Versace Retrospective, Musée Maillol, Painting Greens 🥬

 

This weekend I was going away to paint greens 🥬 

But fate 🌞 intervened, canceled my train 🚊 and I went to the VERSACE Retrospective instead.

Paris ❤️ Chocolate 🍫 Shops, Rue du Bac, 7 Arrondissement

 

A day late for Valentines

 

But flowers 💐 

Creating the Saint-Valentin Map

 

Yesterday after shopping at the art store, I got on line at Au Nom de la Rose to buy roses to paint. 

It appears the New York Times thinks we should cancel Valentines Day!? 

It appears Paris hasn’t heard a thing about it.

 Everyone is tearing around, getting on lines, scooping up chocolates, heart-shaped cakes and heart-shaped balloons. Champagne and roses anyone? 

A while back I posted about Kati Marton’s memoir, Paris, a Love Story

 A quick re-look at the cover...add an umbrella. Add an Eiffel tower. My map sketch was off and running. 

                                     ❤️ Voila! ❤️

Some essential research was required. I ate the milk chocolate lollypop and 2 chocolate hearts in the mini red ❤️ box at Jeff de Bruges. I toyed with getting the pink heart mug but resisted. 

Since Valentines lands on Dimanche, Lenotre got the hot idea to deliver a deluxe Valentines brunch. 

Pierre Hermé miraculously got the same idea. Petit déjeuner + bouquet and Champers are included for 115€

The perfect message T-shirt to gift your guy from the Armand Thierry Love Collection, “Sorry, I already have the perfect woman” And yes Parisiens do mail out Valentines cards. 

They even design a new ❤️ stamp each year in collaboration with luxury houses for the occasion. This year Chanel celebrates the anniversary of No.5 perfume. Your penpal in Paris sent out the maps 📮 on Wednesday by the way. 

The Metro has posters of roses 🌹 as a reminder. 

Back at Au Nom de la Rose, red and pink is the color of the day.

I bought 3 roses to paint and they threw in little rose buds as a gift. Hopefully you can use your Valentine map next February PBers🙏🤞

 ❤️ Have a lovely Day ❤️ 🐻💋🌹

Paris Saint-Valentin Report

Petite Coeur Rouge, 9" x 11"

Have you let your beloved know what you would like for Saint-Valentin's day yet?

Perhaps you were thinking along the lines of a millefeuille en forme de coeur from Lenotre?

Pierre Herme has an elaborate fruity heart for those who are into counting their daily fruits and veg...

A filligree container of what? Qui sait?

Chocolatier Patrick Roger never disappoints when it comes to 'creativity'. This has to be for les mecs non? PLEASE do not leave this outside my door, merci beaucoup. For the bookish among you Hugo & Victor have their usual Moleskine albums full of chockies..

Heart-shaped cupcakes anyone for the DIY bakers?

I don't know what magic ingredients are in Fauchon's love jam - if it has healing powers I'm ready to try it.

A cariar dinner at Petrossian? I'm game...

I would LOVE one of these tarte au fraise from Carette, especially if it had a little pleated paper case/"Les caissettes plissées. Merci Patricia H. for the important info.

In fact I already got my Saint-Valentins gift - a pair of gents boxers covered in purple macarons from Rick Tulka in Paris. He felt I had to have it and I did. So I'm covered.

As for the BACK report:

We get an MRI tomorrow (for the 1st time [eeek])

More physical therapy, this time at the clinic with machines etc.

And we're finally sleeping better, walking(hobbling) better and without the cane sometimes (yay!)

THANK YOU PBers for all your kind messages and vibes!

Kiss-Kiss

BONJOUR SAINT-VALENTIN!