C is for Cookie

Now I'm going to tell you what I did last weekend while outside is heavy raining. My last weekend was very cooking interesting! That's because we made a lot of Christmas Cookies with my sister Maria!! 

So, everything's ready: flour, sugar, eggs, baking powder, vanilla..

And of course our lovely Christmas and non Christmas coupe pats. Angels, people, Christmas tree, pear (well this looked more like a butt...sorryyyy), hearts, stars and the moon. 

After 2 hours of mixing, coupe pating, baking and decorating what we got was this:

Most of the cookies were decorated by my sister.

Their colours are so vivid! I'm lovin' it.

We've given some to our neighbours for Christmas.

Maria on the go!

And Maria very proud for the final result, after having eaten at least 20 cookies herself!

The leftovers of our multicoloured icing.

Nice huh? But I was cleaning the kitchen for one hour after all this mess..Anyway, that's the least important. I liked it so much, I'm gonna do this again very soon! Sooner than next Christmas hopefully..

...And the next day, I cooked mushroom soup a la francais for my darling, because he loves it.

 ...And not only that, but also mussels with garlic sauce on top. Very easy to cook, very hard to clean them. You spent at least one hour for cleaning them..But he loves eating them also..So..I don't care!

So, after this tasty yummy weekend, I'm heading to the family Christmas dinner.

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

Sleigh bells ring

are you listening

in the lane

snow is glistening 

A beautiful sight

we're happy tonight

walking in a winter wonderland..

Rockin' around the xmas tree

We are only 6 days before Christmas! Isn't that great? With all the problems affecting our country (Greece) I think many people including me, have lost the sense of time and in some way can't believe that Christmas is so close..

But I'm doing my best to alert myself by....decorating the house of course!!

This is a small ornament hanging on our Christmas tree.

Golden balls and a very nice garland with stars in a very weird colour.

And some golden autumn leaves on the Christmas tree..

Christmas lights in and outside the house. I love Christmas lights!!

And this is a small Santa I had bought some years ago who is very sweet..

These two are our two cute dogs that guard night and day our Christmas tree.

These chocolate santas are a gift from my brother Benny and Argiro and it's very weird I haven't eaten them yet. Maybe I'll wait till Christmas..no promises!

We have also put gel stickers on some windows.

And I have decorated the fireplace with an outstanding mistletoe garland.

And pinecones..

Here is a babouska. It's a gift from my mom, from her trip to Russia.

And last but not least, Ciccio's shock is hanging in front of the fireplace, because he is waiting for Santa to bring him a BIG bone for Christmas.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas...But NO! It will be raining for the second week here..

 So, I guess we'll have a rainy Christmas!!

London's calling

Well, I have to write for sometime here..

The truth is I was very busy with work..especially the past two/three weeks and I went a 4 day trip to London (my favourite city) with mi amor. But this was in November, so it's not a good excuse right?

The reason for this trip was the concert of the Red Hot Chili Peppers..

This is outside the O2.

And before we get in the stalls.

The Red Hots are my favourite #1 of the list band and it was a dream of a lifetime to watch them live on stage.

Of course with my beer and nachos on hand!! The funny thing is that people don't believe I'm 28!! They think I'm younger than 20, so if I wanna buy some beer I have always to carry my ID for proving it. Crazy?

In the O2, Gibson had a small exhibition and we visited. Nice stuff!!

And lots of pictures with the Gibson artists.

After leaving the concert I was a bit disapointed with Anthony Kiedis, because during the 1/3 of the concert he wasn't on stage. I don't know what exactly happened but he seemed to have technical issues.. But on the other hand I felt fulfilled because the rest of the band was excellent and really loved the concert and one of my dreams came true..finally! Also we bought 2 t-shirts. This is Soto's RHCP tee.

I wanted to buy the same, but then I though "Heyy, we don't have to buy the same tees!!", so I bought another one with the fly of their new CD cover. For which I don't have a pic to show.

One night we went to Oxford str. and the roads were wearing their xmas outfits. Which was nice..:)

And for a really BIG pizza at the Pizza Hut!!

And the only leftover was this:

Fantastic!

We went to a very nice pub opposite Leicester Square tube station.

The fact is that we visited many pubs and we drunk many beers. I love pubs! One thing I love in England is pubs. That's one of a lot of things I love in England to be honest. I love museums, I love the tube, I love the concerts, I love the theaters, I love the people and I love the culture. English people respect each other. If not 100% of them, let's say 95%. This is what I see each time I visit this country. 

But the 4 days passed quickly and we had to return. 

With nostalgy of leaving this great city!!

London I love you!


P.S.: Ciccio I missed you, you little doggy dog!

be my, be my baby

We had a special arrival this week. On Wednesday Pola, Ciccio's mom, gave birth for the second time to 15 wonderful puppies!!

The camera just couldn't capture all of them at once.

They are adorable..

In the beginning we were feeding them with feeding bottles, but later they went to their mother. Pola was very discomfortable the first day after returning home from the vet. She gave birth by caesarian section, so it wasn't very easy. But as the days passed, she was feeling better and better.

To celebrate the birth of the puppies, on Friday we went for a drink to the trattoria and then for finger food to "48". I love "48". This is an old wagon they have outside.

And on Saturday, we had arranged with our friend Demetra to go to Athens and watch the "Swan Lake" at Badminton Theatre. I was very surprised that Sotiris wanted to see ballet. And also it was a new experience for us both. as we had never watched a ballet live performance.

And this is Demetra at the fuaye of the theater.

At the fuaye they had something like an art excibition. Which was also an alternative theatrical scene for a play after midnight.

The show was fantastic and then we went back to Patras. We arrived at 23:00. Straight to Mr. Burger and to Demetras' house. I don't know how I slept at night after so much food.

Just now I learned from my sister that four of the puppies are dead..they just didn't make it. I hope they are in dog's heaven now. Poor little ones..:(

A kiss for a good night.

Just the flu and me

Right now I'm with flu at home. But before this I had something like a boring weekend, because it was raining and raining and raining and I was watching the rain through my windows.

If I wasn't on the sofa watching movies, maybe I was sleeping. But all the other days I did some things. Like painting some of my hair blue? hahaha. Now I'm a semi-blue-haired girl. Well yes, I went to a salon and I had a haircut and also had some blue flashes on my hair.

I had never died my hair before and I really felt like burning my brain in this machine. I thought it took me ages to finish this extra ordinary look. Anyway, I like my new hair and Sotiris loves them also.

 

I went at this salon with my workmate Irene. We do many things together except working. So, after leaving the salon, we went a downtown walk. There was a brand new women's clothes shop opening, so they had balloons outside.

All the best. Cheeers!

Then I went home and Sotiris didn't understand the hair colour difference. But anyways..I showed him:)

One of these days, I found a strange visitor on our cleaner..

Maybe he is cleaning something. Who knows? Also when I went a walk with Ciccio, I found this ant house.

I love ants. Sometimes I help them move faster and some other times I feed them with sugar. And some other times I do something very strange: I look at them for hours and hours. I can say they are my best pets after Ciccio. Let's say you didn't read this.

One of these days, I visited my grandma. These are the elevator buttons you have to use to go at her appartment. She lives on the sixth floor nearly for 25 years now and these buttons have not changed ever since. Very retro.

What else? Yesterday we made with Sotiris an omelet. With mushrooms, green peppers, onion and of course eggs! Very nice.

And now I'm with my PJs and my pink shocks waiting for Sotiris to come home from work..because I feel very cold and I'm only together with my flu.

I hope he gets a lacta for me. He did last time..

Because he is the sweetest husband in the whole world..?