Relax!

Relax by the pool/Relax a bordo piscina

I missed one entry yesterday, breaking right away my promise to be a good blogger and write everyday.
But it was for a good reason: We finally went on a little vacation!

We had to bring along our laptops because of work deadlines, but we are finally taking time to relax.

These last two years have been quite busy and we didn’t take any break.
We moved to a new town and new flat, we got married, founded Reingard Design…

We are now based at my parents’ house near the sea, and we are enjoying the little garden and the pool, eating pizza and icecream and drinking cold beer.

The dogs are not so happy as we are, Sara is using all her dramatic abilities to perform her best performance as “The Sad Dog”. She is an urban dog, she misses terribly her routine, and she hates nature – really.

Paco is not so sophisticated, and he is adapting better to the new place.

They spend most of the time inside the house, while we are enjoying the outside a lot, going around in our bathsuits, swimming in the pool (or, better, floating in it and overusing the hydromassage option) or sleeping on the sunbeds.

I’m avoiding suntan like a vampire, covering myself with sunscreen, wearing my huge sunglasses and a stray hat. I feel like a old fadshioned lady!

I decided to bring with me my knitting projects, my sketchbook, journal, drawing paper, colored pencils, colored chalks, fixative. Ideas for inspiration are in the laptop.

I brough my camera too, but forgot the cable to connect it to the computer to download the pictures. I can’t show you the pics I took today… But Alessandro is going home to check how Gertrude the turtle is doing without us in a couple of days, so I will get the cable then.
I hope I will be able to post pictures soon!

I also took with me “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” by Betty Edwards and “The Drawing Book” by Sarah Simblet, two wonderful books about drawing, and “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote.

We are enjoying a lot of different ways to relax here: water-therapy, sleep-teraphy, pet-therapy, pizza-therapy… We really needed it!

I have a lot of ideas I would like to develop, too many, and I would like to use this time to clarify my mind on them.

I also would like to work on the current web projects, because Semptember is a lot likely to be full of deadlines and I don’t want to be overwhelmed by them!

Tonight some more pizza and icecream for us…