PETIT PARIS
bonjour! here you'll read about my life in Paris with my family, things we like to do, places we like to go and random things that make me happy.
Sean and Will celebrated their 10th birthday last week. and it's going to take a while to sink in.
note: many many thanks to everyone who has shown kindness, taught a lesson, helped and encouraged, and has been a part of our boys' lives in one way or another. we are forever grateful.
"I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them.
But they answered: "Frighten? Why should any one be frightened by a hat?"
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it I makde another drawing: I drew the inside of a boa constrictor, so that the grown-ups could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
we celebrated my husband's 40th birthday this past weekend with good friends, karaoke singing and of course, our favorite cakes from Yamazaki.
ps: Happy Birthday love.
back from a photo shoot on Île des Impressionistes (in Chatou) where artists Monet, Degas, Renoir, Manet and many others used to hang out and paint. I can't wait to go back in the spring with the boys, our cameras, sketchbooks and gouache.
a little walk down the avenue de l'Opéra after a little stop by the Apple store and ramen noodles on rue Saint Anne.
Suri's Burn Book (via Blackbird)
one of my favorite things about working for Airbnb.com besides exploring new neighborhoods and shooting beautiful apartments (my favorite so far is Ava's room) is looking at paintings and photographs that people display in their homes. I love how each piece gives me small hints about their personal story, about what moves and inspires them, like this photograph of actress Anna Karina and French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard.
Jaume Plensa (whose etchings I admired a few weeks ago while shooting an apartment in the 9th arrondissement)
we usually stop by our local bakery on our way home after school, but once in a while I love surprising the boys with special treats like Japanese strawberry shortcakes from Yamazaki, choux à la crème from Popelini, and vanilla macarons or whoopie pies (photo above) from La Grande Epicerie.
Sean & Will on Sally J Shim blog (thank you Sally!)
this is what we woke up to every morning while spending the last week of August in a small town in the Vaud Alps.
needless to say, we hope to go back soon.
Feb 24, 2012
