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 Pink roses

 Paris pink teatime...

 So many roses yesterday.
 

 On Valentines Day - these are from Dani Costes Dani Roses.
 

 Roses + macarons at Cafe Pouchkine = parfait.
 

 The color pink/rose pops at Jean-Paul Hevin macarons.
 

 Pink/rose gateaux at La Grande Epicerie de Paris - a kind of fraisier.
 

 Pink stripes at Parfum Annick Goutal...

 More pink stripes at les Bonbon stand at Metro l'Odeon
 

 How girly can you get?
 

 You can not think pink without mentioning.
 

 Fauchon - Queen of rose/pink.
 

 Pink/rose is what little girls/les petites filles are made of.
Bonjour Pink/Rose!
 

Other People's Printemps

Printemp Paris Rose Teapot, watercolor, 9" x 11"

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Some people are madly searching for signs of Spring.

Some people have had to look in other people's backyards since Spring is rather reluctant to show up on the East Coast.

I got this glass teapot in Paris at Les Comptoirs Richard and it makes an awfully nice vase in a pinch don't ya think?

Do you know Manon 21?
Well you should! Even though this is an older photo, Manon does divinely poetic French posts.
SVP do drop in.
Heather lives in Paris and has lots of 'Paris Secrets' to tell.
Including that the daffs are out in the parc! Fancy that. Wonder what the French word for daffodil can be?

Watercolorist Sue of A Brush With Color does the best arrangements and these are from her garden. Who is not jealouse?

So far Vienna is neck-in-neck with NYC hanging back in the race to Printemps, but Merisi of Vienna has found flowers on teacups which is nearly as good, well almost.

Yellow roses of Ireland are featured at Harpist Amy and you can hear her play exquisitely to bouquets of roses. *Not to be missed!

Walzing around the Marais (in the days when I could walz) I discovered Vertige on 11, rue de Sevigne 75004.

They specialize in featuring mainly greens.

Don't miss their galerie of greenie photos - simply lush.

Meanwhile artist Ian Sidaway is out sketching in his allotment - Lucky Ian!

Here's what I'd like to be wearing if is were Spring/Printemps.

 Here's what I'd eat whilst wearing the above pink pull - all springie colored macarons.

MIAM!

BONJOUR Other People's SPRING!

Victoire de Castellane

BEAR has let it be know that he'd like to be 'in the picture' so to speak...
BEAR Loves Roses, Fraises, Macarons, Watercolor, 9" x 11"
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Speaking of roses, Parisien jeweler, Victoire de Castellane also loves roses and has an exhibit of rare flowers at the Gagosian Galerie on 4 Rue Ponthieu 75008 until March 22nd.
Photos by Thierry Depagne

The display is quite sensational. Jeweled flowers.

Under glass domes.

As they well deserve.

Castellane designed jewelry for Chanel for 14 years.

And then moved on to Dior in 1998...

As the first Creative Director of the jewelry department.

Basically self-taught, Castellane made her first piece of jewelry at the age 5 by wrecking a precious brooch of her mothers and making it into earrings.

She adores playing with unusual materials and the unexpected. Toys and whimsey are a constant source of inspiration.
Don't miss hearing her speak...

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BONJOUR VICTOIRE!