Always a good night kiss (Always!) - (the story behind the painting)

Always, always kiss your child goodnight.....
Parenting can be really though sometimes, you know that, I certainly do!
How many times I arrive at bed time drained and knowing that I won't be to bed for still few hors ? (this is especially dedicated for mama artist or not working late at night)
How many times I'm just fed up after a long,long,long day?
How many times I'm just annoyed (yes, let's say that too !) with always (always!) the same things/jokes/call him/her again and again EVERY SINGLE NIGHT ? (called maybe routine)
And still...
EVEN if I am FED UP, EVEN if I did argue badly, EVEN if I am annoyed, EVEN in the worse day
I kiss them and say "I love you".
Then I kiss them again when they're sleeping thinking how lucky I am.
Because one day they'll grow up and may sleep somewhere else (one day very far of course !) and I'll miss this special moment.

"Always a good night kiss" - 02/2016

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Toujours, toujours embrasser votre enfant pour lui dire bonne nuit ..... 
Être parents peut se révéler parfois être vraiment dur, vous le savez...moi certainement !
Combien de fois je suis arrivé à l'heure du coucher avec le méga "ras le bol" sachant que je ne serai pas au lit pendant encore quelques heures ? (Ceci est spécialement dédié pour les mamans artistes ou non qui travaillent  tard dans la nuit !)
Combien de fois je n'avais juste marre après une longue, longue, longue journée?
Combien de fois je suis juste ennuyé (oui, disons ça aussi !) car toujours (toujours!) les mêmes choses / blagues / les appeler lui/elle x fois encore et encore tous les soirs? (il parait ça s'appelle la routine du coucher)
Et pourtant...
Même si je suis fatigué, même si on c'est disputes, même si je suis contrarié et même dans la pire des  journées  je les embrasse et je luis dit "Je t'aime".
Puis je les embrasse encore quand ils dorment et je pense à la chance que j'ai .
Parce qu'un jour ils seront grands et ils dormiront probablement ailleurs (un jour très loin, bien sûr!) Et  ce moment spécial il va me manquer.

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Sempre, sempre baciare i vostri figli quando gli date la buona notte....
Essere genitori puo rivelarsi qualche volta mooooooooooooolto duro. Lo sapete.In tutti i casi per me é verissimo.
Quante  volte sono arrivata all'ora della nanna serale stufa marcia e sapendo che io stessa non sarei andata a letto ancora per qualche ora ? (dedicato specialmente a quelle mamme artiste e non che lavoranno tardi nella notte!)
Quante volte sono semplicemente stufa dopo una giornata troppo lunga ?
Quante volte sono solo stufa (annoiata, ammettiamolo !) perché tuuuuuuuuuuutte le sere mi becco le stesse menate/scherzi/richiami infiniti ecc ecc (pare faccia parte della routine)
Eppure....
Anche se sono stanca, anche se abbiamo litigato,anche se sono incavolata e pure nella peggiore giornata che io possa avere avuto me li bacio e gli dico "ti voglio bene"
Poi li ribacio ancora quando dormono e penso alla fortuna che ho.
Perché un giorno saranno grandi e dormiranno probabilmente altrove (un giorno lontanissimo, certo !)
E quel momento li mi mancherà!

Father's day / Fête des Pères / festa del papa

A quick hello, I know, it has never been soooooooooooo long !
However I'm still here and I'd like to say happy father's day with one  artworks from 2012, one of my favourite in the daddy 's series : "Night time fatherhood"
On the news side lots of artworks in progress (pyrography too) an upcoming exhbition (in south France) and working on my new future atelier room ;-)

"Night time fatherhood" - 2012

 
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Un petit coucou, je sais ça fais vraiment looooooooooooon temps !

Cependant, je suis toujours là et je tiens à souhaiter une joyeuse fête des pères avec une des mes œuvres de 2012, une de mes préférés dans la série des papas : "Night time fatherhood"
Pour le reste pas mal des nouvelles œuvres en cours (pyrogravures aussi) une expo à venir  (dans le sud de France) et des travaux pour ma nouvelle salle de l'atelier ;-)

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Un piccolo ciao, la pausa questa volta é stata molto lunga!

Comunque sono sempre qui e ci tenevo ad augurare una bella festa del papà (Francia, Usa...) con uno dei miei pezzi preferiti nella seriue dei padri, un'opera del 2012 chiamata  "Night time fatherhood"

Sul versante delle novità  parecchie opere in corso (tra cui della pirogravura), una nuova mostra che inizia tra una settimana (collettiva sempre nel sud della Francia) e lavori in corso per il mio futuro nuovo atelier ;-)

30 !!!

30 days left to the end of / 30 jours à la fin de / 30 giorni alla fine del

365 ACEOs project

"Co sleeping flowers"

"Co sleeping flowers" - ACEO - 7/11/2013

19/12/2012 "Father at night too" from The 365 ACEOs project / Projet : 365 jours avec un ACEO

If you've been reading around you know that one of the things I do is co-sleeping with my babies for two main reason :
1) I love that and it will come to an end soon enough (no, they won't sleep with you when they'll be adults!)
2) I would be dead sleep by now if managing differently. I just cannot stay awake while breastfeeding at night and my children didn't sleep trought the night at two months...usually these fantastic creatures that do that they're not your own child but some friend's, sister's, neighbours's or others...but just not you.

One of the books that helped me a lot when I was a new fresh mama also about co-sleeping and attachment parenting was "Nighttime Parenting: How to Get Your Baby and Child to Sleep" by William Sears and I still strongly suggest you to read it. I also loved and suggest to read Elizabeth Pantley
Between others they say, and I couldn't agree more!, that fathers have a strong role in nurturing and taking care of children, also at night. And it's not because mummy is breastfeeding that daddy doesn't have a strong link with his child.

So my today's aceo is honoring that special realtionship that fathers have...also at night!
Good night! ;-)

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Sur mon blog un de mes premiers billet parlais aussi du fait que je co dodo avec mes enfantes...non, pas tous ensemble , chacun a eu sa période ;-) et ce'st la preuve que non, ils vont pas dormir avec le parents jusqu’à l'age adulte je vous assure! ;-)
Les raisons de ce choix sont principalement deux :
1) J'aime ça et ça va finir bien trop tot et c'est trop mignon et special!
2) je serai morte de fatigue et sommeil si j'avais fait differement....simplement c'est un choix qui c'est imposé car je m'endors avant eux pendant les tetes nocturnes et il se trouve que mes enfantes n'ont pas fait leurs nuit à deux mois....les bebés qui font leur nuites à deux mois sont se dela copine, de le soeur, de la voisine pas les votres et ni les miens donc!

Un bouquin que j'ai adoré et que m'as bien aidé quand je suis devenue maman c'etait "Parents le jour et la nuit aussi" de William Sears. Si vous n'avez pas encore lu ce bouquin je vous le suggère fortement, ainsi que les livres de Elizabeth Pantley

Ces autheurs (et parents d'abord!) epliquent entre autres comment les papas aussi ayent un role primordiale dans la construction d'une relation de proximite avec leurs enfants et cela meme si la maman allaitte (voir les idéée recu comme quou l'allaittement laisserai le papa en dehors d'une relation priviliegfie avec son enfant....)

C'est pour ça que mon aceo d'aujourd'hui est dedié à tous les papas qui costruisent cette relation special avec leur enfant....aussi la nuit!
Bonne nuit donc!

More freedom with three child !

Ok, I admit I'm beeing a bit provocative here ;-) but even so I'm not completly crazy yet!

As a mama artist with 3 young child every time that during the day I'm sitting to the PC one of them (sometimes two, sometimes all three) is in the urgent need of something that goes from breastfeeding to "............." (fill the blank with wherever it comes to your mind)
It easily gets worse if I'm on the phone. Never mind painting during the day.....

Which is why usually I'm working at night and for the moment I'm really faaaaaaaaaaaaaaar away to get all I want to do actually done (still talking art, not cleaning house or others funny stuff like that....)

BUT.......

Between the many fantastic things about being a mum there is one which I really wanted mention.
To resume it would be "how we get more relaxed from the first to the third child".
Don't get me wrong, I've got my really bad moments and I also fighted depression, but still I growed so much thanks to them and because of them. My first daughter even pushed me back to paint!

With the first child (girl) I falled in love as soon as she was on my belly. It was a strong feeling, overwhelming and powerfull. AT that precise moment I became a MOTHER. And this is unique!
She absorbed me completely and I enjoyed that but I was soooooooo stressed about routine, sleeping (she was really hard to put to sleep), I was soooooooooooo concerned about "what people says" on :
sleeping, breastfeeding, baby wearing etc etc etc that I was stressed and it toke me a while to really do what I wanted to do. I use to say that the first child gets maybe more complete attention from both parents...but also all the aspectations and the stress of parenthood learning poor thing!

Then my second child (a boy) came. Never mind pregnancy, I was busy with the first two years old.
So busy with her that he was almost born in the cab going to the hospital....
Because this birth was so peculiar it toke me few hours to have the real bound, I suppose that in some way I had to digest what did happend but then it was once again love.
But I enjoyed sooooooooooooo much not be stressed or concerned about what I was doing.
This was a kind of big surprise for me and it did definitly help through some tough moments we had that year.
And is still true today, the experience helps, even if they're all different child and that's a main fact, of course!

We are now at the third one (girl again)....I almost feel, sometimes, a "lack" of stress which is quite funny for me I must say.
Don't get me wrong, she's mothered, and growing up and she's getting "education" accordingwith her age....but for a lots of thing she just follows the flow and sometimes I found myself just letting things go and it feels so right that I miss not having did the same with my first one.

I suppose that's life.It does feel nice. In some way I more free my self, free to be just a mum and not worring so much all the time.

I'm curious to know others mum's experience about it, don't be shy, the more childs the more to say!

xxx Gioia

Co sleeping family

Hi !

This is an hot topic! ;-)

This pic was on the FB wall of an italian friend few days ago and it made me laugh , so I did some translation because it really resume what I think about this and what you can answer the doctor (and some others people that surely exist in your life) if you co sleeps with your children.

Of course every one does wherever he/she wants....for me co sleeping was a life saver, at the third child in almost 6 years I would be sleep dead  if I didn't find this solution!

And no, they really go to sleep in their bed at some point!
And no, they won't be sleeping with you when they'll be eighteen!
And no, you're not creating some dysfunctional human being!
And.......(fill the blank)......

 One of my favourite topic in painting too...


"Il dolce sonno" (Sweet sleeping) - 2007 - sold

The co sleepers  - 2009 - sold

Blue co dodo (Blue Co Sleeping) - 2011 - sold

Doux dodo (Sweet sleeping) - 2012 - Painting on paper - available

On you - 2012 - Painting on paper - available



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Nighttime Fatherhood - 2012 - painting on paper - sold

Enjoy!
Gioia

Getting started....

Wait Wait!!! This is just the beginning....I just got started! ;-)

Please, be patient, as my title said I'm a MAMA of three children and many PAINTINGS (Artist!)
so, that's why it may take a while to have a nice view over here....at the moment all three children are at home (school holiday! yeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssss!!!)

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My butterfly's wings - 2012 - 40x50 - available



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