Desperately Seeking Le Petit Prince 🤴

 

Creating The Paris Letter every month can be challenging. 

When you think it’s going to be easy, it never is. 

Fall leaves 🍁 was a given for the month of October.

By chance I walked by Le Petit Prince 🤴store on 8, rue Grégoire des Tours in the 6th arrondissement. Have you been?

 The windows were full of falling leaves 🍂 🍁 

This shop has to be a goldmine 

Of ideas 💡 I’m thinking…

I found a book of sketches ✍️ by the author, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’

I started doing rough sketches…doodle-de-do

The Little Prince guards his beloved rose in a glass dome.

Why not a treasured fallen leaf 🍁 inside the dome?

The Little Prince goes catching stars 

Why not catch falling leaves?

Did I say Ladurée recently did a macaron box with Le Petit Prince on it? I am surrounded.

Have you read Le Petit Prince?

What’s more, have you understood it? 

Here’s a good explanation in 15 minutes. I’m still working on it. It’s a mysterious book 📕 beloved the world 🌎 over.

This 1 hour version in French is a good sleep 😴 aide - soothing 💤 

While in Normandie I found leaf 🍁 reference. I can add acorns, apples & mushrooms 🍄 amongst the leaves. YAY!

Bonnie gave it the thumbs up 👍 

The Little Prince is not so easy to draw believe it or not. He has a strange body…with very wide pants. I really can drive myself nuts 🌰 figuring these things out 🙄

Finally, by chance, while watching a movie 🎥 trailer (something I do instead of going to the movies 🍿 or drawing) I found the solution! In AFTER YANG (I doubt you heard of it) for 1 nano-second a little girl throws leaves 🍁 in the air.

TA DA 🎉 

What a long ‘shaggy dog story’ the so-called ‘creative process’ can be.

I did think of adding Paris leaves 🍁 into the envelopes 📩 but if you can’t bring an apple 🍎 into the US, a leaf could be catastrophic. 

The new Paris Letter is up on Etsy.

A Fall cookie from patisserie Cyril Lignac.