Christmas day in Paris

 

Christmas day in Paris was foggy

What I ate for Christmas lunch

Les vitrines Galeries Lafayette & Printemps

 

On Friday I went early to the stamp store and was rewarded with uncrowded views of the Christmas windows 🎉 Simply go before 11 folks 👍

Galeries Lafayette windows are blindingly full 

Marché des Cuisines du Monde, Bastille

 

Saturday I invited Julia to a new foodie event In my neck of the woods at Bastille.

You can’t miss Julia in her inimitable Marimekko/Uniglo puffer coat 🧥

Samaritaine Paris, Ova Tea salon

 

Yesterday I took a brief break

To go up to Samaritaine Paris at Pont Neuf

Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Notre Dame

 

Susan B. wrote and asked, “ I wonder if there’s an illustration of Notre Dame in your future?” At first I said no 😬…but after a bit my arm was twisted 🥰

When I went out my door 🚪 yesterday at 11:30 🕦 am, everyone was tearing up my street, dogs 🐕 & all, headed for NOTRE DAME of course 😳

Mon Ours en Pelouche, musée des Arts Decoratifs

 

A certain someone 🧸 insisted we go to Opening day

Of the Teddy Bear 🧸 exhibit at Musee des Arts Decoratifs/MAD.

Hermès Paris, Centre Pompidou, La Machine du Moulin Rouge,

 

Yesterday I made a special trip to Hermès, 17, rue de Sèvres, 75006

Last Sunday on the way to the AAWE Xmas Bazaar, 

Salon du Livre et de la Presse Jeunesse

 

“Happy 🦃 Thanksgiving ”, Brigitte, my bouquiniste said to me. I’d momentarily forgotten. When she lived in the states, the ex-pats would be invited to THREE Thanksgivings 🦃🦃🦃 in one day!

Yesterday I went to opening day of the annual children’s book 📚 fair in Montreuil and its FREE !

A New Hat at AAWE Paris

A few weeks ago, when J. said, “would you like to go to the AAWE Christmas Bazaar at The American Church” I said sure.

Little did I know, across a crowded room

FAB Paris, Fine Arts La Biennale

Wednesday afternoon I went to the presse preview of the annual Fine Arts La Biennaleat Grand Palais 🤸‍♂️

So lovely to be back after being closed several years for refurbishment - definitely one of Paris’ grandest monuments. 

Le Rendez-vous International du Carnet de Voyage, Clermont-Ferrand

 

Every mid-November it’s annual travel sketchbook time in Clermont-Ferrand.

I left early Saturday morning in pitch dark to catch the 7am train🚊from Bercy. I even left extra early 🙄 Still I got lost going out at the wrong metro exit. At last we arrived to a warm, sunny day - highly usually for normally freezing 🥶 Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne mountains.

Le trompe-l’œil, Musée Marmottan Monet

 

Yesterday I went to see the new Trompe l’Oeil 👁️(fool the eye) exhibit

At musée Marmottan in the 16th arrondissement (Metro 9).

Impérial chocolat au Château de Fontainebleau

 

Chocolate-covered madeleines are so hard to paint 🎨 

Yesterday I went to opening day of Imperial Chocolat 🍫 

La Saga des Grands Magasins, Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine

 

Yesterday I ran 🏃‍♀️ to see a new exhibit, The Department Stores. 

For ‘retail therapy’ at la Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine at Trocadero, as a distraction…

Figures du fou, du Moyen Âge aux Romantiques, musée du Louvre

 

Foolishly I went Sunday afternoon to the Louvre 

When it is crowded like a madhouse.

Salon du Chocolat 2

 

I returned to the Salon du chocolat this morning (9:55 at opening time).

Mainly because I ate 😋 all the samples I collected to give my copyshop guy from opening night.

Salon du Chocolat - Paris

 

Well, the Salon du Chocolat was fun 🍫

Of course I didn’t resist any chocolate 🍫 offerings until at least an hour in.

Tarte aux Pommes 🍎 à la Normande surgelés Picard

 

Painting a Normande apple 🍎 tarte is not a piece of cake 🍰 

I should know. I’ve been MIA this past week eating apple tartes

Sial Paris 2024 - Part 2

We went back to SIAL yesterday after a day of deep-induced sleep 💤 therapy,  cold showers & ice 🧊 bucket immersions. I don’t think it was enough…

Many more people attended on Monday. The scene at the RER Metro exit 🙀

Sial Paris 2024

 

My collection of free samples

Yesterday Solli, my partner in crime, and I

Took RER B out to Parc des Expositions for first day of SIAL.

Stephen Jones - Chapeaux Artiste, Palais Galleria

 

Yesterday 

I went to the preview of British hat artist, 

Fete de Ventre, Rouen

 

Saturday I was all set to go to the Fete de Brie de Meaux…

Then I saw La fete de Ventre was talking place in Rouen!

Cabinet des Curiosités Map, Surrealism - Pompidou

 

On ETSY NOW.

Maybe my curiosity was peaked 🤔

After a visit to Messy Nessy’s Cabinet back in July.

Melun Fête son Brie

On Saturday, Bear 🐻 and I took the train to Melun, a 25 minute train ride from Gare de Lyon.

Melun is home 🏠 to an extra-aged, deliciously creamy Brie cheese.

Sonia Delaunay - Galerie Zlotowski, Galerie Roger Viollet

 

Wednesday we went to a pre-preview 

Double show of Sonia Delaunay At Galerie Zlotowski & Galerie Roger Viollet.