The Thanksgiving List

Thanks for getting out of my bed every morning when my first move would be to call in sick ...but since I have stopped working 12 years ago, I can't call anyone so I have to get up all by myself,
Thanks for Arpoador Beach, my encounter of the year. I now know for a true fact what I suspected for years : I was a Carioca in a previous life.
Thanks for the pair of Repetto tango shoes which lives now in my closet. So equipped, I have been able to consider my next leap, or rather step of faith.
Thanks for having finally decided to stop dieting after 25 years and immediately regretted it, but you have to stick by your decisions once in a while...
Thanks to the usual suspects, guilty as charged for laughter and love.

Liste a la Prevert List

I love lists and I love Prevert, a bit of an egg and hen story really...and I don't have time to make this very useful tool for artist, I have named, the sketchbook. It might be the evident sign that I am not an artist. Real artists produce these very beautiful spontaneous books/diaries/sketchers with watercolours and nice little gimmicksg glued everywhere in between pages and everything matches perfectly spontaneously because they are artists.
seeing that I an usually losing a tube ticket as soon I have bought it round the corner from my house, there is a fat chance I'm going to secure one from a very big trip overseas...and don't even start me on the availability of glue whenever you need it.
Sooo I suddenly decided, because I am that brilliant sometimes that I will do my sketchbooks with the only thing I never miss i.e my words ( which does not mean I am using them properly particularly in English...well as a matter of fact in French too). My sketchbooks will be in writing and it will be a list, well lists...and sometimes or hopefully more than that it could become a painting...When I feel like it and when it is not -2 in my studio which is also the garage by the way.
So today's post will be my first list and because I am a very simple cheerful girl very much in touch with the rythm of seasons, it will a Thanksgiving list. On Thanksgiving Day, that's right.

Nigella's fan

Madonna is still the one but at some point I have to feed my family and here comes the other half Italian strange named woman of my life...I have to confess I sometimes dream about her pantry, it's colourful, it looks delicious without even being cooked and it seems to fill itself effortlessly... it's enough to feed a fantasy when you have to go shopping every two days...

Life Savours. Oil, fabrics and collage on canvas, 30x20cm