When messy rhymes with pretty!
Thursday, May 28, 2009 Publié par Eric Tenin
Some may find this window messy, I find it pretty artsy! I passed by this shop in rue Michel Le Comte in le Marais a few days ago and never used the photo. And since today I did not have the time to take a "photo du jour", well, I thought I could use this one. I haven't been able to find out what this store's name was. BTW, you're not going to believe it but we have another 3 day weekend coming up, so I'll have time to take more photos ;-)
May 28, 2009 1:03:00 AM GMT+02:00
I love it -- it 's just a big pile of color! Were you out with your neighbors? (Isn't today Neighbor's Day?
May 28, 2009 1:04:00 AM GMT+02:00
Oh my my how pretty is that! You and your 3 day weekends, it's just not just.
May 28, 2009 1:04:00 AM GMT+02:00
he he pipped to the post by Alexa - GF! Tell me about your crown.
May 28, 2009 1:05:00 AM GMT+02:00
Oops, forgot to close the parentheses. Hope you enjoy another long weekend, Eric.
May 28, 2009 1:06:00 AM GMT+02:00
Lynn -- the crown is definitely colorful today!
May 28, 2009 1:07:00 AM GMT+02:00
lol for sure. What ARE they though? skipping ropes?
May 28, 2009 1:09:00 AM GMT+02:00
Looks like a psychedelic bowl of communal pasta I had in the 1960s. Or what I thought I had. Actually, there was neither a bowl nor pasta anywhere around.
May 28, 2009 1:11:00 AM GMT+02:00
Those are definitely jump ropes on top, but what are those thinner things on the bottom? Some are grouped by color and some are multi-colored.
Another mystery to be solved. Sherlock, are you out there?
May 28, 2009 1:15:00 AM GMT+02:00
LOL Tall Gary!!
Hmm....yes Suzy, a mysterie...(French shrug)... (you can put those in just anywhere)
Cue raincoated man in beret.
"The skipping ropes had got tangled. Tangled bad..."
Oh no sorry I'm getting carried away now.... well! that would be a first!
May 28, 2009 1:23:00 AM GMT+02:00
I think the thinner ones are called scoobies. My children make friendship bracelets with them. They plat them together with either one color or a combination. Keeps them out of mischief.
May 28, 2009 1:25:00 AM GMT+02:00
Oh yes Hetty! Scoobies. Goodness I remember those. I used to make them.
May 28, 2009 1:29:00 AM GMT+02:00
Hey, my kids made those too. When I blow this up, it looks like psychedelic plastic string. And speaking of psychedelic, I'm pretty sure I was there for TG's imaginary communal meal (or one just like it)!
May 28, 2009 1:35:00 AM GMT+02:00
Them were the good old days when ps2/3,s and Wii's didn't exist and you had to amuse yourself with more interesting things, like hopscotch, jump rope & space hoppers etc
May 28, 2009 1:38:00 AM GMT+02:00
I worked in a nursery where we used to cook n color the spaghetti for the toddlers to play with. However i think we had the most fun with it. Well that is the staff and I did. The best thing was Gloop does anyone know what that is.
May 28, 2009 1:42:00 AM GMT+02:00
Vaguely rings a bell but I'm not sure...was it bright pink jelly stuff you made through powder and water? You could mould it. If not, what was THAT stuff? :) I loved it.
May 28, 2009 2:14:00 AM GMT+02:00
Wow, I would have taken this shot too, or something like it. You just can't pass up that color. But TG, I don't think I would eat it.
May 28, 2009 2:25:00 AM GMT+02:00
LOL Hetty - your nursery story reminds me of when my brother used to use food coloring to make green eggs and ham!
May 28, 2009 2:31:00 AM GMT+02:00
Very colourful! Enjoy your long weekend Eric :)
May 28, 2009 3:46:00 AM GMT+02:00
I thought it was YARN until I blew up the photo. NOW I get your talk!
It has a beautiful rhythm besides kool colors, man. Now I sound like Coltrane.
Can anyone tell me if museums or the Marais will be open on Sunday? I had no idea it was a holiday weekend.
May 28, 2009 5:29:00 AM GMT+02:00
PHX -- are you in Paris again! Lucky dog!
BTW, you DO sound like Coltrane (:~) )) Hey, did I just invent the unibrow, double chin smiley face?
May 28, 2009 6:23:00 AM GMT+02:00
Love your artwork Alexa.
I have been back and forth to CDG all month. When I get back from this one on the 1st, I leave for vacation on the 2nd with my eric to......Paris lol.
I will be meeting Cali and Monica on the 4th. I feel very lucky to have been able to meet so many of you!! I just haven't been able to meet UKLynn.
I wonder if UKLynn really exists. I mean, "she" speaks French perfectly, takes photographs on "her" blog,never makes it to the picnics and "she" is the one with the biggest crush on Eric. Aha, I figured it out..UKLynn IS really PDP ERIC !!!
May 28, 2009 7:07:00 AM GMT+02:00
PHX...nobody sounds like Coltrane. ;-)
But it is KOOL-tacular in a Guatemalan Grateful Dead Huipil sort of way. Man I miss Sammy Davis Jr...
May 28, 2009 8:10:00 AM GMT+02:00
Lovely colours!
I imagine a children's room on seeing these colours.
May 28, 2009 8:38:00 AM GMT+02:00
LooOL TG and PHX.
Congrats on your great colorful GF crown Alexa.
This is really a funny photo and it gets you to think; what is this place and what do they use these colorful strings for ? Bags ? Hair extensions ? Place mats ? Hula skirts ?????
May 28, 2009 9:10:00 AM GMT+02:00
PHX: UKLynn and Eric would be the same person? waow! That's a news...
Coltrane, I didn't know Eric Vincent before you mentioned him here! But I checked his website and it was a good surprise. I love the music AND the lyrics!
Thanks ;-)
May 28, 2009 9:29:00 AM GMT+02:00
Oh ben y a du travail ............. (je veux dire, pour démêler tout ça, ou pour occuper les enfants)!!!
;)
May 28, 2009 9:58:00 AM GMT+02:00
Yeah, baby!
{I only said that to try and fit in with the Kool kids. Really I desperately want to climb into the window and start sorting.}
Alexa, congrats GF! I'll be in touch about untangling your crown for you shortly.
May 28, 2009 11:26:00 AM GMT+02:00
Oh, and Phx ~ have a lovely time with Cali and Monica! Yay!!!
May 28, 2009 12:25:00 PM GMT+02:00
Gloop is one of those things they taught in science in school many moons ago. A liquid and a solid at the same time. You can pick it up as a solid but it quickly liquefies. Amazing to watch. Well little amuses the innocent. Its really only cornflour and water or custard powder, throw in food coloring and you can play for hours.
May 28, 2009 1:13:00 PM GMT+02:00
I find it pretty nice :)
I'll try to help if I could! Could I ???
Yes, with time, know-how-to-do and lot of special handmade gifts, I'm pretty sure... ;)
Bisous.
May 28, 2009 3:07:00 PM GMT+02:00
Oh my! I love this, Eric. In America, we use the plastic strands on the bottom to make lanyards (key chains, whistle holders) at camp etc. This combo of art & craft looks gorgeous to me!
May 28, 2009 4:04:00 PM GMT+02:00
Je trouve ça vraiment beau...et me demande si c'est fait exprès.
Mais c'est plus une école qu'une boutique, non?
May 28, 2009 5:33:00 PM GMT+02:00
PHX- UK Lynn and Eric one and the same person? Called Lyric perhaps?
But you're also a Lynn - and your husband is called....Eric?
Curiouser and curiouser.
May 28, 2009 5:56:00 PM GMT+02:00
LOL Drummond! 4 persons in one? that's more and more complicated...
But some of us have already met Eric and PHX at the same time... and apparently they were 2 different persons..
Maybe one of them was a fake, or a hologram :-}
Anne, in France, kids also plait these strands to make key chains, etc... We call these "scoobidoos" !!
I used to be pretty good!
May 28, 2009 6:22:00 PM GMT+02:00
Thib, you may have come up with the solution there. Will the real Lynn and Eric stand up please?
Before I take my medication, just like to say I love today's pic.
May 28, 2009 7:59:00 PM GMT+02:00
Drummond, I'm interested in what you'd have to say AFTER you take your medication!
May 28, 2009 8:01:00 PM GMT+02:00
Thib...re: E. Vincent--I see he will be performing in Brazil from Aug-Sept and then to the USA shortly thereafter. Glad you like this Parisian's music in the chanson francais genre. I believe he lives on a houseboat on the Seine when he's not touring. It was back in 1991 (close to that time) that I met him and broke some bread and drank some wine and sang some tunes. Cool dude all around. He does travel A LOT too. Great storyteller. Ciao.
May 28, 2009 11:26:00 PM GMT+02:00
He he Phx that was so amusant! Tis true I have not met you, and Eric and I have not been in the same place at the same time. Dun dun dur. Isn't it strange - two Lynn & Erics?
The Real Eric & Lynn, please stand up, please stand up.... well I KNOW I'm real. lol. Anyway, my dresses wouldn't suit Eric.
Thanks, but my French is far from perfect these days. I'm sure Eric, Guille, Michael and Thib must cringe on quite a few occasions.
Hey Eric - er me? - any news on the British businessman police are looking for after his girlfriend was found murdered in the Paris Hotel, Bristol, was it? Sounds dreadful. Can't find any more news on it.
June 1, 2009 4:03:00 PM GMT+02:00
So bright! Can you imagine a sweater made with these colors?
October 6, 2009 2:19:00 PM GMT+02:00
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