(dedicated to all the Twilight fan, but not only ;))
But, actually, I've been involved in many things lately, included dating ;) which seems now to be more than a date (thing that I did not consider much at the beginning :P), plus I have increased my crafting activity.
So, now that it seems to be spring here in the cold North, I'd like to share with you my very first bag, which I wanted to call "Spring bag". No matter where life is leading me, it seems to be a nice path though...
- Mood:
artistic
Now. I can't help making some comparisons. I believe that I live in a country that is mostly known for food (and art, maybe, but it seems that food is really better known :P), but I can't recall to my mind a chef that could write a book like Kitchen Confidential. I am almost ashamed to tell you that most of the chef that are famous in my country are barely endurable to my ears and eyes. Or I'd better say are completely unbearable. The worst is that they always show you how to cook things that nobody would ever try to do. How come that we can't show real Italian food while others can?
Sometimes I even think that I could do better, and I am not a chef or not even something similar to it. I have the sad sensation the most of them just got famous on someone else's work...
Anyway, if you like cooking and food in general, Kitchen Confidential is really an amusing book :)
And here he is ;)
It has patiently waited for me for a year or so, and I finally put my eyes on it. I loved it so much that I couldn't help ordering the next 3 books of the serie :)
I am used to read books in English (or Frenchs, or Spanish), whn possible, and lately I really ended up reading in Italian just when the book is originally written in Italian, or in a language I can't read. This helps me a lot with vocabulary and grammar, so that I don't forget everything of the foreign languages I learnt. Furthermore, in my years as a reader, I became susceptible to translations. Bad translations, which unluckily ar grewing more and more, and this disappoints me a lot. I even can understand when a translator fails a word without reading the original version, I wonder how someone who studies so much to do this work, can fall so easily on false friends! Talking with some other readers, who has my same sensations, we ended up that this is -like it always is, unluckily - a matter of money, and that often, translators on the publishing industry, are not real ones, but just early students who just want to gain something but are not interested much in the translator job.
Now, all this because now, reading this book of the serie, I found out that the first book hasn't been translated in Italian, while all the others has. What is the point of translating all the books of a serie but the first? I really can't understand...
So yesterday she finally climbed the stairs of heaven. Or it's like so I'd like to imagine her. Birba is my cat, or I'd better say was. She passed away yesterday night, and I now am a very sad owner. Or she owned me, maybe. The truth is that I am used to think they will live forever, eve if I've passed through many goodbyes to my cats. I will never learn how to do it properly. I keep on thinking they will live forever. Maybe not here ;)
Now I realize autumn is here. Not that it doesn't show, but it's just I didn't realize it before.
Well, I have some projects to do I decided to start in Autumn, so here we are. They are almost all related to Christmas gifts and decorations, and maybe it could sound odd to someone that I start talking about Christmas right now. But as I am talking about handmade stuffs, it usually takes a bit to prepare them.
My aim is to buy a sewing machine all for myself, so that I don't have to use my mother's and get worried of damaging it in any way :P I don't want to spend much on it, so I am oriented toward the one they're selling at Ikea.
The nice thing is taht I talkend about this to my friends, and we are going to Ikea next Sunday ;) It seems like I'm not the only one who will buy something....
But. I booked the B&B for the Italian BC gathering next May 31st, I finally decided to stay for a couple of days instead of one only. I need sun and friendly faces, this will be a good medecine ;) And the sea can't be bad as well ;)
...the thing was that my concert was supposed to be on May the 26th, and so I thought I could relax at the beach and wait for my exam session putting apart my violin for a (short) while. Well, I just received a call telling that the concert was moved on June the 3rd. Nice. I'd better study a bit more before leaving ;)
(Lizzyblack and Tipperary smiling at their everlasting friendship ;))
Actually, I didn't know what to expect before leaving, even if I've had a fantastic Molyneux involving me in a lot of nice things.
It was just that it wasn't my language, and I was feeling a little scared, wondering if I would have been able to talk at all.
I was ;)
And the Convention was great, with great people and with so much fun that I can't even tell you how much I enjoyed myself! I was even able to introduce an author (Alyson Hoblyn, whose book, "The scent of water" is just lovely!) and it seems that people understood what I said :P
I won the so-wanted-Bookcrossing-bag at the Tombola, and the ticket for the NZ Convention at the Raffle (i just need to find some money for the flight and the stay, now! :P)
And I laughed so much that I don't even remember why ;)
Well, I really want to move, now. Not that I had doubts before, but this travel didn't help me considering a stay in Italy...
My pics.
At least, I won't be bottled up in the traffic.
Anyway, it's still hard work, and I wonder if I'll ever be able to make all the exercises without pain. As for tonight, this "tennis ball under teh foot" almost killed me. "That's your violin, girl", said the teacher when she saw me almost fainting. I thought that, after all, my violin is not that painful ;)
(I'm not giving up, anyway. :P)
- Mood:
tired
I've never been to a BC Convention; I once had the chance to meet Gizmopuddy and SirRoy while in Dublin, they were really nice, but this time there'll be a lot of people talking a language different from my mothertongue... So, if any of the attendees at the Convention is reading here, well, please, speak slowly if you want me to I answer back :P (that's when I usually really miss not being in Ireland again, and being able to understand wathever people tell me, not always being concentrated on every word..)
- Mood:
giggly
- Mood:
determined
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