Marché Normand, Baguette Stamp 🥖 Letter

Last weekend , another foodie Fête 🤸‍♂️Marché Normand for 3 days of feasting.

On Saturday after morning Butter 🧈 Class, an afternoon Champagne 🥂🍾 Tasting, & a book 📕 signing in the Marais, when I got home 🏠 I spotted tents ⛺️ along the Seine. 

What to do?🤷‍♀️ I took a 15 minute nap 😴 & ran 🏃‍♀️ over to the Marché Normand Many stands had closed by 8 pm but I snagged a box of lait crus Camembert. The producer could not name 🤔 the cow 🐄 who made the cheese 😦

Still it was perfectly runny, especially with a slice of strawberry on top 🍓 I had to go back for more on Sunday!

My partner in crime Solli K. joined me. *Note Solli’s wearing a blue & white striped shirt 👔 

This lewk was de rigueur at the Marché

More blue-striped shirts. Now you know what to wear PBers 👍 Sadly I was wearing a mariner shirt with horizontal stripes 🙄

50 producteurs were present, offering specialties of the region

Planches of charcuterie going for a song 

Black Normand carrots. Have you tasted these?🥕

Seafood from the Normandy coast 🦀 They ran out of oysters 🦪 by Sunday 😭 

We toyed with sharing a crab 🦀 

Then decided not 😦 Better go to Le Crab Martel 🦀

We flirted with 

 beautiful flans.

It was a grand fête 

On a sunny 🌞 day along the Seine. Bit by bit, Notre Dame is recovering 🙏 

 ‘The Dog of the Day’!

Last Friday I went to buy stamps. Many PBers have been asking for the new Scratch n’ Sniff baguette 🥖 stamp. Was I going to get it?

Have you heard Tomo’s rap Baguette 🥖 song?

It is pretty adorable ❤️ especially with my favorite French 🇫🇷 ribbon cleverly in the design.

I created a special hand-drawn ✍️ limited edition envelope 💌 you can buy ($5) on Etsy to go with a letter you’re buying.

After changing my mind 🤔 on the May Paris letter design 18 times, I redrew ✏️ a Boulangerie letter to match the stamps 🇫🇷🥖 

Et Voila !! The new Baguette 🥖 Stamp letter is on Etsy! And it comes with the Baguette 🥖 envelope 👏👏👏

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