Three polaroids (500) I shot in Hyde Park in London a long time ago.

My coffee (always long, with a dash of milk and one sugar).

What I need now is this .

I'm still packing, almost finished.
We'll move this friday, hopefully it  will be smooth and fast, that's my mantra now!

I take a little pause from blogging, my shop will be closed for few days.

I'll be back soon with more clouds (cream, white and stripes...).

Thank you for your comments in my last post :-)

Am I becoming a grumpy "old" woman?

My day started fine, with a nice breakfast.

Then (as there are again school holidays) we went out for a nice walk, a tea in a nice place
a ice cream and a walk down the river.

After all this idyllic things, we went to a playground...were, I was bullied by a mother and her 4 years old son, who was delighted in throwing his ball at my face (on purpose) and laughing at me.
At the third time I couldn't tolerate more his hideous laugh so I grabbed the ball, handled it furiously to the wrong mother, just to realise that his scary mummy was much taller and bigger than me. She then told me (in a very unkind way)  that his son can throw the ball at my face as many times he wants, after all he's only 4 years old!

I replied that the next time he hit me I would throw the ball in the river so she said that she would throw me down the river and I  had no compassion towards a poor 4 year old boy that only wants to play!!!
I walked away, to avoid to get hit by the bully mum, after all I was speechless!

Am I a grumpy old woman or some mothers out there are totally bonkers?

It seems that certain parents are afraid of the word "discipline".

DISCIPLINE...scary uh! 

Grumpy old women

de jolie choses

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It's a sunny Monday, in my (soon, ex) front garden the first rose has appeared.

This front garden is the wildest here, dandelions and other weeds are allowed to grow,

the "shame" of the street.

I fed it with organic compost and Epsom salt, the roses look glorious and smell wonderful.

Through my mailbox a packet has arrived from France, from Aurélie: 

an amazingly good chocolate, buttery biscuits in a sweet tin, her cute pillows
and a "jolie" bracelet for Anita.
She was so happy about it and told me : "mummy this is exactly what I wanted!"
that's her way to say when she really likes something!

Thank you Aurélie, you made this day even more sunnier :)))

I like the colourful world of Luciana Navarro.

Hello, I'm back again...amidst boxes and stuff everywhere.

Oh, packing is the worst bit of moving.

Is a time when I ask myself why I collect so many things,

sometimes I wish I could be a minimalist person instead of a hoarder!

So, to be coherent,  today I went for a walk and ended up in one of my favourites places in town:

the Antique Center, three floors packed with all sorts of things, it's like a museum.

I took some photos to share with you.

Ah and finally I can wear sandals...that carpet is going in the new home...he he he!

Happy weekend to you all :-)

It makes me so happy to see one of my little clouds on

Papier Mache magazine (issue 3, out now)

with so many beautiful things!

I couldn't resist to show you ... :))))

Milenka cd (Gini's band) has arrived... this is what I'm listening while packing and sort stuff out.

I love it and the song called WolfMother is the one I prefer, so much, that I put it on repeat...

I know, I'm one of those" loopy persons",
my husband doesn't understand this and get a bit annoyed when I listen to the same
song for a couple of hours! who wouldn't really?

It's only me? ....nah, I don't think so, there must be others loopy de loops out there :)

Anyway while sorting  out stuff, I found my box of photos.

My whole life is inside that box. 

On the photos below, me at 17 and 18 years old, when I was a rebel, a punk and a skater...

hence the ugly tattoo on my wrist, which is a nuclear monster: there's a nuclear
symbol that makes the eyes and the mouth and then spikes all around!

I was a rebel and in some ways I always will be  : )

Thanks for your comments on my last post,

Have a nice day!

We are moving into another house.

I started packing...the freaky weather helps!

Our beloved Lucius12

A cool cushion from Envelop made by Audrey Jeanne

My favourite alarm clock  (which has a sweet tic toc)

and much more will go inside the boxes...

Have a look at one of my clouds here 

>.<

Anita loves to cut paper, so much that at school her teacher had to take the scissors away from her...
and I had to do the same at home, if you leave her, she can cut for hours!
I'm very happy to  nurture her creativity but the amount of paper she was using  was way too much!

Below a couple of her creatures.

The shop has been updated with new vintage items.

Have a nice week end ^.^

The embroidered pin cushion from Renilde is arrived this morning!

It has now found its place in my sewing case...perfect, isn't it?

Thank you Renilde it's a great little treasure, I will take good care of it  : )

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The long weekend is finished!

The party was really nice, the weather is crazy and I feel so sleepy!

 "New" objects that will be in my shop soon.

Green grass of tunnel

enjoy!

X

After the buttons cookies here's my attempt with the clouds cookies 
made with this lovely cookie cutter from Herriot Grace...
Thank you Nikole.
 
(And thank you for your opinions, tips and encouragement in my previous post  :))))

Happy Sunday to you all...mine will be very hectic!

Ciao for now!