Choose someone you want to wake up next to and snuggle with, someone who makes you laugh, who sees you at your worst and still is your bff. Choose someone who respects you, but doesn’t take you TOO seriously. 😜 That goes for soulmates AND dogs, right? 🐶 . Meet Maggie: my studio pup, exercise buddy (you can imagine how much exercise I actually do just by that picture alone) and cuddly fluffy potato. She’s the one guarding that painting. 🐶 . Fun fact: She was actually supposed to be our “guard dog,” can you imagine? 🙃 . P.S.: That lady in blue is looking for a forever home. DM me if you want to welcome her into yours (the painting, not the dog 😜) 
We get so worried about reaching our goals, getting to the end line, achieving, that we sometimes forget to enjoy the beauty of the journey.🙏 . Don’t get me wrong, I love achieving just as much as anyone else, but sometimes I have to remind myself that the beauty is in the doing, in creating, in dreaming things up. That’s where we spend most of our time in and that’s where the magic is. 💛 . I love seeing a finished painting, love seeing those paintings in a collection, so much so that I get impatient and want to have it all done yesterday. I tend to rush. I have to stop myself and take it all in sometimes. The beauty I seek is here, now. Not when it’s all finished and done. And isn’t this all we really have? Now? . How about you? Do you remember to savor the moment or do you tend to rush to the end goal? 🧐 Drop me a heart emoji if you want to savor the moment and enjoy the journey a bit more 💛 
SALE ALERT! Eek! You’re not going to want to miss this - join me for a little Black Friday fun: 30% off tea towels and prints 💛 . If you’ve been eyeing any of my pieces for a while, this is your time - prints and tea towels included 😬 . What are you waiting for? Click through the pictures or the link in the bio to shop 🤓 
We make what we need the most. We write the books we need to read, we tell the stories we need to hear. Me? I make the paintings I need to see. I paint the stories I can’t convey with words. . Nice to meet you. I’m Flavia and I paint portraits and flowers… mostly 🙃 . Why portraits? Because there’s magic when you see yourself through someone else’s eyes. And sometimes we all need a little perspective. I know I did. . I remember being in an art class when I was about 11, doing an assignment when I saw a picture one of my classmates had drawn of me. When I saw his drawing I couldn’t believe it was me, because I looked far more beautiful than I had ever believed myself to be. The teacher and the other classmates had to reassure me that it actually looked exactly like me. I was mesmerized. For the first time in my life, I felt seen, truly seen. , It was such a pivotal moment for me that I would later on pursue a career trying to recreate that feeling for others 💛 . And seeing the impact a painting could have not only for the person who got the painting, but the effect it would have in their environment just gave my pursuit more purpose. . I now spend most of my days painting pretty flowers and some truly inspiring people, helping them bring a little bit of nature and themselves to their own space 💐 . How about you? What do you like to surround yourself with? How does your environment affect you? 🤔 
GIVEAWAY time! 🎁 I'm giving away a set of 3 lovely watercolor tea towels over on Facebook. Click the link in the bio to enter. Winner will be announced on Friday November 20 via email. What are you waiting for? 😉 
True, I’ve been in the studio a lot lately, but it’s been a while since I just got to play around with my craft, and BOY does it feel good. Sometimes we just need to do more hobby for hobby’s sake, and it’s easy to forget something we used to do for fun used to be just that: 100% fun, 100% of the time. 💛 . What is the one thing you do just for fun? 🤓 . P.S.: Check out my stories for more behind the scenes pics of my studio 😉