Aimee's Grande Paris Adventure Part II "Charmed I'm Sure"

~  Last week ~

illustrated Paris-loving city girl Aimee

convinced three of the other Ooh La Frou Frou city girls

that they should join her on a week-long

... and before they knew it ...

~ Hope, Aimee, Belle and Alex ~

found themselves at a glamorous french apartment

in the 7th arrondissement in Paris' Rive Gauche

on a charming street called

~Rue De Grenelle ~

and
~ just like magic ~

they felt that they were

real Paris girls.

Let's fly away ...

and peek in at one of their very Parisian days ...

~ It's Early Morning in Paris ~
and the sun sparkles like diamonds
scattered across the floor of the
beautiful paris apartment on
Rue De Grenelle.

Aimee awakens from a night of sweet misty

~ Paris Carousel Dreams ~

... could dreams be any sweeter than carousel dreams? ...

While dressing for the day,

the girls discover that it's
~ absolutely necessary ~

to try on several outfits in order to find

just the right look of

~ Paris Chic ~

Aimee applies the perfect finishing touch ...
 glamorous smokey eyes.

She also practices the perfect pout.

~ Soon They're Ready For The Day To Begin ~

and they step out

onto magical Paris streets.

French music drifts through the air ...

as the girls

stroll to the illustrious

 Les Deux Magots sidewalk cafe

for a cappuccino and croissant ...

while sophisticated Parisians with their

very fancy Parisian dogs

pass by.


~ Next On Their Agenda For The Day ~

... a date with pink macarons ...

Last week, I mentioned that REAL Paris girl

Milla of Not Just Another Milla

offered some fun suggestions for the girls'
Grande Paris Adventure

and one of those suggestions

was a macaron-making class at the astonishingly beautiful

Café Lenôtre.

Café Lenôtre au Pavillon Elysée
10, Avenue des Champs Elysées, Paris 8ème

Alex, of course, was très thrilled with Milla's suggestion,

as she loves nothing better than baking and entertaining!

As the girls begin their four-hour class,

they sip cups of rich coffee

and nibble the french pastries that are served ...

and each leaves with a box of her own beautiful macarons ...

~ but Alex leaves with a little something extra ~

... daydreams ... of fabulous parties-to-be

adorned with macaron topiaries!

~ Oh-So-Full ~

from the pastries of the morning,

the decision is made to walk~walk~walk all afternoon.

Hope loves nothing better than shopping

and is right at home in pretty boutique fitting rooms anywhere ...

... so she was thrilled when they headed off to try out the fitting rooms

of Paris boutiques large and small ... 

... they made a stop by the very chic high-end

left bank department store ...

Le Bon Marche
and went up the escalators and down the escalators
several times.

They learned that the french are serious about perfume ...

they even have a word for a lingering fragrance trail ...

le sillage ...

so after visiting the gorgeous Parisian Perfumery Caron ...

the girls felt as if they were in a lovely pink cloud of scent ...

and definitely had their own

le sillage ...

~ Ever So Tired ~

from a day of macaron-making and shopping,

the girls take their macarons and beautiful shopping bags

back to their french apartment and collapse on their french beds
until time to get ready for a

~ Glamorous Paris Evening ~

Following yet another suggestion from Milla ...

they head over for drinks at the Plaza Athenee Bar.

They quickly decide that every nook and cranny

in the Plaza Athenee is a dream-come-true ...

and in the lovely bar ... even the cocktails are a dream ...

Following cocktails, the girls leave for dinner

at a lovely restaurant called

La Closerie des Lilas

~ meaning "Pleasure Garden of the Lilacs" ~
Belle is in heaven, as she's a southern-girl-living-in-the-city
and the lovely, lush courtyard garden reminds her of the
beautiful southern courtyards of her hometown.

While they wait for their table, they toast a fabulous day in Paris

with one of the bar's world-renowned Champagne Juleps. 

Walking slowly back to their apartment-for-the-week,

surrounded by sparkling Paris lights ...



... the girls all agree that the City of Light is aptly named.
Even taxis lights that say taxi like this ...

are just somehow more
~ ever-so-ooh-la-la ~

They gather up their memories of the day,

tuck themselves into their silky french sheets

and drift off, whispering ...

"Bonne Nuit, Sweet Paris ... Charmed, I'm Sure."

Please join us next week for Part III and the final episode of

"Aimee's Grande Paris Adventure."

Au revoir, darlings!

The characters that star in the

Ooh La Frou Frou Collection card line:

Hope Aimee Belle Alex Sunny Violet Tiffany and Cherie

are fictional, as are their glamorous fantasy adventures on the blog.

They were created by, and the blog is written by, the artist and creator of

Ooh La Frou Frou, Sandra Shelton Markwalder.

ILLUSTRATION CREDIT:

All illustration on this blog

and on all Ooh La Frou Frou Collection cards

is the work of artist

Sandra Shelton Markwalder.

Ooh La Frou Frou Collection cards

can be viewed and purchased at

http://www.oohlafroufrou.com/

Many photos used in this post were edited by

Ooh La Frou Frou by putting them in charm frames.

Photo Sources:

1.  Plane over sparkling lights and 1A. Paris Carousel

2. Paris street

3. Photo of Les Deux Magots (edited by me)

4. Macarons (edited by me)

5. Lenotre Paris

6. Lenotre Paris logo (edited by me)

7. Lenotre topiaries (edited by me)

8. Christian Louboutin store (edited by me)

9. Chanel store (edited by me)

10. Pink dress in window (edited by me)

11. Le Bon Marche escalators (edited by me)

12. Le Bon Marche exterior (edited by me)

13. Caron Paris store

14. Plaza Athenee Paris exterior

15. Plaza Athenee interior

16 and 17. Two Plaza Athenee Bar photos (edited by me)

18. La Closerie des Lilas (edited by me)

19. Paris at night

20. Taxi Parisien (edited by me)