a little tile show from sicily

casa talía is a b&b in modica, sicily,

created and run by milanese architects couple

viviana haddad and marco giunta,

and it's all about slow living.

i love all those tiles!

all pics scanned by me from

elle decor italia july-august 2011.

photos by andrea ferrari.

i also found some more pics

and an interview here on dezeen.

click pics for a closer look.

(side note: yes, i'm doing my daily drawing challenges.

i quite liked it yesterday, but the previous three days

they felt more of a drudgery.

i feel totally untalented, of course,

 but i'm going to get thru this, i know.

i also decided to break out

betty edwards'

drawing on the right side of the brain,

that is really a love-and-hate book for me.

it's smart. very smart.

but if you take a look at the cover, you instantly know that

it has nothing whatsoever to do with art.

you know, to be a great artist, you don't

necessarily have to be able to be a good draftsman...

take cézanne or van gogh.

on the other hand, it has everything to do with

seeing... that kind of seeing that is my goal

in this 30-day challenge, so i feel

that i might benefit from reading it and maybe

doing some of her excercises...

of course i never did those excercises before...

i'm lazy, you know...)