tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27281832302064452412024-03-13T15:05:25.580+01:00it's nice heres t E f a N i ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09316174324642818765noreply@blogger.comBlogger446125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728183230206445241.post-88533304859850224792018-01-11T23:42:00.000+01:002018-01-12T12:20:46.848+01:00LIGHT FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Such a magic city, Amsterdam.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Even more magic in these weeks as it is hosting a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">quite breathtaking Light Festival</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. Light art is a relatively young art form that experiences a great growth due to the possibilities given by LED technology. I wasn't able to go there myself, anyway, for the ones planning a visit, Amsterdam will be </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">stage to light artists from all over the world presenting their work</span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> untill 21th january 2018.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">More information <a href="https://amsterdamlightfestival.com/en" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #545353;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Remember</span><i style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">oliebollen? </span></i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Dutch dumplings</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #545353;"> </span><span style="color: #545353; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I mentioned in my previous post? As I have written I liked them so much, I decided to look for the recipe and share it here for the ones willing to give it a try. </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #545353;">They can be made plain or they can be enriched with raisins, currants and apple. Both versions usually get dusted with icing sugar before serving. Some people also add citrus zest and candied cherries, but so far I never tried them this way. </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Also, the </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><i>oliebol</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> can be filled after baking with whipped cream, pastry cream or jam. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The filling can add extra sweetness since the dough itself is not very sweet.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Next time I visit The Netherlands for New Years Eve I will definitely try the wipped cream filling. I am very inspired.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It must be said that <i>oliebollen</i> are most delicious just recently baked. Afterwords </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">they stay tasty for 1-2 days and can be warmed up in the microwave - but freshly baked they're just unbeatable, believe me.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I always loved visiting the city center during Christmas days, all the best when I am on holiday somewhere far from home, like now. It is a lovely anticipation of festive time to come. Always thought tiny lights on naked tree branches are enchanting and I love to discover the decorations shining through people windows or on the buildings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">As long as it is not me who has to rush for buying presents, I also love looking at people walking the streets with bags showing something nicely wrapped. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">The air is cold, crisp and filled with sweet delicious food smell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">NOrdic countries' long cold winters do force their inhabitants to be master of Christmas cheer. So is it here in The Netherlands. I could not wait to stroll about in Zwolle city center. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We discovered a living nativity scene. Maria is still waiting for her baby to be born.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Cows, sheep, even a camel and other animals are patiently waiting for the baby too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Singing singing with very beautiful voices. Very poetic indeed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A tent when everyone could play freely with lego bricks - kids and adult all together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Did you ever hear this song? It's so beautiful. I love Annie Lennox's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlsJD8RlhbI" target="_blank">version</a> of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Have you ever tried </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><i>Oliebollen</i></span>? A typical dutch delicacy, commonly known as Dutch doughnuts, basically deep-fried raisins buns. According to tradition, they are eaten on Newyears Eve, that is why in these days the streets are filled with special kiosks who prepare them on the spot. I loved them covered in powdered sugar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I love winter in The Netherlands. This year we were so lucky we could come here for our winter holidays. We'll spend time with the Dutch side of the family. Last time it was 9 years ago.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">I totally fell into the festive atmosphere as soon as I arrived. I very much inspired by my mother in law home made decorations: her crocheted stars and angels, the felt red reindeer do make the Christmas tree truly adorable. I am planning to make some for my own tree for next year.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Even birds have got their own Christmas cake - as you can see in the second picture.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">It is so beautiful that every time I look outside the window and see it in the garden, I feel like I could just have a slice with my coffee.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">We play games, bake tiny apple cakes, drink coffee and plan festive meals.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">So far so good. How are you spending your holidays?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As the end of the year is approaching, it's time to look ahead of us to the new one's coming.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I don't know about you, but my 2017 has been not so easy in many ways but interesting in some respects I suppose. Anyway I won't lie to you if I say I can't wait to celebrate the end of it with a kind "farewell" and start all over again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How will the new year be? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For one thing, its colour will be purple – as chosen by Pantone in facts the official color of 2018 is a saturated, intense, blue-toned shade of purple called Ultra Violet, also known as Pantone 18-3838. Pantone has been naming color of the year since 2000. The company views its selection as cultural barometer, a visual rappresentation of how we collectively do feel about the time we are living.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Pantone explains about this choice: “[Ultra Violet] is a very provocative shade, but it’s also a thoughtful color–it sounds like a bit of an oxymoron. This is the kind of color attached, historically, to originality, ingenuity, and visionary thinking. These are the elements we need to create a meaningful future. Inventiveness and imagination is something we seek in our personal lives and business worlds. People are looking for that ‘magic bullet,’ and this shade is the perfect shade to lead right into it . . . It’s intriguing, fascinating, and magical.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I personally love purple so probably I can see the intriguing/magical part.</span><br />
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s t E f a N i ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09316174324642818765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728183230206445241.post-2911064832812654862017-12-02T16:34:00.003+01:002017-12-03T14:17:36.399+01:00THE GOLD OF MY GRANDPARENT'S LAND<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hello everyone, it is a long long time I do not write on this blog. It seems right to pick it up again just before the end of the year. Also, it seems right to look back at the past summer, just now that the first snow started to fall around here and memories of warm sunny days do seem so far away.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here in Italy, summer has gone on for a very long while <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">–</span> a long warm autumn we all enjoy I must say.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A new work project gave me the chance to have a lovely mini trip in Abruzzo, central Italy, where I also visited my family </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">–</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> family on dad side.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I spend my holidays there since I was a child, it's a lovely place where hills filled with olive trees meet the seaside but <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">–</span> funny enough </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">–</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> I never joined anyone on my family for the olive harvest. My grandparents had land with olives and peaches. Nowadays some of my uncles, aunties and cousins continued to work on my granparent's land. This year I was finally in the right place at the right time to witness and help a little with olive harvesting.</span><br />
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The youngest of the family, enjoyed the day a lot too.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We had our lunch on the premises. Some vegetables, fresh tomatoes sliced on the spot and naturally our olive extra virgin olive oil on bread. It comes from family trees and it's so delicious on bread! So simple yet so unbelievably delicious, believe me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The small jar was gifted to us by my aunt Anna, the big jar contains some of the olives we plucked with our own hands. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I just came across this wonderful installation art by <span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Chiharu Shiota</i></span> – a Japanese installation artist born in 1972 in Osaka, based now in Berlin where she has been living and working since 1996. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She is m<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;">ostly renown for her vast, room-spanning webs of threads or hoses, she links abstract networks with concrete everyday objects such as keys, windows, dresses, shoes, suitcases and boats – as in these pictures of her </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;">work </span></span><strong style="font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">‘uncertain journey’ –</strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> presented in</span><strong style="font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a monumental exhibition at Berlin’s blain|southern (september – november 2016).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: justify;">To transfer the idea behind </span><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Uncertain Journey, </em><span style="text-align: justify;">Shiota</span><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> </em><span style="text-align: justify;">relies on two main elements: the boat skeletons, which serve and the complex maze of thread that symbolizes the existential questions deep within us about fate and belonging, evoking complex emotions in us that sometimes are as the tangled as the yarn itself.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hi everyone! Did you know that PANTONE colour 15-0343 Greenery was elected colour of the year 2017? It's a fresh and zesty yellow-green shade that indeed evokes the first days of spring when nature’s greens revive, restore and renew. A colour definitely symbolic of new beginnings.</span><span style="font-size: small;">A colour of the year? It's simply a symbolic color selection of what Pantone sees taking place in our global culture that serves as an expression of a mood and an attitude. I could not agree more with this choice, what about you?</span></div>
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Now Pantone Greenery is transformed into magical indoor wonderland in the heart of London: the First-Ever PANTONE Color of the Year Experience! Since January 27, just a couple of days ago, the Pantone Outside In House is listed live on Airbnb to book for overnight stays.</div>
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Immagine my surprise and joy when I found out about Outside In. What an amazing place!</div>
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The brands Pantone and Airbnb have joined forces to create this house, located in London in Clerkenwell, where guests can stay in a universe of greenery. The apartment features a woodland reception area, an indoor greenhouse that doubles as a dining room, a garden bedroom with mown lawn, a tented nook for children, an herb garden kitchen, and botanical life interspersed throughout.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Can you immagine to stay in a place where you can hear the sounds of nature? Forage from its walls for herbs or maybe drink tea with leaves picked from a hydroponics installation? You </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">might choose plants to make terrarium vases or even pick leaves to design custom-prints.</span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For this month topic I decided to shine light on something of plants that fascinates me a lot: their roots.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> I just love to admire them, such a vigorous image of life! That is why I usually place them in clear glass containers where the roots slowly grow, float in a tangle for the joy of my eyes.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Very simply I added tiny little fairy lights around the glass that host my cuttings. These lights are ever so tiny themselves, with minimal electric cable, plus they have an extra bonus of being battery charged so you are not bound to a plug and happily place them everywhere you like.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I love how the electric cable mingles, visually, with the roots. </span><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">Can't wait to see how they shine in the evening, in the dark.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And what about your house? Do you use plants and lights together to decorate and give a green vibe to Christmas? If so, join the Urban Jungle community and share what you did.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Info on how to do it at the end of this blog post.</span><br />
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Overlooking the city, behind a garden that makes you feel like you live in the middle of a park? </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I would not mind at all. A perfect example of Urban Jungle, don't you think?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The complex project took two and a half years to complete, d</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">espite its relatively small scale. It's contemporary in style, yet somewhat organic look, reminds me of <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steinhaus,_Rogner_Bad_Blumau_von_Friedensreich_Hundertwasser.jpg" target="_blank">green roofs</a> architecture by Austrian Architect </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedensreich_Hundertwasser" target="_blank">Hundertwasser</a>.</span></span></div>
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s t E f a N i ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09316174324642818765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728183230206445241.post-65422753197794610392016-12-18T16:00:00.000+01:002016-12-19T19:03:41.609+01:00ARTERIE | ARTISTS UNITED FOR EARTHQUAKE'S VICTIMS ❤️ LAST CALL<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is really a last minute call, but worth sharing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The last major auction of <span style="color: #45818e;"><i>Arterie</i></span> is open. For those unfamiliar with them: <i><span style="color: #45818e;">Arterie</span></i> is a group of artists and illustrators who donated works to be auctioned, and the proceeds will go entirely to the victims of the earthquake in central Italy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Just go to <span style="color: #3d85c6;">arterieaste.wordpress.com</span>, choose the desired art piece and leave an offering in the comments box. At 22:00 of Tuesday, December 20, the auction will be officially closed and the high bidder will win the work.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I invite STRONGLY everyone to share this wonderful initiative.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Let's add meaning to all this beauty </span><a href="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v6/fed/2/16/2764.png" imageanchor="1"><img alt="" aria-hidden="1" border="0" class="img" height="16" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v6/fed/2/16/2764.png" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1d2129; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /></a><span class="_7oe" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline-block; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 0px; line-height: 0px; width: 0px;">❤️</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Happy bidding!</span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you want to know how it works and help visit and read all info </span><a href="https://arterieaste.wordpress.com/how-it-works/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; line-height: 18px;">Questa è davvero una chiamata last minute, ma che vale la pena condividere.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">L'ultima grande asta di Arterie è aperta. Per chi non li conosce: Arterie è un gruppo di artisti ed illustratori che ha donato opere da mettere all'asta, il cui ricavato andrà interamente alle vittime del terremoto del centro Italia. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; line-height: 18px;">Basta andare su </span><a href="http://arterieaste.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #365899; cursor: pointer; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">arterieaste.wordpress.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; line-height: 18px;">, scegliere l'immagine desiderata e lasciare la propria offert</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; line-height: 18px;">a nello spazio riservato ai commenti. Alle 22:00 di martedì 20 Dicembre, l'asta sarà ufficialmente chiusa e il migliore offerente si aggiudicherà l'opera.<br />
Invito VIVAMENTE tutti a condividere questa bellissima iniziativa.<br />
Chiudiamo in bellezza, o meglio, aggiungiamo un senso a tutta questa bellezza </span></span><img alt="" aria-hidden="1" class="img" height="16" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v6/fed/2/16/2764.png" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1d2129; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span class="_7oe" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline-block; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 0px; line-height: 0px; width: 0px;">❤️</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; line-height: 18px;"><span class="_5mfr _47e3" style="line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="" aria-hidden="1" class="img" height="16" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v6/feb/2/16/1f642.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At the dawn, processions of girls singing Christmas songs, dressed in a white robe, with a crown of candles on the head and a lighted one in their hand, do light up the dark winter night. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A little girl who plays Lucia lead the procession, followed by bridesmaids and pageboys and closed by children dressed as elves. It's a lovely scene I hope to see for real one day. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This tradition of the eighteenth century is repeated in churches, schools, hospitals and workplaces across the country and would not be Christmas in Sweden without Lucia, marking the transition to the last two weeks of Advent. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">On the 13th of December, Santa Lucia is celebrated i</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">n some cities of northern Italy too. By tradition here,</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> children write a letter to Santa, declaring they have been good and obedient during the year therefore</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">listing gifts they would like to receive as reward. They prepare a bowl of milk for Lucia's donkey, and some chocolate, biscuit or tangerine to thank her. The morning after they'll find mysteriously no more food where they left it and a small present to play with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I found some St. Lucy paper dolls, aren't they cute? </span><a href="http://Aren't these paper dolls cute?" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; text-align: center;" target="_blank">Here</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-align: center;"> you find a pdf to make one of them.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.1875px; text-align: center;">It's quite crucial for me at the moment, as my <i><span style="color: #674ea7;">Purple Tradescantia</span></i>, <i><span style="color: #38761d;">Phothos</span> </i>and bright purple <span style="color: #a64d79;">C<i>oleus</i></span> cuttings are growing beautifully and will need soon new containers.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.1875px; text-align: center;">Even though, sometimes, I think their rooting stems in water look so beautiful I might grow them hydroponically. What do you think of hydro culture?</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.1875px; text-align: center;">The wooden ones in pretty light blue and black you see here below are from Ikea. Unfortunately they're from the Ikea PS collection of quite a few years ago, so not for sale now. Any pretty box you like is good though, provided that it's big enough to host a simple glass of water where you can leave your cuttings.</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 18.1875px; text-align: center;">The blooming <span style="color: #38761d; font-style: italic;">Amaryllis bulb </span>does not need a pot. It has been coated in some kind of white wax and won't need water either. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.1875px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">You can buy the above nice hanging geometric brass ones on Etsy <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/224754380/the-wall-sconce-collection-5-brass-air?ref=related-1" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/175319085/set-of-2-geometric-air-plant-wall?ref=sr_gallery_16&ga_search_query=hanging+air+plant+planter&ga_ship_to=US&ga_page=4&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&zanpid=2237244804692345857&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=zanox&utm_campaign=row_buyer&utm_content=977275" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hello there! A big challenge for me for this month: create a still-life that portrays the 'desert' theme. It's a challenge as I've never been to a real desert and I don't have much at home with desert origins. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So I went for suggestions: the colour of sand and terracotta, the idea of a drinking tea from beautiful glass.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The silver glass tiny cups are a gift from my grandmother, the round orange pit-firing ceramic vase I made in Denmark during a raku ceramics Summer course.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Plants are not strictly desert plants. The idea of drinking mint tea in the desert made me think of freshness, that is why I used a couple of cuttings with a very vibrant light green. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Next to it some cuttings from my cousin's Tradescantia, I love its dark green velvety purple colour. It Italy known as <i><span style="color: #45818e;">erba miseria</span></i> </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">-</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">misery grass</span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">-</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> because of trailing hanging leaves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The etching on the wall depicting houses in a sand storm I made in my college years, in Plymouth. The beautiful stones come from Elba island and various places I have visited. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I like to place them around my pots. I must admit my house is plenty of stones collected around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So, this is my desert suggestion. Hope you enjoy it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The beauty of our monthly appointment is to discover what other Urban Jungle Bloggers will do with the same subject. Don't you think? So let's go check the others out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">See you next time everyone! Happy green time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; line-height: 24px;">The contemporary meaning of Shibari describes an ancient Japanese artistic form of rope bondage.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Pulling back the <span style="font-size: x-small;">YKK</span> zipper, you'll find the interior is fully lined with super soft, scratch resistant micro-fiber.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This summer, as I do nearly </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">every year of my life, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I spent part of my summer in the village on the seaside where my dad comes from: Vasto, located right on the beautiful </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Costa dei Trabocchi </i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">in Abruzzi region, in central Italy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Trabocchi</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">are an old fishing</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> machines typical of this coast, nowadays </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">protected as historical monuments. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">These constructions </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">whose </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">existence dates back to 18th century </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">always fascinated me. </span></span></span><i style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">Trabucchi</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> were built in the most prominent promontories jutting nets out to sea through a system of monumental wooden arms:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22px;">an ingenious technique of fishing which wasn't subject to weather conditions in the area.</span></span></div>
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</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This summer we enjoyed exploring the coast just outside the beach resort of Vasto Marina. We found a few favorite beaches in <i>Punta Aderci Natural Reserve -</i> where one can swim right next to such </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">cultural and architectural symbols. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Just outside Vasto, beaches are free, reasonably easy to reach with a nice walk and definitely less crowded. The water is crystal clear and the sound of waves breaking on pebbles is simply beautiful. One can enjoy nature to the full here. I felt like like time has not changed it much since I was a child. </span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22px;">The </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22px;">Trabocchi Coast</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22px;"> is a stretch of coast province of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chieti" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Chieti">Chieti</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22px;">, which includes the countries situated between </span>Francavilla al Mare<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22px;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasto" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Vasto">Vasto</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: #252525;">. The coast is full of these quaint fishing structures, some of which have been converted into restaurants, like </span><i><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Trabocco Cungarelle</span></i><span style="color: #252525;">, where we enjoyed a lovely dinner to celebrate my birthday (more about this another time soon).</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I love cacti and their spikes, they have got such an exquisite graphic quality so I could not resist to re-draw them for Urban Jungle Bloggers appointment of this month. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">To tell the truth I tried to portray my sister in law's beautiful cat when I was visiting them last week. I tried to chase him under a beautiful tree palm they grow in the living room, but with not much success. He looked adorable with his orange fur against the green foliage, but the pictures I took were not good I am afraid. </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">Oh well, you can never trick a cat into doing what he does not want to do.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So here you are, a cute bird I bought in Amsterdam works wonder next to a vase I bought in Tuscany some time ago.</span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In it my </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i style="color: #38761d;">Photos </i>called<i style="color: #38761d;"> Devil's Ivy</i></span></span><span style="background-color: #f1f1f1; color: #888888; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">is growing very happy. So happy and fast that I do not know how to give it shape anymore. Ideas anyone? I tried to wrap it around something but so far I did not find the right shape for it.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My <span style="color: #6aa84f; font-style: italic;">Aloe</span> you see in the raku ceramics vase it's the first one I did buy and it was not taller than 5 cm then. It is also growing fast. From this mother plant I propagate at least other 10 exemplars. </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">Didn't they look very cute? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">You can see </span><a href="http://its-nice-here.blogspot.it/2015/03/urban-jungle-bloggers-16-hanging-it.html" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"> what happened to some of them, if you did not follow earlier.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">Whoops! Someone moved birdy in another jungle. </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That was me, obviously. I moved it next to a new member of my plants family: a <i><span style="color: #45818e;">Crassula Ovata.</span></i> I was given it by a friend of a friend on the first of january this year. I never had such a big exemplar and I love it. Rosy propagated it herself and in return I gave her one of the baby Aloes. That's the beauty of growing plants yourself: you can swop them with friends. </span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">See you next month. Always enjoy your greens at home!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Music can be very precious. There were times in my life that if it were not for some headphones playing extremely high music, I felt I could have lost it. For many years that music playing keeping me <i>sane</i> </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">-</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">if that's possible</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">-</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> was David Bowie's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Therefore there's no shame for me to say I felt real pain when I heard David Bowie passed away today, due to cancer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I knew his music since my thirteens. Translating his songs I learned English, I learned there was a totally different way of doing things, to dare, to experiment with life and music. I felt his music was my <i>safe place when teen-ager years </i>put you to the test. By listening to him I shut the world outside every time I needed to.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He did accompany me for nearly4 decades of my life and definitely in the most delicate/important years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He was a true music icon, a musical genius.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are not many meaningful words I think I can say, except maybe thanking him for what he meant to me and that to me the stars are looking very different tonight.</span><br />
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s t E f a N i ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09316174324642818765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728183230206445241.post-62203909238553538332016-01-09T02:35:00.003+01:002016-01-09T02:52:50.333+01:00ICONS AND WOMEN<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #e06666;">Icon and Women</span></i> </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">-</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">the exhibition of Steve McCurry, set up at the prestigious <a href="http://www.mostrastevemccurry.it/index-en.html#home" target="_blank">San Domenico</a> in Forlì, is my first exhibition of 2016. A good start. I am excited and already planning to see other 2 exhibitions soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The portraits were displayed beautifully in a very dark environment divided by black transparent panels, so that when you see one you also have a view on the others. Walking through the rooms is like making </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;">a journey of discovery of different culture, ages, </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;">ethnicities, </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;">condition.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">More than the </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;">undeniable beauty of his pictures,</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> this journey among humanity </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">-</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;">progressively focusing in a universe full of women</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">-</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">is what impressed me the most.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Photography makes so much possible, such as letting anyone know how the rest of the world looks like without even moving out of one's own room. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To meet people, see things for real though is something else.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So... new old dreams of visiting Tibet, Indonesia and Peru (to name the top of my list) came back to me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Her face showing sign of suffering and difficult life more than age, was impressive. She was 12 at the time of the first portrait, got married at the age of 13 and apparently knew nothing about the story of her photograph </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">until 2002.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First day after Christmas Holidays I decided to take a day for myself. Went to Forli </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">-</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">a small city nearby my hometown</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">-</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> to see a Photography exhibition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I love winter walks so I walked from the train station to the Museums, wandering slowly, for once I had all the time I wanted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A quiet week day and bicycles parked everywhere. Loved the kids ones in front of a primary school.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #45818e;">I love the pink spikes of this </span><span style="color: #0c343d;">mammillaria</span><span style="color: #45818e;">, </span><span style="color: #45818e;">a few </span><span style="color: #0c343d;">orchid</span><span style="color: #45818e;"> leaves pop from its back<br />an exemplar from </span><span style="color: #0c343d;">dracena</span><span style="color: #45818e;"> is on the right.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I like this time of the year. It's full of contrasting feelings: looking forward to quality time with family and friends, getting excited about new things to come and also thinking back to the year that has gone and what it did bring.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I also love winter, the idea of snow covering soon the hills around house, the fireplace keeping us warm and many mini-breaks with hot tea and sweets. Snowflakes are pretty much a symbol for all this, to me. Their shape is more than wonderful too. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That's why this year I decided to go for it, and decorate my home plenty of snowflakes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Elsewhere in the house I used paper snowflakes like these ones <a href="http://its-nice-here.blogspot.it/2013/12/snow-factory.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is the last <i><span style="color: #134f5c;">Urban Jungle Bloggers</span></i>' appointment for 2015. It has been a Joy to be part of it and as always many thanks to </span><a href="http://www.joelix.com/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">Judith </a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and </span><a href="http://happyinteriorblog.com/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">Igor</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> who initiated this series. I send you all my best </span><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">pl</span><span style="color: #93c47d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">an</span><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">ty </span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">w</span><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">ishes</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> for 2016, with 2 of my favourite cacti. Did you encounter them various times before here right? </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I love to move them around, from room to room. I They often star in my pictures. I hope they don't mind too much; luckily they seem to be doing fine anyway.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Happy and green end of the year everyone!</span><br />
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