A new Adventure...

 Long time has passed since my last post.

 I have been very busy and "new" is the word  

that could resume at best my last 6 months.

The Uk government has awarded 

the innovation and educational value of my workshops/videos for children 

with a Level 6 degree, which I am about to finish, 

to qualify "officially" as an Early Years Teacher.

I was an educator in Italy, 

before moving to England, and as

I come from the Reggio Emilia approach environment (as I talk about here), 

 I go all in with Arts and Drama (as you will be able to notice from my videos)

Also, I have been part of a pilot project, 

an officially approved childhood enrichment service

 mainly for home educated children, on the Island where I live.

The thing I love the most there is that I can be what I truly am,

mixing art with storytelling and cooking and drama, 

and learning from the children so much!

I can't even start on the wonderful crazy things we have done together!

I have been doing also public workshops, 

and this was a fantastic way to connect more with my local community.

Life is not easy, studies are uphill, but

I am so happy to have accepted to step into the unknown.

It took me a while to be able to write about this, as it is a lot and it happened

 in little steps.

And as a big cherry on the cake, 

my art is flourishing even with the little time I currently have for it.

I already plan to be a teacher only part time, 

as my dream to illustrate stories is on  top of the list, 

as always have been in the last million years 😊

I have been having some important wins in the artistic world, 

grew confidence in my practice

and I feel so ready to tackle human characters, 

after it felt too intimidating for years.

 I come from fine art and the last thing I wanted is to draw a realistic figure, 

so I just avoided it (great tactic!).

But switching to animals helped,

 while I learnt other important things about building images.

I have finally updated my Etsy shop

with new cards and more will come!

For now, 

I leave you with some cloud biscuits

they come from a workshop I did recently with children,

 and I loved it so much 

now I can't even watch a cloud without... thinking of eating it !!