T Stands for the rainbow, Paris and a second look.

Hi everyone, first I apologise if I didn't visit last week. We had our booster jabs last Wednesday and both hubby and I had a strange reaction to it. We had the initial ache in the arm but for a few days afterwards we were both light headed and weary. I now have my vertigo back too so I am not spending very long at a time on the computer.

We are still going out for walks but not at the pace we are used to!

I made my Calendar Journal page for November. I used rainbow colours for the background and added Aall and Create Janet Klein figures and flowers and used some neocolourII crayons for the rainbow which I cut out with the bottoms at an angle. Some raindrops were added through a stencil and some were doodled in with white pen. I am entering it at Art Journal Journey for my chosen theme this month 'All Kinds Of Weather'

Here is October filled in if you would like to see.

Now to Paris...

On the weekend that we were there it was 'Journées européennnes du patrimoine' (European Heritage Days). Places or areas that are not often open to the public are opened for free as well as a lot of museums being open too.

We saw that Les Gobelins Manufactory had an exhibition of Napoleon's furnishings and that there were also going to be weaving demonstrations.

 

This photograph is from the internet - we passed the building most days on our walks to other parts of Paris

As usual Blogger has changed the order of my photos but you can see how fabulous the furniture is - they were taken from several of Napoleon's residences

We moved from the main building to the workshop area. 

At the moment they are working on a tapestry for 2024 Olympics being held in Paris

We also had a look in the windows of the areas where colours are tested

This took most of our morning - there was a refreshment van selling drinks but I forgot to take photos!

I know....I'll show you the place we went to for coffee on the Friday afternoon.

It is bakery go to every time we are in the area (they have a decent loo - ssshhhh)and their raspberry tarts are to die for - we both had an accompanying cappuccino.

I am joining Bleubeard and Elizabeth for T stands For Tuesday

Finally today found this post from November 10th 2013 for my Second Look On the 2nd at The  Altered Book Lover

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ITS BEGINNING TO LOOK LIKE

there's a chance of a connection! I can't believe that it's ten whole days since I last blogged! While we were home I didn't have much to blog about then we came away and although I have been busy just couldn't get the internet to connect for long enough! 
I'm going to be brief just in case it goes again!
Before we came away I had two cards to make - under pressure - but both safely delivered now!

We've had quite a lot of rain up here (and a heavy frost this morning) but it hasn't stopped us going out! When we have been in I've been making a few Christmas cards - experimenting really as I want to do a few the same.

My new mini JOFY Paper Artsy tree is my favourite at the moment but I still like my Artemio tree and holly. As you can see - not finished - I think I'm going to go with the JOFY stamp with the cut out words from an old PA Squiggle ink stamp set (egg and nog 1)I have used the holly swirl from this set very year since I bought it!
Right, I think I've pushed my luck for long enough now - I'd better press the publish button!

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I hope my post isn't too long for you, next week I will show you what did on Saturday afternoon

Thanks for looking, Chris