comunque sgarcianti (O_O) ma almeno in tinta col giardino dai... cosí si mimeitizzano un pó (piú o meno)!!! Dove e quando posso aborro la plastica con tutte le mie forze, la detesto proprio, e dove posso cerco di scegliere alternative piú naturali, ma per i giochi da esterno da bimbi é davvero difficile se non impossibile evitarla per cui benvenga specie se la ricompensa é vedere una folletta felicissima che vorrebbe stare SEMPRE fuori (giá mi chiedo come faremo in inverno, con le giornate corte, umide e fangose) e si diverte come una pazza!</div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;">Besides roses, lavender and catmint, the garden is also starting to get filled with my main enemy, plastic :)! When I went to look for some garden toys for Adele, to soften the effect I decided to buy some (way too colourful) pieces that at least were in the same shades of the garden... so they can maybe camouflage a bit (not really.. I know ^_^)! I really really hate plastic and I try to avoid it as much as possible in favour of natural materials, but for outdoor kids toys there wasn't much choice really, but anyway, the reward for this is having a very very happy pixie who just spends all the time outdoor, playing and having so much fun (I am already wondering how we will do in Winter with all those short, muddy and wet days, as she would like to live outdoor all the time!)</span></i></div>
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Di tutte le cosine fatte a mano per la mia piccola topina credo che queste siano tra quelle che piú mi hanno dato soddisfazione, e anche tra quelle che piú ho amato creare.</div>
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Ad iniziare dal fare il disegno. Il tema, sempre quello, il bosco, i suoi animaletti. Un foglio di carta, anzi tanti fogli di carta, e bozze buttate li', cancellate, ridisegnate, fino a trovare la giusta soluzione. E poi la bellezza di un lavoro da poter fare in relax sul divano, ago nella mano, che entra ed esce e rilassa mente e spirito.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;">I enjoyed creating the design first of all. The subject is always the same, the woodland and its lovely creatures. And then a sheet of paper, actually, a few sheets of paper, and drafting and doodling here and there, until I got to the right design. And then the beauty of being able to create them while relaxing on the sofa, just a needle in your hand that goes in and out, in and out, and frees mind and soul.</span></i></div>
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E mi sono divertita a scegliere i colori. Non ho progettato nulla... ho semplicemente fatto cosi: sono andata in un negozio di hobbistica della mia cittá, mi sono piazzata davanti agli stand dei fili da ricamo e ho scelto e preso a piene mani tutti quelli dei colori che piú mi ispiravano, restando chiaramente nello spettro delle tinte della camera, quindi rosso mattone, rosa, e colori caldi e terreni, marroni, beige, nocciola, bordeoux, salmone ecc.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;">I deeply enjoyed creating and drawing the characters as I was so lucky to be struck with the right inspiration straight away... this is never something I take for granted at all, as the right inspiration is something that other you get or you don't, and you can't really manufacture it at all, or at least, I am not able to.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;">And then I enjoyed a lot choosing the colours. I didn't plan anything, I simply did like this: I went to a local craft store, I stood for a bit in front of the embroidery floss aisle, and I just chose all the colours that inspired me most,obviously keeping them inside the shade theme of the room. So pink, soft red, and warm and earthy colours like dark brown, nutbrown, light tan, salmon pink, etc. and bought a bunch of them.</span></i></div>
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Ne sono nati tre quadretti che sono disposti, assieme a molti altri, alcuni dei quali mostrati qualche post fa, sulla parete dietro il lettino di Adele. Come per gli altri quadretti, anche per questi ogni sera, dobbiamo fare il giro e salutare tutti, cerbiatto, riccio, uccellino, coniglietti e amici vari.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;">And then three pictures came alive, and they stand together with many others, (some of which I shared a few posts ago) on the wall behind Adele's bed. As for the other pictures, also for these, we have to say goodnight to each and every character every night :)</span></i></div>
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L'embroidery (come si traduce in Italiano? ricamo? anche se é cosi basico e semplice come il mio? mi sembra un'offesa rispetto al "vero ricamo" delle nonne ed artiste del filo!) é un hobby che consiglio a chiunque, perché richiede pochissimo materiale e pochissime competenze (ovviamente se fatto in modo basico come lo faccio io. Ovvero solo punto indietro e al massimo qualche french knot/nodino). Basta qualche telaietto (che poi io ho usato anche come cornicetta), una manciata di fili colorati, un ago, del semplice cotone o lino (io ho rinforzato il tessuto con un pó di interfacing leggero di quello termoadesivo, perché non volevo si vedesse il filo dietro in trasparenza) e un pó di fantasia se la avete, o potete anche semplicemente riportare disegni trovati su libri o illustrazioni che vi piacciono e creare le vostre piccole opere d'arte in pieno relax.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;">Embroidery (can I call this Embroidery even if it's very basic and simple, and nothing to do with the real art from our grandmothers and from many artists out there) it's a craft I feel to suggest to anyone as it requires very little materials and very little talents (especially if you are ok with a basic one like the one I do, that only includes a basic straight stitch and french knots) You only need a hoop/frame, that I also used as a final frame, a bunch of floss, a needle, some simple cotton or linen (in my case, I backed the cotton with some interfacing as I didn't want the embroidery thread to be seen through in the front) and just a bit of creativity for the design, or if you don't have it, you can use an illustration from a book or from a pictures as a base to create your little piece of art.</span></i></div>
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Proprio nel momento in cui ho iniziato a scrivere il post e dargli il titolo e pensare a cosa raccontare, sfogliando casualmente il blog mi sono accorta che l'ultima passeggiata raccontata qui era proprio questa! Una strana coincidenza, o forse neanche tanto. Non abbiamo camminato molto negli ultimi mesi per diversi motivi, e avendo poche occasioni di passeggiare, questa tra Bibury, Ablington e Winson, é sempre uno dei percorsi che piú preferiamo ultimamente.. Non é troppo lunga (e con una non piú leggerissima 20mesenne sulla schiena la cosa non guasta), é vicino a casa, la sappiamo a memoria, non é troppo faticosa, é davvero bella e si passa per deliziosi villaggi oltre a una campagna come sempre spettacolare e piú o meno a metá percorso c'é un bellissimo grande pascolo dove fare picnic e rilassarsi.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;">Precisely when I was beginning to write this post, and give it a title and thinking about what to tell, while I was carelessly browsing my blog I realised that the last post about countryside walks I published was about this same exact walk too. What a coincidence! Or maybe not so much so. We didn't have many occasions to have walks in the last few months for various reasons, and this trail, between Bibury, Ablington and Winson, is always one of our favourite trails lately. It's not too long (and with a -notsolightanymore- 20 months old on our back that is quite desirable), it's rather close to home, we know it by heart, it's not too tiring, it's pretty beautiful and you walk among quaint villages and an amazing countryside, and more or less halfway through the trail there is a very nice open pasture on the side of a hill which is perfect for a picnic and a bit of a rest.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;">So, all in all, just the perfect mix. You will probably know it by heart as well, by now, if you have been following my blog for a few years.. I surely posted about it more than once in the past.</span></i></div>
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Ma alla fine io non resisto. Quando vedo paesaggi e dettagli incantevoli, anche se li conosco a memoria, devo tirare fuori macchina o telefonino. Questa passeggiata poi é stata proprio un bell'evento da ricordare in quanto siamo riusciti per una volta a mettere d'accordo orari ed impegni nostri e dei nostri grandi amici/vicini di casa e si sa quando si é in compagnia tutto diventa ancora piu bello!</div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;">But, at the end of the day, I simply can't avoid it. When I see enchanting views and pretty details, even if I know them by heart, I have to take out my camera or mobile. Furthermore, this walk was a real event, as we finally managed to match timetables and various commitments and we were able to arrange this walk with our big friends/neighbours and it's plain to see that when you are in good company things become even better!</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;">And the utter beauty of these places, all in bloom at the beginning of Summer, and the green of hills and pastures, it was the perfect surrounding to such a perfect day, which I hope we will be able to replicate as soon as possible! </span></i></div>
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Continua la carrellata di lavoretti e angoli che decorano la stanza della mia bimba, Adele. Oggi é il turno della giostrina da culla. I soggetti non potevano che essere gli animaletti del bosco dato che é un pó tutto il tema della stanza.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;">Today I'll keep on sharing some corners and handmade items that decorate my little girl Adele's room. In today post it's time to share her cot mobile. The little characters could only be cute little woodland creatures, as that is more or less the whole room's theme.</span></i></div>
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Avrei voluto crearla mentre lei era ancora nel pancione e fargliela trovata appena nata in una cameretta tutta decorata e pronta ad accoglierla, ma ehmm.... diciamo che la mente lavora molto piú velocemente delle mani e quindi non é andata proprio cosí! Per fortuna i primi sei mesi ha comunque dormito in stanza con noi, quindi ho avuto tutto il tempo di decorarle ogni angolino inclusa questa giostrina.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;">I would have loved to have it ready while she was still in my bump and to have a fully decorated and very welcoming room for her when she was born, but... well... let's say that my mind definitely works way faster than my hands do, so that definitely didn't happen! Luckily during the first six months she slept in our bedroom anyway, so I had all the time to decorate every corner.</span></i></div>
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Gli animaletti sono nati dalle mia mente e dal mio cuore, e sono stati poi cuciti a mano pian pianino, durante i primi mesi, mentre lei faceva brevi pisolini, o mentre la tenevo cuore e cuore sulla fascia con me. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;">The little characters were born from my mind and my heart and were then stitched by hand, slowly, during the first few months of her life... while she was having quick naps or while she was nestling on me heart to heart inside the sling.</span></i></div>
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L'intelaiatura in legno é stato un acquisto diciamo un pó avventato, perché alla fine, bella é bella, ma l'avevo trovata su ebay, e arrivava da fuori UK, mi pare da Bulgaria, e tra spedizione e cambio valuta é costata davvero una follia.. ma me ne sono resa conto solo dopo che l'ho acquistata e ho fatto i conti ;) beh ormai é fatta. Un'alternativa molto piu economica (anche se magari meno bella, dato che io adoro il legno) sarebbe stata acquistare una giostrina giá pronta di plastica bianca (magari anche munita di carillon se lo si desidera) e sostituire i soggetti con i miei animaletti. O ancora, un' altra bella alternativa che ho visto spesso in giro quando cercavo ispirazioni, é di usare semplicemente un telaietto rotondo da ricamo (tante idee<b><a href="https://uk.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=diy%20cot%20mobile%20hoop&rs=typed&term_meta[]=diy%7Ctyped&term_meta[]=cot%7Ctyped&term_meta[]=mobile%7Ctyped&term_meta[]=hoop%7Ctyped" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> qui</a></b>), su cui far pendere i vari decori/animali e appenderla poi con fili trasparenti direttamente al soffitto.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;">The wooden frame was quite a impetuous purchase, as, it definitely is quite pretty, but I had found it on ebay, it was from outside the UK, I think Bulgaria possibly, and between shipping and currency exchange, the price ended up really high... but I only realised that after I had already bought it so never mind ;) what's done is done. A cheaper alternative (although probably less pretty, especially since I love wood a lot) would have been to buy a ready made cot mobile from a shop, with a plastic frame and replace its ornaments with mine. Or another even cheaper alternative, would have been, as I had often seen in pictures around the web, to simply use a round embroidery hoop (many ideas <b><a href="https://uk.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=diy%20cot%20mobile%20hoop&rs=typed&term_meta[]=diy%7Ctyped&term_meta[]=cot%7Ctyped&term_meta[]=mobile%7Ctyped&term_meta[]=hoop%7Ctyped" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a></b>), to hang on the ceiling with some clear string.</span></i></div>
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