Showing posts with label bleu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bleu. Show all posts

Thursday, April 03, 2014

Talking about Teal Blue

Not just Easter bunnies are fond of Teal blue this season. 
For the past year I've been bumping into TEAL all over Paris.

The name of the color comes from the Common Teal duck

With it's patch of true blue placed uniquely by it's 👁️ 

The French are following suit with patches of blue.
Let the blue stay on the parrot says AirFrance...and patch your eyes with a dash of red shadow.
RIO 2 is about to open. Plenty of Teal blues on show.
Teal blue must be good for selling movies. Granted Noah is about the deep blue sea..
French banks love blue - the color of stability.
Teal Bleu is taking years off Johnny Hallyday in this movie poster...
Metro Miromesnil has a thing for Teal bleu chaise
Nothing to do with blue but FYI, when you check these maps for the correct exit to take, DO notice which way the little arrow of the stairway is pointing. I can't count how many times I've taken the right exit but walked the wrong direction down the wrong street.
Confisier Boissier has had an ongoing love affair with Teal even though they say blue food is a no-no.
Looks fine to me.
Bunny in a blue chemise/shirt dressed to deliver those oeufs/eggs.
My favorite chocolate shop in Paris A La Mere du Famille has TEAL tiles on the floor-miam maim
My last sublet was so full of TEAL BLEU I was spinning. 
Surely RACHEL K 💙 blue. Or so I thought...
TEAL bed spread, TEAL paper flower, TEAL towels, TEAL phone, you name it. The TEAL trash bag was my contribution 👍
When the time came to handover the 🔑 , I thought it would be amusing to give her a little bottle of TEAL blue nail polish.
Evidently she did not think so...
She told me, "Blue is not my color".
 
More blue food - crocs(jelly candy from Haribo) across the street at the bus station.
Blue pools at the gardens of Versailles
Monday was the BIG day for my visa appointment at the Prefecture. I first chose TEAL blue folders for my papers.
 Then decided it would be safer to use the staid, numbered divders from last year's visa presentation. I've been going through all kinds of self-inflicted Medieval tortures while gathering these official documents. I am not good with papers covered with numbers and in a foreign language. 
Who is? 
But I had a stroke of luck at the appointment. The first person was checking my papers to see if all was in order before she could send me on to the next checker, all the while conversing with my lawyer totally in French.
I happened to hear the word 'marriée?'
For some unknown reason I piped up, 
"JAMAIS!" (NEVER!)
The official thought this was hysterical and immediately gave me a new appointment 2 weeks later with a 'Prioritée' classification at an earlier time (9:30 am so I won’t have to wait 5 hours.)
Go figure.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Rouge Jaune Bleu

 Rouge, jaune et bleu aquarelle
I bought this little (1 3/4") Limoge-style perfume holder in Passage Jouffroy

 I've been playing with mixing colors: reds + Yellows + blues since I got home

The most basic color triad out there.
 
Maybe I was inspired by these red cafe tables
 
On rue Rambuteau
 
This lemon yellow table top looks just like
 

Or Wayne Thiebaud's round yellow cheese painting full of reds and blues too.
 
Red + Yellow + blue are used a lot around food.

Like this boulangerie painting of a wheat girl

Or this chef eating his dinner and licking his chops


Down the street on rue Rambuteau is Cupcake Berko, famous for their colorful mini cupcakes. More goldeny than bright yellow but this tarte fine is still yum.
This post is making me hungry!
 

 

Monday, May 28, 2012

Blue-Bleu

 Blue suede shoes seem right for Memorial Day no?
 Here's a way to double your creativity - spritz yourself all over with blue paint like Jean-Paul Goude did to Jean-Paul Gautier!
 One of my favorite shots of French ultramarine blue watercolor swatches.
Have you noticed how French moms and daughters dress alike in Paris?
 Blue bag + blue dress.
All she needs are those blue suede shoes. I saw a lot of blue in Paris.
 A stunner of a bleu wall at an art show in March.
 A touch of bleu at the show.
 One of my favorite boutique hotels (in the Marais) is solid blue, Hotel Caron de Beaumarchaise. I long to stay here one night...
 And their prices are nothing to get bleu about either.
 Tres joli/beau oui?
 A blue dollie at La Petit Blah-Blahs
 Have you seen Nicole Robertson's gorgeous (means multi-colored Ha!) new book on Paris In Color?
 Nicole of Little Brown Pen lives in Paris full time. Take a look at her blog and swoon or get ze book and look offline whenever you want to sink into Paris colors.
 I went looking for some Cobalt blue yesterday but all I found were these jazzy, Floridian rhinestone sunglasses at Gap Kids of all places ($10)
 I was relieved to see turquoise bleu is A OK in Paris but will it double my creativity? One wonders...
I spent most of my time in March shooting lunette signs...