Scrapbooking course 18.4.2010

On Sunday I went on a scrapbooking course organized by Timbri Tinti. I made this cute lay-out. Actually I had signed up for a mini album course, but there were some problems with the kits, so they organized this course instead. It was fun and relaxing! In the afternoon I took Carlotta to a birthday party. There were three of them this week-end, one for each of the children.

New hair cut

Me, Daniele and Sofia got a new hair cut. Mine is not so different from what it was before, but Daniele and Sofia changed quite a lot and both looked really good!

Parco dell'Insugherata

The lovely green area of Insugherata was just behind all the blocks of flats.

Fishing small water insects to look at with the microscope

Using the microscope was fun




The last Sunday of March we went on a guided tour to a natural park in Rome that's called Parco dell'Insugherata. It's a huge green area quite near the town. It's on the other side of Rome than where we live and I had never been or even heard of this park before. Roma Natura organizes these guided tours free of charge and there are really many interesting tours that you can do with the hole family. Carlotta wasn't the smallest one, there were some really small children with us and they all made it quite well. The theme was insects, so we walked a little and then we stopped when we noticed some interesting insect and we got to know their names and lots of curios things about them. We also go to watch them with a microscope. It was a warm and nice spring day and we had put on far too much clothes, because the day before had been windy and chilly.
Finding some interesting insects

Clay modelling

More horse layouts

A few more layouts about horses and riding.

A morning at the stable

I go horse riding twice a week now and it has become a very important hobby for me again, a moment for myself where I can learn new things and just concentrate on myself and the horse and it's just wonderful to be able to do that! I have hundreds of photos of Sofia and her friends horse riding but very few photos of myself. But yesterday Sofia came with me to the stable and took some photos. Carlotta goes to a private school, so her Easter holiday hadn´t begun yet. It was a lovely morning for me and Sofia at the stable with nice weather and a good riding lesson. Here's a digital layout of my lesson with the photos that Sofia took.

More from Andalo

Carlotta for the first time on skis

Skiing in the Dolomites

The first week of March we had a wonderful week in Andalo in Trentino. The sun was shining every day, the food was good and the hotel had a very nice girl who entertained our smallest one so we were able to ski in the mornings. Daniele and Sofia had their skiing course every morning, Carlotta stayed in the hotel and we went skiing and also took one private lesson, which was very good. Carlotta's skiing course in the afternoons was no big success. She said the skis didn't obey her and she was afraid. The only thing that made her say that she wanted to continue with the course after the first lesson was that they had a pause where the children got a piece of chocolate. Anyway she succeded in partecipating in the final ski competition crying and with her nose running and got a trophy that she very proudly showed to everyone in the hotel. When we came to the hotel the children got these balloons.

First of all when we arrived, the children and also our dog, Milla went out behind the hotel to play in the snow.

We went down to see the lake of Molveno. Molveno is a place for summer holidays, now it was empty.


A nice welcoming dinner in the hotel.