Raindrops on petals

Round and round it goes...

Down the lane in Margnan, Bassano

The pointed ear

An ornate and somewhat menacing doorknocker looks more spooky by the blurred effect

A bourgeois house in Genoa, northern Italy

Petals under wrap

On a Sunday morning some winters ago...

..in Northern Italy I found this secluded and beautiful spot that made me think of The Garden of Finzi Continis, a novel by Giorgio Bassani

The Italian post box

Beautiful, old fashioned, very much 19th century style.

At Fortnum & Mason-ambers

A Fortnum & Mason window display...

...from quite a few years ago.

Blurred ornate-the garden gate

Petals against the sky

Thinking of Summer IV

The steps that take into the garden...

The blurred petals III

Into the afternoon IV

Thinking of Summer

The pink tulle-the window display series

"I love"

Yeah! Be Happy!

Don't even think about it!

As the book cover says...

The reflection of a woman-the shopwindow series

Under the branches III-the candy wrap series

The pink halo III-the candy wrap series

The pink halo-the candy wrap series

The "Love Me" Coat

The turquoise frock and the silver shoes

By the bridge IV-the candy wrap series

The bending trees V

The white halo III-the candy wrap series

Bending trees in the afternoon

The green fingerless glove-crochet

Mumsy crochet this great fingerless glove, (when I took the photo she was about to finish crocheting the other glove). With crochet and knitting the possibilities to come up with beautiful and imaginative creations are endless, so many ideas, so little time...

The fingerless glove-crochet

Here is one of the two fingerless gloves I recently crochet, very cosy, warm and practical. I always wear them when I blog away or I am busy crafting!

Into the afternoon-the leaves series

Red Begonias III

I have been experimenting...

I think I will stitch it on a knitted hat, I have never done anything like this before, quite 3D and fun; it appears huge on the photo, but the diameter measures about 8 cm. I think I might crochet other similar shapes and stitch them together, possibilities are endless!