0 BLACK & WHITE WEDNESDAYS #8

~ Summer Evenings ~This picture was submitted to "Black & White Wednesday", an event created by Susan at "The Well-Seasoned Cook".~ Miniature Love ~~ Monstrous Hydrant...

0 French Cafe Glasses

Originally I was going to paint just one cafe glass...OK this one - a very typically Frenchie glass from the Brick cafe... But then I felt ambitious. I'm addicted to cafe glasses... Anyone else out there love French cafe glass with a passion? Confess PBers. And please do not complain about the bill for the Orangina. You're paying for ambience at cafe Le Select. And the little printed doily thing..grumble...grumble Am I alone, compulsively taking of photos of cafe glass where ayre I go... The French adore their glass. They still make most of the wonderful utilitarian glass themselves thanks Gawd, like Duralex from Picardie or La Rochere. Luiminarc...

0 The et Chocolat!

Bonjour PBers from Irene City. I thought I'd post today because: A. There could be a power outage at any moment. What would you read on Monday? And... B. NY Time's Elaine Sciolino of the divinely informative La Seduction emailed me this week seeking info on Paris' salons des thes. Don't miss her article ! Besides she gave Parisbreakfast a nice mention. Big merci Elaine! Bet you think you're in a Paris tea shop... Looking at banks... And gorgeous banks of tea tins? WRONG!You're in a chocolate shop (Duo Trio on 88 rue de Rennes, La Bonbonnière de la Trinité in the 9ème, Les Bonbons). Bet you think you're at a tea festival here... Don't you...

0 CASSATA CUPCAKES & REFLECTING ON HOLIDAYS

The holidays are oficially over. Done, as energetic, charismatic and infamous chef Gordon Ramsay would put it. The dream has died, at least for now. It is once again time to face the harsh facts, cold reality and boring everyday, imposed routine. Impossible to escape the rat race. It never ceases to harass you like a hungry hyena and suck you dry of your energy and vital force like a famished vampire. Whether we consent to it or not we are all slaves to the wage (or to the system)..."Run away from all your boredomRun away from all your whoredom and waveYour worries, and cares, goodbyeAll it takes is one decisionA lot of guts, a little vision...

0 My Little Paris

Don't tell me when you're a guest. At someone's house you don't check out their perfumes and cosmetics. Ha! Bet you do. And their books? Naturalement when staying with Fr Girl I do the same. I was surprised to see two books I'd already bought to figure out the Frenchie ways - Parisian Chic and My Little Paris! Fr Girl (who could not possibly be more Frenchie) is buying books about what the ultimate Parisian does, wears, says, bla bla bla? Granted WE all would love to be Frenchie. We all would like to be delightfully Amelie or soigne Charlotte Gainsborg or tragique Isabel Adjani or Or creme de la creme perfectly imperfect Ines...