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(done)
4 minutes, that is not much... but very precious in a mama's day ;-)

It's so warm (still 26°C) that I feel like a lizard on a burning stone!
If there was more wind, even a few clouds, maybe a light rain for a couple of hours...!

(thinking hard)

oh!!
(slapping own face)
Easy! I'm packing the luggage, tomorrow morning we'll be in Brittany (errmm, yes, again, always, for ever and ever) :P
We're going to leave at 5.00 am to arrive just for breakfast, and after I'll have to rush to the hobbit house to finish a parquet (my turn to work on it tomorrow). Pfff...
Then on Friday... we have a boat to pick up somewhere at the other side of the planet, or so...(faint)

I think I need 4 other minutes (of nap, huh)

Meanwhile, I let Madonna save the world (I really enjoy her album, just very Madonna-esque... and...(pssssssshit)... I'll secretly take it for the trip... before Martin hides it, that is!!! hehe)

Oh and that Portishead' Third album, a jewel. The first time I listened to it, I just fell in love with it! ***highly recommended*** :)

The sun, the warmth, the bubbles of the drinks... just a perfect time to welcome 2 new devilish girls in the gallery :-)


click here and as happy as the bee on a warm flowerfull day... That's about how I felt this morning after visiting my publishing house!

The first book is ready, available now in 2 weeks.

Here's the link to get it on in the internet (not there before two weeks though), but I'll remind it several times later if you're interested... ... and in case you forget it :P... if we manage to sell enough of them, the other books will follow! (crossing bits here)

I really hope it will work because it's a very well written text (bravo à Laetitia Gatibelza), a complete book with many information and visually, it's good! I'm really proud! hehe

..it's fookin dangerous, they just don't know how to tame the shopping Beast in them! (while we girls know a pair of shoes are enough to please her -the Beast- :P)

ok...

Two days ago, Martin told me (he sounded kinda embarrassed, huh):

"well, this morning I was just surfing on the internet...ermmm.... found a boat on ebay...

(here I think my face turned from a lovely pink to a scary green")

...and I put the highest bid... and (now Martin feeling visibly terrible) it seems I'm still the highest bid and the auction will end in 30 minutes!"

What???
I could not believe it! A what? a boat???


I jumped on my computer checking that of course, like with every auction on ebay, at the end, you never get what you want.
5 minutes left
2.30 minutes left
56 secondes
8 secondes

"Hello Candles, you're the happy owner of a wunnerful boat!"



Well, it's true, the boat is cute


It's a 5 meters long Doris. We got it for 350 euros (for such a price, I expect a big hole in the middle of it!
...and rats, hundreds of them
...with Nosferatu snoring in the middle of them!)

BUT

We live in Paris, renovate a house with only very little money left, and (actually that is the main point): I did not know about it! grrrmmmpphhh!
Poor Martin, he could hear what is a "roaring Captain Candy"! hehe

Next step: knowing how to take back our new toy.... it's at 3 hours by car from the hobbit house... then what do we do once we get it... I say we plant flowers on it, what you think? ;-) Lola: "Mom, when is my birthday again?"

me: "Well...(thinking hard)... in 6 months, ma chérie. Why?"

Lola: "Oh, nothing, I just want to be ready for it"

me: "huhu"

Lola: "Mom, do you think we can get a plane at home by 1.00 pm to take my friends and I to Disneyland, hm?"

me: "Hmm, to get it at 1.00 pm might be slightly complicated!"

Lola: "oh mooOOOooom, come on, it's my birthday!"



PS: the lil boy on the pic (taken earlier today) just arrived and said to Lola: "Alors, ça va ma beauté?" (="how you doing, honey?") I know that a few of you around, specially one included, enjoy photography. And we all love taking pics, don't we?

That's just another reason to jump into this blog, because the inspired *catwoman* (huhu, no kidding here :P) regularly launches a simple game: she chooses a theme, you answer to it with a picture. For further details about the (very simple) rules, it's here: .

It's trooly fun and entertaining! The new topic is "take a pic of something you do not like"

Your turn to show us! :D

PS: and besides having fun, you also get the most yummy recipes there!!! (tags: supa good, yumyum, in my plate, I'm hungry, I hate diets, it's not fair!!!)

Talking to the diet-ers here, but not only! :P

I've tried 2 recipes during the holidays, very simple and DELICIOUS.

1. Pineapple+pork brochettes:
you naturally all live in a big house, Lady Chatterley style (blush), with a pool, and of course it's pleasantly sunny where you are. So you can make BBQs, right? We're lucky because you'll need one to cook my pineapple/pork brochettes!

you will need:
green/yellow lemons,
pork (genre rouelle), spices,
olive oil,
cans of pineapples (you're sure then the pineapple be sweet enough)
For the quantities, you decide, really.

You prepare a marinade 1 days before cooking your brochettes.
lemons juice + 1 spoon of olive oil+the spices you want (curry, cumin, peper,etc) + the juice from your pineapple cans.
You cut your pork in small pieces, and put it in the marinade for 24 hours.

Once first step is done you can make your brochettes: pork + pineapples bits. The BBQ will make the rest! YUM!

2. Greek filo pastry
You don't live in Lady Chatterley's manor (snif), have no pool and the weather sucks (yawn).. but, hey, you still wanna please your stomach! here my lil (ermm it sounds strange in English) "greek filo pastry" (bricks à la grecque)

it's VERY easy and for having tried a few times, people are wunnerfully surprised!
(did I say I hated cooking one day? Well, that's true, except when it's fookin easy!)

you need:

-filo pastry (feuilles de brick, y'en a partout, trop à la mode ce truc)
-1 feta cheese
-2 eggs
-grated parmesan 3 big spoon
-peper
-chive (ciboulette)

you mix with a fork the feta + eggs + pre-cut chive + peper + grated parmesan

you take a leaf of filo pastry (1 feuille de prick), you cut it like in triangles, not too big (but then you decide if you want big pieces or smaller ones)
you take a coffee spoon of your mixed preparation and put it in the middle of the triangle, you fold the extremities and you have a lovely lil piece ready to be put in the oven.
On the pieces I don't put anything (no oil, no butter, no egg), I'm on a diet remember ! :P

I serve them for the aperitif or with a salad. It's a taste you don't get often around here, it surprises people! and I LOVE it!

Guten Apetite! Just received my tax forms.


You got them too?
Can't wait to spend hours on dem...

PS: first time the only "income" I've got last year was the selling of my paintings!
Yeeepeeeeeee!
I'm getting much poorer though!... LOL ... but MUCH happier :-) The other day I spent some time at my sister's; it was very rainy outside, the kids were playing inside, I was so so SOOOOOO tired... and I discovered my sister had 140 channels on her tv!
Yeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
I had fun.

...till I I started to watch Jesus Camp...

Plus d'infos sur ce film

The trailer does not reveal so much (=you really should watch it), but you get a pretty clear idea.

When you hear the words God + War together, and when you know these words are told to kids... it is scary!
brrrrrr! ...that sounds like Hell, doesn't it?
hehe.. nenene, I'm just talking about Brittany here, and Britanny last week had more of Heaven than anything else (happy sigh)

You will get an idea about it with the photo gallery:

First sunny bits

About the works in the Hobbit house, we spent 5, 6 hours per day on it. Which is pretty much actually (considering you have to take care of 2 wild devils)

It's funny because people around us always seem surprised that we haven't finished the works there. After 5 years. I wonder if they realize what it means to have no money and to be forced to renovate a house with one's own hands. Renovating a wall or building a new parquet takes weeks, renovating such a old little house takes simply years. Because we only have a few weeks per year to work on it, plus weekends. It's not much.
Ha well, nebermind, it's getting better and better anyway! :)

I start to like my lil house a lot, I feel the atmosphere in it and the vibes are warm and positive :) So much sun in a couple of days!
(the terrible rainy Tuesday does not count here, huh)

I'm back as roasted as a chicken, but not as reddish as my hubby-the-lucky-lobster!

We've started with water games and BBQs (nananèreu), the summer season's gonna be hothothot in Brittany. Yup. I can feel it in my waters (don't ask me what that means really)

More details to come soon... when I feel like back on earth ;-) Spring's here.
(don't leave, the post will be interesting, I swear it! -spitting far-)

Well, no, Spring's not really here, but I'm in the mood for it.
If I believe in it hard enough, it will happen yes? Yes.

Well, at least Spring is here:


click here

(I took a poor pic of the painting, the original is brighter, more colourful :-)

And Spring should be there in Britanny where we go tomorrow morning, but I'm not sure the change of season will be that obvious. Grmmphhh.



See you in a week, I'll be back with tons of pics... and wet feet! (I know how tease the reader..hehe.. but this time it's true!)

And here's a scoop à la Perezhilton..., except that it's much more fun because.. Well, just because!

(Please, have a seat and a cupotea and listen to that... hehe...)

It happened Yesterday...
Martin leaves work, walks a bit, and looks for a Parisian bike.
There's a station there in front of this little pub.
He checks the bikes, and a couple (having a drink at the terrasse of the pub, just in front of the bikes) starts talking to Martin.

(I hope I'm good at "suspense", huh :P)

The lady, pretty with a charming Italian accent, asks Martin if the bike he checks is ok, she says that she was on it earlier and that her back is a bit painful now.

Then her man and she start to talk of the weather with Martin while he's getting ready. They say the weather is so nice, great to walk in Paris and to talk like that to people in the street.
Martin talks with them another minute about Paris and they all wish each other a nice end of day.

huhu

Martin, who can hardly recognize me in the street (joking but not that much), realizes he had seen these 2 persons before. Yes. But when, where?



He comes back home, tells me about it, checks on Dailymotion something and realizes...
..he had just exchanged pleasant words... with the talented couple Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel!

OMG


(and Martin who had not recognized them at first! lol) aka "Wednesday" ...

Been to take Loup to the kindergarten, Lola to the dancing lesson, went to buy something for lunch, came back to take Loup and Lola, played pirates with Loup, painted with Lola, enjoyed a *dancing queen* show, sang zillions of lullabies to help Loup to fall asleep, ran to take Lola to some devils'party, stopped to buy candies for the devils there...
..and now I'm waiting for Loup to wake up before taking him to the park, make and destroy hundreds of castles and mountains in the sandpit, runs after the toys' little thieves, and occasionally after Loup, and realize I'm late it's time to take Lola, running with the push-chair, asking Loup to stop screaming -Nope, you won't get any ice-cream, I can still resist your screams-

Once back at home, I will collapse on the sofa. Ooops, no, the "collapse thingie" was just a dream!

Don't you love dem Wednesdays!


The video was superb, original, poetic, inspired, beauDiful, as much as the song was.

it was very promising.

We finally ordered the CD. Received it yesterday...
...And I got really disappointed!


There's something with the guitar like a mix of old U2 + Radiohead or something that I really do not like here. But I'm not saying it's really bad. Just not my taste, except that "I lived on the moon" song above, which is a jewel. (ok men won't show they feel concerned, but we know they're just like us!)

It's April, 3 months before we'll have to expose our bits on the bloody beaches. Don't tell me I'm the only one to worry about the extra kilos I've got from Christmas time (btw Santa C. lacks imagination! Each year he comes with the same heavy present.. huhu)

It's about time to start with the Spring tortures: sports, diet, etc.
(yawn)

Ok, so far the weather's still ugly soooo, I will follow my Plan A.
In case warmer temperatures and a generous sun decide to join, I'm ready for Plan B.

Plan A = don't move from your sofa, girl!
Plan B = Spring tortures

Somehow, I start to enjoy that fookin ugly weather!



click here if you can't read the text

Pshhhit: no I haven't bought a pinkish swimsuit, and no I do not wear green sox :P My talented lil princess has just drawn her first cat!



And you will notice it is a male, a real male, the cat has Martin's moustache and goatee!
No that's not what' I've just won at the lottery... unfortunately!

That's the price we have to pay just to "activate" our account to be connected to the mains (en gros, 1000 pour la "mise en service" du tout à l'égoût. Pffff, hyper cher pour une "mise en service"!).
Besides we have to pay and make all the works to connect the hobbit house to the official installation...pffff....

It is definitely expensive to renovate a house from top to toe! I have some problem with religions at the moment. Can't help thinking most of that was created by men's fertile imagination and fears.
Another part in me is really *open* to believe, and I believe in miracles, and I believe in after life, and I believe in ghosts and in Nature's *Shpirit*.

Anyway, I did not want to talk about my beliefs today, just about Eve :)

I've just finished a painting about this free woman. Got inspired by what she represented to me. More details in the gallery


click here My sis (=frangine) and her boyfriend will *sign papers* tomorrow to buy a new flat (100m²!!! -faint-)
... and on Saturday they will *sign other papers* to sell the flat in which they are at the moment.

Really, selling one's flat and buy the one you want in the same week, that's so perfect!