Or at least on Italian television…
Which I seldom watch, but just the other day I catch a glimpse of this thing pictured left… and I thought: “OMG!”
Then with my on-line grocery shopping it came as a nice little present. As fate was guiding me in such clear ways, could I ever avoid to try it???
I mean, I have to keep informed on the latest trends ALL my readers, shouldn’t I?
So, for the only sake of this blog, I’ve tried it!
Almost two years ago, when I was still writing this blog in my mother language, I wrote a post about the fact that I am a Kinder Ferrero junky! And I really am! Not only nutella (even if know I changed producer for the simple reason that the one they sell is much better), but all the range produced by Ferrero has some kind of impact on my nervous system, such as every time I take a bite of one of their product I suddenly feel happy…
I know that they are a big corporation, that the list of the ingredient is longer than my average post and that their international web site has music (and there is not a way to stop it!!!), but I like it and I can’t help it: it a fact about myself!
As much as I love my husband (AND Ewan McGregor, of course!), I love Ferrero products too…

It can sound very snobbish, it can sound very overconfident, but I personally feel like him:

“Are you a blogger too? Give me your camera. I’ll take a really blurry, close-up picture of the grapefruit in my salad. When do you think people are going to start making fun of bloggers?”

Danny Meyer via Serious Eats

You are my Christian I’m your Satine.
You are my Norman Warne I’m your Beatrix Potter.
You are my Lincoln 6 Echo I’m your Jordan 2 Delta.
You are my Frank Churchill I’m your Jane Fairfax.
You are my Jerome I’m your Nagiko.
You are my Renton I’m your Diane.

I was never, and never will be, one of those beautiful women people turn to watch in the streets, but you turned for me.
I was never, and never will be, one of those girls all smiles and “yes darling”, but that’s what you love about me.
I was never, and never will be, one of those women that will celebrate Valentine’s day, but you don’t care either. And you don’t mind if I have a meeting (to organize this) for tonight.
I was never, and never will be low maintenance, but that’s why you love me.
I always was and will always be a major pain in the @#§*, but that’s WHY you love me!
And, “It doesn’t take a Nazi rocket scientist to figure *that* out”!
And I will always be the girl that makes you laugh, that makes you smile and that makes you a chocolate cake!!!

And this year, a chocolate, ricotta, yoghurt and ginger spoon cake, all for you, with all my love!

P.S. This post is part of the series “Only 10 people in the word understand my quotations, one of whom is me, one my husband and the other the subject of them, but he doesn’t read my blog, better, he doesn’t know I exists”. For the rest… Well, I won’t tell you my “secret”: guess it!

Well, this is not the DNA to create your own Piperita from one of my hair: one Piperita is enough in this world I can assure you!!!
This week-end I felt handy and so I decided, after a short conversation earlier in the week with Sara, to build a light box!
And as I’m always thinking BIG, I built a huge light box, 70cmx70cm…
Anyway, let’s begin from the beginning!
So, earlier last week I was chatting with Sara, and she asked me if I was using light box, I said no, that I was simply shooting in raw and adjusting white balance (and all the rest) with Aperture. But then I began to wonder: why don’t I have a light box???
So I decided to build one. I search the net and I found various options, but the one that suited me most seemed this (thanks Jason for sharing!).
Saturday morning, after a very good night sleep, we woke up quite early, so I popped the dreaded question: shall we go to Castorama, my love?
A little note: Castorama and Ikea are very close in Carugate, on the outskirts of Milan AND we need to move the car to go there: a major stress!
I think his mind went directly to a blu and yellow sign, because a fear look appeared in his eyes: he knows that everytime I say Castorama I mean Ikea too…
But a saint look appeared in my eyes, and a nimbus popped out of nowhere over my head, matching my saint eyes, saying: “Me? Me I want to go to Castorama AND Ikea, spend a lot of money and be in the middle of Saturday crowd??? Noo, not me: I’m a Saint!” Saint Piperita martyr from Varese, died on a Saturday morning walked over the Ikea crowd…
Anyway, there we went, and I have to say I was extremely pleased: it was a wonderful productive morning!
We went to Ikea (I’m a major candle addicted!) and Castorama, but they didn’t have all I needed! And when I asked the exact material I was looking for, they looked at me as if I was the crazy housewife form Brugherio (sorry, this “joke” is only for people living in Milan…) and I was asking for a ready made kit to build a conservatory… I just wanted to build a light box!
I bought fabric in Ikea and 1 roll of carpet tape – two sided, 4 mt long in Castorama, but they didn’t have the right type of foam… So, my last chance was to look for it at the Brico in Viale Monza, actually 4 underground stops from where we live…
And of course at the little brico we found everything!
Going back home we even stopped at a neighbour market and by 11.30 we were home, all packed, weekly grocery shopping too! Very productive!
And then I began with the light box… With the cat help, of course, as he likes a lot foam!!!
And I built the monster exactly as Jason instructs…
My only concern was related to the size of it: too big to keep it built all the time, so, instead of using rubber tape to stick it together, I used toothpicks, as hinges… And they worked!
My only problem now is the weather: I need nice spring days with a lot of sun! Or better bulbs…
Anyway, welcome my dear light box… And to welcome you I put on a new header, thanks to the light box, aperture and photoshop!