Oooops!

I think in my own way, I can translate quite much from French into English... but here's one of my limit: a 3 years-old goilette swearing in a 3 years-olg goilette way!

moi: "Dis-moi Lola, tu me répéter ce que tu viens de dire, j'ai entendu un truc bizarre!"

Lola: "Mais maman j'ai dit MERDRE parce que le MEC de la télé il s'est cassé la FIGUEULE"

moi: ha oui c'est logique, mais... va falloir qu'on discute ma puce :-)

Five

(thank you, Penny, for inspiring me again!)

Five things you'll never hear me say:
1. I'm thinking about having a third baby!
2. No thank you, I don't drink alcohol
3. I've burnt my vote card, I don't believe anymore
4. Merry Xmas, I knew you'd love white socks!
5. I love country music and reggae!


Five things that scare the bejeebers outta me:
1. Swimming when you're far from the coast
2. When I see my babes bleeding for any reason
3. Being bloked in a room with a pigeon (or any kind of bird)
4. Driving
5. Not being around when my babies need me


Five things I like about myself:
1. I can easily make people feel comfortable, I think
2. I'm very receptive to details and *signals*
3. I can make my lil family happy
4. I still believe I can live from my art one day
5. I have dreams and I want to make them happen


Five areas I know I can do better:
1. Cooking (frozen pizzas and quiches everyday at the moment!)
2. Being less stressed
3. Driving as if I was born with a wheel in the hand
4. Resisting yummy cakes
5. Accepting that i can be wrong and that I can lose at games


Five things I've learnt from being a Mother:
1. You can sleep 5 or 6 hours per night and still be alive
2. Travelling takes more time and requires to be a bit more organized
3. I'm like a shelter now, our babes count on two people, Martin and I
4. I cannot swear as much as I want
5. Life was not complete -for me- without my babes


Five words that sum me up:
Caring, curious, faithful, naive, optimistic

Crazy for dawn

I've just added a new painting in my gallery

At the moment I'm working on a series for Halloween (the series being just 1 painting so far! lol), and I also work on a new version of a couple of old paintings that I love but that I'd make differently now.

Gimme days of 50 hours!

The best seller in the world

He is tall, dark haired, happy father of 4 kids, always talking of the last cartoon on screen, looking like Gepetto but in a younger way, always smiling, remembering the name of your kids.
He sells toys.

I went in his shop for a simple plastic bucket yesterday. 3 euros, I promised myself I won't spend more than 3 euros. I swore I would not!

I left his small shop with a heavy bag, after spending more than 20 euros.
Among other plastic stuff...I bought..what??? another balloon?!!
Oh but trust me, really do, this balloon is unique, fantastic, you can throw it on windows, they'll never break, and now touch it, it feels so sweet no? and you know Loup being already so strong, he can bite it, no problem! And look at this range of coulors!!! As usual it's a German product; Gawd German are really good with toys!

Wawwwwww, what a balloon! I just *needed* it!

...

Shit, the young Gepetto is good, fooking good!

(sigh)

Charlotte forever

Has anyone listened to Charlotte Gainsbourg's new album?



I haven't, but it seems so promising, that I could buy it just right now! I'm very confident. 5:55 (the title of it) has been made with the precious help from Air (Air, -sorry to sound as an excited teen, but..-, one of my fav' band!!!!), soooo, I think I already recommend it to you :P

There are other artists (Metallica, Beck, David Gilmour, Bjork, Depeche Mode, etc) for which I do not need any proof about any new album. I could buy their new album without hearing one single note. I'm confident in their talent. It's not so stoopid you know, it's a matter of love, and it works with any kind of art I think.

Marine and Esox

you don't know it yet (no time for email or for a call so far), but you are the 2 chosen Ones (lol) that we plan to visit in the next weekends.. I give you both enough time to fill the fridge ;-)

hot Paris, clever devil and proud mama

ok, next year I take my holidays in September!
30°C today again, it's summer! While Lola gets the expensive habit to try every icecream possible, Loup is more into trying just about ... ANYTHING. The cheaper the better in his case! lol
Eating stones, grass or sand and drinking (not so) fresh air has turned to be a habit now!



With that you could expect a very thin baby, but nenene Loup is almost 12kgs now (which is not just nothing when you're only 10 months-old) for 76cm.

Oh! And I was to forget... tada... he's just made 3 steps all alone today!
(happy sigh)**~~*^* *

WTC, media and selective memory

I hear people complaining that we simply hear too much about the 11th of September!

I can *feel* a certain degree of anti-americanism in that. Ok, the media focus on the event since a few weeks, but we're free to turn off the radio or tv no?

And what is it about comparing what happened in the WTC with people dying from AIDS in Africa?
Of course it is terrible that the media never focus as much on people dying from poverty, hunger, disease or from war, as on people dying in a *spectacular* and massive terrorist attacks.

But let's respect the death of the WTC victims as much as we respect the death of others.

Now it's the entire fault of the media if they only focus on such events and not on others.
The fault of the media.
huh.
But the media are only here to feed us and give us what we want. *W*e buy the papers, *we* watch this kind of tv.

We simply have some kind of bad consciousness I guess sometimes. And me the first, no problem.

A big comforting thought to those who lost someone dear to them in the WTC attacks**~~*^* *

Contrasts

While outside the temp's reaching 28°C, that everybody's having a nap before enjoying bits of summer, I'm about to start working on my paintings enjoying a new perfumed candle smelling "nature after the rain" ;-)

I can hear a popping cork outside, is it champ'? At 4.00pm, t'is a bit early, but why not.
I'll have a coffee anyway.

Now it's quiet again, not even a damn pigeon to bother my lil ears. Too hot for them too maybe?
I'll enjoy loud music anyway. Something electronic, helping me working fast enough. Fluke maybe?

...grabbing my pen...woooooooosh!

an angel under construction

my younger sister is expecting her third baby!
Yeeepeeeee!!!

That's done then: she and I do not live on the same planet anymore!
She's just entenred the "heroic parents" sphere, I'm impressed!

Impressed and smiling too, smiling for remembering that my lil sister used to drive me crazy when she raised white mice, about, hmm, 20 years ago.
Life has changed but her maternal instinct has continuously improved since then it seems!

**~~*^* *^^* *

Victim of the fashion (but not really a fashion victim!)

Ok, I know, you are already looking at the doodle below and you think (with a lil devilish smile, yes yes don't deny it) "Candy has put on weight it seems"!
hehe

nenene, sowwwy my devilish friends!
It happens that I need a new pair of jeans soon. And it happens too that it's getting very hard to find normal jeans!
You will find normal ones, yes, but cut for ladies beyond 80s maybe! (sowwy grandmama, I've nothing against your jeans!)

So I have to make a compromise... the cut that I want with a low waist because... the fashion is in the hands of the LOW WAIST!
Which is a problem for those who are feminine (I translate for the devilish minds: a problem for those who have wunnnerful curves!)

To fit in a low waist jeans, you've to be rather skinny or very hungry, otherwize with these jeans (being like 6 centimeters below your bellybutton), you risk a explosion above, the lovely love handles turning into bloody love cushions or something like that.
Poor love handles, they do not deserve such a treatment, they're shy! They don't like to be exposed that way!



Free the love handles, don't let the low waist rule!
(come on, sing wiff me)
Free the love handles, don't let the low waist rule!

Ya remember school lunch?

It was a first time for Lola yesterday...
She's having lunch at school 2 times/week (then she has 2 other opportunities to eat something made .... with love, you know?! :P)

And for her very first time, she got really what I hated at school when I was a kid! lol
She had sardines as a starter and ... (getting very pale here) rice pudding for the dessert!
eeeck... but she liked!

I remember also how much sick I felt when there was on the menu ... hachis parmentier (kind of smashed potatoes mixed with meat), or beetroots, or beef tongue!
(faint)

Can you remember what you had for lunch at school? Did you enjoy?

But I think food at school has improved a lot, the meals are pretty sophisticated and made by food specialists. So sophisticated even that some parents start to complain: their kids need to eat basic stuff too, like pasta and potatoes sometimes too! lol

Mon bonheur du jour

(my happy moment of the day)

... is now, just right now ... enjoying a glass of dark red wine, enjoying music, with my babes fully asleep!

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Haaa my lil devils, I Love you as much as you can feel it (and much much more), but a quiet moment is also much welcome sometimes!

Have a sweet peaceful night, my babies

(yeeeeeeeeeeeepeeeeeee!!!)

I did it ! My new blog's online!

Yeeepeeeeeee!!!
Ok, I should wait before talking of it because my new blog still needs some work but... I can't help it!

My other gallery will close in the next couple of days and I'll only use my artblog from now on. More practical for me and I guess more simple for the visitors.
I really hope it will be pleasant for you, I (with the help of my techie guru, of course) made this blog, always thinking about the visitor. A minimum of "clicks", simple presentation, etc.

I've added a few new paintings, and comments about every painting I present.
From the idea of an artblog to its achievement, there have been zillions of neurones boiling and burning here...
Watta work!

And now thinking I've to take care of 2 blogbabies! This blog, which is rather a teenblog (worse!) and my other one! Pfffff...

I need a nap now :P

Geoloc's heartbeats

I've just intalled the free version of the geoloc map (not the static one) on Gulli!
Dat's kewl, before you could have this lil map for 10 euros/year I think. Now it's free and I love watching the lil green circles like heart beats on that map.

(Sitting down on my chair, enjoying another coffee, waving at your heartbeats :P)

Back to school

Lola's left to start her second year at school.
She's not even 4 and she has to spend her mornings and afternoons there. A bit long when you're that young!
The French system, on that respect, is really not so well adapted.

But she left without any stress (unlike what the photo seems to show), she was happy to discover her school teacher, a man, and find her lil friends there!
I hope everything's ok! Stressing moment for a mama ;-)

4 hours

Dat's about the amount of sleep we got last night.
I feel a bit like "huh, it's gonna be a bloody final battle between you -Sunlight- and I, zombiegirl"



But it's our fault, ok. Jumping into bed at 2.00am when the lil devilish one starts to make noise at 5.15, is not the best idea...

Anyway, despite feeling a lil bit tired, the weekend's started wunnerfully: on a lazy and greedy mode! Phewwwwwwww, I think I can survive with that!

Amour sur la peau

I've found it!

After more than an hour suffering testing any kind of perfumes (including those you've recommanded in a previous comments), I found my new perfume. 60 euros! ouch!!!

My new Amour is a mixture of scents: "heliotrope ,white tea, frangipani and cherry blossom, thanaka wood, vanilla and musk".

I find it soft, very light, I love the flower and sugary touches in it, and I find it deliciously pleasant to wear.
It's KenzoAmour, another perfume from Kenzo. I guess his perfumes are definatly made for me 'cause I've tried zillions of other perfumes, determined to take the ONE that will suit me! And I fell for Kenzo again :)

A blog is born

A blog is dead, but a new one's just born.

it's here, it required hours of boiling thoughts and hard work from the blogpapa, but the baby looks really good!!!

A yummy goodie for a purrfect Friday

Simpsons


just got it from Martin, in case you haven't seen it already... hope you enjoy! :P