Hati day

Maybe you didn't notice, but yesterday was hati day. As in a day with hats on. We new.
Peut-etre que vous n'avez pas remarque, mais hier c'etait le jour des chapeaux. Nous, nous savions.

My ideas about the subject where sometime welcomed, sometime rejected.

Mes idees sur la question ont ete souvent acceptees avec plaisir, parfois refusees avec effroi.

Sometimes I was clearly breaking some very specific toddler rule I didn't know about.
For example, a bird can wear a hat, but not an helicopter.
If you really want my two cents on this, I bet it's more easy to put one on an helicopter.
But my sketches were rejected all the same.

 J'ai failli etre declaree hors la loi chez les moins de 3 ans. Il parait qu'on peut mettre un chapeau a un oiseau (piou piou, popo c'est pareil) mais pas a un helicoptere. Si vous voulez mon avis la dessus, il faut des mois de dressage pour qu'un oiseau accepte de mettre un chapeau, alors qu'un helicoptere, non. Pourtant mes dessins ont ete refuses avec vigueur.

And even if I could prove that I can actually put a hat on a car, the idea was declared out of rules, and it was suggested that I play with my own toys. Which I did. I'm the only one allowed to post here, lucky me.

Et meme si je pouvais prouver qu'on peut physiquement mettre un chapeau a une voiture, l'idee a ete violement rejetee, et il a ete suggere que j'aille jouer avec mes joujoux a moi au lieu de faire portnawak avec ceux des autres. Dont acte.

A few new things

First of all, I changed my page of links (yup, that "My links " stuff on top of the Non Dairy). I put all my favourite blogs in one public netvibe page more easy to handle, and added icons leading to my all time favourite websites-the very ones I watch when I want to day dream. I hope you will enjoy them as much as I do.

Then I changed the comments. You can now use a little code to have more fun.Textile formatting is now allowed, you can add (tiny)pictures and links to your coms. Enjoy!

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Tout d'abord, j'ai changé ma page de liens(oui, les liens qui trainaient au dessus de la banniere ).J'ai mis tous mes blogs préférés dans une page publique netvibe plus facile à manipuler, et j'ai fait quelques icones menant vers quelques sites qui me font rever. J'espère que vous les apprécierez autant que moi. Pour la page netvibes, j'ai fait tres vite, j'ai du oublierdu monde. Le gros avantage c'est que je peux en rajouter quand je veux et facilement, affaire a suivre!

Puis j'ai changé les commentaires.Vous pouvez maintenant utiliser un peu de code pour avoir plus de fun. Le Textile formatting est maintenant autorisé, vous pouvez ajouter de ptites  images et des liens dans vos coms. Je compte sur vous pour faire preuve de moderation. Moi je m'en sers pour inserez mon icone ( et celle de la guest star la Trollette). Si vous laissez souvent des coms ici, je serais ravie de vous creer une icone perso...Laissez un pti mot dans les coms et je vous enverrait la petite ligne de code a ajouter une fois les icones faites, ok?

hina matsuri

Today is Hina Matsuri in Japan. Happy doll's day to all the little girls! I don't have the correct set of dolls, but I thought it would may be a good day to introduce you to my kokeshi collection. I love kokeshi dolls dearly, especially the chestnut shaped ones. These petites chéries are the ones on my desk:

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Aujoud'hui c'est Hina Matsuri au Japon, le jour de la fete des poupees, le festival des filles. Bonne fete a toutes les petites (et grandes) filles! Je n'ai pas le set correct pour ce jour la, mais je me suis dit que c'etait le bon jour pour vous presenter mes poupees kokeshi.  Est-ce que vous en avez aussi? J'aime beaucoup les poupees modernes ou d'artistes (kokeshi sosaku), mais c'est pas facile a trouver!

Portnawak

Bon en fait je suis malade* et c'est portnawak. Je fais partie de ces gens qui ne savent pas s'arreter alors je ne fais que des betises. Je me suis arretee avant de casser ma machine a coudre, mais j'ai quand meme brise une bouteille de fond de teint, plante mon mac et ecorne un livre neuf, sacrilege! Mon fils est passe au travers, mais j'ai du arreter pour lui dessiner des bobones menoms. C'est super dur de dessiner pour un garçonnet, on a vingt secondes pour faire le truc sinon paf c'est rate ca ne l'interesse plus.

Ah si vous voulez savoir ce qu'est un bobone menom, ben voila.
Et sinon j'espere que vous allez tous bien?

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I'm kinda sick. Unfortunately I'm restless when I'm sick, not really able to stop because there's so many things I want to do anyway. I managed to crash my mac, dog ear a new book and brake a bottle of foundation. I called it a day before braking my sewing machine.

 I sat and since I was seated someone jumped on my lap and asked for quick cute animals. Here we are, these won't break ( but I sat on the blue crayon).

I hope you are all doing good.

*une angine, c'est rien tout va bien.

C- Not very good at respecting the subject.

la traduc demain cause que la j'ai sommeil ^0^
©del4yo delphine doreau 2009I was tagged by 2 friends (love guys) with a tag that goes all over Facebook...And  I can't find better than answering on my blog, with biased rules, because sorry I couldn't fit in, as usual.

Rules were:

1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

What were the odds? I got a name in French.

2 - Go to "Random quotations"
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

"The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself."Mark Twain (lovely)

3 - Go to flickr and pick a random picture.....This rule I couldn't follow. Come on! It's the best subject ever, random illustration subject! Fun fun fun! Yihaaa! So from this random name and this random title, I made an illustration.

4 - Use Photoshop or similar to put it all together.

5 - Post it to FBwhatever with this text and TAG the friends you want to join in.

So since I changed the rules, I will tag back Lilfairy. And Sam if she feels like it. And of course I have to tag Clo, PaintBetty  and la Trollette. And whoever feels like having fun!

Paris village

(from memory) The tiny houses in the "la Mouff'" quarter in Paris.

This said, the person who installed a bird house in the Non Dairy without asking me has to tell me where she/he put it. We can't let birds invading the blog like that. It's been four posts people. It's too much.

Not that I don't like birds. Just that sometimes I like a sketch without a birdie. OK?

Please?

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Paris village, de memoire de Mouff', avec la nostalgie de la baguette du boulanger de la place de l'Estrapade. Celui qui est ouvert le lundi, pas comme le boulanger de la Rue Saint Jacques, et heureusement, parceque ma Bonne-Maman n'aimait pas trop son pain, mais moi oui.

Ceci dit, je serais contente que la personne qui a planque une mangeoire a oiseaux dans le Non Dairy se denonce im-me-dia-tement et qu'elle me dise ou elle l'a mise.

Ca fait 4 posts, c'est bon, je voudrais bien un dessin sans oiseaux maintenant.

ok?

S'il vous plait?

My paper your paper

I always carry a sketch book in my bag. I began when I was 17 and never stopped. It proved very useful with a toddler to entertain while waiting for pancakes and tuna melts. I wouldn't have bet when I was 17. My sketchbooks were sacred back then.

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Il fut un temps ou mes carnets de croquis etaient sacres. Maintenant mon papier sert aussi en attendant le brunch du dimanche. Je n'arrive pas a savoir si cela me ravit ou m'agace. Les deux sans doute. 

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Graphic ornaments from this book. 

Cueillons des aujourd'hui les roses de la vie

La traduction ici
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No, this picture wasn't taken in an aquarium. It was just raining a LOT in San Francisco today. My neighbor goldfish escaped by the window. We are still looking for it. I might have seen it singing in the lemon tree but I'm not quite sure. Too many jelly fishes.

No kidding. I promised the end of the cherry tree story , but there is actually 2 endings and maybe some more.

First of all, the next day after my post , I got a very extravagant and fantastic parcel from France, from my friend La Trolette. Inside there was a card with a beautiful photo she made a year ago. Yes I know, roses they are, but not very far from my cherry tree, and anyway the coincidence was stuning, and reminded us of the French Carpe Diem by Ronsard "Let's gather nowadays the roses of life".

Then today while I was reading one of my favourite French blogs, le haut clos. And a HUGE surprise was waiting for me! Thinking of my little cherry tree, Clothilde added a few flowers to the invitation  she made for a shop opening. She said that like that I had my proof...How lovely, how sweet!

I love this idea of artists sharing a same subject for fun and friendship. I will now cherish twice the little cherry tree on Quai Branly. Once for memories, twice for friendship. Thank you so much les cheries!