Christmas decorations

• - A centerpiece with the roses
• - A centerpiece with white silk roses and orchids
• - A Christmas decoration for your front door or a wall
• - A Christmas decoration made with an elf (only members area)
• - A Christmas tree with oranges
• - A decorated faggot
• - A flower Christmas arrangement
• - A flower decoration
• - A garland with sparkling red ribbons how to decorate a piece of furniture
• - A precious centerpiece: flowers under the snow (members-only area) flowers and fruits of the wood in an original home decoratio
• - A quick Christmas wreath
• - A red berry Christmas wreath an ideal decoration for the main door, a wall or a shop-window
• - A refined vase full of flowers you can use it for decorating your shop or your house
• - A sparkling centerpiece for Christmas
• - A very coloured garland an easy decoration for our house
• - A winter pine branch an original decoration for our house door that remember us the winter
• - An unusual decoration
• - An elegant decoration on your main door (only members area)
• - Bamboo canes and flowers an original decoration for our pieces of furniture
• - Befana on the besom the nice old woman who brings gifts to children in the Epiphany Eve made by your hands
  
• - Centerpiece with glittering flowers and Christmas balls (members-only area) a new glittering colour for Christmas: rose!
• - Centerpieces with pine branches (members-only area) the same pine wreath: a lot of centerpieces with different shapes
• - Christmas balls, jewel-style (members-only area) In the last month we can see a tripudium of colours and sparkling decorations in the clothes, in the shoes and in the bags in Italy. Then we thought to propose the same fashion in the Christmas balls. You could use them for decorating a little Christmas tree or for making a charming centerpiece that will impress your guests; you could decorate a wall or fill a crystal vase...
• - Decorating indoor plants If you have no much space for a Christmas tree don't worry! You can adobe an indoor plant
• - Elk Christmas wreath A new kind of wreath, simple and beautiful
  
• - Hot trends for Christmas 2007
• - Let's decorate our balcony Some suggestions to adobe your balcony for Christmastime
• - New colours for your Xmas tree Are you sick of the usual colours for your Christmas tree? We propose the new trend for this year.
• - Other ideas for Christmas
• - Roses and hydrangeas on our main entrance
• - Santa is tired A Santa doll near an indoor plant and your decoration is ready!
• - Silk flowers & beads (only members area) We teach you how to prepare new Christmas decorations combining silk flowers and beads. Ideal for your house or shop window
• - Snowman a nice puppet made with wadding and old clothes
  
• - The Christmas tree in the wicker basket (only members area) It's an original idea by which you can adobe a little house, your office or shop window
• - The elf boxes (members-only area) an extraordinary idea to for our Christmas gifts!
• - The garland, jewel-style (members-only area) a garland made with an original technique and decorated in a sparkling way
• - The poinsettia (only members area) We teach you how to realize a very refined Xmas decoration, ideal for your house, elegant office or shop window
• - The pannier, "La Gerla"
• - The red wins
• - Step-by-step guideline to Christmas decorations
• - What can I do instead of Christmas tree? (members-only area) a bundle of kindlings covered with glittering flowers becomes a nice home or shop window decoration

 

Your gifts

• - The jewel boxes (members-only area) how to make nice boxes for your precious Christmas gifts
• - The worm village you have to make a gift to a child ... what about a tasty and nice cake?
• - Good manners about gifts suggestions in order to avoid cutting poor figures
• - Websites about Italian products (members-only area) we propose a list of Italian websites that purchase Italian food or where you can find some original gifts, Italy-style
• - At first we want to present you an original idea: a wool garland that you can make with your hands! Present a friend of yours with it or yourself! You can put on it as a scarf or a garland! There is a teenager version and a lady version.

 

Planning parties at Christmas

• - Greeting and invitation cards, menu and place cards (members-only area) if you have subscribed to this area, you can download the complete series of greeting card, invitation card, menu card and placecard linked together. That's cool! Your party will be very successful!
• - Greetings cocktail (members-only area) do you have to give many people your best wishes? we give you some suggestions for planning a correct cocktail party, Italian style.
• - Printable free invitation and greeting cards

Let's think about gifts and Christmas-cards!

• - Christmas invitation cards (free download)
• - How to make up our gifts
• - Personalizing your Christmas cards
• - Some suggestions for the gifts you have to do

To set the table

• - A centrepiece with rose fruits For people who like natural decorations made with the fruits of the garden
• - A golden refined table (members-only area)
• - A sparkling table
• - A silver and blue-sky elegant table (members-only areai)
• - A white & gold table
• - A white and golden table (members-only area) three examples for setting up your table during Christmas according to Italian style: beauty and elegance!
• - Crystal branches on the Christmas table (members-only area) a fashionable table for an unforgettable Christmas
• - Gold at Christmas let's set up the table following the most typical traditions, Italy-style
• - Red & white coloured table we used the typical colours of Christmas for this nice table
• - Setting the table in red
• - Setting the table in white
• - Setting the table for byrthday at Christmas
• - The Italian Christmas table In this table we show you that it isn't necessary to have very refined set of cutlery or dinner service or fashionable glasses to lay well a beautiful Christmas table.
• - The perfect Italian Christmas table (only members area) In this table we show you how to combine luxury and elegance with no errors.

Christmas recipes

• - Cold braised veal with tuna sauce
• - Caviar-flavored pasta
• - Shrimps and eggs penne
• - Stew wild boar
• - Orange-flavored turkey breasts
• - Neapolitan macaroni timbale (timpano)
• - Christmas bread with spices
• - Smoked eel (members-only area) first course recipes, some menus for Christmas Eve with smoked eel and other refined ingredients, the website where you can buy smoked eel
• - Black truffle a collection of easy and fast recipes
• - One-plate meal with venison (members-only area) an eccellent recipe for astonishing your guests!
• - one-plate meal for Christmas. You can prepare a lot of tidbits in the same serving plate made with the typical Christmas ingredients according to the Italian style (salmon, duck, truffles, chestnuts ...). You can find three different ideas in the same page: a menu based on meat, another based on fish and the third for the vegetarian people. To serve such a menu is useful for the hostess too if she has nobody who helps her in the kitchen! Think of it!

Remember: you can find many other ideas in the members-only area for succesful Italian menus!

Some Italian menus for Christmas

• - A menu full of wood flavors
• - Season's greetings menu
• - The menu
• - A cheap but tasty menu a combination of different recipes full of taste and cheap
• - A menu purchased by Internet (members-only area) for people who like Italian food and want to prepare a Christmas menu, Italy-style
• - A light menu a menu based on low-fat recipes for Christmas
• - Our Christmas menu (members-only area) our suggestion for this year
• - Planning the New Year's Eve Dinner: a buffet (members-only area) cold and hot dishes for a great party!

 

Italian Christmas cakes

• - Italian Christmas brioche (Panettone)
• - Siena honey cake (Panforte)
• - Pepperbread (Panpepato)
• - Veronese Christmas cake (Pandoro)

 

And after Christmas time ... ?

• - Some practical suggestions if you are some food left