Author: the italiagal

Greetings readers! My name is Betsy and I am a good friend (and former college roommate) of Michelle. She has invited me to write a guest entry in her lovely travel blog about my recent trip to California this past August. I am happy to oblige! First off, although my husband and I are fairly…

J’s Photo of the View of Verona I love travel. There are few things better to me than discovering a new place or experiencing a culture different from my own. Since I often talk travel, many people excitedly tell me about a place and then let me in on the fact that they never managed to make…

The Capitoline Venus is currently in Washington, DC. The Latest Countdown:  7  days until my daytrip to DC! 13 days until my Moving Day! 28 days until my apartmentwarming party! I move in 13 days, days I’ll have you know, not weeks. I am so excited! I think I packed most of my stuff my…

Free Hugs in Italy! I want to thank Kate from Une Vie Chic for posting this!

I created this blog on this day one year ago. …and I’ve been loving it. Cin Cin! An Italian toast that is pronounced ‘chin chin!’ It all started here. This is an excellent opportunity to talk about my blog itself, and in particular, a new direction it is taking. You see, I originally wanted to…

In the last week, my plans have been turned upside down …but then they turned out anyway. Two of the wrongs gone right: I planned to have a pool day on my day off Thursday and go with my mom who loves herself a beach or pool. But we wake up and it’s overcast and 75…

I finished The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World’s Most Elegant Woman by Karen Karbo in pretty much exactly 24 hours. It’s such a great read. Not as serious and therefore fabulous as Chanel herself, but very much worth the time. I would give it four out of five stars. My Borrowed-from-the-Library…

The Capitoline Venus Flipping through the Amtrak magazine on the way to New Haven, I came across an advertisement for the latest exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in DC. The Capitoline Venus, a really well-preserved scultpure from antiquity, will be there from early June to early September. For more information, click here. It’s…

There are 43 days until I collect the keys to my new apartment! In my waitin’, hopin’ and dreamin’ of my future apartment home, I have come to covet: Raya Chip and Dip by Crate & Barrel ~for entertaining~ For chips and salsa …to go with margaritas of course! Vic Firth Federal Pepper Mill via Amazon 8…

I loved “The Happiness Project Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun” by Gretchen Rubin. The Happiness Project I liked the author right off the bat… a woman who thinks too much, loves her research and is just…