Happy Friday!

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Have a lovely weekend break everyone :)

Weekend greetings

Hello darlings!

 As the summer draws to an official close, so will the British strawberry season. 

Eat up folks before it's all gone :)

Have a wonderful weekend.

Kisses

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This video made me smile, so I must share.

Enjoy!

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Have a wonderful weekend beautiful people!
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Weekend greetings

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Quick hello

Hello darlings, I just popped in to say a quick hi and bye. I desperately wanted to make a post today, but I'm not going to be able to unfortunately. I just came back home from saying more good byes to friends, getting a few presents for folks back home, and making the odd apology for my departure, to be honest I'm too emotionally drained to put any words together. My taxi is arriving soon to take me to the airport, so I must go now.

Enjoy your weekend my lovelies, and pop back on Monday, to hear all about my last couple of days in Venice-Treviso.

xoxo

Champagne Friday!

Join the celebrations....

Today is my last day at work, and my last working day in Italy. I seriously cannot believe that it has already been 11 months, actually in a weird way it feels like I have been here longer. So many things have happened, so many adventures, good times, sad times and especially embarrassing times.
Have some champagne my dears, here's to life and making the most of it. Cheers!

Have a wonderful break.


p.s...Although I don't normally post on the weekends, however if I'm able to, I will tomorrow, before flying out.


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Oh what a weekend!

Bassano del Grappa

I'm the girl lucky enough to be lounging around this pool all day Saturday. It's a real beauty, isn't it? Both the pool and the art deco style architecture, they look like something from Architectural Digest.
The house belongs to my friend, and is situated in Bassano del Grappa, a beautiful town in northern Italy.

This is a good example of why it's good not to plan things sometimes. Last week, I had absolutely no agenda for the weekend, during Friday's aperitivo, I bumped into a friend whom I hadn't seen in ages. So, to cut a long story short, "I was all up in his casa" all day the following day. I really can't get enough of this pool, it's seriously stunning, and most importantly, refreshing.

In the evening, we explored the town a bit more, and wow! It's a 30min drive from the Dolomites, so you can really see the mountains clearly. They form a beautiful background for the rest of the town, and everything ends up looking very picture perfect.

I've always been told of its loveliness, but I guess I wasn't prepared for all this beauty, all in one place.
I can see why Ernest Hemingway chose to settle here, it's a very inspiring place, literally each corner you take, takes your breath away.
It was a really good day, quite exhaustive too, so I took it easy on Sunday. All in all, it was a fantastic weekend!

What did you folks get up to?

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Weekend Sparkles

Morning darlings, good weekend?

Mine came with a touch of sparkles. Saturday was a really good day. I spent the afternoon at the beach with friends, and in the evening the festival of Il Redentore (which marks the end of the plague) started. At around 11:30 pm, the Venetian sky erupted with the most beautiful fireworks display, oh so romantic my dears.
Sunday was a bit more relaxing, I slept late and treated myself with some real comfort food, cheese ommlette with toast, yum yum.

What about you folks, what did you get up to?

A Venetian Sunset

Happy Friday! It has to be said that this one took a bit long to get here, or perhaps it's just me. Am still not fully recovered from last week's island hopping, each night I plan to go to bed early, but it never happens. Either it's midnight ice cream or spritz with the girls, there's always something keeping me past my ideal bed time. On the other hand, it's summer, the nights are warm and comforting, so it's got to be a sin to retire from the night early.
This weekend am planning to take it a bit easy, I will sleep a lot, and maybe go to the beach. What are you folks upto?

Have a nice weekend my dears, here's a piece of venetian sunset for you to enjoy!

 

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Friday Toast

I would like to kick the weekend off by making a toast. Some friends of mine are coming from Amsterdam for the weekend, and am so excited. Actually it's my childhood best friend and her boyfriend. I haven't been feeling too good recently so I pray for a miraculous recovery in time to welcome them.

So lets all raise our glasses to a virtual toast, here's to life, love, family, friends, and of course my darling readers.

Have a great weekend beautiful people, see you back on Monday! kisses

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Friday good stuff

I feel like standing on top of a roof and shouting from the bottom of my lungs, IT'S FRIDAY!
This week hasn't been that bad due to the mid-week public holiday, but am very glad that the weekend is finally here. Tonight is going to be a bitter-sweet moment for me, as am going to my friends farewell party. Really looking forward to ending the day with a great get together, but dreading the good byes. Hmm...such as life. On the bright side, I've come across a couple of good stuff that I would like to share with you folks. First stop, is the amazing competition by Ideal Home magazine. They are offering one lucky person the chance to win a luxury break in the highly fashionable boutique hotel by Missoni.

Yes people, Missoni!

The hotel is located in Edinburgh, so unfortunately the competition is only for people residing in the UK and the Channel islands. Am sorry if you aren't eligible to enter, neither am I at the moment, but fear not beacuse I have one more goodie to share.

Feast your beautiful eyes on these!

Don't they look so yummy? If you head over to Ming makes cupcakes, you can have their recipes too! She also makes cookies and all other savory treats, it's definitely worth checking out! You can thank Jen of Made by girl, for the introduction.

mmm....that's all folks! I wish you all the best weekend, am going to the beach if the weather is good, I would love to know what you guys get up to.

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Island Hopping

Hello my beautiful readers! How are you all doing, did you have a good break? I know you guys in the UK and the States have an extra day, due to the bank holiday, you lucky things. After the weekend that I had, I could really do with an extra day of rest. Saturday was such an amazing day, I spent the whole day island hopping! A friend of mine was celebrating her birthday, so she took us on her boats, making a few stops on a couple of the islands around the Veneto region of Italy.

The adventure started from climbing down a ladder to get inside the boat, very scary and exciting at the same time.

We made a quick stop on the island of Isola delle Vignole, to have some lunch. Oh and the captain let me drive the boat a little, it was so good!

After a delicious lunch of pasta and fried sea food, we hopped back onto the boat and continued with our escapade. Then all of a sudden it started to rain, so we stopped on the island of Sant'Andrea, and went inside the fort for some shelter.

We didn't make it to the island of San Terasmo, when the rain finally stopped, we headed back to Venice to get ready for the party.

Here are some more pictures of Venice, isn't it beautiful?

Yes, those are my feet, I wanted to show you guys my pretty red ballerina flats. Aren't they gorgeous?

Some weekend inspirations

As the Americans would say, I need a strong cup of Joe (coffee). I went to a really good party last night, as usual with these type of things, sleep always gets sacrificed. The whole morning has been such a struggle to keep my eyes open, but it was worth it.

The weekend is finally here and I am so grateful! Tonight I will be attending an exhibition of a colleague who has just invented a new way of photography, through the use of a computer monitor (please don't ask me how). Tomorrow, I'll be going to the island of Santerasmo which is near Venice. A friend of mine has hired a boat for her birthday, so that should be fun. Sunday will be spent recovering from Saturday am sure, and that is my entire weekend covered. Actually the boat thing depends on the weather, but we'll see, fingers crossed!

What about you folks, have you made any plans for the weekend?

Before bidding you a fond farewell, let me leave you guys with these pictures that I took yesterday evening, it's the view along the River Silea.

This is my bike path.

....and this is what I look at whilst bike riding, amazing right?

I literally had to stop every so often to capture these beautiful images, and I knew that I just had to share it with you guys.

I do hope you like, my darlings!
Have a wonderful weekend, and I'll see you on Monday.

Antique Weekend

Morning my darlings! How was your weekend? Mine was jam packed with activities and I simply can't believe it's Monday again, I feel like the last couple of days just flew by. I had an amazing time at a barbecue on Saturday night, but somehow between dancing and taking pictures of my friends jumping in the river (yes they really did, it was one of those lazy spring nights), I came home to find my blue rose missing. I only had it for a week, but I grew attached to it pretty quickly, and am sad to loose it. Right now am picturing it floating alone on the river, I hope somebody worthy of it's uniqueness finds it.

Sunday was another antique day, so of course I had to go.

I think these will look amazing on a terracotta patio.

I literally gasped for this lantern. My friends thought I was crazy, but I think it's beautiful, no?

Adorable gravy boat, yes?

This, I love!

I would have liked to see a whole set of these, they are really pretty.

These two vases particularly caught my eye because they looked out of place in the market. I really like them.

It's beautiful, isn't it?

This was my favourite find of the day! It's so vintage meets fairytale. It isn't made for just any old decor, but in the right setting, it would steal the show.

I got caught in the rain without an umbrella, so I wrapped my scarf around my head. Don't I look so Arabian night? Please believe that the setting and the picture was accidental, we just happened to be near the carpet stall when the rain really started to hit. A stylish accident all the same. No, the scarf isn't from the market, it was a gift from my dad, and he bought it in London.

Am really considering ditching the whole umbrella thing and getting more oversize scarves, am really digging this look, and it's quite practical and stylish, especially if the rain is not that heavy.

So which one of my antique finds, is your favourite?