Today's west

This is my west for today, with the alternates, of course :o)


And I decided today to feature, from this day on and when I have time, the treasury I liked the most. Today is Kreativ's turn, with her beautiful Golden Moments: I like this list because it reminds me of the relaxing quiet you can find at the sea in autumn.

Trip to Liguria

When you live in northern Italy and you want to spend a day at the sea, you have not many choices: you can go to the Adriatic sea or you can go to Liguria. Ligurian sea is the closest to Milan, and if you don't find a lot of traffic on the highway you can reach the sea in less than two hours.
Unfortunately, *a lot* of people find the sea attractive in summer, so you are always pretty sure to have to fight for a parking space and for a (very) little slot of beach.
Anyway, last wednesday I was in need to see and feel the sea, so we take advantage of an unexpected day out and we went to Varazze.


Varazze is one of the settlements near the highway. It is only a classic Ligurian sea town, full of plain and crowded beach establishments...not really my idea of relax. But I spent in this place many summers when I was a child, so at least I can value a few positive aspects.
One of the things I like is that most part of the old town is nicely colored. My camera batteries were down, so I didn't manage to take many photos. :o(


Another positive thing is that you can find many good culinary specialties, fish, pesto, focaccia and so on.
I'll write the next recipe for our EST blog, after the yummy Blueberry Muffins from Andreia (Aracne Design) and this quick trip gave me a lot of inspiration, I'm sure you will appreciate!

Politically incorrect

March 26, 2008
Sarkozy asks China to talk with Dalai Lama: In his speech to the Commons and the Lords, Sarkozy said Britain and France shared a responsibility to urge the Chinese leadership to respect human rights and cultural identity - a goal that could only be achieved if there was "true dialogue" with the Dalai Lama. (Hearld Tribune)

August 7, 2008
Sarkozy Says He Won’t Meet Dalai Lama in France: President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, who will attend the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics despite domestic criticism, announced Thursday that he would not meet the Dalai Lama later this month in France.[...]France bristled when the Chinese ambassador to Paris in July warned of “serious consequences” for Chinese-French relations if Mr. Sarkozy met the Dalai Lama here.[...] (New York Times)

7 August 2008
Olympics and Tibet under a cloud of repression
On the eve of China's first Olympics, as the world prepares to gaze more intently than ever on the grand spectacle of the 29th Olympics, the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) deplores and expresses its deepest dismay on China's failure to uphold the Olympic principles particularly with regard to continual of repression in Tibet. The communist regime continues to cling on to its old authoritarian ways and still ruthlessly suppresses peaceful dissent. Over the recent past the Chinese authorities under the pretext of security measures has intensified clampdown on the fundamental human rights of the Tibetan people. (TCHRD)

President Bush bluntly told China that America stands in "firm opposition" to the way the communist government represses its own people, a rebuke delivered from the heart of Asia on the cusp of the Olympic Games. (Associated Press)

Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang admonished Bush just before he got to China.
"We firmly oppose any words or acts that interfere in other countries internal affairs, using human rights and religion and other issues," he said. The spokesman added that "Chinese citizens have freedom of religion. These are indisputable facts." (Associated Press)
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Tuesday blamed supporters of the Dalai Lama for recent violence in Tibet, and said Chinese forces exercised restraint in confronting unrest there. "There is ample fact and we also have plenty of evidence proving that this incident was organized, premeditated, masterminded and incited by the Dalai clique" Wen said in a televised news conference.
The Chinese premier also dismissed the Dalai Lama's claim that China is causing "cultural genocide" of his people in Tibet as lies. (CNN.com)

Olympic organizers are backtracking on another promise about coverage of the Beijing Games, keeping in place blocks on Internet sites in the Main Press Center and venues where reporters will work. ( CNN.com)

In the run-up to the Olympics, the Chinese authorities have locked up, put under house arrest and forcibly removed individuals they believe may threaten the image of “stability” and “harmony” they want to present to the world.
“By continuing to persecute and punish those who speak out for human rights, the Chinese authorities have lost sight of the promises they made when they were granted the Games seven years ago,” said Roseann Rife, Asia-Pacific Deputy Director at Amnesty International. (Amnesty International)

The capital and surrounding areas of northeastern China have the world's worst nitrogen dioxide levels, according to satellite images taken by the European Space Agency in 2005.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says the chemical can cause eye, nose, and throat irritation. It may also cause impaired lung function and increased respiratory infections. (CNN.com)

In 2004 the total greenhouse gas emissions from the People's Republic of China were about 54% of the USA emissions.
Various predictions see China overtaking the US in total greenhouse emissions between late 2007 and 2010, and according to many other estimates, this already occurred in 2006.
According to the Kyoto protocol, China have no obligation beyond monitoring and reporting emissions. (Wikipedia)

China supplies more than half of the finished fur garments imported for sale in the United States. When undercover investigators made their way onto Chinese fur farms recently, they found that many animals are still alive and struggling desperately when workers flip them onto their backs or hang them up by their legs or tails to skin them. (Peta)

There are about 7,000 bears on bear-bile farms in China. The captive animals are used to supply the voracious Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) market.
Usually bile is extracted from the bears' gallbladders twice a day through a surgically implanted tube. The process, called "milking," produces from .338 to .676 oz. (10–20 ml.) of bile each time. Milking is clearly painful for the bears, who are often seen moaning and chewing their paws during the process.
Sometimes the farmers just push a hollow steel stick through a bear's abdomen, and the bile runs into a basin under the cage. Surgery to insert the tube or stick is seldom performed by veterinarians (very few bear farms employ them). Roughly half of the bears die from infections or other complications. (HSUS)

BOCOG Issues Olympic Venue Rules, Banners Not Allowed: [...] The rules, promulgated on Monday, 25 days ahead of the Games, by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG), advise spectators not to bring into the venues support banners and leaflets of commercial publicity, religion, politics, military, human rights and environmental and animal protection, among others. (Beijing Official Website)

Olympics: Coni slams ceremony boycott call
The head of Italy's Olympic Committee (CONI), Gianni Petrucci, on Wednesday said it was the duty of Italian athletes to take part in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing. [...]
Foreign Minister Franco Frattini was forced to defend the government's official position on the Games after Youth Policy Minister Giorgia Meloni and the People of Freedom party's Senate whip Maurizio Gasparri asked athletes to skip the ceremony.
"It's clear that the Olympics are a great sporting event that nobody can, wants to, or should politicise," said Frattini, who will attend the inauguration with Sports Undersecretary Rocco Crimi.
"Human rights are something the Italian government has always fought for and will continue to do so after the Olympics, but the Games are a sporting occasion in which our athletes are competing to win, and we will go and support them" he added. (LifeinItaly.com)

Olympic games ended today. An Italian newscast said this evening something like this: "olympic games ended, we have learned something more about China and China has learned something more about us".
What??
Maybe Chinese authorities learned that they can go on, undisturbed, with no interference from western countries.
Probably Chinese people didn't learn anything. They can't learn anything because of the lack of information, they don't even understand why there were western people demonstrating against Tibet repression!
Surely I learned (or, better, I had confirmation of) something. People say that they have strong principles, but they can always find a good reason to throw out these principles. In our society a good reason can be an economic blackmail, the urgency to win a medal, or the simple pleasure of watching the olympic games.
Simply put: why should I care about a dog, a bear, a child or a Tibetan if I can have a nice MP3 player for 20$ only?

My last west

I was forgetting!

This is the treasury west I got yesterday!

Another treasury

Today's West

Here is my last west. Enjoy the alternates!

The EST book project

Some time ago the EST group decided to make a really original book: each member should have made a page, including some sort of artwork and illustrating his own Etsy shop. Then our super-artist KreativLink should have bound them all in a wonderful journal, ready to sell in our EST store.
I just saw that after more than two months we have 20 pages only, ready to be bound. I can't believe nobody else would like to join this great project, maybe someone forgot it, maybe someone doesn't read the remainders, and I'm sure many new members don't know the project at all.
So, I think the best way to boost the project is to share some work, so that people can be inspired to make his own page! You can find the directions to make your page here on our EST blog. The deadline has been delayed , waiting for more pages to come in.
Here is mine. :o)
I used a watercolor white paper, 300 gr, cold pressed.


I painted my favorites tree and leaf shapes on the middle pages. I worked with different media, most of them natural: watercolors (my special French pigments), turmeric and ink for the tree and real henna and tea for the leaf page!


I love henna, you can use it to draw very nice artwork, and it has a so good and earthy, persistent scent you can smell it way after the paste has been removed from the paper (K, can you smell it still? :o) .


On the front page I talked a bit about me and my work, and on the back I put a printed selection of my items on Etsy. I used a sheet of iron-on transfer paper to make the print, so I could use a heavy and coarse paper sheet and still obtain a printed-like appearance.

To make a page for our journal is simple, it only takes time, but I'm sure you will find some, it is for a good cause!
Go create, quick! ;o)

Spaghetti with zucchini, lemon and pistachios

Another light recipe, perfect for summer time, when you don't feel like cooking anything hard.
I found it on this Italian blog: http://spilucchino.blogspot.com/2008/06/linguine-con-zucchine-limone-e.html
I love lemon, I use it everywhere, with vegetables, meat and pasta as well, and here the lemon aroma perfectly match and balance the sweet taste of zucchini.
As always, you have to go by eye because I never weight anything, but the quantities should be more or less like this:

Serves 2

• 170 gr spaghetti
• 2 small zucchini
• 1 lemon (peel, grated)
• 2 tbsp raw pistachio nuts (untoasted, unsalted)
• parmigiano
  
• extra virgin olive oil
  
• salt and pepper
  

Finely slice zucchini and cook them briefly with a small amount of olive oil (about 2 tbsp) in a large pan, it should take you a few minutes only. Add salt and pepper at the end.
While cooking spaghetti, grate parmigiano and the lemon peel and mix them with diced pistachios. You don't need the lemon juice, so you can use it for an aperitif while you are waiting for spaghetti. ;o)
When ready, mix together spaghetti and zucchini in the pan, and then the parmigiano/lemon/pistachios mix. Add a pinch of pepper if you like it, and olive oil if needed.
The original recipe includes some mint leaves, but I didn't try it yet. If you don't find raw pistachios you can use pine nuts, as I did this time.

Here they are! Bon appetit!

A real treasury!

I'm back from a one-week holiday, a one-week flu and a week of strong work! I have to survive for this week and then...I'll win another week off! :o)
I haven't been able to make a "real" treasury for ages, but today I got one, here it is, enjoy the alternates too!

Out of synchrony

I'm always out of synchrony. I start writing a post, then I find something else to do, days pass by and my post is already old.
So, this is what I would have liked to post last Tuesday.

It has been a sunny day here today! A great improvement from the last two raining weeks. And for the first time I am at home and it doesn't rain!
(and now it's raining again, strange isn't it? After all it has been raining for the entire month only, this country is becoming a rainforest...Star, please, don't say anything :o) I know, the water is precious and within a month I'll be here complaining about a too hot summer, but I'm sorry, now I can't take it anymore!)
Sun always makes me full of energy, so I made a lot of things today!

• I did a lot of washing
• I made a new honey soap
• I managed to collect some fresh grass for my rabbits and gpigs
• I decided how to make my page for our EST book (and now I already changed my mind...)
• I went grocery shopping.

I bought the most big and beautiful bunch of basil ever, and I made a special dinner: spätzle, green beans, potatoes and pesto . :o) I know, it's not an orthodox recipe, it surely isn't a recipe from Milan, I make spätzle the wrong way (I don't use eggs) and probably I'm the only one on the earth serving spätzle with pesto, but I enjoy trying new combinations and nobody ever complained about my spätzle, so I presume they are not so bad! In fact we like them very much. I usually make spätzle and pesto by myself. Do you know pesto, don't you? I don't use a marble mortar and a pestle to make pesto, too laborious to me. I use a simple grinder to mince basil, parmigiano, pecorino, garlic and pine nuts together and then I add extra virgin olive oil. I add a little bit of milk too, but this is only one of my strange additions! I steam green beans and potatoes, then I cook spätzle and at the end I combine them all with pesto.

No pictures this time, I'm sorry, spätzle have been eaten at once! :o)

Today's west

This is my current treasury west on Etsy, and the alternates too. :o)

Treasures brought to light

Every time I make a treasury on Etsy it's a pain. I mean, I love making treasuries but I know that they will disappear in a while. A lot of work lost. A lot of artists forgotten, I surely can't keep them all in my favorites, these are already a mess as they are. It's a pity!
So I decided I will take a screenshot of all my treasuries from this day on, this way I can also show you the alternates. ;o)
This is my current west.



Changing the subject: a warm welcome to little Homelab's daughter! :o)

And now, a bizarre thought: I was reading this post by Star and when I read the statement "Is TIME flat? Or is TIME round?" it suddenly came to my mind the novel Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott. I read it many, many, many...many years ago, and I found it really interesting. If you have never read it, you should, it's worth it.

Food blogs

I'm writing a long post about palm oil, but it seems it will take me a while to be ready, so I thought to write something else in the meanwhile, just to break up.
So, I need a light topic...
Food? Yes! :oD
Here are some of my favorite food blogs, I'm sure you will find something interesting.

Calme et Cacao (English and French)
foodbeam (English)
la cuoca petulante (Italian)
il cavoletto di bruxelles (Italian)
Ice Cream Ireland (English)
Chocolate and Zucchini (English and French)
smitten kitchen (English)
Erbaviola.com (Italian, and not a food blog only...)
Humble Pie (English)

Enjoy!

Rain...again!

It has been raining for the entire weekend, with only few breaks, until this morning. On Saturday night there was a violent rainstorm, I woke up at 3 am because of the loud noise of the rain. We whitened our apartment only a couple of weeks ago and we already have a huge humidity spot on the bedroom ceiling.
I can't take it any more!!!
This town is ugly in such a bad weather, and I can't harvest fresh grass for my animals. And it's humid, in the house as well, and laundry remains moist...bleah.
But look what a beautiful rainbow I captured yesterday in the afternoon, between one shower and the other! :o)

Etsy beauties I

I was surfing Etsy just a few minutes ago and I had the umpteenth proof of the most special faculties of mine. When I look at a shop, it doesn't matter what type of shop, I like and I'm able to pick always the most expensive item at all (or, at least, one of the most expensive). It's a really frustrating ability, because obviously I will never have the chance to buy all these beauties, but I think it is worth showing them here. After all, the most expensive items are maybe the most interesting ones, those demonstrating all the seller creative effort. I hope you will enjoy them too.
So, let's start with the Maja. Screenprinted colorful shawl by birribe from Stockholm. I love its colors and I picked it up at the first glance!


The next item I choose is the ivory and emerald handwoven top by Larimeloom from Alba, Italy. I'm honest, I probably like all of their items, but I surely have a weakness for the tops!


Now, I saw this beautiful REGINA - knitting Shrug by Silvia66 from Italy in one of the EST treasuries and I immediately felt in love with it. I love the color, I love the model and I love the little and cute metal clasp she added on it!


The last one (for now) is this great work by Studiotto: Cini (earthenware glazed tile) - wall panel or coffee table. I added Studiotto to my favs some time ago but I found this wonderful item only yesterday. It's really a piece of art, I like it very much.

Turkish beauty

About a month ago I purchased some items from StaroftheEast and StarofSupplies, one of our great EST artisans and I have never had the time to show you the wonderful things I received. My order took a bit longer than usual to arrive because of the crummy postal service we have here in Italy, but fortunately the packet arrived safe.
I took a picture of the stamps as well, they were too cute to leave them aside!


I bought from StarofSupplies some beautiful pendants, feeling very natural, and a couple of sea urchins beads, and from StaroftheEast a gorgeous white sea urchin pendant Estella made just for me, perfectly following my wishes! She was very nice and patient with me. :o)
The sea urchin pendant doesn't surely need any promotion, we all know very well how nice these beauties are. But I took a picture of the others items, only to show you two of them, to see how original a simple and natural object found on a beach and transformed by a good hand can be.


I hope they will make other objects like these ones, I like them very much!

FP!

I'm whitening my home. :o(
I have taken some days off to do that, and I'm more tired than I usually am when I go to work. But I'm happy to have a new and fresh atmosphere and, most importantly, I have been forced to clean out all of the clutter and I have made space!
I haven't had time to check Etsy and the forums on these days, but I know I have been on the FP more than once because I had many visits and many more hearts. And for the first time I managed to grab a screenshot! So, many thanks to devotees, my hand painted mug is very happy now. :o)

Btw, devotees sells some very nice shirts, I especially love the deer.
I suppose I have been on the FP at least a second time thanks to some EST girl: I don't know who she is, but thank you so much, my Cremino soap have reached over 480 visits and has been sold today!

Some thoughts and a recipe

By now I'm used to neglect my blog. But I have to say that surfing your blogs (where you=you EST girls) I found out that I'm not the only lazy one! ;)
Anyway, I thought the main reason I don't spend much time on my blog is because I don't find it useful, and I don't like useless things, so I don't feel at home here. Yes, I like to tell you something about my life, but honestly, who cares about it?
So, I'll try to fill this blog with more useful and interesting things.

Let's start with something really useful :o) and tasty. What better way to awake my blog than to post a good and sweet tart recipe?
VERY USEFUL subject, in my opinion, especially in such a bad weather...it has been raining for more than a week here. :o)
I'll tell you the recipe of my crust tart (in Italy we call it crostata), a very simple recipe, the same my mother have made since I was a child and probably the only one I really like.
Some friend of mine who tried to make it said this pastry is too difficult to make. I don't understand why, conversely I think it's the easiest pastry you can make.
Surely it's a rustic and familiar tart, the pastry is not so flawless as the real pâte sucrée should be, but I think it has a nice texture, neither too fine nor too coarse, neither too tender nor too crunchy.
My mum took this recipe from an old book by the famous cook Pellegrino Artusi, "La scienza in cucina e l'arte di mangiare bene" (The Science of Cooking and the Art of Eating Well). We use the "B" recipe for pasta frolla, the base tart dough.

Here it is:

250 gr flour
125 gr unsalted butter (we traditionally use unsalted butter only)
110 gr white sugar
1 egg and 1 yolk
a pinch of salt

The procedure my mum and I use is probably a bit different from the original one, because we don't let the butter at room temperature and we don't cream it before adding the rest of ingredients. We simply combine flour and sugar and then we add the cool butter chopped in small chunks and the eggs. We start mixing with a fork until fine crumbs have formed and then we knead by hand.
The only important thing to remember is to not overwork the pastry, you should touch it as little as possible or it will become pasty and it will loose its friable nature. The dough doesn't need to be perfectly homogeneous, you have just to incorporate all the ingredients.
I usually don't refrigerate the pastry before using it (the purists would say you should do it). I use it as is, spreading out the dough in a buttered cake pan.
I use this pastry to make nice crust tarts, with jam or fresh fruits. My favorite one is the crostata di albicocche (apricot jam tart). I bake the crust already filled with jam, at 175°/180° for 40/45 min.
BTW, here is a very good pâte sucrée recipe.

First day of Spring?

OMG, I didn't write anything for 4 long weeks, I'm really a bad blogger!!
Today is 21st March, it should be the first day of spring...but we have maybe +3ºC and the meteorologists say that it will be very cold again in the next few days.
So, in order to forget for a moment about this ugly weather, I will tell you about the most warm day we had so far, a sunday about three weeks ago.
That day was a great day, sunny and warm just as the first day of spring should be. I know, we are only at the beginning of spring, but it was beautiful to forget cold and bad weather lying in the sun for a long sunday afternoon!
It would have been a pity to stay at home on such a beautiful day, so we took our bicycles and we went out in the sun. We went to one of the town parks, not far from our house.
The sight was stunning: the bright and completely clear sky emphasized the colors of the last winter berries and of the first spring flowers. The fields were a carpet of little birdeye speedwell!
We planned with our friends a meeting at the park, but we arrived early so I had the time to take some pics of my items in the sunlight. I have to say that the sunlight really preserves the right item colors, without having to play around with Photoshop!
Our friends and their little childrens arrived about an hour later. We spent all the afternoon at the park, we girls had a nice chat and the boys enjoyed their mountain bikes. :o)
This is how a spring day should really be!!
So, let's pretend that day is today, and hope tomorrow will be better! :o)

A big hairy family

Oh well, the "blank sheet panic" is gone. I'm starting to find it funny to have a blog. :o)

I always had animals. They are part of my life and I could hardly live without them, if you want to live with me you have to like animals, no choice.

When wePenny and Minou moved here we had only two cats, two sweet sisters to be more precise, Minou and Messner, Christmas gift and bequeath of a two-months cohabitation with my bf's uncle. In spite of her name, Messner is a "girl", my bf's uncle stated he would have named a cat "Messner" whatever sex it would have been, and so he did.

About six months after we moved, we found a litter of four little kittens about one month old. A car ran down their mother, an alley cat, so the kittens remained alone. We gave two of them for adoption and kept with us the other two. We named them Penelope and Beo(wulf). The little Penny was "adopted" by Minou, and Beo teamed with Messner.
We think Penny is a sort of "autistic" cat: she spent all the first month hidden under the heater and it took us almost three years to be able to pet her, and only in sites she believes are "safe". Beo is the classic fatty, stupid male cat, sticky like glue...and I love it! :o)

The first of the two bunnies came a couple of years later. We bought her for a few euros only a week before she was going to be returned to the breeder: after three months spent in the shop window she was grown too much to be sold at a normal market price. She' s a lionhead rabbit, and she's the most diabolic creature living in our house. ;o) We named her Niglietta. Her partner is a little, stressed and restless white rabbit, adopted three years later, named Bianconiglio. Do you remember the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland? "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!" ...that is, Bianconiglio is the White Rabbit. And that's not all. It is a super-jumping rabbit! When we rescued it, the old (bad...) owners told us that it was a very shy and depressed rabbit. It was having a bad sore hocks on its back feet, so it was jumping and walking with some problem. Due to its poor conditions we arranged a sit in our bedroom, the most quiet place available in our house...two hours later, the very depressed rabbit was lying down and peaceful sleeping on my bf's pillow, reached by a glorious two feet jump! Can you believe it? It's not a normal rabbit, it doesn't sleep at the ground level, it has his personal dwelling on a bookcase shelf!

The guinea pigs are the icing on the cake.
I haven't said yet that we think animals should not be caged at all. It is obvious when talking about cats, but it seems less obvious when you see a little squeaking guinea pigs herd walking on the living room floor.
Guinea pigs are funny creatures, a little bit annoying when they are hungry..but they are so sweet and comic you could fall in love with them. We have 6 guinea pig: Buffy, Berta, Pig Pen, Sally, Violet and Topona. All of them are adopted, some from a local charity. Buffy and Berta are the older ones, they are two 7 years old sisters. Pig Pen was rescued from a lab and Sally, Violet and Topona were rescued from a public park where people are used to abandon their unwanted pets...really sad.
Guinea pigs and rabbits are quite expensive animals, as they have to eat a lot of fresh veggies, but I like thinking they can live happy, healthy and safe here. I love watching them sleeping on a bunch of fresh hay!

So, this is our family, you can now understand why I'm constantly fighting with hair!

So, here I am.
I finally set up my own blog, after having found some good advice on Etsy forums, and now I have to fill it with something interesting. Hard work.
I have a sort of "blank sheet panic" and I always find it difficult to start a post, especially when I have nothing to answer to.
After having joined the Etsy European Street Team I started reading the EST threads on Etsy forums. I have known many lovely girls and I learned to love their works as well as their lives, so I started reading their blogs and making connections between what I was seeing and reading on Esty and what these people really look like in their lives.
I think the first blog I saw was Karlita's one. And I fell in love with her cats!
Then I checked Pamela, Artmind, Kreativlink, Morrgan, Ingermaaike, Gilbea, Arctida and finally Staroftheeast ones and... I fell in love with their dogs!!
It's true, I am an animal addicted, my house is full of little hair balls, but I'll show you all in the next post. :o)
Now, I think it's time for me to tell you a little more about myself.
I live in northern Italy, in a small apartment in a small town near Milan. I work full time for a services company and I spend my spare free time grooming my hairy friends, cooking, making soaps, painting, creating things for Etsy, and last but not least teaching myself to be a good aunt for my little "niece" Giulia. :o) My best friend Silvia gave birth to Giulia three months ago, and she's the cutest little baby girl I have ever seen!

What do I love?
I love nature and all simple things
I love my boyfriend (strange, isn't it? ;o))
I love animals (obvious...)
I love my friends
I love colors at such a point that I can flip out for a color pencil box
I love Austria
I love to cook
I love my bycicle :o)

I think it's enough for now. See you later, nighty night!