Buongiorno a tutti!      Good morning everyone!🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

A beautiful morning to you all! This morning I wake up to the amazing sound of rain, and an indication that our autumn is slowly trickling in. There's a chill in the air as the cold wind invites itself into my kitchen. Such a nice change from the truly tough summer we had this year. 

 

 The cold weather makes me pretty excited because, though the hot weather made no difference to how much knitting and crocheting I did, the cooler weather is nicer to work in.  I treated myself and purchased these lovely rolls of yarn. They are 150gm rolls of loveliness and I'm looking for the right project to use both. I have had some fun in making little bootie and hat sets for babies.

I will be selling them on line because, as everyone knows, we cannot yet have group gatherings but the sales can still go on via internet. I am happy with the colours I found to make the sets in and I'm not sure about you all out there, but....good yellow tones are a bit tricky to find.

And the hats keep rolling in.  

It seems like I've been treating myself a lot  right now....another visit to my favourite shop in town....a beautiful pair of shoes and a cotton scarf!!! I've worn the shoes already, what a comfortable pair of shoes.

Right now the school holidays are happening and one of the projects on my list was to tidy the yard. What luck, 25 600 x 600 pavers came up for sale and I was there so fast to buy them. My lovely husband loaded all of these heavy pavers into our vehicle and then the mammoth task of unloading and moving them into our yard. We were very tired after doing that but then the next day...the other hard work started. 

So here is one area that was transformed.

                         And my Italian area also received some cheer.

I'm going to get some flat rocks from a farm to finish off the edges.

I sit here and the places my thoughts take me 💞💕

Now I have my sight set on this area. I will be replacing the plants that were in the hanging baskets, the summer was fierce. Maybe you can give me a few ideas. The side wall is part of my sewing shed, made of tin. I welcome any suggestions.

Oops....more woolly hats popping up. They're almost popping up like mushrooms around here. 😁

So...there is one more week of holidays to go and then I return to work. In this week, full concentration will be on the yard, new stock for my on line sales, doing a couple of medical appointments and catching up on general tidying.

During this time of isolation, I'm reflecting on the things that really matter to me and leaving all the unnecessary things behind. It has given me, and I would say the whole world, time to have a good long look at ourselves. Where can we improve ourselves ; how can we change in how we treat our environment ; living life to the fullest? We have this time to do that thinking. 🌏🙏

 I wish you all a beautiful day, stay safe and send love to all corners of the world.

Ciao, Anita. 🍓

All that you are is all that you need.

                                        Ed Sheeran 

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Ciao ragazze Hello girls!

In this amazing world we find ourselves experiencing right now, it has given us time to reflect and perhaps, reshuffle our expectations of what we need out of life. I found a beautiful representation of this very thought and transformed it to the entrance of my hallway.

My newly purchased white wooden shelf adorns the white swirl patterned table. For me it represents life: the flowers that bloom ; my crucifix that is dear to me ; and the hearts, in the colours of Italy, where my bloodline has come from and I hold precious in my soul. It not only looks like a pretty gathering of sweet things, but even more, it is a constant reminder to appreciate all the important things in life.

 An important thing in life is to keep promises, the best we can. So last post I promised to share with you a project I was working on and here she is. I have take fancy to the circle vests, as they are eye catching and fun to make. The orange one was completed and here is the pink toned vest.

 Do you like it? Of course, all this crocheting has sparked off my need to get clicking with the knitting needles as well. Honestly....anything will spark me off.😆😆 I'm in love with this super soft woolly hat made in three tones.

 While being hooked on the woolly hats, what happens next.....a crocheted hat for a little girl. Sometime ago I'd made the flower as a test run and had no where to put it. So pretty now.

 Little baby sets are now happening.

 Now I'm unleashed...from hats, booties, vests....neck warmers. I can't stop myself. This blue shaded neck warmer has been made using two strands of 8 ply yarn, and the bottom trim is completed with a shell pattern.

 Waking up this morning to some rain was an interesting sound, it is a sound not heard so much but always a joy to the ears. That was the queue for me to have a walk around the garden. Some of my Australian friends will probably know the name of this bush, I don't, but it is so pretty. Here it is just showing off how beautiful she is. The sound of bees buzzing around it is almost deafening, and when I hear bees I get very excited. We need them!🐝🐝🐝🐝

Stay strong

Now I leave you all, it is time to disturb as many people "stuck" in this house with me as I can. 😂😂😂 We had a massive game of Monopoly a couple of days ago and we're all still poking at each other about that. Have a beautiful weekend and I'll be coming to visit your blogs.

Ciao, Anita.