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| Venice Postcards for sale -- and Boots for the Tidal Flooding I'm back from my trip and have lots of photos to share with all of you. I did buy postcards and I did have to buy some rubber boots for the flooding but we were lucky enough to leave the very day before the major flooding. I was so sorry to read about it and hope all the wonderful little shops, cafes and restaurants I visited survived without too much damage. |
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| Paper Shop Just look at this wonderful little paper shop -- filled with marbleized papers and all kinds of beautiful things made with it. |
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| You can just bet I was drooling at this window....and planning what I'd like to buy. |
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| Onside --- rack after rack of marbleized papers....I know some of you are getting jealous by now. |
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| Don't get too jealous -- the shop was CHIUSO That's right - closed. Sometimes life is just not fair. And trust me, I wasn't about to take the vaporetto and then a bus to another town no matter how tempting that paper was. |
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| This kind of emergency calls for a drink -- maybe a small glass of Limoncello? |
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| Even with that disappointment it was pretty easy to find other paper, pen and stationery shops all around...I happen to have the most fabulous tour guide in the world (mio marito) |
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| Often just looking at everything is enough for me...but I did pick up some pretty labels here. |
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| Fountain pens? |
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| Little kits with pens, ink, sealing wax and seals? |
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| Maybe some cards? |
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| More pen nibs and seals -- I am becoming tempted...and they are small enough to easily fit inside a suitcase. A suitcase you must tug along behind you on the boats and the streets and the raised boardwalks over the flooding because there are absolutely no cars in Venice. Just saying. |
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| So then I got this really great idea --- when I saw the laundry hanging out over the canals looking so pretty I thought -- "What about a Cristo-like mail art installation with mail hanging on all those clothes lines instead of laundry?" A good idea, si? I'm sure it is -- not I just have to figure out how to apply for a grant to do it. And hope none of the mail art falls into the canal. |
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| Jet lag is really starting to set in around here at my house. I could sure use a shot of cappuccino - or espresso - or hot chocolate. I'd like one of those machines but what I'd really like is to go to bed..... We can blame any mistakes here on the 14-plus hours plane ride home from Istanbul yesterday. I have mail boxes and post boxes and all sorts of other things to report on. And then there is Istanbul. So, stayed tuned. Ciao. Per ricevere i messaggi buono -, รจ necessario inviare una mail buono! |
