Saturday night was my second annual Paris bloggers party at my apartment. The festivities began at about 8PM and lasted till after 1AM. It was nice to catch up with many of my fellow bloggers who I have not seen since the last party in December of 2006. I was happy to hear the progress some have made in the past year. Like a modern day Dolly Levi, I love putting people together with common interests. There were a few new bloggers added to the mix and we missed some from the last party who couldn’t attend.
Polly Lyman, Polly Vous Francaise & Amy Alkon,Advice Goddess
Patricia Laplante Collins, Paris Soirees
Elisabeth Formount, La Coquette & Lorin Kalisky, Franglo
I served a simple, tasty supper of bowtie pasta with sundried tomatoes, black olives, basil, and feta cheese, a salad of fresh beets and endive, and crostini topped with white bean & Herbs de Provence puree, and a black olive, roasted red & yellow peppers, and marinated artichoke tapenade. My friend David Sprawls generously supplied his frozen Margarita mix in a bag from his company David Drinks, which was a big hit. It’s a pre-made mix that you fill with tequila and water and freeze for several hours and Voila! -tasty frozen Margaritas. To set the mood, I dimmed the lights, lit my grand candelabra, and had a playlist of Amy Winehouse, vintage Madonna, Stacey Kent, and Mary J. Blige.
Everybody had such a good time, that I was requested to make it a semi-annual event. Maybe I will take them up on the request.
The guest list and their blogs
Amy Alkon- Advice Goddess
Eric Tenin -Paris Daily Photo
Pascal Fonquernie-Paris Marais
Heidi Ellison- Paris Update
Polly Lyman- Polly Vous Francais
Patricia LaPlante Collins- Paris Soirees
Pascal Fonquernie-Paris Marais
Elisabeth Formount- La Coquette
Kim Poulin- The Paris Traveler
Lorin Kalisky and his wife Edith Gillet- Franglo
Sue Rinski- http://homepage.mac.com/suerynski
Rosemary Flannery-www.rosemaryflannery.com
Pamela Grant- writes restaurant reviews for Eye Prefer Paris
Patrice Snoeck –And So What
Julie Pecheur & Sarah O’Reilly-The Paris Times
Brice Dunwoodie, Rachel Wimpee- The Paris Datevine
Meredith Mullins, who does the monthly photo feature on Eye Prefer Paris
Seth Weintraub-9 to 5 Mac
Kim Poulin,The Paris Traveler & Meredith Mullins
Sarah O'Reilly, The Paris Times, Sue Rynski, and Kim Poulin, The Paris Traveler
I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour
includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.
I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com
Hello Dolly, I'm so sorry I couldn't make it! à la prochaîne (et à bientôt sur Paris!)
--Irene Molloy
Posted by: maitresse | February 19, 2008 at 10:45 AM
Bonjour Richard,
Who's that with Eric?
xx,
M
Posted by: MadAboutParis | February 19, 2008 at 08:39 PM
That's Heidi Ellison,www.paris-update.com, next to Eric in the top photo.
Posted by: richard | February 20, 2008 at 02:33 PM
What a fantastic idea...Hope you all had a brilliant night!!!
Posted by: anne | February 23, 2008 at 07:44 PM
Wish I could've been there!
Chris Late
Posted by: Chris Late | February 26, 2008 at 12:18 AM
Richard, what a stellar guest list! Thanks for some new links I will have to visit.
Yes, I can see you as Dolly Levy.
Like, Chris, wish I'd been there!
Mimi
Posted by: Mimi | February 26, 2008 at 07:49 PM
Richard, so sorry I wasn't able to make it to your blogger party! And I know this is a bit belated, but things just got a bit crazy there and I've been under the weather for a few weeks now -- have just started crawling out over the past few days!
Looks like you all had a great soirée -- maybe next time around I can join you!
Posted by: Alice | March 03, 2008 at 03:55 PM