A good week

I had a wonderful past week. Saturday's events jeopardized the balance of such week, but in the end I managed to keep it all under control and to make my own thing independent of external events.

Monday started with Sting's Symphonicity concert. Sublime! And the word is to weak to make justice to his performance. I left the concert with a feeling of great happiness, and I could read on everyone's faces that he filled us with love through his music and lyrics. Besides the deep wish to share and receive love it was also gratefulness what I felt, gratefulness for living in country where I can attend events like Sting's. The People's House, which Sting faced from the stage made me reflect upon this, as just a few years ago being there, listening to Sting, singing his lyrics would have been a crime.

On  Tuesday my boss invited me to dinner. It was a good opportunity to catch up, and to have a less formal conversation. Each of us gets this way a better understanding of each  others  values and personality which than helps to the - more frequent and more tense - formal interactions.

Wednesday my friend Larisa, who's expecting a baby girl, gave me the opportunity to redesign her little apartment for her new life. Although I learned not to take it personally when people don't trust me yet when it comes to advise on how to decorate their house, I am really thankful and happy when someone credits me and offers me the chance. So we've been choosing the color scheme to start with. Anna Starmer's Color Scheme Bible provided us with a lot of inspiration. I have already budget-decorated her really small kitchen. Soon I'll have some photos of the project to post on the blog.

The day ended with an Aperol and Ice-Cream evening at Gelateria Venchi with some friends, and afterwords a walk in the park with someone dear. Priceless!

Some furniture has been taken apart, glued back together, fixed and prepared for the finish and upholstery. Speaking of upholstery, I did some buying on Etsy. Some beautiful pieces of fabric and passementerie. Conversion of inches and yards in metric system si no longer a secret to me. :)

Saturday this had to happen...

...in order to achieve this.

Not only my first attempt to make a Rainbow Cake, but my first attempt to bake a cake ever. So imagine, the outcome was not really eatable. But at least it turned out pretty beautiful. Not as nice as this one, and for sure not as good.

Well,  all ended, with church service on sunday morning and with a musical-culinary feast in the back yard of the church,

and A Midsummer Night's Dream theater performance  in the evening.

That's all Folks. Let's hope for this week at least as good as the last one. In Romania it started with a holiday so, good enough so far. :)