I had fun playing with Google Maps and mapped out my route, stops and even put photos on it!
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Monday, December 7, 2009
map of my Parisian Meanderings
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Parisian Meanderings
I went for a huge walk today and took lots of pictures (you can see the set here).
Details coming up!
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Coloring for big girls
Am I the only one who still breaks out my secret stash of crayolas and tip-toe into the kids room once they are asleep to borrow one of their coloring books? Probably.
Anyway, there is a great French website called Filles with Color for those of us who do still like to color, brought to you by a group of women designers. Each month they choose a theme and each do a different illustration that you can download. They are doing an advent calendar of sorts for Christmas, with one new illustration per day that you can download in color or black & white.
I think Nanikaa's mistletoe would stitch up nicely!
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Finds
Temporary antique fairs spring up all over the city in the autumn; we ran into one in the 7th (Ecole Militaire) on our way home from the dentist and the library. I know the box was overpriced, and probably was brought home years ago from someone's jaunt to Amsterdam filled with cheap candies, but it was too pretty to pass up.
Fred and Friends make the greatest, useful and wonderful stuff for the home. Since Phoebe has discovered the joy of Asian food, much to the dismay of the wait stuff of the restaurants that we frequent, I thought that these may come in handy.
Oh, and look at their M-Cups... aren't they adorable?
Kidding around
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I know that I'm pretty lucky with my kids; they are generally polite, well-behaved and lovely - but one of them is male and approaching teendom with frightening speed.
Elliott was being tetchy yesterday, playing GTA and getting obnoxious with his sister (see mosaic below) and I would have gotten angry with him... but he then tried to yell (see video).
I couldn't yell at him for the laughing!
I know that I'm pretty lucky with my kids; they are generally polite, well-behaved and lovely - but one of them is male and approaching teendom with frightening speed.
Elliott was being tetchy yesterday, playing GTA and getting obnoxious with his sister (see mosaic below) and I would have gotten angry with him... but he then tried to yell (see video).
I couldn't yell at him for the laughing!
Funny things are everywhere
I, like most people who live in a big city, do not often take the time to stop and take in the little details of those places that you know well.
In France, most stores are closed on Sundays, with the exception of the big ones on the Champs-Elysées. The Champs is not my favorite place in the world, I don't think it is the most beautiful street in Paris and it has too many tourists and crappy stores, but we often end up there on Sundays.
Last week, Ell and I had a bit of free time just the two of us on Sunday morning and took advantage of the calm to lazily idle down the avenue. I looked at the Swatch store to check the time on the over-sized swatch they have hanging outside, stopped and started cracking up. Elliott was looking at me as if I was crazy, then finally got it as I managed to point to the watch face...
In France, most stores are closed on Sundays, with the exception of the big ones on the Champs-Elysées. The Champs is not my favorite place in the world, I don't think it is the most beautiful street in Paris and it has too many tourists and crappy stores, but we often end up there on Sundays.
Last week, Ell and I had a bit of free time just the two of us on Sunday morning and took advantage of the calm to lazily idle down the avenue. I looked at the Swatch store to check the time on the over-sized swatch they have hanging outside, stopped and started cracking up. Elliott was looking at me as if I was crazy, then finally got it as I managed to point to the watch face...
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