Happy Thursday!!! ❤️ Another rainy day here, but I spent a very funny morning with the 2 little twins, the sons of a cousin who lives jest few minutes from us. As I wrote in some of my previous contents, I use to help the twins's family around one morning at week. Now they are around 9 months old and since some days they started to walk around like little kitties and to try to say something like "ba ba" and "ma ma" (similar to the italian words "babbo" and "mamma" for "dad" and "mom"). This morning, after their breakfast, I placed myself with them inside the playpen (just to know, they have a large playpen for 2) and it was like to be a baby for me. 😁 My old bones forgot they are old and I played with the twins for a lot of time before to understood I'm not a baby. 😆

Hello hivers, an happy Wednesday to you all! Today I spent the most part of the morning walking along the streets of my city with my mom because there was the market in the main square and she decided to come here (she lives in a small village close to my city) to search some cotton yarn balls she needed. We walked around for a couple of hours going from a market stall to another market stall, drinking a cup of coffee in a nice bar in the center of the city and, at the end, I'm pretty sure I was more tired than her. 😆 I'm also a little exciting because on the next Saturday we will open our lab-home to the citizen and a nice young woman (one of our friends) will be with us to play the piano for a short show. I'm pretty sure we will spend a nice Saturday in good company (but before Saturday I had to clean the chaos inside our lab room and this is not something funny 😉 )! ❤️ Before to come out to meet my mom I worked a new tiny commissioned painting and now I'm here to share with you that one:

Hello hivers, an happy Tuesday to you all! Here it's raining again. This is really a rainy month in my area (Tuscany, in central Italy), more than I can remember during the past years. The sky is full of dark clouds since this morning and so there is just a little natural light, but in the pauses from the rain I could watch some sparrows with their little ones eating the cat food I use to place in a corner of my backyard and it was so sweet. I took some pics of them and I'll add one of them at the end of this content. ❤️

I'm continuing to work on the commissioned artworks I have to paint for a lovely customer who lives in Us and, after I shared with you the first tiny paintings I finished during the previous days, now I'm back here because I just finished to work on a new one and I can share it with you. ❤️ As I wrote before, these are tiny versions of some of my past artworks and this one is about a blond woman with a couple of blackbirds on the hair. I love to paint funny blackbirds with big bellies, but in this case I painted them just in a simple way because the size is very small to add more details on their bodies. You can see the final result of the piece in the following pics:

Hello hivers, an happy Monday to you all! I hope you spent a nice weekend. I spent my weekend in a very busy (but happy!) way and so I started this working week a little tired. To relax my mind and to clear my thoughts, this morning I spent a long pause from my brushes and colors walking along the side of the river close to my home. In a corner of the river there was a funny group of different birds and duck all together and so I couldn't resist to take some pics to share with you (using my camera, a Nikon coolpix B700)! At first, the Grey Heron this time was not so shy as usual and so I can admire its wonderful, elegant profile:

An happy Sunday to you all! I had a busy weekend spent between different events here in my city and friends who came into our home, but now I can enjoy some hours in relax and so I'm here.This morning started in a nice way because I met my friend Elena and we spent a couple of hours chatting, drinking coffee and eating a good cakes. Later a friend of mine called Laura came into my lab to take some pics of me and my hubby while we were working there. She's a nice woman around my age and she loves to take portraits of people during their daily life, so we had fun to be together inside the lab while she took pics of us and, in the meantime, we chat about this and that. 😁