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Showing posts with label ecriture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ecriture. Show all posts
Monday, April 6, 2009
About 2 years ago I passed this papeterie, L'Ecritoire in the Marais on 61 rue St. Martin, but of course it was closed. This trip I made sure to let them know I was coming. They even remembered my photo in PB from 2 years ago. 
They like many Paris boulangeries and restos, have a menu out in the street.
Inside this tiny shoebox shop it's chocked full of treasures if you still love to write snail mail.
So many cards to choose from, mostly from small unique producers
La plume de ma tante is here too.
And many colors of l'encre to dip that pen into...
An Eiffel Tower clock to tick away while you write long letters...
These cahiers (notebooks) were used by French children to write down their thoughts, stories and memoires in blue ink. Then their instructor (so Parisien Anne tells me) came along and wrote in red ink in the margin: bien, tres bien, pas si bien...
L'Eritoire creates their own unique writing materials like these unusual shaped envelopes. There is of course writing paper that fits inside these envelopes...
And sealing wax aplenty to add your own coat of arms to your envelope.So many goodies in red - pens, inks, envelopes and letters at L'Ecritoire...
They like many Paris boulangeries and restos, have a menu out in the street. Inside this tiny shoebox shop it's chocked full of treasures if you still love to write snail mail.
So many cards to choose from, mostly from small unique producers
La plume de ma tante is here too. And many colors of l'encre to dip that pen into... An Eiffel Tower clock to tick away while you write long letters... These cahiers (notebooks) were used by French children to write down their thoughts, stories and memoires in blue ink. Then their instructor (so Parisien Anne tells me) came along and wrote in red ink in the margin: bien, tres bien, pas si bien... 
L'Eritoire creates their own unique writing materials like these unusual shaped envelopes. There is of course writing paper that fits inside these envelopes... And sealing wax aplenty to add your own coat of arms to your envelope.So many goodies in red - pens, inks, envelopes and letters at L'Ecritoire...
And a few meters away on the other side of the street at 24, Rue St Martin is Les Délices de Saint Martin... ~
BON LUNDI!
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Bonjour Eiffel Tower - Day 2Yay
I decided to walk down rue Cler enroute to Metro Ecole Militaire...
And don't ya know first thing that greeted me was Paris oysters!
Everyone was out cleaning their shop fronts...
Ooops, doggies too...
Fleurs...
Early morning chocolate browsing...
Early morning cafe sunning...
Enfin - Porte de Versailles & the SALON DU LIVRE 2009! 
So many books! So many people looking at books!
Books on every possible subject including where to "bruncher" in Paris. We need this word in New York...
Philosophie books for kiddies - what is life, what is happinessWa'?
And so many kiddies. Students get in free!
I wish I had the nerve to ask this guy where he got his great scarf...
Anything with French writing on it is the best.
I look up and there it is -Paris is my oyster where ever I go.
I follow the sign...
Voila! I gotta have this. It's karmic destiny non?
The "line"...
My huitres...
I'm happy as a clam. I got the "Neptune" special. I need serious fuel to keep going.
Look! Tiny little books for tiny readers.After 4 hours of browsing I'm ready for the ER and resusatation...
I head for the Emergency Room...
And a transfusion.
My 1st Mont Blanc. 2 bites is enough. Too much schlag/whipped cream.
And so many kiddies. Students get in free! 
I wish I had the nerve to ask this guy where he got his great scarf...Anything with French writing on it is the best.
I look up and there it is -Paris is my oyster where ever I go.I follow the sign...
Voila! I gotta have this. It's karmic destiny non?
The "line"... My huitres...
I'm happy as a clam. I got the "Neptune" special. I need serious fuel to keep going.
Look! Tiny little books for tiny readers.After 4 hours of browsing I'm ready for the ER and resusatation...
I head for the Emergency Room...
And a transfusion.
My 1st Mont Blanc. 2 bites is enough. Too much schlag/whipped cream.
Bonsoir Eiffel Tower...
BONJOUR PB READERS!!!!
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Parisian Marie-Noelle brought me this child's ardoise / blackboard.It says:
Chez Carol
Watercolors - Macarons
Help yourself!
Help yourself!
These very same little blackboards or slates are what all French children use to learn their first ABCs. Marie-Noelle knows of my efforts to learn French handwriting..
As it happens, M-N tutors children in cursive handwriting, so our long-distance friendship is a marriage made in heaven..so to speak. Here she demonstrates her exquisite handwriting in my chaotic studio in the Marais.
As much as I love maps, I am completely gaga over these little blackboards menus / menus ardoises.
To me they are more a symbol of Paris than the Eiffel Tour...
And you can puruse them at your leisure and dream a bit of what you're going to eat. I love the broad expressive brush used on this menu ardoise... 
Isn't it just about the worse thing in the world when a restaurant has NO MENU outside for you to study over? It shows a complete lack of imagination on their part in my opinion...
Paris has picked up on my obsession with ardoises and I saw them everywhere. Not just in front of restaurants. Here in a boulangerie advertising meringues that are easily as big as your head!
This is a faux ardoise - just a bit of cardboard, but still a charming way to advertise your wares.Don't you think?
This chic boutique is using the "ardoise" style to show it's prices - most kind of them too!
In La Mere de Famille chocolate boutique - this ALL chocolate ardoise for returning back-to-school children to make the return less painful I suppose...
Not an ardoise at all - just a scrap of paper announcing the tragic news that L'as du Fallafel would not be opening until October 16! I had to wait 16 days for my fallafel - NOT FAIR!
Here is the dream job for me - writing out the menu on a cafe ardoise...sigh
Here's a little video on the L'Ardoise restaurant in Rouen for your morning amusement... And a petit lecon from French.about.com, that if you repeat and repeat will make you very fluent in French on the ardoise!
This chic boutique is using the "ardoise" style to show it's prices - most kind of them too! In La Mere de Famille chocolate boutique - this ALL chocolate ardoise for returning back-to-school children to make the return less painful I suppose...Not an ardoise at all - just a scrap of paper announcing the tragic news that L'as du Fallafel would not be opening until October 16! I had to wait 16 days for my fallafel - NOT FAIR!Here is the dream job for me - writing out the menu on a cafe ardoise...sighHere's a little video on the L'Ardoise restaurant in Rouen for your morning amusement... And a petit lecon from French.about.com, that if you repeat and repeat will make you very fluent in French on the ardoise!Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Today is the first day of school.Kids will be learning handwritting.
I ignored that early training to my own detriment.
I was too busy drawing pictures on the paper to pay attention.
Now I can't read my own handwriting nor can anyone else.
I fell back in love with handwriting when I discovered French wine labels.
British Copperplate calligraphy or what the French call "Anglais"is used everywhere and has such a classy look to it.
5 years ago I took myself off to calligraphy classes with Elinor Holland.
It's not too late to run and sign up if you have a few free Sundays!
You practice and practice like scales on the piano, the same letters over and over.
It's a lot like meditation, but your hand is moving constantly. And you're making these lovely swoops and swirls.
It's a lot like drawing...
You also have a good excuse to buy lovely bits of pen paraphrenalia!Last trip I fell victim to the Marie Antoinette inkpot here
and I don't even practice anymore...
I wish all the new kids on their first day in school the best of luck.I hope they pay better attention than I did in handwriting class...
"If only Carol would just pay attention"
Bet you never heard that one?
The French still love fancy handwriting
And so do I.
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