Last time we went to Disneyland I somehow completely forgot that I was actually going to be in France so would be able to find 'Marie Claire Idees' really easily in any old newsagent. This time I remembered and managed to find a copy very easily at the railway station at Disneyland. This is the 'automne' edition (I missed the publication date of the Christmas edition by a couple of days - darn it!) and there are some tres tres chi projects in it.
A bird bag
Art deco style letters
An amazingly eye-catching sideboard
Having 'achieved' an ungraded French 'O' level (that took some doing even in 1976 - if I remember correctly I did very little apart from write my name on the answer sheet!!), most of the text is incomprehensible to me, but I can spend hours looking at the beautiful photos and getting lots of ideas and inspiration.
I also came back with a Chip'n'Dale tea towel (Torchon Tic et Tac according to the French label) from Disneyland and my sister bought me a lovely Tinkerbelle water glass to go on the beside table (sadly this was a b*gger to photograph in the gloomy half-light we've got in Essex today so you'll just have to imagine how sweet it is.)
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