homemade@myplace

It has been a while, right? ;oD I've enjoyed my summer holiday back in Italy in June and July (just one week was spent in Edinburgh : beautiful and cold!!!!) and the boys, the hubby and I were back in Maputo at the beginning of August, as the school was starting again the 11th….  So we are all back to our routines : boys in school, hubby at work and I back to my blog!!!! We have just moved in our 3rd apartment here in Maputo ( yes 3 moves in one year!!!!) and maybe for this reason my blogging will have some hiccups in the next couple of weeks … you know some boxes need to be unpacked…. well, you know what I mean! I just wanted to show you today some crocheted gifts I made this summer in Italy : are you interested??? Hope so !!!! At the end of July it was the birthday of my niece Mara, so she was born under the Leo zodiac sign… In the same days there was the brutal killing of Cecil, the majestic lion of Zimbabwe… so this is what I made, thinking at both of them, Mara and C...

Sorry girls !!! We landed (I, Matteo and Tobia) one week ago in Milano, so we are in Italy for our summer holidays!!!! We have had a lot to do in these last days, but the reason I didn't write any post yet is due to the apparent death of my laptop..... Not nice!!! I'm waiting for good news from the technician who is handling my computer, as I'm desperate to share the wrist warmers photo tutorial!!! Please  be patient and take care !!! xxxx Alessandra 6

Sorry to say that I don't have new pics of the surroundings at the moment, because is quite impossible to walk outside in these days : heavy heavy rain, my dears!!! A lots of streets in JK are flooded and people are evacuated from their homes.... We are safe, but it's quite boring around here.... For the theme of the day, I've decided to group together some photos taken both in Parma (Italy) and in Jk.... I hope to make you happy  Nic  !!!! It's not that I'm lazy, but still don't have fins and gills!!! ;oD xxxx Alessandra

Wow! Somehow it's an hard task.....And I'm gonna to tell you why! I was born in Italy, in Florence, from both Italian parents. So I am Italian. Sure. When I was 10 months old, my family moved to Canada, to be more precise : Calgary, Alberta. We spent there my first 6 years of my life!!! In the meantime, my two youngest sisters were born there, too! We went back to Italy, Milano, right in time to start the primary school! So I start to read and write in Italian. I told you : I'm Italian! When 9 years old, my family moved again!!! This time : Tripoli, Libia. We lived there until I was 14!!! After that, we went back to Italy, Milano, again. In Milano, I completed my studies, with my degree in Geology. In 1997, I got married and I moved to a little town, Salsomaggiore Terme, close to Parma. In the meanwhile, Paolo and I, both Italians, had our boys, Matteo and Tobia, both born in Italy, so they are Italians, too! In 2004, as a family, we moved to Cairo, Egypt, where bo...

....we spent some time together a family of british friends, known when we were still in Egypt, in the fresh waters of the Arda torrent and later in their home garden, where the boys had fun with some archery... When dinner time arrived, we jumped on ours car with the intention to reach a pizzeria for some good pizzas and pasta....and desserts, too!!! Yummy!!! After finishing our dinner, on the road back home I asked my husband to stop the car....An huge purple olympic flag was attached to a house gate, with some hand written posters of congratulations.... ....Yes, we stopped in front of Marco Aurelio Fontana 's home, our olympic champion (bronze medal) in cycling mountain bike men's cross country!!!! He won his medal with great honor, as you can see in the following video... Well, honestly, I was happy as only kids can be!!! P.S. : Today we are leaving to go back to Jakarta!!!! A long journey in front of us!!! I hope to...