Starting to Feel Like Spring in Paris

Yesterday my family and I celebrated my grand father's birthday here in Paris. Every year we go to the same restaurant, and then take the same walk in the Père Lachaise cemetary. My grand father is a creature of habit. He's my dad's father. He used to be in the army and he is quite stubborn to say the least.

This year the restaurant was the same but the walk was different.

We waited for my family at the local bookstore, spring might be on its way but it was pretty cold outside.

Of course we ate a lot and drank tons of champagne. I think everyone was quite drunk. It's a good thing I had my lunch with jasmine tea instead of wine.

My grand father lives by the Père Lachaise cemetary so there is a ton of florist around the block.

Typical Parisian building. I like how it looks like it's standing in the middle of nowhere.

I've had my eyes on this one for years. I love its architecture. I really like the turret and the glass roof on top. It is for sale now. I'll never have enough money to buy a building like this, esecially in Paris, not in a million years. Too bad... It looks a lot like my dream house :p I would put my studio on the top floor under the glass roof. How nice would that be...

We went for a walk in this park for a change. It's really tiny.

Almost spring!

Cool sticker we came by. Greg is a fan of street stickers. He really opened my eyes about them.

After the walk we stopped by a café. And then we all headed home.

Back home we just collapsed. Greg in front of the computer, me the TV. I spent the night drawing while watching true crime TV shows. Pretty nice day. Any day spent taking pictures is a cool day.

Plus I got to see my family and plan Easter with them. 

I'm also going to Bretagne in April with my Grand Pa(not the one whose birthday was yesterday, my mom's Dad). We'll go camping in his trailer. :)

Walks in Paris, Making Ravioli from Scratch and Other Things

 These last three days I haven't been home much. I hung out with friends and also my mom.
On tuesday I was with my friend Koddou and we walked around in Saint Michel, up to the Luxembourg Gardens. Then on Wednesday with Damien we hung out by the Canal Saint Martin. And yesterday with my mom we walked down la Rue Du Commerce and then went as far as Bercy... what a long walk!

I was exhausted when I got home around 6:30pm. But I found the courage to put on Spongebob and cook for a while. I had an urge to make ravioli. Last summer I bought a pasta making machine and I hadn't used it ever since. I had a lonely leek in the fridge that has been left out when we made the leek salad last week, and a very old, almost antique, piece of goat cheese that had been sitting in the fridge for about a month, maybe two. Here was the stuffing...

The tv in the kitchen... Very important for me when I cook.

The ravioli were ugly as fuck but quite delicious! With salt pepper olive oil and grated cheese. I thought it would take me ages to make them but it only took me half an hour or so.

Don't mind the flour I have all over my face :) But this is the tunic I made a few days ago :)

I made pockets :)

This poor doll has been sitting by the window for weeks now.. I'm just so frustrated with it I don't think I'll ever finish it and I have been tempted to just throw it away...

Spooky!

Here is a new recipe I tried out. Lamingtons. It's an australian cake and it rocks!!

I made the fist batch with dark chocolate and they were pretty. Then I tried to make a batch with white chocolate with pink dye but the white chocolate doesn't have the same texture and it wouldn't stick properly to the cake. Those were good but ugly. :) I don't even have a picture of the pink ones.

They were gone fast.

Latest Projects

Lately I've been experiencing with clay. How fun! At first I wanted to make full size art dolls but I could not pull it off. I had bought wire for the structure, aluminium foil and masking tape but the clay just would dry right and it just cracked all over. So I made these little guys instead. I had bought realistic plastic eyes off ebay and I love how these look!

This one is the first one I did. I called it 'The Kiss'. I love how intuitive sculpting is. The faces seem to form by themselves. I gave this one to Greg. :) 

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This one is called 'The Look'. I wanted to make a mixed media piece. I love mixing materials and this was especially fun, it's like dressing up a doll.

The description I found for this one: 'She's proud of her appearance but she can't see anything.'

This is 'The Scream'. I tried to make the faces from one another as different as I could. This one has eyes and an open mouth with the tongue showing.

'My Lips are Sealed'

This one looks like Dobby from Harry Potter. :p That's actually the second one I ever made, right after 'The Kiss'. I had this urge to put my sewing needle through this clay...It's not painted yet and I know it's going to be a bitch to paint. I don't want to mess it up, that's why it's not done yet.

Yesterday we bought Innocent smoothies and besides the fact that the kiwi apple and pineapple one was absolutely delicious, we got these little hats!

Don't they look perfect on my little heads??

This one is my least favorite one. It doesn't have a name. But at least it's painted.

So now I'm all out of clay. I'll be getting a new bag soon (a huge one!!!). In the meantime I had a bunch of ideas on what to sculpt next and drew them up. So this is the preliminary sketches to my next little heads: 'The Fight' and 'The Chief'. I cannot wait to do the crown of feathers.

Just another drawing... It's been a while since I had done of those... Sometimes when Greg goes out at night and I'm alone, I surprise him with a drawing I stick on the front door for him to see when he comes back.

The one before was a pastel drawing of a bottle of oil saying: 'we're all out'.

This is the fabric I bought yesterday in Montmartre to make a new tunic. :) Couldn't take a good picture yesterday because it was so dark so here it is.

And in totally unrelated news news I bought a watch. :) I don't wear watches. I don't really like them. But a couple of weeks ago my friend Estelle came to Paris and we went shopping. She bought this watch in golden and I have to admit I was jealous. :p 

A week ago I was at my parents' for a family reunion and I was a bit drunk and bought the watch off Amazon... It took me a while to realize I did it because I was quite drunk actually. But I got a great deal. It was 10€ off the original price. I couldn't pass.

It only takes a couple of days for Amazon to deliver. So one morning I was in the shower and I heard a knock on the door. I thought it was Greg teasing me but the knocking was insistant and I realized it was the front door, so I got out of the shower and yelled Greg's name for him to open the door. I figured he couldn't hear me because he had his headphones on. So I got out of the bathroom to get him, butt naked. The thing is our windows are about 3 yards apart from our neighbours windows, so they can see everything that's going on in our apartment. But I knew it was for my watch and I didn't want the postman to go so I ran to the living room to get Greg and since I was all wet and still naked(why didn't I think of putting a towel around myself, that I'll never know...) I slipped and fell on my ass in a little girl scream... I felt like a whale washed to shore...

Greg finally heard me, came into the kitchen to find me naked on the floor. I told him someone was at the door, I went back to my shower and he got the package for me...

What an adventure for such a little watch! :) It's awesome though, I thought it would only tell time and maybe the date but it has a timewatch, a timer and an alarm. Love it! :)

That's it, I hope I'll be back soon with more sculptures! :)