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