spoils of tour

First of all, welcome to my new visitors, you are a lot this week, thank you for reading and sharing this passion with me. I love your support and comments, that's what keeps blogs alive.

(UPDATE: there's a typo in the picture: design by Renata Niemczyk)

It's Wiosna time again! I'm feeling better and I've finished round 15, started round 16 and I'm confident to finish it by this week. Diameter is 31cm at the end of round 15, I'm planning to use only the white till the end. I can't wait to start the last round from Renulek, when the size grows so much, it seems that at the last/second last round it starts like an obsession to finish as soon as possible.

I bought all that fabric behind the doily last week, there's 15 squared pieces (about 55x55cm) of cotton, very cheap (only 3€ each) but that's because they was part of a set of samples, while the one with roses is cotton and viscose, and it was 10€, about the same size. They are going to be zippered pouches, I think they will be part of my xmas presents, but I like using such little bags for my tatting and everything else, and it seems they're never enough!

Actually the shopping was the side-effect of a tour.

Last week my husband, sons and I enjoyed a short holiday in Firenze, enchanting old city in the centre of Italy, overflowing with masterpieces of art, with amazing shops too! Just to mention bags, one I liked had a little price-tag and I got close to see it: oh mamma mia! It had one more zero on its price than what I thought would have been expensive! I'm also impressed by the high number of shops selling leather gloves, that's not so common to find elsewhere. The city was not so crowed despite the period but you can bump into people from everywhere in the world! People at the reception and in restaurants kept on asking things in English and I can tell you they sighed with relief when we said them 'please you may speak in Italian'! Lol! I've heard some youngest Americans chatting in groups and they were absolutely incomprehensible to me! Sigh! Confronting and dealing with a second language like me as an adult, it's really difficult. But I'd even say that sometimes I must ask my sons to repeat what they're saying, they speak so fast... Deafness symptom?

Some pictures from last week:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loggia_dei_Lanzi

Cenotaph of Dante (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Santa_Croce,_Florence)

(Dante is buried in Ravenna)
In Basilica of Santa Croce many famous Italians are buried or commemorated, among them are Galileo, Alfieri, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Galileo, Rossini, Foscolo.

selfies in Museo del Duomo

Cabinet secrétaire in Palazzo Vecchio (Sala di Ercole)

The cabinet in that pic was decorated with charming flowers and birds and inlaid with lapis lazuli, too, I think it's from the XVIII c., I'd love having one like that, to store shuttles and threads, I'd be happy even without lapis lazuli...

Auf Wiedersehen
(http://www.360travelguide.com/Austria/languages.asp)
Ninetta

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