Can You Imagine??

We can just imagine all the ladies dressed in the rustling gown twirling to the music with their handsome escorts on their arm in their dashing tuxedos.  This is the ballroom ceiling in the Paris Opera House.  One of our not to miss sights in our Paris Tours.  It might be possible to catch an opera too if we're lucky.
A Bientot,
Bird

Fond Memories of a Rainy Night

Our favorite apartment is just around the corner form this wonderful cafe.  After a long day shopping we would stop here for a cuppa (Duchess) and a wine for moi.  Their french onion soup hits the spot and warms us.
If you walk towards the left you enter the Palais Royale gardens and the modern sculpture court.  In front of this is the magical glass Metro archway of the stop by the same name. 
Enjoy!
Bird

Too Late!

I was just a hair too late to snap up this wonderful cabinet for a client! Darn it!
What is it about the gray we are all so in thralled with these days?  Is this a beige backlash?  What do you have in your home that is gray?  Do check out the shop for more pieces that will fit in your home with charming effects!
Warmly,
Bird

French Iron Bowl

Why is it that the French take everyday objects and make them so special?  This old cast iron bowl was originally used as a spittoon.  Yes, you read right!  But they went to the trouble of making it wonderful, not a simple bowl, but one with a scalloped base much like a crown.
We have this one in the shop.
A bientot!
Bird

Laduree Sighting

We are always on the lookout for Laduree and imagine my surprise when I spotted this cart in a busy concourse at the Charles de Gaulle airport!  We were dashing to our next flight but I couldn't resist getting a few for our airborne desserts.
What is your favorite flavor?  I think mine has to be the cafe, but, wait,  it could be the lemon but then again the chocolate is never a mistake! c'est la vie!
Warmly,
Bird

Magic Moments

This sweet girl was translating a children's french book for us in our apartment on Ile St Louis unaware how the light was striking her and the corner of the salon.  It reminded me so much of a Jan Vermeer or another northern European painter with the shafts of light falling through the centuries old color glass in the leaded window.  Magic!
Warmly,
Bird

Do you Dare Me?

This was just too much!  I am sorely tempted to run up and grab a fresh, still warm from the oven baguette but will have to just go into la Boulangerie and buy one and be a good girl! Can't you smell it now?
Bird