Mini Tea Time watercolor, 9" x 11"
What to take with me that won't fill up too much space?
Isn't it clever of Pierre Herme to create dessert art to use in the background of my still lifes?
My suitcase is overloaded.
But for the life of me. .jpg)
Did you receive the newest Pierre Herme newsletter this week announcing his new Fall chocolate collection?
French macarons, original art, 5.5" x 7.5"
Herme has a new combination macaron-bonbon!
One chocolate macaron, original art, 5.5" x 7.5"
Herme also has a new book out full of chocolate recipes! Only in French so far but I bet the pictures are to die for...
The surprise chocolat is a standard I think...I hope..
Bowl of macarons, original art, 5.5" x 7.5"
Pierre Herme, in his student days studied with the famed chocolatier, Robert Linxe of La Maison du Chocolat, so his chocolates are superb.
His lovely chocolate map...
Herme maintains this small (not really that small) box of chocolates, always for 10 euros - a don't-miss! It must be for starving-dieting artists...
If you really want to go small there's this mini set of PH from a year ago or so... 
The "CARRéMENT CHOCOLAT" from a year ago - a square of perfect chocolateness if there is such a word - in the box...
Ready for painting...and eating
It was really, really slow on Saturday at the store...
So I started looking at the 2,134 photos on Flickr...
And 57 of those photos are mine!
You can even view them as a slide show if you're having a really slow day...
As sometimes happens, my computer went on strike on Sunday...
So I was having another really slow day and I decided to make some mini shopping bags...
To put all my mini boxes into.Here is a comparative analysis of a real small-sized macaron box with my hand mades...
I know you're really more interested
In what's inside...
Those boxes and bags... 
Never mind all you non-mini lovers :(
YES, I figured out how to make wee little macaron boxes.
And without out-sourcing to India or China too.
When I showed my Quelle Wrecked studio you got all dreamy about the pile of macaron boxes and planted a thought in my head.
Maybe I could figure out how to make these. And I figured it out. It's true that my boxes are "bottomless". I have to go back to Boxology class and resolve this bit of technology.
Can you tell which one is the REAL box?
You know I love to show comparative analysis. We're very scientific here at PB, always doing research...endless research for your benefit. Here's a Boulangerie sugar cube for size comparison.
Yellow Bird loves the new mini boxes. They are just his size.
More sizes and colors are coming. STAY TUNED.
When I requested a THIRD order of the Pierre Herme miniature macarons from Priscilla of NRFBQueen, she asked me, what is it with these MACAROONS!?
If I could just figure out how to make one of these in miniature size.
Announcement: NEW BIRD IN THE HOUSE!
This is Piu-Piu#1 from Pylones in Paris and acquired in 2006
And this is Piu-Piu #2
And let me tell you these birds are inseparable!
Of course it's true that these birds just happen to be magnetic...Ahem
So what's up with all this interest in mini this and mini that?
I'm trying to figure that out myself.
Or at the petite boutique, L'Ile Flotantte on the Ile Saint-Louis.
I found myself taking pictures of mini nonsense everywhere...
This toy store on rue Cassette was loaded china sets even in the window. *Note the naughty drunken French pig at the table...
I meant to go back and buy one. I think with all the tough things going on in the real world, taking refuge in a mini perfect world seems like a pleasent escape at the moment...
Look! I spotted these mini fried eggs in my local 24-hour store in the Marais. Awfully silly and awfully sweet. Well they are candy after all...
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