An art-free post

I've been writing too much about art, I know. Some of you, gentle readers, are artists, but some are just my family. Speaking of which, I had a Skype video chat with my parents yesterday in which they were kind enough to hold up my beautiful cat to the camera. He's still really pretty. In my parents' living room (in their apartment in Austin), there are four chairs. When I was there over the holidays, each of us would sit in one, and Oz would take the fourth. You can see him in the brown chair on the right. Now, of course, he has the choice of two chairs, which must be overwhelming.
I went to the Marche aux Puces de Clingancourt today, on the far side of Montmartre. It's a huge flea market that covers a few square miles. Stalls are set up to sell all kinds of junk, and there are streets with shops in between the open areas. The rue de Rosiers has high-end antiques, which were very pretty and exorbitantly priced. I was looking for a lamp, but I couldn't find one under 2000 euros. I did, however, get some lovely pieces of antique lace at one store. I've been spending a lot of time shopping, getting my apartment set up. Here is the list of what I bought today:

1) Aforementioned antique lace
2) A Rodolfo Dordoni lamp (not 2000 euros)
3) Mailing envelopes
4) Candle
5) Two chess-piece shaped things that I can hopefully turn into bookends
6) An immersion blender
7) Vinyl tape, to help with the bookend project
8) A towel
9) A Cherry Coke (yay!)