Got his new tat' :D And I can even show it to you :)
It's been made by miss Sunny Buick (with such a name, you just have to be a tattoo Goddess!)
There are still some bruises around (yellow), because it's still healing. I find it really beautiful! (Martin said it was very painful, specially when it came near the nipple! ouch! -will never ever do it there-!)
So now we both have our tattooist! very kewl. When we met mine in a pub yesterday, told him I will keep him for myself and Martin will have to go back to Sunny :P hehe
'cause ol' Candy's blogging and that doesn't happen twice a week, huh!
So here's the first post of a series of bloggies about Bretonie, just because I feel like it. We did not have much time to work on the hobbit house (Martin was not there except on weekends), but we had good days! Even sunny ones!
So, some heard (the Facebook addicts!) that a few days ago I made a promise I instantly regretted! And, tadddddda, this promise was to cook (fainting already) a rum baba. Me cooking a rum baba (I hate cooking). Cooking that takes half a day, unbelievable!
I could not fail, it was to celebrate Martin's 40th birthday! I was under pressure.
But I reckon rum and I make a good team... and the result was absolutely perfect! If any of you wanna try my baba some day, you beg me for a week and I'll do it :P hehe
I naturally added 10 times more rum than recommended and it was great!
I also cooked a cheese cake (great too but too many speculoos :P), 100 crepes (I am not kidding!)and a creole chicken.
I still hate cooking, but kinda enjoy bringing this pleasure to those I love.
Martin looks 10 years younger than I, that's unfair! He will get in 2 days his special present, a big tattoo on the chest (ouch!), an old boat that will be made by a famous tattooist named Sunny :)
So voilà, I've got my new tattoo, and it's healing so well that I think it's ok to show it already! :)
A swallow, guiding the lost sailor to the coast, giving hope. I like that. Besides it's pretty, I wanted colours, I got them. I was stressed enough before, because it's so visible... but that's exactly what I wanted!
So, next one should look like that. A swallow on the front side of the shoulder. I used here a design that I modified with the shape and colours I want.
My Saturday started a couple of hours ago, visiting the doc for Loup. (called the doc at 8.00, on a Saturday, and had my rendez-vous for 8.45! That is so kewl!) But... Loup gets an angina. Damn.
As long as he does not kiss everyone, it won't be infectious. Great. Because in a couple of hours we're expected at my grand ma' to celebrate the Xmas we have had no time to celebrate together, lol. Xmas...
2 hours later we join our French-American cousins to celebrate a birthday with looooots of kids and yummy food. We made 40 crepes for the party! 40! (well I made the preparation and Martin and the kids did the crepes! lol)
2 hours later again: RUGGER! France/Ireland... it's gonna be YUMMY (faint) So exciting!!!
Then tomorrow morning 3 hours of sport Tomorrow afternoon, my dad visits us (which happens, once a year huhu)
Meanwhile I gotta work on my painting and finish the design for the tattoo I get on Tuesday (I will show you later today when I come back for more bloggies)
(no comment about that stoopid title, thank you :P)
We woke up this morning in a very white Paris. BeauDiful, for a couple of hours and then it turned so... muddy! ... Yiiickes! Winter's still around and I actually like it (as long as my babes and other-half are not sick!). When it's cold and snowy outside, it's so cosy and warm inside :)
Tomorrow, I get a girlie lunch, joining 3 supa ones for giggles. That is just perfect. Another proof that it might be icy outside, will be boiling inside :) Before, early sport (I've tried something the other day called "total body conditionning"... the best thing ever, totally exhausting, mixture of cardio training and muscles' training... perfect torture!) ... then work, break with the girls, work. So, much time for meself, Tuesdays are blessed!
My time on the internet is now more or less divided between bloggies, Facebook and Jango. Facebook being more present than the rest, not that I really spend time on it, but it's just there, bringing me the news friends wanna share. I know who gets the flu, who's pissed with work, who's feeling on top of the world. That really suits me. I keep refusing relatives there as "friends", it's just that... it's my own space, I wanna feel free with it, with friends. I know how my relatives are doing, does not need FB for that :) Oh and guess what... the group we've created about metal music is about to reach 100 members! Woaaaa, that rocks! hehe
Talking about music, I've divorced from the Police one. Been listening to them lately and I find most of their music terrible. C'pas grave! I've also re-explored Queen. Sometimes, tastes might change. But no, I was on a very open mode but their music still does not touch me at all. I even automatically switch to something else when I get them on the radio! Now, sticking to oldies, I've been listening a lot to the Doors again. And there are much stuff (not everything) I really love, they were fookin good too :)
And here comes my last painting; I'm slightly frustrated because the colours from the scan are not as contrasted as they're for real (talking of the background mainly), but it's ok! A vampire scene, not too gothic, with lots of colours, which might be a change.
People always tell, and they're right, that there's always something from the painter in the painting. Here the personnal message is obvious: don't offer me flower for Valentine's!
I bet you have never ever received such kitsch postcards! I'm the luckiest one, erm, I trooly think !
Mahie sent me this one and it's definitely a collector!
Photoshop would have spoiled everything you know! Here you get REAL lace (dentelle) ! And the roses, that you can deliciously notice, have been cut from another photo and glued on this one to build the postcard. I tell you, life without Photoshop was something (that I dont regret, really :P) The beads, the pink lips and yellowish tan, the fierce look in the eyes that tell you "allons voir si la rose" haaa perfect!
I'm sure Esox (my bloody opponent at the "kitsch postcards battle") will appreciate this piece of art!
... though he sent himself a collector a few weeks ago! I just had to share it with ewes! Look at this one:
Maybe it was supposed to be a romantic scene... maybe! Did they really sell that? I mean you always to chose a postcard thinking of the person who'll receive it (mind boiling here) What I LOVE here is that behind a strange romantic scene, you can clearly see a maniac man, with a serial killer potential (look at his lips, his face and attitude! Almost a Norman Bates!) I think the woman here did not survive the day!
Making unintentionnally something scary from something romantic... is kitschissim me thinks!
Now gotta strike back! Be ready Esox, be very ready!
I've sung my lullabies. As usual, as soon as I'm out of the bedroom, I hear the devils plotting together... their *thing* at the moment is sleeping together.. hehe... Loup joins Lola in the upper bed. It seems they feel reassured this way, and I don't mind really since they manage to sleep pretty well. That's cute, really :)
Holy Thursday. I've sung my lullabies, and tomorrow it's Martin's turn. Less fun to start the weekend this way (we spend a lot of time singing lullabies!)
We had big strikes in Paris today. Lola's school was closed. Loup's was not. So I could spend a happy girlie morning with the shrimpette. I took her to the hairdresser... we both had our hair cut, but you just can't see it... not cut enough for once I think! lol But it was nice, Lola loved it!
We spent the afternoon getting active at home (so cold outside today! Was a shock!) ... and had fun with scrapcooking... super à la mode ce truc! lol We made chocolate lollipops, got an overdose of them, but the devils enjoyed :P
Holy Thursday, almost over. Tomorrow I get more time for meself. Sports, work. Sounds like perfect!
I'm into the vampire theme at the moment, with my paintings. My libido hasn't specially raised (lol).. (you know what they say with vampire and eroticism, huh) It's just that I like the theme which is visually a very strong one!
I'm still into sketches... the hard part will be the choice of colours actually. Gotta think twice before starting!
So my back is still burning from the other day (well really, getting one's back tattooed turns to be so uncomfortable in the next days, I won't do it again soon!)
What did I do? I got new ink on my three old tattoos.
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Alex, the tattoo guy, was tempted to redesign them, making like much bigger dragons. Which now I think would have been a GREAT idea! That would be for another time.
We had time to talk a lot about his work, that was very interesting! I learnt how hard the work is, physically (the eyes, the back, the joins in the arms), psychologically too (you kinda absorb the stress of the people when you "work" on them).. I also learnt there was no school to become a tattooer, you *simply* learn by yourself, usually receive many wrong advice from other professionals who want to protect their own *space*, etc.
Nevertheless, that would be a work I would kinda love to do I think. Am I too old to learn that? I don't know.
In 2 weeks, I have another rendez-vous for a new tattoo! (as it was less expensive than I thought, I can afford another one!) Alexandre suggested (after he saw my gallery online) that I make my own design for it... but I can do it for everyone but me I think. I want something different than what I can create.
This time (I will show you the design when I find it online) it will be a flying little bird, with colours, on the front of the shoulder. It's a big step for me, getting a tattoo that is much more visible!
I've tried the bird design with a transfer, and it looked really beautiful, like a jewel on the skin.
So yesterday I went for shopping, just to find one or two skirts that fit better.
Well size do not mean much, a bit yes... but (talking girlie, sowwy guys), I wear stuff French size 38 or 40, and it's perfect for me...
But yesterday I came back with 2 skirts....
... in size 36! Ok they are pretty hard to put on when it comes to the hips, but once it's on, it's just perfect.
Size 36, lol, when you were used to muuuuuuuch more, it's like... you just can't believe you manage to put one leg in that! lol
It's a shock, some kind of good one.
The thing is... I don't lose weight anymore, since weeks, and not even try to! I'm not thin at all! 1m58 for what... 56, 57kg, it's not as if I was going to die, AT ALL!
I think sport only is making this little difference, reshaping ol' candy here and there.
It took me 2 hours to write 2 little bloggies! I've got rusty, lazy or whatever, but woooo I had to kick my bum hard to do it. (but it felt good enough once it was done, just like sport :P)
Loup is finally recovering, it was about time. Martin does not feel on top of the world yet, Lola is doing well now, and I still haven't caught anything :D
We've just bought a digit cam, we started to miss the old (crashed) one. That's kewl.
Next week will be pretty busy with work on my side, some boring rendez-vous (dentists, etc), another for my tattoos (not so exciting because it won't be for a new tatoo, just to re-fresh the old ones)... which also means no sport for a couple of days (and I don't know how the addicted one that I am will survive to that :D)
Wanna some music now? Not sure you want my music though! :P
1.James Hetfield (Metallica) Because a voice, a presence and music that you love are enough to create sex appeal. On stage he is, hahem, really not bad.
2.Sean Bean as Boromir in the LOTR, his presence, his eyes and just about everything, the dramatic bits of his character, his weaknesses that appear behind a strong one.
3.Ewan McGregor even though I hate when he poses on pictures, I like him a lot. Could have a beer with him in a good Scottish pub
4. Daniel Craig as James bond, but also on this pic. I think I like the cold, rough look, the steel eyes that hide everything.
5. Mr Blonde in Reservoir Dogs But it could have been about any character, here the look and style and words and atmosphere make everything. Testosterones powa!
6.David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) He was/is so more sexy than Roger Waters, huhu... I love his old photos, he looked inspired, sweet... and so very connected to a music that I love.
7. Clint Eastwood in spaghetti westerns Again he gets about all what I enjoy here. The features, the style, the rough touches
I think I like physics that are cold enough, rough. Demanding efforts to discover the inner bits ;-) The expressive latino, though very charming, is certainly not my type at all. (but I already think of dozens of exceptions! lol)
Loup gets an otitis (both ears), with pretty much fever since a couple of days, Martin has caught a bloody angina, And I took Lola from school earlier because she started to show signs of fookin gastro.
Yeeehaaaaaa!!!
But so far I haven't caught anything, which is practical when you're the official nurse around!
I will update my bloggie in the next days. I have lots to blog about and do miss blogging! But ok, I have some priorities that will keep me awake part of the night I fear. Booo ooooooo!
In a few words, I've had a wunnerful time today, at my sister's ! She celebrated her 33th birthday and our wedding anniversary. With our closest relatives and friends. It was, oh, so warm and full of Love!
(here, my grand-mother, sister, niece, nephew, Lola & I, looking at our wedding photo album)
We've been spoiled too! Got a *hot* night in a most charming hotel (of our choice) whenever we want! Yeeehaaaaaa Which also makes me think of Martin's gift, hehe... he offered me a "Flashdance fitness body"... (I'm starting a new fashion trend! Oops, Madonna did it already? baaa, now it's me, all different!) :P That made me laugh so much, it was great!
And the party at Gwenola's, just great, brilliant! Had such a good Sunday.
We're so different my sister and I, fought so much when we were younger... get on so well now (happy sigh)
We've just finished filling the papers for the insurance... dunno how long it will take to get some money back!
I specially miss my digit cam, I used it all the time!
Like right now I wanted to show the trooooooly fantastic tshirts I found in Hamburg. Ben non, pas possible!
Around MarktStrasse there, there are lots of supa hype lil shops. A mixture between glamour (found shops with corsets and beauDifull betty boop dresses), punk and metal (on these glamorous dresses, there were skulls, bleeding heart -yeah I know, but that rocks for me :P). The old style tattoos are now used as designed on tshirts and objects. Very nice!
Also lots of perfect skirts for men, very well cut. And metal clothes for kids, very funny ones (KISS tshirts for 12 months old ones, etc)
Unfortunately, not many are online, except Hotter than Hell and Holy Moly (their site is still under construction, but they were so nice, I had to mention them!), I haven't found much ! But at least you'll get an idea ;-)
So I've taken my decision, along with the tattoo guy. (a new tatoo was my supa diet's award, and I've reached the point where I really deserve this award! :P)
I won't get my back inked the way I thought, we both agreed what I wanted on the paper was not precisely the best... it wouldn't look that good.
Besides I've recently fallen in love with old style tattoos, the one with greenish and reddish colours, flowers, hearts, anchors. Later I'll get a small one *in front* of the shoulder I think.
So I will first get my 3 old tattoos re-designed a bit, inked again, making them all fresh! And that is really kewl! Should take hours though, damn...
Then when I sell a couple of paintings, I'll think of the other tattoo :P (will show you what I want as soon as I find a good photo)
PS: look at this one, no I don't want it, hehe, but found it pretty impressive! The real Spiderman! :P
And final pics, from our training session around the Alster! We ran every other day. I was reluctant, but when I realized I could follow Martin (and his huge legs) for more than one hour, I was very proud! We ran along the Elbe, in the forest, on large streets where the billionaires get some kind of really kewl houses, etc.
On this day, the temp reached -10°C, but when you run it's ok, of course. When you stop, then you die. lol The ducks and even people were walking on the ice, something I never see in Paris!
Besides going to Spielplatz and Spielstadt, there was one other activity the devils LOVED doing during the holidays.
Cooking! They could cook all day!
In the morning already they spent 15 minutes pressing oranges, then they wanted to cook their meal, then biscuits, etc etc. Loup, specially, LOVES cooking. He suddenly turns patient, careful, interested, he really wants to "work" properly!
Even if I just broke a tooth (oh nooooo! fook!) while biting one of their (delicious) German Xmas biscuits, I must say they're very good at it! (proudish mama smile)
(what a Pirate look from Loup just above! lol! love it!)
Oh and to finish with the cooking topic, here's a shot (thank Gawd Martin's camera was safe in the car) of one of our dinners, chinese fondue here... so good that you could easily sell your body and soul for it!
Found my keys yesterday. I'll keep them, not in memory of our little car, but to remember how life's precious (and roads dangerous)!
When the Police was there, they made sure that none of our stuff (gone in the accident) was on the highway (dangerous for the other cars).
When they came back, the only thing they had found was this piece of computer, and the only thing I thought about then was that computers do not only die from virus! lol, stoopid.
I think though the sights of our coats (the only thing *we* did find while on the way to call for help)was more impressive. Thick coats, leather jackets, just cut into small pieces! Brrrr....
Anyway, that already belongs to the past. Life's a bit more complicate without a car, but then, we're in the middle of Paris, who needs a car here!
The only thing that bothers me right now concerns Lola who did not seem to be affected at all by the accident till we came back to Paris.
Since 2 days she's got terrible nightmares, shaking, crying a lot. She repeats while sleeping that she's scared. (sigh) I'm sure it's linked to the accident, I just can feel it.
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