So Close But Not There Yet

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Loved the answers you gave (in the comment sections and by email) to yesterday's guessing game, so close but no winner yet. 
I'll give it another day.
Looking glass- Lorna
Photo Source Lorna, Finchley Papers.
A couple of months ago I featured Lorna of Finchley Papers on Saturday Art Saves. Several days ago Lorna wrote that she was coming to Paris, and did I know of a place where she could stay… Perfect timing.
Well, Lorna is staying in the Paris apartment with me, though there isn't a sofa, nor the chunky monkey kitchen chandelier. It doesn't seem to matter. Later in the week we are going to go back to Marseille hang out, do a brocante or two. Lorna buys antique ephemera from me for some of her beautiful graphics.
Yet another blogging buddy comes to life.
Today we walked around Paris, our feet are somewhere on the right bank. We went to one of my favorite paper/card shops in the Marais: 
Mélodies Graphiques 10 Rue du Pont Louis-Philippe, 75004 Paris ‎ 01 42 74 57 68
photo source and text from: Editer
"Just the most beautiful, charming little old-fashioned stationery shop, a find for those who still indulge in expensive sealing wax or indian ink habits, or for picking up beautiful handmade gifts. Mélodies Graphiques is a nostalgic’s paradise, supplying monogrammed seal and wax, hand-printed notecards, scratchy fountain pens and ornate ink wells. Eric de Tugny opened the store to indulge the passions of ‘those who love to write’, and upon the walls are painstakingly pinned calligraphed envelopes and letters from fans all over the world."
No. 10 Melodies Graphiques, Paris
Photo via Corey Amaro
Eric de Tugny is a calligraphist and artist, creating over 11,000 envelopes a year. Eric also has created a beautiful book of insects he has painted. The text is from old documents and books about such little creatures.
10 Rue du Pont Louis-Philippe, 75004 Paris ‎

01 42 74 57 68 
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Photo Source Lorna from Finchley Papers.
Lorna was in graphic heaven. The two of them had plenty to talk about.
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Later we caught a bus…. but first we had our photo taken for "Mon Bus, Mon Style"
The background is a poster of a fake bus, the steering wheel wasn't attached, I am holding that puppy mid air. Yes it was heavy.
We were goofing off, I pointed for Lorna to get in the back of the fake bus, and Lorna is telling me to go forward… The French camera thought we were just two crazy ladies.
If you would like to guess again, what Yann is holding in the black bag, give it a try. The first one to have the correct answer you will hear me yell YAHOO!!


Comments

48 responses to “So Close But Not There Yet”

  1. becky up a hill

    French scrap books

  2. A family crest?
    Giant pop tart?
    Antique posters?
    The world’s largest menu?

  3. Doors?
    I know not for what but you were looking for some. Did you find them?

  4. Mmmmm, I am guessing 4 old French wooden bread boards..to serve,slice or chop on?
    Colx

  5. jend’isère

    Old advertisement signs.

  6. Four antique picture frames? Old mirrors? Paintings? Silver (or not) serving trays?

  7. Perhaps small window shutters?

  8. Portfolios full of prints? Like botanicals?

  9. How about folding chairs. Seems practical. Enjoy whatever it is.

  10. Beautiful old door knobs, panes of watery, antiqued glass to replace those broken or missing, vintage metal signs with favorite destinations and digits, romantic switchplates darkened by by the fingers of hundreds of parents checking on their tots all through the night, or a cutlery/knife safe once owned by a Romanian circus family whose star performer disappeared one evening on the train from Paris to Berlin…

  11. a very large antique but blank guest book!
    perhaps a map with the streets leading to the subways near the apartment!
    message boards…for love notes and thank yous!
    household chore boards, for laundry, grocery lists, repairs….
    xoxoxo jody fl

  12. ps i love to see you have such fun with everyone! what a great personality you have…..evident in writing, but to see it live! yea Corey! xo jody fl

  13. I’m guess French Husband was out looking for cookie sheets and found them. Sounds mundane but very useful.

  14. I’m guessing French Husband bought cookie sheets. Not very romantic but useful.

  15. I’m thinking four elephants!! Or four candelabras?

  16. Kick Meng

    Corey…you are so crazy and so funny! I love that picture of you on the “bus”.
    I think French husband has a smirk on his face and he’s bringing you a BIG box of chocolates…..

  17. Debbie Z.

    I am going to guess antique sepia lithographs for the walls. They would look so lovely with the color scheme you have going on in your classy apartment.

  18. OK, what one thing would you send Yann out for, and be even happier when he comes back with four? Bowels for the kitchen; maybe he found a set? Cool clothes hooks for the bedroom or coat hooks for the entry?

  19. OK, another guess. As it really is a picture fame size, I am going to say a print, etching, painting even of that archetypal French emblem: Marianne. As you’ll be having lots of footfall in your apartement from us foreigners, nothing would be more sublime than an antique face of Marianne gracing the walls somewhere!

  20. A box of gorgeous antique silver cutlery?

  21. Sconces?

  22. Laurie SF

    Yann looks to be straining under the weight of the bags.
    So, here we go:
    Candlebras, forks, knives, silver, monogrammed linens, antique plates, vintage tins, French bone and ebony domino set, door knocker, antique metro map, copper kettle, seltzer bottle, antique French hotel desk bell, skeleton keys..
    And one old glorious woven market basket.

  23. Marie-Noëlle

    Old Paris Métro signs ?
    Old Paris Métro maps ?
    Old RATP maps ?

    Dart boards ???

  24. Old wooden chopping boards, chargers or serving platters.

  25. Printing trays
    Cutlery trays
    Old “tiroirs”
    ????

  26. Carolyn Cotterill

    A blackboard for your kitchen.

  27. Old ledger for guests to sign

  28. Wooden CUTTING BOARDS or bread boards.

  29. A very big, heavy duty chandelier hook for the huge chandelier and 4 smaller one’s for various other lighting fixtures.

  30. Carol Sasich

    marble cutting board

  31. Carol Sasich

    I forgot to mention how wonderfully fun you are ,
    would love to meet you Corey !

  32. Carolyn from Pittsburgh

    dish drain board or rack,
    door mat,
    shower mat or bathroom rug

  33. Country French Judi

    Shower curtain, bed linens, table linens towels, towel holders, cd player, french cd’s, dvd player, radio, clocks, laundry baskets,pillows, blankets, throws

  34. Country French Judi

    antique Bibles???? lol but hotels have them and I am running out of ideas!!

  35. Country French Judi

    a framed pic or unframed pic of the eiffle tower?

  36. Karen Carson

    Here’s another guess…some sort of window panes? Stained glass perhaps?

  37. Country French Judi

    Ironing board?

  38. Violet Cadburry

    Chalkboards? Bedpans? Huge ashtrays?

  39. Country French Judi

    French Puzzles? Window Screens… Europeans don’t use them and I told my husband we could become millionaires selling them LOL! window boxes for geraniums ( red of course!)

  40. Books about Paris: history, picture books or maybe travel books with interesting places to see and visit while in Paris.
    Maybe, there’s a plant in that bag . . .he couldn’t decide between a boxwood topiary or ivy.
    How about a wooden collapsible dish drain? Or, a beautiful mirrored tray.
    Perhaps, you needed a notebook to keep track of the apartment expenditures. Or, to catalogue your collection of old prints.
    Did you decide that it was time for a Louis Vuitton brief?
    Love this, Corey . . .thanks for the fun!

  41. Did he pick up shades for the windows?
    PS . . .had to try one more time! ha

  42. I know, old framed black and white or sepia photographs of Paris!

  43. 4 framed french love letters

  44. lace curtains, salt box, pepper grinder, antique alarm clock…???

  45. I love this one!

  46. Country French Judi

    I can’t believe all these things have been suggested and not a single one is correct. It must be something so bizarre or something so simple like toilet paper that we are not getting it. If it is the black bag Yanny is carrying you can see the shape & it is big. If it is in the other small bags….well we could be guessing forever!!!!

  47. Some kind of sign…like one that says rue du Chateau or bienvenue or fermature pour congee annuelle or chien mechant…?
    I love Melodies Graphiques. Their windows are so eloquent and inside, an enchanted world!

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