I always knew August was my least favorite month. In 2014 I had to "swallow the frog" by accepting the August month would be bringing to me (and until the end of my days) a revolution on my life's dynamics, the greatest gift I had been gifted in my existence: I became the mother of a wonderful and perfect child, despite all the scares preached by consultants and widwives at the last minute on my pregnancy. I lost a lot. Some people stopped talking to me; some others I decided

I have a guaranteed feeling that half a millennium has passed since the last time I came to my blog. Shame on me. It's guaranteed. The 20-month-old-and-half girl's nap here are increasingly shorter, so that every time is precious and so many ideas for so little time that I can claim sort of 'mine'! But never losing direction and continuing this "sweet battle" about the combination of everything that this life's about... here we are! Today I would like to present a super speci

We had a 'wave' of orders for grandmas, nanas & grandpas' birthday cards. In fact, we still have some of them in progress and felt this 'wave' super cute with matching criteria: Grandparents and grandchildren, a combination whose generation in the gap was responsible for these special requests. xxx #PipaCrafts #Grandparents #Birthdaycards #HandmadewithLove #Familyportrait #beautifulpeople #family #personalizedgift

Until becoming the final product, each work is a project - some more scrawled than others - and once revealed at early stages they can cause some panic: "What... is... this?" In fact, they are quick sketches that define structures, proportions, positions, features, and are a great help for the avoidance of unwanted or unpleasant surprises in the final work; these are sketches in pencil or with the first watercolour base already applied and I do have the tendency to send at le