You know what? This business of being on holiday is really hard work. I have been with the kids in the Alps for ten days, and it has been an intense affair of watching Nicco climb high on old pine trees up on the Piccolo San Bernardo, helping Caterina ‘jump’ on the trampoline for the [...]
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Rocks like fangs, secret lakes, hidden ponds. We explored a long, deep cave in the woods a few miles from where my parents live. In pre-Roman times, the cave’s main room, at the foot of the mother rock, was a temple to pagan gods—the local people left offerings shaped like tiny boats just above [...]
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OK, I just couldn’t leave it alone. When I started experimenting with tags for a painted tag swap a while ago, I made a little tag that I wasn’t happy with. It wasn’t a big deal since it was just an experiment, but it bugged me.
I went on to make the tags for the swap, [...]
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My favourite collage book is Corey Moortgat’s The Art of Personal Imagery. It’s partly because I share her approach of using personal images and symbolism in collage; but also because I love her soft style and techniques. So the book is often found lying around my home and this morning my son picked it up. [...]
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April 27, 2008 – 12:28 pm
I am no longer a knight. After fighting some serious battles, taking injuries from sword and lance and even falling off my imaginary horse, I have been mercilessly demoted to armourer once again. That’s because Niccolo decided he needed a helm and I had to make one pronto.
The world’s greatest knight…and his mum
It is when [...]
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Whey-hey! The articles I had to do by Thursday (or before the baby’s birth, whichever comes first) are ready. OK, I still have to tweak a couple of things on one of them but that shouldn’t take too long, so I am a free woman.
I know this sounds rather ridiculous, but I did sleep very [...]
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How I wish I lived in California, where Artsymama was teaching her Flower Banner class last week. Or, at the very least, I wish I had been faster in checking her blog and Etsy shop, where she was selling some of her banner kits. By the time I realised they were for sale, they were [...]
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My preschooler, that is. Niccolo is back from his holiday with the grandparents (the “nonni”) and, of course, we have resumed our artistic endeavours. Just now, he has three favourite activities, in this order:
1. “drawing” letters and words. No matter how much I call it writing, he insists he is drawing. He started off [...]
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There is a woman out there who is my parenting hero. She is the friend of a friend—and the proud mother of four-year-old triplets and a two-year-old boy. If you ever chance upon her blog, you’ll soon discover that she has more energy and does more stuff with her four preschoolers than I can ever [...]
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Perhaps it’s because I am a crafts addict, but I like to get my son involved in painting, collageing, stamping and drawing.
Niccolo’s abstract painting
For me, little beats the time we sit side by side at the kitchen table, smearing temperas over a piece of paper, our fingers stained with paint.I like to let Niccolo free [...]
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