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!