Welcome to ‘Giovanna’s World’ -A place where I get to share the things I love. Be prepared for things that make you smile and fill you with joy! If you have any questions or have seen something that you think I’d enjoy please email me at giovanna@giovannafalcone.com - Enjoy the Joy!!Tumblr (3.0; @giovannafalcone1)http://giovannafalcone.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m419ydNnt11qblas7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><em><span>Summer Daydreams</span></em><span> by Carole Matthews</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>The Blurb:</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><em><span>What if you had always dreamed of wanting more…</span></em> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Nell McNamara has a happy life: her boyfriend Olly adores her, their four-year-old daughter Petal is the center of their world and Nell has a steady job in the local chip shop. When the chippy needs a makeover, Nell jumps at the chance to unleash the creativity fizzing inside her.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Inspired by what she can achieve – and encouraged by the very best friends a girl can have – Nell is determined to try something new. Waving goodbye to the chip shop, she starts up a new business making her own line of must-have handbags, which are soon flying off the shelves.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>It seems Nell’s dreams are finally coming true, but her success doesn’t come without a price. Before too long, Nell has to ask herself it it’s really possible to have it all…</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>My Thoughts:</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>At the beginning of the month I ran a competition for one lucky person to win a copy of <em>Summer Daydreams</em> (along with a gorgeous Helen Rochfort bag), so I’ve known about this book well before its release date.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>What I love most about this book is that Carole was so inspired by Helen’s journey to becoming handbag designer, that she decided to turn it into fiction. Obviously, knowing that certain parts of the story actually occurred did lead to me wondering which bits were based on truth while I was reading it – but that was only a distant thought as I still managed to immerse myself in the life Of Nell, Olly and Petal. <span> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>An inspirational read that’ll make you want to take your summer daydream by the horns and hold on tight. After all, is anything easy worth having?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><strong>**Released in paperback 24^th May**</strong></span></p></p>http://giovannafalcone.com/post/23538930364http://giovannafalcone.com/post/23538930364Tue, 22 May 2012 12:01:29 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4eiw2Y6ox1qblas7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><div> <p>Hope you all enjoy seeing our wedding photos TODAY in @OK_Magazine. Me and @tommcfly are still sunning ourselves on honeymoon - so let us know what you think. xxx</p> </div>http://giovannafalcone.com/post/23533701568http://giovannafalcone.com/post/23533701568Tue, 22 May 2012 08:01:34 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ej0pHymC1qblas7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Hope you all enjoy seeing our wedding photos TODAY in @OK_Magazine. Me and @tommcfly are still sunning ourselves on honeymoon - so let us know what you think. xxx</p>http://giovannafalcone.com/post/23533705684http://giovannafalcone.com/post/23533705684Tue, 22 May 2012 08:01:19 +0100“Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances...http://giovannafalcone.com/post/23157639131http://giovannafalcone.com/post/23157639131Wed, 16 May 2012 10:01:59 +0100“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a...http://giovannafalcone.com/post/23096000895http://giovannafalcone.com/post/23096000895Tue, 15 May 2012 10:02:53 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4207jxxYV1qblas7o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Happy honeymoon! Love to all! Xxx</p>http://giovannafalcone.com/post/23094439119http://giovannafalcone.com/post/23094439119Tue, 15 May 2012 08:45:19 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m40wfuoZCS1qblas7o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Check out my McBeaut of a wedding present from @helenrochfort… Xxx</p>http://giovannafalcone.com/post/23045087584http://giovannafalcone.com/post/23045087584Mon, 14 May 2012 18:26:18 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m403025K3L1qzex9io1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Couldn’t agree more…</p>http://giovannafalcone.com/post/23037665178http://giovannafalcone.com/post/23037665178Mon, 14 May 2012 14:41:06 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2pwhyMrRX1qblas7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>The Making Of Us By Lisa Jewell (Now out in paperback)</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>The Blurb:</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>In a hospice in Bury St Edmunds, a man called Daniel is slowly fading away. His friend Maggie sits with him every day; she holds his hand and she listens to the story of his life, to his regrets and to his secrets. And then he tells her about the children he has never met and never will. He talks of them wistfully. His legacy, he calls them.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Lydia, Dean and Robyn don’t know each other. Yet. And they are all facing difficult changes. Lydia is still wearing the scars from her traumatic childhood and although she is wealthy and successful, her life is lonely and disjointed. Dean is a young man, burdened with unexpected responsibility, whose life is going nowhere. And Robyn wants to be a doctor, just like her father – a man she’s never met. But is her whole life built on an illusion.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Three people leading three very different lives. All lost. All looking for something. But when they slowly find their way into each other’s lives, everything starts to change …</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>My Thoughts:</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Let me tell you a secret… I don’t read blurbs! Rarely am I seen pondering over the back of a book getting a glimpse of the story – just as I would never read the last page of the story without reading the rest first. Because of this I have no idea what’s coming when I open a book. From page one I’m looking at different avenues I think the story could be going down – and with this book I was so wrong!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>The idea behind the story is mind-blowingly beautiful and kicks up lots of conflicting emotions inside the reader. Told from six different people’s point of view, we hear how each of their lives have been affected by sperm donation – and thanks to the Sibling Register (a website where you can track people who share the same donor), some of these individuals are able to find their brothers and sisters (Plus a whole lot more).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>I was compelled by this storyline which is full of a humans need to belong, expectations of life and the beauty of family. Truly insightful and thought-provoking. </span></p></p>http://giovannafalcone.com/post/23033133768http://giovannafalcone.com/post/23033133768Mon, 14 May 2012 12:01:20 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m40alrDUUf1qblas7o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Me and Tom are fighting over this from @officialkissika - love it! Xxx</p>http://giovannafalcone.com/post/23031307360http://giovannafalcone.com/post/23031307360Mon, 14 May 2012 10:34:39 +0100“Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.” - W. C. Fieldshttp://giovannafalcone.com/post/23030665830http://giovannafalcone.com/post/23030665830Mon, 14 May 2012 10:01:00 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3usjb6fu41qblas7o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Been running around picking things up and dropping things off… Time to chill with one of these! Xx</p>http://giovannafalcone.com/post/22834802052http://giovannafalcone.com/post/22834802052Fri, 11 May 2012 11:16:23 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3rqt1FiUk1qblas7o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>So good to have him home!!</p>http://giovannafalcone.com/post/22725829558http://giovannafalcone.com/post/22725829558Wed, 09 May 2012 19:46:13 +0100“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his...http://giovannafalcone.com/post/22579171547http://giovannafalcone.com/post/22579171547Mon, 07 May 2012 10:01:50 +0100“Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in...http://giovannafalcone.com/post/22506499615http://giovannafalcone.com/post/22506499615Sun, 06 May 2012 10:02:24 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3ikkb9l6X1qblas7o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Sleeping on all his paws… Hail to the king!</p>http://giovannafalcone.com/post/22395923038http://giovannafalcone.com/post/22395923038Fri, 04 May 2012 20:52:59 +0100“There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise...http://giovannafalcone.com/post/22374891696http://giovannafalcone.com/post/22374891696Fri, 04 May 2012 10:02:17 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3gg47ehjy1qblas7o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Here we are with our undies! @homemadelondon @izzyeyesalight xxx clever girls!</p>http://giovannafalcone.com/post/22324518433http://giovannafalcone.com/post/22324518433Thu, 03 May 2012 17:21:43 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3gg27VPOy1qblas7o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>And then I made these @homemadelond… Xx</p>http://giovannafalcone.com/post/22324469498http://giovannafalcone.com/post/22324469498Thu, 03 May 2012 17:20:31 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3gfyjmiaw1qblas7o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>First I made this at @homemadelondon…</p>http://giovannafalcone.com/post/22324381652http://giovannafalcone.com/post/22324381652Thu, 03 May 2012 17:18:19 +0100