PETALS

LAtely I am so much into cooking in a "stylish" way and my best friend got me a book from Donna Hey "no time to cook" where healthy food and style merge together. This got me inspired in preparing:

Raw Veggie Petals with light cheese cream

Petals:

I cut the carrots and the celery with a slicer, but basically it can be done with every raw vegetable

for the cheese dip:

light creamy cheese

3tb of extra virgin olive oil

salt

pepper

lemon juice

thyme

lemongrass

Emulsify all the ingredients with the blender and serve the dip in small glasses.

Put the veggie petals in Japanese bowls and serve them both in a plate giving all your guests chopsticks to eat them.

Be happy and enjoy petals!

A LAUGHTER WILL KEEP US ALIVE

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I still remember all the laughter I had with my mother when I was a child. I can recall in my ears our crystalline giggles. She pulled my leg and tricked me in such a loving and caring way. Through our laughter I deeply realize I never will be loved the way she loves me.
Aren't laughters the best way to let love flow?


Love and cherish your day!

I DREAM OF SPRING

During this period of the year, as the spring is shyly coming out, I love to fill all the rooms of the house with fresh flowers. They bring life, light and love. Isn't spring a season full of life? If we learn to breath with it, I really think we can learn to reborn somehow. Accepting the change makes us strong. Strong and beautiful as these flower.

On the last number of Elle Italy I have discovered this unique flower design, Giulio Guazzoni from Numero 9 in Milan. Can we call them bunches of flowers?

Be happy and blossom!

30 DAYS HAS NOVEMBER...

Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one, Save February, with twenty-eight days clear, And twenty-nine each leap year.

Some people use this song, some others use the nuckles of the hands; and the most forgetful simply can't remember how many days there are in a month...this is my case.
Luckily Chanel thought this through giving us, poor girls, a nail polish for each month (for now just spring months), so no more worries, if I will see orange on my nails I will know we are in June and that June has 30 days...or wait maybe 31...??

Be happy and cherish your day!
  

PINK CADILLAC

7:30 the girl has to get up
8:30 the girl is having a coffee
8:45 the girl has to go to work
she has 1 hour and 15 minutes to come up with an idea of outfit to go to the office. Sometimes it is easy. Sometimes the girl doesn't have anything in the closet.
When the closet is empty she goes with colours. She loves strong combinations. At least she can distract  attention from her tired eyes. Can she?

Be happy and be strong!

NEW TALENT OF THE BLOCK

I have been known Marta Ferri's creations since very few days, but as I glanced at her dresses I coudln't help but wonder how it is possible that such a young designer can already seems to be so expert, with such a personal vision.
In a world where everything is a copycat, Marta has found Marta's style, a mirror probably of  herself and her life so far.
Ferri in Italian means iron: could a name be more appropriate for a 28 years old woman stepping into a dog eat dog world?

to discover Marta's world, click here

Be happy and laugh laudly!

CORNFLAKE GIRL

Like all the gals in their thirties I have a debt toward Dawson's Creek. Part of who we are and the way we love it is due to that. And forget about Goethe and his The Sorrows of young Werter, we have based our emotional education on those characters very confused and, mostly, extremely confusing. But I have to say even in those not suspicious time I couldn't stand the holy Joey Potter, loved (why?) by everyone. I always rooted for the outsider Jen Lindley. And I guessed right.
This campaing of miss Williams is amazing and I can't wait to admire her performance in the movie A Week with Marilyn.
We hope for an oscar too, don't we miss Joey Potter? Who is the star now?!

Laugh loudly and be an outsider!