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,

Les vitrines Galeries Lafayette & Printemps

 

On Friday I went early to the stamp store and was rewarded with uncrowded views of the Christmas windows 🎉 Simply go before 11 folks 👍

Galeries Lafayette windows are blindingly full 

Chocolate Letter Research continued

 I have been ‘down for the count’ this week with a hacking cough, sniffles & classic cold symptoms. No Covid fortunately 🙏

I forgot to eat my daily full-proof winter elixir - pomegranate seeds. 

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.

Map of Paris - Paris Christmas Windows

'Some enchanting evening you will meet a' Snowman, reindeer and cardinals. Paris Christmas windows seemed an obvious December map idea. 

Department store BHV in the Marais is celebrating Noel in Alsace. I wonder how many reindeer are running around STRASBOURG? No matter. Reindeer = Christmas. 

Along with the absence of Paris squirrels, there are no red cardinals. Yet I'm surrounded by cardinals. I take metro CARDINAL LEMOINE (when its running) and pass le Petit Cardinal cafe and Cafe Cardinal almost daily so thanks to my subconscious the December letters are full of red birds. 

G.THUILLIER, a nativity shop at Place St. Sulpice is a must-see at Christmas. 

DIPTYQUE the perfume shop at 34 bd St Germain has delightful and surprising windows all year round.

My favorite Paris windows this year are at GALERIES LAFAYETTE with a bee hive theme.

A very royal queen bee surrounded by lush flowers.

The colors and design are spectacular.

And not so commercial.

Buzzing bees hover inside the store in the atrium around a huge flowered tree. Its breath-taking.

That tree became my Eiffel tower on December's map.

Chocolatier LA MERE DE FAMILLE shops never disappoint both inside and out. Nor do their playful chocolates. FYI the Metros are not yet running. Buses are intermittent. The post office is open 🙏🏻 The Batobus on the Seine IS running. And the tempurature is 39 feels like 31. Thanks for reading PB. Gift yourself and friends Parisbreakfast letters, maps and watercolors in my Etsy shop. Bear 🐻 is under an umbrella. Its raining out ❤️Xxx