Australia - England - France - Ireland - New Zealand - Scotland - South Africa - Wales - Argentina - Canada - Fiji - Georgia - Italy - Japan - Namibia - Romania - Samoa - Tonga - Uruguay - USA !

Et voilà!
20 teams of 30 players (including 15 substitutes)
Dat makes 600 players.
600 players showing 600 pairs of muscular legs. That means 1 200 muscular legs just for the pleasure of the eyes.
600 players showing 600 firm bums for a month.

We complain that such sexist thingie as Miss World exists, but see what we goils get! And not for one evening... for a whole month!
RoaaaaaRRRRRRRR!

D Day -11


Psssssssst... talking of the rugby world cup here :P
Repsssssssssst... Penny!!! Come here and listen carefully (hehe): the frawnch rugger team arrives in Brissie on the 1st at 7.40 am! Just in case you're around, repeat after me "Salut beau gosse, et si on commençait par une troisième mi-temps!" (sowwwwy, not translating here! Mwahahaha)

After lots of talks and tests, I've decided I won't involve in the project with the psychologist.

I hesitated a lot because I could not stand the idea to simply give in. Dat's not me!
But Martin told me "not giving in" isn't enough a good reason to involve in such a project. A project that won't bring much pleasure et no money.

The story I had to illustrate is really good. But very realistic, made of dialogues.
I'm not a "realism" illustrator, not at all. And I don't want to make comics (which was the appropriate style here). 50 paintings would have been required. For 5 paintings, I would have made huge efforts to create something.

But here, it's simply too much for my inspiration and for the precious time I get.

I hope I've taken the right decision :-)

It's been a busyyyyy weekend!
A proof: I've had almost no time to surf! (eeeeeeck)

It's just that I've been working hard (but rilly :P).
I've added a new section in my Gallery: *Illustrations*!

Since I might not be quickly a millionaire just selling my paintings, I hope to get real work one day as an illustrator.
But nobody will ask for me if they don't *know* what kind of illustrations I can do.
It's the problem with the lack of professionnal experience, you've to find ways to convince. And as I am a new born baby in the field of illustration, i gotta find tricks ;-)

For many reasons, illustrating is a very exciting work for me.

The 2 first illustrations you can find below concern 2 classic fairy tales.
Most of my illustrations (but not all) will deal with the worlds of children. Illustrations of fairy tales and books. But there will also be illustrations of myths and legends.

So much to do, so little time!!!!!

Bluebeard

Sleeping Beauty

(drums on)

Tadaaaaaaaaaa....

Lola has just told me her first *MAMAN* !!!
(dancing around)
(grabbing the rainbow there and jumping around the earth with it)

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

Mom came earlier, bringing a few presents to Lola and a book for me.
Mom never offers me books, that was kinda unusual... As much unusual as the book she offered me.
It's was Madonna's English Roses.



lol !
Yup mom, 53 years old, offering a children's book to her 29 years-old daughter!
I feel like a woman, a mama, a partner, a hard worker, a lazy goil, etc.... thank gawd, mom is here to remind me I'm all that + a child somehow, somewhere :P

Well I was happy because I wouldn't have bought it. Yet, I was interested in it because ok, I'm an ooooold fan of the Goil since aaaaaages (yup yup)... and I'm now a kind of children's books writer...! Professional curiosity, see!

Hmm, I've not read it yet, but the topic does not interest me at all (about a lil goil too pretty to get friends... -rolling eyes-).
The drawings are nice, but more like *fashion drawings* than anything else.

Anyway, mom went on telling me "You've noticed, Madonna is not provocative at all anymore with her children's books"!
Argggg, my mom talking of one of my teenage years' idol.
It's like... there are words you don't like to hear from your parents' mouff. Like sex stuff, or statements about *your* idols (madonna's being replaced by some metallica or s.o.a.d, I think I'm safe now).

I could not help reacting quickly to keep Madonna in *my world* (does that make sense? lol).
"But mom, she's STILL very provocative, she's given 2 big fench kisses to other goils lately!!!"
"Grrrrrrrmmmmmmmmphhhhh"
"See! She's not like a granny yet!!!"

Phewwwww

Yup, I had just reacted as I would have 15 years ago.
hehe
That feels funny to be a *child*!

PS: mom seriously advised me to contact Madonna for the illustration of her next book .... LMAO!!! Moms are unique!

So there hasn't been any big warm hug between W.Bush and Chirac (not that this interests many people, but...lol.. bloggies are made for that too :P)!
Phewwwwww
I truly thought the government would have given up its anti-war position months ago.

Anyway the situation of the UN seems still much fragilized by w.Bush's decision to launch this "unilateral invasion", acting without respecting the UN position.
It cannot work this way. The rules of the game gotta be respected I guess if we want to improve this barbarian world...

But enough of blahblah...: it's really terrible to hear about the daily American and Iraqi deaths overthere. I really hope for them all this gonna stop soon**~~*^*

Somehow, almost a case of sexual harassment because I think the cat has no choice ;-) ... The rat is far too big to be eaten!

I'm going to add another definition to the meaning of nightmare.
Well, I knowwwww we've all heard about this. But this ermm... *problem* touches me particularly.

2 millions of little girls in 27 seven African countries are victims of excision and infubilation every year. 130 millions of women live with the terrible experience of female genital mutilation.
I'm sorry to use the words, but to know what we are talking about...

Excision means : removal of the clitoris with partial or total ablation of the labia minora.
Infibulation: excision of part or all of the external genitalia and stitching/narrowing of the vaginal opening.

The goils are usually cut when they're 5 years-old. 5 years-old!!!!

Why? Is it because it's a particular tradition? can we accept that because it's a different culture?
Of course not!
Women are deprived from their right to get sexual pleasures. And worse than having no sexual pleasure, all these tortures lead to a life of sexual pain. And I don't even talk of the disease brought by such sick acts of surgery.

Infibulation is supposed to give more pleasure to the man for it's more narrow.

Gawd, how is this possible.

Usually these acts or surgery butchery are done by women who've been mutilated too in their time.
How can they stand reproducing the nightmare they experienced to other women? ... not even women... no, to children!

I think we should all be behind these African women who're starting to fight against these physical and psychological mutilations. I find such an "accepted" violence particularly unberable.

Not that I'm obsessed with the topic at all, but... I really wonder (without feminist thought here) why the worst criminals or other serial killers are always men (with a few exception... I guess). Why is it so?

A question of strength?
I really find it hard to explain this anyway

Laaaaalalalaaaaaaaaaaaa



(kissing my ticket wildly! mwaaaaaa mwaaaaa mwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!)

Ok, now I've more than 2 months to improve my look: from a mama, I have to turn into mamametal!
Because we have dem fookin kewl tickets to go and see METALLICA on december!
Weeehoooooooooooooooooooo

I've spent hours today creating a new quizz in quizilla.com... Gawd, it's been so long, but I did it!
It's easy to do (once you get your questions/answers in mind). But the Quizilla's server was down quite often today, dat's why it took me so much time.

Anyway, if you wanna try it, be patient, really patient, while the pages are loading :-)

On Saturday night, I got an email from a Swiss psychologist who's really interested in my paintings.

She kinda fell in love with my Moon Talk, and then thought she could contact me to talk of a project she has in mind.
She's just started writing a book dealing with a particuliar topic linked to her work with children. And she asked me if I could illustrate her book!!!!

(falling from chair)

After visiting her website and re-reading her email, I've just answered I was really interested to be part of this project! :-))))

Concretly, what does that mean?

We're going to check if my illustrations and her text go really together, then we'll make a plan to see what has to be illustrated, how many illustrations will be required, etc.
That does not mean I can hope to get any euros (except if the book get published one day), but I need such projects to get some good experience.

I'm so happy I get a (real) first opportunity!
Woooohoooooooooooooooo**~~*^* * * ^^* *

Here's what's giving me nightmares!
We have this Crime Stories ("infamous criminals" category) stuff on tv since a few weeks.

Each time I watch one, I run all around the flat screaming it's too awful and horrible.
Martin can't understand I watch this if I can hardly stand 5 minutes of it.
hehe

It's just like each time I hope to find explanations (no excuses!) for the behaviour of such or such criminal. I refuse to think that some human beings are bad by nature.
Yeah I'm following a kind of philosophical quest in here :P

But, the facts prove me I'm totally wrong. I got really shocked by how far a criminal could go.
The Hannibal Lecter from the fiction is actually a real lamb in comparison with the real criminals. And just the idea, that reality is much more terrible than the fiction, really shocks me.

I still think we're all born *good* by nature and that the society and inapropriate relationships make someone bad.
But I still get doubts when I see these guys. They rilly look like born with evil in dem.

Anyway, I really prefer to stick to my much more pleasant fictions and I wanna think the only super heroes we need are such ones:


(PS: Martin, it's my favourite Miss Marple, no way I put the one you prefer!!!! hehe)

So they say (again) that the Yeti is not an horrible monster, but just a bear.



...Does that rilly look like "just a bear"?

Tssssss.... and soon they're going to add faeries are birds and gnomes are big fat mushrooms (sowwwy ya gnomes, I did not mean it with the comparison!!!!)

I cannot stand those who rationally try to get rid of *our* reality!
RoaaaaRRRRR

I've got my first -negative- answer from a publisher (I've sent my book to 13 of them).
I cannot say I'm glad to have a negative answer but this one really made happy enough.
It was a personnalized answer and they said they enjoyed a lot the text, found it really "attractive" but the illustration was not in their "ligne d'édition".... not the style of their books.

And I find that very ok!
hehe

Even if the house isn't ours yet, we've already met 3 craftsmen (a carpenter, a roofmaker, a mason)... and it took them 9 weeks to send their (much expected) offers (I hope they work more quickly than they do their offers).
Well actually we have the offers from the carpenter and roofmaker only.

I expected something really expensive, though I have no idea about the costs of the works on a house.
It's expensive when you have nothing to pay (that's why we'll take some time to make the works on the house :P)... but it sounds realistic:

The carpenter asks for 5.500 euros (6.500$, 4.000£, 9.700 AUD) to make the new windows and doors (in wood) + a mezzanine + cutting beams for us to makes stairs (we build what we can by ourselves... well, dat's real new adventure to me :P).

The roof maker asks for 8.000 euros (13.500 AUD, 8.900$, 5.500£) to make a totally new roof with original slates + 2 velux + new gutter.

I don't know how we'll make it, but we'll find a way. Now the most expensive should be the mason (he has to bore very thick walls... 60 to 90 cm thick... for openings for windows and doors + other works I can't remember now).

(running to play lottery)

I'm working right now on an illustration of Perrault's Bluebeard.
I find it kinda hard to create illustration for kids because I found the topic of the wives in the wardrobe with their cut thoat kinda original! lol... I mean I could see there something different to paint. Pretty gloomy, I reckon.

Anyway, I had to get rid of my first idea to focus on a more pleasant presentation. It's a very interesting process.

By the way, BlueBeard is really really scary for kids me thinks!

So far, I think I might be the luckiest mama.
Not because Lola is a fantabizoobistic shrimpette -well not only because of that- ;-) ... but also because I can take care of her while *working* on something I rilly luuuuuve.

When I hear mamas around, some (very few) are happy to be at home taking care of their children, others are forced to work again, others cannot stand being at home anymore and rilly wanna work.

Well I can enjoy work + my baby, isn't it the best cocktail!

Now if my *work* could bring me some euros, that would be kinda kewl..... ;-)

Anyway, as long as I can do it, I luuuve my days spent with Lola, my evenings with my work, and my nights with my other-half!
LOL, when I tell ya I get busy days!!!!

I took Lola to the Green House yesterday :-)))
We both luuuved it!

We're welcome to go there whenever we want.
Each day there's a new team of 4 people (psychiatrists for kids, nurses, etc) who welcome the parents and their children.
I have to *test* each team, but the Tuesday's team was rilly kewl :-)))

The place is organized with one big room with tons (rilly TONS) of toys and a playground outside.
I find it very kewl that parents and kids can enjoy such a special place (the only one in Paris, at 10 min from here!).

It's free but when you leave, they say you can let a few euros if you want to support the Green House. Which I find rilly fair :)))