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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Tuna Birthday!

0 comments Posted by pece at 2:15 PM

You don't plan on spending your birthday doing hand-to-hand combat with a tuna sandwich...

But life is full of little surprises...

And when the challange is to paint a tuna sandwich...

And you have a deadline, the tuna sandwich takes precedence over champagne et macarons...

I'm always saying I never eat birthday cake...

But last weekend I took myself off to Soho to do chocolate cake research for the same illustration project...

First I went to very 'Frenchie' Ceci Cela patisserie...

And got this layered affair to practice on...

I did manage to get a sketch out of it before I was compelled to eat it. Well it was melting under the table lamp. What else could I do?

Next I headed off to Francois Payard's new patisserie...

Tres mignon non?

Payard's little Sacher cake didn't even make it to the sketch page...

But it did help immerse me in essence of chocolatie cake research. Just what a pastry artist needs...

The tuna sandwich will not be eaten. It has dried up under the lights. But there is nothing like having real props to work from. The new Ladybug kitchen timer is from the Soho Pylones by the way.

BONJOUR TUNA BIRTHDAY!

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Cabas Je T'aime

0 comments Posted by pece at 5:28 AM

Fauchon Je T'aime beaucoup, especially the macarons...

But I love even more their snazzy cabas. I've been carrying them for like years...

Every single time I go to Paris I buy a new one to replace the last one. Hey @
19.90€ this is highly doable. M. was with me a few years back and convinced me to go for the all-black version - more chic and elegant she said. She was right. No matter how many fancy pocketbooks I buy and I've stopped, because I always revert back to my Fauchon cabas. It holds EVERYTHING I need and more.

I bought this adorable Kusmi tea cabas (10 euros) and don't you know, entering customs at CDG, the handles broke clean off! Give me my Fauchon anyday.

I picked up this big cabas from BHV (only 3,50 €)

It's time to buy a new one don't you think? I use it to carry my swim gear to the pool. Sorry/desole BHV, I have not treated you well...

This cabas at Pylones I fought over a bit with another customer and I WON. Yay

Vanessa Bruno very cleverly came up with a high-end cabas - 300 € or $300 dollars, either way I ain't gonna spring for that!

Not the way I treat my cabas...

Anne, on the other hand, like a good French girl, loves her Vanessa Bruno cabas and takes very good care of it.

I have FOUR of these very strong bags from the Sonia/H&M sale and I have no idea what to do with them. Shall I sell them on eBay? Ha!

In one of my earlier, crazier periods at PB, I was making my own mini cabas a la Laduree so I could paint them in still lifes. One's past obssessions are always amusing to look back on non?

I would love a cabas with French handwriting on it especially if it was a BEN - that I would spring for!!!

But you will never catch me springing for or behind one of these granny carts!

Jamais!

BONJOUR CABAS!

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Mini Bla Bla Bla

0 comments Posted by pece at 8:06 AM

Announcement:

NEW BIRD IN THE HOUSE!

This is Piu-Piu#1 from Pylones in Paris and acquired in 2006

And this is Piu-Piu #2
Bought to keep Piu-Piu#1 company.

And let me tell you these birds are inseparable!

Of course it's true that these birds just happen to be magnetic...Ahem
Their main job is to collect metal paperclips =
They are "working birds"!
But these little guys are awfully fond of having tea with Pierre Herme desserts. In fact they've become regular slackers and refuse to mess with paperclips at all! Shocking is it not?

So what's up with all this interest in mini this and mini that?
Mini tea sets and mini birds and mini desserts? Hmmm...

I'm trying to figure that out myself.
Did the attraction start in Provence or buying the 1st mini Eiffel Tower on a Paris street corner..?

Or at the petite boutique, L'Ile Flotantte on the Ile Saint-Louis.

I found myself taking pictures of mini nonsense everywhere...

This toy store on rue Cassette was loaded china sets even in the window. *Note the naughty drunken French pig at the table...

I meant to go back and buy one. I think with all the tough things going on in the real world, taking refuge in a mini perfect world seems like a pleasent escape at the moment...

Look! I spotted these mini fried eggs in my local 24-hour store in the Marais. Awfully silly and awfully sweet. Well they are candy after all...

BONJOUR MINIS!

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

PYLONES

0 comments Posted by pece at 8:39 AM

It's Piu Piu's birthday today!

A year ago I found Piu Piu in PYLONES' window and couldn't resist...

I discovered PYLONES 17 years ago when I admired cookbook author Dori Greenspan's plastic necklace at a party.

Next trip I made a beeline for PYLONES' then tiny closet-size shop in Galerie Vivienne.

Now they have 6 shops in Paris, 2 in New York + Hong Kong + THE WORLD

I got the necklace, the earings, and the bracelet.

I still wear them and I still get compliments.

Pylones was created 20 years ago

with the intention of making small colorful items, especially animals - useful toys for adults.

I wish I'd gotten this kitchen grater last trip...

Whether you buy something or not...
Their merchandise never fails to amuse.

It's Yellow Bird's birthday too,
He's a New York bird from Elie Zabar's Kids store on Madison Avenue...

I saw this big 16" wide bag the previous Paris trip but resisted.
Naturally I was thinking about it for months...
I had to pick it up at PYLONES and it did carry home alot of treasures
It's made by www.LAMARELLE.net
Isn't it funny how you can obsess about THE ONE THING you didn't buy...
And the next trip's sole purpose is to get that ONE THING!?

Here are PYLONES hours...
Open EVERY DAY!
YAY

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