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...

Wednesday afternoon I went to the presse preview of the annual   Fine Arts La Biennale at Grand Palais 🤸‍♂️ So lovely to be back after bein...

  Every mid-November it’s annual  travel sketchbook time in Clermont-Ferrand. I left early Saturday morning in pitch dark to catch the  7am...

  Yesterday I went to see the new Trompe l’Oeil 👁️(fool the eye) exhibit At musée Marmottan in the 16th arrondissement (Metro 9).

  Chocolate-covered madeleines are so hard to paint 🎨  Yesterday I went to opening day of  Imperial Chocolat  🍫 

  Yesterday I ran 🏃‍♀️ to see a new exhibit, The Department Stores .  For ‘retail therapy’ at la Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine at...

  Foolishly I went Sunday afternoon to the Louvre   When it is crowded like a madhouse.

  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 ...

  Well, the Salon du Chocolat was fun 🍫 Of course I didn’t resist any chocolate 🍫 offerings until at least an hour in.

  Painting a Normande apple 🍎 tarte is not a piece of cake 🍰  I should know. I’ve been MIA this past week eating apple tartes