Saturday, September 30, 2006

Ile de Chatou.....

Here are some pictures of this wonderful village...
No wonder Monet and Renoir came so often here and were so inspired...
It's trully a beautiful of a village...



''Le déjeuner des Canotiers'' (1881) Auguste Renoir/ Impressioniste


Friday, September 29, 2006

A Fair at Ile de Chatou....

73é Foire National D'Automne à la brocante et aux Jambons...






Today after my gym class I headed with some friends to this wonderful fair in Ile de Chatou, a famous town were Monet and Renoir used to come and paint...
It's the first fair of Antiques in France with over 800 stands...
It started September 22nd and ends October 1st...It's near Saint-Germain-en-Laye not far from Paris...If your around do go, it's fabulous and you can have a great lunch there...
Tomorrow I'll post more pictures of were the artist got inspired...

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Le Châtaignier...


Or Chestnut tree...
All the Chestnut trees are in bloom...and their falling all over the place...
Got to be careful though with the spicky capsules...

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Flying over Bazainville....


As I was on the road to go do groceries...I looked up, and to my surprice found this guy flying over our village...How fun that would be!!!
Have a great day...

Monday, September 25, 2006

La Fête Foraine a Houdan.....







Saturday was la Fête Foraine in Houdan, and off course the kids were dieing to go...
We were able to do a couple of rides and have some churros and cotton candie...before the rain started to come down pretty hard...

Sunday, September 24, 2006

Happy Sunday...


The Church at Courgent, a beautiful village near by....

Saturday, September 23, 2006

A bit of Holland in the shutters...

Friday, September 22, 2006

Fashion victim....


Love that Zebra bag...
and who said there were no zebras in Bazainville!!!

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Yellow Pepper.....


I love to cook with yellow peppers.....

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

La Post a Bazainville...


What another drop off looks like...
Post Office in Bazainville has chaged it's hours....It's now open;
Lundi/ Mardi/ Jeudi/ Vendredi 16h-19h
Mercredi 8h30-11h30
Samedi de semaines paires
9h30--11h30

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

A Post Box Dropoff....


This is what some of the post office dropoff boxes look like....

Monday, September 18, 2006

Goodmorning...


Quite chilly this morning I think I'll stay in.....

Sunday, September 17, 2006

My son's Birthday Today....


Hard to believe how fast time goes by...

Saturday, September 16, 2006

Mooooooo.....


I just realised I haven't posted any of these yet...and we have plenty in our village...they were quite friendly...and cute!

Friday, September 15, 2006

What a feast....


Home made sandwiches with salami, cheese, pate, then some prunes from the village and of course a glass of wine...Cheers to all of you...

Thursday, September 14, 2006

They're all over....


Well since I posted the apples the other day, I'll post the Berries that are through out all of our village...

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Bazainville's Antiquités....


This is one of our very famous Antiquaire here in Bazainville...they have some very lovely things...Doors from diffrent epoques, stair cases, etc...they also specialise on old floors....
He is right of the Bazainville exit, as you enter Bazainville to the right (la departementale) all the way to the end of the road...
Good shopping...
ANTIQUITES
Pierrette et Pierre QUITARD
46, Impasse du Boeuf Couronné
78550 Bazainville
Tel: 01 34 87 61 88
Fax: 01 34 87 63 22

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Apples from the garden....

Monday, September 11, 2006

September 11th....


A day we will never forget...
God bless all of those who suffered so terrably that day...

Sunday, September 10, 2006

La Brocante de Montchauvet....


Happy Sunday!
Today was Montchauvet's Annual Brocante and I have been doing it with Jenny for the past 4 years...
Lynn our english girl friend joined us this year and instead of 5 meters we got 7 meters of selling space....
Well I showed up at 5:30am the town was all quite and dark, I wanted to get there early because its hard to find parking if you show up any later
and the usual customers start off very early, before I even set up the table they already wanted to go threw my boxes...
Well we had a great day and sold quite a lot....by 11am Jenny got some Pinot Rouge from a guy in the village who makes it himself, that warmed us up and got us real friendly....then for lunch she prepared this great feast for us with a nice bottel of Rosé so you can imagine we had a hell of a time, by the end of the day we were giving the stuff away....Well the night before I had done two trips to Jenny's house to drop of stuff and I said to myself no way am I doing this on the way back....one trip only so get rid of the stuff....the rest of the stuff that didn't go, I will be giving to my friend Laurance who does her annual trip to Senegal and always asks for stuff for the kids out there, last year I gave her two full suitcases full of goodies, and she's still thanking me for them...
The kids all had a blast, Montchauvet is a great little town, and everyone is so nice....
I hope you all had a great Sunday....

Sunday, September 03, 2006

Out for a ride...


My daughter took this shot...

Saturday, September 02, 2006

Shopping all day....


Fashion week in Paris...Today I spent all day at the Pret a Porter show in Paris with my girlfriend from New York shopping for her uptown store...So many amazing things it's really an incredible show...I normally work and show at the shows so I have no time to go around and enjoy it.It was really fun to be on the other side...I must say I thought being an exposant was not easy well let me tell you being a buyer is no picnic...there is so much out there that it's really overwelming...It was a fun shopping day!

Friday, September 01, 2006

Plaza Atene...


A friend is in town visiting for fashion week, so I took her for a treat at Avenue Montagne, we had lunch walked around and then I couldn't resist but take a picture of the Plaza Atene Hotel and its splendid balconies...