Title : Journal Pages -- Paris Purchases, Sketched near Rome. . .
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Journal Pages -- Paris Purchases, Sketched near Rome. . .
Back home almost a week now, I'm beginning to sleep a bit better (5 1/2 hours in one stretch last night, the most continuous sleep in weeks), and I'm settling back into a very pleasant routine. Baked bread yesterday, watched the granddaughters' dance classes on the weekend, did some Christmas shopping yesterday and then had lunch with that fellow who stayed behind while I gallivanted == yes, that would be Pater. I've been knitting and reading and arranging visits with friends and family. . . and I've been trying to catch up my travel journal, while also getting my daily journal going again. Leisure can be exhausting! ;-)
I'm off to the dentist this morning -- a tiny chip on my front tooth seems to need re-plastering (might not be the technical term!) every few years, and the most recent fix (perhaps three or four years ago broke off while I was away. I'll be crossing my fingers that it's a simple fix again. . .
Meanwhile, I'll leave you these journal pages. I sketched them at the table in my daughter's house in Italy. I'd bought a perfume that I tested and loved last Paris visit but hadn't found time to get back to the Boulevard Raspail shop to buy it. I'd also bought a jar of l'Occitane face cream, having deliberately brought only enough cream from home to get me through my first week of travel, wanting to bring back something that would weave my trip into my daily routine -- I'd originally thought I'd get another jar of Caudalie, but I tried the l'Occitane and liked it.
And both products were packaged beautifully, but I travel light, as you know, and couldn't see much sense in carting home the paper boxes or bags. Instead, I decided to incorporate some of them into my journal, and I had a delicious hour or two playing with scissors and my little glue stick and my pen and marker and paints. . .
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| Snips of the beautiful L'Artisan Parfumeur packaging combined with my riffs on same -- the blackberries, and the two doodled hexagons on the right are mine, in case you didn't guess. . . |
Here are the transcriptions:
Top page, across the left margin, Frankie told me I smelled Bee-you-ti-ful so I asked her to check if her parents thought I could spray her too -- some consideration on her part about rolling sleeve up or down first. . .
Mid-page, to the right of the penguin, I arranged my two Paris purchases on the table at my daughter's house, but then I needed something else to round out the composition -- and what better than a seasonal snow globe, penguin and all . . .
And from centre to right margin, I bought the face cream at the crowded little L'Occitane shop at Gare de Lyon before boarding my train to Torino (en route to Roma). The sales assistant was obviously pleased with such an easy sale -- he loaded me up with all kinds of yummy samples. . .
And on the second page, beginning at the bottom of the left margin and then working around the page. . . The pleasure of this scent is amplified by memories of the elegant shop, the conversation with the lovely Sales Assistant, the same one who had suggested last June , that I should try Mûre et Musc, and sent me away from the shop on Boulevard Raspail with samples. And today, Monday November 26, 2018, I got a follow-up email from "Ninon" thanking me again for my visit . . . and repeating a description of the scent, "An accord that explores the freshness of luscious blackberries, with an addictive facet of white musk."
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