Je n'avais pas fait d'article en français depuis bien longtemps, aujourd'hui et par rapport à notre crise sanitaire, je me dois de vous écrire en français, j'ai décidé de vous en parler plus en profondeur et de peut-être répondre à des questions dont vous n'arrivez pas à comprendre les réponses. J'ai malgré le fait que le blog depuis deux années est en stand-by toujours en grand nombre de lecteurs quotidiens et ceux partout dans le monde. Il est donc de mon devoir de par ma visibilité de vous en parler.

Qu’est-ce qu’un coronavirus? C’est une grande famille qui regroupe le rhume banal jusqu’aux infections pulmonaires sévères qui peuvent provoquer elles des détresses respiratoires importantes.  Qu’est-ce que le SARS? c’est le Syndrome respiratoire aigu sévère 

Qu’est-ce qu’une Pandemie? C’est une epidemie qui atteint un grand nombre de personnes dans une zone géographiques étendues. 

Le génome qui est un ensemble de chromosomes  et des gènes, ce dernier correspond à 50% au virus du MERS-Cov (syndrome respiratoire du moyen-orient en 2012)  à 79,5 du SARS-Cov (syndrome respiratoire aigu et sévère de la chine fin 2002-2003) à 96% d’un coronavirus d’un type de chauve-souris et a 99% d’un coronavirus provenant du pangolin 

Les symptômes courants, sont la fièvre la toux sèche et la fatigue 

Les symptômes rares sont les céphalées (les maux de têtes), la congestion nasale, des maux de gorge et une toux grasse, des douleurs musculaires et articulaires des frissons des nausées et des vomissements ainsi que la diarrhée .

Dans les cas sévères, la fièvre élevée, hemoptysie (crachement de sang provenant des voies respiratoires), diminutions des globules blancs qui sont essentiels au bon fonctionnement du système immunitaires. 

Ce virus est un virus de contact d’où la nécessité d’éviter le contact le plus possible avec des gens, comme vous avez pu voir et entendre ces derniers jours le taux de létalité est tout de même assez important pour les personnes âgées d’où l’importance de ne plus aller visiter son proche dans les EHPAD ni même à son domicile, nous avons notamment directement fait le choix logique dans notre famille pour ma grand-mère de 72 ans, de ne plus être en contact physique avec elle, pour éviter si nous sommes porteurs sans symptômes de lui donner le virus. Il faut savoir que les personnes les plus à risques en outre les personnes âgées sont aussi les personnes souffrant d’hypertension, de diabète ou de maladie cardio-vasculaires. Il est donc important de faire attention aux personnes qui nous entourent même quand nous allons acheter nos denrées alimentaires, en mettant du carburant dans nos voitures aussi, en payant à la caisse. Si votre banque le propose le système apple pay, ou lif Pay sous Android ils permettent des paiements supérieures à 30 euros sans devoir toucher aux touches du clavier de paiement. 

Il est nécessaire comme tout le monde le répète de se laver les mains dans la journée, de n’utiliser un mouchoir qu’une fois et de ne pas le garder dans sa poche, il est nécessaire de penser à désinfecter ses poignées de portes si on a de la visite ce qui a mon sens est totalement prohibé pour éviter de contaminer les autres 

Il faut prendre conscience que le virus EST PRESENT SUR LE TERRITOIRE et que l'on ne parle plus d'éviter sa propagation il faut maintenant vivre avec et s'en accommoder pendant quelques temps et donc de respecter LES REGLES. 

Vous êtes sans doute des adultes à la lecture de cela, vous pouvez penser qu'on vous parle comme si vous étiez des enfants néanmoins nous sommes un pays sans aucune culture de l'épidémie, nous n'avons aucunes habitudes sanitaires dans ce genre de moment car non, se réunir dans un parc entre amis n’est pas normal et acceptable en cas de pandémie, il n’est pas normal d’inviter des amis à diner, il n’est pas normal à mon sens de se réunir peu importe le lieu. Vous devez rester au maximum confinés dans vos lieux d’habitations car qui êtes-vous pour serrer la main d’une personnes et  peut-être la contaminer sans même savoir si la personne en face de vous n’a pas des problèmes de santés que elle-même ne connait peut-être pas encore? 

Néanmoins il est aussi important de ne pas se dire que l’on ne trouvera plus à manger, nous ne sommes pas dans une situation de grèves des transports il n’est donc pas nécessaire d’acheter 25 paquets de riz que vous n’arriverez jamais à finir, car vous pourrez toujours vous faire livrer, vous faire un Drive, un ami pourra toujours déposer au bas de votre porte si vous êtes une personne à risques ou une personne avec des symptômes votre sac de courses. Il est aussi important de venir en aide à ces personnes qui ne doivent pas sortir de chez elles si ces dernières ont un système immunitaire trop faible. Acheter raisonnablement, sans aller trop loin car même si vous avez peur, que vous êtes inquiets ce n’est clairement pas le moment de surconsommer. Prévoyez peut-être vos repas des recettes qui vous éviterons de céder à la panique et d’acheter ce 26eme paquet de riz dont vous n’aurez pas réellement besoin. 

Si vous ne faites pas l'école à la maison, si vous ne faites pas de télé-travail, ne passez pas votre temps à vous créer votre propre psychose, prenez du temps, pour trier ces cartons que vous devez faire depuis 10 ans, lire les livres que vous avez empiler dans un coin en vous disant "quand j'aurais du temps" faites votre grand ménage de printemps pour ne pas avoir à le faire quand vous aurez à nouveau le droit de faire un café avec vos amis en terrasse mais aussi profitez de ce temps si vous le pouvez pour vous faire un peu de Netflix and Chill ou repeindre cette pièce que vous voulez faire depuis 2 ans.

Il faut durant ces moments là, passez outre nos avis politique, et il faut écouter les consignes gouvernementales, respecter les arrêtés préfectoraux, que vous soyez pour ou contre la politique de notre gouvernement actuel, vous ne devez en aucun cas prendre le risque de contaminer votre voisins, vos amis, votre famille. Il est de votre devoir de ne pas risquer la vie de votre prochain. 

Je vous souhaite à tous un très bon confinement, faites attentions à vous, à vos proches et ne devenez pas fous pour autant.

Bises.

Ana. 

Disneyland Paris 24 weeks pregnant.

As i'm writing this blogpost, you are probably thinking why is she's not acting anymore on her blog, we'll it's probably because since as right now i'm 28 weeks pregnant. Yes, you read it, with my fiancé we are expecting a little baby in September. I wasn't ready to talk about it before because firstly it's my  first (and only!) pregnancy and mostly because i didn't really know what to expect. 

Indeed when i say it's my first pregnancy i have to correct that it's actually my first real one, as before i lived an absorption with my ex-boyfriend, i will be happy to talk about this topic if you are interested. 

Today i thought it was the right time to announce you this big news, it's also the time to say that now you will have a topic dedicated to pregnancy and parenting on my blog (yes you read it correctly) as i want to share this journey with you, this topic is not about giving advice but mostly to share what we choose, what we don't want etc.. because as we know parenting and pregnancy can be totally different to others and i think it's important to share our experience with you especially if you are living a pregnancy. 

You need to have a little bit of an explanation of my personal life before i will talk about my pregnancy and my first trimester. So my fiancé is already a daddy of two girls from his first marriage who are 11 and 8 when i'm writing this. So at home between the two of us i'm the one who didn't know anything about pregnancy and kids (which is quite helpful and diminue a lot of stress!), also he is a volunteer firefighter, so i'm not scared about what will happen when it will be the time of the birth as i have someone at home who knows how to handle that (it's diminues a lot of stress to be honest!) But even tho i hate hospital and i have a big phobia of any medical procedures who needs needles (even tho i have tattoos! yes! don't judge! it's a phobia i can't explain it!) 

Now let's begin with the First Trimester Throwback, as i said in the beginning i'm right now 28 weeks pregnant so i'm indeed at the beginning of my third trimester. The first one was pretty hard in terms of symptoms, nothing medically important at all but the fatigue was here, during the first three months i was probably two and half months totally out of energy, nausea was a thing too, especially at the beginning just after we had done the first scan i was 5 weeks. I can say that my symptoms came just right after the dating scan as it was pretty early i got symptoms pretty early tho (i do think right now that it's totally psychologic!). Boobs had got bigger during the first trimester as for reference i am between and 32C and 32D (depending of the brand and shape of my bra) i'm now between a 34C and a 34D. Even tho now it looks like i have breast implants on my petite frame for reference i'm 5"0 and 85,98 Lbs (before pregnancy lol) my boobs were not as hurting as some women can feel, they were tight and it was a little bit sensitive around the areola for maybe three weeks. i got my first back pain during my third month as my uterus was starting to move and bet bigger more and more, it's a symptom without being one also as i do have some back issue when i was a teenager, and i live with back pain since i'm 12, i'm just use to the back pain problem. The pregnancy glow wasn't here at all during the first trimester. Also i didn't gain a lot of weight indeed almost nothing during the first trimester.

Things that you need to know? If you are living your pregnancy in France you will probably hate to have a monthly check-up with your gynaecologist and also if you are not immune to toxoplasmosis you will have a blood test every month until the end of your pregnancy. But don't be scared about not being immune to toxoplasmosis it's nothing! most of us in the world are not! you just have to make sure that your vegetables are perfectly cleaned, and you have to eat your meat kind of burned (the bacteria can live between 4 to 65°C in ingredients) so if you want to eat beef without eating it burned you can put your meat in the freezer 24hrs before to get rid of the possible bacteria. Also don't be scared about it, Toxoplasmosis is quite rare, if you get it during pregnancy it can be medically IMPORTANT for your baby but the chances that you will have the toxoplasmosis are low especially if you clean your vegetables and if you don't play with your cat litter box either as it can be in your cat poop (even tho it can happen if you have is not an indoor cat because the bacteria is in the mud). Don't be scared for your little companion, you can give him a lot of cuddle without any problem especially if it's an indoor cat like my Harvey, because the bacteria can't be in his fur, but if your cat goes outside make sure that he doesn't have mud under his paws and also that he doesn't not scratch you. Also it's not recommended to eat sushi during pregnancy because of the Listeria. i don't know a lot of thing about Listeria because i don't eat enough sushi to be scared of it. For me it's not a problem to not have sushi for 9 months.

24 weeks pregnant.

The second Trimester, well quite interesting in terms of my body frame because nobody can figure that i was pregnant, because i didn't gain lot of weight and my belly was not showing until around 24 weeks. especially when i was wearing a shirt with a jeans. As for pregnancy clothing ? nothing was needed during the second trimester, symptoms? nausea was over, fatigue also, my hair are growing faster so i need to do my hair dye more frequently i will talk about hair dye in a future blogpost. Back pain? more and more present especially during the 22-25weeks now it's getting a little bit better. We have already almost finished the nursery in terms of big stuff. During the third trimester i will share with you the nursery but also the little details that we are adding during the last three month.

As for the gender of our baby, we are expecting a baby BOY! my fiancé is thrilled about this idea as he already had two daughters so it's something new for him things are a little bit different and I'm happy for him to live a different experience. for our gender reveal we choose to do something funny for the reveal to our family but not something big, so we thought that a gender reveal cake was totally enough. I  will share with you the recipe in a future blogpost. 

I think I am quite done with the big life update. 

see you soon. 

    The Tuileries Garden, is probably my favourite touristic place in Paris, this place has a high history resonance. In 1564 Catherine de medici' created the Tuileries palace. In 1559 the King Henri II died due to an accidental death, her Son François II was already married to Mary the queen of Scots so Catherine de Medici' moved to the Louvre Palace and it's in 1564 that she decided to create the Tuileries Palace in the Tuileries Garden. 

 

    During the French Revolution, on october 6 of 1789 the french revolution began and the king louis XVI was brought against his will to the tuileries Palace (since Louis XIV the royal residency was Versailles and Louis XVI was born in Versailles Castle). in the 19th century Napoleon Bonaparte was about to became an emperor and moved into the Tuileries Palace on February 19, 1800 and making an improvement to suit an imperial residence.

In 1871 Jules Bergeret set the fire on the palace with petroleum, liquid tar and turpentine. The fire lasted 24hrs and thoroughly gutted the palace. The ruins of the Tuileries palace stood on the site for 11 years because in 1882 the French National Embassy voted the demolition of the palace. The Tuileries garden and the Louvre area resonate a lot historically. during the 19th century the garden was the place where ordinary parisians wants to relax, meet, stroll and enjoy the fresh air and the greenery. 

    The Louvre pyramid is a contemporary monument commissioned by the French President François Mitterand in 1984. It was design by the Chinese-American Architect I.M Pei (who is 101 years now!). The structure which was constructed entirely with glass segments and metal poles, reaches the height of 71 feet (21,6 meters).  The inverted pyramid that you can on this picture is at the Carrousel du Louvre it's a mall who refers to two places nearby. the Louvre Musuem but also the Place du Carrousel. The mall contains the beautiful inverted pyramid. this pyramid was created also by the architect I.M Pei in 1993. 

Alexander-III bridge

    Here is a view from the Alexander-III Bridge, this bridge connects the Champs-Elysées quarter with those of the Invalids and the Eiffel Tower. The bridge where this photo is from was built between 1895 and 1900 and it's named after the Tsar Alexander III who had concluded the French-Russian alliance in 1892.  here is one of the popular fames of the bridge. 

The Basilica of the sacred heart of paris commonly know as the sacré-coeur basilica is probably one of the most beautiful monument of paris. It's a Roman catholic church and minor basilica dedicated to the sacred heart of jesus. The monument is located on the famous area of the Butte de Montmartre. The view from there is probably the most magical landscape that you can capture in photo. We can't describe this view with words. 

    The sacré-coeur is the exact definition of a double-monument, it's political and cultural. The Basilica was designed by Paul Abadie the construction began in 1875 and was completed in 1914. The overall style of the structure shows a free interpretation of the Romano-Bysantine features and unusual architectural vocabulary at this time, which was a conscious reaction against the neo-Baroque excesses of the Garnier Palace cited in the competition. Many design elements symbolise nationalist theme.

 The Living room is probably my favorite room of the house, even if we don't have finish to furnish it yet, we still need a nice dining room cabinet and also a piano, we are still trying to find our piano we are in a big discussion about it also to paint a wall and to add an bigger table. But i thought it was a great idea to share with you where we are now and i will probably do a renovation blogpost about our recent changes later. 

    I decided today to share with you a little bit of our first Christmas in our house and our regular decoration of all year around. Our space is quite big, we enjoy the fact that we have a lot of luminosity it's a through living room and it's really pleasing to live in. As you can see our Christmas tree was really traditional this year, as always i'm a massive of fake Christmas tree, firstly because it's more ecological but also because i don't have to use my vacuum everyday for the leaves because that can happen especially with a floor heating like ours our bob is dry (the big plant) needs a pedestal because of that. The theme was red, green and gold and also with a lot of glass ornements, i already what i want for next year christmas decorations and i'm exited to share with you at the end of this year what it will be. As a massive fan of Christmas decorations i wanted to have a train under the tree, it's something that resonated a lot in me, it's feels so warm to have those lights for a months, with this little village and train. Also i use my big golden basket as a Christmas sack for the gifts.

    The couch area is probably my favorite part of the living room, we are big ikea fan so obviously you will a lot of ikea links at the end of this blogpost, we wanted to have a big converted sofa, as we have two bedrooms in the house and one office we thought it was a great idea to add a converted sofa if we have guest who wanted to stay after a nice dinner, we are in love with black, gold and leather so we choose a black leather couch, it's confortable, we have a lot of cosy evening behind netflix in this sofa. we enjoy dark blue tones and greens, unfortunately the photo doesn't show the real colour of our plaid and pillow

    Next to the right of the sofa we have a black metal side table, we use to have our small bonsaï here, but because we added a side table at the right of the sofa, we choose to have only a gold minimalist lamp. I love everything minimalistic as you can see, for the the go to decoration is all about minimalism, we also choose a warm vintage light to add a little bit more cosiness.



    As almost all of our furnitures are black, i love adding gold details in terms of decorations to add warmth to the room, i will later share with you in a new blogpost what i choose to add gold but not with a girly effect.

    

    

   

    Our plant still needs a pedestal but it will come in not a long time, i still need to find the perfect one, so our plant is a little bit dry because of the floor heating as i say before, but i like this green corner with the golden basket, we like to use it to store our sofa cushions and plaids when we want a little bit more space or when friends are staying at home and needs the converted sofa. This Basket is just at the left of our architecture inspired lamp, and i'm exited to add a piano to this blank space here. we are thinking of a Yamaha Clavinova 625 with the glossy black finish.  To the other part of the room we still need to paint the wall the TV stand and the guitars are placed and we will add a nice dining cabinet to store our occasional dishes and books. 

    Our curtains are dark blue, almost a night blue color which is in my opinion an amazing color for a living room. As everything is really modern in our living i now want to give a more rustique ancient look  with some details i'm thinking of my future dining room cabinet, i will share with you about this later. So i choose cream curtain loops who are italien renaissance style, this style was introduce during this era in Toscane. I really like the big pompom because their are heavy and works nicely with the fabric of our black curtains. 

    I hope you have enjoy the first part of my interior category and i hope you liked the small tour of my living room i'm exited to share more details about our home in the next blogpost. 

Nars Sheer Glow (Gobi) according to François Nars, it's a sheer foundation with a buildable coverage, well for me in my case it's more a light-medium coverage foundation. This foundation has a natural and a glowy finish. It leaves the skin hydrated and more luminous with a softer and smoother finish. I do already had finish two bottles of this foundation, we can say that it's probably one of my most used and favorites foundations. 

The Make-Up Forever Waterblend (Y215), is my last summer favorite foundation, for me it's more a skin tint than a real foundation, quite similar to the Face and Body from mac, but with a wider shade range, which for me is a big pro because of my really fair skin, i do have to say that i used to be a massive fan of the older version of this foundation which was also named face and body so i wasn't surprised with this one. The finish is quite dewy, if you have an combination to oily skin i will suggest to set this foundation with a nice mattifying powder and to apply a mattifying primer (my favorite? the makeup forever mattifying primer is the best in my opinion) 

The Glossier Perfecting Skin Tint (light and medium), is probably my most sheerest product into my entire collection. The brand, created by Emily Weiss is a brand who democratise beauty, the brand put the skin health before the makeup that's the philosphy because the beauty world has historically been an industry based on experts telling you, the customer, what you should or shouldn’t be using on your face. The Perfecting Skin Tint even out the discolouration and leaves the skin smooth and dewy, I use this product when i want something but also nothing on my face (yes it's a paradox, but i'm a women). 

The Bourjois Healthy Mix Serum (51 Light Vanilla), was the first enough light foundation that i could find at the drugstore and that was almost ten years ago. Since the packaging as changed a bit, but it's still as good as he used to be back in a day(and still with the fruity scent). It's a mixture between a liquid foundation and a cream foundation. It's an HYBRID. It gives me coverage without hiding my freckles, if you have a normal to dry skin i will highly recommend to check this one out, It contains vitamin C, E, and B5 that helps the skin to look fresh and radiant.

The It Cosmetics CC Cream (Fair), do we have to talk about the packaging of mine? totally rubbed of, almost done, that's for sure how much i love this CC Cream. I don't know if i can say that this CC cream has a light coverage, because for a CC cream it's full coverage base in my opinion, if i have to re-categorize this product as a foundation i would say it's a light-buildable medium coverage. As you know, BB and CC cream are normally in the sheerer side (like the Laura Mercier Tinted moisturizer) but this one, (oh dude!)  is a perfection in a tube (and yes with a pump!) what i like about this product is the SPF 50+ but specially the Chemical Filtre Free SPF, i don't have a sensitive skin but i hate when a foundation or a BB/CC cream has a chemical SPF. this product is moisturising, and it protects your skin from sun damage and especially from the UVA. 

Since I discovered all these products, I admit in all honesty not to use the rest of my collection and thus i have begin to get rid little by little of the products I don't really need. I try to restrict all this to have a more minimalist collection which corresponds to my needs but also to what I really like to use. I'm thinking of writing you a blogpost very soon on this radical change.

Love.

A.