It's A Boy!

I'm sorry to interrupt the July Mystery Series, which you can still read here, there and there, but July is turning out completely different from what I had planned.

Je suis navrée d'interrompre momentanément la série de juillet, mais ce mois ne se passe pas du tout comme prévu!

I will totally understand if you don't believe me, but I'll still tell you the rest (for now) of my adventures. After the fishbone incident, the lost/found cat and the broken down car, I cracked a rib! I'm wondering if God thought I wouldn't know what to write about during the summer!

Je vous comprendrai si vous ne me croyez pas cette fois, mais je vais quand même vous dire la suite de mes aventures. Après l'incident arrête de poisson, le chat trouvé et la voiture en panne, je me suis fêlé une côte!

It's nothing serious fortunately, but it's very painful and let me tell you the painting of the kitchen is just not happening!

Ce n'est rien de grave heureusement, mais c'est bien douloureux et j'aime autant vous dire que je ne peins pas la cuisine comme prévu!

Just before I cracked the rib, I learnt that next year I would be teaching in two different schools, two different levels I never taught before, so since I can't really move, I've been reading books that are in those curriculum.

The everyday life stuff like getting up, getting dressed, getting meals done with a constant pain in the chest makes me exhausted by 6 pm, so I've been watching TV hoping the duchess of Cambridge would finally arrives at the hospital and then that the little prince would finally show his darling face!

Les activités quotidiennes comme se lever, s'habiller, préparer à manger avec une douleur permanente dans la poitrine suffit à m'épuiser et à partir de 6h du soir, je ne suis plus bonne à rien. Du coup, j'ai suivi toute la fin de la grossesse de la Duchesse de Cambridge, affalée sur mon canapé!

You might seem this is really stupid (especially if you're French), but when such an event takes place in the Royal Family, all my English genes wake up at the same time.

Je sais que cela paraît ridicule aux Français, mais un événement comme cela dans la famille royale réveille instantanément tous mes gènes anglais!

So when my parents said they would come and visit me to help me with the garden, since I can't really garden lately, I thought a blue and white table to honor the newborn prince would be a perfect way to display the "new to me" china I had just thrifted in a recent "empty-your-attic" sale.

A Summery Pim's that might explain why some pictures are a little awry!

Du coup, comme mes parents venaient me rendre une petite visite pour me filer un coup de main dans le jardin (étant donné qu'en ce moment, je ne peux pas faire grand chose), j'ai pensé qu'une table blanche et bleue en l'honneur du petit prince s'imposait. 

It's the Melody pattern by Myott. I was lucky to find many items of it in the past years, so some will be listed in the shop.

Bon, allez, j'avoue, j'avais surtout envie d'utiliser un service que je venais de chiner en vide-grenier!

I promise I'll be back with a backstage post about the online shop, which you can see here meanwhile if you'd like and the recipe for the chocolate treats I displayed in the covered vegetable dish (I like to repurpose!). Of course, that's if I don't have a new accident by then!!!

Je vous promets dans quelques jours des photos "backstage" de la boutique en ligne que vous pouvez toujours voir là en attendant et la recette de ces petites douceurs en chocolat que j'avais stocké dans le légumier (j'aime détourner les objets, hi, hi!) Enfin, s'il n'y a pas un nouvel accident d'ici là!

See you soon,

A bientôt,

PS: Laughing is something very painful to me right now... But YOU would have laughed if you had seen my father rolling his eyes when I turned the lights on in the middle of the day just so the pictures wouldn't be too crappy and when I stopped everything to take pictures of the dessert!

PPS: I'm joining some of my favourite parties, hoping I'll be welcome since I made a cake and chocolate treats!