Tylosand the new sofa!

Tylosand the new sofa!
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Here's our purchase: the new Sofa-bed! So if you want to visit Bologna and live in a family-environment with no privacy at all, experimenting the small european spaces and with a cat probably sleeping on your legs, Come Visit Us!!! We have some spare space (maybe some 50square cms each!) to share with you. I know it's not a king size bed but here in Italy it's a double bed!
We now have almost finished to furnish the house. I know that now it looks like a block of the Ikea shop, but the thing that I love of Ikea is that I can at least furnish the house in a stylish way.

We visited several sofa shops and found great and beautiful sofas but they costed 3 times the cost of Tylosand and they had no washable coating or a smaller bed. Monocolo will for sure have a blast for his nails on this sofa and I didn't want to spend a lot of money on something that will be ruined by my 'beaten' ('cause I beat him a lot) cat.

But see? Ikea has the solution. I can change the coating whenever I want with not a big expence; if I want I can add another seat building an L sofa and I can renew it whenever I want. I can personalize the sofa with other pillows and I can use my new sewing machine to create some more cloth thing. Basically I don't care if my house has the same sofa of other thousand homes, I believe the personality of its inhabitans will show off in a way or another:-)

Other than that, the last week has been a cooking week inspired by Sarah's cookery book. Andrea also tried to do some vegetarian maki (not those recipes but very similar) and it all turned out very good!
We invited friends over and were very happy to taste other flavours.

Yesterday I went together with Zita to the sewing-machine-shop where a nice girl explained us the basic function of it. We both subscribed a 6 hours class to learn how to take the hem up the trousers or how to sew zippers. I'm so happy about that. We also had a long breakfast in a nice Bakery-Cafè dressed with lots of political and social talks (those that I love), then on the way back home we decided to stop for a lunch at Trattoria Fantoni...hummmmm I love that place. It is so basic and the food is so genuine and typical.
It turned out a perfect day to fix my tired and disturbed mood.