A u t u m n ♡ B r e a k

(づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ*:･ﾟ✧ yay! I'm finally back from my little autumn break!! I had some magical days in the nature in my boyfriend's homeland...

the worst think of traveling, for me, is to pack my bag =__= I always bring more than necessary with me (like my entire closet)...

♥ backpack ♥ water bottle ♥ gloves ♥ iPhone case ♥ beanie ♥

we had a really long journey by train...

... and we finally arrived in a really amazing place, surrounded by nature in a fairy tale atmosphere *:･ﾟ✧ 

Corniolo (Emilia-Romagna, Italy)

Premilcuore (Emilia-Romagna, Italy)

Casentinesi's Forest (Emilia-Romagna, Italy)

Stia  (Tuscany, Italy)

Now I'm back!! this little trip recharged my batteries, and gave me a lot of inspirations... my shop has finally reopened!! kitten bags were sold out really fast even this time...but a new stock will be available asap! new amazing items will arrive next week and I'm also organizing my first IG giveaway! so stay tuned *:･ﾟ✧ ♡ ♡ ♡

✳ RECAP ✳

Hi Everybody! (ﾉ♡ヮ♡ )ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ this is just a recap post to talk about the last days (halloween party) and my future projects! ♥ ♥ ♥

♡ H A L L O W E E N ϟ D I N N E R :

These have been really strange days... Halloween week was proceeding pretty normally...we watched horror movies, walked into the park, gone shopping for halloween decorations...but suddenly an huge series of earthquakes broke our serenity...

Fortunately me, my family and my friends are ok (scared, but ok)...but most of my favorite nearby little villages were destroyed... and this is so sad...they were really historical and suggestive places and now they're gone...

...so as you can easily foresee, we hosted our Halloween Dinner in a really sad and shaken mood... staying together for dispelling the fear and trying to distract ourselves from our worries... 

...we spent the morning of October 31st watching some halloween classics (Arsenic and Old lace and my fav Hocus Pocus), carving the pumpkin (♥ヮ♥ yay! I'm so satisfied by this year lantern!!it looks so cute and weird), decorating the house and cooking scary dishes! 

all in all, we had a good time...

♡ ♡ ♡ ♡

...then I passed the following days working hard on my shop's orders (✳ヮ✳ aww!!I received a lot of orders during the Halloween long weekend), going out for some walks in the park, drinking tea and watching Harry Potter...

...and turning my favorite Inktober doodles into magical stickers!! *:･ﾟ✧

♡ U P D A T E S :

I decided to take a little Autumn break, I need to get some fresh air, relax in the nature and charge my batteries...so me and my bf are going to leave home for a few days for a little holiday in his parent's house...they live in a really magical place surrounded by nature...

so, reluctantly, I had to close my shop for some days... but I'm preparing some wonders for the reopening!!! I'm going to update the shop with new magical items, a new stock of kitten bags is coming soon, I finished to work on the 2017 calendar layout and... I finally decided to host my first giveaway!! I recently reached 50k on my IG, so I've decided to give away some lovely stuff to say thank you for all the love and support!! 

♡ ♡ ♡ See you soon!! ♡ ♡ ♡ 

♡ a u t u m n ♡

✨ 🍂  🍁🌛  💖  🌜🍁  🍂 ✨

Casentinesi Forest (Tuscany) ©Lolle 2015

Hi  there!! (ﾉ♡ヮ♡)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ my second blog post will be dedicated to my absolutely fav season and time of the year! Autumn!!! I wait for this moment for all the year! and now it's finally arrived!! so I decided to talk about all the things I love of autumn and all my favorite fall activities!! ✨

✳ AUTUMN FOOD ✳

one of the thing that a love the most about this season is food! I love pumpkin, roast chestnuts, mushrooms, hot drinks and here in Italy we also have a super yummy dish named Polenta (cornmeal mush)...

and it's also the perfect moment of the year to bake pies ♡ ♡ ♡

♥ mixed berry pie ♥

pumpkin risotto ♥ chicken with pumpkin and basmati rice

I recently discovered to have a nickel allergy =_='', so I can't eat a lot of things for some time... fortunately, pumpkin is not included in the forbidden foods list! ^ヮ^ !! this gave me the occasion to try a lot of new recipes!!
Pumpkin Risotto is one of my fav dishes since I was a child! someone on my ig and tumblr asked me about my recipe...so I decided to share it with you!!  (ﾉ✩ヮ✩)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

here is my Magical Pumpkin Risotto recipe :
(it's a bit hard to translate it from Italian, so forgive me if it may be a bit confused T__T)
☾ Ingredients (for 2/3) :
a little white onion
200gr of risotto rice
1l hot vegetable stock
200gr of pumpkin
2 tbsps of grated Parmesan cheese 
half a glass of white whine 
olive oil and salt q.s.
a pinch of chilli powder
☾ Method :
 Finely chop up half onion, and brown it in a wok with a little bit of olive oil...chop up the pumpkin into little cubes, and add it to the onion...cook till the pumpkin gets "soft" enough...then put it on a food processor and whip it to obtain a soft cream...
then finely chop up even the other side of the onion, brown it in the (empty) wok with some olive oil...then add the rice, let the rice cook for some minutes then steam with the white whine...
when the rice will be dry, carry on adding and stirring in a large splash of stock at a time, until you have used up all the stock – this will take about 20 mins. And add the pumpkin halfway in the cooking process (10 mins after the rice)... Finally add the parmesan and the salt... when is ready serve into a dish with a light coating of chilli powder... ♡ 
^_^ hope you will like my recipe! keep in your mind that Risotto have a really complex method...so it needs a bit of cooking experience...

✳ AUTUMN OUTFITS // HAUL ✳

Autumn clothes are definitely my fav! this weather allows me to wear my most loved items of clothing...Sweaters, cardigans, boots, denim jackets, suede shoes, beanies...

It's super amazing to go out for shopping in this period...and I found a lot of cool stuff out there...
this is my ♡ Autumn Haul ♡ 

green sweater : H&M || pink sweater : forever21 || mustard cardigan : OVS

flannels : dress - the vintage scene  ✦  shirts - flea market || skirts : made by my sister  ✦  forever21
jackets : denim - braderie  ✦ suede + furry coat - flea market

creepers : underground   ✦  suede platform : quanticlo

...and these are some of my fav casual outfits...

outfit 1 : backpack / cardigan / flannel dress / shoes / moon pendant  

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outfit 2 : backpack (vintage) / cardigan / top (vintage) / shorts (vintage levi's) / shoes (no brand) / beanie

✳ MONTHLY ANTIQUES MARKET ✳
I already talked about this on my old blog...
from September till May, every third Sunday of the month, my city hosts an Antiques Market where is possible to find every sorts of bizarre things...from retrò toys to antique furniture, vintage clothes (BAGS *_____*), handmade creations, strange objects, vinyls, comics and more... I really really love to spend sunny Sunday afternoons cool-hunting between the stands! this is so inspirational!!!

pics ©Fabrr

✳ TV SERIES ✳

Fall is decisively the season for staying at home on the couch with a giant cappucino, a warm plaid, watching tv series all the time!! me and my boyfriend are really into tv-shows! we're dogged viewers, and huge binge-watchers!

I've started this Autumn re-watching two of my fav series ever... 

Twin Peaks // Stranger Things

I watch Twin Peaks every year, because is so magical...even if the show is set on February, I love to watch this on Autumn... and, finally, we bought the definitive gold box edition a few years ago! ✳ヮ✳ ♥ so I can watch it again and again as often as I like!

I also took the opportunity to watch again another magical series, which is Stranger Things... me and my bf binge watched this when it was released...but it ended so quickly! ╥﹏╥'' so I decided to go back to Hawkins once again!
then I'm also following even other series in this moment

Downton Abbey (Lady Violet 🤘🏻) // Westworld // HTGAWM // Agents of SHIELD 

...and I also have a long list of new shows to watch!

✳ ART // INKTOBER ✳
Autumn is also a really productive time for me! after the Summer relax, I get back to painting, creating, drawing ... I'm really inspired and I've go a lot of ideas and projects in mind!!!
...I've created a lot of new handmade items for my store, I've made some spooky themed artworks (I'll talk more about this in my next post)...and after years of hesitation I finally decided to try taking part to this year #inktober... I'm really scared, because, as I already said I'm a really unstable person, and I usually tend to do things halfway...but hey! we already passed the middle of the month and I've still not given up!!!

✳ WALK IN THE WOODS ✳
another one of my fav Autumn activities is to explore nature, walking into woods, parks, forests...enjoying the orange fall landscape...I love to walk on dry leaves, drinking tea on a magical park...I still not had many occasion to stay close to nature till now...I try to go through parks whenever I can...

...but I'd really like to have a little trip soon, explore woods, stay in touch with nature, relax and enjoy autumn atmosphere!

hope you liked this too long blog post about Autumn ^_^

♡ thanks for reading ♡