From Bretonie with love

just a quickie...

..from a very sunny Bretagne! I'm spending a couple of days around here, breathing fresh air, drinking... not sparkling water.

The devils are having the time opf their life. That is so good!

Tomorrow my sister will join us and the family, that will be kewl. A funny Halloween to come.

I gotta work too, might do it if it ever rains.

My Austrian customer (who bought "envie de Sue Shee") received it and was so happy. His warm feed back really made my day. Was very tempted with my political collages. Very motivating. :)

Ha well, I hope you're all doing well!
Cheeers!

Just can't translate this DEVILISH one!

Ok, this has to be in French, because it's Loup speaking and that's precisely the way he speaks that is fun!

Loup, when he plays with cards, doesn't talk of the jester ("joker"), not even of le fou du roi...

... but le fou du RAT !!!



Well, hehe... given the fact I'm not into King's stuff, Not into President's stuff, not into anything close to politics stuff... I'll let Loup using these words. Besides, that makes cards' games really fun!

Beauty & the Beast

is my new painting. There are themes that comes back regularly now in my paintings... it's not that I'm used to these themes, just can't get enough of them! Religion, Power, Freedom, Liberty, Sensuality, Fantasy.


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Pussy powa !

Honestly, I've been listening again and again to the last Rammstein album... and it is soooooo good! ...Their pussy title included! I LOVE it (now). Really do.

So the fantastic album cover corresponds to what's inside.



Some absoBLOODYlutely good stuff, with titles like Rammlied, Waidmanns heil, Mehr or Pussy that I do LOVE.

Can't wait for their concert!

Loup's birthday party (second round :P)

Soooo... Loup will celebrate his 4rth birthday on Thursday, but already had *his* party (with lil friends) on Saturday.

I had forgotten that kids between 3 and 4 were not really autonomous. It was, for all of them (they were 7), their first party. They were SO cute! Each of them was still surrounded with how can I say... their own world. Imagination. So many sparkles in their eyes when they saw the candles on the cake! So much excitement when it was the time to open the gifts!

Loup was so happy! He had invited 3 girlfriends and 3 boyfriends. He was so excited to show his guns and swords! ... yet he still insisted I had to keep an eye over the cake so they do not eat all of it!

When I started to put children's songs on, oh that was so sweet. Every time there was one telling he/she knew the song. Started to sing in their own way, with their own words. Awww... my heart couldn't stop melting! hehe (sticky stuff!)


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Loup's Birthday party & very busy Candy!

I'm running, but all the time.
I think that's the way I *work*. Went to sport in the early morning, went back there in the early evening, sent 2 paintings (had to pack them carefully before), managed to see friends on lunchtime, worked before, worked after, took Lola to her dance courses after school, had a glass of something -and a lil fight- with my mom... and finally here I am... blogging!

It feels good.

I've got an opportunity for children's illustration earlier this week. A very interesting one. But declined it. Am I right, am I wrong, I don't know. I am free. Nothing good would have come out of it, I just know it.

I'm working on t-shirts' design. Very exciting. I need more time.

Do you have magazines with meat pictures? I really need those for my next project.
If you find a photo of a big bloody piece of meat, send it to me pleaaaaase!

I think I'm going to make another post for Loup's party. LOL

Farewell, la Comtesse

She was the oldest of my girlfriends at sport. 83 years old.

She was an actress when younger, played in lots of theatres in Paris.
She was fond of her daughter and grand-daughter who both worked for TV (they're *voices* for cartoons).

She was so active, so talkative, very feminist. She followed some training courses with the softest Terminators, she followed as she could. That was really cute. She was teasing the trainers all the time, and they played her game, they loved her.

Each time she saw me, she always had these same words: "B., do you ever get tired? Always see you running, lifting weights and sweating! Keep the rythm, girl!"

La Comtesse (as we all called her) feared one day she wouldn't be able to train anymore, and said this would kill her.
She died before it happened.

And the memory remains :)

My shrimpette, queen of the day

Lola celebrated her 7th birthday on Friday!!!
She's such a beautiful lil woman, sensitive, curious, sweet and funny!



She and I get on very well, we laugh a lot (getting very girlie together and just having fun),and she talks a lot to me, never keeps anything for herself. I'm glad she feels that free with me and hope it will go on this way!
Yesterday night she was sick (poor baby, she just had too many cakes I fear), and had much pain in the stomach, she threw up a few times and then was only asking for my arms. Yesterday night she was like that beautiful baby born 7 years ago, vulnerable, counting on her mama.



With her papa, she's exploring the world. Martin's so patient, so dedcated to our babes. He will take all the time to explain them anything, to play with them, to teach them whatever they ask (might be cooking, making a sword, whatever).
She specially luuuves doing stuff, she alone and Martin. Like riding their bikes in Paris. She loves these lil moments when she has her papa for herself!

With Loup, haaa she's a perfect sister. She'll defend him against anything and anybody (sometimes against us! lol and Loup does the same!). They play a lot together. They're a good team, despite their very different personalities. And when Loup can't sleep at night, she'll quietly join him to reassure the lil devil. So sweet!

Lola had a big bday party on Saturday! It's a lot of preparation and organisation, but the result is so good! All these happy kids, playing, dancing (parle à ma main & ça m'énerve being their main request! hehe), laughing and screaming! I actually LOVE it (once or twice a year :P)


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Lola's been spoiled of course... and among all the treasures she got, she's been offered a REAL camera by her grand-parents (she LOVES making photos!). She was so surprised and happy. She did not expect it!

And she also got her first real thick book Cendorine et les dragons. I had no idea kids of 6, 7 years-old could read real books! When one of lola's friend told me she had finished this wonderful book of 250 pages... I was really surprised! woaaa! ... thought Lola could try... and she loves it! :)

La grande bouffe

is the title of my new work. Something I wanted to do since ages! The different topics.. pretty attractive ones!


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Oh it's a redhead again! lol (not me , I eat without a fork & fight with my fists! ;-)
I actually only paint red or black hair, both fitting to different topics. It's a visual choice! :D

Salut m'sieur youtube

I have a request. and a confession.

Confession: I sure love you, I spend time with you everyday!

Request: if you could create something better just than "rating videos", that would help and save a looooot of time!... like "high quality vid" vs "crap vid". Because when it comes to music for instance (huhu) there are so many bad vids. It's like pollution!

Haaa now that was fun!

Just got that from my American friend (and cousin!) Michelle... That was pretty funny, hope you enjoy :D

Alleluia? Nope!

Lola and Loup were watching one of their supa heros earlier, Mr Bean, and at some point, he was singing at church a loud Alleluia.... Lola started to sing some alleNNnnnnuia...hehe... and then it was Loup's turn: he started to sing a very loud:

"Aaaaallez Lolaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"

... (well if you check the vid, at minute 5.20, it REALLY sounds like that!)

What a wonderful interpretation! haha! I'm a proud mama, always! :)

Paris by night, facebook and absynthe

Yesterday night I spent some great hours in a pub at La Bastille.

Martin and I decided it was not a problem for either of us if we had sometimes plans on our own. Yesterday I had such a plan, in a week Martin has such a plan. lol

Not that we don't like to spend our time together! lol! Just that sometimes, we have different plans. Yesterday his plan was to sit down and relax after some intense sport session. And I was invited to celebrate one of my friends' birthday in the district of La Bastille.

This *friend*, I had never met him before... lol yeah the "internet thingie".
We've developped some good friendship on (vade retro satanas) Facebook. We share common musical tastes and we both are active in some metal group on FB.

When he invited me to celebrate his birthday, I did not hesitate a second, it seemed natural. He's a friend!

So there I went, joined Christophe and his metal buddies. Haha! That was brilliant! We had the best beer, tequila and absynthe.
We talked about music, hope, politics. So great!

I instantly felt like part of the gang.

The internet is just brilliant. Such a *human* technology!

A first time, a wonderful one

Now there's a lil man who knows how to talk to his mama!

We were sharing a cuddle in front of some cartoon the other day... and Loup started to whisper in my ear:

Maman, je t'aime je t'aime je t'aime, je t'aime plus haut que le ciel!

awww.. he's never used these words before!
so sweet

I'm such a happy mama, such a lucky one!!!

Mes petits plaisirs -super- honteux

... ok, this will be between you and I! Don't repeat it to anyone around!

Swear and spit!

:P

When the moon is full, some devilish creature takes control over my body and makes me enjoy...

this:



and that:



ok, now I feel like having confessed my sins to the priest! I'm forgiven, I can have some more!

PS: you will find THE video of the year in the comments... huhu... (Nim' is always well inspired :P)

When days are too short

(which is always the case), it is simply hard to sit down to update my bloggie.

Last week has been very full...

Martin has been sick; after 10 days he decided to go to the doc and antibiotics made him feel better almost instantly.

The devils and I got some jab at the doctor, for free... yeah I could get suspicious about that if I did not know him very well :P

The real bad piece of news of the week was when the car was taken off by the pound (fourrière?) and we had to pay 240 euros to get it back. Works were to be done in the street where we parked, and we did not see any sign about it. (sigh!!!)

Got more news about my next herman books to be published, finished my new collage, worked on my new online shop. I was to start with other projects (shops online, merchandising stuff), but at the moment I'm not into marketing stuff... lol

I'm the caricature of the one moved by inspiration night and day who just cannot stop working, getting piles of work done all around, not taking any time to try to sell it. Stupid? I don't know. When the inspiration just slows down, I will sell. :P

When inspiration's here, it's way too precious. You don't think twice, you just run run, never letting it go.

Talking of running, I went with my sport terminators (some of them are turning into friends now) to some kind of special training session on Sunday. I stopped after 3 intense hours, couldn't have done more, I really used all the energy I could, I think.
I would have never thought physical efforts could bring me so much.

Now well, I gotta reckon I'm a bit sick, caught the bad cold hiding in the corner. But mamas can't get sick really. no.
So I'm fine, and actually I can't wait to click on the publish button here on Blogger to go on with my new project, it's boiling in me.

I'm also preparing the birthdays of the devils. And god knows how not good I am at that. On 2 Saturdays in our miniflat, it will be supa stormy... can't wait! ;-) But the devils will LOVE it :)

Ok, the publish button is too tempting!
See ya here, there, on FB, wherever! :)

---> click!

Action Loup!!!

Loup spends way too much time on the computer, Loup swears like no one else would dare, Loup is very moody, but Loup is not a teen yet. Gotta wait 10 years before enjoying that! lol

Loup finished his week at home, with fever. Another painful otitis (yawn)
My poor babe!

Dunno if tomorrow I'll send him back to school... he insists that he is still VERY ill! lol

I took these pics earlier, he does not seem to feel so bad, does he? ;-)

Action mama ?

Well, at least I'm good at giving cuddles! :P

I've just done so much lately that I start to feel I need to sleep more than 6 hours sometimes.

I'm doing great, Life is spoiling me! I'm getting ambitious, I feel passion for life -and ice creams- burning in me, and that is so precious! I want to make a few *life dreams* come true... dunno how but I'll find a way :-)

Now, I gotta say my body cannot follow my rhythm.. lol... despite the hard training!

Gijs came for dinner yesterday! I cooked, had great talks about ermmm firearms, strikes and the beauDy of friendship... but when Loup called me for a cuddle... I fell asleep with him! lol. Woke up in the early morning to realize I had missed the end of the party! lol OMG, I felt bad!
hehe

anyway, there's no way I can stop my rhythm, but I include now a nap sometimes when I need it! :)

Action Lola

still 25°C and sunny over Paris!

I take the kids out as much as possible, with all the stress from the first days at school, they just *need* to relax and let it go :)

Lola's doing well, she's actually really adorable, helpful, creative & sweet. She makes me really proud!

Action Martin

Martin wanted to try some martial art... I wondered... he's 2 meter tall and I see Bruce Lee like being half of that! lol

But anyway, Martin's found something............

Krav maga!



It's said to be one of the best self-defense technic.
When I discovered his new hobby, I couldn't believe my eyes! That is VIOLENT! lol
He'll need protection about everywhere, boxing gloves, etc.
I found that funny that Martin, so peaceful, started with krav maga.



I think we all have some boiling part in us, and Martin has found a (clever) way to express it. It's *defense* only and certainly lots of fun learning it.

So yeah, why not huhu!

Martin's having much fun with it, and he even trains a bit with me, or at least show me a few things he learns ... (don't point a gun on me, I will know what to do! LOL!)

Ok, to give you an idea, here's a vid'



(I've really chosen the softest video I could find, to not scare you!)

Sweat

Sport is almost my hobby #1 now.
The adrenaline, the endorphins, the pleasure to push limits, the people with who I work... fantastic.

I still work pretty much on machines, with weights etc... but the real fun parts are the training sessions with my now well-known Terminators.
The hardest one, the one who'll have no mercy and who'll still manage to make me laugh while making me suffering like hell is... a woman. Blond!
She has an energy and a physical resistance I cannot understand. But I plan to discover her lil secrets ;-)

And then there are these 2 other guys. One black one, supa nice, just asking that we keep smiling when we die working with him. And the third, Cedric, same energy and physical resistance as my Blond one.

With them I do body pump & body attack. Body attack 3 times a week. It's a LOT. lol
On Thursday evening, I went with just a few others to my Blond's course. Among the pupils, there was Cedric, who wanted to try it (the Blond is SO good at it!).
We were what, 6, 7, training, my 2 *masters* included.

That was supa good. Supa exciting, supa motivating.

Ok, you've no idea what I'm talking about (body attack -no, it's not a sect-), so I gotta add a video.



It's just advertisement, you gotta add much better music, harder movements, great atmoshpere (10 people maximum) and a lot of fun!

My fav is still the body pump courses... but it's hard to find the time for everything!



and I would luuuve to do more body combat which is so much fun!



The hardest one though, among my 3 favourite ones, is body attack. Really hard!

...yummmmmy.... :)

New neighbour in the city!

well, more than a neighbour, it's a friend who's arrived a week ago to start with a Parisian life. He's just switched from Finland to Paris.
You wouldn't believe it, but he lives in such a fine district and his workplace is at 10 minutes from his home. Just THE dream for all of us :)

Gijs came earlier and confirmed how much men are good at cooking! He brought the most delicious kind of cheesecake, with yummmmy strawberries! I think I've died from pleasure for a few minutes :)

Dying sometimes does feel fantastic! :)

Every invicible warrior has a lil hidden weakness

... and the one of Loup at the moment is his *stress about school*.

I talk of stress, not sadness or fear, but real stress.
He seems to be lost in space and time.

He has started asking me about a hundred times everyday (from when he wakes up to the moment he goes to bed) if "tomorrow he will go to school".

It's crazy. He fears the nights... Just before going to bed, he asks me again "when I sleep then I go to school? then I must eat at school?", he fears the days: "mom, do I go back to school after I eat?"
He's pretty stressed: "Mom, you will tell my teacher I won't eat at school, you will tell her, yes mom?"
and 2 minutes later he aks the same questions :(

My poor babe!
But when I go to take him at school at the end of the day, he is happy, excited to tell me how it went etc.
It's just that, one hour later, his stress is back.

It will be fine at the end, but I hate, really hate that my baby gets so much stress... because at the end I cannot just make his stress disappear! He's the only one who can do it... and that's tough for a lil one...

Fancy an apple pie?

New painting's done, another one linked to hmmmm... women, religion, god, Freedom.
I like it (lol yeah I do!)

And I start to think of such a dead angel (skull+angels wings) for a next tat'! That would mean a lot to me.. and I love the visual... (taking mental notes ;-)


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Next work (looking at a huge wooden board standing against the wall)... will be made of collage & painting. I have the topic in mind since weeks, I know about all what I want to put in it, just don't know how to organise everything! It's the most difficult part!

The funny thing is... I've been exploring many different fields with my work and it seems I focus more and more on topics that are the mirror of my inner self. I take less distance with my subjects. If I could paint with my own blood, that wouldn't be so different from what you get.
Very strange feeling, pleasant, painful sometimes. That's part of the game.

Now I need to sell, I always forget that detail! lol

Summer in the city

I've never had so many picnics than in the past weeks.
And today was such a gorgeous day again... if you see 4 ones like dressed for the beach every time there's sun over Paris, then, it's us!

Well, that won't last, so we really make the best of it!

It's been a good week, despite Lola's high fever on Friday night. I just thought it couldn't be possible, after 2 days at school, that was way to early to catch anything!

But the fever is gone.

And Gijs has arrived!
Our gooood friend Gijs has just left Finland to come to work in Paris! Martin & the devils went to take him at the airport earlier today. It's gonna be so kewl to have him around here (happy sigh).

I've had news from my publishing house on Friday, they will publish the 2 other books (which are done already since months) beginning of next year. That's a nice piece of news.

Even nicer, Loup can almost run now! In a weird way, right, but he can make it. It feels so good to see him improving every day!

That's all, folks :)

hope you have a good one!

New year, pink powa, etc

New year (for parents and kids) should start with the school year. Let's forget the old dusty rotten calendar which makes depressive 1st of January the first day of the year!

hehe...

Ha well

been a tough first day, for me!
I stressed for Loup, his leg, his full days at school (he's still only 3 years old after all... at school from 8.30 to 4.30 is so long!).
For Lola, it's a different stress... I always worry I do not take care enough of her, because Loup is so demanding since weeks, ermm, since ever! :P

It's been really fine for Lola! In her class, they are 24 pupils.... 17 girls and 7 boys, including her lil "amoureux"! lol
Poor boys!
She came back home with homework (on the first day, I'll never get used to that!) and lots of talks about her girlfriends and teacher, etc.
:)

For Loup, god he broke my heart a bit. I asked him if he wanted to stay at school for lunch and he said no, not this time (I'll let him at school on lunchtime 2 days/week). When I came to take him, he had tears in the eyes, I could feel it had been such a heavy first morning. Sitting on a bench, listening to the teacher, not being allowed to play really. Not like his first year.
My poor baby.
It was very VERY hard to take him back to school after lunch...

He'll get used to it, and so will I.

I really need a few days to get used to a quiet space around me. It's strange. I'm happy, I've already worked a lot today. At the same time, I would love to make my babes' first years without this kind of stress, you know?

ha well. That's life and they will soon love it :)

I keep on bubbling, on and on

3 days before school starts again (woooohoooooooooooo!!!)

Well, I'm not sure yet it will be ok for Loup and his leg. after nearly 2 weeks without his cast, he put his foot on the floor and walks as much as he can. He's so courageous :)

The weather here in Paris is fantastic, we expect 30°C tomorrow again. Picnics, swimming pool (whenever we can) & ice creams, life can be sweet around here :)

I've finished another collage, but while I was doing it I had the next one already done in my mind, very disturbing! lol

And I'm now working on a painting. I've never been so inspired, it's crazy! If I had enough time and space I would work night and day!

By the way, Martin and I have been working since weeks on a new gallery. Something more practical than just an art blog. Well lol ok, more like a shop. I need to sell! :)
The website is pretty complicate to organise but at the end the result should be what I want.

Apart from kids and work, sport keeps making me busy, as usual. I've been doing a lot of it again lately. It just feels so good (when you really start you get addicted!). I'm getting used to do it in the evenings, it just requires a lot of motivation to go sweating when it's time for a drink ;-)

Well, I still have my taxes to pay and dozens of bills to deal with, but apart from that, life is ok right now :)

Summer in Paris

... loving it!

Except for my work! (the glue does not dry anymore! lol! I don't understand why.. and watercolour dries too quickly! pfff! )

Paris is empty, or was (I don't know maybe everyone is back now!)

Paris is hot (between 25 and 35°C since 10 days now)

Paris is intimate (you don't meet much people you know, they're all away, so when you do, you take your time :)

Paris has gotten rid of his stressed car drivers!

Oh I love it!

And the kids love it too! Despite Loup's condition, we have a picnic everyday and have fun as much as we can outside.

Talking of Loup, he's still very hesitating with his leg. Very cautious. So far, I gotta admit he does not walk. He goes back to school in 10 days so, well, I don't know. We'll see.

Yet, today, when he went to have fun in the Parc André Citroen, he was really motivated! He made a few steps, could stand up too. He was proud! Well, I think he might walk again quite soon, walk properly in a couple of months maybe.

But that's ok, he's going to make it :)
Oh, and with such a helpful sister as Lola, no doubts miracles will happen :)

(proud-ish smile here)

A real pirate!

You know... I would have never believed lil ones could have such a big imagination.
Loup is getting like an expert in the imagination world.

For him, as soon as he starts involving himself in a game, or whatever, then it happens.
I've always wondered how it worked with the cards, you know, Pokemon type... How kids could just use their cards to imagine they would transform in something etc.
Then I saw Loup, just grabbing a card, putting his hand on it, making a big noise then being the creature on the card! LOL
very impressive!

Loup is so much into it. And I am the last one who will break his imagination, I feed it, enjoy it so much that I'm caught by it. I become the real tinker bell that my lil pirate wanna kill! lol

Even gold has to be real, you see... well almost:

(Loup talking)

Mom I want real gold coins!

oh??

yes mom, and not those like the one Lola made, in paper, I want real ones... in PLASTIC!!!

A treat for the eyes

Pete is from the land where you eat rice pudding and such things like Marmite ... , but he has qualities too!

;-)

Pete is an artist, a real one, exposing his soul through his work, yes, that's what I feel. But talking about his work would be spoiling it already.

I could marry twice a year, every year (lol), just to get Pete's photos. And great champ' too! :P
That was my first thought when I watched them. But *that* is a tiny part of his whole work...

Just check by yourself right here !

Another day, another drug

When I'm not trying to save the world (which I don't do on a regular basis lol), I just let it go and openly enjoy my little drugs

At the moment I'm crazy for those !



They're not as hard as the original ones, the taste is perfect and they make pretty nice bubbles.

I love making bubbles (specially when I'm driving, very classy huh), and try to motivate everyone around to beat me at it! But nobody want (or dare I would say! huhu). The kids only want to put their fingers in my bubbles, and Martin says it's a suicide for someone with a moustache. Pfffff (shrugging!), one gotta take risks in one's life!

So, here's a modest bubble, who wanna try to beat it? (waiting, taping foot :P)



And bellow is my master (master!), one day, I'll beat him!

Nowhere to be found

just looking for a high quality video of Planet Caravan, by Black Sabbath or Panthera... just can't get one!

Nonono you just can't find everything on the internet :P

¤%&%#@#$$¤¤ !!!

I was with the kids in the street.
There was this guy there, looking lost. Asked him if I could help.

Tells me he's homeless, nobody helps him, makes a few racist remarks to explain his unfair situation (=black people get more help than he does), and that he's lost in Paris and tries to find some addresses he has on a paper.

Ok, let's see, I check, explains him.
Then he asks me how he can do to go to La Bastille. I explain and tell him I can give him a metro ticket.

He said he has one already.
So I tell him I can't do more then. He begs me to help him to get some lunch. And I, bonne poire faut croire, start to check if I have some coin in the pocket. 2 euros only. Damn (that's much for me, isn't it for you?)
I give him.

Know what he answered??

Is it what you call generosity?

then went on

... 10 euros sounds more like the minimum for generosity!



Oh God, generosity, my ass!

Answered him I couldn't believe it, that I had just lost precious time with him and that if 2 euros was not "generous" enough, I wanted them back now!



The guy left! he just left. Just like that.

Honestly, that kills me! Yeah I know he's in the street, life's bad for him, etc.
Some believe when people have enough money to live then they have to share it. That people with "money" are lucky, in the way, luck brings that money.

Hey, I am not mother Theresa, I am not born generous, I help if I want and I work for what I have. So please, all who beg for my coins, as much the government as this homeless one, respect that.

Fuck.


PS: wait the government doesn't beg for my coins, the government doesn't ask. It takes!
Grmmppphhh

Inspiration

I've never been so busy with the devils than in the past weeks.
I've never felt so tired, but never felt so inspired for my work.

I feel like a writer, I get ideas when sleeping, and wakes up to take notes. LOL
Unusual. Exciting!

It's like... the more you push your own limits, the more you get, really. Fascinating process. But exhausting too!

Normal life is really exceptionnal

...something you discover when suddenly life's harder for such or such reason.
Well, I know my luck, we've just experienced a "broken leg", which is nothing in comparison to many other situations.

But that was enough to *feel* how normal life is precious.

We've spent hours in hospital this morning (Gawd, they need more workers in Necker hospital, too much to do there for them!).
Finally, after a few x-rays, a few checkings, Loup got his cast removed!

Yeepeeeeeeeeee!!! I was so stressed. On the x-rays, you can still see clearly the broken tibia but no "empty space" between the bones.
The doc said that now he can start walking again, that everything's fine. He can't do any sport for at least six other weeks and must be careful. We'll go back to hospital end of September. A last visit :)

No more wheelchair, god, that was so heavy with the floors, with stairs everywhere, so complicate to organise..
No more strategic plans for peeing or washing or playing cowboys ...
No more stress about Loup moving his broken leg, night and day. I get my bed and sleep back for myself! (supa happy sigh)

Well, I've still spent the most tiring day in weeks today, because Loup can't/refuse to walk so I'm his wheelchair! lol... But that's just a matter of days :)

Yesterday:



Today...



And trust me, there's a huge difference between these two days ;-)

Wondering how

...my lil devil went from his wheelchair to this carton...

//oO\\



Lola and Loup had no explanation to give me... they just shrugged... lol
I had to take some big voice & rolling eyes so they don't do that again, but... they really made me laugh! :)

The consciously forgotten topic

lol I gotta understand my title before knowing how to explain it!

There's one topic I don't (want to) talk about on here, politics. A topic, subject, that keeps me pretty busy lately... I say lately, but it's been months.

Only way to express it for the moment, through my work. More work to come then :)

Explicit

so is my last work, *explicit*



Hopes the family won't be shocked lol, I could have painted a (naked) troll or a boobed mermaid, had to be a naked man here.

New work in mind already, gotta find time for it!

Back to quickies

when coming back from hols, I wondered if I'd stop my bloggie for a while.
Oh I still enjoy it a lot,
but most of what I share, including new works, etc, I do it on FB, and it takes one minute not more.

Days are so short & so full, blogs require so much time & attention really!

Well I won't give it up, just make it shorter, quickies only.
From a reader's perspective, that's not too bad either I believe :)

edit: I just say I almost stop with my blog and I add 4 more posts! lol, typical!

Summerish summary

The Facebookers already know what a shitty weather we've got during these four weeks in Bretonie. But I gotta say that for Loup, unable to move, it was not that bad... no temptation for the beach!

Apart from Loup's cast, a few fest-noz, the rain and the wind, I'll remember how much we've worked on the hobbit house! Unfortunately, the photos I took were "broken" when I tried to get them back. So you won't see the result!
We've worked a lot on the terrasse, in the kitchen and bathroom, on the living room & bedroom ceilings.





And another good memory will be our meeting with Axel. I've instantly been under the charm of his show & personnality, which is impressive on many levels. A few days later I contacted him via his site to tell how much we had enjoyed his show.
The result of all that is that I can say we've started a real friendship, he came to spend half a day at home there with his lil boy, and we really had a great time.

Next year if you're not far from Dinan, there will be the big medieval party in July. The theme of it: the Middle Ages' Fears.
Martin wants that we go there as lepers (lépreux).. lol... nene not glam enough for me!

I might change my mind though :P

But Anyway, I don't tell anything but Axel's performance there should be really something! I truly can't wait :)

Adieu Bretonie, Bonjour Paris

Finally I've spent 4 weeks away from Paris... how about that? pretty kewl, huh!

Well that was great for me... and for the kids, specially for Loup who, despite his wheelchair, could enjoy a huge garden & big house.



We've had some stress though with the lil devil having a bad fever, several trips to the hospital (for fear of an infection linked to his leg), new cast done, blood tests, etc...

Well it was strange holidays for me. Honestly on the last week of June when Loup broke his leg, I had so much stress (and physical pain for him) that I just did not know where I was anymore. I focused all my energy on him and was unable to think about anything else.

Then once his pain was gone (after 10 days), I started to feel better -and exhausted-.

Now I'm kinda used to the wheelchair and cast but it still makes life very complicate.

Next week, we go back to the hospital, then he should get his cast removed.
I can't wait for good news about his leg... Normal life to be back :)

Almost had a heart attack ...

... earlier today when I totally lost my summer pictures (well only had 15 of them left, from beginning of July!)

I thought I had transferred them all on my PC, but did not notice I had not enough space left.
When I finished the transfer, I just deleted them all from my ebook and memory card.

Then I started to check the photos and ...

I panicked, could remember my holidays... the images were gone, so was my memory!
lol

When Gijs told me he might help, I thought you can't get anything back once it's really completely deleted for ever and ever
(shrugging)

I was wrong!
Gijs helped me find a free software to get back the old pics on my empty memory card! yeah yeah!
it WORKS
...but I had pictures lost from the beginning of July till now, and it could only get the last days' photos.

I tried then to get a software to find deleted files on my (e)PC. Well, you know, once you empty the bin, it's empty. lost.
... wrong!
I could find all my deleted files thanks to that.
Incredible.
A miracle!

I have all my lost pics back, I still can't believe it!
Phewwwww!

Elle assure en bourrée!

yeah, I know, my best post title so far!

ha well, I gotta say I am pretty good at Bretonish dances, but I've got lot of fun with the Auvergnate bourrées lately!

It does not sound exciting, but when you dance it, trust me, it's something!



Ok, apart from that, Martin has made lots of lil renovations on my blogs and I really wanna thank him! I'm supa happy for all the works and improvements!

Une petite bourrée pour fêter ça, hm? :D

Yesterday...

... there were 10 people in the hobbit garden for a picnic! The first official guests we've had :P

Yesterday, I had a bloody experience: I cut a big slow worm (orvet) while cutting the grass, it was yucky! I ran for Martin like a kid to ask for help, lol... poor lil stupid one (I thought he would have left with all the noise I was making!)

Yesterday I realized I had a taste for running, it was hard (no flats road and paths around here) but the exercise felt great!

Yesterday I finished my project. Took a lot of time to gather the pieces I wanted for the collage, but it looks definitely the way I wanted! Might do that again! :)


click here

Yesterday I said goodbye

...to Martin. He's back in Paris for the week, starting with work again :(

And I stay an extra week here in Bretonie with the kids. So much better with the wheelchair.

Next visit to the hospital is in 2 weeks, if everything is fine: x-rays, then they remove the cast and we're gone. 2 weeks to be able to walk a bit to be ready for school.

That's the perfect script.

But I do stress a lot, wondering how his leg is fixing... what bad news the docs might tell me..

I will know, in 2 weeks.