Flu evolution

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When a virus gets me this hard that I have to stop with everything, I am always scared it will evolve into an otitis. And voilà. Today I woke up with a very well known ear pain... But now yes, from this, it can only get better!

Honey and lemon

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Last week I prepared it for my daughter... now she takes care of me

Little flower

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Today I've passed what I really hope is the peak of my flu. Now I am better but I don't remember the last time it got me that hard! Pain everywhere, body shivers, headache, throat hache, fever... 
My son Dani was seeing me so bad that he went in the garden to pick a little flower for me. And well, in the end it is not that bad to be taken care of. Luckily, my dad is around and took care of the kids and the dog while I rested. So, despite my firm convictions, things stopped a bit for me today :)

A cold...

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I caught a cold... but life goes on! 
I am a firm believer of active recuperation... with the help of my medicine cocktail below ;)

And yes... you're guessing right, my pile of clothes to fold is still there. But good news is that it is growing smaller :D

Clothes to fold ... tomorrow!

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You know, drawing your food gives you more envy to eat it. Today I've discovered it doesn't work like this with the clothes to fold! ;)

Washing dishes

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Today I was already relaxed and ready to just go through the bed ritual and ups, I realised I hadn't done the drawing of the day! It happened that while I was getting ready my husband was still washing dishes so I gave him a bit of company ;)

Onion Soup

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I love onion soup with toasted bread and grated cheese. But it was way too hard and stressing to draw it while it got cold!

Home corners 

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Snowy morning

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... and watching it from the window :)

Ski exhaustion

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Two seconds is what it takes for Dani to fall sleep after his afternoon ski!
Also today...

First Piou-Piou day

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Today was Dani's first day at the ski school. And it is so exhausting!

Reconstruction

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Rather than a portrait, this is more a "reconstruction" of my son's Bruno face. Because he NEVER stops moving so you draw his nose from an angle, his eye from another trying to correct it and position it like the nose, the mouth from another one... Challenging!

He was watching a film, and he recommended me to draw him while drawing... :D

Maracas

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Drawing Saturday evening at home with kids around and getting very stressed about them moving the maracas! They aren't very stable, you know? 🤪🤪

Everynight apple

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Ever since I know him, and from long before, every night, my husband has four walnuts and a red apple for dessert. He's a real example of consistency!
Today I was late for the walnuts, but I have many days to draw them, don't I? :)

Around Villeneuve

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Today I had a beautiful and comfortable amount of time to draw, like an hour and a half which almost never happens. But as it turns out, I've spent a lot of it just turning around different villages in my car, trying to find THE place. I've been in Villeneuve, in Sergy, in Thoiry... And after a while I've just returned to the first place I'd been. In this little road in Villeneuve there are so many things to draw!

Despite all my indecision, I've had enough time to finish my sketch, and to be at school like 15 minutes in advance. Today, with this drawing, I've finished a sketch book. Tomorrow I will start a new one :D

Winter in Crozet

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Winters in Crozet since many years I pass them waiting for my daughter here at the parking of the télécabine in Crozet. With all children from the ski clubs descending at the same time, it is a bit like a lottery: she can be early in the line and come in with the first bunch, or she can be at the end and you freeze to death for an hour until she arrives! In the mornings though, the parking is quite quiet... and the slopes too! ;)

Evening Series

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At home we don't watch TV, but we watch series and films. Tonight when I arrived my daughter was watching her evening series... and she always takes such funny poses :D

Snowing in Sergy

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Let it snow, let it snow...

By the fire

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Nothing like sitting by the fire after a morning of ski!

Not hungry

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After having sketched my food I wasn't not hungry anymore... :D

Tea or coffee?

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My students today had to choose one of these... to draw! I couldn't choose so I drew the three of them ;)

Skiing. Day... and night!

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Today I've been skiing day and night, so I really couldn't draw anything else (yes, not the snow, I was skiing! ;) ). And yes, night, it is almost 1am and I'm just back :) It has been wonderful. The snow, the mountains, the trees... are so beautiful at night.

Drawing in the sun!

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These last days we haven't got much sun in Crozet. Only higher up in the mountain one could catch some rays. But today, finally, it has opened up a bit! Apparently it is not going to last, so I had to profit! This is in the Rue de Jura, in Crozet, a street where you can draw something at every step. Just lovely.

Normal life...
                                       ... and yet special days

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Tuesdays are my busiest days. Well, or rather the less flexible ones. I teach so I have more schedules to follow, while usually, besides school and the dog, I am quite free to organise my days as I please. Today it is Tuesday and also my birthday, and well, I am still a bit like a girl on this and I feel like it is a special day, although rationally I know it isn't. And then the day goes on and indeed it is a mixture of both, a normal day and a special day, with normal stuff and life going on but also little things that make it different than any other Tuesday in a special way. And here a moment of normality: my husband hanging clothes a moment ago. My pile to fold is getting larger and larger, and yet here I am drawing him...

In my way to the collège

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In the way to my daughter's collège in Ferney, very close to the chateau de Voltaire, there is this old ruined farm. And you know, one can get lost drawing there. So many things, chaos, old houses with old windows and old doors, old roofs and broken walls... Well, paradise! 
Today I had to pick up my daughter and I managed to get twenty extra minutes to very quickly sketch a tiny part of this fantastic place. You know, places like these, here, they can vanish from one day to the other...

Maitane's mobile, through the years

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It is in days like this that I wonder why I imposed myself such an inflexible challenge. But again, it is in days like this that one must stick to it, right? So today, tired, the sole condition was to at least draw from bed, something that could motivate me. Hanging from the ceiling we have a mobile I made more than 12 years ago, to hang above my daughter's crib when she was born. And here it is, a bit worn out, after several house and country movings, after being hit by children jumping on our bed quite a few times. But well, still standing! In its origins it had more moons and more planets that we will hang up again when it will be worth it to so do :)

Little Nouga

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This weekend my friend Colette is away and we are taking care of Nouga, her little puppy who's now close to 3 months old. Needless to say everyone is happy, the kids, Ludo the dog, and adults as well :)

Rainy day, tea day!

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Day 25: our messy table

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This is our messy table at home, where all "unfinished" games and constructions land off until I lose my patience (which, for these kind of things is so unlimited ;) ). Luckily, the table is quite small! 

Day 24: Crozet

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I love Crozet, all of it. And how couldn't I having horses next to home.

Day 23: Some sun in Villeneuve

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Today it's been sunny after what it feels a while, so even if my day is quite full on Tuesdays, I had to go out and draw. An old house in Villeneuve.

Day 22: Carsketching ... a flooded river

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It rains and rains a lot and there's water everywhere. Today my husband told me he had to turn around with his bike in Pregnin, because the river Lion was flooded. He also told me, you have to go! And you know, it was a wonderful idea :) There were even a couple of cars trapped in to make the drawing more interesting! :D

Day 21: At home

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These days it rains and rains and sometimes I wonder if I will run out of things to draw. But you know, when you have three productive children, your house is full of cute sketchable things ;)

This one is a little pig my middle one made a couple of years ago.

Day 20: 
Finally in the sofa... for just a moment!

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Today, another full day with no time to stop. And then, already after 8pm, I've sit down in the sofa just to think what to draw... and well, I couldn't just help drawing the view from there, to not move for a moment!

Day 19: more... dinosaurs!

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Couldn't convince my son to draw anything else. So we drew dad and baby triceratops. That is, I sketched, he gave me instructions ;)

ps. Notice that, of my 19 drawings so far, already 4 are about or contain dinosaurs in them. Non negligible!

Day 18: dinosaurs

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When your sick child loves dinosaurs and you let him choose the drawing of the day :)

Day 17: sick child

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My youngest, sick today, and watching a film to try to forget stomach ache.
I thought it would be easier to draw him today, but even sick, he doesn't stop moving!!

Day 16: In front of the mirror

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This is me, drawing myself, in front of the mirror.
Today it was earlier so I had time to draw the full body! ;)

Day 15: full day

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Today it was a full day. From one place to the other non-stop. But a fun one. So when I finally stopped to draw I could only do it from bed ;)
Maybe one day when I am less tired I will explain the story of my dinosaur pyjamas!

Day 14: Sunday Games

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Kapla towers, playmobil farms... Family Winter Sunday afternoons under the fog :)

Day 13: An original food container

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This one is close to where I was drawing two days ago. I pass quite often running or with my dog, and I always find it so funny. An old car recycled into a horses food container. 

And today, as bonus, a picture taken in situ:

Day 12: puzzles

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Today has been a very busy day. I've passed it all as in a race against the clock, linking one task after another. But when kids have been back from school, we've had a relaxing moment, drawing and making dinosaur puzzles.  

Outdoors

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A little house which I don't know what it was for in the past, that I wanted to sketch a while ago. 

Day 10: hommage to muddy trails

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Because they are so so fun!

(this is my shoe after today's run and it really wasn't that bad!)

Day 9: hard boiled egg with oil and salt

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I think that's my favorite way of eating eggs... although I like them cooked in any other way as well. This was part of my lunch today. I hope the hens keep laying them, yum!!

Day 8: ... and the first egg!!

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Yesterday after having drawn the chickens I was joking around saying, well, maybe my drawing will inspire them to finally lay an egg today! And you know, it happened!! Right today we found the first egg after the winter pause! 
These coincidences in life are just amazing and make me think there are so many things we just don't understand :)
It is just an egg, but it very well deserved my sketch of the day.

Day 7: Los pollos

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Two of our hens, lovingly know as "los pollos". Staying with birds today, but real ones! :)