And then some pics from my Toscana house where the lovely things from Flora and Sonya have found places :) On the chair there are jewellery from Flora, they wait for a hook next to the bed. The painting above the fireplace and the box on the floor are from Flora also.
In the atelier there's a plant press on the table and the flower on the wall are from Sonya.
In the kitchen there's Sonya flowers on the fridge, I got a new toaster also. And just noticed from the pic that the frying pan has fallen down :) The towel is from Flora.
Sonyas flower and pots found their place in the shelve and the decorated tile went to the kitchen wall. On the table are Floras cookbook and fab plates, on the serving plate is Sonyas cheese. The wine and water bottle are also from Sonya and the fab peaches from Jody :)
Beautiful birthdaygifts! Everything looks fantastic... Love that there are things from friends scattered all over the house... And I´m totally in love with the wallpaper in the bedroom... you have exquisit taste in wallpaper :0)
VastaaPoistaThanks, I love wallpaper, but don't have it too much in our house as it's so diffult with an old house which walls "live" all the time - you see the seams so easily. And it's also a hell to keep clean with these dogs, from painted surface you can just wipe off the drool and mud :D
VastaaPoistaAnd I love it also to have things from friends in the house, it makes so much more special :)
Lovely gifts, Ira! Happy bithday!!
VastaaPoistaYour Toscana house looks beautiful!
The Toscana house is looking soooo good! Fab birthday presents!Happy birthday to you!!!
VastaaPoistaHappy Belated Birthday! Everything looks so beautiful and I am so glad my little peaches could fit in! They look quite delicious sitting there, I think! LOL! It all looks wonderful, Ira!
VastaaPoistaJody
Happy birthday!
VastaaPoistaThe Toscana house is just fab, and having so many perfect gifts from other people makes it even more lovely.
Thanks girls, I should have written a late birthday present as we haven't seen each other for a month, so I got it yesterday :D But thanks anyways :D
VastaaPoistaOh Ira ... Unfortunately, only now can I see this post ... You arranged everything perfectly and I'm happy that everything has found its place. It seems so strange ... Only yesterday I was in my kitchen to put beads :-)
VastaaPoistaTomorrow also I'll shot the pics, even if I spend the night :-)
many wishes Ira, for your birthday! I see that all the gifts you received from Italy they found a place in your beautiful Tuscan house ... too early I'll send you something from Italy! therefore attentive to the mailbox!
VastaaPoistaPS I literally go crazy for your coffee maker Bialetti, please tell me where you've taken!
a kiss, Caterina
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The Toscana house looks fabulous and so many lovely pieces. Happy belated Birthday Ira, from across the world.
VastaaPoistaIt's truly beautiful! I love all your wonderful little gifts.
VastaaPoistai love your kitchen more Ira..its lovely and more realistic than mine =D
VastaaPoistaanyway, happy birthday! God Bless You :)
Happy Birthday!
VastaaPoistaYour Toscana house looks every days more italian style!
Compliments!
Hugs
Sonya
Ira your house is looking fab great job on everything it looks real cosy
VastaaPoistaxx
Thank you all for your nice words :) I really love the house as there's so many genuine Italian things in there :) I need some food there, I'm trying to do some mozzarella salad myself and I also need some apricots and olives, I loved the fresh apricots when we were in Toscana :) And I think that a bottle of Limoncello would fit in the kitchen :D And what comes to pasta, I think that I'll try an easy one first, pasta al burro :D
VastaaPoistaI really love your kitchen. It's so nice to have miniatures from friends in your house.
VastaaPoistaGeneviève
It's the 2nd last picture!! :) Just so realistic. A late happy birthday :). Your Toscano kitchen look so complete, I am glad what I did were for Poe.
VastaaPoistaWith all the gifts , don't you feel like you have just thrown a housewarming party?
Oh Sans, I can't wait :D And there's plenty of room for stuff in the kitchen, irl I want my kitchen to be really simple and not much stuff visible, but in Toscana house I can fill the counters with stuff :D
VastaaPoistaAnd yes, a wonderful housewarming party indeed :)
pasta with butter?? You're mad? quite a nice juicy "Fiorentina" steak or a bowl of "Caciucco"! ah ah ah!!
VastaaPoistathanks to follow my blog, I am Italian, and I am honored that a girl from Finland is working with so much passion to Italy!
many hugs, dear!!
Caterina
cockerina - pasta al burro was my sons favorite dish when he was small with lots of parmesan :) And I think that even it will be difficult for me to make from Fimo ;D
VastaaPoistaAnd I LOVE Italy, if I could choose where to live I would live in Toscana app.45 minutes down from Firenze in a lovely villa with my own apricot and olive trees, garden full of poppies, irises and hollyhocks :)
And I would sit in the terrace, eat antipasto, duck liver pasta and have an glass of ice cold Frizzantino :D Now I just need to win in lottery :D
Ok! then I hope you win the lottery, but if you come back in Italy, do not stop to Tuscany, I live in Puglia (south of Italy) and even if you saw her you would love my country ... beautiful blue sea, clean and transparent with rocky beaches, eat fresh fried fish, and lots of mozzarella, olives and tomatoes on "bruschetta" (toasted bread) and drinking red wine "Primitivo"... you like the idea? then I'll wait! ha ha!
VastaaPoistakisses, Caterina
I forgot ... why do pasta with butter, with Fimo? too hard! tries to make spaghetti with white sewing thread and glue ...
VastaaPoistahello again!
Caterina
and then visit my blog of recipes:
VastaaPoistahttp://lericettedicockerina.blogspot.com/
I put the translator to understand the Italian recipes!!
ciao!! Caterina
cockerina, I'll come visit you as soon as I win in the lottery :) And thanks for the link for your food blog, me and my whole family could live only with Italian food, it's excellent :) And I have to try the thread pasta :D
VastaaPoistaThe why I would love to live in the northern part or Italy is that there would be a short drive to Switzerland, where we lived 8 years and it's near Venetzia, which I love.
We used to go for holidays in Sardegna for many years when I was small, I loved it :)
to be modest, in fact, Italy is quite beautiful!
VastaaPoistaVenice is wonderful, and Sardinia is spectacular .... in Switzerland I've never been, but if I win the lottery maybe we meet there ... ha ha! I prefer the mountains, as you can see from my blog ...
have a good day!
Caterina