Busy busy busy.

This week was the busiest I've had so far, as far as uni is concerned anyway. This week I was finally going to meet my studio professor, so I stayed in all monday embroidering stuff. It was very dull. So tuesday I decided to go shopping, to get the presents for Elises birthday (She and I are birthday twins) and I found some neat stuff.

I love the pixel graffiti around paris, its so fun.

This shop has the most fun things in it. I love this chocolate bag.

Wandering around Paris is great, there are so many different stores.

French was still hard this week. So Michelle and I cheered ourselves up by finding a chocolat shop. It had a pick and mix with all the delightful truffles and fancy chocolats, so we got a bag each and I also got macarons. It was a very worthwhile part of the day.

Both wednesday and Thursday are my usual mosaic days, but Guillame Paris, my studio professor schedualed two meetings at 2pm on both of these days. I really wanted to get the stones finished this week, but I ran out of time. I'm almost there though! Looking forward to polishing it up.

On the way to the studio room, we pass this statue. We named him George. Its a very strange statue to have in this part of the uni, his facial expression is crazy, and of course, like most of the sculptures in the school, his penis has been chipped off. Poor George.

My daily walk to uni over the sickening love bridge is sometimes quite amusing. On Wednesday I discovered the handcuffs on the fence, now thats a controlling relationship. But then on Thrursday, I couldnt see them! Strange indeed.

Just me, to show you I am still alive and kicking... and buying 80s vintage dresses.

On Friday after French Abby Michelle and I went to Pauls and had quiche and tarte citron. Yumyum. Then Michelle had to run off to catch a plane to london for the weekend for her sisters birthday. I thought about it for mums, but you know... it takes a whole weekend to get to Perth.. haha.

Abby had shopping cravings, and I was nice enough to keep her company... heh.

We found Ariel at H&M and decided to go to Marais for some vintage shopping. I love vintage shopping here. Its cheap, they are actually in my size, and there is so much choice. Catch up Perth, please!

After that we were craving mexican so I found a sorta mexican restaurant near my apartment, the most important thing being that it was happy hour, and we could get 3.50 euro frozen margaritas. Yum. Food was pretty good, big servings. Then we grabbed icecream and wine and headed to mine to watch a movie. I let the girls choose and had to sit through the Rescuers down under. I had never seen this before. I love how the main creature they need to protect is actually an american eagle, and not australian at all. It was a fun day, especially after a hard French class. She made me speak lots. Do you know how hard it is to describe what a lamington is in French? No one knows what they are. I really want one. SIT ON THE LAMINGTON.

Saturday Abby and I found a nice dodgy market and we both bought 8 euro shoes and cheap vintage dresses. It was an interesting market to see. I think I'm getting sick cause I got tired really fast, which is not like me in a shopping situation.

Okay, so TODAY. I decided to check out a market I read about on the net. After getting lost there for an hour... I finally called a friend who had access to a computer and pointed me in the right direction. I'm so glad I found it, its a great market.

Typography blocks. They are so funky looking. I wanted them, but wood = heavy in the luggage.

Spine anyone? Some of the tables were rather perculiar.

Vintage Corsets. It took a lot of control to not blow 100 euros on one of these.

Old bottles of alcohol. I wonder if any of them are actually rare? Or even drinkable?

Creeeeepy Fox.

This whole stall was just pop up books. It was so cute. I've never seen so many pop up books, this of course, is pop up Dracula book. So random.

Lots of art in this market, mainly the touristy crap, but some that do originals. I liked this guys work, but I dont think dad will really want it in the house...

I stalked this puppy all the way around the market, he was so cute. Love for the puppies.

Butterflys? I dont quite get it, but okay...

People were a lot nicer here, instead of the usual creepy men.

When everything started to close up I bought some chips and was walking back when some gorgeous old women were dancing to AC/DC highway to hell and stopped me to say Bon Appetit! and that I looked Magnific! They were lovely.

I wonder how much the puppy in the bag is? :P

Let it be known I finally found a garison cap in this market, hooray! Not as well fitting as the last, but I think if I add one clip it will be fine.

After this market I journied to Marais for what I suppose was the Paris version of our Upmarkets. It was great to see so much handmade stuff. I bought a few presents for people here. I love the Marais area, its mainly a jewish area so shops are open on a sunday because they go to their church or whatever on a monday instead. Lots of cool shops, so great to lose yourself in.

So now I suppose its back to doing some uni work. Guillame Paris my professor is a typical Parisian, he wears a beret and a striped Tshirt. He has those round professor glasses, and wears his sunnies inside. He's a funny guy but probably pretty up himself. They liked my art, and were interested in the embroideries, but really want me to make more giant food works, and work with them as props in photographs. I knew this would happen. I may make some marquettes, but no big art here... Anyway hopefully this week isnt as hectic. Hope you are all well, and best wishes to all those in Japan. <3

Lonnng blog because I was lazy this week...

So here we go, I probably should have done some seperate blogs, but alas, I am lazy, as you all know.

Wednesday:

After mosaics, we went back to the other university for a gallery openning. Some very interesting works, and people. There was a large wooden box with a slit in it, and if you looked through the slit someone inside would point a gun at you through it. haha.

This work was good, how do you unlock it? With the key, but how do you get the key? You unlock it.

If the box was made better it would have been very good.

I have no idea what this was about, but it was a bed with latex rubber sheets etc, and then someone was pouring honey on it.

A melting ice head. Kinda like Marc Quinns blood head, but you know... less bloody.

This was a giant tamagotchi... if you remember what those are. Basically a little game that you had to keep a creature alive, feed it and play with it etc. But this one had a live rat in it. And the rat was scared. So the rat kept pooping...

After that we went back to my place and had a feast of japanese food with wine of course.

I ate this at some point during the week. It was very pretty...

Friday:

We decided that we would do some galleries after French on Fridays, so after a gruelling lesson we headed to a nice patisserie for our lunch and ate it out in the sun. The roll was yum, but i ate it too fast for a photo.

I also bought these beautiful pastel marshmallow things. Very soft and tasty.

And of course the "gateau" portion of our meal was this creamy and tangy lemon tart. So good.

We then took the RER to the museum, and found that tower again on the way.

Abby likes being a tourist for me!

In the gallery we got free entrance again which is awesome, and saw a temporary exhibition called General Idea. Very strange works, lots of the AIDS works to mock the LOVE work. I dont really get this piece with the poodles, but it was cool.

After taking this the lady went crazy at us for taking photos... even though it wasnt signed, and we had taken photos infront of a different attendant and he didnt care... Meany parisians.

Poodle Karma Sutra apparently... Some artists are strange. But its you cant deny its different.

In the perminant collections we saw some boring art, and some recognisable art... This is a Picasso work.

The gallery was quite good though, It was the museum of modern at though, so it should be. We then went and had a drink outside in what was left of the sun and people watched. Its paris fashion week here, so there was some event in the building next to the gallery, with lots of skinny models outside...

Saturday:

Today I met Michelle in the crazy area of montmartre. Not a nice area to be alone in, but perfect if you need fabric. We did a bit of shopping and I got the (damn expensive) cotton I needed and she got the pieces for her artwork. Michelle finally recieved some money from her university, so we decided to celebrate by going to Laduree, a very famous patisserie on the Champs Elysees. We had some very tasty sandwiches, which came with the very special 4 chips... and then we had some amazing desserts, mine was some kind of chocolate overload, very rich and yummy, and Michelles was kinda like a profiterole, but with a violet cream inside and violet icing. It tasted amazing, it tasted purple. I would have taken photos, but it was very posh and I didnt want to look like a douche.

We then journeyed to a Brittish bookshop that Michelle wanted to go to (after a slight detour... She needs to work on her navigating... heh) They sell vegemite! But its 5,90 Euros for a tiny jar...

Saturday night we headed to Abbys for drinks and dinner and to be introduced to some special american foods.

Lauren brought over ingrediants for pasta and made a puttanesca which was very tasty (but not very american, which suited me fine)

She worked in Abbys kitchen, which also happens to be inside of a cupboard.

We also drank a bit of cheap champagne and wine as you do in Paris.

French Fries, an american food, was lovingly prepared by McDonalds...

Reeces Peanutbutter cups? The girls made them for us to try, very different flavour combination with the peanut butter, but tasty none the less.

They also made us Peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches... very strange... I ate it, but I cant say I would make it myself, its very sweat. I'll stick to my vegemite. heh.

The night was fun though, we taked for hours, and Michelle came back to mine to stay, because she lives in a bit of a dodgy area that is probably not too nice to walk in at 1am by yourself...

And finally, today, Sunday.

After Michelle left I didnt do much til about 3pm when Abby and I met up to go to a vintage/retro market type thing. It was very cool to see, heaps of accessories and stuff. There was great rockabilly music playing and even a guy cutting peoples hair in the old styles. I bought a cute vintage hat, and Abby got some awesome vintage teatowels that had great prints on them.

Not the greatest photo of the hat... but yes, I am pleased. :)

Tomorrow is back to reality, with a tonne of French homework, not to mention art work to do, as finally this week I'm meeting up with my studio professor. Hopefully it all goes well.

A bientot!

My productive Tuesday.

Today was very productive. For once... heh.

I got up early and actually vacuumed and mopped the floors. I know, I don't believe it either.

And then I went and met my friend Michelle for lunch and walkies near uni.

We found some awesome art. I love this bandaid. Love it.

Its perfectly placed over the crack.

We found where Bordelaire and Oscar Wilde lived.

And saw some cool architecture.

Not to mention strange ceramic foods...

We found a cute little place for lunch, which had a million different cues. Michelle was brave and got the duck gizzards. (Thats her brave face) Which she decided was quite nice, but a bit too much.

I was boring and had the lasagne. Yum though.

We went to the Paris Mint

And another gallery, this is a Dali sculpture.

Magritte Print.

Magritte sculptures. Love the surrealists.

We found an awesome shop we wanted to buy everything in, but bought nothing... This phone, so awesome.

And after our French lesson, we went and visited the oldest church in Paris, Saint Germain de Pres.

Parts are really old, and some parts are old. But, its pretty old. Ya know?

I like the windows.

And my favourite thing ever. Patisserie windows. Lauderie. OMG.

I even did my washing and cleaned up all the crap. See. That is floor. I also folded my bed up for the first time... Crazy.

And after all that. I even did a watercolour. Trying to get the skills back.

And now I'm exhausted and I need to get up early, so goodnight all! Or good morning really. :)

Au revoir!