Christmas Chalets at Bon Marché

 

A few years ago I painted a Christmas Letter featuring LE BON MARCHÉ. 

This year’s theme at Bon Marché is Christmas marché chalets. 

Bear 🐻 On Board, Tea ☕️ with Lis Watkins, Nicole stitches 🧵

 

Yesterday I returned to Cafe Varenne for tea ☕️ with Lis Watkins. I’m working on sketches ✍️ for the next PARIS Letter. 3 guesses?

Bear 🐻 came along! 🤸‍♂️

Thanksgiving

 If you're in Paris you might be in dire need of some strawberry Jell-O to properly celebrate the Fourth of July.

 The place to go is:

Thanksgiving

20, rue St-Paul 75004

 American marshmallows!

YUM YUM

 Giant boxes of M and M's

 Duncan Hine's cake mix!! woo woo

Bunnie cookie cutters

 The devine Jell-O framboise

 Regarde vintage Lawry's Seasoned Salt.
Does any one still use this stuff?

 Junk food galore at Thanksgiving

 A Parisienne dreams of Twinkies...

 While I dream of guimauve in New York...

 On Friday I can eat this guimauve de fraise.

A fun red, white and blue sac from Barbara Rihl 29, rue de Juillet 75001

Perfect for the Fourth!

La Grande Epicerie

 Paris People Watching 5.5" x 7.5" 

A terrific place to people watch and perhaps to shoot is La Grande Epicerie...

 The latest of fashion is on display at La Grande Epicerie...

 But I'm attracted to les madeleines...

 And les tarte citrons...

 Chocolat chaud is always on my browsing list...

 I am mostly a browser at La Grande...what would I do with fresh eggs in my bag?

 But I adore their egg boxes colored just like...

 Macarons!

 Here mini macarons you fill yourself..Hmm...perhaps I could fool Jill that I made these myself :)

 The walls of chocolate bars, the endless array of pastries (and wholesome fresh veggies too btw) could easily drive you to distraction. So many choices...

 La Grande Epicerie has just the thing to help you with your indecision - Delo Destress, whatever that is...

 And for the weight-conscious minceur/diet pills and exercise bands. Everything is thought of here.

I HEART La Grande Epicerie for eye candy and people watching. Have you been here to drool too?

La Grande Epicerie

You might think, being an artist I go to museums in Paris.

You'd be wrong.

I go to La Grande Epicerie De Paris for eye candy.

I'm stalking the Yuzu Mania gateaux ever since I noticed it in the Paris Patisseries:History Shops Recipes book.

I can't get it out of my head. This big mouth is all too appropriate in the vitrine of La Grande Epicerie.

 

Anyone sporting a red coat is game for me to follow. What with my Paris red obsession... There's a lot to see in La Grande Epicerie - soooo many works of art. Et voila - red coat again.

Chasing down some fruits rouge no doubt.

What does one do with strawberry/fraise-flavored sucre/sugar? Do tell if you know.

More bottles of mysterious ingredients - blue guimauve-flavored stuff.

Fr Girl has these sirops sitting atop her fridge. I never got up the nerve to ask what they are.

At last a study in red I understand.

So many choices of bread - how does anyone decide? I can not.

I just browse.

Lovely shell-shaped madeleines.

And of course they have macarons in 20 flavors/parfums!

Who would not be contented as a chat/cat hanging out in La Grande Epicerie?

Even if there are too many choices.

BONJOUR LA GRANDE EPICERIE!

Les Fruits Rouges de Juillet

Fruit rouge the, 9" x 11"

It's July so you should be eating your fruits rouge.
If not, please hightail it over to Gerard Mulot 
76, rue de Seine 75006Nobody does fruit rouge better. Mulot seems to be in love with red fruits and why not? This is the season. I just had some for breakfast.

Gerard Mulot's bag/sac is perfectly rouge for your red desserts...

Sadaharu Aoki is no slouch with the red pastry brush, but let's face it, Macha green tea is really his favorite.

Ok, you cannot go 2 steps in Paris without bumping into some red fruits. The new Carette salon de the has a stack of them.

Did La Grande Epicerie have moi in mind with this 'Artistes Fruit Rouge'? But you cannot taste everything.

If you can't get your paws on some fab fruit rouge desserts there is always fraise tagada- no one can put a terrific spin on penny candy like the French.

Not to be left by the rue, Sennelier catches the fruit rouges tendance/trend and goes to town with it.

Naturalment you must be appropriately dressed to eat les fruit rouges.

You can make do with just a red fleur rouge, if you have no red shoes.

And yes, you can get away with just a red scarf if it comes to it.

True, you will have to go to Lyon to this all-red shop to get it, but it's just 2 hours there and back on the tgv, so why not?

Then sit yourself down at this red cafe in the Marais.

With this red book. Don't worry about the content, as long as it's red!

I did exactly this in juin. Granted it was not juillet (the RED month) so no wonder there were a few slipups. I ordered this delicious looking fruits rouges compote at À Priori Thé. They threw in the gingered brownie as an extra treat. miam-miam!

The tea salon is set outside in the Galerie Vivienne corridor so when I went inside to the loo, naturalement I took all my stuff, just playing it safe...

Imagine my surprise when I saw the staff’s red faces, crowded around my little table. They thought I'd done a runner! Don't believe anyone who tells you the French don't smile. Ha! There were Big smiles when they saw me return to pay the l'addition.

BONJOUR FRUITS ROUGES JUILLET!