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		<title>Hong Kong at Christmas / Рождественский Гонконг</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wonderful city is ready for Christmas. From the Flower market to the finest malls, there is Christmas magic in the air. Here are my photos for you. Enjoy! {at the Flower market} {IFC mall} {in Prince&#8217;s Building Heather&#038;March shop window display} {Tiffany &#038; Co. window} {Christmas carols at the Festival Walk mall in Kowloon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ilapko.com/irina/2011/12/21/hong-kong-at-christmas-%d1%80%d0%be%d0%b6%d0%b4%d0%b5%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b2%d0%b5%d0%bd%d1%81%d0%ba%d0%b8%d0%b9-%d0%b3%d0%be%d0%bd%d0%ba%d0%be%d0%bd%d0%b3-2/</link>
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		<title>Handmade Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or in this case to be exact I should say hand knitted Christmas. Every year before Christmas there are so many wonderful holiday decoration ideas shared around blogland. And every time I&#8217;m thinking I&#8217;ll make &#8216;THIS ONE&#8217; for next Christmas. But the plans change fast and often and there seems always not enough time. This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ilapko.com/irina/2011/12/06/handmade-christmas/</link>
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		<title>Pullover progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The pullover knitting is moving along. I&#8217;m done with the part of the body that was knitted around and close to finishing the pullover&#8217;s back. I love to knit around since the stitches come out neater than when I knit right and wrong side. That&#8217;s one of the reasons I have chosen Point Gammon pullover, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ilapko.com/irina/2011/11/21/pullover-progress/</link>
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		<title>Starting over</title>
		<description><![CDATA[@#$&#038;!*&#038;^&#038;*@ &#8211; was supposedly be a title for this post because that was how I felt after two nights of working on my new knitting project. Every late fall, without fail, I feel an urge for knitting. That is normal I guess, except the temperature outside was still around 30 degrees Celsius and people were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ilapko.com/irina/2011/11/09/starting-over/</link>
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		<title>Bed transformation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last June at Parisian Clignancourt antique market I was looking for a bed for my son&#8217;s bedroom. There were plenty. But as it often happens, when you look for something particular, it is not there. I had a hard time to find a single size bed. In my two days walking miles and miles at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ilapko.com/irina/2011/10/29/bed-transformation/</link>
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		<title>The chandelier project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past couple of weeks has been busy for us with sorting things out that arrived from Paris. With three chandeliers needing to be hung it is not so easy when your walls are made of steel and concrete. First, two handymen with a powerful drill came to install heavy duty hooks for the chandeliers. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ilapko.com/irina/2011/10/12/the-chandelier-project/</link>
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		<title>Chinoiserie love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past June at Porte de Clignancourt flea market in Paris &#8230; When the dealer told me the price, I thought it was a good deal. The other thought was &#8216;I don&#8217;t have any room in my apartment for it.&#8221; Lesson learnt &#8211; if you really love it, buy it. Unfortunately, it is too late [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ilapko.com/irina/2011/09/23/chinoiserie-love/</link>
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		<title>A few snippets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wished I could say that everything has found its permanent spot. But the reality is far from it. The chandeliers are in the boxes, the frames either leaning on walls, lying on the table or on the window sill, the bed waiting to be reupholstered. Here are some of the things that I picked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ilapko.com/irina/2011/09/14/a-few-snippets/</link>
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		<title>My first Moon cake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, it is not about eating it for the first time. After ten years in Hong Kong there has been plenty of different kinds of Moon cakes eaten, fancy and traditional but they all came from a shop. This time it is different &#8230; I&#8217;ve learned how to MAKE my own. Thank you to Candy, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ilapko.com/irina/2011/09/07/my-first-moon-cake/</link>
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		<title>On the streets of Hong Kong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been 10 years and one month today since my family and I moved from Florida in the US to Hong Kong. So, here are some of my photos, older and newer, from the city I live in and love. Enjoy! {this is one of my first photos of HK. I took it from Victoria [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ilapko.com/irina/2011/07/08/on-the-streets-of-hong-kong/</link>
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