Un Noël à New York 🎄 Printemps

 

On Friday, I ran to buy stamps (January letter is in the post!📮)

I passed by Printemps NOËL IN NEW YORK Christmas windows,

Paris Printemps

 

Everyone in Paris thinks it’s SPRING!

Everyone is wearing

Printemps in Paris

 

Printemps 🌸

Arrived in Paris yesterday

Printemps - Christmas in Paper, your wishes are granted

 

On Tuesday night I finally got to see Department store Printemps bird-filled windows

Night time is definitely the best time to view holiday windows in Paris

Black Saturday, Green Printemps

 

Yesterday I went to buy more stamps for your Paris letters. Thank you PBers ❤️

Which always takes me by the big department stores like Printemps to browse a bit.

Yesterday in Paris

Yesterday morning I admired these stripes on Metro 9 heading  back to the dentist.

In Aix I ate rock-hard grainy, healthy crackers and broke the new filling he put in last week!

I asked, "What should I be eating? Compote de pomme?"

His response, "De l'eau".

Oh.

At least since I've been seeing Dr. Krumholz (2 weeks) Haribo bonbons have been completely eliminated from my life. Miracles can happen!

Taking Metro 9 back and all doped up, I decided a little R an R in les Grand Magazins (Printemps and Galeries Lafayette) couldn't hurt.

Printemps is still celebrating their 150 years.

They have a yummy new pop-up Maison du Chocolat tea salon downstairs.

I go instead for healthier Cojean next door.

I usually get their chewy salads. Definitely a good place to grab a bite while shopping=Guilt-free.

Hmmm...

Liquid lunch is the way to go. Not taking any chances with the newly repaired filling.

A quick flirtation with Pedone gelato across the street would be OK for the teeth but not the figure.

Back to browsing the lovely pricy merch. Love these striped sneakers.

Caught! Shooting every design in the Les Nerides boutique in Galeries Lafayette.

She gave me courage to shoot their adorable Alice-in-a-teacup earrings = blurry :(

A real French Alice crossing my bridge yesterday morning. Tailored white man's shirt + schoolgirl's navy blue pleated skirt + ballerinas + bedhead. All you need to pass as a Parisienne. Ha

Love, love, love these Marc Jacobs watercolory purses.

Another. Just 185-195€. Dream on Carol...

Every summer L'Occitane (pronounce that LOX-EE-TAHN) presents their 'La Collection de Grasse' and I fall in love again with their watercolory stains. 

I'm working on figuring it out.

That was yesterday in Paris.

Bon(ne) Week-End PBers!

Paris Printemps!

 Fauchon has a new Spring tea - the vert parfume

 Everyone in Paris hopes to have a balcon no matter how small and on that balcon must go little pots of flowers/herbes.
*Remind me to water French Girls pots!!
If the drizzle ever stops.

 More lush flowers from fleurist Eric Chauvin.

 Springie fuchsia shoes from ARCHE.

 Fuchsia tables at Au Nom de la Rose on rue Cler

 Printemp's windows again have flower heads this year.

 In all colors.

 Flower-colored macarons at Galeries Lafayette

 For new bebes born in the Spring (or anytime at all) you must have gifts of dragee/candy-coated almonds at the babtism.

 Sweet springie bebe shoes.

 Adorb bebe in Natalys vitrine

 Buy DIY herbes for la balcon at Les Marche les Enfant Rouge + a very good Mediterranean sandwich as well.

 Tuesday, 1 May is muguet day!

 Put a SPRING in your step!
With new pointie toed ballerinas or pots of muguet or macarons or anything at all! Now if the rain would just go away and come back another day.

Cafe Pouchkine

Cafe Pouchkine Chocolat Chaud,  9" x11"

Why ever did I not get Cafe Pouchkine's fabulous pastries.

Ode to Printemps!

Last night French Girl and I went out to shoot the windows/les vitrines.

Au Printemps department store was celebrating La Fete du Printemps.

With giant floral bunnies... Floral swans.

In lavender no less.

And flower-headed Rockette Chorus girls.

Lined up.

In sumptuous rows.

A flower power couple even.

This flower girl succumbed to Spring Fever and fainted.

In a swoon from rose perfumes.

Hidden in ribboned boxes.

Suddenly behind us on boulevard Haussmann we heard a great WOOSH!

Hundreds upon hundreds of Parisien skaters took over the street in a woosh of Spring Fever!

One was decked out in blue lights!

Then they were gone.

Ah, the ever present French escargot in luscious pink roses...

Don't forget Paris is laid out like a snail with the 20 arrondissements curling around on themselves and #1 at the center.

Et voila!

BONJOUR AU PRINTEMPS!