Martians at the Louvre?
I went for a walk in early December in the Tuilliaries garden. Couldn’t figure out what this guy was doing there. He stayed for quite some time but must have flown back to Mars. Haven’t seen him for a while now.
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Adventures in Paris
Archive for the month “May, 2012”
Christmas Decorations part 3
Holly’s effort at a “tree.”
Abi’s “tree”
Not exactly red and white but gorgeous
The French decorate with white and red “twigs.” After Joe broke this pitcher by catching his coat on a twig as he was leaving we put the twigs in a larger vase with red confetti…and moved it away from the door.
A creative use for leftovers. 🙂
We did a few other things to decorate. Drawing on her experience at Treasures, Julie made some great bows that we attached to the lighting fixtures over the fireplaces… We will use them next year. We bought a four inch tall poinsetta for 7 Euros. We checked out the larger ones that you can buy at Costco for $10…they cost 49 Euros here. Guess it has something to do with the geographic location of Mexico :). We decided to do without.
Decorating for Christmas part 2
Thank goodness for IKEA bags!
After we made wreaths we were pumped to go try to find things to decorate with. Although it is easier to buy American type ornaments in Paris (made in China) they are not common. The instructor gave us hints about where to go to buy supplies and Abi and I spent two days shopping and a couple of days creating.
We bought floral bricks to carve like trees from the instructor and we walked all over looking for foliage to decorate with. Mostly we looked at street type market stalls. It was fun but we walked miles!!!!!!!!!!! and were afraid to get on the metro to come home because we might squish everything. This is Abi carrying her share of the loot.
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