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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Happy 2014!

Dear friends,
before we say goodbye to 2013, I wanted to thank YOU ALL so much for your support these past months. Thanks to all of the emails, the comments, the tweets, the FB-likes, the pinning and most of all, for being here to read my little notebook. You all made the difference each single day!
And now, I wish you all a very happy holiday and a SPARKling 2014!


see you back here in 2014! L+L

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Monday, December 23, 2013

Last minute freebies and DIY GIFTs for KIDs




Do you need some last minute ideas for your kids? These are five free printable and/or easy diy suggestions: 01: DIY Christmas Tree Doll House | 02: Sykort - Sewing cards | 03: Molly's sketchbook: Diy Felt baby shoes | 04: Dominoes for Kids free Printable | 05: DIY memory game


06: If you can't buy it now, loan a book. How the Grinch stole Christmas by Dr Seuss is one of my favourite book to read on Christmas Eve | 07:  Free printable Dr. Seuss quotation “eye chart”  | 08 : Have a look at SeussVille for printables, prints and online games (click here for Color in the Grinch)

Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! “Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store. “Maybe Christmas…perhaps… means a little bit more!”

Lastminute Ideas for your Christmas table

Christmas 2013 Veg Recipes

Friday, December 20, 2013

My Italian Christmas Food (short) List


I enjoy going shopping to the mall before Christmas. This year I found the beautiful gifts above: Bedetti Brick-Like Torrone and Stainer chocolate pralines. WOW!
As every Christmas in Italy, I also bought: handmade Panettone (to be a real Panettone, it has to follow these severe rules), Pandoro, Panforte and Spumante (I bought a special offer of the magnificent Rotari but here is a more extensive list).

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Jérémie Koempgen Architecture + FUGA design: Villa Solaire



Villa Solaire was completed in January 2012 by the Paris based firms Jérémie Koempgen Architecture and FUGAThe project is a conversion of a historical farmhouse from 1840

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Christmas still life with Eve


Maybe it's a little insane, but I admit that I had a lot of fun making this Christmas still life with EVE robots. I love robots, dinosaurs, car models, that's it. This is my Christmas confession (for this year)(I'm not ready to admit more!).




Monday, December 16, 2013

Carousel suspension lamp by Mambo Unlimited




Mambo Unlimited Ideas introduces new Carousel suspension lamp, a 5 lampshade lamp made with a lacquered iron structure and cotton abatjours. The new piece designed by Cláudia Melo, has been presented in 2 color combinations - white+yellow and cooper+black - and with a diameter of 100cm but - as other pieces of Mambo collection - can be ordered in other sizes and finishings’ combinations. Have a look here for more details.



Friday, December 13, 2013

Winter Must-Do: Wild Bird Food



Winter is the perfect season for helping wild birds with food. If you have a quiet outdoor space, you can hang or plant a 'little seeds bar'. Surely you can buy wild bird food, but there are hundreds of homemade recipes you can easily find on the web and make on your own. These are 4 between my favs websites talking about bird food:
4 ways to Feed Wild Birds from wikiHow
Winter Bird Food Recipes from Mother Earth News
- Make a speedy bird cake from RSPB
Make Your Own Pine Cone feeder from Make Your Own Bird Food

You can contribute to Make Your Own Bird Food library: if you have an old family favorite bird food recipe, and you do not see it already listed, read here.



Thursday, December 12, 2013

Christmas - Inspiration and DIY - 6: Paper Christmas Trees


Make your Christmas tree using recycled paper. Follow one of the upper projects via Lia Griffith and Kodin Kuvalehti or fold a 'traditional' Origami tree as following via Krokotak 
L :-)





Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Emerick Architects - Division Street


This unique home is the poster child of adaptive reuse. Starting with a building that intermingled three structures from different periods over the last century, Emerick Architects crafted a strategy to reuse the structure, adding a penthouse and a roof garden creating an urban oasis and a highly energy-efficient home. With almost 2000 square feet of solar arrays, this project is practically off-the-grid. Marrying practicality with craftsmanship, almost everything for this project was handmade locally from raw materials by Portland artisans including cabinetry, steel work, railings, doors stairs, lighting fixtures, stucco & plaster.


Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Christmas - Inspiration and DIY - 5: Laura's Christmas Paper Bags


This is a nice and easy way to pack your gifts. I followed WikiHow's tutorial to make my paper bag. It's very easy. I started with a piece of brown paper of cm 42 x 24, and I got a bag large cm 15 x cm 5,5 side x cm 18,5 height. You can make different sizes bags ready to use also at the last minute.
You will need:
- Brown paper
- Black cardboard (I recycled black pieces of pages from old catalogs)
- A colored stripe (I used Snomys from Ikea)
- Scissors and/or cutter, glue/tape, a ruler, a pencil, a puncher.
- A silver or gold marker pen to write your wishes on the black paper tag.




To make my tree tag, I cut a rectangle of black cardboard (choosing a piece of the catalog page that was black on both sides). I folded the rectangle in two and I started to cut out my tree starting from the edge that has to be on the folded side of the black cardboard. Take care of not making a too pointed hedge but leave 1 cm at least on the fold (to keep the two shapes together). Then punch it!


 ....and, with left pieces of my old catalogs' pages, I cut other decorations for my Christmas wrapping. I like to cut them without following a model so I can get more irregular shapes.


Thursday, December 5, 2013

La Maison au bord de l’eau | Perriand + Vuitton


La Maison au bord de l’eau  - the house on the water - was originally designed by Charlotte Perriand in 1934 for a competition sponsored by L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui magazine. The plans for the house were recently uncovered by Louis Vuitton Women’s Creative Director Julie de Libran, when

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

The Louis Vuitton Icons Collection s/s 2014, inspired by Charlotte Perriand


Julie de Libran, Louis Vuitton womenswear director, has created a collection - the S/S 2014 Icons Collection - inspired by modernist legendary designer and architect Charlotte Perriand. Colourful, classic, functional but stylish pieces designed to be interchanged. Charlotte loved to make her own bijoux and dresses (as you can read in her autobiography), she surely had her Style. I think she would have love this homage.


Have a look to my preferred photos of Charlotte Perriand here.
Photos 1 - 2 - 3 from OPOS



Photos 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 from Louis Vuitton

Charlotte Perriand, A Life of Creation


A Life of Creation - Une vie de création - is the title of the autobiography of Charlotte Perriand (24 October 1903 – 27 October 1999), the absolutely unique French architect and designer. Published in France in 1998,

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

La Rinascente Shopwindows: Watch The Music, Listen to Design








Watch The Music, Listen to Design: seven shopwindows - at La Rinascente store - dedicated to music and projected by seven Italian visual artists. Curated by Sergio Colantuoni, 29 november - 10 january.
Waiting for Holidays and Rock Me Pitti.
More here.






Monday, December 2, 2013

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