Bons baisers de Hamburg **

** From Hamburg with Love!

In two days I'm back to Paris. We've come here for a week, to stick with the family because of hard times (i won't talk of that on here, my blog is focused on the light stuff)

Enjoying Hamburg without sharp temperatures and biting snow feels like paradise. Again, I'm under the charm of the city, its rocking places, its harbour, everything's perfect (but the temperatures on wintertime!). Give me a few millions and I buy a house there, I'll watch cargos passing everyday, that really takes me high! lol : ))

It actually reminds me of Miami ... LOL  the real city, so alive, and the harbour, the wilderness so close! (Well my hearts beats for tropical Miami though! the temperatures there are simply perfect! : ))

Soon, more funny photos, more news too! :P

Petits plaisirs honteux (endless list)

Here are my last shameful lil pleasures.
To tell you the truth, I'm training hard to make a dancing show the way Paloma does, AND ... to sing like a baby doll, the way Fergie does.
The result might not be truly spectacular. Or it might!



Paloma Faith - Upside Down von RCshockwave


Black Eyed Peas - Just Cant Get Enough (Official... von ChaOko_01

Paris by day

Why do I love Paris? Just * that * is enough to sum it up. Paris by day on a sunny day is truly fantastic! Just stop and sit down on a terrasse, or walk along the Seine, just enjoy the polluted Beaudy and you can reach heaven :)
Paris by night is as much tempting, as much wonderful. More maybe. Secret corners everywhere. Totally magic.

Just before leaving for Hamburg on Sunday, I had lots of sport, enough to break me at least... but with a lunch on a sunny terrasse in between, that felt like heaven!

Faster pussycat!

if you knew how many things I gotta (want to) blog about!
My life's speed, I live with a chronometer in mind. Every minute counts. I need to walk a bit and stop running.

But anyway, I'll have a full week (next week) to blog more peacefully than usual.
In 18 minutes (lol) I gotta make a special session of body combat at my sport club, then I jump in the car for 10 hours of driving to reach Hamburg (for a week).
We'll pack the kittens too, it's gonna be fun fun fun ;-)

Really I don't know who reads my blog but be sure I have much inspiration for it, boiling mind for it. Just give me another day and I'll be back at ewws my Beaudies

(taking a minute to purr now)

Spring in Paris

... feels truly ...* sighing with pleasure *

The devils and I got lunch on a sunny terrasse then popcorn in a sunny green place. I did not work much on that day but I haven't wasted my time, I tell you.

Quart d'heure américain

Just the name of that lil game (lady's choice at a dancing party) sounds soooo dusty! We still played it when I was a teen. For 15 minutes (a couple of slow songs), you were invited to chose your partner for a dance and he could not really refuse. lol So practical!

I actually wonder about the origin  of the French name "quart d'heure Américain", my only guess would be something linked to WWII, linked to American soldiers, end of the war parties stuff?
Any idea?

Slows. There are of course hundreds of wonderful slower songs. But I refer to the ones that would push you in the arms of your man / girl.

Dancing on slow romantic songs.. That's pretty intimate, which is good when you want to get intimate!

The thing is that most of the time I did not dance with the guy I wanted! lol ... minutes then were long, endless!
Then, the songs themselves... I've never fell for "Still loving you", "say you, say me" kind of stuff! lol

And then, there are those that have all the spices in them, the exact recipe to make you react. For me it's always been the Animals House of the rising sun or (yeah, appreciate my originality here, thank you!) the Eagles's Hotel California. lol

Do you have favorite slows, hm?

Right now, I must say, this one would work to the perfection for me :

Fate, resistance, survival ?

Can't add much more than a doodle to the whole story.
Rage, yes I can add that word.
Then Hope will follow. No choice.

And the Award goes to .... (spoilers included)

The Social Network

because... even if not truly exciting, it's quite entertaining to learn about the fucking gifted and clever bastards  that created Facebook or Napster. And being the users of all their inventions, we feel part of the machine, funny. Scary.
7/10

The King's speech

The King's Speech - #1 Trailer par hawkbcn
Well I'm not sure it sums up the movie really. It was my favourite among this list. Why, I think Colin Firth's acting made everything, and all the supporting actors. I truly loved it.
10/10

Black Swan

Because you get caught by the atmosphere, the sharp stress. I wasn't attracted at all by the movie. I knew I'd see a wonderful actress acting, but then... The ballet background... of course you expect competition to get really bad... but I must say it was quite surprised and pretty good.
7/10

127 Hours

Because of one scene, crazy wonderful, where the main character films himself as in a talk show. It was waw WAW so good! Just for that fantastic scene, I'd watch it again!
I thought the whole movie was predictable. I wasn't wrong. But the acting, the filming + this special scene makes it good enough.
6/10

True Grit

For that scene where the young girl crosses the river on her big horse to finally get spanked on the other side for being a disobeying girl! Haha yeah, what a scene! : )))
But the 45 first minutes of the movie were way too long, the ending really bad.
5/10

Ok, it was a very subjective movie review, I reckon :P

All these movies have one thing in common: incredible actors, I mean all of them! I was really positively shocked by that!

Ok, the thing is... I just can't get enough of rum, sex and rock 'n roll ... movies lately!
Anything you recommend?

On St Patrick's day

... fait ce qu'il te plait :P

and that's about what we all did in our lil pub, just next to the sport club.

The ultimate reward... that we get most regularly :))

Happy Meal

Here's my new collage, and another to follow in the next days! yeahhh!
Collages. A passion. I really love the other freedom collages can give, the kitsch side of it makes anything possible. Things that wouldn't work in a painting. That is very exciting.
 

I'm really happy, might be the first that will hang on my walls (I usually don't put my own work on my walls, there's so much of myself in my work, that it would be like facing mirrors everywhere. Eeeeck. Does that make sense? lol I wonder)

 For details about it, the whys and hows, you should check the page on my gallery.

Again, the photo quality betrays the quality of the collage. It's quite splendid (laughing! no false modesty allowed it seems) when I see it here next to me.
On the photo, it's not sharp enough and it's hard to avoid any reflection because of the varnish on it, which acts like a lil light sucker!

 I'm looking for a plain frame for it, black. I'll sell it framed, with no glass, no need for one :)

 It took me days and days to make it... Collages look simple to do, but it's SO much work. There's always a lot I want to express on my paintings, even more on my collages. I create my realities, my world. Ok, there's always a "front page" story, here a kitty feeding her kittens... and behind a lot more. That's what I like, apparent simplicity hiding a lot more, if you want more. But you can take it for what it is too. Just a fantasy collage, with a mermaid playing the sardine : )

talk about creating my own world...
I swear I'm working hard here!
It's never obvious, so you gotta trust me, thankyouverymuch :P

Hello... kitties!

Attention please!
Probably the most important post of the year. I knew 2011 would be a perfect year.

There we go, talking NAIL POLISH today.
Wooooo!
Do you wear any make-up? I wear hardly any, just on the eyes and the lips. And the nails, yes my nails are always done. I don't mind when the polish starts to get off, I find that even kinda cute when I wear "fading away" red. lol. I am not a maniac of the perfect nail! :P

See how I am serious about the topic. I can talk about it for hours minutes and minutes! And for nail polish, I have found the prefect brand to me : Hello kitty. Perfect quality for 7.50€ (still way too expensive!).
I'm starting a collection ;)
I'll avoid some colours though... green, orange, yellow, violet, blue ... I'm classic: into reds mainly, from dark reds to flashy reds... or very pale pink. Those are the best to me.

The first one I tried, white, I gave it to Lola. Too white. Eeeeck!
Then found my colours, and they were perfect:

the perfect light one

or very red (super kawaï!)

...it really must fit to my mood. And at the moment, I wear a LOT of red! huhu :P

Meowwwwww !

A bunch of roses for James : )

Because all that matters, because it's bean ages I had not seen James in his tuxedo, and never ever in a weird dress ... :)))

merci, James

Let me introduce you a lil beauDy !

His name is Crunch and he's the brother of Satan and Conan! Yeahhhh!!!

I feel like a hairy Dynasty was just born!
Blake and Alexis,if you hear me...

You can see the pictures of this lil tiger right there
Meowwwwwww!!!!

Don't make your John Galliano !

I'm lucky enough, I can stand alcohol pretty well = I fall asleep if I make REAL excesses. What about you? Do you paint the walls? Do you get naked and dance on the table?

You heard about Christian Dior's stylist's scandal, right? Martin had not of course. :P

It's all about John Galliano being drunk and telling how much he loved Hitler.
John the kamikaze.

That's a pretty bad thing to say huh. I won't put a link, because exposing that vid is almost as disgusting as the words that were said.

I think even if drunk to death I'd never say such stupidities (I'd be snoring I told you!)
Yet... the guy was drunk. Does that make what he says true? I wonder. He was drunk.

The girls were quite aggressive too -and not drunk! - asking if he was blond, etc. I'd take it pretty badly if I were drunk. BLOND !!! grmmphhh

Anyway, all that is not so important, lol. I just see a bunch of hypocrites spitting on the drunk guy. Of course his words are just terrible, but he was badly drunk, that does not help to be clever.
And I don't want to imagine what Karl Lagerfeld does or says when drunk! :P

All that anyway is a good lesson of life, if you get drunk, don't do it in public places! Do it at home, in safe quarters .... aka Don't make your John Galliano!

you gotta love them All Blacks ;-)

yayyy! now here we go, that's all about real rugger!



... and if you like the New-Zealand's skills, you might enjoy the French one too (different sport though, different style, I insist!) :


Foot 2007 (Rémi GAILLARD)
envoyé par nqtv

The worst rugby promo

Later France plays England at rugger. Sounds like it gonna be fun, as usual! Can't wait!
Just found this ad for rugby, SO bad! lol
With pointus ridiculus to France (waving @ Chabalobelix) and Italy (omg the armor!) :P



and this one is not even better lol ... Can't they just add a touch of humour! Because it's all about fun (and shiny muscles in the mud), no?



edit: wait, finally I get something good! phewwww!

Satan's the Queen

Loup has his own way to make the Twelfth Night cake (galette des rois)
He wants to be sure that the king's crown won't escape him you see.

Last time he made one, he worked hard, made a lil crown for Satan that was to be his queen! :P

Dunno really what Satan thought of it, but she seemed like hypnotized, not super comfortable, but not escaping either. Tough queen!

Addiction!

nope, just a necessity, I breathe, I laugh, paint, drink, make love and eat. And I wear boots. huhu

During the winter sales, I bought actually nothing, till the very last day... Spring boots! Just a 8 cm heel, supa comfortable. I just need Spring to start very quickly.

Now the HOT pics !

The boots rock, I LOVE them!

Quite Interesting People (and Places)

That's Q.I.P, Peter's new blog!





 
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It's been weeks it's already a very active blog but I had taken the time I wanted to talk of it! pffff!

Peter, first a friend, but also a most talented photographer, a man who looks at life from a very unique perspective, shares here with us his works, his passion, his thoughts, his vibes.

A blog I wanted to see alive and kicking since years! Yeah yeah, I made prayers every night to see the birth of this blog! See, it worked,  now we get it!!! Hope you'll enjoy it the way I do!

What's your favourite sushi ?

Octopus. Oh yummm!
I have just tried octopus sushi and I felt very bad... because I simply LOVED it and at the same time I've always found octopus absolutely adorable.
Ok, I eat lamb and rabbit, so cuteness might be quality criteria, don't know!

But anyway, the octopus I had was nothing like rubber, it was melting, delicious. Just typing about it, I'm drooling again. lol : ))

 When the kids make a toast, do you know what they ALWAYS say?

"à la santé des locataires !"

It took me some time to discover where it came from. And it was from tv! From Wallace & Gromit...
In the "Wrong trousers" episode, they welcome a nasty penguin and make a toast (minute 10.05)

Wallace & Gromit - Un Mauvais Pantalon_VF_Part1
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Since then (about 2 years now), my devils only my a toast to "the tenant" ! lol :)))

Just found the keys of my bloggie!

Oh Gawd, bit dusty around here :P

February has gona like a supa fast train. I love that!

Martin has gone older. 
But hey, you know how it is with men getting older... wine etc! And that's very unfair!

 **
6 nations' Cup has just started again
So far, so good. Tomorrow, so exciting, we play England!!! yeaaaahhh!
 **
Talking of rugger... a miracle happened. A friend (she and I used to share passion for rugby and a hundred other things), a very good close friend, a sista really, that I thought lost ad vitam eternam reappeared in my life.
That makes me so deeply happy!
**
Another friend of mine (that some of you know) a Canadian pirate, a sista too has gone through very tough times. Still in the middle of it, but recovering. That broke my heart. Why life can be such a bitch with angels?!!!
**
Martin has created a blog for the kittens :P When they were born, there were 4 kittens. The plan is to make a blog with the whole gang, our 2 demons and their 2 other brothers who live in different families :)
**
I almost never talk of negative or tough stuff in here. It does not help me to share, usually. Strange huh? But I'm most concerned with Lola at the moment. She's having crisis close to epilepsy, always during the night, an hour before waking up. It happens on some irregular basis since December. 4 times in February. Thankfully, not so often, huh. But you'd see that happening, it's scary and heart breaking. Doctors haven't found yet, we're slowly but surely making progresses to discover if she suffers from terrible nightmares or something else.
**
I have spent 3 days alone in Paris during the kids'holidays. That was like a dream, you know... just time without worrying, just time for myself. But got sick during the three days lol. That sucked!
**
I have almost made an overdose with sport last week. Just too much, my body was really begging for me to stop I think. I have stopped for 2 days, now I'm back to it. Phewwww ;-)

Voilà, these were all the news aside, the news I wasn't to talk about in here. But there you go.
Now it's time to blog, for real : )

V like Very bad pets!

I've watched already some weeks ago V season 1 and just started watching season 2 ... well, just entertaining to me, perfect when multitasking! ... ok with less charm and of course originality than the ermm... original ;-) but some good points in the new one too.

There's a spoiler in the season 2 trailer, but my sister's such a fan of "her" that I had to share it :P

Indiana Jones + James Bond in the same movie ? oh yum !!!

What genre will this movie belong to?
Comical adventure?
Action farce?
(don't say "tragedy" while rolling your eyes, that would break my heart)

My two favourite genres in one: western + science fiction ! Yayyyy !!!
The title itself is PERFECT!

It's looks improbable enough and crazy enough to be memorable!
I can't wait!

hard working conditions ;-)

Life is so busy, so so busy that despite a hundred of different topics I've in mind, I just can't sit down for my bloggie whenever I'd like.

I've been working on candle holders orders lately, had to finish them quickly. I've several projects in mind to come, paintings and collage... here are 3 project among the dozen that is on papers. Sorry for the bad quality sketches, it's just to share bits of my secret garden with you : )

Of course when there's a barbarian that tries to sabotage everything I start, it's just less easy ;)

... and Boys don't cry ?

... but I suspect my lil Conan to swallow his tears when Satan attacks him!

Conan's a real boy, adventurous, he tries the craziest actions, often fails, crashes in some awkward way on the floor... but never surrenders. Obstinate he'll try again and again.

He's also very LAZY and affectionate, he spends hours stuck to me, which makes me the happiest (despite the lil fleas he's carrying! pfffff)

*just* a Girl - with moustaches -

Well, trust me I can make the difference between human boys and girls!
With kittens, I need more practice it seems :P

So Satan, is not a boy, nope. Satan's a GIRL! Yayyyyy! Another girl @chez Candles!
I should have guessed though, she's so delicate, she has a tiny adorable face, she's fast, a bit shy but already a promising hunter!

and she's clever, oh yeah! She already reads subtitles, see! :P

Weeeeee!!! got my ticket! (dancing around the totem!)

Because well, System of a Down... their separation years ago, etc. There was no hope to enjoy another of their concerts. It was totally hopeless!


8 years ago, I had a round belly, with a lil Lola inside, and SOAD's concert was one of the best concerts I had seen.

Besides Metallica and Pink Floyd, maybe Rammstein too, SOAD's concerts are on my top list. And this concert was SO unexpected. They only have 11 dates I think in Europe. With 2 in Paris. The first date was sold out before I could shoot! Thank god they added another date. The 8th of June. Just can't wait!


SyStEm Of A DoWn - ToXiCiTy
envoyé par MiKaEl94. - Regardez la dernière sélection musicale.

Ever wondered how to avoid huge ships?

No, me neither (well actually years ago, it was a concern, sometimes)

But you might enjoy the... 8 stupid Amazon products with impressively sarcastic reviews.

Found the page thanks to the very inspired Gontran (thank you my dear, I had some real good laughs there)

Yummy guilty pleasures ...

 Well, let me blush from deep shame for 3 seconds:


voilà! Done! Now let's enjoy yummy crap with deep pleasure! : )))


First one. Oh! I quite enjoy David Guetta's works, yes! (though I hate most of his vids, dunno why, they're just tasteless, too much Ibiza-style... well ok, they fit the music huh :P)
I wanna dance.....!



Second one, the last From pretty Yelle, the French queenette of dance and electro!
No video for this one yet! (Yelle, contact me girl! I have a hundred ideas for a hot video in a Safari Disco Club!). You listen to it twice, and you're caught by it!



Haaa this one, I'm quite crazy for this live version (only) ... the saturated voice etc. Full of energy, simple lyrics (lol) that tell enough.



What about you? Any new guilty pleasures on your side ? Tell me, I won't repeat it :P

French kiss

On the 31st of December, I was working. Sipping champagne of course!
But working, on this painting.

click here

I was so important and symbolic to me, I wanted to finish the year with a painting and started 2011 with a new one. Done. I'm so happy! (dancing around, throwing petals and drinking champ' again!)

I wanted to start the year with something very much into Fantasy art. A woman, not really a mermaid, more like a fish woman... ready to bite (swallow? huhu) a frog... instead of kissing it to get the expected prince charming. That's the whole idea of it. (Don't be fooled girls, it never works this way with princes charming!)

It was my first painting with Conan and Satan around. Hm working conditions might be warmer than usual but not just the easiest! :P

Cats in the cradle (meowwww)

10 days now Conan and Satan are part of the family!


On the first day, they were a bit shy. Just seperated from their mama (sigh)... who started to push them away, anyway.

They did not know where to pee. Which was the expected big source of stress to me. They were not clean yet. Soon we discovered they peed under the Xmas tree! lol. Yeeehaaaaa!
But 24 hours later, while the Christmas tree was suffocating (not from their pee yet but) from their mini feline attacks, they were clean already. Fantastic.

Ok, when I change their litter and it's all new, they like it SO much that they both start to sleep on it! //OO\\

They're very very affectionate, they don't hide, they don't fear Loup and his strange behaviour (Loup has introduced all his weapons to his cat.... Conan of course :P)
Conan the grey is very affectionate, he's bigger, he loves fighting too.
Satan, well, we're still not sure he is a male (lol), we even think that finally Satan is a female. (Let's talk to the Pope now! he gotta know!). Satan is much smaller, very clever.
Both are so affectionate!
They sleep with me, well on me, my neck, my breast. I feel feline with them around.

And god, something I do not regret at all (so far :P)... is having 2 cats! They play together all the time!!! they attack each other, clean each other, play, cuddle and sleep. Oh I would recommend that to anyone.

Their mom is a tabby cat (chat de gouttière), their dad... we're not sure, 3 possibilities. But the ex owner told us that among the three there was the most beautiful cat she had ever seen. A big angora one. And well, they both have really long hairs! I don't care about who's the papa of course... but honestly they are the most adorable kittens you can imagine!

Bits of Hamburg

We had short Christmas holidays. Like everyone travelling through Europe last week, we had some troubles. Our plane was cancelled, left two days later.

So we had almost no time to enjoy Hamburg as we use to. But it was short and intense, spent a wonderful time with the family : )

About the snow, and the sharp cold, it's pretty hard when you're not used to it, just walking outside is something! But then, when there's some sunshine and gluhwein, everything's close to perfection : )))

A Christmas with moustaches

We're just back from Hamburg... to welcome Satan and Conan! The devils did not expect anything, you can imagine their happy shock a couple of hours ago.

Conan is the adventurer! haha his name suits him perfectly!
Satan is super shy. I did not imagine "Satan" any other way ;-) ... but he already shows signs of a very clever lil feline mind! :)))


Ok, I'm super busy with a hundred things (unpacking luggage etc)... but I had to introduce you the new relatives! They're so small! aww : ))
Ok, I warn you, there will be of course zillions of pics in the coming days :)

Second round

Am I posting something 10 minutes before leaving for the airport (again?) !! //Oo\\
lol

2 days ago our flight for Hamburg was cancelled, we've another one tonight.
Hopefully!

But we've got some precious help, the other day already and today's again. I really have the best escort I can dream about! I can't see how we can miss our flight with the Dark Force on our side!!!

We'll have a super short trip (4 days), but short usually means intense no? nooo?
(I gotta think about this one)

Ok, I run, there's a little man with a fly face threatening me behind. He breathes in a strange way, he tells me it's because he has a cold. Of course! That explains everything!

Tchüss und Auf Wiedersehen !

Striking back!

It's cold, it's gonna be a lot colder when I get to Hamburg in a few hours.
I don't have super warm clothes for winter... what's the point anyway? We're expecting global warming, and (phewwww!)  I'm ready for that! bikinis, sun lotion, summer giggles, etc.. in stock.

Of course I could surf on the Christmas wave and get into the magic of it... getting warm and comfortable! But... come on...  just see below where it could lead me!

 

Nonono, I could not paint anything if I wore a blanket with sleeves (look @the pic, they look like a sect!) or supa ugly boots! It's way too extreme! My mind would be disturbed, I'd get supa kitsch! (which wouldn't be that bad, I reckon! lol)

I've no real winter boots so far. It's ok, I can stand cold feet in pretty boots! ... with the only purpose to get a productive mind you see! :P

Oh and I've just received those lovely arm warmers (oh no way, don't tell me you find them ugly!). Ok, they get lots of holes in them... That's not the point! Everything's in the mind, if you decide it's warm enough, then it is , right?