Paris

Paris Mode

I’m in the Paris mode judging from the guesses coming in for my new Block of the Month! You have me wishing for a pink, French Christmas quilt! Ahh, how many of you would really buy a pink Christmas quilt? Sale of one pattern to Bunny Hill but the rest of you? Well you saw the fabric I’m using in my last post and I’m in more of a universal mode, but I’m always dreaming of Paris…

I loved Paris and I would return in a minutes’ notice just for a chance to browse the flea markets for treasures! Anyone ready for a Paris treasure hunt? I actually looked up costs online today for next year. I’m hooked don’t you think?

I paid 10 Euros for this card of vintage Mother of Pearl buttons. It was a bargain. I would have paid more, I loved them so much. I’m not good at bargaining. I hate it, but I made myself ask if they would take less in my most French sounding English. At the same vendor I paid 25 Euros for one button. The bargaining didn’t work at all. I really wanted that button from 1880 and so I paid the money. Can’t show it to you now because I’ll be using it for something in the spring. You’ll appreciate it more when you see it.

As for that 5″ square of pink in my block of the month? Try looking at some of my other block of the months to see how I’ve used “pink”! Do you think I’ve used the entire square or do you think maybe I cut it up?

Guess what? We have a few correct guesses in the contest already! If you guess right you’ll get an email confirming that you’ve been entered in the contest.

Quilt shops can email me directly for the “La Petite Ecole” fabric sku’s I’ve used.

One more question for today. How many of you have Facebook pages and why? I’ve been visiting Facebook and I’m not sure I “get it”. Do you actually use Facebook? Do you use it every day?

Back soon!

Anne

Three Days in Paris

3 days in Paris, 3 whole days! We walked along the River Seine starting at Notre Dame during a Sunday morning service and ending our walk near the Eiffel Tower. It was a day of Paris heaven!

The weather was beautiful and the scenes so French! We took our time and enjoyed every minute. Can you imagine living in apartments that overlook the river? There were so many of them, dressed in their beautiful shades of ivory, with gray roofs. Oh Paris, you really are a beautiful city!

We saw a huge group of people on a sponsored “walk”. We never figured out what the walk was for, but it was still exciting! The walkers were followed by police on horseback. I wonder if any of them think about how lucky they are to live in such a beautiful city. Wouldn’t you love to be able to view your own city through the eyes of someone seeing it for the first time?

Paris is for shopping and there’s nothing quite like it. Flea markets, little shops filled with treasures just waiting to be found, and gourmet delights around every corner!

It can be sunny one minute and then the next minute the clouds move in and it pours rain. I saw Paris in the rain, watching from a cozy corner of a local Bistro, sipping Cappuccino. Since we didn’t have umbrellas it was nice to be sitting under an awning. It didn’t take longer than 45 minutes and the rain stopped and all the umbrellas were gone!

Believe it or not we saw quite a few PINK cars in Europe! Pink! I fell in love when I saw this little Vespa! There she was in all her glory, the Mona Lisa of scooters just parked on the street. I stood in awe and it took a moment to catch my breath!