Yesterday I went to buy stamps

 

Yesterday I went to buy stamps for the May Paris Letter,

Because my big Post Office had just sold the last 3 international timbres/stamps to the girl ahead of me! Crazy no?  

I went to Le Carré d’Encre yesterday - the only place besides 

Musée de la Poste to Always have INTERNATIONAL stamps. 

*Never ask for ‘Overseas/outre Mer 🌊 stamps. You will get exceptionally, pretty stamps good only for Guadeloupe, Reunion, Mayot, Tahiti etc.

                                                Carré d’Éncre has 

Endlessly,

Enticing 

Stationary items 

To drool over

If you’re into silly paper bits n’ pieces.

After the stamp shop,  I go drool at the usual suspects

At Galeries Layette Gourmet. Not as nearly as tempting as all the stamps I can’t buy.

Galeries Lafayette has a  PRADA marché as you enter

With discretely embossed PRADA perfume cards perfect for your letter 💌

Dior is thinking Cakes 🍰 for Mother’s Day, which falls on May 31

And butterflies 🦋 

I have been thinking 🤔 

About CAFÉ VARENNE.

I started sketching ✍️ 2 years ago with BEAR’s 🐻 assistance.

Tea time 🫖 at Café Varenne.

I added in a sprig/brin of muguet/lilies of the valley for May.

On Saturday, I dropped by, longing for a bowl of soup - it was chilly 🥶 I was too early. The kitchen doesn’t open till 🕛 noon ☹️

I did briefly think of switching to an onion soup 🥣 letter instead, but Bonnie said it was too wintry a subject 👎

And briefly fell down the Paris Opera rabbit 🐇 hole for a bit till I came back to my senses 🙄 

Always a good 👍 idea to stick with 

The date you came with….

Ta da.

And into la poste 📮before I change my mind again 🤔

Friday I am off to ROUEN for the weekend to sketch ✍️ with Urban Sketchers France 🇫🇷 annual event (with brave Carolyn from WA). There will be lots to show & tell.